Miyan Biwi Razee …

… but no says the Qazi. Is that how you would describe the Reliance Fresh situation at UP and some other states?
The arrangement seems to benefit the farmers – they get more choices, better prices and quick payments. It benefits you and me, the consumers – we get to save. Leave out the farmers and [...]

Mumbai airport – pretty picture

Looks good isn’t it. That is the new domestic terminal at Mumbai Airport. It has been in that state for a few months now, even though they announced the terminal ready only after finishing up the arrival/departure roads.
Waiting for our own airport here (BIAL), which I am sure would look even more spacious [...]

Choked Bangalore – Heart of the matter?

[Cross posted at Praja]
The best piece of news I have heard this month came last week. It goes “BBMP to book crook engineers“. Its something we all know and suspect to be true for ever now, and the plan to break the so called ‘nexus’ is ambitious:
BBMP will book the engineers of the erstwhile [...]

No phone in car – two predictions

[Cross posted on Praja-Bangalore]
Click on this ad Karnataka government put out in newspapers on Monday. The message is pretty loud and stern – if they find a phone on inside your car or two wheeler, your driving license will get canceled.
Well, I like the idea, and I was thinking that the folks who gain most [...]

That thing called ‘Collective Wisdom’

Our flight to Denver started 30 minutes late, so we were in danger of missing the onward connection to San Jose. The plane made up some time in air, 10 minutes or so, which meant that we would get about 3 minutes to run to the departure gate of our connection.
3 minutes to get out [...]

Who is it – city government or us?

[Cross posted on Praja-Bangalore]
How interesting to see different media houses use varying headlines to describe one same PriceWaterhouseCooper (PWC) survey on Bangalore city and governance.

“We’re to blame for city’s woes” says Times of India Bangalore
“Bangaloreans rue city governance” goes NDTV
“B’lore citizens seek better urban governance” went the source at PTI

Here are some interesting notings from [...]

Mallya and ICL – why not?

So Mr Vijay Mallya picked BCCI over ICL. I am a bit surprised, why? Perhaps because he hopes to be the president of BCCI someday.
When I dreamed of Mumbai Marathas and Bangalore Bombers last year, I had Mr Mallya sitting in a VIP box enjoying the game. What I didn’t write then was this. I [...]

Around, not gone yet

1) Bit busy with work and travel, but I am around. And, 2) with geeky posts going to Praja, I am still thinking on what and why should I blog here. Add these two things up, and you get a drop in post rate at this blog.

Your property tax for 2005 …

[cross posted on Praja-Bangalore]
… is due! Spotted an interesting BBMP tender that tells us that you could very soon find letters like that in mail.
BBMP requires services … to extract data, print Demand/Collection/Balance notices of owners of the Properties in BBMP area … for the fiscal year 2005
Further details of scope of this work [...]