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THE LAUNCH

JRD TATA

Chairman, Tata Sons Limited

Excerpts from his speech at the launch of the
Tata Central Archives in Bombay (now Mumbai)
on January 7, 1991.

am very pleased with this occasion. (It is) an occasion

that should have happened some 50 years ago. Tatas
som
I etimes are a little slow; we’re a little late this time.

The first time that I was particularly struck by the fact that we

had not been, up to then, maintaining any reasonably scientific
form of archives was when the government took over and

nationalised the airline into Indian Airlines.

A year or two later, I asked Indian Airlines (for some papers,
but they weren’t helpful). So that was the first instance and

particularly one that meant a lot to me because the whole of
Tata Airlines, at least the record of it, disappeared except what

there was in my personal files.

I did realise that it was almost a duty to keep archives. I
am therefore very grateful for Sharokh (SA Sabavala) and

particularly Russi (RM Lala) for having orchestrated the action
of preparing archives for all our companies and helping the

independent companies to do it. They didn’t need to do much
prompting either, I’m very glad to know that. I am both grateful

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