, Columnist
Ratan Tata Has a Case to Answer
Here are five charges the founding-family scion needs to address.
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Cyrus Mistry's letter to the board that fired him as the chairman of Tata Sons Ltd. without so much as a thank-you note for his service is such a big hit on WhatsApp message groups that some publishers might already be dreaming of a tell-all book by the jilted Indian executive.
They'll have to wait. For now, the five-page missive, obtained by Bloomberg News Wednesday, contains all the clues there are for investors to try and unravel the mystery behind Mistry's sacking, a dismissal so summary that it must be "unique in the annals of corporate history," he says.