Untold Stories of Ratan Tata: The country’s leading businessman Ratan Tata died in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital. He was admitted to the hospital for his checkup. Earlier, Tata had issued a statement saying that his health is fine and there is no need to worry.
Ratan Tata needs no introduction. The industrialist, entrepreneur and honorary chairman of Tata Sons is known for his good deeds. Here are some interesting and many such stories about this 86-year-old businessman, which you may not know about.
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In 1948, when Ratan Tata was only ten years old, his parents got separated and hence he was raised by his grandmother, Navajbai Tata. Let us tell you that Ratan Tata is unmarried. It is interesting to note that he came close to getting married four times, but could not marry due to several reasons.
What was the reason for disagreement with his father
In an interview given to ‘Humans of Bombay’, Ratan Tata openly talked about his differences with his father. He was not very close to his father Naval Tata, there were differences between the two on many things. He wanted to learn violin in his childhood, but his father wanted him to learn piano. There was a difference of opinion between the two on this. Apart from this, Tata wanted him to go to America and study, while his father wanted to send him to Britain. Tata himself wanted to become an architect, but his father insisted that he become an engineer.
If there had been no India-China war, Tata would have been married
He once admitted that when he was working in Los Angeles, there came a time when he fell in love, but due to the Indo-China war of 1962, the girl’s parents were against sending her to India. After which he never got married. Ratan Tata after this he got engrossed in the business world and then did not get a chance to think about personal life.
As soon as he became the chairman, he fired 3 people from the company
In 1991, Ratan Tata became the chairman of Tata Sons for the first time. Before this, JRD Tata was the chairman of the company. JRD had given the complete command of the company to only three people. All the decisions were taken by these three. When Ratan Tata became the chairman, he first decided to change the leadership of the company by removing these three. He felt that these three had taken over the company.
Ratan Tata came up with a retirement policy under which any director will have to be removed from the company’s board after the age of 75. After the implementation of this policy, the three were the first to leave the throne.
Let us tell you that in 2009 he promised to make the cheapest car that the middle class of India could afford. He fulfilled his promise and launched Tata Nano for ₹ 1 lakh. He is also known for his charity. Under his leadership, the Tata Group started a $28 million Tata Scholarship Fund at Cornell University to provide financial assistance to graduate students from India.
Grandmother called me to India and… in the words of Ratan Tata, his incomplete love story
Ratan Tata never spoke about his personal life publicly. But during an interview, he mentioned his incomplete love story.
In an interview given to Simi Grewal, Ratan Tata told that in the 1960s, after studying in America, he started working there. During that time, he met a girl with whom he fell in love. But grandmother Navajbai Tata called him back to India.
Ratan Tata said that it was a very good time. He loved his job. He fell in love in Los Angeles and was about to marry that girl when his grandmother asked him to come back and he came back happily. Actually, it was grandmother Navajbai who had raised him. He had been living away from his grandmother for a long time, that is why he could not refuse her to come back.
Ratan Tata told in the interview that his grandmother wanted him to return to India. The reason for this was also his parents’ divorce. His brother was very young. He could not convince his grandmother to return.
Ratan Tata said that he thought that after his return to India, the girl he wanted to marry would also come. But this could not happen due to the Indo-China war of 1962.
The parents of the girl whom Ratan Tata loved were not in favour of sending their daughter to India because of the Indo-China war and were not ready for their marriage, because of which this relationship was broken forever.
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