'Great Son Of India': Nita Ambani, Reliance Family Pay Tribute To Ratan Tata

Mumbai: Nita Ambani, the philanthropist, industrialist and wife of Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday paid tributes to the visionary Ratan Tata, who died on October 9, saying he was a 'Great son of India'. In a statement, Ambanis said that Reliance leadership and thousands of employees pay tribute to Ratan Tata at the Reliance Industries Annual Diwali dinner. 

Nita Ambani called Ratan Tata a 'Great Son of India', a visionary industrialist and philanthropist who always strove for society's greater good.

Addressing Reliance Industries annual Diwali dinner, Nita Ambani said, “I have a solid duty to perform four days ago. We lost a great son of India. The passing of Mr. Ratan Tata filled us all with immense grief. He was a dear friend of my father-in-law, of Mukesh (her husband) and of our family. He was also a mentor to Akash, he was a visionary industrialist and a philanthropist, who always worked for society. I request all of you to stand and observe a minute to silence in the honour of the Rata Tata."

Nation bids tearful goodbye to Ratan Tata 

Corporate leaders, politicians and celebrities joined hundreds of people on Thursday as they bid final adieu to one of India's most respected and internationally recognised business leaders, Ratan Tata, who died aged 86.

Last rites were performed at Mumbai's Worli Crematorium with full state honours in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah , his cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde , his deputy Devendra Fadnavis , and Congress leader and former chief minister Sushilkumar Shinde.

Family and friends as well as top officials of Tata group joined the ceremony where Mumbai Police paid tribute to Tata with a gun salute.

Ratan Tata breathed his last on October 9

Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who transformed a staid group into India's largest and most influential conglomerate with a string of eye-catching deals breathed his last at south Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital at 11.30 pm on October 9.

Maharashtra as well as half a dozen other states declared one day mourning while some official programmes, including a scheduled press conference by Goyal on his US visit, were cancelled in his honour.