Ratan Tata, the legendary Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, who passed away in October last year, remained a bachelor throughout his storied life, and though the beloved industrialist was romantically involved with different women at various points in his life, including a much-publicised affair with former actress Simi Garewal, there was one woman who many consider was his ‘one true love’, Caroline Jones.
Ratan Tata’s romantic affair with Caroline Emmons, (then Caroline Jones), began when he met her while working for an architecture firm in Los Angeles, United States. According to Ratan Tata’s own admission, he and Caroline fell deeply in love and wanted to get married, but the relationship ended due to the most uncommon of reasons, the 1962 Indo-China war.
But did you know what happened when the star-crossed lovers reunited after almost 50 years? Let us delve into this untold romantic story which rivals even some of the best of Bollywood’s tearjerkers.
When Ratan Tata reunited with Caroline Jones
According to the book ‘Ratan Tata: A Life, a new biography of the the veteran industrialist by author Thomas Mathew, After separating from Ratan Tata, Caroline, who was only 19 at the time, fell in love with Owen Jones, who she recalled was “exactly like Ratan, was an architect and a flyer”.
“Caroline’s father told her that she was on a rebound,” Mathew said. A few years later, Ratan Tata travelled to US to meet Caroline but found out she was married and carrying her second child at the time. Ratan took Caroline her husband out on dinner and later told her that he was happy she was living a happy life, and promised not to call her again… and never did till her husband was alive, according to Mathew.
“Ironically, I married a man who was quite similar to Ratan,” Caroline reflects in the book.
Owen Jones passed away in 2006, and a year later, Caroline watched the movie The Darjeeling Limited, which depicts three estranged brothers reconnecting during a train trip in India. One of her friends casually asked whether she ever considered a trip to India. The questioned rekindled old memories, and Caroline replied that she knew someone in India and wanted to look him up on the internet.
Upon searching, Caroline Jones found that her old flame Ratan Tata was now the Chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Trust, and sent him an email, informing about her plan to visit India.
Ratan Tata and Caroline Jones’ immortal love
In the book, the author reveals that Caroline and Ratan Tata met in Delhi, got in touch again after decades and rekindled their friendship. After this Caroline frequently visited India and stayed at Ratan Tata’s home, and even attended Ratan’s 80th birthday in Mumbai on December 28, 2017, and meeting him again in 2021.
According to the biography, Ratan Tata would take Caroline out for dinner, whenever he was in the United States, highlighting how their friendship remained strong, even after staying apart for decades. “Her love for Ratan had never died,” the author writes, recalling that Caroline had once told him how she preserved for years, the torn page of a book that had Ratan’s picture.
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