The real battle inside Tata Sons

Tata Sons must prune its portfolio to reduce its financial burden

Arun Maira

Updated At : 06:50 AM Aug 22, 2026 IST

Drain : Tata Sons' cash flow is bleeding with the enormous amounts of money required to bail out the new service ventures that Natarajan Chandrasekaran promoted. Reuters

TATA SONS is facing an existential crisis. The legal battles and personality conflicts within Tata Sons and the Tata Trusts cannot be resolved by the prevailing laws governing charities, financial institutions and business corporations. Tata Sons is getting tied up in knots by different laws.

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has come out every day over the last 145 years. THE TRIBUNE was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist of the time. The newspaper is run by a five-member Trust, which is chaired by Shri N N Vohra, former Governor of J&K State (2008-2018); as well as Justice S S Sodhi, former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court; Shri Gurbachan Jagat, former Governor of Manipur; Lt Gen. Shamsher Singh Mehta, former Western Army Commander; Shri Paramjit Singh Patwalia, Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court.

THE TRIBUNE is free, objective, and independent. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language, are the hallmarks of the paper.

The Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).

Remembering Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia

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The real battle inside Tata Sons

Tata Sons must prune its portfolio to reduce its financial burden

Arun Maira

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