$110 bn question: Who runs Tata Sons if SC backs tribunal on Cyrus Mistry?

Given that the relations between Ratan Tata and Cyrus Mistry are probably beyond repair, would Mistry even want to return to work at Bombay House, as the headquarters are known?

How do you unscramble an egg called Tata Sons? The second law of thermodynamics says orderly things gradually turn more chaotic, and there’s no going back, no separating yokes from whites.

But the appeals judge of India’s corporate law arbiter thinks he can reverse time. Or so it would appear from his order declaring that Cyrus Mistry, deposed three years ago as executive chairman of the holding company of India’s leading conglomerate, must be reinstated because ousting him was illegal.

Here’s the messy business in a nutshell: The closely held Tata Sons, which sits in control of the $111 billion