Ratan Tata never got married in his life. But there was a time in his life when he was very close to getting married. He was in love with a girl and was about to marry her. But at that time there came a turning point in his life. His love story remained incomplete. Ratan Tata himself told why his love story remained incomplete.
Love Happened in America
Ratan Tata will be remembered all over the world as a successful industrialist. Ratan Tata took the Tata Group to new heights with his hard work. Where everyone knew Ratan Tata as an industrialist. However many people did not know Ratan Tata personally. There was a deep reason behind why Ratan Tata did not marry in his entire life. He openly told about this during an interview given to Bollywood actress Simi Grewal in the year 1997.
Ratan Tata, while talking to Simi Grewal in an interview, said that in the 1960s, after studying in America, he went there to work. During that time, he met a girl and fell in love with her. He was about to marry her. But then his grandmother Navajbai Tata called him back to India.
India-China War Did Not Allow Their Love to Be Complete
Ratan Tata was raised by his grandmother and he was very close to her. This was the reason that when his grandmother asked him to come back to India, he could not refuse her. After this, Ratan Tata felt that the girl he loved would also come to India and both of them would get married.
But in the meantime, a war broke out between India and China in the year 1962. Because of this, the parents of that girl did not send their daughter to India. And because of his grandmother, Ratan Tata could not go back to America. This was the reason why their love story remained incomplete.
Ratan Tata Fell in Love Four Times
Apart from this, while sharing many personal experiences with students in a program of Baroda Management Association (BMA), he said that he fell in love four times in his life, but he remained single. He said that every time he could not get married due to some reason or the other. Talking about this aspect of his life to host Simi Grewal in the program Rendezvous with Simi Grewal, Ratan Tata said that sometimes he feels lonely in life and thinks how it would have been if he was with someone. Let us tell you that Ratan Tata’s name was also associated with Simi Grewal, but both could not get married.
Active Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata remained active till the end. Ratan Tata voted on May 20 at the age of 86 in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. Ratan Tata also loved playing the piano along with dogs and flying airplanes. Ratan Tata once shared about this on Instagram. He revealed that he learned to play a little piano as a child and even started it again as a hobby after retirement, but could not pay much attention to it. Now he wants to try his hand at the piano once again.