Hello Tata

•The cat is finally out of the bag. Ratan Tata’s dream car has been finally unveiled. It’s a beauty and a masterpiece, though some eyebrows have been raised over fuel efficiency as people expected more from a “people’s car”. Ratan Tata has truly kept his promise, though people thought it was a joke when he made it. He is one industrialist who keeps his word, and no one can doubt his integrity. I request the government to honour him with the “Bharat Ratna” this year — a special year for him as he fulfills his rare and special dream of a car for the masses.

— S.N. KABRA Mumbai

• Apropos ‘1 lakh car drives 1 billion dreams’, five years back when the Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata ,who always thought for the aam aadmi, said that he would manufacture a car priced at Rs 1 lakh, he was greeted with laughter and derision. But on January 10, when Ratan Tata’s unveiled his pet project, “the people’s car”, at Hall 11 of Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, he did India proud and did a great service to the lower-income bracket. India now salutes his revolutionary vision. But in India nothing happens without politics, so how can the people’s car be exempt? The Trinamool Congress threatened to stall its manufacture at Singur plant, and said, “Let the Tatas go elsewhere, leaving farmland in Singur to farmers.” Mamata Banerjee should stop playing politics and realise that this product only helps the common man, and she should negotiate the issue with the government and the Tata Management over the project which can create enough employment in this jobless state.

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