The Tata Sons board meeting on Tuesday comes at a time when the Tata Group is facing its biggest internal churn since the Cyrus Mistry era, but this time the tensions are unfolding within Tata Trusts itself.
The fault lines inside the Tata Group go beyond personalities. At the heart of the conflict, matters are about how much authority Tata Trusts should exercise over Tata Sons and whether the old consensus-driven structure of the group is beginning to fracture.