When Ratan Tata told Simi Garewal why he never got married: 'I came close to getting married but…'

Former chairman of the Tata group and India’s icon and treasure Ratan Tata passed away at the age of 86. Simi Garewal once admitted to dating him and on her show Rendezvous With Simi Garewal, Ratan Tata spoke about not getting married, loneliness, and the idea of having children.

Tata said, “A whole series of things (stopped me from marrying) – timing, my absorption in work at the time. I came close to getting married sometimes, but it didn’t work out.”

“There are many times that I feel lonely about not having a wife or a family, and sometimes I long for it. Sometimes I enjoy the freedom of not having to worry about the feelings of someone else or the concerns of someone else. On other times, it does get a little lonely,” said Tata.

Ratan Tata on his first love

Tata had opened up on his first love during a chat with Humans of Bombay and why he couldn’t marry her. He revealed, “It was in LA that I fell in love and almost got married. But at the same time, I had made the decision to move back, at least temporarily, since I had been away from my grandmother, who wasn’t keeping too well, for almost seven years.”

He continued, “So I came back to visit her and thought that the person I wanted to marry would come to India with me, but because of the 1962 Indo-China war, her parents weren’t okay with her making the move anymore, and the relationship fell apart.”