Infinity

The Tata surname is said to have been derived from the Gujarati word ' tamta ' or ' teekha ' which means spicy or very angry and in fact most of the people who have held the highest positions in the Tata family have been known for their temper. Jamsetji Tata There is a famous anecdote about Jamsetji Tata , the founder of the Tata family and JRD Tata's uncle, that once he took an English friend to a hotel in Mumbai for dinner, the porter standing at the hotel door said, 'We welcome your friend but we can't let you inside the hotel because this hotel is only for Europeans.' The same evening Jamsetji decided that he would build a hotel that would be the pride of India and where tourists from all over the world would come, thus in 1903 the Taj Mahal Hotel emerged in front of the Bombay harbour. Jeh Jeh JRD Tata's father RD Tata who was Jamsetji Tata's cousin and JRD was called 'Jeh' by his close people. JRD's mother was French, so Fren...