'Sir, You'll Forever Be Remembered...': Rohit Sharma Pays Tribute to 'Man with a Heart of Gold' Ratan Tata

Indian captain Rohit Sharma paid tribute to legendary industrialist Ratan Tata on his demise. The Indian business tycoon took his last breath on Wednesday night in a Mumbai hospital. A Padma Vibhushan recipient, Tata, was in intensive care at the hospital since Monday.

Rohit took his social media account to pay homage to the departed soul.

“A man with a heart of gold. Sir, you will forever be remembered as someone who truly cared and lived his life to make everyone else’s better,” Rohit wrote on microblogging site X.

Ratan Tata’s death

A top official of the Mumbai police was the first to inform of his death, followed by a confirmation by Tata Group chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran who called Tata ‘a truly uncommon leader whose immeasurable contributions have shaped not only the Tata Group but also the very fabric of our nation’.

“It is with a profound sense of loss that we bid farewell to Mr. Ratan Naval Tata, a truly uncommon leader whose immeasurable contributions have shaped not only the Tata Group but also the very fabric of our nation,” Chandrasekaran said in a late-night statement.

Career and Achievements

Educated at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, the veteran industrialist worked on the shop floor at the family-run group after returning to India in 1962. He gained experience in several Tata Group firms before being named director in charge of one of them, the National Radio and Electronics Co. in 1971.

He became chairman of Tata Industries a decade later and in 1991 took over as the chairman of the Tata Group from his uncle, JRD, who had been in charge for more than half a century. Under his stewardship, the conglomerate embarked on a massive expansion drive, snapping iconic British assets including steelmaker Corus and luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover.

Its two-and-half-dozen listed firms now make coffee and cars, salt and software, steel and power, run airlines and introduced India’s first super app. It recently forayed into chip making and is planning an iPhone assembly plant. The conglomerate ended with USD 165 billion in revenue in the last fiscal.

(With Agency Inputs)