Air India employees are understandably pissed with the guy’s attitude. But I say, way to go!! Finally, we get a PSU head who has the guts to call a spade a spade. He seems to have the vision, all right; whether that translates into an actual turn-around of our failing national carrier, remains to be [...]
FCUK – the French Connection
Trust the French to come out in the open and say that the veil is
unfashionable, and ban it – though on hindsight, it isn’t too surprising -
Paris, after all, has a reputation to protect. My first reaction on
hearing Sarkozy make that statement against the naqab / hijab was ‘Whaaaa!
Damn. Now we know who Osama will [...]
Order, Order! (Or perhaps not)
I sense a pattern here. Let’s see now -
Case 1: People of Mumbai vs Govt. Of India (Ministry of Railways)
The problem:
Virar-Vasai residents were fed up of the shoddy train service between
their station and other such major stops such as Andheri, Bandra, Dadar
and Churchgate, and regularly complained to the Western Railways, urging
them to increase the number [...]
So much for my happy ending!
This, people, is the story of my life – a glimpse into the uncertainty and hopelessness that pervades every single day of my ’social’ life.
But first, a disclaimer – I am not the original author of the following post, though I very much wish I were. The actual author, Veda, has a very interesting blog [...]
I’m voting Congress. And you?
Warning, warning – long post ahead!
General elections in India are around the corner and as the world’s biggest democracy goes to vote, commentary is rife on the internet about which party will manage to ‘fix’ coalition numbers in their favour. The other day, one of the people I ‘follow’ on Twitter mentioned that he was [...]
The different shades of red
About a couple of weeks back, in a random conversation with a colleague, I happened to mention that airlines should never have been opened up to the private sector. I am sure that sounded blasphemous to him: a frequent flier, there’s rarely a week that goes by when he isn’t travelling Kingfisher / Jet on [...]
Why India won’t see a sub-prime crisis
On his blog, TT Ram Mohan, a professor at IIM-A, points to a Wall Street Journal article describing how YV Reddy, former Governor of the RBI, ‘made the difference between the banking scenario in the US and that in India.’ The article describes a series of measures that Reddy had introduced when he perceived the [...]
Headlines Today
The headlines in this morning’s issue of the Times of India (Sunday, 10 August) read ‘Murder at Olympics.’ My curiosity was piqued – just the other day, I had read about bad blood between the US and Australia teams for some women’s sport (basketball, I think). And the Australian captain had warned viewers to expect some [...]
Now you know what others think about your job..
A cousin drew my attention to the job vacancy my company had posted on agencyfaqs! for its Delhi offices. The vacancy is for a position that is similar to mine; the only difference is that the person would have to work out of Delhi. I was going through the job profile out of sheer curiosity [...]
