The Empire Strikes Back March 26, 2008
I mean, first, Jaguar and Land Rover are sold to we colonists, angering many a Brit, no doubt.
But, now this? “Ford sells Jaguar, Land Rover to India’s Tata.”
I mean, the Queen must be pissed — almost as much as when Canada threatened to leave the Commonwealth. Oh, wait, that was Kids in the Hall (how is Kids in the Hall not really on YouTube?).
Yes. It’s not only the South that will rise again. It’s the other South. And here’s one about India’s Infosys recruiting British graduates:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7035297.stm
Soon some will be more worried about brain-drain to India than outsourcing. Those folks on the other end of the phone really will be Americans, just living it up in Bangalore.
Tata is, by the way, a very old company with, er, ‘roots’ in the colonial era itself. So the historical complexity of the situation is fascinating: there never is a clear colonized/colonizer distinction, despite our efforts to create ‘uses’ and ‘thems’.