A delhi boy whines and opines. Mainly about science, economics and politics. And the quirky things in life.
Fed up with spam SMSes, I registered myself for the National Do Not Call Registry (NDNC) today. Here is the automated SMS response I got:
Your reference number for Registering on NDNC is S1015126XXX. All promotional communication to your Airtel mobile should stop within 45 days from now.
The famed efficiency of the private sector obviously does not apply here. 45 days! you’ve got to be kidding! Telecom Regulator — what are you doing?
Interested in getting onto the NDNC registry? Go here
The flat is for sale to Indian buyers only. The “Indians / others” is a semantic cop-out. (Snapped in Singapore)
Well, I haven’t updated this blog since March. However this blog is not dead yet.
I’ve just been busy doing other things in my spare time. But I want to revive this blog. Some nice written pieces are in order and I intend to start writing again. For now I’m just going to post some funny pics that I picked up in the last few months.
There is a silver lining in the Satyam episode. Why? Because this is possibly the first time in modern India when someone so rich and powerful has confessed to doing something wrong. In the past, we all knew who had “done it” but the courts never came around to convicting the rich and powerful. And in this case, its not necessary because of Raju’s confession.
In order to conserve electricity, state electricity boards have passed orders like “No Billboards should be lit at Night.” That this “conservation” helps the politically powerful lobbies steal the remaining power is another issue. Nevermind. These orders have an insidious effect on our environment: Advertisers have installed ad-hoc diesel generators of their own to power these billboards. These generators create a racket through the night and spew noxious black fumes.
I really can’t blame the billboard owners. The state has failed them and business must must go on.
These photos from India’s boom town Gurgaon show the ugliness that often gets hidden by the glitzy malls and shiny glass buildings.
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Trust.
This is a small but momentous development for India: Our society is becoming more trustworthy (alternative, cynical take: labor costs for “policing” have been factored in this).
This could only happen in the developed world I thought.