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At least someone has guts to take the bull by horn. Despite of knowing similar rhetorical questions will be directed at TATAs as I'm sure he doesn't live in zopadpatti. Still what Ambani has done is gross.


New Delhi: Tata group chairman, Ratan Tata slammed Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) chairman Mukesh Amabani for living in a million dollar home in south Mumbai.

Tata said the Ambani scion should try and make a difference to those around him. The comment is likely to make Mamata Banerjee think she has more in common with Ratan Tata than she'd like to admit.

The Tata Group chief has taken the dig at Ambani's wealth in an interview to London's newspaper The Times.

He said he was surprised and saddened by the fact that Ambani chose to live in an opulent billion dollar home in South Mumbai.

This after he was asked about the Ambani's 27-storeyed Altamount Road residence. While Mukesh Ambani is ranked ninth on the Forbes List of Billionaires, Ratan Tata failed to find a mention.

To the Times he said, "It makes me wonder why someone would do that. The person who lives in there should be concerned about what he sees around him and ask can he make a difference. If he is not, then it is sad because India needs people to allocate some of their enormous wealth to finding ways to mitigate the hardship that people have."

Later on Tata Sons released a statement saying that there have been words, individuals and statements that have not been mentioned by Mr Tata during the course of the interactions which are being attributed to him.

Jaggudada;390189At least someone has guts to take the bull by horn. Despite of knowing similar rhetorical questions will be directed at TATAs as I'm sure he doesn't live in zopadpatti. Still what Ambani has done is gross.


New Delhi: Tata group chairman, Ratan Tata slammed Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) chairman Mukesh Amabani for living in a million dollar home in south Mumbai.

Tata said the Ambani scion should try and make a difference to those around him. The comment is likely to make Mamata Banerjee think she has more in common with Ratan Tata than she'd like to admit.

The Tata Group chief has taken the dig at Ambani's wealth in an interview to London's newspaper The Times.

He said he was surprised and saddened by the fact that Ambani chose to live in an opulent billion dollar home in South Mumbai.

This after he was asked about the Ambani's 27-storeyed Altamount Road residence. While Mukesh Ambani is ranked ninth on the Forbes List of Billionaires, Ratan Tata failed to find a mention.

To the Times he said, "It makes me wonder why someone would do that. The person who lives in there should be concerned about what he sees around him and ask can he make a difference. If he is not, then it is sad because India needs people to allocate some of their enormous wealth to finding ways to mitigate the hardship that people have."

Later on Tata Sons released a statement saying that there have been words, individuals and statements that have not been mentioned by Mr Tata during the course of the interactions which are being attributed to him.

You folks live and enjoy benefits of a capitalist economy and at same time attack soemone who wants to enjoy the fruits of his labor in his own way ??? wow! some double standards we have!

PS - Given our our country lives in slum like conditions its actually quite appalling to see us all discuss about 1 crore houses! ???

Pardon me, but isn't the house a lot more ugly?

foxbatneo;390235Pardon me, but isn't the house a lot more ugly?

That I agree...its got a weird look about it...no uniformity...but that's his choice.

Even though, as a leader, businessman and human being I have more respect for Ratan Tata and Tata group as a business house than Mukesh Ambani or his business empire, I feel what Ambani does with his billions is his business. I agree that house (or a huge block of concrete and glass) is as ugly as it can get but I dont care about its price and so shouldnt Ratan Tata. Mr. Tata should rather focus on amount of food wasted by Indians (who can afford it) while millions are hungry (remember Indians still thik it lowly to take a restaurant leftover home?)

While it is mostly gossipy on he said, she said, what should one do and shouldn't. I find the following statement interesting and the journalist doesn't have much credibility after this line.

Jaggudada;390189 While Mukesh Ambani is ranked ninth on the Forbes List of Billionaires, Ratan Tata failed to find a mention. [/quote]



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Later on Tata Sons released a statement saying that there have been words, individuals and statements that have not been mentioned by Mr Tata during the course of the interactions which are being attributed to him.

rabtag;390285While it is mostly gossipy on he said, she said, what should one do and shouldn't. I find the following statement interesting and the journalist doesn't have much credibility after this line.

Classic Indian media......XYZ said this about ABC....later XYZ said he didn't say it or was misquoted...blah blah
He says she says he said she said..

Per my way of thinking, truly I do not have much problem with that, ( no regrets )
That he( Mukesh) lives in a 2 billion dollars house surrounded by damn poverty dirt slums and he must be looking around, when waking up and brushing his teeth, from the windows all around his 30th floor, be watching dirty/ugly/clumsy slums, giving him the contrast of the life-style !

Since, If no one buys a Ferrari, then who will use it? If not Him, Who?
Someone must buy it - the Ferrari and the billion dollars diamond necklaces in order to get those business going on too ! No?

