RE: [MTC Global] TATA's 92 Year old Legacy

Dear Madam,

As you truly said as Bench Mark were set by Tata's and they have not been upto the mark. Agreed.

It just remind me of JRD quotes for members perusal --

I am quoting it because in succession of legacy passed to the incumbent few are Implied responsibilities & conditions of the JOB - one need to adhere to it.

Wished Mr. Cyrus Mistry read these quotes

Quotes by JRD Tata

"I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country."
— JRD Tata, after receiving the Bharat Ratna, 1992

Growing organisations in any field must constantly evolve, accept or even seek new ideas, new visions, and new enthusiasms.
— JRD Tata, Speech on 'Completion of 25 years as chairman' 

"(The) Future belongs to the young. We must not only trust them with responsibility but must thrust it upon them whilst they are still young and full of energy, zest, hope and even illusions. However heart-breaking it may be to ourselves, we must make way for the new generations even when we feel we are still in our prime."
— JRD Tata, Speech on 'Completion of 25 years as chairman'

As I lay down office as chairman of the firm, I do so in the conviction that the future of the Tata group, its continuing growth and prosperity, are in safe hands.
— JRD Tata, letters to Tata directors, April 1991

Finding the Successor won't be easy at all - but successor will happen - need to happen but I am positive he or she would communicate in their communication that group growth and prosperity is in safe hands to all the stakeholders.

Keep sharing your thoughts - it is knowledge.

Good day folks,
@VijayChaitanyam.


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From: kiran paranjpe
Sent: ‎30-‎10-‎2016 11:19
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] TATA's 92 Year old Legacy

Dear Sir, the example of Infosys to separate its business activities from its
philanthropic activities is a model that many corporates follow. We can appreciate the
huge contribution of the Tata Business House to the economy of India. They too had
charities that were well known. It is well known that Tata Companies always followed
ethical ethical management and transparency.
Bad and good business decisions happen regularly and people are not sacked when the
damage is controlled and growth and profitability not compromised.
The Tata's are expected to set a benchmark in good business governance and transparency.
This was expected in the appointment and dismissal of their Chairman but alas, events
have proved otherwise.
Best Regards,
K.Paranjpe

On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 22:18:46 +0530 VIJAY CHAITANYAM wrote
> Dear Esteem Members,

Just want to highlight the best of Tata's 92 year legacy was built on Values -
In Mrs. Sudha Murthy Letter to JRD Tata highlighted - entrepreneurship with a human touch
and reach out to the needy - Mrs. Sudha Murthy philanthropy work she does is the Legacy
she carries as an Tata Employee and is inspired by JRD Tata - read the contents of the
Letter -- Mind blowing narrative and inspiring.

Letter to JRD Tata from Sudha Murthy

It was probably the April of 1974. Bangalore was getting warm and gulmohars were blooming
at the IISC campus. I was the only girl in my postgraduate department and was staying at
the ladies' hostel. Other girls were pursuing research in different departments of
Science. I was looking forward to going abroad to complete a doctorate in computer
science. I had been offered scholarships from Universities in the US… I had not thought
of taking up a job in India.

One day, while on the way to my hostel from our lecture-hall complex, I saw an
advertisement on the notice board. It was a standard job-requirement notice from the
famous automobile company Telco (now Tata Motors)… It stated that the company required
young, bright engineers, hardworking and with an excellent academic background, etc.

At the bottom was a small line: 'Lady Candidates need not apply.' I read it and was very
upset. For the first time in my life I was up against gender discrimination.

Though I was not keen on taking up the job, I saw it as a challenge. I had done extremely
well in academics, better than most of my male peers… Little did I know then that in real
life academic excellence is not enough to be successful?

After reading the notice I went fuming to my room. I decided to inform the topmost person
in Telco's management about the injustice the company was perpetrating. I got a postcard
and started to write, but there was a problem: I did not know who headed Telco.

I thought it must be one of the Tatas. I knew JRD Tata was the head of the Tata Group; I
had seen his pictures in newspapers (actually, Sumant Moolgaokar was the company's
chairman then) I took the card, addressed it to JRD and started writing. To this day I
remember clearly what I wrote. 'The great Tatas have always been pioneers. They are the
people who started the basic infrastructure industries in India, such as iron and steel,
chemicals, textiles and locomotives; they have cared for higher education in India since
1900 and they were responsible for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Science.
Fortunately, I study there. But I am surprised how a company such as Telco is
discriminating on the basis of gender.'

I posted the letter and forgot about it. Less than 10 days later, I received a telegram
stating that I had to appear for an interview at Telco's Pune facility at the company's
expense. I was taken aback by the telegram. My hostel mate told me I should use the
opportunity to go to Pune free of cost and buy them the famous Pune saris for cheap! I
collected Rs. 30 each from everyone who wanted a sari when I look back, I feel like
laughing at the reasons for my going, but back then they seemed good enough to make the
trip.

It was my first visit to Pune and I immediately fell in love with the city.

To this day it remains dear to me. I feel as much at home in Pune as I do in Hubli, my
hometown. The place changed my life in so many ways. As directed, I went to Telco's
Pimpri office for the interview.

There were six people on the panel and I realized then that this was serious business.

'This is the girl who wrote to JRD,' I heard somebody whisper as soon as I entered the
room. By then I knew for sure that I would not get the job. The realization abolished all
fear from my mind, so I was rather cool while the interview was being conducted.

Even before the interview started, I reckoned the panel was biased, so I told them,
rather impolitely, 'I hope this is only a technical interview.'

They were taken aback by my rudeness, and even today I am ashamed about my attitude. The
panel asked me technical questions and I answered all of them.

