Archive for September, 2008

DDA Selling Old Flats

Tip sent in by Ashok and this article was published in Mid-Day Excerpt from the article is below As many as 1500 flats, out of the 5000 being offered by the DDA in its housing scheme, are old and had either been surrendered to the authority or their allotment cancelled. However, the offer scheme does […]

DDA Results and Payment Details

Update: 16th Dec 08 Check results here http://dda.org.in/tendernotices_docs/dec08/DRW_RSLT_DDA08.pdf Results of the draw will be out today and will be displayed on DDA website by 3 pm. Update: 19th Nov 08 You can now view the status of your application on the DDA website by visiting this link http://www.dda.org.in/housing08/Application.asp (link no longer works) and entering you […]

Last 5 Days for DDA Application

A couple of amendments have been made by DDA for then 2008 scheme, please read the below so you know what they are. Just a reminder that only 5 days are left for the scheme. You can also read a lot of unofficial questions on DDA 2008 scheme.

Ghari Detergent Power

I have not been able to understand the psychology behind the Ghari Detergent ads. In both their print advertising as well as commercials, they show chemists working in a lab which is definitely very low tech and then you see school kids running around the lab for no good reason. Even if I forgo the […]

Dhoni in the Youngistan Pepsi Commercial

Firstly I am not able to understand the Youngistan concept, its seems so silly to me… just to hype something superficial which was completely ignored by the audience. Secondly what’s with this ad. concept? Are we that naive that we would get sucked in by such a useless commercial? But of course we are!