Vijaypat Singhania, the former Raymond chairman who built the brand and became one of India’s best-known aviators, died on March 28, 2026, aged 87. In this 2021 interview with TOI+, he looked back on a glittering life shadowed by one decision he came to regret above all else
Vijaypat Singhania was known in public life as the former Raymond chairman, a Padma Bhushan awardee and a record-setting aviator. By the time of this interview, however, his later years had come to be defined as much by a family dispute as by those achievements.
The feud centred on the transfer of his stake in Raymond to his younger son, Gautam Singhania. Later reports said the legal issues were settled, though the public record is less definitive on whether father and son were fully reconciled.
Vijaypat Singhania died in Mumbai on March 28, 2026, at 87. This interview, first published in November 2021, belongs to that period.