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<b>Arundhuti Dasgupta</b>: Reputations on the line

Reputations are hard to build and even harder to crack

Gates of Troy, Achilles, Hector
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A triumphant Achilles dragging Hector’s lifeless body in front of the Gates of Troy. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Arundhuti Dasgupta
Reputations are hard to build and even harder to crack. But once they do, they are near impossible to put back together again without the fissures showing. As two big boardroom battles in corporate India simmer down in uneasy silence, chances are that the scars inflicted on the companies will stay a lifetime. And perhaps, boards at both Infosys and the Tata group may find better understanding about the crisis they are in by turning to epics and myth. 

Take the case of Yudhishthira, heir to the Kuru throne in the Mahabharata. He is a tragic hero of the classical