{"id":3473,"date":"2019-04-16T00:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2019-04-16T00:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T18:59:19","slug":"on-jamsetji-tata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/16\/on-jamsetji-tata\/","title":{"rendered":"On Jamsetji Tata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spent a few days reading, For the love of India: The life and times Of Jamsetji Tata. Not much has been written, taught about him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It made me realize the influence of the Parsi community in industrializing India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some learnings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Importance of Education: As a result, Jamsetji IIM, JJ School of Arts and many institutes got opened. <\/li><li>Industrialization: The vision of Jamsetji resulted in opening the cotton industry, Steel Plant, Hydroelectric power plants to name a few. <\/li><li>Keeping a company of great people: Apart from Dadabhai Noroji and friends from his Parsi community were behind him. <\/li><li>Venturing to the unknown:  When shipping companies were charging extra for cotton export, Jamsetji opened his own shipping company. It resulted in cutting the monopoly.<\/li><li>Negotiations: I was not aware that Jamsetji was close to both: the Congress party(for building India) and the ruling British government (gaining scientific, technology).  <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>These are too little to write about Jamsetji Tata. I would strongly recommend everyone reading this book. (Thanks to Santosh Panda for recommending). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a few days reading, For the love of India: The life and times Of Jamsetji Tata. Not much has been written, taught about him. It made me realize the influence of the Parsi community in industrializing India. Some learnings: Importance of Education: As a result, Jamsetji IIM, JJ School of Arts and many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/16\/on-jamsetji-tata\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Jamsetji Tata&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,100],"tags":[592],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}