Dorabji Tata

The Maharaja is back: How the national carrier flew back home to Tata’s Bombay House after 68 years 

by Chandu | Oct 12, 2021

(October 12, 2021) Eighty nine years ago when JRD Tata first launched Tata Airlines in October 1932, he created history. He was India’s first licensed commercial pilot and the launch of the airline had given birth to the Indian civil aviation industry. By 1946, the...

Charles Page Perin: The American metallurgist who helped Jamsetji Tata realize his steel plant dream

by Chandu | Jul 16, 2021

(July 16, 2021; 10 am) It was a regular September afternoon in the New York of 1902 when a strange man in a strange garb strode purposefully into a crowded office. He came to a halt at a table that was covered with books; behind those stacks was a man poring over...