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Snapshot of the day

October 10, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

Ratan Tata, whose understated, ‘old money’ persona stood in stark contrast to the flashiness of the Ambanis and Adanis, died yesterday aged 86. His body was taken to Worli in Mumbai for a state funeral this afternoon, where local police formed a guard of honour. Earlier, hundreds of people gathered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts to pay their last respects to Tata, whose body was draped in the national flag for viewing. While Tata Sons’ statement did not say what caused his death, Reuters had reported yesterday that he was in critical condition in Breach Candy Hospital’s intensive care unit.

Coomi Kapoor profiles “the introvert, dark horse, rose to become India’s most respected businessman”. She also recalls that the one scandal which “temporarily dimmed Ratan’s halo” – “his sacking of the chairperson of the group, the late Cyrus Mistry, in 2016” which “left the business world and the Parsi community shell-shocked.”

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