India and its boomeranging (!) economy; (only!) a select few disturbingly-known-yet-startling facts:
1. Acording to World Bank estimates, 80 per cent of India's population lives on less than $2 (about Rs 92) a day
2. India accounts for 50 per cent of the world's hungry
3. Over 46 per cent of Indian children are undernourished
Monday, January 31, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Mr.Finance Minister, you'd be extremely glad to learn that me, the commoner, has been able to understand what currency devaluation actually means! Simple. When I (take courage!) go to the market these days, I ensure to carry a Rs.1,000 note to purchase the limited number of essential goods that Rs.100 bought me until a few years ago. No grain without paying!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
What bigger an irony for kids than to grow up watching celebrities (?) who, despite endorsing some world-leading clothing brands, go topless or minus innerwear shooting in daylight! Now, whoever said that the kids of today are confused on value systems, probably didn't know where to go clothing. Er, well?
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Bombay, the threat to your security isn't from outsiders; it is from within, from your own people, to kill you slow (and full!) The siege comprises some real-State gas-guzzling malls, (empty-and-unaffordable!) residential towers and a green cover steadily being replaced by a concrete jungle (!). Bombay, you're a disaster-in-waiting and I am (only!) sorry.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Dear Governor of RBI, me, the commoner, with little to earn and much to spend, fails to see impact of an increase in money supply or your control of it! Of course, you need to justify your job and perks and hence resort to such measures from time to time! Though, could you draft a policy to control excessive (black!) money supply to our coveted officers under the various administrative (?) services and their bosses?
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Being a (mute!) spectator of contemporary India's Moral, Societal and Political scampaigns, I wonder if this is indeed the land that produced such legends as Asoka, Chanakya, Chandragupta, Ram, Krishna, Kabir, Karna, Bhishma, Rani Laxmibai, Razia Sultan, Mother Teresa, Shivaji, Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad, Mohandas Gandhi........
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Investors, a glimpse of the Indian infra outside the AC suites of power, I tell ya? Imagine a (extremely!) rare sight of a 20-feet wide road in Bombay, India's fin cap. How does the break-up (!) appear? Well, about 8-feet is "reserved" for hawkers who sell wares with a roaring spirit of entrepreneurship! Cars parked in the most united fashion occupy another 4 feet. Finally, some of the real mean machines struggle to exercise their muscle with whatever space remains. Pedestrians? Er, will get back to you on this one.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Mr.Finance Minister, as an honest (?) citizen of this country, I shall soon file my tax (without any!) returns with whatever little (?) I am able to save. Sire, in light of recent boom in prices of luxury items, viz, vegetables and pulses, I have a humble suggestion to have provisions in the tax statement extending a rebate to those who acquire (!) these hard-earned assets!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
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