Category Archives: Country Affairs

Emerging India : Inter-city travel

Posted on August 8, 2009 by

What in your opinion, is the best way to transport yourself from one city to another? Not the fastest, or the cheapest or the most hassle free. Inter-city travel in India is as cumbersome and frustrating as travel within the … Continue reading →

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An encroachment has no religion.

Posted on August 2, 2009 by

Encroachments come in two forms : public, and private. Religious places of worship have seriously encroached upon both public and private spaces and nothing is ever done about it. We should. Lets talk about public space. How do most religious … Continue reading →

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Emerging India – Are we prepared to emerge?

Posted on June 23, 2009 by

It is a known fact that India is an emerging country. The kind of development in the form of new swanky offices, high rises, malls and pubs that takes places in my city of Hyderabad certainly means one thing : … Continue reading →

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Unlimited Broadband Fair Usage Policy

Posted on March 14, 2009 by

In what comes as a shock to the already severely electrocuted group of broadband users in India, Aritel, Tata Indicom, and Reliance announced (Un)Fair Usage Policies in a span of a month. Airtel was the first one to announce a … Continue reading →

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India and crude oil – Time for market controlled prices

Posted on October 24, 2008 by

Crude has slipped and dived and plummeted from its high of $147 a barrel to less than half that to $68 as of today. A few months ago when the Indian government raised the price of petrol and diesel, our … Continue reading →

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Terror Strikes India again!!

Posted on September 15, 2008 by

Serial blasts in India have become as common as having cereal in the morning. On the 13th of September there were 5 blasts in Delhi and 4 bombs that didn’t explode that were later recovered by the police. This is … Continue reading →

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Hyderabad's Traffic- Major suggestions

Posted on June 12, 2008 by

This is a letter I wrote to the editor of Deccan Chronicle (India). It was printed on Page2, albeit after lots of modifications to the original. Here is the original : It is a known fact that Hyderabad’s traffic is … Continue reading →

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Inflation, Infrastructure, etc.

Posted on June 11, 2008 by

News channels and papers are full of news regarding the rather high inflation currently prevailing in India. Clearly, 8.24% is a little too much for India’s common men to handle. True, that the government can do very little about the … Continue reading →

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India rejects Microsoft's Open-XML standard

Posted on March 20, 2008 by

Good news arrives, from India for all those against Microsoft’s Open-XML format. This format has been voted out for now by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) in favor of the Open Document Format (ODF) backed by IBM, Sun Microsystems … Continue reading →

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It is 'in' to be in India ! US is out !

Posted on March 20, 2008 by

There are exactly 60 days for my flight to India, for the entire three months of summer. I’ve never been as excited to return or rather be in India. As long as I was in India, I was all for … Continue reading →

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