Who is Ratan Tata’s “office companion”? It’s his adopted stray dog “Goa”

Digital Desk: Ratan Tata’s passion for stray dogs and his “office companion” Goa, is well-known among those who follow him on social media. Goa not only hangs out around the office, but also sits in it.

Goa is the only stray dog in the kennel put up at Bombay House—the Tata Group’s worldwide headquarters—who has made his way to the cabin of the Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group. One such lovely anecdote recounted by Humans of Bombay (HOB) founder Karishma Mehta is going viral.

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Mehta, who interviewed Tata in 2020, recalled in a new LinkedIn post being excited about the meeting. However, she says she got anxious spotting a “dog tucked in comfortably in the chair next to his”. “Now, this was the biggest quandary of my life – I’m terrified of dogs and there sat a man who I’d been waiting years to interview… next to a dog,” she wrote in her post.

Mehta recounted Tata overhearing the talk and attempting to put her at ease as she sought to tell Tata’s executive assistant about her anxieties. “Goa, she’s scared of you; please be a good boy and sit!” According to Mehta, Tata spoke to his four-legged “office companion” like he would any other human.

To her surprise, the dog obliged. “I kid you not, for the entire 30-40 minutes I was there, Goa didn’t come anywhere near me! I was baffled– it had never happened before!” she said. She added the dog spends all day at the office as the octogenarian Tata carries on with his business. “Goa’s a stray and decided to adopt us, so we adopted him back,” she recalled Tata telling her.

Apart from the charming storey about Goa, Mehta remembered being very struck by Tata’s humility and elegance. “It was an honour to meet you, Ratan sir, and I’d like to thank you most for redefining what I believed was an ‘alpha male,'” she wrote. “To be alpha, is to be you, Mr. Tata — soft, kind, humble and vehement only in relentless attempts to make the world a better place,” she concluded.

Many people have expressed their excitement at the article, and others have begun to share their own encounters with Tata.

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