Archive for July, 2008
Indian Democracy - is it shining or is it a sham?
Our politics is going berserk. Just because the bomb blasts in Ahmedabad and Bangalore took the news off the cashgate scandal (where three BJP MPs alleged in the Lok Sabha that they got Rs three crore each for abstaining in Tuesday’s trust vote on the Nuclear Deal) BJP MP Sushma Swaraj implied that [...]
IIM graduates are preferring to stay back in India
Foreign companies have not upped their salaries much over last year…this is in reference to paychecks offered to Indian Institute of Management (IIM )graduates. However, domestic companies have increased the salaries of new recruits from IIM’s by over 30 percent (IIM Ahmedabad figures only) but the average international offer has gone up by barely over [...]
BCCI policy : Different player-statures; different rules
BCCI whip Niranjan Shah is always over eager to crack his whip on defenseless players like domestic boys of ICL, upcoming players like Chawla or the docile Laxman. The latest discrepancy is handling Tendulkar’s issue on playing for Lashings in England with former teammate Dinesh Mongia (ICL Chandigarh Lions). The [...]
What?s your society?s badge of honour?
All societies have value systems…values which citizens aspire to reach. They want to possess all the qualities that are admired in society and live a life considered ideal by the standard of that particular society. The gap between the ideal and the real may be large or it may be small…the point is that there [...]
Indian Government! Careless?
Inflation in India India’s 2008 Economic Survey Report targeted a drop in India’s Inflation Rate – but with food, oil and commodity price rises worldwide, the opposite is happening.According to the 2008 Economic Survey Report, India’s inflation rate was targeted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to be 4.1%, down from a rate of 5.77% [...]
Death toll rises in India blasts
Death toll rises in India blasts The death toll in the serial bomb blasts that rocked the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday has risen to 49, police say.Indian PM Manmohan Singh is due to arrive in the city to assess the situation and visit the injured.Indian cities are on high alert as police [...]
?Missile? kills six in Pakistan
‘Missile’ kills six in Pakistan At least six people have been killed in a missile strike in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan, near the Afghan border, officials have said.The missile, reportedly fired from Afghanistan, hit a house next to a mosque in the village of Azam Warsak.A Pakistani security official said it was [...]
Deadly bomb blasts hit Istanbul
Deadly bomb blasts hit Istanbul At least 16 people have been killed and 154 wounded in two explosions in the Turkish city of Istanbul, in what officials say was a terrorist attack.The first blast occurred in a rubbish bin in the busy Gungoren residential area. The second, larger explosion occurred as crowds gathered.No group has claimed [...]
Lunch at Leopold, dessert at Theo?s and shopping at Colaba Causeway
At one time Leopold Cafe was an ordinary Irani restaurant, except that it attracted the bohemian kind of crowd. If we had ventured there in its earlier days it was more out of accident or curiosity. A recent visit confirmed what I had heard…that Leopold wasn’t its seedy self anymore.Today Leopold sports a different look. [...]
Terrorism - citizens need answers!
Considering the incidents of terrorism that have hit our country in Bangalore day before yesterday and in Ahmedabad yesterday (where 29 people have been reported killed and about a hundred injured), I decided to summarize some of my older posts on terrorism which explore why our country is suffering like this.What or whom do we [...]
