A file photo of Ratan Naval Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons, at the inaugural function of the ninth Auto Expo in New Delhi, India. A beacon of India Inc. and philanthropist, Tara steered a sprawl...Image by Sunil Saxena/HT via Getty Images
An early photograph of Ratan Tata with his uncle and mentor, JRD Tata. JRD handed over the reins to Ratan Tata, thus succeeding him as Chairman in 1991. It was a decision that surprised man...Image by Courtesy TataÂ
A family portrait of Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata with cousin RD Tata and sons Ratan Tata & Dorab Tata at TATA Steel of India and South East Asia office in Jamshedpur, India. A portrait of Ra...Image by Indranil Bhoumik/Mint via Getty Images; Umesh Goswami/ India Today via Getty Images
Ratan Tata (left) with his younger brother Jimmy & family pet in his schooldays in 1945.Ratan Tata during his time in Los Angeles in 1962, where he worked with Jones & Emmons.Image by Courtesy Tata
Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata presses a key on a laptop to list India"s largest software company, Tata Consultancy, on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange as TCS Mana...Image by Forbes
Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons and Cyrus Mistry (right), Deputy Chairman of Tata Sons, meet with Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma (left) on December 22, 2011, in New Delhi, In...Image by Raj K Raj/HT via Getty Images
(Left) Ratan Tata was seen at Tata"s marquee Taj Mahal Palace Hotel on the day following the terrorist attack on the hotel in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. (Right) Ratan Tata, along with his...Image by Manoj Patil/HT via Getty Images
Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Motors, hands over keys of Tata Nano to its first owner, Ashok R. Vichare, a class one officer in Mumbai customs, on July 17, 2009, in Mumbai. Among the audacio...Image by Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint via Getty Images
Tata Group chief Ratan Tata at the launch of Jaguar and Land Rover brands in Mumbai on June 28, 2009. Tata Group"s estimated $2.3 billion purchase of Ford-owned British marquee brands was t...Image by Bhaskar Paul/ India Today via Getty Images
(L to R) B Mutharaman, Managing Director of Tata Steel Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Steel James Leng, Chairman of Corus and Philippe Varian, Chief Executive of Corus, shake hands during a p...Image by Toby Melville / Reuters
Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Group holds a glass of water from a Swach water filter during the product"s unveiling in Mumbai on December 7, 2009. Among Tata"s legacy of mass market innovati...Image by Manoj Patil/HT via Getty Images
(Left) Ratan Tata greets Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the release of a commemorative postage stamp in honour of noted late Indian jurist Nani Palkhivala in Mumbai on Januar...Image by Forbes
Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons, photographed with Tata World Truck in Mumbai on June 28, 2009. Jointly developed by Tata Motors and its two subsidiaries, Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle C...Image by Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint via Getty Images
British Prime Minister David Cameron (C) chairs a meeting of the "UK-India CEO Forum", at 10 Downing Street on February 3, 2011 in London, England. The business meeting was jointly chaired ...Image by Dan Kitwood / WPA Pool/Getty Images
Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (5th from right) and Minister of State for Finance Anand Sharma pose with business leaders (from left) Anand Mahindra, Anil Ambani, Y.C. Deveshwar, ...Image by PRAKASH SINGH / AFP
(From left) Essar Group Chairman Shashi Ruia, Chairperson of the Regional Government of Astrakhan Konstantin Markelov, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, former Gujarat state fina...Image by Amit Dave / Reuters
Starbucks Coffee Company"s Chairman Howard Schultz (L) and Tata Group"s Chairman Ratan Tata pose during a function to celebrate the launch of the country"s first new Starbucks outlet in Mum...Image by Punit Paranjpe / AFP
Air Asia Group CEO Tony Fernandes and Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group and Air Asia India stakeholder Ratan Tata speak to the media during their joint venture airline launch event in Ban...Image by Manjunath Kiran / AFP
US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) greets Indian businessman Ratan N. Tata with US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker (right) before a dinner at the US Ambassador"s residence in New ...Image by Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Ratan Tata speaks with a student during his visit to the Team Indus Foundation campus in Bangalore to launch the "Moonshot Wheels" bus on February 7, 2017. The Moonshot Wheels bus will trav...Image by Manjunath Kiran / AFP
Ratan Tata greets Infosys founder N. Narayana Murthy at the inauguration of the Invest Karnataka 2016 event in Bangalore on February 3, 2016.Image by Manjunath Kiran / AFP
(Left)Ratan Tata prepares for a flight in the backseat of a US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft during the third day of the Aero India 2007 air show at the Air Force Station, Yelahanka, i...Image by Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP; Ravi Raveendran / AFP
(Right) President K R Narayanan presents Padma Bhushan award to Ratan Tata at Rashtrapati Bhawan in 2000 in New Delhi. (Left) President Pratibha Patil presents the Padma Vibhushan, a civil...Image by Sondeep Shankar/Getty Images
Tata Trusts Chairman Ratan Tata addresses the inaugural UCLA-Tata Global Forum on "Innovating for a Sustainable Energy Future" on January 11, 2016 in New Delhi, India. The two-day global f...Image by Mohd Zakir/HT via Getty Images
Ratan Tata and RSS head Mohan Bhagwat at Yashwant Natya Mandir, Mahim during an event to honour NGO Nana Palkar Smruti Samiti"s 50 years of work among the sick and the needy on August 24, 2...Image by Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Industrialist Ratan Tata and actor Akshay Kumar with students and dignitaries during the Transform Maharashtra event at NSCI, Worli, on May 1, 2017, in Mum...Image by Pratham Gokhale/HT via Getty Images
Indian industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata meet during Narendra Modi"s swearing-in ceremony as Indian Prime Minister at the President house in New Delhi on May 30, 2019.Image by Prakash SINGH / AFP
(Left) Actor Shabana Azmi and Ratan Tata attend the Dada Saheb Phalke Excellence Awards in Mumbai on April 25, 2016. (Right) Ratan Tata at a ceremony to mark the completion of restoration w...Image by AFP; Arvind Yadav/HT via Getty Images
Ratan Tata, former chairman of the Tata Group and present chairman Natarajan Chandrashekharan (right) take part in the 179th Founders Day celebrations in Jamshedpur in Jharkhand state on Fe...Image by AFP
Ratan Tata with Founder Shantanu Naidu during the launch of Goodfellows, India"s first companionship startup for senior citizens, at President Hotel, Cuffe Parade on August 16, 2022 in Mumb...Image by Bhushan Koyande/HT via Getty Images
