Dear Mr. Ratan Tata, While we never made any secret of our strong opposition to the proposed 'people's car' by the Tata Motors at Singur in West Bengal as it'd uproot thousands from their traditional habitats and also strip them of their means of livelihood. It is also no secret that your reported rejection of other three alternative sites as offered by the West Bengal government, which would have presumably had entailed far less human cost, we have found just not only unreasonable but pretty cruel and inhuman as well. Nevertheless we had certain respect for you as the incumbent head of the pioneering industrial house of India promoting indigenous technology and entrepreneurship and also not the least because of your personal association with various philanthropic ventures.
So we are rudely shocked the way you've elected to slur the reputation of the conscientious resistors taking a cue from one of your prime backers, Sitaram Yechury. Being as a professional politician, it was not so much unexpected of Mr Yechury notwithstanding his Leftist protestations. But the brazen manner you've claimed on a TV channel, viz. the NDTV , that your "competitors (are) fuelling fire in Singur" is downright slanderous and defamatory. Evidently no "competitors" of yours are going to take up the issue with you, simply because there are none. You all are sailing in the same boat. But, we, those who are are actively backing the struggle of the people of Singur resisting the proposed project, which we consider as a gross act of human rights violation, take strong exception to your comment and condemn it in no uncertain terms. Yours Sukla Sen People's Media Initiative, Mumbai -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "I may disagree of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SAVAD RAHMAN Correspondent,MADHYAMAM daily, 601,INS Buildings, Rafi Marg,New Delhi -110001 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
