My recollection of the 2008 New Delhi Auto Expo is as vivid as ever. This was a time before I was one of the chosen few with the best job in the world. I was one of the millions of starry-eyed spectators who travelled half the length of the country to feast my eyes on the best exponents of man’s greatest creation - the automobile. But most of all, I remember giving in to curiosity over prudence, pushing my way into one particularly overflowing enclosure at the massive exhibit at the Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. The entire world was about to witness a determined Ratan Tata deliver on his impossible promise of giving the world the One Lakh Rupee Car. And so he did amid great furore, adulation and a lathi charge by the police to calm the frenzied public, that I narrowly avoided. Seven years since, the Nano has been consigned to an underwhelming fate to say the least. …
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