The Tata group faces one of the biggest challenges in its history: the preservation or dismantling of the mandate of the Tata Trusts in favour of investors whose primary objective is financial returns. On the second anniversary of Ratan Tata’s death, it is worth remembering that those who carried the name of Tata in their Trusts, believed foremost in “giving India what it needs.”

Ratan Tata was a private, humble man with razor-sharp wit. His friend, Bobby Saigal, recalls their unique friendship, and the man who was a true son of India, who selflessly dedicated himself to the Tata legacy, philanthropy, and nation-building, and who was happiest when walking the shopfloor, talking and listening to his employees.