Comments on: The Not To Be Developed India http://www.newclarion.com/2009/05/the-not-to-be-developed-india/ Our mission is to combat the unreason and selflessness that are sweeping our culture from the nihilist left to the religious right, and to sound a new ideal of capitalism and individual rights in American politics. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike N http://www.newclarion.com/2009/05/the-not-to-be-developed-india/#comment-3530 Mike N Tue, 26 May 2009 20:35:01 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1062#comment-3530 Rajesh: Thanks for the update on the origins of the Nano. I didn't know that. Looks like India and its people have a ways to go in terms of understanding the concept of property rights and what that concept is for. Rajesh:
Thanks for the update on the origins of the Nano. I didn’t know that. Looks like India and its people have a ways to go in terms of understanding the concept of property rights and what that concept is for.

]]> By: Rajesh http://www.newclarion.com/2009/05/the-not-to-be-developed-india/#comment-3513 Rajesh Tue, 26 May 2009 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1062#comment-3513 A nano update: Only 20 percent of Tata's initial 203,000 orders for the car — the Nano — were for the no-frills $2,600 model. Instead, customers booked models at the higher end some costing as much as 40 percent more, or about $3,680. There is a violent story behind the setting up of the car plant. The land for the car in the communist West Bengal was forcibally aquired. It caused gun battles between the ruling party and the opposition (along with some locals) in Singur (site for plant). Many were raped, killed and injured. The episode has cause heavy defeat for the party in recent elections. Tata had to abandon the site and it was relocated in more business friendly Gujrat. A nano update:
Only 20 percent of Tata’s initial 203,000 orders for the car — the Nano — were for the no-frills $2,600 model. Instead, customers booked models at the higher end some costing as much as 40 percent more, or about $3,680.

There is a violent story behind the setting up of the car plant. The land for the car in the communist West Bengal was forcibally aquired. It caused gun battles between the ruling party and the opposition (along with some locals) in Singur (site for plant). Many were raped, killed and injured. The episode has cause heavy defeat for the party in recent elections. Tata had to abandon the site and it was relocated in more business friendly Gujrat.

]]> By: Mike N http://www.newclarion.com/2009/05/the-not-to-be-developed-india/#comment-3099 Mike N Fri, 15 May 2009 12:03:15 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1062#comment-3099 Mike: "I would buy a Nano (assuming it were offered here) if I did not have to commute on an interstate freeway." We're in agreement. Mike:
“I would buy a Nano (assuming it were offered here) if I did not have to commute on an interstate freeway.”

We’re in agreement.

]]> By: Mike http://www.newclarion.com/2009/05/the-not-to-be-developed-india/#comment-3090 Mike Fri, 15 May 2009 06:05:51 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1062#comment-3090 Hear hear. I have been following the emergence of this car in articles here and there, and it seems like the kind of thing that could be used in denser areas here in the USA to put the whole New Urbanism delusion to rest and get some genuine right-tool-for-the-job efficiency happening. I would buy a Nano (assuming it were offered here) if I did not have to commute on an interstate freeway. Hear hear. I have been following the emergence of this car in articles here and there, and it seems like the kind of thing that could be used in denser areas here in the USA to put the whole New Urbanism delusion to rest and get some genuine right-tool-for-the-job efficiency happening. I would buy a Nano (assuming it were offered here) if I did not have to commute on an interstate freeway.

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