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Tensions between laborers and corporate India exploded<\/a> on Monday when an angry mob of recently fired workers attacked the executives of Italian car-parts manufacturer Graziano Transmissioni.\u00a0 Chief executive Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, was fatally injured<\/a> by blows to the head, and two other senior executives sustained serious head wounds.\u00a0\u00a0 Police have arrested 63 people for murder<\/a> and are investigating the violence.<\/p>\n

This incident occurred on the heels of the recent shutdown of the Tata Motors<\/a> plant in West Bengal.\u00a0 Tata Motors, India\u2019s largest automobile company, halted production<\/a> on the plant indefinitely in early September when protests against the plant became increasingly confrontational and violent.\u00a0 Farmers who had sold land to Tata<\/a> — land which is known to be fertile given its proximity to the Ganges River -\u2013 are demanding it back.\u00a0 The West Bengal plant was slated to roll out the Nano<\/a>, the world\u2019s cheapest car, as soon as October.\u00a0 And there\u2019s certainly a lot riding on the Nano – at the estimated cost of $2,165 to $2,500, it would put India and Tata Motors on the map for producing affordable cars.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Tata reportedly began moving out of the factory<\/a> in West Bengal, but Thursday, pro-Tata villagers took to the streets<\/a>, and <\/span>today, the state government made a last-ditch appeal to the company to stay put. Industry Minister Nirupam Sen said that if Tata leaves, it would be a “big loss<\/a>” to the poor agricultural region. “There might be some people who were creating problems but that is not the voice of all the people<\/a> and we want to convey it to the Tatas,” he said. <\/span><\/p>\n

With one of the world\u2019s fastest growing economies, India is experiencing a lot of growing pains.\u00a0 WIDE ANGLE explored the difficulties of keeping up with India\u2019s rapid economic growth in the 2007 film, <\/strong><\/em>The Dying Fields<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Cotton farmers in Vidarbha face a grim reality of crop failures, sinking global cotton prices and crushing debts, pushing many of them to suicide.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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