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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
“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, …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …