In a few weeks, city cognoscenti will gather for the launch of one of corporate India's most awaited tomes, one on the Shapoorji Pallonji group, whose promoters also happen to be the largest individual shareholders in Tata Sons.

Headed until 2012 by its reclusive media-shy founder Pallonji Mistry, this 2.5-billion-dollar conglomerate, now run by his son Shapoor, is regarded as something of an enigma, which is why a well-researched book is a much awaited one.