The essential difference between India and other countries like China, US, Germany etc is the absolute lack of self-esteem and capacity to appreciate succcess. I dont think there is any other community in this world which consciously derides achievements by fellow nationals and depreciate our own efforts.
Tata’s wonder Car Nano, is yet another example. It was not Suzuki Motors of Japan who faces the greatst threat from Tata’s car, or Ford Motors who ridiculed Ratan Tata’s dream. It was our own so-called Pundits and analysts who said the dream would never materialise. For years we have been hearing barbs about a match box with four wheels or a tin box with rattles as a description about Tata’s car. The cartoons were equally derogatory.
But Ratan and his team held on to their dream and made Nano a reality. But even after seeing it for real and knowing its price, critics in India have not shut up. Now they say the car will cost higher on the roads, it will not fit the bill of the much fancied “common man” etc etc. A piece in Hindustan Times today ( I am deliberately not recalling the writers name because he doesn’t deserve to be mentioned by name for his sheer lack of national respect) writes about crowded roads in India and roads becoming covered by cars, thanx to the Nano etc, all in myrth.
When Suzuki and others are raking their brains to bring out a model matching Tata’s wonder, it is unfortunate and even infuriating that Indians still ridicule the effort and the product.

As an Indian I feel proud of Tata’s dream and product. He has proved to the whole world that without Japanese technology and the Chinese cheap-gymmics, we Indians can bring out a car priced as low as Rs 1 lakh. Kudos to Ratan Tata and his team . May be the present budget would make Tata hike Nano’s price. Neverthless, here is an entreprneur who had a dream and made the dream a reality. He deserves to be the first name mentioned in this site.

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