Around the globe both rich and not so rich society adored him for his simplicity, honesty, work ethics. He is the definition of Corporate Social Responsibility while managing his companies. He was admitted to hospital as his blood pressure was going down a few days ago.
The last tweet was his being ok two days ago. But in 2 days his time had come. He was and still is a role model for many entrepreneurs. The last public Occassion was his opening a Pet store according to his X tweet.
As we know he never got married and unfortunately there was no one to carry-on his legacy. May be there can’t be any more Ratan here after. We have to wait in to see if someone from Tata’s family keep up his reputation. Even though Sri Ratan N Tata was not a direct blood line of Jamestji Nusserwanji Tata who created the Tata group amalgamation, he kept up the reputation of Jamestji and JRD who built the group.
Personal life
Born in Bombay (Mumbai) and went to US to study architecture in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
He was a lover of pets, especially Dogs.
Worked in an Architecture company in Los Angelos, California for a few years. He met someone in California, but he had to return to India due to his grandmother’s illness. Due to various reasons, he could not go back to US and his potential life partner also was not able to come down to India.
During his tenure as Chairman of Tata Group, he was instrumental in acquiring many British groups. To name a few Tetley, Jaguar Land Rover, Corus.
He was given numerous awards including the highest Indian award, Padma Bhushan.
Tata Group
The current spread of the Tata group is very impressive and here is a list of the companies under the group
- TATA Advanced Systems (TASL) – Aerospace & Defence Equipments
- TATA International Group – Leather Group
- TATA Consultancy Services – Information Technology – mainly consultancy
- TATA Elxsi – Information Technology – Digital Design
- Nelco Ltd – VSAT & SATCOM
- TATA Steels – Steel and manufacture
- Voltas – Electronics
- TATA Power – Power
- TATA Projects – Engineering and Construction
- TATA Consulting Engineers – Eng. Consulting
- TATA Reality and Infrastructure – Real Estate
- TATA Technologies – Automotive and Heavy Engineering
- TATA Autocomp – Automotive OEMs
- TATA Chemicals – Chemical
- TATA Digitals – Online Market
- Titan – Automative (Famous for Watches & Clocks)
- TATA Consumer – Consumer products
- TATA Capitals – Financial Investments
- TATA Mutual Funds – Capital Investments
- TATA AIG – Auto insurance
- TATA AIA – Life Insurance
- TATA Investments – Investments
- TATA Indian Hotel Co – Hotels (including Taj)
- Taj Air – Airlines
- Air India – Airlines
- Vistara – Airlines (merged with Air India)
- TATA Communications – Communications
- TATA Tele Business Service – Internet provider
- TATA Play – Satellite Television
- Tejas Networks – broadband and data networking products company
- TATA MD – Healthcare
Tata invested in over 30 start-ups with some in his personal capacity.
It is noted he is one of the highest donors to the tune of ₹829,734 crore ($102 Billion).
You could watch him share his life and thoughts in the year 2017 in Mumbai, India is something you can watch and listen to his thoughts and experience in life.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran, TATA Group Chairman.
Now we come to something which is related to Tamil speaking people with Tata Group. Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran is the current Chairman of Tata group since 2017. Mr. Chandrasekaran was born in Mohanur in Nammakkal District, which is on the banks of Kaveri river. He is also an alumni of reputed engineering school in Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore Institute Technology, NIT, Tiruchirapalli and IIM, Lucknow. We understand he is at the greater loss more than anyone else as he lost a great mentor. We wish him success in keeping Mr. Ratanji’s reputation and keep the TATA Group flag flying high.
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