Last Wednesday, we were in the middle of our production week, nailing down our line-up of stories with painstaking detail, when the email carrying the momentous news arrived. As much as I’d like to claim that we have an inside track on what goes on within the Tata group (Forbes India had featured Cyrus Mistry in the Next Gen entrepreneurs to watch out for in our India Rich List special edition last year), none of us really had a clue that the younger son of India’s ninth richest man would be anointed successor to Ratan Tata.
(This story appears in the 16 December, 2011 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)