Link: Tata launches Nano, the 1-lakh car
I don’t care about the car necessarily but I wanted to take a moment and celebrate the awesomeness that is the word "lakh". It means "100,000" and it’s what Indians use to express a big number (the way we use "million"). So in this case, we’re talking about a car that will cost 100,000 rupees, less than $2,500. Not bad unless you had your heart set on going faster than 35 mph.
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this car is superb.
this is like a gift to middle class family
The other word that is used is crore.
It is a 100 lakhs or 10 million. So, a million is just skipped really. There is
lakh = 1,00,000 and
crore = 100,00,000
and that’s how the numbers are punctuated with “,”s too :)