Apart from incomplete love, whatever he started, he died only after completing it. When I became interested in reading, I rebelled against my father and studied. When he became interested in flying planes, he even washed utensils in restaurants to pay his fees. When it came to work, he also picked up lime with a shovel. When it came to selling the company, he was adamant. The company which was to be sold was bought through the same company which had bid for it. When he saw the family getting wet in the rain, he made a new car. When he saw the dog sick, he rejected the royal invitation from Prince Charles of London. When he saw the terrorist attack on Mumbai… without wasting a moment he gave permission to blow up his entire hotel… when age seemed to weigh heavily on his spirit, he boarded a fighter jet.
When he saw dogs dying on the streets, he opened the doors of his five star hotel. When he earned so much money that he could help people… then he donated so much… he donated so much that the world was shocked… this is the story of India’s famous industrialist Ratan Naval Tata, who if such a big businessman Even if he had not earned so much money, the world would still be bidding him farewell with tears in his eyes. His identity is not the money he earned or the empire he built but his personality, which no one can ever forget.
Ratan Tata was born rich. His father Naval Tata was adopted by Ratanji Tata. Ratanji Tata was the son of Jamsetji Tata, who created the Tata Group. So from the beginning Ratan Tata had no shortage of money. What was lacking was love, because when Ratan Tata was just 10 years old, his parents got divorced. The responsibility of Ratan Tata’s upbringing was with his grandmother Nawazbai Tata, but the father had the right over the son. So the father wanted the son to play the piano, but the son learned to play the violin. When he grew up a little, the father wanted his son to go to Britain to study, but the son went to America. The father wanted the son to become an engineer, but the son became an architect. While studying architecture, Ratan Tata also got interested in flying planes. This was the time when in America one could pay money to learn to fly a plane, but it was against the father’s wishes, so the father did not give money to fly the plane.
Then Ratan Tata also did small jobs to collect his fees, which included washing utensils in restaurants. During this time, their love was also blossoming, but it did not materialize because the grandmother who raised Ratan Tata fell ill. So Ratan Tata returned to India. With the promise that they would get married, but then the war between India and China started. The girl’s family did not agree to send their daughter to a war-torn country. And the result was that Ratan Tata’s love remained unfulfilled.
After this, Ratan Tata started working in India itself and it started with Tata company. At that time there used to be a company Telco, which is today known as Tata Motors. Ratan Tata worked in this company for a few days and then he was sent to Tata Steel. There Ratan Tata had to pick up limestone with a shovel. During this time, everyone knew who Ratan Tata was, but it was Ratan Tata’s simplicity that he never took advantage of the Tata surname. He stayed in the same apprentice hostel where other people working in his position lived. Other people used to come by bicycle, Ratan Tata could go by car, but he used to go to office on foot. At that time no one believed that this man wearing a blue uniform and picking lime with a shovel would ever become the surveyor of this entire company.
This also did not happen in one fell swoop. He kept climbing one step at a time. Kept traveling from Bihar to Bombay. He kept making many small companies of Tata Group big and then the day came which hardly anyone could have imagined. That was the year 1990. Tata Group Chairman JRD was admitted to Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai due to heart problem. A week later, when he came home after being discharged from the hospital, Ratan Tata had returned from Germany after making a deal with Mercedes-Benz. Ratan Tata reached home to meet JRD. So JRD repeated his old catchphrase on his meeting with Ratan Tata…well…what’s new. That is, what is new. Ratan said nothing. So JRD said that you may not have anything new, but I have it and then whatever JRD had that day… he gave it all to Ratan Tata. The entire company…the entire Tata Group…the group whose head was JRD and who was heading that company for the last 50 years. Now the company got a new management. Got the leadership of Ratan Tata… and then Ratan Tata took the Tata Group to such heights from where any businessman in the world can envy it.
This is just the business aspect of Ratan Tata. His second aspect is the one for which people remember him. Be it giving India its first car Indica or making a Nano car for Rs 1 lakh or taking care of the families of the Tata Group employees killed in the attack after the terrorist attack on Mumbai. Be it donating Rs 1500 crore in one go during the Corona period or opening the doors of his five star hotel even for dogs…when it came to generosity, no one came ahead of him in that line. ..Nobody…Goodbye Ratan Naval Tata…