In a frank interview with CNN, industrialist Ratan Tata—a man of few words—once revealed incredibly intimate information about his love history. Mr. Tata who passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday at the age of 86 disclosed in an old interview that he had been in love and nearly got married four times.
Ratan Tata talked openly about his love life during an interview with CNN
“When you asked whether I’d ever been in love, I came seriously close to getting married four times and each time it got close to there and I guess I backed off in fear of one reason or another,” Mr. Tata told CNN.
Mr. Tata disclosed that while he was employed in the United States, he had one of his most significant relationships. He told of how he was going to marry an American, but that connection was obstructed by world affairs.
“Well, you know one was probably the most serious was when I was working in the U.S. 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 Sino-Indian 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,” Mr. Tata said in the interview.
After his grandmother’s illness in 1962, Mr. Tata left the US and returned to India. He is recognized with turning the Tata Group into a multinational conglomerate, managing more than 100 firms.
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