Government continues to hike the prices of petrol to fill its kitty. An article in HT today wrote that 40% of what we pay goes as taxes and duties to the government… hardly any surprise here. Together with direct and indirect taxes, you are paying 50% or your hard earned money to the govt. and [...]

The Chief Minister of Delhi has been aggressively promoting the registration of Aadhaar, the Unique Identification Number that every citizen should have. It is a 12 digit number which you should be able to get from any nearest Aadhaar registration center. This number will serve as a proof of identity. This number will be issued [...]

So what is new in this? humm.. well nothing at all.. the sad part is that this is a yearly occurrence. Just like every summer there will be power cuts, in every monsoons there will be water logging and traffic jams. What are authorities doing about this.. well they have spent over Rs. 500 cr [...]

Below is the excerpt taken from HT epaper, seems like India is worse off than Pakistan! It was once called the steel frame of the British Raj. Today, the Indian bureaucracy is a rusty parody of its former self. Meant to be the interface between the government and the citizen, it usually leaves citizens seething, [...]

I read this article by Neelam Pandey on HT today which was about the poor state in which Delhi MCD schools are and how children have to study in make shift tents every year in the Monsoon season. The article is quite interesting with statistics showing MCD in a very bad light… of course we [...]

Like the saying goes: Waqt ane par gadhe ko bhi baap banana padta hai!

So the story goes… Since the morning I was double minded if I should cast my vote or not, after looking into the candidate’s background I was not convinced if they were the right people for the job. At 11am I decided that I should at least go and register my vote using the clause [...]

I saw this ad. in the paper today and thought it would be nice to check if my name is on the voter list and what is the location of the polling booth. The website is of the Office of Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi http://www.ceodelhi.nic.in Unfortunately the website did not load for me, I assume [...]

The poll date and hours are fixed by the Election Commission India and they are well publicized before all elections. When you reach the polling station, entry will be regulated by queues. There will be separate queues for men and women voters and the physically handicapped persons. The persons who enforce the queues will allow [...]

This has to be a joke! What the government could not do in decades after independence, they plan to do that in the next 6 years. Unlink all government plans which have a gestation period of minimum 10 years, this one will stretch to 50. Maybe Mr. L.K Advani is still hanging around waiting to [...]

Pramod Muthalik’s Sri Ram Sena is emerging as a copycat of Raj Thackeray’s MNS and Shiv Sena. Leaders of all three political / social parties are clearly insane and are doing acts terrorism within the country. Mr. Pramod did not seem to think that anything wrong as been done, his “boys” have molested women on [...]

First there were criminals contesting elections, then murders joined hands with them and now convicted terrorists have been given a ticket to lead… what’s happening to this country? What’s next… “Bhai” becoming the President of India. Listen to the video, you will hear words like Choti behen (younger sister), bade bhai (elder brother), pita saman [...]