Ratan Tata , a veteran industrialist and Tata Sons chairman emeritus died at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday evening. He was 86. The tycoon led the Tata Group - known as a salt-to-software conglomerate of more than 100 companies, employing nearly 6,60,000 people - for more than two decades.
Ratan Tata was born in 1937 in a traditional family of Parsis - a highly educated and prosperous community in India. His parents separated in the 1940s. Tata went to college in the US, where he got a degree in architecture at Cornell University.
During his seven-year-long stay, he learned to drive cars and fly. He returned to India in 1962 when his grandmother Lady Navajbai fell ill and called for him. It was then that JRD Tata - a relative from a different branch of the family - asked him to join the Tata Group.
"He [JRD Tata] was my greatest mentor...
he was like a father and a brother to me - and not enough has been said about that," Tata told an interviewer. Strategy ESG and Business Sustainability Strategy By - Vipul Arora, Partner, ESG & Climate Solutions at Sattva Consulting Author I Speaker I Thought Leader View Program Finance A2Z Of Finance: Finance Beginner Course By - elearnmarkets, Financial Education by StockEdge View Program Data Science SQL for Data Science along with Data Analytics and Data Visualization By - Metla Sudha Sekhar, Developer and Lead Instructor View Program Artificial Intelligence(AI) AI for Everyone: Understanding and Applying the Basics on Arti.
