"YOU COULD BE SHAMELESS, I AM
NOT"---
Ratan Tata
Few months after 26/11, Taj Group of
Hotels
owned by the
TATAs launched their biggest tender
ever for
remodelling all
their
hotels in India and abroad.
Some of the companies that applied for
that
tender were also
Pakistanis. To make their bid
stronger, two big
industrialists
from Pakistan visited
Bombay House ( Head
Office of Tata's )
in Mumbai without an appointment to
meet up
with Ratan
Tata since he was not giving them any prior appointment.
They were made to sit at the reception
of
Bombay House and
after a few hours a message was
conveyed to
them that
Ratan Tata was busy and could
not meet
anyone without an
Frustrated, these two Pak
industrialists went to
Delhi and
thru' their High Commission met a
Minister. The
minister immediately called up Ratan
Tata
requesting him to
meet the two Pak industrialists and
consider
their
tender
"enthusiastically".
Ratan Tata replied,"You could be
shameless, I
am not" and
Few months later when the Pakistani
Govt
placed an order
for Tata Sumo's to be imported into Pakistan,
Ratan Tata
refused to ship a single vehicle to
that country.
This is the
respect and love for motherland that
Ratan Tata
has.
Something that our current Politicians
should
learn from.