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The “People’s Car” for Rs. 1 Lac

Waiting for the signal to turn green, I was all set to zoom off the signal and reach movie theater at the earliest. No, I was not getting late for the movie, I was well in time, 90 minutes in advance for the movie. The “rush” and “hurry” was to secure a parking space. Yes, lately things have been worse with so many cars flooding the streets all of a sudden. Go anywhere and to parking your car is no less than an art of jugglery. Front-reverse-look left, right-take turn-squeeze in-no luck-take reverse-search again, is the kind of stunt I required to do every time I needed to park my car. I had just contemplated a situation, thinking about the launch of Tata’s new Rs. 1 Lac car. Popularly deemed as the “Peoples Car”, this affordable family car would supposedly transform many middle class dreamers into car owners. However, the car’s entry seems to be a little misfit; imagine the number of cars that you will see around when every single household will own one. The Indian economy already bo