Ratan Tata's Ailing Brother Jimmy Arrives In Wheelchair To Pay Last Respects At NCPA Lawns | Video

As the nation mourns the loss of business tycoon and Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata, his ailing brother Jimmy Naval Tata arrived in a wheel-chair to pay his final respects in NCPA lawns Mumbai on Thursday.

The video that surfaced on social media showed Jimmy with a face mask making his way for the last rites of the Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata.

Ratan Tata died late Wednesday at the age of 86 after a brief illness. He was admitted to Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Monday due to a drop in blood pressure and was in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

Born to Naval and Soonoo Tata into the Parsi Zoroastrian family, Ratan and his younger brother Jimmy were brought up by their grandmother, Navajbai R Tata, in a baroque manor called Tata Palace in downtown Mumbai.

Ratan Tata’s younger brother has mostly remained out of the public spotlight, leading a quiet and private life. He holds a significant number of shares in various Tata Group companies including Tata Sons, Tata Steel, Tata Motors and TCS, but resides in a humble 2 BHK apartment in Mumbai.

Back in 2022, industrialist Harsh Goenka, Chairperson of RPG Enterprises, took to social media to highlight the lifestyle of Jimmy Tata. He shared a picture of Ratan Tata’s younger brother and mentioned about his humble living in a small apartment.

“Did you know of Ratan Tata’s younger brother Jimmy Tata who lives a quiet reticent life in a humble 2 bhk flat in Colaba, Mumbai! Never interested in business, he was a very good squash player and would beat me every time,” Goenka wrote in an X post.

Ratan Tata’s Last Rites With State Honours

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Wednesday night that the last rites will be performed with full state honours. Tata’s mortal remains have been kept at NCPA for the public to pay their respects.

The Maharashtra cabinet on Thursday passed a resolution urging the Centre to confer ‘Bharat Ratna’, the country’s highest civilian award, on the late Ratan Tata.

Tata, born on December 28, 1937, in Mumbai, was the Chairman of Ratan Tata Trust and Dorabji Tata Trust, two of the largest private-sector-promoted philanthropic trusts in India.

He was the Chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, from 1991 until his retirement in 2012. Then he was appointed Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons.