http://www.yash.info/blog Yash's adventures with life, business and technology Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:46:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/who-is-anna-hazare-and-what-is-lokpal-bill http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/who-is-anna-hazare-and-what-is-lokpal-bill#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:44:39 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=341 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 [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/who-is-anna-hazare-and-what-is-lokpal-bill/feed 1 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/communism-is-for-lazy http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/communism-is-for-lazy#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:15:44 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=319 I 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 [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/communism-is-for-lazy/feed 3 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/gandhi-and-2611-wtf http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/gandhi-and-2611-wtf#comments Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:56:24 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=284 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 [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/gandhi-and-2611-wtf/feed 1 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/election-2009-results-my-views http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/election-2009-results-my-views#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 12:54:37 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=172 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 [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/election-2009-results-my-views/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/personal/vote-show-all-the-finger http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/personal/vote-show-all-the-finger#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:26:22 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=165 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 [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/personal/vote-show-all-the-finger/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/are-we-secular-hell-no http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/are-we-secular-hell-no#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:40:52 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=154 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 [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/are-we-secular-hell-no/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/duties-of-government http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/duties-of-government#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:17:30 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=152 Just 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 [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/duties-of-government/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/things-to-learn-from-american-democracy http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/things-to-learn-from-american-democracy#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:04:16 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=133 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 [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/things-to-learn-from-american-democracy/feed 2 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/country-of-a-billion-plus-people-and-a-single-medal-why http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/country-of-a-billion-plus-people-and-a-single-medal-why#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:19:36 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/country-of-a-billion-plus-people-and-a-single-medal-why/ 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 [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/politics/country-of-a-billion-plus-people-and-a-single-medal-why/feed 6