Ratan Tata, the iconic Indian business tycoon and branding genius, passed away at 86. His legacy offers lessons in marketing, innovation, and social responsibility.

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Ratan Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, has died, the Tata Group said in a statement late on Wednesday. He was 86.

To me he always symbolised the sincere, confident, face of a Bharat whose rise is unstoppable. Ratan Tata was a Rishi who was unquestioningly trusted by people who never saw him and never met him, asserts Tarun Vijay,

Mumbai: India on Thursday bid an emotional farewell to Ratan Tata, one of her most illustrious sons who defined both her enterprise and humility as thousands, from ordinary citizens to luminaries, paid tributes to him before his last journey.

Ahead of a state funeral, hundreds of people including corporate leaders, politicians and celebrities gathered in India's financial hub Mumbai to pay their last respects.

Among thousands of people, including business and political leaders, celebrities and students who gathered to pay their last respects to India’s greatest philanthropist and animal lover Ratan Tata at Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA),

Ratan Tata’s furry friend Goa arrived at the NPCA lawns in Mumbai. ‘Goa’ was one of Ratan Tata’s dearest friend revealed the caretaker. Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons, passed away at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai aged 86 on October 9.

Hundreds of people, including corporate leaders, politicians and celebrities, gathered in Mumbai on Thursday to pay their last respects to one of India's most respected business tycoons, Ratan Tata, who died aged 86.

Omnipresent. Ratan Tata is synonymous with the rise of India Inc and the Tata group, the country’s oldest and most celebrated conglomerate. He put a kind face on capitalism in a country emerging from socialism,