R K Narayan Quotes and Biography 2022

K. Narayan was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was born on 10th October 1906 and was born in Madras, Madras Presidency, British India. He passed away on 13th May of 2001 when he was 94 years of age in New Delhi, India.

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami is the birth of the famously known author R. K. Narayan. He was a most famous leading author of the earlier Indian literature in English in which he had Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao along with him.

He had a friend named Graham Greene who was also his mentor and was helping him a lot in getting publishers for R.K. Narayan’s first four books which include the semi-autobiographical trilogy of Swami and Friends, The English Teacher and The Bachelor of Arts.

The fictional town of Malgudi was first introduced in his work Swami and Friends and another work of his, The Financial Expert earned him Sahitya Academy Award.

Early life, Family and Relationship

K. Narayan was born in a Tamil Brahmin family on the 10th of October in the year of 1906 in Madras which is now Chennai. He was the second of the sons.

Father: Rasipuram Venkatarama Krishnaswami Iyer

Mother: Gnanambal

Brother: R. K. Laxman & Ramachandra

His younger brother became an editor in the Gemini Studios and his youngest brother Laxman was a cartoonist. His father was a school headmaster and he had his education for some period in his father’s school and as his father was getting transfers very frequently he spent a part of his childhood in the care of his maternal grandmother Parvathi.

At this time he was with his grandmother he had his two playmates and his best friend who was a mischievous monkey & a peacock.

K. Narayan Success and career

K. Narayan had his writings take a more imaginative and creative external style compared to his earlier novels which were semi-autobiographical.

He kept on going and so did his efforts and his first book has this modification and however, it contained some of his own experiences and the specific of his was he starting his own journal and he had made a marked movement from his earlier novels and he by intermixing biographical events.

He very soon published The Financial Expert which was regarded as his masterpiece and was greatly celebrated as the most original one of fiction in the year of 1951.

R K Narayan Quotes

1. You threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face.
2. You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time.
3. If you are ready to hate and want to destroy each other, you may find a hundred reasons
4. Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words.
5. Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more.
6. Life is about making right things and going on.
7. Every minute becomes a yesterday and is lost forever.
8. It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom.
9. Do you realize how few ever really understand how fortunate they are in their circumstances?
10. You become a writer by writing. It is yoga.
11. We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
12. Nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun
13. Travellers are an enthusiastic lot. They do not mind any inconvenience as long as they have something to see.
14. The unbeaten brat will remain unlearned.
15. Everyone is acting a part all the time, knowingly or unknowingly.
16. Violence cannot be everlasting. Sooner or later it has to go, if not through wisdom, definitely through decrepitude, which comes on with years, whether one wants it or not.
17. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
18. Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
19. No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
20. Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness. 

R K Narayan Quotes and Biography 2022

Khushwant Singh Quotes and Biography 2022

Khushwant Singh was an Indian lawyer, author, politician, journalist and diplomat. He was born on 2nd February 1915  and was born in Hadali, Khushab District, Punjab, British India. He passed away on the 20th of March 2014 in New Delhi, India. His experience in the year of 1947 during the partition of India had inspired him to write his work Train to Pakistan in the year of 1956 which was made into a movie in the year of 1998 and was a very well-known novel.

Early life, Family and Relationship

Khushwant Singh was born in Punjab and was educated in the Modern School, New Delhi, St. Stephen’s College and also he was graduated from the Government College Lahore. He studied at the King’s College London and had been awarded with LL.B. by the University of London.

Father: Sobha Singh

Mother: Sardarni Vira Bai

Brothers: Daljit Singh, Bhagwant Singh & Major Gurbakash Singh

Sister: Mohinder Kaur

Khuswanth Singh was called to the bar regarding professional criteria at the London Inner Temple. Having worked in the Lahore High Court for eight years as a lawyer he joined the Indian Foreign Service during the Independence of India from the British Empire in the year of 1947. He was also appointed as a Journalist in the All India Radio in the year of 1951 and later moved to the Department of Mass Communication of UNESCO in Paris in the year of 1956 and these last two jobs had made him to pursue a career in literature being inspired. As a writer, he’s well-known for his humour, sarcasm, secularism and abiding love of poetry.

Success and career

Khushwant Singh was in his professional career as a lawyer in Lahore in 1939. He worked in the Chamber of Ijaz Hussain Batalvi and Manzur Qadir. He was working at the Lahore Court for eight years. He had so many friends of him and fans of him accompanying him who include, including Akhtar Aly Kureshy Advocate and Raja Muhammad Arif Advocate.

