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WHEN INTELLIGENSIA MORTGAGED THEIR BRAINS AND LOST THEIR ETHICS!
by Kabeer on Sep 03, 2008 12:09 AM

It is Indian Intelligensia that has mortgaged its brains and lost their ethics!

1. First myth is that producing Nano is akin to social service above good commercial sense; As Ratan Tata cleverly put it in a near social service tone when he said, WHEN I SAW A MAN DRIVING A TWO WHEELER WITH A CHILD STANDING BETWEEN HANDLEBAR AND SEAT WITH HIS WIFE SITTING BEHIND WITH A TODDLER IN HER LAP, I have firmed up my desire and decided to provide a safer option.

Wow! a Western entrepreneur would have put it straight - I SAW AN OPPORTUNITY instead of Ratan Tatas camouflaging a commercial opportunity into near social service.

2. Stating on a public platform that several names were considered for his 1 lac car including Mamta is being mischievous!

3. True you cant blame Ratan Tata for not dealing with the opposition parties in WB. I differ with Sushma Sengupta here. The businessmen should deal with the Government of the day; it is for the political parties how to solve issues among themselves.

3. It is the WB Govt that has lost its moral fabric in this deal and the entire intelligensia blogging so vociferously in favour of Ratan Tata.

4. In the first place, what ethical and moral right a GOvt has in forcing some poor farmers private property to another private entity called Tata Motors?

Compensation, hefty or otherwise, is a different matter altogether.

The bloggers claim that the farmers are already poor and their living cannot be better if they continue to

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