Category Archives: World

We choose where we develop..

I was always under the impression that my country India was well developed culturally/socially and still developing economically.
Its not more than a year since 26/11/2008 Mumbai attacks happened and already my country(India) government has totally forgotten about it. The Prime minister of India is on whirl wind tour of USA during 26/11 this year and [...]

Universal Mobile chargers finally..

CNET news reported that the International Telecommunication Union a branch of UN has decided to go for universal mobile phone chargers.
In a world where each mobile phone from same manufacture have different chargers working this is a welcoming sign.
I also hope ITU gets in to and standardize the chargers for all portable devices as well. [...]

India Election result maps(2009) using ESRI Arcgis Flex API

As usual I was lookig for a site that would show the Indian goverment election 2009 and I found out that electio commision has a site set up with the maps and stats online.
Here is the web site http://www.eciresults.nic.in/
The intersting part is they have a amazing interative map online using ESRI Arcgis Flex API and [...]

How to avoid shoe being thrown during a press conference?

A question that pretty much every security agency protecting politicians all around world are worried about.
But its pretty simple especially for Indian police just change the press conference to a near by Hindu temple where shoes/slippers are not allowed inside and you are safe.
It would be better if they avoid the following temple [...]

End of Tax Season 2008…

Generally I procrastinate filing the tax every year but this year I filed it too early considering my standard.
Although I’m not getting much in federal and paying some to CA tax its the free e-file feature, sudden interest to file my tax and get the return before federal govt goes bankrupt  [...]

Adiós 2008 and Plans for 2009

Adiós 2008 and welcome 2009.
Well 2008 year had its good/bad in its usual way for me. Well I can split the last year in to 3 periods

Jan – April 2008 was a good one with me settling @ my job and finally getting over my debts back in India. Not much of activity going on [...]

We don’t need Condemnation

We Condemned assassination of Rajiv Gandhi 1991
We Condemned demolition of Babri Masjid 1992
We Condemned 1992 Mumbai riots
We Condemned 1993 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned 2001 Indian parliament attack
We Condemned 2002 Godhra train bombing
We Condemned 2003 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned 2006 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned so many blasts this year
We have Condemned Mumbai 2008 blasts as well.
We have Condemned all [...]

Is it a boon or bane..

50 is a reality no more a value just for ease of calculation,
50 is a boon no more a night mare for NRIs,
50 is a bane for people buying petrol in India,

ICICI NRI services sucks..

If ur wondering Y I haven’t blogged for the last week is because I have been trying to open an NRI account with ICICI bank which is a real pain. They made my life so miserable by each call center representative/ relationship managers/ online resources giving me different instruction for me resolve the discrepancies.
I wasn’t [...]

Irony

Here is an article that I was reading today which basically says that Indian chefs are welcome in UK but not IT workers.
Soon after that I was wondering if Veera Pandiya Kattabomman welcomed any of them to his kingdom. Time changes lot..:)