In the year of 1947, he got into the Indian Foreign Service of the Independent India. He has also started as the Information Officer for the Government of India in Toronto, Canada. He has been the Press Attaché and Public Officer for the Indian High Commission for four whole years in London and Ottawa. In the year of 1951, he joined as a Journalist in the All India Radio.

Khushwant Singh Quotes

1 never underestimate anyone around you. Everyone has the power to surprise anyone at any point in time.

2 Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

3 The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.

4 In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.

5 You have only one life to live. Live it to the full. Time flies as fast as a bird on the wing.

6 The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life oriented.

7 To change the world, you need to get out of your temples and do some useful work.

8 The eye hath ruined me, the heart complained.  The heart has lost me, the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied between, the two it was Meer who died.

9 With their weapons. One struck it with his.

10 So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind when just the art of being kind is all that the sad world needs.

11 Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.

12 I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

13 In the absence of men all women are chaste.

14 The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned.

15 We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.

16 Under the circumstances the only honest answer an intelligent person can give to the question is there a God? Is to say, I do not know.

17 Men have many faults, women only two. Everything they say, and everything they do.

18 We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith. No reason, just faith.

19 Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

20 There is no wine in this world as heady as applause.

22 Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that, if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

23 I don’t want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don’t believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.

24 His mind was like the delicate spring of a watch, which quivers for several hours after it has been touched.

25 Little mother of ancient days thou hast cunningly dyed thy hair but consider that thy bent back will never be straight!

26 When you have counted eighty years and more, time and fate will batter at your door. But if you should survive to be a hundred, your life will be death to the very core.

27 One Sikh may argue with one Sikh. One Sikh must never argue with two Sikhs certainly not after dark.

28 The need of our times is to revive the Nehruvian notion of secularism.

29 How much of what he told me of his past was true and how much he made up to hold my interest.

30 I believe that the essence of every person’s religion should be the endeavor not to hurt another person or living thing and to preserve his environment.

Khushwant Singh Quotes and Biography 2022

Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes and Biography 2022

Jhumpa Lahiri is an American author who is 55 years of age as of the year 2022, She was born on 11th July of 1967 and she was born in London, England, UK. Nilanjana Sudeshna Jhumpa Lahiri is the birth name of the famous Jhumpa Lahiri who is an author of her kind known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian too. She is not only a writer but also an actress who is well-known for her works such as In Treatment in the year of 2008, The Namesake in the year 2006 and Italy Italy in 2017. She was married with Alberto Vourvoulias on 15th January 2001 and they also have been blessed with two children.

Her debut collection of short stories named Interpreter of Maladies in the year of 1999 has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award and also her very first novel, The Namesake in the year of 2003 was adapted as a movie with the same name as of the novel. It was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was also made as a movie. Another work of hers named Unaccustomed Earth in the year of 2008, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

Early life, Family and Relationship

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London to the Indian immigrants from West Bengal, India. They moved to the United States of America when she was just a three year old kid. She thinks of herself as an American and has stated that she wasn’t born there she might as well have;  Jhumpa was brought up in Kingston, Rhode Island. Her father worked as a librarian in the University of Rhode Island.

Father: Amar Lahiri

Mother: Tapati Lahiri

Brothers: N/A

Sisters: N/A

Jhumpa Lahiri’s mother always wanted her children to grow up with the knowledge of Bengali heritage and her family people often went to their relatives in Calcutta which is now Kolkata.

Success and career

Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories in her start as a writer faced a lot of rejection from the publishers for years and her debut short story collection named Interpreter of Maladies, was at last released in the year of 1999.  The stories speak about the sensitive dilemmas in the lives of Indians or Indian immigrants with concepts like marital difficulty and the children and the point of not having a connection with the first and second-generation United States immigrants.

Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

1 War will bring the revolution revolution will stop the war.

2 Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

3 Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

4 That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

5 Translation continues to be the force that creates global readership.

6 It’s easier to surrender to confinement.

7 Every one of you out there has a secret, I know it. We all do.

8 We are all humans and we all make mistakes. We hurt people even if we don’t want to.

9 Isolation offered its own form of companionship.

10 The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

11 He learned not to mind the silences.

12 The unknown words remind me that there’s a lot I don’t know in this world.

13 There is no such thing as a perfect name.

14 Even a novel drawn from reality, faithful to it, is not the truth, just as the image in the mirror is not a person in flesh and blood. It remains, that is, an abstraction, no matter how realistic, how close to the facts

15 Stretched to the breaking point by all that now stood between them, but at the same time refusing to break.

16 There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come; the void that followed was easier to bear than the solid weight of those days.

