S Ramodorai, chief executive of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is not the most high profile of corporate chiefs. Even so, it was no surprise when he accepted an invitation for lunch with Business Standard.
No doubt, TCS's much-awaited initial public offering (IPO), planned sometime this year, had a role to play.
What was surprising was his choice of venue. It wasn't at the Taj, the venerable old flagship of the Tata group's hotel company, but the Kandahar, a rival property of The Oberoi.
Ramodorai, however, wasn't trying to be different
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