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Welcome. Please ask yourself which state do you reside in, and the further, the basis of formation of that state.   States, in India, have been formed based on percentage population of people speaking a language . Such a basis, coupled with other factors, have set India on a path to disintegrating which should gain momemtum, in my estimtates within the next decade, with visible extreme negative results by 2025 . The intensity of this problem has aggravated in the last decade, simply due to the change in technology, making people more connected, in many cases amplifying perceptions of injustice to a particular group.   Why such a basis of division has been accepted, and used so far, is a question that needs serious answering. Worse, the momentun of such activity has been increasing in the past 15 years, bringing us periliously close to a Europe like reality.   Chattisgarh - formed 1 Nov 2000, separated from Madhya Pradesh. Uttarakhand - formed 9 Nov 2000, from ...

Across my reading of the Hindu literature, the segregation of the people is generally into the 4 classes. Please note, CLASSES, not castes. The word used for this social classification is 'varna', not 'jaati'. Loosely translated, it means, a class, a complexion, a category. Those who defend and fight for honour, largely, to uphold 'dharma' or righteousness, are Kshatriyas. The key capabilities are those of war and battle. Those who learn, research and distribute knowledge are the Brahmins. The key capabilities are those of learning and teaching. In most places, it can be seen that a combination, a partnership, a close collaboration of the Kshatriyas and the Brahmins is a necessity for managing/ruling the people, where the objective is largely the betterment of the people, or upholding dharma. Those who trade, own business houses, including those of skilled trade like carpentry are Vaishyas. The key capabilities are those of trading and of their particular ...

This post is largely about some changes which would be beneficial to Mumbai ( rikshaw drivers and commuters both) and not so beneficial to the politicians. The objectives that would be met are: 1. financial benefits to the autoriksha instead of the middlemen. 2. guidelines which bring clarity to autorikshas and commuters, both. 3. guidelines for vehicles. Current circumstances: A permit is issued for an autoriksha, which is transferable to another vehicle used. An public service capable license is required to drive these autos. Currently no additional registration or listing is required to be able to drive Suggestions:  An increase in the number of permits based on the increase in population in the city every year. (before you yell @ me about the traffic problems already, please read on) The permit of an autoriksha should be issued to those who own a public service license. This should be necessarily combined with other details like a PAN number or now an Aadhar n...

For quite some time have been trying to understand and figure out whether the retail investor can ever make money from the market. There are some queries which if unanswered, clearly imply the retail investor being disadvantaged in the share market, clearly indicating lack of market efficiency...   1. Insider information. This can never be done away with. The top level executives of businesses 'know the score' and will make some market moves in advance based on this information. This 'score' can be the organisation's results or regulatory changes of the government. Not in the USA, Not in India. And contrary to what many believe, post the Rajat Gupta episode, this problem exists at the same scale in all places where a share market functions. The fundamental human is the same everywhere with the same shortcomings. 2. Skill lacunae - executives generally have some management education, and brokers have 'connections', which may not be the case for t...

I am the One and Only. Almost every revelation, discourse from any prophet, incarnate, divinty worth their name in salt have uttered thus or some variation. Bhagavad-Gita 12:06   Bhagavad-Gita 07:14 and many more in the Bhagavad-Gita, Bible and many such religious texts. And each time that happens, a new religion, sect etc. is formed, claiming to be followers of the only true one and the others to be false (MASSIVE FACEPALM). Achieving the EXACT opposite of the revelation. The 'One' is all pervasive, unmanifest ! Logically also it makes perfect sense, the case that there can be only one 'One', and well, that's exactly what the One claimed, albeit about the unmanifest and not the manifestation. And then each one of us, instead of understanding that there's only one One, with our finite wisdom, generally mislead by marketing managers (religious leaders) ask the question 'Which One ?' The global religion marketing wars ar...

Too many incidents happening frequently, which brings up this post : 1.   The Palghar Facebook Incident [Shiv Sena Supremo related] 2. Sibal 2G No Loss 3. Gadkari Holding companies issue 4. Legality of calling the Indian parliamentarians names. and so on... Days at end, the legality of these issues has been debated. The Palghar incident caused a relook of the Constitution / laws of the country, the new auction has supposedly given a clean chit to Sibal / Congress in the 2G spectrum auction case, something similar to what has happened with Gadkari and some audits done by his party. During the fast undertaken by Anna Hazare, parliamentarians were called names, which was immediately raked up as an issue by some MP's. So what is the crux of these matters. First, as must be obvious, I hold no qualifications in Law , which as you will see is beside the point, since a majority of the country's citizens do not as well. The sad fact is this, In each of these cas...

First to be fair to Kodak , Thank You for making available 5MP+ cameras to retail consumers . But you are still stuck being a product company. Now it is all about experience. And sadly, even though your cameras are great, cheap and selling, the end experience leaves some to be desired. Now its great, that with the later versions of EasyShare software you got on the 'social' bandwagon, provided facebook etc. options but please understand that countries like India, your average user (currently in 2011 and atleast a couple of years more, which if not managed properly can be damaging permanently) is still going to sync with the computer and that is where the Kodak easyshare is not at all easy ! Some problems - 1. the display does not indicate file types while selecting for download to your computer, so if someone has shot a 100 mb movie in between pictures, you are stuck while transferring. And thats exactly what happened, some videos were shot which were around 10 t...