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Ratan Tata was “close to marriage” 4 times. What he said in old interview
Ratan Tata revealed that one of his most important relationships happened while he was working in the US.
New Delhi: Industrialist Ratan Tata, a man of few words, once shared very personal details about his love life in a candid interview with CNN. Mr Tata, who died in Mumbai on Wednesday at the age of 86, revealed that he had fallen in love and come close to marriage not once, but four times.
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“When you asked if I had ever fallen in love, I had come close to marriage four times and each time it got close and I think I backed off in fear for some reason or the other,” Mr Tata told CNN.
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Mr Tata revealed that one of his most important relationships happened while he was working in the US. He explained how he had planned to marry an American woman but the relationship got disrupted due to global events.
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“Well, you know probably the most serious case was when I was working in the US and the only reason we didn’t get married was because I had come back to India and she was going to follow me… and that was the year, if you like, of the Sino-Indian conflict and in true American style 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 she eventually got married in the US,” Mr Tata said in the interview. Mr Tata, who returned to India from the US in 1962 following his grandmother’s illness, is credited with transforming the Tata Group into a global powerhouse, overseeing a company with over 100 firms. Mr Tata’s death marks the end of an era in Indian business, where one man reshaped the country’s industrial landscape and transformed his family-owned group into a global powerhouse. Although he controlled more than 30 companies operating in over 100 countries across six continents, Mr Tata lived a simple life.
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