Air india was founded in 19 32 by a 28-year-old j rd tartar. Within six years, the company owned 15 planes and it was renamed tartar airlines. The same year, it became a public company and adopted the name we are all familiar with. Air india carried one in every three passengers in india and owned 50 % of the country's fleet. In a nationalization spree, the indian government took over the company for a sum of two point eight crow rupees. Now most people think that air india went for a toss the moment the state acquired the assets. However, that isn't true at all. For three decades, until the