Apr 7, 2009
angry journalist throws shoe at chidambaram at press conference!
after the shoe-in-face of bush, its turn for the respected politicos to smell the leather! an angry journalist from dainik jagran (heard) has thrown a shoe at mr chidambaram at a press conference. catch the story on this link. There was high drama during Home Minister P Chidambaram’s press conference in New Delhi when a journalist threw a shoe at the minister.
Chidambaram was speaking with journalists on terror and Congress' policies, when the incident occured.
The Home Minister was referring to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots when the journalist, Jarnail Singh, asked him a question regarding the CBI clean-chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
When Chidambaram averted the question, Jarnail Singh threw a shoe at him. However, the shoe narrowly missed hitting Chidambaram.
here are some cool tips to capitalize on the god-sent opportunity:
1. Adidas should lay claim to the shoe, release a print ad and a youtube video, all with the tagline; impossible is nothing
2. dainik jagran should run a special campaign honouring the journo: zidd karo duniya badlo
3. the shoe should be taken out of india, and kept in safe custody in new york. vijay mallya will buy it for usd 1.5 mn 3 years from now
4. start a training academy, with shooting at public conferences as the course objective, training the students to fling shoes accurately....everyone somehow misses the target!!
Chidambaram was speaking with journalists on terror and Congress' policies, when the incident occured.
The Home Minister was referring to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots when the journalist, Jarnail Singh, asked him a question regarding the CBI clean-chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
When Chidambaram averted the question, Jarnail Singh threw a shoe at him. However, the shoe narrowly missed hitting Chidambaram.
here are some cool tips to capitalize on the god-sent opportunity:
1. Adidas should lay claim to the shoe, release a print ad and a youtube video, all with the tagline; impossible is nothing
2. dainik jagran should run a special campaign honouring the journo: zidd karo duniya badlo
3. the shoe should be taken out of india, and kept in safe custody in new york. vijay mallya will buy it for usd 1.5 mn 3 years from now
4. start a training academy, with shooting at public conferences as the course objective, training the students to fling shoes accurately....everyone somehow misses the target!!
Apr 2, 2009
other banks ATMs for free
with this new liberation of using any bank's ATM to withdraw money, the consumer sure will benefit, but in the long run, will they? i have the following 2 questions:
1. if i am an icici, and i currently have 4 odd ATMs in each locality, should i still maintain all of them? will i be better off (read "save maintenance money") by having just 1 atm instead of 4 atms's?
2. if all banks suddenly decide to use this opportunity to reduce the number of ATMs they had been forced to operate, will it result in lesser number of ATMs in existence, which again will lead to serpentine queues?
i am assuming that 80% of the people going into ATMs in india do it to withdraw money. those guys will surely benefit by being able to withdraw from any ATM. but if the banks indeed bring down the number of ATMs they operate, the other 20% will stand to lose a lot, as they will see additional queues outside their preferred bank ATM, and hence result in bad user experience.
1. if i am an icici, and i currently have 4 odd ATMs in each locality, should i still maintain all of them? will i be better off (read "save maintenance money") by having just 1 atm instead of 4 atms's?
2. if all banks suddenly decide to use this opportunity to reduce the number of ATMs they had been forced to operate, will it result in lesser number of ATMs in existence, which again will lead to serpentine queues?
i am assuming that 80% of the people going into ATMs in india do it to withdraw money. those guys will surely benefit by being able to withdraw from any ATM. but if the banks indeed bring down the number of ATMs they operate, the other 20% will stand to lose a lot, as they will see additional queues outside their preferred bank ATM, and hence result in bad user experience.
google translate is actually fairly accurate!
While browing on the net, came across my blog in hindi....and was intrigued to know how bad it actually may be...but i was in for a surprise! google translate has done a fairly good job it seems! check it out...if not visible, access the taaza mynt here
other banks ATMs for free
with this new liberation of using any bank's ATM to withdraw money, the consumer sure will benefit, but in the long run, will they? i have the following 2 questions:
1. if i am an icici, and i currently have 4 odd ATMs in each locality, should i still maintain all of them? will i be better off (read "save maintenance money") by having just 1 atm instead of 4 atms's?
