Industrialist, philanthropist, entrepreneur and the former chairman of Tata Sons, Ratan Naval Tata has made a significant impact in the hearts of all ages, gender, and groups. Even after being a wealthy man, Ratan Tata never took his power or wealth for granted. Many business tycoons look up to him as it was under him that Tata Motors was able to crack major contracts.
Despite achieving great feet in his professional life, the business tycoon never got married. Yes, Ratan Tata is unmarried, and he has often talked about how he got close to marrying, but it was never destined for him. In a recent podcast with Krishna Mehta, the 85-year-old reveals how he almost got married once in LA. Elaborating on the same, Ratan Tata said:
“I almost got married in Los Angeles… but couldn’t because I returned to India soon after to be with my grandmother. The person I hoped to marry was supposed to join me shortly after. But as fate would have it, India was thrown into a war with China and her parents refused to let her visit a country that was at war. And so, we were left with an ‘almost’, a ‘would have been’.”
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In the same podcast, Mr Tata also mentioned his other relationships but never finding the one, who he could call his wife. In his words:
“After that, there were other relationships, but I never found anyone I could call my wife. And by then, my life itself had become a conflict. I was constantly working and traveling, with little time for myself. But today when I look back, I don’t regret any of it, not even for a second.”
Ratan Tata’s father, Naval Tata was adopted into the family by Navajbai and Sir Ratanji Tata. Naval Tata got married to Soonoo Commissariat with whom he had two sons, Ratan Tata and Jimmy Tata. After some years, Naval Tata and Soonoo Tata got separated, and it had a huge impact on his childhood.
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Once in a throwback interview with Humans of Bombay, Ratan Tata talked about his childhood memories. He shared that he had a happy childhood, but when his parents got divorced, he faced a lot of discomfort and rage. Ratan Tata also experienced a lot of bullying after his mother's second marriage and his classmate would tease him for the same. However, it was his grandmother, who helped him overcome it. He had shared:
"I had a happy childhood, but as my brother & I got older, we faced a fair bit of ragging & personal discomfort because of our parent’s divorce, which in those days wasn’t as common. But my grandmother brought us up in every way. Soon after when my mother remarried, the boys at school started saying all kinds of things about us–constantly & aggressively. But our grandmother taught us to retain dignity at all costs, a value that’s stayed with me until today. It involved walking away from these situations, which otherwise we would’ve fought back against."
For the unversed, Ratan Tata served as the Chairman of the Tata Group from 1990 to 2012.
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