I spent 55 glorious years of service with the Tata Group. When some friends and colleagues suggested that I capture in a book the highlights of my career, I did not at first think it would be so daunting a task. It was only after I got down to working on the book that I discovered it was not going to be easy. A lot had changed over the last half century. People had changed, society had evolved, businesses had transformed, governments had changed, and even countries. The world had undergone a metamorphosis. Nothing was as it had been when I first stepped into the portals of India's biggest business group, the House of Tatas.