Keshub Mahindra the entrepreneur was one of the 'Midnight's Children', for his career began with the birth of the Indian nation in 1947. In a way, his career ran parallel to the growth of the nation — from steel to tractors to software to electric vehicles, it traced the industrial trajectory of India. With Mahindra's demise, India's corporate world has lost a doyen while the nation has lost an important witness to its evolution and a fellow traveller on its path to economic growth.