Passionate About India: As the only national party left with mass leaders,...:
The death of mass leaders in Congress started from the times of Indira Gandhi when the inner party democracy – that at one point elected Lal Bahadur Shastri as the PM – gave way to dynastic politics. Indira, at least herself, became a mass leader; but by the time Rajiv became the Prime Minister purely on sympathy, the mass leaders started finishing off.
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Thursday, 26 July 2012
Typos: ARE YOU STRONG ENOUGH TO BE MY...?
Typos: ARE YOU STRONG ENOUGH TO BE MY...?:
Speaking of love, it’s not like I go back to that book every day, so my memory’s a little fuzzy on that front but as much as I can remember, the venerable Kamasutra mentions the bull man – a man known for his muscular build, steadfastness of spirit and projecting a general aura of indomitable strength – as the most desirable of men. Here, I must make clear that the bull man isn’t a mere man of strength in the way a power-lift er or a bodybuilder might be, but more in the mould of a battle scarred soldier.. A man who acquired his strength not in pursuit of vanity, but valour. Such is the strength, that makes a bull of a man.
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/07/are-you-strong-enough-to-be-my.html
Speaking of love, it’s not like I go back to that book every day, so my memory’s a little fuzzy on that front but as much as I can remember, the venerable Kamasutra mentions the bull man – a man known for his muscular build, steadfastness of spirit and projecting a general aura of indomitable strength – as the most desirable of men. Here, I must make clear that the bull man isn’t a mere man of strength in the way a power-lift er or a bodybuilder might be, but more in the mould of a battle scarred soldier.. A man who acquired his strength not in pursuit of vanity, but valour. Such is the strength, that makes a bull of a man.
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/07/are-you-strong-enough-to-be-my.html
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: BETWEEN THE BLACK AND THE WHITE
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: BETWEEN THE BLACK AND THE WHITE:
The products sold at grey markets are often illegally imported from places like China, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Nepal; with huge margins which are so high that even after visiting those places and bringing in the products, the retailers are still left with decent profits! The premium watches, gaming consoles and digital cameras are the main product categories that flood the grey markets. The market share for premium watches through grey markets are almost 50 per cent of total market size of Rs.1,000 crores, in console gaming it is 30 per cent of the full size Rs.400 crore market, and 25 per cent of Rs.2,000 crore digital camera market. The excessively high tax and import duties have a cascading effect on the prices creating differentials between authorised and grey markets.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/07/between-black-and-white.html
The products sold at grey markets are often illegally imported from places like China, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Nepal; with huge margins which are so high that even after visiting those places and bringing in the products, the retailers are still left with decent profits! The premium watches, gaming consoles and digital cameras are the main product categories that flood the grey markets. The market share for premium watches through grey markets are almost 50 per cent of total market size of Rs.1,000 crores, in console gaming it is 30 per cent of the full size Rs.400 crore market, and 25 per cent of Rs.2,000 crore digital camera market. The excessively high tax and import duties have a cascading effect on the prices creating differentials between authorised and grey markets.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/07/between-black-and-white.html
Friday, 20 July 2012
The Fascinating World of Marketing: THE OLD FOX WITH ITS NEW TRICKS
The Fascinating World of Marketing: THE OLD FOX WITH ITS NEW TRICKS:
In the recently released movie Cocktail Deepika Padukone plays Veronica (remember Archie Comics?): glamorous, sexy, yet feminine and stunning at all times. For her, the dress mantra is: the skimpier, the sexier. All the time, she shows off one or the other part of her body to her advantage. Her hair is of an auburn/coffee shade and is puffed up with a volumizer. Her body is always glowing with a bronzer. As a fashion trendsetter she mixes & matches patterns, adorns adventurous silhouettes and chooses unusual designs & labels. All accoutrements – from her hair clips to handbags to shoes – make a style statement by standing out in colour and design.
Read more: http://kk-srivastava.blogspot.in/2012/07/the-old-fox-with-its-new-tricks.html
In the recently released movie Cocktail Deepika Padukone plays Veronica (remember Archie Comics?): glamorous, sexy, yet feminine and stunning at all times. For her, the dress mantra is: the skimpier, the sexier. All the time, she shows off one or the other part of her body to her advantage. Her hair is of an auburn/coffee shade and is puffed up with a volumizer. Her body is always glowing with a bronzer. As a fashion trendsetter she mixes & matches patterns, adorns adventurous silhouettes and chooses unusual designs & labels. All accoutrements – from her hair clips to handbags to shoes – make a style statement by standing out in colour and design.
Read more: http://kk-srivastava.blogspot.in/2012/07/the-old-fox-with-its-new-tricks.html
Business is Marketing: TALK TO ME
Business is Marketing: TALK TO ME:
Humans are the most social of all animals. We love to talk and interact with others. It is one activity we crave for and if are deprived of it, we could sometimes lose our sanity too. Well, advertisers are realizing this fact too; i.e., if they do not interact with their consumers, they could lose their market share to those who do so! The latest development in TV ads is helping advertisers do just this. Technology is being used to change ads from being a one-way communication process to two-way. It’s time that companies realized that not many are watching their ads. Think about it. Every time there is an ‘ad break’, we use it for a ‘loo-break’ or a ‘mobile checking break’ or a ‘what’s-on-in-other-channels- break’!!! This is making many big advertisers turn away from TV.
