Veteran industrialist and honorary head of Tata Sons, Ratan Tata, died on Wednesday night. He was 86 years old. He breathed his last at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai. The whole country is bidding him farewell with tearful eyes.
At the same time, Shantanu Naidu (who is shantanu naidu), who has been with him like a shadow for the last few years, has also written an emotional post paying tribute to him.
Shantanu, who considers Ratan Tata as his mentor and best friend, wrote on the social media platform LinkedIn, "I will spend my whole life trying to fill the emptiness that this friendship has left in me now. Grief is the price to be paid for love. Goodbye, my dear lighthouse."
Who is Shantanu Naidu?
Ratan Tata was always impressed by 30-year-old Shantanu Naidu. Many such videos went viral on social media where Shantanu and Ratan Tata were seen together. There was a tremendous bonding between the two. A video went viral on social media as if both were friends.
Shantanu Naidu's video went viral on Ratan Tata's birthday. In this video, Shantanu Naidu was seen feeding cake to Ratan Tata and keeping his hand on his shoulder. Ratan Tata and Shantanu have no family relationship.
Born in Pune, Shantanu completed his engineering degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2014. Following this, he earned a Master's degree in Business Administration from Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management in 2016.
After completing his education, Naidu started his career as an automobile design engineer at Tata Elxsi in Pune. According to his LinkedIn profile, Shantanu has been working at Tata Trusts since June 2017. Apart from this, Naidu has also worked as a design engineer at Tata Elxsi.
How did Shantanu and Ratan Tata become friends
In 2014, during his tenure at Tata Elxsi, Shantanu raised the issue of death of dogs due to speeding vehicles. When Ratan Tata came to know about this, he thought of meeting Shantanu. After this, both of them met and Ratan Tata was very impressed with Shantanu's ideas. After this, a good bonding developed between the two.
Currently, Shantanu is very popular across the country as the Deputy General Manager of Tata Trust. He is a famous Indian businessman, engineer, junior assistant, DGM, social media influencer, author and entrepreneur. Shantanu has also written a book named I Came Upon a Lighthouse. In this book, he has mentioned some aspects related to Ratan Tata's life.
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