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Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata poses next to a ‘Tata Indigo Marina’ in 2004.
Photo: SEBASTIAN D’SOUZA / AFP/File
Source: AFP
Industrialist Ratan Tata, who has died aged 86, was credited with transforming India’s Tata Group into a globally renowned conglomerate with a portfolio ranging from software to sports cars.
A painfully shy student, he planned to be an architect and was working in the United States when his grandmother, who raised him, asked him to return home and join the sprawling family business.
He started out in 1962, staying in a hostel for apprentices and working on the…
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