Supreme Court yet again!

Supreme court has taken up the issue of reservations, thanks to a spate of litigations against central government from the intellgentia. Most citizens will be happy with this development, as they trust the courts to do a better job than the government. I am not.
I see that these days, the courts have been stepping [...]

Reservation issue: Missing the big picture?

I picked up some statistics when reading up on the reservation issue around the web and in the newspapers. Have a look:

"By the 12th standard, the drop out rate reaches an astounding 94 percent. Of those who finally graduate out of college, only around 15 percent (or, one percent of the those who enter [...]

Garden city to garbage city

Monsoon rains are almost here. Dark clouds are visible. Media is at it again, telling us how bad a job the city governments have done of keeping the drains unclogged. Poor municipality guys. Thanks to the increased coverage on clogged drains, they are pushing hard to clean things up.
While media highlighting the problem is [...]

Economic crimes, uncovered!

CNBC TV18, a leading business channel here in India is running an “uncovered” series” where they reveal some “economic” crimes. Last week they talked about something that most real estate customers know.
In fact, real estate deals, for common man, are always full of tax evasive illegal actions here and there.
There is this law in India [...]

Automatic cars in India

First big task after moving back from US was to buy a car. After seeing the crowded and chaotic traffic at Bangalore, I knew it had to be an automatic. Vote for automatic was clinched after I decided to count the number of times I shifted gears on JP Nagar to Whitefield drive. Guess? I [...]

Move over Hinglish, Endi is here

Turned on NDTV at 11:30 am today, and I saw something scrolling on the bottom bar (the thing all news/business channels have where stock prices or headlines scroll 24 by 7) that caught my attention. It was a news item written in "Hinglish".
Actually, if you go by the Wikipedia take on Hinglish, what I saw [...]

Rampur ke Bunty aur Babli

Last week I saw an extremely interesting report on NDTV. It covered the booming local film industry in Meerut and western UP!
I didn't find mention of that report in blogs around. But I did stumble upon this blog that talks about Bhojpuri films. And I read this BBC article on Bhojpuri films as well.
The NDTV [...]

Some more traffic related terms

Wobbling two wheelers are common on city roads. These two wheelers usually ride slow, around 30-40 kmph. And once in a while they pretend to lose control. When they do that, the scooter or mobike swerves left or right. This is followed by verbal exchanges between the wobbling rider and the rider or driver that [...]

Hand-of-god and more concepts of Indian city traffic

Read these blogs to learn a few important things about traffic in cities of India. I will keep your learning slow paced, and will keep it down to 3 or 4 lessons per post till I run out of them!
I hit into the “hand of god” phenomenon at least twice a day. You are doing [...]

Expressways, not flyovers

Lots of ideas have been floated around on how to decongest traffic in Bangalore. The one I liked the best is to build expressways through the heart of the city. Imagine a north-south, and an east-west expressway with no traffic lights. And then add an inner ring road, with very few lights – another expressway [...]