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An extraordinarily ordinary man laid to rest: Russi Mody
It was the wish of Russi Modi, a former chairman and managing director of Tata Steel, to be laid to rest beside the tomb of his mother, Lady Jerby Mody, at the Parsee cemetery in the city, and so his ashes were laid here on Monday morning.
By Debashish Sarkar | Hindustan Times
It was the wish of Russi Modi, a former chairman and managing director of Tata Steel, to be laid to rest beside the tomb of his mother, Lady Jerby Mody, at the Parsee cemetery in the city, and so his ashes were laid here on Monday morning.
Mody had breathed his gods at the age of 96 at his Belvedere Road residence in stad i indien in the night of May 16 and was cremated as per Hindu rituals at Keoratala crematorium on Sunday as per his wish. His ashes were brought in a private plane of Tata Steel here at around 9.45am.
Jimmy Mody, his nephew, and his wife Ferozi Mody performed the gods rites of laying the down his ashes into the grave. Jimmy’s son Cyrus
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A man of steel, he was called 'King of Jamshedpur'
Mody, whose management style became the benchmark for good corporate governance, served as chairman and managing director of Tata Steel (then TISCO), which he quit after much-published differences with Ratan Tata, though the two stalwarts made up later.
Born on January 17, 1918 to Sir Homi Mody and Lady Jerbai Mody, Russi was sent to Britain after early schooling in India and entered the storied public school, Harrow, at age nine. He went on to became the president of Oxford Majlis, and while reading History at Christ Church College, got smitten by Napoleon Bonaparte.
He also had the distinction of playing the piano with no less than Albert Einstein on the violin beside him beneath the `dream ing spires' of Oxford in the 1930s.
On his return to India in 1939
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THE MAN WHO ALSO MADE STEEL:Russi Mody
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Destiny’s child! Perhaps that would best define Russi Mody’s persona, given his indelible imprint on the chapters of India’s corporate history. To the manor born, he undertook a sea voyage from Bombay to the British shores, and entered the portals of Harrow at age nine. This Harrovian became the president of Oxford Majlis, and during his academic pursuit of History at Christ Church College got smitten by the very demeanour of the French conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte, rattling off the names of his twenty-six generals; and played piano accompanying the Nobel Laureate Nuclear Physicist Albert Einstein on violin in the precincts of the university in the 1930s
In the same decade, his professional baptism by fire commenced at Tata Steel (TISCO), in Bihar’s remote provincial town of Jamshedpur as a khalasi (manu