For those of you who think Tata is a type of sauce it's time to wake up, shake off the Christmas hangover and smell the coffee. Tata is an Indian conglomerate that owns most of what's left of the British steel industry and is pushing for ownership of Land Rover and Jaguar, two of the most prestigious car brands in Britain.
It is achieving, without firing a shot, the kind of gains made by Robert Clive and the army of the East India Company. Britain gave India the Hindustan Ambassador, a car derived from the Morris Oxford and still ubiquitous on India's roads. Now it is India's turn to play the colonist.
But Tata is about to do something even more profound. This week at