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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My colleague today showed me the price break up of a “luxury apartment” on bannerghatta road Bangalore. I was shocked to see a cost item saying BESCOM and BWSSB charges as 4.8 lakhs !!!! This is a property that was launched 4 years back still in the doldrums. A quick arithmetic is that if there [...]
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