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Typos: HE WON’T BE GONE WITH THE WIND
Typos: HE WON’T BE GONE WITH THE WIND:
The man I met yesterday had died long ago, in an internment camp in Weihsien, China. It must’ve been a cold and grey February day. Maybe it was raining too. 21st February, 1945. Liberation was just a few months away, but for now the Japanese held the camp.
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/07/he-wont-be-gone-with-wind.html
The man I met yesterday had died long ago, in an internment camp in Weihsien, China. It must’ve been a cold and grey February day. Maybe it was raining too. 21st February, 1945. Liberation was just a few months away, but for now the Japanese held the camp.
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/07/he-wont-be-gone-with-wind.html
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: ARE WE BEING TESTED, RIGHTLY?
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: ARE WE BEING TESTED, RIGHTLY?:
The Supreme Court of India most recently rapped the Union Government and the Madhya Pradesh Government over the knuckles for failing to save lives corroborated by clinical trials of drugs carried on rampantly and sometimes illegally. The data revealed by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) under RTI shows some shocking statistics. According to the DGHS, 1,600 people have died over the span of only two years between 2008 and 2010 by the clinical trials conducted by the multinational companies.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/07/are-we-being-tested-rightly.html
The Supreme Court of India most recently rapped the Union Government and the Madhya Pradesh Government over the knuckles for failing to save lives corroborated by clinical trials of drugs carried on rampantly and sometimes illegally. The data revealed by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) under RTI shows some shocking statistics. According to the DGHS, 1,600 people have died over the span of only two years between 2008 and 2010 by the clinical trials conducted by the multinational companies.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/07/are-we-being-tested-rightly.html
Passionate About India: Road accidents or preventable and predictable mass...
Passionate About India: Road accidents or preventable and predictable mass...:
I was watching a movie in the first floor of our house that fateful afternoon of '94 when that call came and changed our lives forever. It was my mother who had called from the ground floor of our house to inform me through her uncontrollable tears that she had just then received a call that my younger brother had died in a road accident. I rushed down hoping against hope that it was someone else. My dad was sure it wouldn't be someone else – as I drove our car frantically towards Gurgaon where the accident had happened – and advised me to drive slowly. He had done his maximum possible to see to it that we never developed a fascination for motorbikes. An avid reader of about a dozen papers everyday, my father was definite that a motorbike was a sure-shot route to disaster on Indian roads. So the soonest he could, he bought a car for us. I still remember that day in 1993, after he had bought a fifth-hand 1977 model Toyota, he entered the house, lay down on the bed in a relaxed manner and told my grandmother, “I have put a "kavach" (a shield) around my children today.” Unfortunately, that was not to be.
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I was watching a movie in the first floor of our house that fateful afternoon of '94 when that call came and changed our lives forever. It was my mother who had called from the ground floor of our house to inform me through her uncontrollable tears that she had just then received a call that my younger brother had died in a road accident. I rushed down hoping against hope that it was someone else. My dad was sure it wouldn't be someone else – as I drove our car frantically towards Gurgaon where the accident had happened – and advised me to drive slowly. He had done his maximum possible to see to it that we never developed a fascination for motorbikes. An avid reader of about a dozen papers everyday, my father was definite that a motorbike was a sure-shot route to disaster on Indian roads. So the soonest he could, he bought a car for us. I still remember that day in 1993, after he had bought a fifth-hand 1977 model Toyota, he entered the house, lay down on the bed in a relaxed manner and told my grandmother, “I have put a "kavach" (a shield) around my children today.” Unfortunately, that was not to be.
Read More... http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/07/road-accidents-or-preventable-and.html
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Passionate About India: Courts for the rich Amar Singh and Abhishek Manu S...
Passionate About India: Courts for the rich Amar Singh and Abhishek Manu S...:
It is inhuman! It is outrageous! And it is disgusting! The manner is which Pinki Pramanik, a national athlete who brought laurels for the nation at various international sporting events, is being sullied by all and sundry. Thanks to media, today she has become a household name, more infamous due to the controversy on her gender, than due to the gold medals she won at the Asian and Commonwealth Games. Pinki’s sporting achievements include a team relay gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games, another gold at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games, silver medal in the 2006 Commonwealth Games, beside many other medals at national and international levels.
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/07/courts-for-rich-amar-singh-and-abhishek.html
It is inhuman! It is outrageous! And it is disgusting! The manner is which Pinki Pramanik, a national athlete who brought laurels for the nation at various international sporting events, is being sullied by all and sundry. Thanks to media, today she has become a household name, more infamous due to the controversy on her gender, than due to the gold medals she won at the Asian and Commonwealth Games. Pinki’s sporting achievements include a team relay gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games, another gold at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games, silver medal in the 2006 Commonwealth Games, beside many other medals at national and international levels.
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/07/courts-for-rich-amar-singh-and-abhishek.html
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Passionate About India: Why the CBI, like the CAG and EC, must be made an ...
