Tata Sons are at work on Taj Palace Hotel to live up to Gregory Peck’s dream. Peck, one of Hollywood's greatest stars, had checked into the Taj by the Gateway in 1980, his return to Mumbai after 28 years. What he saw around surely impressed him.“The old Taj is the same-like a jewelled crown,” he famously remarked. Almost three decades and a devastating terrorist attack later, Ratan Tata & Co have now deployed an army of engineers and designers to lift up the old Heritage Wing of this showpiece hotel and make it India’s crown jewel once more, an earshot from the Queen’s Necklace Nariman Point drive way.
It’s not an easy task to rebuild what Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata had crafted by painstakingly collecting the best jewels from Europe during his personal trips, whether it was a soda and ice-making factory, silver polishing machines, a laundry, elevators, an electric generator or even pillars of soft iron that held the famous ballroom up.
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