Former Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata was born on 28 December 1937 in Bombay to Naval Tata and his first wife Soonoo

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He is an avid reader as can be gathered from this picture of him happily poring over a book during his student days at Cornell University

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On one of his Instagram posts, the industrialist shared a 1955 snapshot of him along his friends Lou and Rudy whom he had met at Riverdale Country School in New York

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He also once shared a younger picture of him from his Los Angeles days before he returned back to India to look after the family business

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Before his first job at Tata Steel in 1961, he once visited Jamshedpur during a holiday from college and walked around the Telco plant with two persons RG Da Costa and JD Choksi

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Ratan Tata had a great reverence for his predecessor JRD Tata and he often spoke of how they shared a deep passion and interest in aviation

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As the powerful man behind the Tata Group, Ratan Tata was responsible for turning it into a highly developed business

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