Passionate About India: Why the CBI, like the CAG and EC, must be made an ...:
On the other hand, CBI is regularly manipulated to ease the cases filed on the government. CBI, in its charge-sheet, claimed that Jasbir Singh, who is supposed to have heard Tytler inciting a mob to kill Sikhs, could not be examined as he had settled in America and his whereabouts couldn’t be traced. The CBI’s claim got falsified when media telephonically located Jasbir Singh in no time. After the case was ordered to be re- investigated by the court, CBI reportedly submitted that Jasbir Singh’s testimony cannot be relied upon and asked the court to close the case. The entire incident happened to save Tytler, who has had close ties with the ruling government. Similarly, the CBI tried to save Sajjan Singh;
Read More: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/07/why-cbilike-cag-and-ec-must-be-made.html
On the other hand, CBI is regularly manipulated to ease the cases filed on the government. CBI, in its charge-sheet, claimed that Jasbir Singh, who is supposed to have heard Tytler inciting a mob to kill Sikhs, could not be examined as he had settled in America and his whereabouts couldn’t be traced. The CBI’s claim got falsified when media telephonically located Jasbir Singh in no time. After the case was ordered to be re- investigated by the court, CBI reportedly submitted that Jasbir Singh’s testimony cannot be relied upon and asked the court to close the case. The entire incident happened to save Tytler, who has had close ties with the ruling government. Similarly, the CBI tried to save Sajjan Singh;
Read More: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/07/why-cbilike-cag-and-ec-must-be-made.html
Sutanu Guru: TONGUE IN CHEEK: HOW THE NAC CAN SAVE THE UPA IN 2...
Sutanu Guru: TONGUE IN CHEEK: HOW THE NAC CAN SAVE THE UPA IN 2...:
The Rajiv Gandhi Naani Yaad Dila Denge Act: Since the father immortalised the term “Naani Yaad Dila Denge” along with something called Bofors, it is befitting that this wonderful law be named after him. This is quite a straightforward law and will help India rebuild the great institution called the Indian family. Any Indian who even mistakenly says or writes anything critical about either India or the Family (It’s the same thing really) will be required to spend quality time with maternal grandmothers. This way, the institution called the family will be saved, the Family will not be embarrassed and secular warriors like Mani Shankar Aiyar will launch a series of television soap operas where the arch villain will be Narendra Modi and his arch henchman will be Baba Ramdev. Anna Hazare too will put in guest appearances.
Typos: THE ROADS TO RAGE
Typos: THE ROADS TO RAGE:
Two rules still to go, and yet I must take a break and tell you a little story; there’s half a moral lurking in there I’m sure… The other night, I hurried off to make a pending payment to my long suffering cell-phone service provider. The night was calm and so was I… must have been the yoga workout that or the conversations… I rushed to the payment booth, but it wouldn’t take a card. I asked around for an ATM booth and the kindly security guard, reeking of hooch and sweat swayed in, waved his arms in all four directions and mumbled something incoherent in a language enriched by the dust from the cow belt… And so I went out of the doorway, got into the car and drove around for a while till I found an ATM booth, withdrew money and still steeped in that ‘I’m in love with the world’ reverie, took a u-turn towards my profoundest lesson in road-rage…
Read More: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/07/roads-to-rage.html
Two rules still to go, and yet I must take a break and tell you a little story; there’s half a moral lurking in there I’m sure… The other night, I hurried off to make a pending payment to my long suffering cell-phone service provider. The night was calm and so was I… must have been the yoga workout that or the conversations… I rushed to the payment booth, but it wouldn’t take a card. I asked around for an ATM booth and the kindly security guard, reeking of hooch and sweat swayed in, waved his arms in all four directions and mumbled something incoherent in a language enriched by the dust from the cow belt… And so I went out of the doorway, got into the car and drove around for a while till I found an ATM booth, withdrew money and still steeped in that ‘I’m in love with the world’ reverie, took a u-turn towards my profoundest lesson in road-rage…
Read More: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/07/roads-to-rage.html
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: MURDER LEGALISED
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: MURDER LEGALISED:
The Supreme Court in 2006 gave a landmark judgment aiming at a major police reforms. Some important directives include the state police must be purged of political influence by setting up a State Security Commission, a new Police Establishment Board will look after all transfers, promotions and posting for below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police personnel and many more. Many states didn't comply with many of the directives. Moreover, these directives didn't address the plight of low ranking personnel’s living conditions, who are the main perpetrators of a culture that ignores the abuses that happens inside the police stations often culminating in custodial deaths.
Read More: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/07/murder-legalised.html
The Supreme Court in 2006 gave a landmark judgment aiming at a major police reforms. Some important directives include the state police must be purged of political influence by setting up a State Security Commission, a new Police Establishment Board will look after all transfers, promotions and posting for below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police personnel and many more. Many states didn't comply with many of the directives. Moreover, these directives didn't address the plight of low ranking personnel’s living conditions, who are the main perpetrators of a culture that ignores the abuses that happens inside the police stations often culminating in custodial deaths.
Read More: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/07/murder-legalised.html
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