17 Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

18 In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

19 The better I understand the language, the more confusing it is.

20 A transformation, especially one that is deliberately sought, is often perceived as something disloyal, threatening.

21 If the process of writing is a dream, the book cover represents the awakening.

22 Everything is there.

23 Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

24 I just wanted to go home, to the language in which I was known, and loved.

25 Books are the best means private, discreet, reliable of overcoming reality.

26 The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

27 Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

28 learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.

29 As strange as it seemed, I knew in my heart that one day her death would affect me, and stranger still, that mine would affect her.

30 Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes and Biography 2022

Amrita Pritam quotes and Biography 2022

Amrita Pritam was an Indian essayist, novelist and also a poet, who wrote in two languages, Punjabi and Hindi. She was born on 31st August 1919 and was born in  Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan. She passed away on 31st October 2005 when she was eighty-six years of age in South Delhi, India.

She is a prominent person for Punjabi literature and is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in the year of 1956. Her works comprise over hundreds of books which include fiction, poetry, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs, an autobiography which was translated into quite a number of Indian & foreign languages and also other biographies.

Amrita Pritam has been well known and never would be forgotten for her poem Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu which means, Today I invoke Waris Shah-Ode to Waris Shah and it was an elegy to the Punjabi poet of the eighteenth century. It was an expressive poem which shows her anger regarding the massacres which happened during the partition of India. As a novelist, she was most noted for her work Pinjar aka The Skeleton n 1950 it was an epitome of violence against the women’s loss of humanity and ultimate surrender to existential fate and this very novel was made into an award-winning film Pinjar in the year of 2003.

Early life, Family and Relationship

Amrita Pritam’s birth name was Amrit Kaur and she was born in India which is currently Pakistan and she was the only of her parents. Her father was a school teacher and whereas her mother is a poet and a scholar of the Braj Bhasha language and also an editor of a literary journal.

Father: Raj Kaur

Mother: Kartar Singh Hitkari

Brothers: N/A

Sisters: N/A

Apart from all these, her father was a pracharak which means a preacher and he was preaching the Sikh faith. His mother passed away when she was a eleven years old. She soon after moved with her father to Lahore and lived there till 1947 when she migrated to India. She has adult responsibilities that she was having in her mind since her mother’s death and she started to write at a very young age.

Success and career

Amrita Pritam was the very first recipient of the Punjab Rattan Award which was given to her by the Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh during that period. Amrita was the first female recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in the year of 1956 for her Sunehadey which is a poetic diminutive of the Punjabi word, messages. She has also received the Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, which is India’s highest literary award in 1983  for her work of  Kagaj te Canvas aka Paper and Canvas.

Amrita Pritam quotes

1 Peace is not just the absence of violence, peace is when the flowers bloom.

2 No one inherits life anywhere. People everywhere inherit death.

3 I don’t know what the relationship is between tears and women’s eyes. Whatever the country, this relationship seems to be very loyal.

4 Whenever water falls on the soil of the heart, it is like the smell rising from the soil, and when it dries up, it is like the dust flying from the soil, until man becomes a stone.

5 Perhaps I will become a ray of sunshine to be embraced by your colors, I will paint myself on your canvas.

6 When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.

7 Love is power. It is not just a power of speech.

8 Everyone thinks their mistake is small and the punishment given by others is big.

9 Miracles are accidents that happen in an inch.

10 Many stories which are not on paper. They’re written in the bodies and minds of women.

11 The fact of the matter is that our heart has a habit of stopping it from wherever it is. It turns away. It runs even harder. And here’s how to keep the heart in the middle. That is not the way to go.

12 We live in a society where a man becomes pure by taking a bath, while a woman spends her whole life trying to prove her purity.

13 Every woman knows how to act from birth.

14 Look further on ahead, between truth and falsehood a little empty space.

15 Love can sometimes imprint upon you.

Amrita Pritam quotes and Biography 2022

Arundhati Roy Quotes and Biography 2022

Arundhati Roy is an Indian author who is 61 years of age as of the year 2022. She was born on 23rd November 1961 and was born in Shillong, Assam, India. She is well-known for her novel The God of Small Things in the year of 1997 which earned her Man Booker Prize for Fiction in the same year 1997. It became the best-selling book by an Indian author who is a non-expatriate.

