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
Re: WHEN INTELLIGENSIA MORTGAGED THEIR BRAINS AND LOST THEIR ETHICS!
by Sushma Sengupta on Sep 03, 2008 12:12 AM Permalink
I am not opposing Industralization.My point is relocation.Tata should respect local sentiments.Mamta might have personal or vested interest but the fact is even common people are opposing this project-- If part of project was shifted to other side of river,this issue would have never cropped up.
Re: WHEN INTELLIGENSIA MORTGAGED THEIR BRAINS AND LOST THEIR ETHICS!
by Anand Kumar on Sep 03, 2008 12:31 AM Permalink
Sushma, then why the Bengal government gave TATA a land? Wheren't they thinking the same you suggested here?
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by Kabeer on Sep 03, 2008 12:35 AM Permalink
dear Anand,
how on earth Govt of WB give a land that is not Govt land?
The Govt of WB twisted a bad law and through it it has usurped poor farmers lands and the judiciary is just watching.
How can they usurp someones property to give it to someone else? Both are private parties; one is poorer like the poor farmer and the other is richer and influential like Ratan Tata& Tata Motors.
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by AdfauunhAjrqQOmjh on Sep 03, 2008 12:16 AM Permalink
I agree. Tatas should relocate the plant outside Bengal. Why just across river. Silly girl. Don't let that Mamta *dominate* you.
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by Kabeer on Sep 03, 2008 12:29 AM Permalink
Dear Sushma,
The primal point is how can Govt force a private owner to divest his holdings in favour of another private entrepreneur?
Acquire private property for public projects like roads, railways etc whose objective is not profit making is fine.
Or Give Govt land to private entrepreneurs for starting new industrial projects is also OK as you can decide what to do with your property since you are Govt.
But how on earth the civilised system in India including the Judiciary force a poor man to sell his holdings in favour of another private entrepreneur for his commercial project?
What kind of barbarian society that we are living in?
Is the Judiciary sleeping? or have they taken refuge in a bad law by upholding it?
Re: WHEN INTELLIGENSIA MORTGAGED THEIR BRAINS AND LOST THEIR ETHICS!
by Kabeer on Sep 03, 2008 12:22 AM Permalink
till the land is a naked display of Nazist thinking; like Hitler wanted to kill all children born with imperfections like autism etc., as they are a burden on society.
5. Arguments that the land cultivation is not generating enough wealth for societal good and hence be given away to Tata Motors at market prices is like sacrificing the basic principles that govern a civilised society based on democraticy at the altar of plutocracy.
Can the same people dare say when Tata Motors was in the red a few years ago, that since the company is in the red it should be wound up and its factory land be used for other purposes?
When they cant make that argument why forcing a poor farmer to sell his land at a rate predetermined by someone else?
Does someone dare Ratan Tata to learn farming by relinquishing managing Tata Motors when it was in the Red?
If you can not say that how can you tell the farmer to learn some other vocation instead of farming? If Ratan Tata can not learn farming how a deprived farmer can learn some other vocation, and why?
A farmer does not know any other vocation other than farming. The maximum compensation that you gave 4-8 lac per acre will be consumed in one fashior or other as he doesnot know how to make it as a capital and start a new vocation. If his capital is consumed what will he be left with after a few years?
Why a farmer be deprived of his holding on his invesment in his asset for a better price increase in future?
