Rounak Jain05 Sep 2022, 14:06
Cyrus Mistry was once liked by Rata Tata, who called him astute and humble, and later anointed him as his successor in 2012. Mistry went on to become the sixth Tata Group chairman, and only the second without a Tata surname. However, Mistry’s ascension to the top of India’s biggest conglomerate was short-lived, with Ratan Tata himself ousting Mistry in a ‘palace coup’ in 2016.