Heirs
He was married to Moongibai. The couple had a son, B. D. Goenka, who was slated to take over Indian Express, but died as a result of a cardiac arrest. Goenka's daughter, Krishna, who was married to A. M. Khaithan of the Calcutta Khaithan's, the worlds largest tea producers and battery manufacturer's through the ownership of Williamson Magor. Another heir was Vivek Khaitan, who was adopted in 1990 and changed his name to Viveck Goenka, and is presently the Chairman and Managing Director of the Indian Express Limited. Another of Goenka's daughter married in to the Sonthalia family in Chennai. Her son Manoj Kumar Sonthalia runs The New Indian Express Group based in Chennai.
Read more about this topic: Ramnath Goenka
Famous quotes containing the word heirs:
“Modern civilization has bred a race with brains like those of rabbits and we who are the heirs of the witch-doctor and the voodoo. We artists who have been so long the despised are about to take over control.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“...the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 8:12.
“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live registered upon our brazen tombs,
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th’ endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe’s keen edge,
And make us heirs of all eternity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)