Category Archives: Country Affairs

A temple priest to a bunch of devotees at a random temple: Which ‘darshan’ would you like to prefer today: – Regular darshan of God’s idols from far away for Rs15/- in a very long queue? – Silver darshan from … Continue reading →

Say “Peak Time” in the morning and the Greenlands junction is jammed half-way on the bridge, with traffic crawling like snails on the road on a lazy rainy day, dodging vehicles negotiating a right turn from the leftmost lane on … Continue reading →

On the Thursday of 30th Sep’10, the nation rose to a tension filled morning, not sure what trouble to expect to erupt at what time, with police and paramilitary literally locking down the nation in many sensitive area. At 4pm, … Continue reading →

Update2: GHMC fixes it. See last image in this post. Update: Filed an RTI as of today – 15th July 2010 regarding this. This should get you rolling on the floor, laughing. GHMC recently replaced seriously dysfunctional traffic lights at … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, I had filed a complaint regarding a semi-functioning traffic light at the Madhapur Police Station. The issue was that the traffic light would display Red and Yellow perfectly but would not display Green at all – … Continue reading →

A new initiative by GHMC – Bus Bays-  to keep buses out of the middle of the road. This initiative is really appreciated and definitely makes sense. However, the way it was entirely executed leaves a lot to be desired … Continue reading →

If you’re an Indian I’m sure you have been reading and seeing what’s happening around the country, specifically, a region called Telangana. K. Chandrasekhar Rao, TRS Chief, apparently went on a ‘fast’ unto (an illuding) death and his rowdy supporters … Continue reading →

The demise of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy has been confirmed and it has sent waves of shock and grief all across the state and Telugu people around the world. The very fact that this could have … Continue reading →