- Lived:
- 28 December 1937, Bombay (Mumbai) – 9 October 2024, Mumbai; the life ran between a Jamshedpur shop floor, the Bombay House headquarters, and boardrooms on four continents
- Field:
- industry and philanthropy — chairman of Tata Sons 1991–2012 and again, briefly, 2016–17; head of the Tata Trusts
- The Big Idea:
- An heir nobody rated took a sprawling, ageing Indian business house global — Tetley, Corus, Jaguar Land Rover — while running it inside a structure where most of the profit belongs, by design, to charity.
- In their words:
- "A promise is a promise." (Geneva Motor Show, 2008, when asked whether the Nano would really sell at one lakh rupees despite soaring steel prices)
- If you remember one thing:
- The man who bought Jaguar never appeared near the top of a billionaire list — because about two-thirds of the company he ran is owned by charitable trusts, and he believed that was the whole point of it.