Gautam Kumar Sinha

2008-2009 has been bad year for the TATA Group.
During the beginning of the 19th Century, under the British rule, Jamshedji Tata established Steel Industry in present day mineral rich Jharkhand state, lying in the eartern part of India. Area where the industry came up is now known as Jamshedpur. During those days its was part of Bengal province. Tata were forced out of the state of West Bengal due to agitation by the farmers/landowners of Singrur, whose lands were compulsorily acquired by the State Government under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The agitation was led by Trinamul Congress (State level party) leader, Ms.Mamta Banerjee, present Union/Federal Railway Minister in the UPA Government of India. Calcutta High Court gave judgment in favour of the land acquisition. CPM Government of Bengal was in favour of the Nano car plant in Singrur. However, politics of the day was different. Brinkmanship of the political agitation and failure of the Communist Government of West Bengal to do enough, forced the Tatas to take the unfortunate decision of leaving West Bengal. Tatas are known for their honesty, integrity and business ethics. They left to Gujarat (State in western India)notwitstanding the losses. Mamta Banerjee was criticised by the intelligentia of the country. However in the recent election for parliament, she came out with flying colours and made a heavy inroad into the CPM stronhold.

Nano bookings didnot receive the expected response, may be due to recession, but is now ready to be delivered to the Indian consumers, probably few days

He is Amarnath, our dear friend. A part of life that we lived in our childhood. A great human being. A great painter. Was engineer by profession. He died in Aug, 1997 in Montreal, Canada where he was pursuing his higher studies in engineering.

His school lunch box was stuffed with best of foods! We all used to pounce at the lunch box at the first go without making any attempt to hold it. Boy holding the tiffin rarely got the taste of the mouth licking cuisine therein.

He had a tremedous memory. Forget the content of subject, he remembered the page numbers of the books. Especially in times of examination, he sent shiver down our spines as to our preparedness.

Its a common saying that even God needs good people, therefore, the good ones are first to depart.