Indian Railways is showing us that it is dealing effectively with malpractices in ticket booking and is making efforts to reduce the hardship people face while booking tickets. In a effort to reduce the hardship Railways has changed the way we book our Tatkal tickets. Instead of opening the tatkal tickets along with the normal … Read more
With the Supreme Court Decision on cancelling the fraudulently awarded 2G Licences, we are seeing the foreign companies that bought into the licence winners cheaply are now trying to “protect” their “investment” by threatening to sue the Indian Government. Foremost among these companies is TELENOR the Norwegian Telecom Company that invested in UNINOR. Government has … Read more
It takes guts to increase fares of public services in a country like India. People seldom realise that fares cannot be keep artificially low in the name of public welfare for a long time. In a deficit budget country like us, the fares cannot be kept abysmally low for years together esp. when the costs are running … Read more
What has been known at the ground level for a long time is finally out is open. The spread, rather unethical, of Christianity in India has always been an hush-hush affair. They always worked the unethical way and the Church has always tried to influence the people and the policy. The statements of late by … Read more
I have been reading newspaper articles in Bangalore about the “saffronisation” of Education by the BJP Government in Karnataka. Dispute has risen about the purposely ‘hindu’ leaning content in the new textbook. I highly recommend that all critics have a look at the school text books in other countries – countries where other religions – … Read more
RBI has deregulated the Savings Bank Interest Rates (read here). I see this announcement as a Deepavali gift to the larger depositor base. While the focus of the media & public has been on the rate hike which will impact the borrowers, deregulation of SB A/c interest rates will benefit a much larger population. Now … Read more
The Article Headline screamed out – “Shopping hubs expect subdued Deepavali”. The article in THE HINDU Newspaper on 17/OCT/2011 (read here) talks about the shopkeepers expecting reduced spend this Deepavali. The reasons spelled out are Price Rise and wider range of shopping options. I was surprised that the article did not talk about another important … Read more
Everybody is looking forward to the Metro in Chennai. Everybody says it is THE SOLUTION to the traffic problem. However from what it looks currently I see the Metro being more of destructive and possibly will not live up to the Hype it has created. First the destructive part – Metro has caused many trees … Read more
Why are we so obsessed with the West and its statistics? Why do we need to have all things like they have in West? We need to have the same income, same ratio of vehicles per 1000 population, same no. of supermarkets per 1000 population… everything is compared with the what is present in West. … Read more
Are we, the people of India, really against corruption and want eradicate it? Looking at the way sections of public has reacted to the current anti-corruption movement, it can be said that most groups are not really against corruption – because they seem to have benefited from corruption a lot. Look how people are raising … Read more