2. if all banks suddenly decide to use this opportunity to reduce the number of ATMs they had been forced to operate, will it result in lesser number of ATMs in existence, which again will lead to serpentine queues?
i am assuming that 80% of the people going into ATMs in india do it to withdraw money. those guys will surely benefit by being able to withdraw from any ATM. but if the banks indeed bring down the number of ATMs they operate, the other 20% will stand to lose a lot, as they will see additional queues outside their preferred bank ATM, and hence result in bad user experience.
1. if i am an icici, and i currently have 4 odd ATMs in each locality, should i still maintain all of them? will i be better off (read "save maintenance money") by having just 1 atm instead of 4 atms's?
2. if all banks suddenly decide to use this opportunity to reduce the number of ATMs they had been forced to operate, will it result in lesser number of ATMs in existence, which again will lead to serpentine queues?
i am assuming that 80% of the people going into ATMs in india do it to withdraw money. those guys will surely benefit by being able to withdraw from any ATM. but if the banks indeed bring down the number of ATMs they operate, the other 20% will stand to lose a lot, as they will see additional queues outside their preferred bank ATM, and hence result in bad user experience.
google translate is actually fairly accurate!
While browing on the net, came across my blog in hindi....and was intrigued to know how bad it actually may be...but i was in for a surprise! google translate has done a fairly good job it seems! check it out...if not visible, access the taaza mynt here
Apr 1, 2009
gurgaon....as never seen before!
i can proudly say that i'm currently living quite close to nature..with hills and lots of greenery near me, with clear crisp air in the morning and rest of the day, with pollution of delhi NCR not getting to me at any point of the day...so i did some trekking this weekend to really take a view from the hills of gurgaon, and i have to admit, the view was worth the effort. Ambience mall somewhere in the distance, the dlf phase 3 skyline clearly visible, the delhi gurgaon metro running close by...nice nice.
the magic called india...as discovered again during a trip down the highway...
I have always felt that the measure of a country's development can be gauged quite accurately by the quality of roads it offers. Roads in India leave a lot to be desired, and so does the development. Most roads in US and Europe and nice and well maintained, and so is the development. The places where roads are a bit dilapidated in the developed countries are precisely the sreas which are not as well developed...the wonderful state of rajasthan has always amazed me, just because the roads they develop are truly wonderful. And that leads to more people wanting to travel on them, and the associated development....this pic was taken when on my way to mahndipur balaji somewhere between agra and jaipur..
This can happen only in India. I love taking such shots, so truly representing the magic that is india!
Have you ever wondered that there are so many obscure and tiny little places you can't ever hope to remember, or visit? Take a trip down any highway, and you'll be flooded by names of villages which sound strange, funny, inappropriate..but always a pleasure to read them...here are some which i came across most recently. And these are only the most peculiar ones!
This can happen only in India. I love taking such shots, so truly representing the magic that is india!
Have you ever wondered that there are so many obscure and tiny little places you can't ever hope to remember, or visit? Take a trip down any highway, and you'll be flooded by names of villages which sound strange, funny, inappropriate..but always a pleasure to read them...here are some which i came across most recently. And these are only the most peculiar ones!
Google and MS in final race to acquire Facebook for around USD 10 bn!
After time having elapsed, we can see that the deal for Google to acquire Facebook is not going through. It’s quite possible that Google executives are still talking to Facebook executives about the idea, but I do not think it is a serious discussion — if it exists at all.
One reason I think that Facebook really does not want be acquired, especially by Google, is all the recent executives leaving Google for Facebook.
Sandberg left in March and Schrage left just two months following her lead. Seems like one big happy family over at Facebook these days.
Facebook has a lot more to benefit from by staying as an independent company than it does by going through the acquisition process by a big media conglomerate.
Oops. Ye to April Fool Ban gaya!!
