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Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Indian Railways Ticketing Scam
Indian Railways has allowed ticketing upto 4 mths in advance. But the strange fact is that the tickets get booked within 3 days or less during season or vacations. How? Why? Let me find the reasons : 1. Politicians run railways … Continue reading
Posted in India, Indian railways, Internet, Politics, Random Thoughts, Trek n Travel
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Caste politics and Indian Secularism
In india politics is all about caste and subcaste and religion and minority. No politician is secular and Wiki has a separate page on Indian sham secularism. While reading this article on the Murder of the Ranvir Sena Chief , I … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Doordarshan, Economics, India, Life, Politics, Random Thoughts
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ONGC Auction and its implications.
The ONGC auction process has been so opaque and confusing that one can safely assume some jugaad by the Finmin /Disinvestment Min, to ensure that it attained the Fully Subscribed status. My points to ponder 1. Considering that the … Continue reading
Posted in IPO, Markets, Mumbai, news, Politics, Random Thoughts, Reflections
Tagged Psu disinvestment
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Indian Congress party ( INC ) is more opportunistic than Secular.
Homosexual intercourse was a criminal offence until 2009 under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 … A british legacy. Sec 377 was a great source of underhand revenue for some crooked cops, and naturally a major tool for intimidation … Continue reading
Posted in India, Life, Movies, news, Politics, Random Thoughts, you tube
Tagged INC, India Congress, LGBT, LGBT India, Section 377, UPA
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Vedanta Creating Happiness or doing feel good advertising ?
The Vedanta Creating Happiness Ad runs for 1.32 minutes, they push/bombard this add during primetime tv which is one of the most expensive time-slots to buy airtime. The amt they spend on the repetition of this add per day or 3 … Continue reading
Posted in India, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged Mining, Vedanta, Vedanta Creating Happiness
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Is Inflation down in India ?
As i see the headline Food inflation eases to 10.63% in BS, i wonder if inflation is really down and whether it means anything to the aam admi. WPI inflation numbers are meaningless to the common man when vegetable prices which generally … Continue reading
Debating Inflation
It is not shocking to see the stance taken by the CongI UPA Govt in the activities in parliament in today’s inflation debate that after its bitter media campaign by its young guns like Pilot etc being interested in debating … Continue reading
On Daughters, Sons and Irish sayings.
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life… goes the Irish Saying that i once found while cleaning up his cupboard. From observing a few mother-daughter relationships, i … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Random Thoughts, Reflections
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Is India facing mild Stagflation?
As the normally docile RBI shocked both markets and the finance ministry with a .5% change in repo and reverse repo window, it is a clear indication that things are not looking good. India’s fiscal deficit has quadrupled from a … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, India, Investing, Mumbai, news, Politics, Random Thoughts
Tagged inflation, staglfation
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Binu blogs with an agenda.
i had a commentator Binu Mathew Pulimoottil who commented on my post Why does the govt want a watered down Lokpal Bill ? He seems to be a staunch congress supporter which is fine by all standards. But single mindedness of … Continue reading
Posted in India, news, Politics, Random Thoughts, Reflections
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