With Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata scheduled to step down on December 28, 2012 when he reaches the age of 75, the search is on to find a suitable successor. When asked by shareholders of Tata Chemicals Limited at the annual general meeting on August 9, 2010 whether the next chairman would be "Parsi, Indian or a foreigner,” Tata replied that his successor should be "the right person and not anti-Parsi or pro-Parsi. The Tata Group is an Indian group and we should not be looking (at it) as a Parsi group.”
On August 4, the Group had announced that Tata......