Then an elderly gentleman with an affectionate voice told me, 'Do you know why we said
lady candidates need not apply? The reason is that we have never employed any ladies on
the shop floor. This is not a co-ed college; this is a factory. When it comes to
academics, you are a first ranker throughout. We appreciate that, but people like you
should work in research laboratories.

I was a young girl from small-town Hubli. My world had been a limited place.

I did not know the ways of large corporate houses and their difficulties, so I answered,
'But you must start somewhere, otherwise no woman will ever be able to work in your
factories.'

Finally, after a long interview, I was told I had been successful. So this was what the
future had in store for me. Never had I thought I would take up a job in Pune. I met a
shy young man from Karnataka there, we became good friends and we got married.

It was only after joining Telco that I realized who JRD was: the uncrowned king of Indian
industry. Now I was scared, but I did not get to meet him till I was transferred to
Bombay. One day I had to show some reports to Mr. Moolgaokar, our chairman, who we all
knew as SM. I was in his office on the first floor of Bombay House (the Tata
headquarters) when, suddenly JRD walked in. That was the first time I saw 'Appro JRD'.
Appro means 'our' in Gujarati. This was the affectionate term by which people at Bombay
House called him. I was feeling very nervous, remembering my postcard episode.

SM introduced me nicely, 'Jeh (that's what his close associates called him), this young
woman is an engineer and that too a postgraduate. She is the first woman to work on the
Telco shop floor.' JRD looked at me. I was praying he would not ask me any questions
about my interview (or the postcard that preceded it).

Thankfully, he didn't. Instead, he remarked. 'It is nice that girls are getting into
engineering in our country. By the way, what is your name?'

'When I joined Telco I was Sudha Kulkarni, Sir,' I replied. 'Now I am Sudha Murthy.' He
smiled a kindly smile and started a discussion with SM. As for me, I almost ran out of
the room.

After that I used to see JRD on and off. He was the Tata Group chairman and I was merely
an engineer. There was nothing that we had in common. I was in awe of him.

One day I was waiting for Murthy, my husband, to pick me up after office hours. To my
surprise I saw JRD standing next to me. I did not know how to react. Yet again I started
worrying about that postcard. Looking back, I realize JRD had forgotten about it. It must
have been a small incident for him, but not so for me.

'Young lady, why are you here?' he asked. 'Office time is over.' I said, 'Sir, I'm
waiting for my husband to come and pick me up.' JRD said, 'It is getting dark and there's
no one in the corridor.

I'll wait with you till your husband comes.'

I was quite used to waiting for Murthy, but having JRD waiting alongside made me
extremely uncomfortable.

I was nervous. Out of the corner of my eye I looked at him. He wore a simple white pant
and shirt. He was old, yet his face was glowing. There wasn't any air of superiority
about him. I was thinking, 'Look at this person. He is a chairman, a well-respected man
in our country and he is waiting for the sake of an ordinary employee.'

Then I saw Murthy and I rushed out. JRD called and said, 'Young lady, tell your husband
never to make his wife wait again.' In 1982 I had to resign from my job at Telco. I was
reluctant to go, but I really did not have a choice. I was coming down the steps of
Bombay House after wrapping up my final settlement when I saw JRD coming up. He was
absorbed in thought. I wanted to say goodbye to him, so I stopped. He saw me and paused.

Gently, he said, 'So what are you doing, Mrs. Kulkarni?' (That was the way he always
addressed me.) 'Sir, I am leaving Telco.'

'Where are you going?' he asked. 'Pune, Sir. My husband is starting a company called
Infosys and I'm shifting to Pune.'

'Oh! And what will you do when you are successful.'

'Sir, I don't know whether we will be successful.' 'Never start with diffidence,' he
advised me. Always start with confidence. When you are successful you must give back to
society. Society gives us so much; we must reciprocate. Wish you all the best.'

Then JRD continued walking up the stairs. I stood there for what seemed like a
millennium. That was the last time I saw him alive.

Many years later I met Ratan Tata in the same Bombay House, occupying the chair JRD once
did. I told him of my many sweet memories of working with Telco. Later, he wrote to me,
'It was nice hearing about Jeh from you. The sad part is that he's not alive to see you
today.'

I consider JRD a great man because, despite being an extremely busy person, he valued one
postcard written by a young girl seeking justice. He must have received thousands of
letters every day. He could have thrown mine away, but he didn't do that. He respected
the intentions of that unknown girl, who had neither influence nor money, and gave her an
opportunity in his company. He did not merely give her a job; he changed her life and
mindset forever.

Close to 50 per cent of the students in today's engineering colleges are girls. And there
are women on the shop floor in many industry segments. I see these changes and I think of
JRD. If at all time stops and asks me what I want from life, I would say I wish JRD were
alive today to see how the company we started has grown. He would have enjoyed it
wholeheartedly.

My love and respect for the House of Tata remains undiminished by the passage of time. I
always looked up to JRD. I saw him as a role model for his simplicity, his generosity,
his kindness and the care he took of his employees. Those blue eyes always reminded me of
the sky; they had the same vastness and magnificence.

(Sudha Murthy is a widely published writer and chairperson of the Infosys Foundation
involved in a number of social development initiatives. Infosys chairman Narayana Murthy
is her husband.)

Article sourced from: Lasting Legacies (Tata Review- Special Commemorative Issue 2004),
brought out by the house of Tatas to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of JRD Tata
on July 29, 2004.

Thank You Folks.
Happy Diwali to one and All.
Good Night Folks.
@VijayChaitanyam.




With Regards,
Vijay Chaitanyam Kumar Samala.
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