Yash’s adventures with life, business and technology
Here I would try to answer some frequently asked questions about Anna Hazare and his hunger strike. 1. Who is Anna Hazare? Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare is an ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War. Read more about him on Wikipedia 2. What’s so special about him? He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar [...]
In: Politics
29 Dec 2010I believe communism and all its flavours are against the human nature. We humans by nature are selfish. Its in our genes. That’s why we survive. Communism goes against this very genetic trait. Its unnatural. So its bound to fail. Communist ideals may look rosy and may work in a society where there is a [...]
Manas Kumar Sahu – the sand painting artist – and his team performed on India’s Got Talent. They started with a scene of 26/11, drew the Mumbai skyline, Tajmahal Hotel, Gateway of India, then drew a terrorist and finally ended with a portrait of Gandhi. Everybody gave them a standing ovation. Fair enough. But what [...]
Well I had voted for BJP and I am disappointed that the candidate I had voted for lost, but I am happy that Left will not be a part of the government this time and that we will have a stable government for next 5 years. The primary reason I voted for BJP was that [...]
I cast my vote early in the morning. Me, my mom and dad. Bijal (my wife) will be going later in the day. Although I and my dad voted for different candidates. We did exercise our fundamental right granted to us by the democracy. And this time they are marking (very appropriately) the middle finger [...]
I hear it a lot these days. Congress is a “secular” party, India is a secular nation. BJP is a non-secular/communal party, they instigate hate. Modi, Varun Gandhi, Advani are all hate mongers. Lalu, Mulayam, the left parties often claim they want to bring a “secular” government to the center. They all are seculars, BJP [...]
In: Politics
21 Apr 2009Just random thoughts – Government’s job is not to provide jobs itself, but it has to make sure people get jobs. How? 1. Make people skilled enough so that they can jobs – i.e. provide quality education 2. Give incentives to industries so that they can provide jobs. A cycle Demand-Production-Jobs-Demand Demand increases so production [...]
India is the largest democracy in the world. And we’ve been doing doing just fine under the parliamentary democratic system for past 60+ years. We may have fully switched to Electronic Voting Machines that no other country (even developed one) has been able to archive but we have a few things to learn from one [...]
Michael Phelps an individual manages to win 8 gold medals in a single Olympic and India a country of a Billion plus people manages to win just one and that too after a long hiatus of 20 years. I read a post by Arun Prabhudesai on his blog Track.in about the wild celebrations on Bindra [...]
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