N. Chandrasekaran's journey to the biggest corporate job in India started from a small village in Tamil Nadu.
The heart of Mohanur is the agraharam in the middle of it. The tiny village on the banks of the Cauvery in Namakkal is as nondescript as any of them in western Tamil Nadu. But Mohanur now has a new landmark—vakeel veedu, or lawyer’s house. On January 12, a humble boy who lived in this house was catapulted to the most powerful corporate job in India, the chair of Tata Sons.
The typical Tamil Brahmin house with a long thinnai (raised platform in front of the wall) on either side of the front door and a thatch-and-tile roof, however, did not give away any indication of its new status until two luxury cars, a black Audi and a black Jaguar, broke the pleasing silence in the evening of January 15. Clad in a pair of navy blue trousers and a blue printed shirt, a calm and composed man got off the Jaguar, and every man and woman in the agraharam stepped out to get a glimpse of him. He threw a pleasing smile to everyone as he went to the other side to help his father get off the car. In seconds, the agraharam became a place of happiness as people kept coming in to greet him, congratulate him and and
Personal file
Lives in Mumbai, with wife, Lalitha, and son, Pranav
Studied in a Tamil-medium government school
Captained his school cricket team
Father was a lawyer who later took to farming
Began long-distance running at 44, and ran marathons at Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Berlin, Mumbai, New York and Tokyo
Eldest brother, N. Srinivasan, is finance director at Murugappa group and elder brother, N. Ganapathy, became COO of TCS the day Chandrasekaran was appointed Tata chairman
Passionate photographer and animal lover take selfies with him.
Rise of the inside outsider
1963
Natarajan Chandrasekaran was born in Namakkal, TamilNadu
1984
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