New Delhi, Nov. 13 -- Two Tata Trusts trustees, Venu Srinivasan and Vijay Singh, responded to their former colleague, Darius Khambata, questioning whether the fight over Tata Sons is truly about principle, or about "keeping control over Tata Sons by the current leaders of Tata Trusts."

In a five-page joint letter on 11 November, Srinivasan and Singh wrote that Supreme Court lawyer Khambata's account in his letter on 2 November was "incomplete in several important ways".

Khambata, whose stint at Tata Trusts, which owns 65.9% of Tata Sons, ended on 9 November, had called Tata Sons directors' rebellion against Tata Trusts chair Noel Tata, as 'a day that will live in infamy'.

"We ask, with respect, whether the real concern is the preservat...