The story of how �Tiger� became his prefix of choice (it�s even on his visiting card) takes him back nearly 40 years. �I went to a Catholic school in Mumbai, and in (the) second grade we came out of a poetry class, having just learnt Tiger, tiger, burning bright by William Blake,� he says. The name �Tyagarajan� was proving a little too phonetically complex for his Mumbai classmates, and �Tiger� filled that gap competently. �It�s not a bad name to have in the corporate world,� he says.

It is Tyagarajan�s approach to business that has undoubtedly made the name stick. �It�s the way you attack a problem,� he says softly, carefully measuring each sentence before speaking. �Break it down into parts, think about a logical, rational, step-by-step solution�that�s the way I think about a lot of things.