I am sure you must be wondering, what in the world is a PSK, Well, its Passport Service Kendra and a new concept launched by the External Affairs Ministry, Govt of India. The PSK literally are acting as an extension to the Passport Offices across the country, sort of a decentralization
US President Obama during his visit to India, made a statement in the Indian parliament that India should stand-up and be counted as the leader by its actions. Well for sure he meant, that India should support US in all that they do be it war, blockades or sanctions. Most of us indians would never want such things and hence its quite un-likely that uncle Sam will ever get indian support and accordingly Obama’s US will take time to recognize this country as a leader, may be even not be fully supportive of the indian demand to be a permanent council seat holder in the UNO
We really have to stand-up, yes its important and where else but for our own nation’s cause/ belief. Over the last couple of months, there has been some instances where Indian people were mistreated in US or Indian law not duly accounted for. Here are few which i thought that our nation should raise its voice and be counted
Radio tagging students - pictures of those unlucky students walking around with radio collars on their legs was very saddening. While the US Govt says that students are likely to violate rules if they are not tagged, what went forgotten is that people cant leave the borders of that country without their visas or passports, which were already confiscated. Education scam is a big pain and the US should do something about stopping these scamster places. Adding more fuel to the fire was when the US embassy official in india said that those collars looked ‘ fashionable ‘. Can the Indian govt work out its way to see that these students are not humiliated anymore?
PF in India – Recently the Provident Fund Org in India changed a rule that no more expats can withdraw contributions made to EPF unless they turn 58 or so.. immediately after this, there was pressure from US to change it… wonder why when indian expats in the US also cannot withdraw their savings made into the US social security framework
Many a people in Karnataka today either lost their daily allowances or lost another day during which many of their work was planned. Many meetings, marriages, reception parties all gone undoable. Who is to blame… well not the communists but the right wing party.. thanks to the now so common thing called BANDH
I have wondered who ever invented this mechanism which stops the common man from doing anything. It just prevents him from being able to achieve even his elementary needs.. shops & establishments closed, people are unable to get even medical attention. There are ambulances stopped by the protesting mob , they really don't care in the frenzy of who dies or who lives, its the need to protest i suppose. Well protest .. but not by stopping another man from getting around his daily chores
Time and again… india & indians have been bought to a stand still by these bandhs or strikes and its time that there is some law that bars this kind of protests. BJP today has mis-used it in Karnataka and other parties have been doing it specially the commies..
When will the day come when bandh is illegal !!!
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Indian press is going ga ga over a visit of the US President to India. I am not sure what he is coming here for, first of all. Indians probably don’t give much value to the boss of USA anymore as was before. Well he is a bigger celebrity, probably that’s all that i can think of
The President of US, is bandied about as the most powerful man on Earth…but Forbes does not think like that anymore in their recent powerful people list. So that means, Barack Obama is now one notch lesser with his power. Why is his visit then made up so much ?
The US President is thought to have great power in making Pakistan tow its line, may be because Pakistan survives on the many millions of dollars that go there as aid from the US. These aid we all know are send in the garb of them being the US’s Chief ally in the war against terror and that all this money is not just cash, but also solid fire-power like fighter planes and other military machines. But still everyone including the Americans know very well, the Pakistani soil breeds terrorism into India… So why is a President who supports this terror indirectly attracting so much attention here in India ?
Mr Obama delivered a plain speech at Mumbai sometime back and it was again another bland one, … given that the place was where the major 26/11 terror attack happened, he made no mention to put some pressure on Pakistani sponsored terrorism.
I thought Obama meant ‘ Change ‘ … So What’s so Obama about this visit ?
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News articles say that this visit is to put some personal pressure to the impending $12bn defense spending that India is taking up, so that India makes these purchases from the US. That’s what makes me laugh…. for getting such a big deal the Obama administration is supposedly spending about 600 Cr Rupees a day for his stay & security arrangements here in India. On a 3 day stay, that would be about 1800 Cr Rupees. [ i am not bothering to convert it into USD ].
What’s in a yellow colored public carrier, have you ever thought ?
