Tata Sons Archives

Remembering Ratan Tata: The visionary who built communities and transformed Indian industry

by Amrita Priya | Oct 11, 2024

(October 11, 2024) In the quiet corridors of Bombay’s prestigious Cathedral and John Connan School, a young Ratan Tata navigated the complexities of life marked by privilege and great expectations. Born in one of India’s most renowned business families — his...

Cyrus Mistry: Growing Shapoorji Pallonji to helming the Tata Group

by Amrita Priya | Sep 6, 2022

(September 6, 2022) On Sunday, September 4, 2022, business tycoon Cyrus Mistry was killed when his Mercedes rammed into a divider. The younger son of the construction magnate Pallonji Mistry, Cyrus was travelling from Ahmedabad to Mumbai when the accident took place....

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...

R Gopalakrishnan: ‘Made-in-India Manager’ who shaped HUL and Tata Sons

by Ranjani Rajendra | May 20, 2021

A series of unplanned coincidences: that’s how R Gopalakrishnan, management veteran and former honcho at Tata Sons, Hindustan Lever (now Hindustan Unilever) and Unilever Arabia, describes his career that spans over five decades. Widely regarded as one of India’s...