The President of Tata Sons, Emeritus Ratan Tata, turned 83 on December 28, 2020. Ratan Tata is one of the country’s most influential businessmen. The one thing that separates Ratan Tata from other industrialists is his values. At the same time, he gives the highest priority to compassion and sympathy when doing business. Here are a few rare facts that you need to hear about Ratan Tata.
- His father was Naval Tata while Sooni Tata was his mother. Naval Tata was the adopted grandson of Jamsetji Tata, founder of the Tata Group. He began his career with the Tata Party at the age of 25 in 1962. Later, he went to Harvard Business School to finish his studies. He is also a member of the Cornell University College of Architecture.
- In1991, he became the fifth chairman of the Tata Group after JRD Tata. During his time as chairman of the tech conglomerate, he took a variety of steps to push Tata Group’s industry to a new height. He began Tata Teleservices and also developed and unveiled the Indica car, India’s first indigenous car. The group acquired VSNL, India’s leading foreign provider of telecommunications services at the time, during his reign.
- Talking about his childhood days, he said that while his life was happy, his parents’ divorce was troublesome because it was unconventional at the time. His parents, Naval and Sooni Tata, got through a divorce when he was just 10. Ratan Tata and his brother were then staying with their grandma Navajbai Tata, with whom he had close affinity. The industrialist gave credit of his ideals to his grandma, and even now he’s living his life with those values.
“Our grandmother taught us to retain dignity at all costs, a value that’s stayed with me until today,” Ratan Tata said.
- Ratan Tata’s first job was to oversee activities on the Tata Steel shop floor in 1961. He became chairman of the Tata Group in 1991 and led the conglomerate to new heights. In its 21 year period, Tata Group’s sales increased more than 40 times and profits increased more than 50 times.
- He’s an ardent canine lover. Since the days of JRD Tata, Bombay Building, Tata Sons Headquarters has a tradition of letting stray dogs in during the rains. Since its latest restoration, the Bombay House now has a puppy farm for stray dogs. This cottage has with games, a play room, water and food. This practice started with Ratan Tata, who had a deep passion for dogs. He’s fondly dressing two pet puppies, Tito and Maximus.
- Ratan Tata is a highly qualified pilot.He became the first Indian to fly the F-16 Falcon in 2007.
- In recent years, he has shared more of his heartbreaking love story and how he ‘almost got married.’ Speaking to Humans of Bombay, the philanthropist said he fell in love once in Los Angeles, but could not marry his lady’s love.
“It was in LA that I fell in love and almost got married,” he said. However, due to some family problems, he had to go back to India and his friendship did not thrive. “thought that the person I wanted to marry would come to India with me, but because of the 1962 Indo-China war her parents weren’t okay with her making the move anymore, and the relationship fell apart,” he said.
- Being a car enthusiast himself, he has a wide range of high-end cars like Ferrari California, Cadillac XLR, Land Rover Freelander, Chrysler Sebring, Honda Civic, Mercedes Benz S-Class, Maserati Quattro Porte, Mercedes Benz 500 SL, Jaguar F-Type, Jaguar XF-R and others.
With these we now conclude the rare facts about one of the most respected and inspirational industrialist in India Ratan Tata.
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