Ratan Tata reveals his

Allowing a rare peek into his personal domain on Valentines Day eve, renowned industrialist Ratan Tata revealed certain private details like how he fell in love once, and "almost got married".

It happened in Los Angeles, after college when he landed a job at an architecture firm, where he had a great time and the weather was beautiful, he had his own car and loved his job, sometime in the early 1960, when Tata was in his mid-20s.

"It was in LA that I fell in love and almost got married. But at the same time, I had made the decision to move back at least temporarily since I had been away from my grandmother who wasn't keeping too well for almost 7 years," he said.

However, he later went to visit his flame, optimistically believing that the person he wanted to marry would come to India with him.

"But because of the 1962 Indo-China War, her parents weren't okay with her making the move anymore, and the relationship fell apart," said Tata the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Group - in a candid post on Facebook page 'Humans Of Bombay'.

Though he has not mentioned, perhaps that unrequited love made the 82-year old completely immerse himself in looking after his huge business empire and he remained a bachelor.

There were no regrets, he said. "I had a happy childhood, but as my brother (Jimmy) and I got older, we faced a fair bit of ragging and personal discomfort because of our parent's (Naval H. Tata and Sooni Tata) divorce, which in those days wasn't as common as it is today."

Soon afterwards, when his mother got re-married, the boys at school started saying all kinds of things about them, constantly and aggressively, he recalled.

However at that time, his grandmother, Navajbai Sett-Tata raised the two brothers - Ratan and Jimmy - and taught them to retain dignity at all costs, "a value that's stayed with me until today".

Most of those situations involved "walking away" otherwise they would have fought back against them, he admitted, sharing fond memories of his strong bond with his granny.

"I remember, after WW2, she took