Time was when the Ambassador, made by the decidedly nationalist sounding Hindustan Motors, was the official car of those suffering from the “Lal Bathi Syndrome” id est the political elite.
No longer.
At the Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore on Thursday, the red lights on top of vehicles provide a bird’s eye-view of how reforms broke the back of a Calcutta monopoly.
Except that the preferred colour remains white, although the affairs inside have become markedly black.
Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
Tags: Ambassador, Churumuri, Hindustan motors, Karnataka Photo News, KPN, Liberalisation, Reforms, Sans Serif, Vidhana Soudha
9 July 2010 at 12:57 am
Wrong Count! The Amby’s count up to 3, not 2. Its a different matter that I must be very bored at work to be counting this :)
9 July 2010 at 10:53 am
White shrouds for black hearts!
9 July 2010 at 10:05 pm
Wrong! there are 3 Ambys… :)
11 July 2010 at 4:11 am
and so many gas guzzlers !?