India, March 2 -- It has now been just over 120 years since February 24, 1904, when India's pioneering geologist Pramatha Nath Bose wrote a letter on his discovery of iron ore deposits in the hills of Gorumahisani in the erstwhile state of Mayurbhanj, Odisha. That letter to Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the Founder of the Tata group, led to over a century of collaboration in industry and societal development. The vision for sustainable corporate citizenship laid down by J N Tata, who's 185th Birth Anniversary is observed by Tata Steel and the Tata group on March 3, continues to guide the organisation to this day.

Jamsetji Tata was more than just the entrepreneur who helped India take her place in the league of industrialised nations in the ...