“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell The quote could hold true in India on both sides of the corruption fence. Administrators who have a lot to offer are fiddling and so are civil society members.… [Read more…]
June 23, 2011
Todays Mumbai Mirror cover story on skywalks has so many gross factual mistakes that I have to comment - http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/15/201106232011062308370614d932b825/What-a-metronomical-waste-skywalks-to-go.html “The three skywalks that come in the way of the second Metro line’s alignment are — Bandra (the Kalanagar arm), Khar and Vile Parle. The Bandra skywalk was the first to be built in the… [Read more…]
May 24, 2011
Case for BRTS – Notes from an evening commute ride on 25th April 2011 My first bus ride on the BEST air conditioned bus Route A77 from the Family Court bus stop in Bandra Kurla Complex to the Hub in Goregaon (E) along the Western Express Highway – Route No. A77 Express operates between Kurla… [Read more…]
January 13, 2011
A reporter called me in the evening to ask my views regarding a proposal with the Tree Authority to go ahead with the chopping of 70 trees at the campus of the films division campus at Pedder Road to make way for a new building they are planning (I will put a map if I… [Read more…]
December 6, 2010
I saw Dabang – a Bollywood movie last Sunday (4th Dec) on television. The name means brazen individual to the best of my knowledge. I am not the one to watch much of Bollywood moved partly because of the content which cannot be very appealing and more because of a strong ideological position where an… [Read more…]
September 5, 2010
A friend coming from abroad after long got into discussing how embarrassed he was with the CWG shame. I had to cut him in between showing my absolute disinterest in discussing the matter and wasting my blood. I would have thought that the CWG shame and embarrassment would have brought sections of civil society, youth,… [Read more…]
January 24, 2010
This note is in context of understanding how black holes of the failure of human intelligence and spirit like Haiti exist and then also get rocked by one natural disaster after the other. I am copying below one small chapter from a book which I have found very thought provoking and enlightening and to which… [Read more…]
January 23, 2010
It is quite plausible that the Lok Sabha 2009 elections may have been partly or largely funded through the subsequent food grain price rise that we have seen. The LS 2009 elections were by far the costliest elections with the stakes being really high and the Congress having spared no efforts in winning. Lok Sabha… [Read more…]
November 8, 2009
With the considerable discussions on COP15 arising out of the meetings at Bangkok, Bonn, Barcelona and elsewhere and a global community engaging in the debates and following it through the net, I am left wondering what exactly is it that we will be discussing at Copenhagen? Especially what will India be speaking and expecting? Will… [Read more…]
November 7, 2009
I have been reading intensely (not as much quantitatively as much as I would have wanted to) on the climate change negotiations leading to Copenhagen and various other related topics like technology and the legislation’s being proposed. I would maybe not express myself as I find below, had I found some credible amount of diversity… [Read more…]
December 25, 2011
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