Many say Tata Motors has perhaps paid the price for being too ambitious.
John Elliott, the author of Implosion: India's Tryst with Reality, on his Riding the Elephant blog, says the sacking of Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata and Sons was in line with Ratan Tata's personal style of dealing with executives
Fourteen per cent of the $16 billion invested by Ratan Tata in M&As abroad has been written off by his successor.