The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
In 2008, there was a one word text from the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to Ratan Tata. It said “Suswagatam” – Welcome. Tata Motors was planning to set up a Tata Nano plant in Singur, Bengal in a period of 28 months, when the protests – politically motivated and backed by the state government – had derailed the project. Nano was scheduled to roll out by 2008.
Tata Motors‘ Sanand facility in Gujarat has achieved 100 per cent capacity utilisation, the company announced in a statement. The plant, which was originally built for the production of the Tata Nanosmall car, has over the years expanded its manufacturing line with the Tata Tiago and Tigor models that have been popular sellers for the company. Tata announced that it has produced over 450,000 units at the Sanand facility since inception, which remains one of the fastest growing facilities for the car maker. With the Indian auto giant working on a new modular platform for its forthcoming vehicle range, Tata will distribute its production requirements between the Pune and Sanand plants in the future. The Sanand factory contributesn 60 per cent to the company’s overall passenger vehicle production.
The Tata Nano and the subsequent Tata Motors plant success story is very instructive. The pseudo secularists and so-called liberals feign to fight for the poor and minorities. But they really do not. They ensure, through their work that the poor remain miserably poor and minorities can keep feeling the non-existent fears. That is how they can earn their living and live in posh bungalows while their “constituency” lives in penury.
Those who oppose appeasement, however, do things because they need to be done without regard to who benefits as long as the benefits go to the countrymen and women. And, invariably the poor, the downtrodden, the minorities benefit in a huge manner. Ask Bashir Khan Pathan or Mohammad Rajpura from Sanand area.
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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