Indian business house Tata is interested in buying Jaguar and Land Rover, two disasters that struggling U.S. auto maker Ford is looking to jettison.

Apparently, Tata Motors is looking to expand beyond India, which now accounts for the overwhelming majority of its sales. Hence its interest in Jaguar and Land Rover.

Jaguar and Land Rover are part of Ford’s luxury Premier Automotive Group, which has fared badly for four out of the last five years.

Ford bought Jaguar in 1990 for $2.5 billion and acquired Land Rover in 2000 for $2.68 billion from BMW.

Of the two acquisitions, Jaguar has been the bigger disaster and often a butt of jokes. It was a common joke in the 1990s that Continue Reading…

Indian restaurants are choc-a-block in New York (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island).

Mysore Masala Dosa, Chicken Manchurian, Lamb Roganjosh, Punjabi Chole, Dhokla, American Chop Suey, Chicken Chettinad, Bisibele Bath, Pongal…whatever be your fancy you can get ‘em all here.

Folks, there must be at least 225 Indian restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island.

 
Flushing Ganesh Temple has a popular canteen

Sporting names such as Bombay Palace, Madras Cafe, Punjabi Tandoor, Calcutta, Curry Leaf, Gandhi, Lassi, Dosa Diner, Utsav, Indo Munch, Jewel of India, Simla and Taj Mahal, Indian restaurants have become a fixture of the Big Apple.

Although the Murray Hill/Lexington Avenue area in Manhattan accounts for the largest concentration of Indian restaurants, desi eating joints are spread across the greater New York region.

Queens has plenty of Indian restaurants as does Long Island, particularly in Hicksville around Rt 107.

Our passion for Indian food has led us to dozens of desi restaurants in Queens, Manhattan and Long Island over the last 10 years.

But for the most part, the restaurants we’ve been to in New York are horrid outposts of Indian cuisine that offer lousy food with a big helping of bad service.

Manhattan is the worst offender. Be it Downtown, Murray Hill (a.k.a Curry Hill), Midtown or Upper East Side, most Indian restaurants in Manhattan are impostors serving disgustingly bland food.

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