There is some relation, apparently Yellow or its related colors, gets attention very fast and more than other colors that we usually see. Its said, that we will notice yellow objects first amongst a lot of others. According to science, "Lateral peripheral vision for detecting yellows is 1.24 times greater than for red." So during misty conditions or in low visibility, drivers will spot yellow cars or any moving vehicle fairly well.
This is probably why, we have a School bus in Yellow color. Indian Govt very recently made it mandatory for all school buses to be Yellow in color… we sort of caught up with what was started in North America during the late 1930’s. These days you find school buses yellow and also many machines that are used in construction like Bulldozers, JCB, Cranes etc.. just to make it easier to spot the danger that comes with these machines
So if its a Yellow then be mellow !
India is on a race to be the most populated country in this world. Its literally an Abundance …err.. of people though. Most HR people will only be more than happy to see more heads around
Last week i had to take a print of some documentation and since my home printer wasn't working, had to get the prints from a cyber cafe. The dingy little place and its smaller cubicles was least to say crowded. Many youngsters waiting for their turn… privacy was lost for some and i could see a lady jeering at a person standing beside her. The best thing i liked about this cafe was that, all their PC’s were so outdated by looks, but the Operating System was the latest Windows 7. The monitor was a 14’ CRT … 100% of zoom on the screen made the fonts look huge size on them. I finally managed to get my hand on a PC after about half hour wait, my prints were fired onto a printer that was connected to the WLAN (!), the printer was a HP Laserjet. Print per copy was charged only at Rs 3
As i was walking out of the shop, i was thinking to myself the way population has outstripped supply in this great country of ours ‘India’. A railway station, bus stand, auto / taxi stand.. .its all filled with people. Railway stations even in a cosmo city like Bangalore are far short of space for the crowds that it was meant to operate with. A city bus is something that you cant step into during peak hours… well you may think the Volvo buses that are operated on premium by the bus corporation has space… no longer are they spacious, regardless of the premium fare collected on them
The cyber cafe when it started was meant for those who knew computers only… now there is hardly any grown-up person who doesn't know computers, so you will find this place always crowded. That's the way India has grown… we have absolutely lost our handle on the resources that need to be to support such a large population
Will a we 2 ours 2 revival help ! ?
Couple of railfan friends from bangalore undertook a trip to the famous Sakleshpura ghats. A route of about 55 km filled with tunnels and bridges through the serene .. thick forests on the western ghats
Oh yaaro, yeh India bula liya ! thats the theme song of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth games. The noise that Suresh Kalmadi and Co built up was so much that i was very anxious to hear it. ‘It would even beat waka waka – said Kalmadi. Finally it was launched on Aug 28th again at a gala event because money is in no short supply for the CWG organizers – they repeatedly are proving this. The launch was no short of any political gimmicks with both Haryana & Delhi CM’s throwing their support behind the messed up organizers
My expectation were belied when the song was presented and by Rahman himself. It lacked any kind of genius music that this man is so capable of. Oh yaaro, sounded like too much of hindi and mix of some pop and loud guitars, in short a convoluted song… not amusing that so far the organizing has been nothing short of confusions and corruption. I would have imagined a theme song to give some patriotic feeling to the host country at the same time convey a message of oneness, pride, motivation & bonding to the athletes above all energy !!. It should’ve contained more of music atleast.. rather than those jarry tones. Given that the launch of this song was delayed and more changes requested by the organizing committee in its first review, rahman saab should’ve put in more work.
Oh yaaro…do you know, it cost 5 crores for this theme song. This is why we call our desh mahaan
Long before the dawn of tubeless tyres and stickers that took no time to stick up a punctured tube, there existed on the roads of Bangalore city small shops that used to do the repairs of punctures. many a bangaloreans would remember them to be the puncher angadi;s { puncher is Puncture and Angadi is Shop }
We don’t find them anymore and i would imagine, its yet another roadside easy trade that has been eaten away by the developments in technology. These shops used various mechanisms to ready a damaged tube. Let me just step them out…
In 8a the vice plates later on started coming with a electric heated plate. In 9 the air filling used to be with those pumps that had to be operated with the leg, which then became motorized
The shops operated in dingy spaces on the road and were almost dark in color with all the fire and its smoke… these days, you find the MRF’s tyre center which are much posh but more or less doing similar activities and are more machine dependant… yet costly
