India, Jan. 6 -- The journey of Mahindra & Mahindra remarkably parallels that of modern, independent India. A new book - Timeless Mahindra - details its first 75 eventful years.
Memories of the second car in my family come rushing back to me as I read through Timeless Mahindra - a solid, near four-kilo tome by veteran auto journalist, author and historian Adil Jal Darukhanawala. Even before I turned 18, I was driving around in my father's Mahindra & Mahindra CJ. We had sold our Ambassador and opted for the economy of a diesel vehicle, never mind that it had no creature comforts compared to the wizened old Amby. I remember fiddling with the CJ's air vent located near the footwell to let in some breeze when it got too hot, and the distinctiv...