India Ranked the Worst Bureaucracy

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, [...]

This is Just Plain Wrong!

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 [...]

Dancing The Political Dance

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

They Tricked me into Voting

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 [...]

5 Simple Clicks to Nothing

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 [...]

What is the Voting Process?

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 [...]

India to Eradicate Poverty by 2015

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 [...]

Just Another Shiv Sena

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 [...]