Monthly Archives: February 2008

Budget 2008 – What matters most

Overall this is a very populist budget balancing act- Lots of Waivers, subsidies go up, more things moving out of books. Read the Budget papers. Personal income tax changes – big changes in historical terms. 150000 to 300000 – 10% … Continue reading

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Democracy of shortages..

The current govts policy of tax and spend has meant inflation. Secondly as world oil , gas and commodity prices are going up and causing inflation, the Us dollar is crashing, and gold is up at record levels. This has … Continue reading

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Lallo ka Rail Budget 2008

Nita has done a lot of hard work on her post which is a must read, and railways being one of my fav areas of criticism as i started writing a comment it stretched so long that i decided its … Continue reading

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Hard disk support for Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi in India

Have a hard disk that doesn’t work? That acts funny, that never starts and continuously clicks? Most likely it has crashed. If it has not completely failed try running testing software to detect errors. Seagate Tools Data Lifeguard Diagnostics SAMSUNG diagnostic … Continue reading

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On Iraq

Between Iraq and a hard place.. one more  video from  Bird and Fortune.

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Will the consumers accept Blu-ray?

Finally its official , Blue-ray will be the technology of the future in terms of selling home movies in hi def format. After most big producers backed Sony’s Blu-ray including biggies like Warner brothers , the folks at Toshiba threw … Continue reading

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Bucket list …Review

I just finished seeing the Bucket List(2007)(click for details) I actually chanced on this movie from some ratings list and don’t regret seeing it one bit. This is a great movie, directed by Rob Reiner , with a very moving … Continue reading

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Washington Diplomacy

Best of British political satire Bird and Fortune on the Washington diplomat (more to come) .

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Feb 18, A few good posts

1. K Subrahmanyam on the repercussions of the Launch of Israeli Tecsar by ISRO India. 2. Cowasjee on the volatile state our friendly neighbour finds itself in, as it heads for elections. 3. Andy M on the the American slowdown … Continue reading

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Are Indian Property Markets in a bubble?

i read a good post regarding the overvaluation of flat / apartment and land prices in Delhi. The writer Anshu Sharma points out that real-estate in India is incredibly expensive and not just by Indian standards (with per capita GDP … Continue reading

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