Indian Statistics of Mishandling, Neglect, Pilferage and Theft

Last updated on: February 16, 2006 at 7:19 pm By Desh Kapoor

I just read the article "Unfinshed Agenda" in India Today and saw these stats. They are an eye-opener! I thought these need to be brought in front of everyone to put things in perspective! To change all this is a gargantuan task.. and it requires consensus which is sadly missing!! - Of the 126 airports (domestic and international) only 9 are profitable and 45 airports where NO flights land! - 18 of the 30 State Electrivity Boards lose money. - SEBs lose Rs 30,000 crores in THEFT annually (roughly USD 6.8 BILLION) - Peak Power Shortage = 11,500 MW Read more

Coffee, Sand, and Golf Balls

Last updated on: February 16, 2006 at 6:50 pm By Desh Kapoor

Nice message I got from a friend in one of those emails that go out everywhere 🙂 worth a read... When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 Hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar . . . and the coffee. A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The p ebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. Read more

TCS sued by ex-employee

Last updated on: February 16, 2006 at 12:25 am By Desh Kapoor

FINALLY!!! Someone has SUED Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)!! It was due for a long time!! These jerks have had a bond for those who go abroad.. and included in that BOND amount (to be repaid) is even the travel cost from India to US or wherever - as if the employees go abroad for vacation!! They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars for TCS and they get to be treated like SLAVED PROSTITUTES!! Those who want by the yard.. but give by the inch.. SHOULD be KICKED by the FOOT!! Tata America International Corporation (TAIC), a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has been slapped a class action suit by a current employee, Gopi Vedachalam, alleging that the company was ‘‘enriching itself’’ by requiring workers to hand over their Federal and State tax refunds to the company. Read more

Mail from "A Muslim" to boycott West

Last updated on: February 15, 2006 at 10:37 pm By Desh Kapoor

Just got this email in my inbox! Wow.. this does seem to have grown to unimaginable proportions!! They are even buying emails to do marketing campaigns!! From: A Muslim [email protected] Reply-To: A Muslim [email protected] Date: Feb 15, 2006 4:08 PM Subject: Boycott the Western Countries Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Add sender to Contacts list | Delete this message | Report phishing | Show original | Message text garbled? Boycott the Western Countries Boycott the products of America & European countries on the favor of publishing cartoon images of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) nauzubillah. Boycott the products like Telenor, KFC, Walls, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Nestle etc. and prove your love to the prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). Read more

Anti-Semitic Cartoon Contest in Israel

Last updated on: February 15, 2006 at 7:53 pm By Desh Kapoor

Pickled Politics reports that Jews are getting ready for an Anti-Semitic Cartoon contest.. quotes Leslie Bunder:" We'll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published," said Amitai Sandy a graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing in Tel Aviv. "No Iranian will beat us on our home turf," he added. " Technorati : Cartoons, prophet Read more

Indian Sailor killed on Ship over Prophet Cartoon Debate!!

Last updated on: February 15, 2006 at 10:04 am By Desh Kapoor

This is absolutely nonsensical!! Life of a soldier is FAR more important than ANY argument! And the Government is planning on the implementation of Muslim census! Is this the end of the Indian National Security?? An Indian sailor was allegedly beaten to death by his colleagues on board a Norwegian oil tanker in the international waters off the coast of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates following an argument over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in some European newspapers. A fight ensued among the seamen after an argument over the issue, causing the death of one sailor, a media report said. Read more

Counter-productive Affirmative Action and Reservations

Last updated on: February 15, 2006 at 9:48 am By Desh Kapoor

There have been many discussions and questions on reservations (or Affirmative Action as it is called in the US). Many have said and there are said to be innumerable research papers which claim that it works. I cannot and will not go into that kind of nonsense. For statistics is just another kind of lie. What I am looking at is the ground reality - the lot of African Americans in the US and Lower Castes in India. Have their situation really improved? Have the "perceptions" really changed regarding them? Read more

Blogs vs Mainstream Media

Last updated on: February 15, 2006 at 7:26 am By Desh Kapoor

Here is another interesting tech post on the blog vs mainstream world..from Business 2.0Below is Technorati CEO David Sifry's latest chart of the most-linked to news sites and blogs. The blue bars represent mainstream media sites like the New York Times and CNNMoney.com, and the red bars represent the most popular blogs like Boing Boing and Engadget. Read more

Google's New Search feature

Last updated on: February 15, 2006 at 7:01 am By Desh Kapoor

Interesting post from Seth Godin Click on the green phone and an ajax window opens up. Type in your phone number (remembered after the first time) and the sponsor calls you!Too bad it didn't work. It probably will. When it does, it changes the game, again. Read more

Internet related news from India

Last updated on: February 15, 2006 at 2:23 am By Desh Kapoor

Few of interesting news on Internet: Mock Internet Attacks The US government has concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers. Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events. The Internet survived, even against fictional abuses against the world's computers. Experts depicted hackers who shut down electricity in 10 states, failures in vital systems for online banking and retail sales, infected discs mistakenly distributed by commercial software companies and critical flaws discovered in core Internet technology. link Read more