Bought a car 5 months back and on-time of delivery all I got was a challan from the RTO that fees have been paid to secure registration of the vehicle. Initially they told me that it would take 2 months to “make” the smart card. Well the wait has been ON for many months with [...]
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Excerpt of a conversation I had with a ‘pahadi’ friend of mine on a lazy Sunday afternoon…. “Dear friend unlike up in the mountains of India here down in the plateaus and plains we have a very different way of life….” I said making my friend look perplexed at the ‘mystery’ I was about to [...]
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Many people might not know this interesting factoid; but the small southern state of kerala in India has the highest per capita consumption of rum in asia. Every Onam the citizens of this state consume run to the tune of 100′s of crores of rupees. The questionable practice however is that in kerala retail sale [...]
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Well like I always to on every independence day; introspect. Today after an hours of news media assault on a ‘bribe bandh’ campaign. I was forced to think of why and when a middle class person like me would be forced to pay a bribe. In most cases it would be to gain ‘access’ to [...]
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Today 13th July 2011 mumbai succumbed to another terror strike in broad daylight. Lives lost, many injured. Today was cause for us to reflect on what has changed since 26/11. The govt went on the defensive yet again. We never pursued the perpetrators of 26/11 to a definitive closure. We played by the book. What [...]
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Well if you landed here wondering about the movie then you’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that it’s got nothing to do with it. The problem with the world today is that it is run and dominated by ‘old men’. This is something which is ridiculously against the very nature of existence on this planet. [...]
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Recent times I’ve noticed the emergence of the term”India,Inc” especially during interviews with businessmen and what follows the term is always a satisfactorily pretty picture. The term is however seldom referred to in the context of India as a welfare state and no questions are asked or print space devoted to what India, Inc is [...]
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Well im one of the countless techies working in the city of Bangalore hailing from Kerala. I recently went to get my marriage registered in Bangalore having got married in my hometown in kerala. So I did a quick check on google and talked to colleagues who’d registered their marriages here and got my list [...]
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On the day when the Indian democracy turns 60 I feel compelled to write about what my perspective as a vulnerable common citizen makes this democracy tick at 60. I feel that 90% of world democracy as we know them would cease to exist if we succeeded in locking down the system to prevent “profit [...]
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Had the chance to go to 2 governmental establishments in the past week. They customer experience differed astronomically. My first trip was to the State bank of Mysore to get a stamp paper to prepare an affidavit. My first stop was the state bank of travancore not knowing that SBT was not authorized to sell [...]
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