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A Bugatti for Mr. Biswas

In this land of Gandhi and Buddha, the Bugatti Veyron is now also available. I know it's yawningly lame to use that hoary phrase.

It's of course as erroneous to imagine that Indians are born ascetics as it's to imagine that somehow Chinese are born to be Communists or Russians are born to be Communists.

Indians seem to be ascetic only because they lack the wealth to be otherwise. All that is changing of course — in India, China, and Russia.

Here's a review for those of us who can't afford it:

http://business.in.com/article/appraisals/bugatti-veyron/342/1

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