One reason I think that Facebook really does not want be acquired, especially by Google, is all the recent executives leaving Google for Facebook.
Sandberg left in March and Schrage left just two months following her lead. Seems like one big happy family over at Facebook these days.
Facebook has a lot more to benefit from by staying as an independent company than it does by going through the acquisition process by a big media conglomerate.
Oops. Ye to April Fool Ban gaya!!
gurgaon....as never seen before!
i can proudly say that i'm currently living quite close to nature..with hills and lots of greenery near me, with clear crisp air in the morning and rest of the day, with pollution of delhi NCR not getting to me at any point of the day...so i did some trekking this weekend to really take a view from the hills of gurgaon, and i have to admit, the view was worth the effort. Ambience mall somewhere in the distance, the dlf phase 3 skyline clearly visible, the delhi gurgaon metro running close by...nice nice.
the magic called india...as discovered again during a trip down the highway...
I have always felt that the measure of a country's development can be gauged quite accurately by the quality of roads it offers. Roads in India leave a lot to be desired, and so does the development. Most roads in US and Europe and nice and well maintained, and so is the development. The places where roads are a bit dilapidated in the developed countries are precisely the sreas which are not as well developed...the wonderful state of rajasthan has always amazed me, just because the roads they develop are truly wonderful. And that leads to more people wanting to travel on them, and the associated development....this pic was taken when on my way to mahndipur balaji somewhere between agra and jaipur..
This can happen only in India. I love taking such shots, so truly representing the magic that is india!
Have you ever wondered that there are so many obscure and tiny little places you can't ever hope to remember, or visit? Take a trip down any highway, and you'll be flooded by names of villages which sound strange, funny, inappropriate..but always a pleasure to read them...here are some which i came across most recently. And these are only the most peculiar ones!
This can happen only in India. I love taking such shots, so truly representing the magic that is india!
Have you ever wondered that there are so many obscure and tiny little places you can't ever hope to remember, or visit? Take a trip down any highway, and you'll be flooded by names of villages which sound strange, funny, inappropriate..but always a pleasure to read them...here are some which i came across most recently. And these are only the most peculiar ones!
Google and MS in final race to acquire Facebook for around USD 10 bn!
After time having elapsed, we can see that the deal for Google to acquire Facebook is not going through. It’s quite possible that Google executives are still talking to Facebook executives about the idea, but I do not think it is a serious discussion — if it exists at all.
One reason I think that Facebook really does not want be acquired, especially by Google, is all the recent executives leaving Google for Facebook.
Sandberg left in March and Schrage left just two months following her lead. Seems like one big happy family over at Facebook these days.
Facebook has a lot more to benefit from by staying as an independent company than it does by going through the acquisition process by a big media conglomerate.
Oops. Ye to April Fool Ban gaya!!
One reason I think that Facebook really does not want be acquired, especially by Google, is all the recent executives leaving Google for Facebook.
Sandberg left in March and Schrage left just two months following her lead. Seems like one big happy family over at Facebook these days.
Facebook has a lot more to benefit from by staying as an independent company than it does by going through the acquisition process by a big media conglomerate.
Oops. Ye to April Fool Ban gaya!!
Mar 30, 2009
porn ad on indiatimes...
gardening boosts a man's sex life....see no reason why this ad should have been allowed on a site like indiatimes travel...
mothers pride: another cheap act
here's another one just uncovered from the mother's pride site
visit the site yourself, and see for yourself how desperate they are getting to enroll kids...thru the promise of a brand ambassador route...multi level marketing comes calling to play school admissions....god bless the kids and the parents who end up getting associated with mother's pride...
visit the site yourself, and see for yourself how desperate they are getting to enroll kids...thru the promise of a brand ambassador route...multi level marketing comes calling to play school admissions....god bless the kids and the parents who end up getting associated with mother's pride...
porn ad on indiatimes...
gardening boosts a man's sex life....see no reason why this ad should have been allowed on a site like indiatimes travel...
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