In fact, by doing so ( Billion dollar house ) he has given the Rozi-Roti to hundreds of ‘Mazdors’, and many many related industries to build this house and now also to maintain it, he must be giving jobs to many cleaners, drivers, builders/maintainers, chopper pilot, securities, peons, watchmen, and many many other category professional ! So, I don’t have much problem with that.

My main agony is rather,
How the, hell we ended up making such a system of this kind aa uneven human society ( made of rules and regulations, customs, Kanoons, controls ) that someone found a loop-hole / escape window and raped your system at mid-noon, keeping all of your own rules intact !!!

Was not that the main idea to keep almost everybody on the same level, amenity, health, facility and happiness wise, when the human civilization started from those old cave days and we came to a conclusion of making society, Government, Rules, regulations, Family, marriage, and all necessary controls so that everything works out in smooth, harmony, parallel and on an equal platform !!

Since, all the human beings have two hand, two legs, two eyes, etc - nthg more, nthg less, and also a day has its only 24 hours for hard work for everybody,
how the hell it can happen of that much gap that, 33%+ guys have not any cookies left for their evening dinner and some other groups of PPL like Ambani, Tata , Birla, can have accumulated for their 100s of generations !!!

Sure. There is something wrong in our own made society, systems, rules and such,….. otherwise this kind of situation would never come into existence ! That’s where my agony lies.

1.
There was a guy ( King ) named : Hiranyakashyup, who was blessed with – “ No one can kill ya, Inside the home Or Outside the home, and yet he was killed, right on his Home’s ‘otta’ ( Umbar) !
And, thus keeping all the rules intact !

2.
There was an another arrogant ruler king, you know - Ravana !
He was blessed with tons of combinations,
No one can kill ya,……
Either in Jal or Sthal ( Zameen )
Either by Vaayu or Agni
Either by Asthra or Shasthra
Either in Day or Night
…………..and much others !

And, still he got killed finding all the loop-holes, keeping all of his terms and conditions intact.
Yess,….. In the Sky, at the Evening time, neither Air/Fire weapons used, Neither Brashmastra / Gada / Arrow used,

3.
Here comes our man made society – that we made ! While coming out of the cave-age !
The idea was to keep all the humans alike, equally happy with food, clothing , shelter and other amenities,.. and if by chance, by the hard work if some one ran faster and if it did make a difference ,… it could be in a ‘catchable range’ that one can catch it up during the “ same life cycle of him(poor) and him(rich) ! Shouldn’t It ?

But, the sorry fact is, somewhere, someplace some loop holes were left, and some PPL could find those escape windows and Raped the society, legally, officially, at mid-noon broad day-lights, keeping all the rules and regulations intact and walked away clean,..., just like that Ravana and Hiranyakashyup got killed ! This time, the demise of our own society !

Hence, my agony is more towards
“ How the hell could/did happen, and why the hell no one is thinking in that direction ? “ rather than
‘Ambani living in 2 Billion USD house “.

[ Recently, there had a thread on this forum “ How do you feel about Laxshmi Mittal / Tata or someone billionaire “ and out of a lots of responses, NOT a single response I could find per my thought process ! I tried to say something with my peculiar song/movie/video style, but somehow it failed to drive my points ]

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For 2 Billion I would have expected him to build something timeless in the class of Taj Mahal. Is this all $2Bn can buy in India these days? Looks like even Ambani is getting pinched with inflation!

samv;390586For 2 Billion I would have expected him to build something timeless in the class of Taj Mahal. Is this all $2Bn can buy in India these days? Looks like even Ambani is getting pinched with inflation!

http://www.englishforum.ch/attachments/international-affairs-politics/21119d1291041137-world-s-most-expensive-house-1bn-india-small-time-out-poor-antilla.jpg

[ He already told the near by slum-residents very symbolically ! - uus ne tau kaha har baat ko iishaare mein ! ]

:))

Ambani brothers got little broke in 'Hawaalaa' ( partition among brothers ).

Now, for building a Taj Mahal, wher' to bring that much amount of classic original marbles, and more importantly those 15 generations old, sculpture artists ?

Moreover, his wife being from a simple mid-class family ( very tight hand ) does not want any exaggeration of showmanship of that level.
This lady ( Neeta ) is found walking bare foot sometimes and scarce of renting a car, even, if she is stuck in traffic and is late for interview.
Preparing simple, Baajra Ki Roti, Mirchi, n' Chaash kind aa simple village food, for the family !

Lady keeps a close eye on that sabjii-mandii wala and house servant's for every penny and if a fruit waala over charged some 5 Rs more, for any daily vegetables,
he is dead meat !

These kind aa her skills in "keeping the hands so miserly tight'
she even describes in the interviews with pride !

Does not matter, their bank balance earns millions of bucks only in the interest per day, but this lady will keep a close eye on that "Sabjii-waala", whether she was overcharged by 2 Rupees !

Now, how can one expect this lady, to allow her hubby to go for a shiny, showmanship,
merely a piece of art building, aka Neeta-Mahal ??

( Word Taj-Mahal came from, Shahjahaan's begum "Mumtaz" )