Immersion in the Tata 'black box'

Book review of Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism

A long time ago, I wanted to read more about Warren Buffett. There were quite a few biographies available in the library. For me, a biography was a biography. I was confused about which one to pick. My immediate boss, a man of books, scholarship, and impeccable manners, told me in his soft and thoughtful voice, “There are biographies and there are authorised biographies.” That got me thinking. I hadn’t known the difference until then. Subsequently, I read the authorised biography of Buffett, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, and then the others. Having