Saw this pic again, from December 2013 when I was leaving Delhi for Indore. What's remarkable about this farewell, was that our Prof. Dr. J.D. Singh joined us at this club. Along with classmates, Himanshu Manglik, Pradip Acharya, Harish Chaudhary and Sunil Gupta. Anil Shrivastava too. Some memories stay with you! Dr. Singh taught us marketing at IIMB, but remained a friend forever.. he is in Canada now, but in touch through Linkedin!
Goodbye to an industrialist who changed India's image globally. We were known within India for various achievements in different sectors, but abroad, only for I.T. Services. Even there Tata group had TCS for many years. But it was really with the Tetley, Corus and Land Rover-Jaguar acquisitions during Ratan Tata's time that we arrived on the global stage.
He also consolidated the group by reducing the power of Russi Mody and a couple of other strong and independent-minded heads of various Tata companies. Also, appointed Chandrasekaran of TCS as a chairman following a spat with Cyrus Mistry who was earlier chosen Chairman.
He was also known for philanthropy, and some good human qualities. I never got to see him in person, unlike Mr. Premji, Mr. Ambani or Mr. Sunil Mittal (they came for our convocations at IMT Nagpur), but know enough to think he was good for our country, though he came up the hard way from being in charge of a dead company, NELCO, which made radios.
I got a farewell officially from my colleagues at NMIMS Bangalore. It was a bit unusual, with a quiz involving names of some, and some recognitions being given out to a few by me too. Not just one way traffic. Memories will linger. To trigger those in future, here are some glimpses-
Well, that's one way to look at 2021.