Another part of her is a political activist who is involved in environmental causes and human rights. She, as a writer and also an actress, is well-known for her other works such as Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai in the year of 2003,  In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones in the year of 1989 and Electric Moon in the year of 1992. She is now married with Pradip Krishen and was previously married to Gerard da Cunha.

Early life, Family and Relationship

Arundhati Roy was born to Ranjit Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea plantation manager from Calcutta and Mary Roy, a Malayali Jacobite Syrian Christian who was a women’s rights activist from Kerala.

Father: Ranjit Roy

Mother: Mary Roy

Brother: Lalit Kumar Christopher Roy

She has been brought to Kerala when was two years old when her parents divorced her mother and brother. They were living in her Roy’s maternal grandfather in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. Their family moved to Kerala again where her mother started a school. She attended a school at the Corpus Christi, Kottayam and after that in the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.

Then she studied architecture in the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi where she met with her first husband architect Gerard da Cunha. They got married with each other in the year 1978 and lived in Delhi and later in Goa before they got separated and divorced in the year of 1982.

Arundhati Roy Success and career

Arundhati Roy in her early career worked in television and movies and she wrote the screenplays for the project of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones in the year of 1989. This movie was based on her experiences as a student of architecture and she was also appearing in the same as a performer and Electric Moon in the year of 1992. It was both directed by Pradip Krishen, her husband during their marriage.

She won her National Film Award for Best Screenplay for her, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones in the year 1988. She has got attention in the year of 1994 when she did crit Shekhar Kapur’s film Bandit Queen which was based on the life of Phoolan Devi.

In her movie review The Great Indian Rape Trick she has questioned the person regarding the rights and also charged him for exploiting Phoolan Devi by making an idea of her life being a misrepresentation.

Arundhati Roy Quotes

1. There’s really no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard.
2. If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
3. Either way, change will come. It could be bloody or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
4. Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
5. Things can change in a day.
6. Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
7. Anything’s possible in Human Nature, love, madness, hope and infinite joy.
8. It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.
9. Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.
10. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
11. Some things come with their own punishments.
12. I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
13. Excitement Always Leads to Tears.
14. It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.
15. People always loved best what they identified most with.
16. That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.
17. Although you know that one day you will die, you live as if you won’t.
18. Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, green mossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.
19. The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle.
20. His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.
21. Enemies can’t break your spirit, only friends can.
22. Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?
23. Here they learned to wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them
24. It’s a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate.
25. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter.
26. If you are happy in a dream, does that count?
27. The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around.
28. He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.
29. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.
30. Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

Arundhati Roy Quotes and Biography 2022

Osho Quotes and Biography 2022

Osho was an Indian mystic, founder of the Rajneesh movement,  and godman. Chandra Mohan Jain is the birth name of Osho who got other names at his early ages such as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later was known as Osho till date. He was born on 11 December 1931 and was born in Kuchwada Village, Bareli Tehsil, Raisen District, Bhopal State, British India. He passed away on 19th January 1990 in Pune, Maharashtra, India due to a heart attack. He is well-known for Osho Dio come clown in the year of 1980, Bhagwan in the year of 1978 & Fear Is the Master in the year of 1983.

In his lifetime he was perceived as a mystic Guru & a controversial new religious movement leader. He always rejected institutional religions. Rajneesh Oshi did only wanted people to become and he emphasises them to understand the importance of meditation, freethought, celebration, love, humour qualities, creativity, courage which are all the essentials of human life and all of which were suppressed by most religious dogmas, static belief systems and traditions.

Early life, Family and Relationship

Osho got his name Rajneesh which was his childhood nickname which is a combination of two Sanskrit words rajanee, night and isha which means Lord which in turn means the God of Night or The Moon. He was the eldest of his family whose father was a cloth merchant.

Father: Babulal

Mother: Saraswati Jain

Brothers: N/A

Sisters: N/A

His father has his business in his maternal grandparents’ place which is Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen District of Madhya Pradesh state in India. He was born to Babulal and Saraswati Jain who belonged to the Taranpanthi Jains. He was living with his maternal grandparents till he was a eight years old. He has stated that it was a major influence on his development from the utmost freedom he got from his grandmother which led him to have a carefree education and life free from being imposed or restricted.

