Public image ... and Tata's 'sorry' just won't do, says Nano owner

A bit late in the day but of great concern ...

How serious are we about our public image ? In the connected world it is necessary to take care not to allow any incident go by, whether small or big by our definition. One never knows where it will hit !

Take the Nano for instance - it just caught fire and no one is saying sorry !

Tata's 'sorry' just won't do, says Nano owner

Mid-Day.com, Thursday March 25, 2010, Mumbai

Mulund resident Satish Purushottam Sawant is still shaken by the March 21 incident, in which he and his family narrowly escaped death in their brand new Tata Nano. If there's anything that rankles the Sawants even more, it's the absence of an apology from Tata Motors.

And then another caught fire, and these have been termed isolated incidents.

New Tata Nano catches fire

Last updated on: April 07, 2010 20:52 IST

Another brand new Tata Nano car caught fire near Anand, the second such instance within a month, but the company claimed there were "no design flaws" with the world's cheapest car.

The incident took place at the vicinity of Boriyavi village, while a fleet of 11 Nanos was on its way to Vadodara.

Then there was the hack of TCS's website. It went down for a few hours but there was nary a word.

TCS website hacked BS Reporter / Mumbai February 9, 2010, 0:36 IST India’s largest information technology services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has become the latest target of hackers. The company has restored its website, after hackers changed its domain name and put it up for sale.

And of course whats happening today is the spat between Shashi Tharoor and Lalit Modi. One is a cabinet minister and the other is the big boss of the Indian Premier League. Both gentlemen have done a considerable amount of dirty laundry washing and name calling over the past few weeks. One has bitten the dust (as in resigned) and the other is said to be on his way out.

Image be dammed - public memory is short, and in any case who cares about what the public thinks anyway. Not the people who are in power or in money. Anyone outside their hallowed circle is inconsequential in form or thought.

So the rich, famous and connected continue their unchecked plunder and fight like c... and d... over the spoils.

A cool LCD story..... :)