From a friend:
1. In the outpouring of grief for Ratan Tata, all of us are going gaga over the Tata empire. Behind all the hype are surely many stories that are dismal. One of the less known stories, in fact buried in the crypts of Bombay House, is about a Communist in the Tata 2. family. Shapurji Saklatvala, nephew of Jamshedji Nasserwanji Tata, the patriarch behind Tata’s steel empire at Jamshedpur, who also set up Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, thanks to the generous endowment of land by then Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV

Dhirendra Jha's "#Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India". A thread on a must-read book:
Today, 74 years ago, Mohandas K Gandhi was shot down in cold blood by Nathuram Godse while walking to his evening prayer meeting at Birla House in Delhi. (1/18) Godse thought he'd get a reaction of mass support like the INA undertrials did; instead the country was enraged, and RSS men had to run for their lives. Distressed crowds tried to set on fire Savarkar Sadan in Mumbai and the Nagpur residence of RSS supremo MS Gowalkar. (2/18)