Archive for February, 2007

Paying Too Much For Internet Access?

I was in US a few months ago and found out that my brother who has an yahoo DSL service is paying $20 (Rs. 900) for UNLIMITED internet access with 1.5 Mbps speed (Just so we are clear. 1.5 Mbps would be 100 times faster then your regular dialup speed) In India speeds over 1 [...]

Parents will be Parents

For a country boasting about strong culture & family ties, it is a shame when we have to come up with a law stating that children’s must take care of their parents. When the educated lack basic education then what good would a law do? Yes… it would definitely hold the children accountable when it [...]

Gangster Babloo Srivastava Acquitted

This may sound like a story from any Bollywood movie in which a gangster is acquitted despite solid evidence except it’s not, this is real life and despite more than 40 cases of murder, extortion & terrorism pending on gangster Babloo Srivastava he is let off scott free in the Lalit Suneja murder case. Scanned [...]

For Those Who Smoke

Thought i would do some research on harmful affects of smoking since i have been reading about it in the newspapers so often. Chemicals in cigarettes and tobacco smoke make smoking harmful. Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 different chemicals. At least 43 are known carcinogens (cause cancer in humans). Cigarettes are one of few products [...]

Airtel Broadband Customer Care

Increase in Education Tax…What For?

I really don’t understand why the government wants to collect more education tax when they are not able to utilize on what they have already collected last year. I full agree that the underprivileged should get free education but i am 2 minds when it comes to increasing quota. Rs. 11,000 Crore had been collected [...]

Water Water Everywhere!

Water water everywhere & not a drop to drink! Who says there is water problem in Delhi? Actually i wanted to show the state of the road near the Delhi Jal Board office in Vasant Kunj, the road has been perpetually covered with water since the last few years. Calling it a road is giving [...]

Faulty Signals & Zero Tolerance

Someone finally took some notice of my article on Traffic Signal Disaster Why is Commonwealth games a motivation for the government to fix the problem? Why the cry of an Indian citizen of no use? Does it mean that every time we need to get something fixed in this country, we need to host an [...]

Koffee With Karan

“Koffee with Ramu” . If you haven’t read this article on today’s HT, then i suggest you go read it. Or just click on the image below to read (may take a while to download.) Poonam (author of the article) just took the words right from my mouth. God only knows how many times have [...]

What’s Incredible About India?

So…what’s so incredible about Incredible !ndia?? Well… NOTHING. If you have seen the beautiful 1/3 page ads about Incredible India, you would know what i am cribb.in about. Visually the ads are stunning unfortunately that’s where the bus stops. If you want more info after looking at those ads, it’s as good as solving a [...]