Zakaria: Do you worry that it will scare foreign investors, that they might be spooked in some way by this?
Tata: Yes. I have no doubt that, certainly short term, that may happen. And if it does, it would be natural that it take place, because, if you talk to some of the people who have had to go through this experience, either in our hotel or the Oberoi or elsewhere, this doesn't happen very often. And when it does, it spooks a lot of people, and rightly so.
So, we will have to do something as a nation to be able to deal with this kind of terror, if it is now being addressed to us, or directed to us. We've been very complacent, because we've really not had this kind of terrorism inflicted upon us.
And I think, as we look forward, we will have to put this into our equation of things we need to be prepared for. And crises infrastructure, I think is one that we will just have to address.
And if we need to get expertise from outside, we should not stand on ceremony to hold back. We should go to the best place possible to get expertise, and have that installed with us in terms of hardware, in terms of training, in terms of strategy.
Image: Indian commandos leave the Taj Mahal hotel after a military operation in Mumbai on November 29, 2008. | Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images
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