Moderator or not, everyone is free to express their opinion. I do not think you have done anything wrong !!!
Mike. ________________________________ From: "modera...@gaybombay.in" <modera...@gaybombay.in> To: Aditya Bondyopadhyay <adit.b...@gmail.com> Cc: gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, April 15, 2011 12:47:31 AM Subject: RE: g_b Ratan Tata I guess as a moderator, need to be careful and not give into gossip on the list. My apologies. Regards Moderator Email: modera...@gaybombay.in E Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gay_bombay http://groups.google.com/group/Gaybombay http://groups.google.com/group/GayIndia Public archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay%40yahoogroups.com/maillist.html Rss feed: http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com/maillist.xml GB Internet Radio at http://www.gaybombay.in/gbradio Web Sites: www.gaybombay.in www.gayindia.org Orkut: http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile?uid=15084918632470824129 Blogs: http://gaybombay.blogspot.com http://gaybombay.wordpress.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/gaybombay http://twitter.com/gayindia Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gaybombay http://www.facebook.com/gayindia From:Aditya Bondyopadhyay [mailto:adit.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 07:40 To: gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Cc: modera...@gaybombay.in Subject: Re: g_b Ratan Tata Why should it matter? Why are you encouraging speculation about another person's sexuality on this list, when there is no opportunity for that person to defend or justify himself? One can talk about the sexuality of public figures only if these figures have themselves either encouraged such speculations (e.g. Karan Johar, who is incidentally also getting married as per media reports), or have acted in public in a manner that leads to no doubt as to that sexuality. Ratan Tata has done none of these, and has always been extremely protective of his privacy. Maybe that fact needs to be respected. Especially by the moderator. Best, Aditya B On 13 April 2011 23:02, <modera...@gaybombay.in> wrote: There were whispers that Ratan Tata was/is closeted gay for a very long time . Not saying that they were Chinese whispers or for that matter true But today, I read this and felt very puzzled Wonder what the truth isJ Regards Moderator Came close to getting married four times: Ratan Tata PTI – 2 hours 22 minutes ago New Delhi, Apr 13 (PTI) Revealing one of the best kept secrets of his personal life, the bachelor industrialist Ratan Tata has said that he had fallen in love and had come seriously close to getting married as many as four times. But in the hindsight, he thinks it was not a bad thing to remain unmarried and the situation would have been more complex had he got married, Tata said in an interview to CNN International''s Talk Asia programme. "When you asked whether I''d ever been in love, I came seriously close to getting married four times and each time it got close to there and I guess I backed off in fear of one reason or another," he said. He replied in the affirmative when asked whether he had ever been in love. When asked how many times, he replied, "seriously, four times." Ratan Tata, 73, heads one of the country''s biggest business empires which comprises nearly 100 firms with revenues totalling about USD 67 billion dollars. He is scheduled to retire in December, 2012 when he turns 75. Asked to speak more about his love life, Tata said: "Well, you know one was probably the most serious was when I was working in the US and the only reason we didn''t get married was that I came back to India and she was to follow me... "... and that was the year of the, if you like, the Indo-Chinese conflict and in true American fashion this conflict in the Himalayas, in the snowy, uninhabited part of the Himalayas was seen in the United States as a major war between India and China and so, she didn''t come and finally got married in the US thereafter." Asked why he never got married, Tata said: "Each of the occasions (the four times he was close to getting married, but did not) were different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved; it wasn''t a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place." Asked whether any of the people he was in love with were still in the city, he replied in the affirmative, but declined to speak any further on the matter. "Oh, well I''d certainly because of the people that are here, of course this may be aired in the US, so I''d be in trouble, whatever I do, so I think I''d better stop here," he added. 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