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Posted on 11 December 2017 by churumuri
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15 things Narendra Modi could have done with the Rs 3,755 crore he spent on advertising himself

It came, as thunder bolts do these days, not because of the efforts of your favourite newspaper or news anchor. It came through the exertions of an ordinary citizen, who, …

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Posted on 27 July 2013 by churumuri
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Modi vs Rahul? Nah, more like Sanjay vs Rajiv.

VIKRAM MUTHANNA writes: Recently, I was caught in the rain and I took shelter in a teashop. Wet, and sipping on tea, I couldn’t help but notice the chatter of …

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Posted on 10 December 2009 by churumuri
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Everybody loves a good car, not a good filter

The announcement of the launch of Tata Nano, the small car produced by the Tatas, saw the media falling over itself heralding the arrival of the “People’s Car”. The fact …

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Posted on 10 April 2009 by churumuri
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When Maruti decides to buy a Nano, cash down

In the either-or, black-or-white world we now inhabit, it is easy to ignore the shades of grey about the Tata Nano and proclaim that it will clog up our roads, …

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Posted on 24 March 2009 by churumuri
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‘What Henry Ford did then, Ratan Tata has now’

The proof of the pudding is in the eating; the proof of a car is in the driving. Steve Cropley of Autocar UK takes the Tata Nano for a spin …

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Posted on 24 March 2009 by churumuri
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Tatas, turtles and Corporate Social Responsibility

The Tata Nano is so yesterday. SHOBHA SARADA VISWANATHAN, in New Delhi, forwards a copy of an advertisement (above) taken out by Greenpeace in the Financial Times, London, and the …

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Posted on 20 March 2009 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Can India survive the Nano?

“The world’s most awaited car launch” is slated for Monday, 23 March 2009. Tata Motors one-lakh-rupee wonder, the Tata Nano, will be unveiled in showrooms across the country for booking, …

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Posted on 19 March 2009 by churumuri
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Behind two giant personalities, two small cars

Ahead of the “most awaited car launch in the world“, Ahmedabad-based social scientist Shiv Visvanathan spots resemblances between the man behind the Maruti and the man behind the Tata Nano, …

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Posted on 7 October 2008 by churumuri
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If there’s poetic justice, it is here, it is here

Narendra Modi‘s Gujarat sent Qutubuddin Ansari to West Bengal. How ironic that Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee should return the favour with the Tata Nano. How ironic that BJP ruled Gujarat should quietly …

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Posted on 20 September 2008 by churumuri
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‘The rising political attraction of street activism’

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in The Telegraph, Calcutta, on the Singur controversy: “That politics might change over time once the terrible consequences of industrial and economic stagnation are more widely appreciated …

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Posted on 1 September 2008 by churumuri
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‘There’s nothing lost if the Nano isn’t produced’

CHANDRASHEKAR HARIHARAN writes from New Delhi: The Singur story took a twist when Ratan T threatened to pull out. The Communist chief minister Buddhadeb B squirmed under the collar. Mamata …

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Posted on 22 August 2008 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Should Tatas scrap the Nano?

There are two ways of looking at the news coming of Calcutta that Ratan Tata has threatened to pull the Tata Nano project out of Singur if the violence and …

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Posted on 28 January 2008 by churumuri
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‘Middle & upper classes are in their own country’

Arundhati Roy in Outlook: “Ironically, the era of the free market has led to the most successful secessionist struggle ever waged in India—the secession of the middle and upper classes …

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Posted on 22 January 2008 by churumuri
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Will you pay Rs 120 per day to park your car?

While the auto world goes wah-wah over the Nano and every new car released in the market, neither Ratan Tata nor any “expert” has yet explained how our roads and …

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Posted on 19 January 2008 by churumuri
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How Nano is different from the software boom

Ajit Balakrishnan, founder of rediff.com, on the Tata Nano: “It is early January here in New York and the weather had no right to be as warm and sunny as …

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Posted on 14 January 2008 by churumuri
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If we can get a car for one lakh, why can’t we…

Ramesh Ramanathan, the former Citibank executive who founded the NGO Janaagraha in Bangalore, has an excellent column in Mint, the business paper of the Hindustan Times group, today, on the …

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Posted on 12 January 2008 by churumuri
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And Ratan Tata sang, ‘PR kiya tho darna kya’

PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: The unveiling of the Nano has fetched the kind of publicity Osama bin Laden would kill for. Purple prose hailing the new peoples car, …

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Posted on 10 January 2008 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Will you buy the Tata Nano?

For months there has been speculation on how it will look, what it will be called, what it will have (and won’t), how it will harm our environment, how it …

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Posted on 5 November 2007 by churumuri
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If the Tatas desire to make India better, then…

Thomas L. Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winning foreign affairs columnist of The New York Times and the author of the best-selling The World is Flat, has written a piece …

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