Because despite being decades ahead of India in auto-technology, they are yet to bring out a cheap car (leave alone the cheapest car). Because they are not used to see black/brown man doing what they are unable to do.
RE:Fraud
by ayush mukherjee on Jan 15, 2008 03:54 AM Permalink
sir ye jo aap namak khaate ho na... vo bhi zoroastrian hi hai... n if it wasnt fr TATAs, iodised salt would have never existed... n people would have continued to suffer from u know what... n as far as your tax avoidance blame is concerned, tata is by far the most honest group... please check your facts.
RE:Fraud
by Sanjay on Jan 15, 2008 03:02 AM Permalink
please shut up your dirty mouth and check the facts before writing here. If TATA is Zoroastrian it does not mean he nationalistic, infact he is more nationalistic and does more INDIA than you and me also.
Tatas dont worry about Americans but yes do give a thought about the environment. All said and done Kudos to Tatas for doing something different and delivering on the promise
RE:THOMAS FRIEDMAN...CAN YOU HEAR ME??????
by sameer bhagwat on Jan 15, 2008 08:51 AM Permalink
The book should be called "the slow and protested fall into disgrace of a country that had too much power than it knew to handle" or in short "death of stupid"
RE:THOMAS FRIEDMAN...CAN YOU HEAR ME??????
by Shyam Balasubramanian on Jan 15, 2008 12:40 AM Permalink
i promise to buy a copy of that book for posterity mr friedman
IT IS A BUDGET CAR TARGETTING MAJARITY INDIAN MIDDLE CLASS TO SELL IN LARGE QUANTITIES AND TO MAKE MORE BUSINESS & MONEY.
INDIAN'S WILL HAVE PROBLEM OF INSUFFICIENT ROADS IF THIS KIND OF CARS COME TO MARKET.POLUTION WILL BE INCREASED. SAFETY MEASURES SHOULD BE TAKEN CARE. DUE TO LOW PRICE, IT SHOULD NOT COMPRAMIZE ANY QUALITY, SAFETY NORMS.
GOVERNMENT SHOULD IMPROVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM.
RE:IT IS A PRODUCT FROM TATA TO MAKE MORE MONEY
by Ninja Kirgi on Jan 15, 2008 10:23 AM Permalink
Whats the quality and safety standards are you looking for? If you are looking for the standards being met by M800 or Alto then Nano is far better than those.
The problem is not the American and the European response to Nano, but that of Indian intellectuals who ape those opinions. Pachauri and Sunita Narayan are neo-environmentalists who'd happily echo some white-skinned writer because it is fashionable to be 'green'. In a country like India where politicians have ignored common folk and their needs for decades, is any one asking the govt. how much forest cover politicians have depleted, how many new brands of big cars they have permitted entry into the Indian market, how many miles of roads they have built, what is the state of industrial and hospital wastes, how many towns have reliable mass transport systems?
If Ratan Tata gives India a Nano, don't tell him he ought to be building roads. Infra-structure is Govt.s responsibility, but remember the scooters they made to cut into Bajaj's market, ignoring roads, power-generation and water-supply? If the govt. agrees to keep off public works, Tatas will also build motorable roads, and power=plants. And look at the intellectuals deriding Ratan Tata for thinking of just one need of common man! If he were to build roads, our Pachauri and American Friedman would talk about soil blockage and loss of ground water absorption, soil erosion due to chopping of grass. Because Indian Govt.'s priorities have been wrong, it does not mean that all of India must struggle even for inexpensive transportation till new policies are made to create an extensive mass transpoprt sy
RE:Nano and Indian intellectuals
by concerned indian on Jan 14, 2008 09:46 PM Permalink
forget everything else, just focus on one thing. people who drive cars with mileage of less than 10 KM are ridiculing this car for the global warming that this will create.. height of hypocrisy..
RE:Nano and Indian intellectuals
by Kingsley Martin on Jan 14, 2008 09:51 PM Permalink
Well said!. The rich wouldn't leave their Mercedes and blame the poor for global warming!. Let the rich stop running their ACs at home and start using public transport (by clinging to train/bus) to contribute to a green planet!
RE:Nano and Indian intellectuals
by akshay mehta on Jan 14, 2008 10:17 PM Permalink
I think you guys are missing the big picture on why US reporters are condemning Nano. The reason is simple and that is economics (which is always the driving principle in the west - just as British left India because India was no more economical to them). And the main reason for that is demand from a nation of billion people will definitely jack up the petrol prices! And since US has to depend on middle east to meet their demands they will have to shell out more (more problematic when they dont have good relations with some of the oil exporting countries). Simple and straight.
