Natarajan Chandrasekaran: The Tata lifer who remade the group, but lost the boardroom

MUMBAI: As a little boy growing up in a farming family on the banks of the Cauvery in Mohanur, Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu, Natarajan Chandrasekaran walked miles every day to reach his government school. That daily rigour, born out of necessity, perhaps laid the foundation for the discipline that would later define his life. He became an obsessive runner and marathoner and would eventually help start two major annual running events, in Mumbai and New York.