Niira Radia Reveals Last Time She Met Ratan Tata: ‘I Stayed in Touch With Him’

“About two or three months ago. I stayed in touch with him. We remained friends. He inaugurated… he was present at one of my functions,” Niira Radia said. NDTV Profit.

“We always talked on the phone whenever we could. The good thing was that we remained good friends for a long time afterward and remembered many times.”

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India pays tribute to Ratan Tata

Tata, who was credited with transforming the Tata Group into a world-renowned conglomerate, died last Wednesday at the age of 86 at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai. His death sparked an outpouring of tributes online and offline, from people from all walks of life.

Noel Tata named successor

Noel Tata, 67, half-brother of Ratan Tata, has been named the new director of Tata Trusts, a collective of charities that indirectly controls the $165 billion business empire spread across 100 countries.

“Ratan would be very happy”: Niira Radia on Noel Tata

Reacting to the appointment of Noel Tata as the successor to the legendary Tata Trusts leader, Radia told NDTV Profit, “Ratan would be very happy. He will be very happy with it. He would have been very happy if it was unanimous (decision). He has always been a man of consensus. There was never a top-down approach.

Niira Radia, who founded the now-defunct Vaishnavi Communication, had many high-profile clients, including Tata Group. In 2001, it bagged all 90 accounts of the Tata group.