Business tycoon Ratan Tata and a former chief justice of India are serving, too.
Tata Sons is still run by the head of the clan, Sir Ratan Tata.
Ratan Tata's half-brother Noel Tata was among those said to be considered for the chairman's post.
Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata empire, sees the purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover differently.
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He follows on Nandan Nilekani of Infosys Technologies last year and Ratan Tata of Tata Group for 2004.
Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray met Tata Group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata today at his residence here.
This article is heavily based on what Mr. Ratan Tata had to say.
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The next thing for me is flying a jet plane like the Dassault Falcon 2000, which Ratan Tata flies.
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The car is the pet project of Ratan Tata, the Tata group's revered chairman, who is over six feet tall.
Hailing the deal as a "strategically compelling combination, " Tata chairman Ratan Tata said it marked a "defining moment" in his company's history.
Ratan Tata, its recently retired chairman, said in a 2011 interview that the aviation ministry once held up his application for years despite his constant prodding.
It was also stunning because Ratan Tata is easily India's most respected industrialist, whose companies have a reputation as the most socially responsible players in the nation.
Earlier this month, Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons met the executives of Israel Corp during the launch of Qoros 3 sedan at the Geneva Motor show.
Tata Motors has not released a photo of its prototypes, but Ratan Tata, a trained architect with a penchant for designing consumer goods, sketched its outlines for a reporter's eyes only.
When Ratan Tata, a revered industrialist, tried to build a car factory in West Bengal, its populist leader flung him out, arguing that farmers were being unjustly forced off their land.
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Though he's doesn't bear the Tata surname, he's linked to the family through his sister's marriage to Ratan Tata's half-brother Noel Tata, who was considered another contender for the chairman's post.
Ratan Tata spent his first ten years at the helm of the family company tidying up its rambling and often decrepit Indian businesses before turning his attention to foreign markets in the late 1990s.
As reported by Forbes last month, Gates along with tech billionaireAzim Premji and Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata co-hosted a philanthropy gathering in a Bangalore hotel (see Bill Gates, Azim Premji, Ratan Tata To Host Bangalore Philanthropy Meet) .
Trying to build a car cheap enough for motorcycle buyers seems to make sense now but seemed crazy several years ago when Ratan Tata, longtime chairman of Tata Motors and scion of the nation's giant Tata Group conglomerate, first mentioned his dream of building a one-lakh car in 2003.
At age 65 he's far from through. (After the Mumbai bombings in late 2008, Milchan founded Blue Sky International, a security company, to help protect friends like Ratan Tata, owner of the Taj Hotel, from terrorist acts.) Milchan is very well connected in Hollywood and Israel, and exploits those ties to further his social and political interests, as well as his business goals.
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