If you have heard about India’s Tatas but knew little about where they came from and how they made their journey, then this content is for you.
There are Indian conglomerates that have come up to and exceeded the wealth of the Tata Companies but none have touched the almost holy ground in India - the industries, the mines, the smelters, the hydroelectric and power complexes, the airline transport, the software monolith, the scientific institutions and the hospitals that the Tatas built from scratch. And certainly none of them could even remotely aspire to the welfare and compassion that the Tatas spread far and wide. If the bad side must be told along with the good, the stories of Bombay’s prosperity derived from the Opium trade with China that enriched the Parsees of the city should not have been omitted. Perhaps Eric our Bombay historian can tell whether it was also the source of wealth that set the Tatas on the road to their unparalleled enterprise. It is very striking what one of the earlier Tatas said: “If we had to operate like other companies around us, we would have prospered more. But that is not what we wanted”. Keepers Of The Flame https://youtu.be/tKb-voAUww0 Roland. Toronto.
