{"id":3126,"date":"2006-07-31T10:11:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T10:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2006\/07\/indian-it-execs-dont-buy-expensive-cars\/"},"modified":"2006-07-31T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T10:11:56","slug":"indian-it-execs-dont-buy-expensive-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2006\/07\/indian-it-execs-dont-buy-expensive-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian IT Execs dont buy Expensive Cars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>India\u2019s IT Execs cannot .. err.. <a href=\"http:\/\/ia.rediff.com\/money\/2006\/jul\/22car.htm?q=bp&amp;file=.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">dont buy expensive cars<\/a> even though they can afford it! Why? Because the top icons like Narayana Murthy and Azeem Premji go around in Toyota Corollas!! Heck.. Premji even uses an auto-rickshaw or a bus at times.<\/p>\n<p>This is a strange problem to have! They would buy expensive homes and toys etc.. but no .. not cars!!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"zoundry_bw_tags\">\n  <!-- Tag links generated by Zoundry Blog Writer. 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They would buy expensive homes and toys etc.. but no .. not cars!!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"zoundry_bw_tags\">\n  <!-- Tag links generated by Zoundry Blog Writer. 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