Osho Success and career

Osho, in an event in the early 1970 in a public meditation has presented his Dynamic Meditation method for the first time. This Dynamic Meditation involved the breathing fast and celebrating with music and dance. He left Jabalpur to go to Mumbai at the end of that June and on 26th September 1970, He started with his first group of disciples who were called neo-sannyasins.

Osho Quotes

1 You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

2 Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

3 Life begins where fear ends.

4 My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

5 Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

6 I live my life based on two principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth.

7 A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

8 Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.

9 Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

10 Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

11 Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

12 Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.

13 The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

14 Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

15 Be realistic. Plan for a miracle.

16 Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.

17 To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

18 Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.

19 Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

20 To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

21 They say think twice before you jump. I say jump first and then think as much as you want.

22 Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

23 The greatest freedom is to be free of our own mind.

24 Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.

25 A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.

26 The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

27 You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you.

28 The tongue never slips, remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

29 Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.

30 Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable.

Osho Quotes and Biography 2022

Ratan Tata Quotes and Biography 2022

Ratan Tata is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, and also he is none other than the former chairman of Tata Sons. Our favourite man of intelligence yet modest of his own kind or one of a kind Ratan Naval Tata is the full name of Ratan Tata.

He was born on 28th Dec 1937 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India. He is also well-known for, Rendevouz with Simi Garewal in the year of 1997, Megafactories in the year of 2006 and Mega Icons (in the year of 2018. He’s been the chairman of Tata Group since 1990 till 2012 and again was the interim chairman, from the October of 2016 through February of 2017.

He is also continuing himself and the head of its charitable trusts. He also has received two civilian awards of India which include the Padma Bhushan in the year 2000 which is India’s third-highest civilian honour. and the Padma Vibhushan in the year of 2008 which is the second-highest civilian honour.

Early life, Family and Relationship

Ratan Naval Tata is the son of Naval Tata &  Sooni Tata and yes obviously the scion of the Tata family. He was later adopted by Ratanji Tata, the son of Jamsetji Tata who is the founder of the Tata Group.

Father: Naval Tata

Mother: Sooni Tata

Brother: Noel Tata

Ratan Tata is an alumnus of the Cornell University College of Architecture & Harvard Business School. He has done his studies at Harvard Business school via the Advanced Management Program that he completed in 1975.

He joined his company in the year of 1961 & during that time he worked on the shop floor of Tata Steel and has become the successor of the company after J.R.D. Tata retired in 1991.

Ratan Tata Success and career

Ratan Tata, the man has worked in various capacities in organisations which include India & abroad. He is also a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry and the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council.

He is one of the people on the jury panel of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and it is nothing less than one of the world’s premier architecture prizes.

The personality is a director of the boards of Board of Governors of the East-West Centre and Alcoa Inc., Mondelez International, a member of the board of trustees of the University of Southern California, Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors, X Prize and Cornell University.

He is also a member of the board of the International Advisory Council at Bocconi University. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Harvard Business School India Advisory Board (IAB) and also a previous member of the Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Advisory Board otherwise in short APAB between the years of  2001 to 2006

Ratan Tata Quotes

1 To set an example, one has to make one’s own way.

2 If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together.

3 We should always follow someone who has more experience than us.

4 People don’t care for your self-respect. If you want self-respect, you will have to prove.

5 Never run away from your problems because success is always disguised in challenges.

6 Eat your food as your medicines. Otherwise you have to eat Medicines.

7 All of us do not have equal talent. Yet all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

8 Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument.

9 Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

10 Only you are responsible for your mistakes. Don’t accuse others.

11 A person who is trying to copy others will be a successful person for a while, but he won’t be able to succeed further in life.

12 Don’t tease your friends who work hard. Time will come when you will have to work under them.

13 A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

14 Don’t be serious, enjoy life as it comes.

15 I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

16 There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

17 Polish you talents like you would polish your diamonds.

18 In schools, you have one-month-holiday. But in life school, you don’t have one month’s holiday. Nobody has time to teach you. Here you have to learn yourself.

19 People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

20 I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can’t respect him.

21 Never judge while taking any decision that whether it will turn right or wrong. Just take it by following your instinct because you will always get the chance to make it right.

22 I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

23 If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

24 Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

25 Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.

26 None can destroy iron, but its own rust can. Likewise, none can destroy a person but his own mind set can.

27 The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

28 I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

29 The day I am not able to fly, will be a sad day for me.

30 A founder who is in for the short run or has no passion for the sector he is in doesn’t give me a great deal of comfort.

Ratan Tata Quotes and Biography 2022