‘JEH’: A Life of J. R. D. Tata by Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy. Published in 2005 by Rupa and Company, 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 110002. Pp: 168. Price: Rs 495.
Inevitably, Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy’s ‘JEH’: A Life of J. R. D. Tata, will be compared with R. M. Lala’s official biography, Beyond The Last Blue Mountain. And certainly Jeh stands up to the comparison. It is not unusual for more than one biography to be written about great thinkers and achievers. Why, certain historical and literary figures have had more than one biography written about them — Napoleon Bonaparte, Karl......