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| Bio/Wiki | |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Ratan Naval Tata |
| Profession(s) | Industrialist, Investor, Philanthropist |
| Physical Stats & More | |
| The height (approx. | in centimeters– 177 cm Meters– 1.77m in feet & inches– 5’ 10” |
| Eye Color | Light Brown |
| Hair Colour | Gray |
| Personal Life | |
| Date of Birth | 28th December 1937 (Tuesday). |
| Age as of 2019 | 82 years |
| Place of Birth | Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
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| Nation | Indian |
| Hometown | Mumbai, India |
| School | • Campion School, Mumbai • Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai |
| College/University | • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA • Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Higher Education | • B.S. degree in architecture with structural engineering from Cornell University, New York • Advanced Management Programme from Harvard Business School, 1975 |
| Religion | Parsee, a Zoroastrian community with a tight knit, originates from Persia. [1]The Guardian |
| Food Habit | Non-Vegetarian [2]The Telegraph |
| Address | Ratan Tata lives on the third floor of a three-storey house with sea views in Mumbai’s Colaba area. [3]daily.bhaskar.com |
| Hobbies | His hobbies include listening to Hindi songs, painting, driving, flying jet planes, playing the piano, reading, and spending time with his pets dogs. |
| Award, Honours | • Padma Bhushan in 2000 • Padma Vibhushan in 2008  • Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 2009 • Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2009 • Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun by the Government of Japan in 2012 • Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 2014 • Commander of the Legion of Honour by the Government of France in 2016  |
| Controversies | • In May 2006, Ratan Tata announced plans to manufacture a small car, the Nano, at Singur in West Bengal. The announcement was met with protests by local farmers, who claimed that the state had forcibly acquired their land. Trinamool Congress Chief was appointed in July 2006. Mamata Banerjee The protestors were joined by the government. However, Ratan Tata, then the chief minister at the time, announced that the project would be moved to Gujarat in August 2008. Narendra Modi.
• In 2010, his name appeared in the ‘Nira Radia Tapes’ controversy. This controversy began in November 2010. It involved phone conversations between Nira Radia, corporate lobbyist, and various politicians, bureaucrats, and journalists. These were then leaked to media. Radia had talked to Ratan Tata about industrialists. Tata sought to restrain the media from carrying more tapes following the release of the tapes. |
| Relationships & More | |
| Marital Status | Married but unmarried |
| Affairs/Girlfriends | When asked about his love life, he answered, “seriously four times.” [4]The Economic Times |
| Families | |
| Wife/Spouse | N/A |
| Children | None |
| Parents | Father– Late Naval Tata (Businessman) Mother– Late Sooni Tata  |
| Siblings | BrotherNoel Tata (Halfbrother) – Businessman  Sister– No |
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| Favourite things | |
| Men in business | Jean Riboud, JRD Tata (the ex-chairman of Schlumberger’s largest oilfield service provider- Schlumberger), |
| Color | We are white |
| Food | Masoor Dal is a spicy dish made with lots garlic, Mutton Pulao Dal and Nut rich baked custard. [5]The Telegraph |
| Destination Holiday | California |
| Style Quote | |
| Collection for Cars | Ferrari California, Honda Civic, Land Rover Freelander, Maserati Quattroporte, Cadillac XLR, Mercedes Benz 500 SL, Chrysler Sebring, Mercedes Benz S-Class, Jaguar F-Type, Jaguar XF-R |
| Assets/Properties | for Detailled information click here |
| Money Factor | |
| Estimated Net Worth | $291 billion in 2010 [6]Forbes |
Ratan Tata: Some less-known facts
- Does Ratan Tata smoke?No [7]The Guardian
- Does Ratan Tata drink alcohol?No [8]The Guardian
- Ratan Tata is a name to reckon with in the annals of Tata Group’s business. While he is a prominent businessman in India, his best-known work is as a philanthropist. for his simplicity and loneliness, and the words used most often to describe Ratan Tata are ‘shy’ and ‘loner.’
- During his 21 years of tenure as the Chairman of Tata Group (1991-2012), revenues grew over 40 times, and profit, over 50 times.
- Ratan Tata can be described as an accidental millionaire in many aspects. Tata is a talented interloper who lives largely in the shadows of the media, despite leading one the largest Indian business conglomerates. He is a quiet and modest Indian businessman who drives his Tata sedan to work.
- Ratan Tata is a member of a family with everything except children. Traditional Parsee priests were the Tata family. It was first recognized when Jamsetji Tata established a textile mill. It offered workers pensions and accident compensation. This was a remarkable feature that is rare in India’s business sector.
Jamsetji Tata, late 19th century opened a Textile Mill
- The Tatas were a strong family, but they ran out of children.
