- How to cut your MTNL bills
There is a big difference between the claim and actual performance of broadband service providers in India. This blog post explains in detail how to cut your MTNL broadband bill:
Mtnl's DNS server sucks big time so add …
Topic: Broadband, Howto | Read more
- Chart: Use of dirty words in the Guardian
The Guardian has just released its full-featured API and guess whatThe First notable use of the API is a study of usage of dirty words by the well-regarded British newspaper.Next: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping…
Topic: Media, Trends | Read more
- Who is talking about the environmental impact of Tata Nano?
Not the media people. They want the full-page advertisements from Tata, that is all. The Tatas are building a port in Dhamra in Orissa’s Bhadrak district, putting the Olive Ridley turtles, an endangered species into pe…
Topic: Environment, Tata Nano, Media-Industrial-Complex | Read more
- Is Boredom good or bad?
Bertrand Russell called Boredom an evil for civilization and insisted that man should keep himself busy, which is a challenge for many in absence of proper guidance.
On the other hand, Joseph Brodsky says boredom is …
Topic: Productivity, | Read more
- How Indians (should) Save and Invest
The declining (some say correctng) Indian stock markets have caused Indians to trun back to the safety of good old bank deposits and fixed deposits.
Estimating our total household savings at Rs9.85trn (US$192bn) in 2006…
Topic: Money, India | Read more
- The Unemployment Olympics
The Unemployment Olympics was organized by a laid-off computer programmer in New York so that the unemployed could have fun with tools of capitalists. The event shown in the picture is the phone toss competition.
Via …
Topic: Sports, Olympics | Read more
- India: Poor country, Rich Politicians
Rajesh Shukla of the NCAER and Sunil Jain find in their analysis of wealth declared by Indian politicians that MLAs from poorer states such as Bihar, U.P. and Madhya Pradesh are not as poor as their fellow state citizens…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Corruption | Read more
- A simpleguide to 30 best Hindi films on politics in India
In the words of Amartya Sen, "Indians like to debate". If that were true, then it would be safe to say that along with cricket, cinema and corruption, we love talking about politics. As the general elections of 2009 dr…
Topic: Films, Indiaelections2009, India, Simpleguide | Read more
- Stop playing pied piper to the youth of India
I do not have the data but I say for sure that average age of our elected M.P.s must be 45+. That is more than twice the required age for voting. However, it is more than that.
The reality is it takes that much time t…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Youthpower | Read more
- Do political parties and the news media think voters are stupid?
According to a IMRB survey, 59% of the voters feel that the primary motive of most politicians is to make money. This is no surprise. But what pisses one off is, and one is pissed easily these days, is this: do the parti…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Vote, Marketing | Read more
- Why it is hard to vote in the elections in India
Westerners call the Indian General Elections "a carnival". The unsexed version of Rio, is this what they are thinkingTruth is, there are so few good candidates and so many hurdles for good candidates to spread the word t…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Vote | Read more
- On Indian journalists with political affiliations
In truth, few media outlets are really unbiased. In fact, a media house betrays its leanings right when it plays safe with regards to the establishment. Many media houses have made their names siding with whoever is in p…
Topic: Media, Indiaelections2009, Journalists | Read more
- The 13 most overrated people in India right now
Chirag Chamoli comes up with an interesting list of Indians who hog the mindspace for being famous than doing something famous, the nine overrated people in India, which this writer has expaned to 13. [the notes alongsi…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Celebrity | Read more
- Is Nitish Kumar really the development man for Bihar?
Many things in politics are 'managed'. One of the current 'managed' successes is the perception that Nitish Kumar is doing wonders in Bihar. If you compare his work with the Lalloo Yadav regime, then of course there is n…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Caste | Read more
- Every neta has a fixer
The two big parties, the BJP and Congress have multiple fixers and money arrangers. In the last decade, Sitaram Kesari was the quintessential money manager at Congress. During this decade, the fixer has become savvy. He …
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- Mere paas film star hai: how useless film stars are for democracy
Apart from Sunil Dutt (Congress), Shatrughan Sinha (BJP) and to some extent Vinod Khanna (BJP), NTR and MGR in South few film stars have managed to translate their popularity to a lasting political career.
In 20…
Topic: Films, Indiaelections2009, Celebrity | Read more
- Cometh the elections, cometh the slogans
Those who write the slogans on the walls (may God have mercy on them]) and on the posters and whose words are repeated through loudspeakers during campaigning season are the unsung micro-Haiku poet/heroof modern India.
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Topic: Indiaelections2009, Slogans | Read more
- Brahmins in Indian Politics
We have had quite a few Brahmin Prime Ministers, starting with Nehru and then his descendents. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the last Brahmin minister and looking at the existing political candidates and the trends, there wil…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Caste, Trends | Read more
- What may happen after these elections
These are early times for a democracy. If America is our template, as it is in most things for the educated middle class, then a two-party system, one party slightly left-of-centre, one-slightly right, will be best, but …
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Predictions | Read more
- Predictions for the 2009 general elections from Arun Nehru
During every major election, Arun Nehru, who was a Minister during Rajiv Gandhi's time does his predictions. His predictions for 2009 elections are in. The Deccan Chronicle carries the table, from which this image has …
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