Bangalore Ginger

Based on my experience of staying at the Ginger at Nashik, I choose Ginger again at Bangalore. But this place was nowhere as good.

First, the wooden floors were creaking. Especially when I walked on them with shoes. Next the refrigerator in the room was switched on, but there was no cooling. A lone 500 ml bottled water was inside at a slight above room temperature condition.

Seems the Bangalore water is very hard. Cause the entire bathroom had a white tinge. The taps were leaking slightly. The room service did not care to replace the tea / coffee pouches in my room......I can rant on ...

Point is simple...that there is some problem at the Ginger Bangalore.

Yeah, at around 1600 bucks per room it is probably the cheapest destination in Whitefield, so guess they don't need (or care) to listen to the complains and whines.

Humour in Politics

The UPA govt, of which Congress is the main constituent, increases the price of petrol. Act two, the Congress protests against the raise. Wow. Thats quite a plot.

Ditto for the new income tax form scheduled to replace Saral. It is announced that the form is to be introduced and a few days later a loop hole makes it optional. Wow once more.

After reservation its SARAL now

What the heck is happening. Its the salaried middle class (like me) who care for higher education in India, so probably reservations would hit us the hardest. It is people like us who pay taxes regularly and now we hear of the simple SARAL being booted out.

I had heard the story of a dumb inn keeper. He had many donkeys. One was a real hardworker and the rest were lazy pokes. SO the inn keeper, in order to get his work done, started ignring the lazy donkeys and kept on increasing the load on the hardworking donkey. What happened after a while is for all of us to imagine!!

Come on PC, please get your priorities right. How much do me n people like me make up in your direct tax collection? How much more do you think can you extract.

letter to Aamir Khan

Aamir Khan, you vs BJP could well be the next block buster. Both sides seem to be reacting with a childish immaturity. You (Aamir) had made a statement. BJP was aggrieved. BJP asked you to apologise. You refused, saying you did not mean what the BJP thinks you meant. No Fanaa in Gujarat, no Toyota adds with you also.

What ever I have read and heard about Narendra Modi, he is too practical a person to be affected by the statements. Even if you had attacked Modi directly, I do not think he would have been detered.
Its just that it has become a ego stuggle now. And slowly but surely other people, many with vested interests, will get involved and we might have another major struggle ahead.
Come on Aamir, just go and try to meet Modi. I am sure you will not need to apologise. Its a simple misunderstanding. There are better issues for both camps.

Reservation 3 - email to Youth4Equality

appreciate your stir and have prayed for success and your safety. In my own way I have been talking to lots of people and create an awareness.

Just wanted to ask if you have met people in political parties besides Congress and UPA. There would be no harm in meeting people from CPI -M , CPI and people like Sharad Pawar. Maybe Raj Thakery in Mumbai. I have heard that the current speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, is a very learned person.

People like Ram Jethmalani. It would be great if you could talk to him and have him resign the Rajya Sabha seat.

My best wishes

reservation 2 - My letter to Times of India

Dear Sir,

There is a very peculiar sentence in the article"Wrong route right direction" ,:"...upper caste Hindus... have cornered around twice as many jobs as their share in population might justify"

The word, "cornered" gives an impression that the jobs have been taken away by force or through some unfair means. Such unjust use of words result in creation of misunderstanding among people. It was a similar propaganda in Nazi Germany that led to the extermination of millions of Jews.

The authors have tried to relate education and caste. They have found gross inequalities and on the basis of which they have supported quotas. I request them to try the same exercise with respect to gender and education. They should find the results more heavily skewed. Maybe this points out to a requirement of quotas for women. Next they could co relate the state of residency to education. Maybe they could then justify quotas on the basis of states.

Being a teacher of statistics, I have seen enough attempts by people to abuse the data and use it to justify their own ends. I sincerely request the authors to do a little soul searching and think for the benefit of the nation as a whole.

reservations

The so called honourable parliament is planning to impose a 27% quota for OBC. Does the parliament know that not a single seat is reserved for OBCs in the Lok Sabha it self??

Individually every MP (Member of parliament) would probably accept that all this quota politics is nonsense. Probably most of them as it is would not have children bright enough to get into these institutes. Also most of them would have enmassed enough money to send their kids to schools abroad. Well then, what the heck, even if the quotas are nonsense and may damage the country, why should an MP care?? It does get them the votes and ensures at least one more term and one more chance of such selfless service to the nation.

traffic police

Mumbai traffic police have a tendency to hide themselves at busy traffic junctions. Now as unsuspecting motorists jump signals, they pounce out of their dens and penalise the offenders.

The simple question here is: What is the purpose of the traffic police? Is it to pemalise offenders and maximise revenue or is it to prevent violation of rules?

In case they wnted to prevent violations, a cop who is very visible would be a great way. If I can see a cop, I would think twice before violating the laws.

Why should we still retain Ganguly as Captain

Though it appears that Sourav Ganguly does not deserve an extra's place in the Indian team, forget that of the captain, there are at least reasons why he should be persisted.
1. He has scored 8 centuries in World Cup. Not even Viv Richards has scored these many. That most of thesecenturies have been againstEthopia and other non test playing nations is another story.
2. He has won us maximum number of test. Ganguly's win loss record is better than any other Indian captain. Of course the other captains did not have the opportunity to play against Bangladesh and such weak teams.
3. He has a high batting average. Well yes he sure does. With this high anaverage we can conveniently forget that he has a pathetic average of around 20 against test playing nations for the past year or so.
4. He is a great leader. Ahh, its amazing the way Ganguly stood by Yuvraj and Kaif. We should definately not mind if such a great leader persists with a pathetic players like Deep Das Gupta (from his home state) or underutilising and detroying careers of an array of other youngsters.
5. Ganguly and "you know who" of India cricket are from the same state. The head honcho of Indian cricket and Ganguly are from the same state and probably have the same mother tongue. This ensures perfect coordination and ensures that the managements decision takes preference over statistics.