Not sure when did we make the mega shift from ‘good English’ to ‘Indian English’! Yes it is debatable whether a few people who speak the Queen’s English decide on ‘What, is good English’. However when a school teacher pronounces IRON typically with a great emphasis on R, you cannot but help wonder…was my chemistry […]
I was not sure whether to call these investment myths or investment myths, so decided to call them middle class myths! 1. LIC is a good investment: Most (if not all) bought LIC’s products as a method to defer or save Income tax. They did not think of life cover, returns, or anything else. In […]
Yesterday a few people were screaming on Times Now….volume was down – I was watching cricket – so just saw a glimpse. I recognised Kiran Bedi..none of the others. It looks like Indians are losing patience with the government – and the government is not bothered. Be it the arrogance of Kapi Sibal, Pranab Mukherjee, […]
We have a general police force which is expected to tackle terrorism. To me this is a joke. A cruel joke at that. First of all the police is expected to tackle traffic, general law and order, VIP bandobast, runaway marriages….well it is like a joke. Then there is political interference to deal with. Let […]
Well many heart surgeons who have died of a heart attack have not been able to tell the diff between a heart attack or just a case of gas.. Why am I bringing this up on a Monday morning? Well I walked to Nerul station…and a man sitting there asked me…’Heart attack causes pain in […]
I know very intelligent people, very close to me, very successful, very humble – and many of them are Sathya Sai Baba bhakts. One thing I have learnt in life is ‘criticising is easy’ but ‘delivering is difficult’. When I have to criticise somebody I look at ‘what would have I done’ and ‘given the […]
This article is not really about Anna Hazare but a link that I have attached talks about him…. The USA and the small country of Singapore deal with the same problem in a very different manner. One has solved the problem, the other has not and will not. In Singapore if you are caught with […]