- Ratan’s father, Naval H Tata was born into an ordinary family in Surat. Naval’s parents died when he was too young; leaving him to be raised at an orphanage, but Naval was destined to win life’s lottery and at 13. Naval was adopted by Lady Navajbai Tata (Tata’s formidable matriarch); who had been left childless and widowed at 40. Thereafter, Naval rose to become the deputy chairman of the Tata Group.
Ratan Tata, (R) together with his father Naval (L), and Half Brother Noel. (Centre).
- Ratan, in truth, is a Tata at birth. His biological maternal grandmother, Hirabai Tata’s sister, was actually the wife of Jamsetji Tata. Moreover, his biological grandfather, Hormusji Tata, also belonged to the broader Tata Family.
- Unlike the Ratan Tata’s present-day lifestyle of an ordinary person, he spent his childhood in luxury; as he grew up at Tata Palace, a white Baroque revival-style building in the centre of Mumbai; attended by a crew of 50 servants. Reportedly, Ratan was driven to school in a Rolls-Royce.
- While growing up, Ratan became very close to his grandmother, Lady Navajbai Tata. He spoke about his grandmother during an interview.
My great grandmother was the one who raised me and my brother. She instilled in us what she considered to be proper, And I think that has had a very profound influence on me and my value systems.”
Lady Navajbai Tata
- Ratan Tata’s fascination for America led him there to study architecture at Cornell University. While in the United States, Ratan travelled across the country; washing dishes to make ends meet. [9]The Guardian
Rare photo taken by Ratan Tata in the days when he was travelling to America as a teenager
- Ratan, in an interview, admitted to falling for a young American woman. He admitted that he has fallen in love four times but that the one he loved most was that American woman. He stated,
Well, you know one was probably the most serious was when I was working in the US and the only reason we didn’t get married was that I came back to India and she was to follow me and that was the year of the, if you like, the Indo-Chinese conflict and in true American fashion this conflict in the Himalayas, in the snowy, uninhabited part of the Himalayas was seen in the United States as a major war between India and China and so, she didn’t come and finally got married in the US thereafter.” [10]The Economic Times
- Ratan Tata joined Tata Group in 1961 at the Tata Steel, where he was assigned the responsibility to shovel limestone & handle blast furnace.
Ratan Tata (with JRD Tata) on the TELCO shop floor (now TATA Motors).
- His pragmatic business skills led him to become the Chairman of Tata Group in March 1991; when JRD Tata stepped down as chairman of Tata Sons, naming Ratan his successor.
- Under his stewardship, Tata Group became an international conglomerate, and he got Tata Tea to acquire Tetley, Tata Motors to acquire Jaguar Land Rover, and Tata Steel to acquire Corus.
- Nano Car’s inception in 2008 was before Ratan Tata gave India his first indigenous car, the Tata Indica. This gift came in 1998. In one of his Instagram posts, he wrote about the birth of India’s first indigenous car-
Everyone told us it couldn’t be done without having a joint venture or a partnership with an international company. It would be great if they did. thisFailure will surely be my fate. However, we went on anyway. Many lessons were learned and technical difficulties arose. This was an incredible experience. Many were the chances of giving up. We stayed the course, worked out each issue, and that was the birth of India’s first indigenous car- Tata Indica.”
Ratan Tata during the Launch of Tata Indica
- There was no retirement age before Ratan Tata assumed the Tata Group’s leadership. Ratan Tata drafted the retirement policy for the company, and established a retirement age. for Executive and nonexecutive directors. Talking about this In an interview, he stated that retirement policy was discussed.
You may think 65 is too old, 70 too young, or 75 too young. Whatever it may be, you don’t need a person to say, look, I think you should leave. This is why the idea of establishing a retirement age has been so controversial. Tata had no retirement age. I could’ve just as well have stayed up and stayed on.”
- Ratan Tata has two dogs, Maximus (his pet dog) and Tito (his pet dog).. Bombay House has been letting dogs out during heavy rain since JRD Tata’s days. Bombay House maintains a dog kennel for Stray dogs
Ratan Tata spends quality time with his pets
- On 23 March 2009, he launched his dream car- Tata Nano, and it was considered as the world’s cheapest car priced at Rs. 1 lakh.
- A pilot by training, he was the first Indian to fly F-16 on February 8, 2007.
- Although he is a professional architect, he has designed only two houses- his mother’s, and his own beach-house off the Arabian sea.
- When it comes to his closest friends, he gives two names- Amar Bose who made billions from audio equipment, and conductor Zubin Mehta (a fellow Mumbai Parsee) who lives in the United States.
- Ratan Tata’s social conscience is what makes him unique. Ratan Tata values fairness more than money and owns less that 1% of Tata Group.
