In the Third test match between India and South Africa, which started at the Green Park, Kanpur today, India bundled out the visitors for a score of 265 with Ishaan and bhajji taking 3 wockets each. Earlier, since Anil Kumble was not fit for the match, the Vice Captain M S Dhoni shouldered the responsibility as the captain for this match. This is Dhoni's debut as a test match captain and it has been observed and appreciated in the sports media about the way he handled/shuffled the bowlers without providing any opportunity to the SA team to settle.
Watch Kumble, you might have to hand over the cap soon to Dhoni!
Friday, April 11, 2008
Inflation in India
Thanks for the comments I received from some readers although no one could tell anything either way. I trust all of you are forwarding this link to your contacts so that we may elicit response from as many as possible.
While globally there is recession and inflation, India seem to have in accelerated proportion. The prices of the essential food items and vegetables have sky rocketed and it is reported that many people in the lower rung of the society earning less that 100 a day are forced to beg for few few grains and splinters of the wasted vegetables for their day to day diet!. The pinch is also felt by the middle class who are now shouting demanding higher wages. Despite the 40% raise provided in the 6th Pay commission for the Central Govt staff, which itself in not provisioned, is felt to be meagre by them and protest galore. The public sector and the state government employees have already started cribbing for an equivalent 40% rise, while the public sector Banks may not be able to take anything above 10% as of now!. Added to this the rains have played spoilt sport last week and if the mansoon also does some reversed shpw, there may not be any solution to this issue.
The government seem to be doing not much at this end but are busy playing election games like the 60000 crore waiver of farmers loan and the recent 27% reservation to the OBC!. The waiver has, naturally so, sent wrong signals to the farmers and even the sincere farmers who have repaid the loans earlier will be demotivated. Over and above this the FM is terming this as a gratitude paid to the farmers (defaultimg?) by the nation, -- perhaps the sincere ones do not deserve this!. I feel would it not have better effect if such waiver is done on a selective basis through a committee after going through the facts and figures, but this will not provide the much needed political mileage to the party/FM?.
Why not they think of reducing various wasteful expenses and also provide a part of the tax collections like luxury Tax, to a corpus which may be used to provide the essential grains to the people below poverty line thru Public Distribution Schemes? Now the ration card is only used as an identity and proof of residence document!!
WILL ANYONE BELL THE CAT... at the least we may voice a joint protest.
Expect this to be forwarded to all your contacts including media.
While globally there is recession and inflation, India seem to have in accelerated proportion. The prices of the essential food items and vegetables have sky rocketed and it is reported that many people in the lower rung of the society earning less that 100 a day are forced to beg for few few grains and splinters of the wasted vegetables for their day to day diet!. The pinch is also felt by the middle class who are now shouting demanding higher wages. Despite the 40% raise provided in the 6th Pay commission for the Central Govt staff, which itself in not provisioned, is felt to be meagre by them and protest galore. The public sector and the state government employees have already started cribbing for an equivalent 40% rise, while the public sector Banks may not be able to take anything above 10% as of now!. Added to this the rains have played spoilt sport last week and if the mansoon also does some reversed shpw, there may not be any solution to this issue.
The government seem to be doing not much at this end but are busy playing election games like the 60000 crore waiver of farmers loan and the recent 27% reservation to the OBC!. The waiver has, naturally so, sent wrong signals to the farmers and even the sincere farmers who have repaid the loans earlier will be demotivated. Over and above this the FM is terming this as a gratitude paid to the farmers (defaultimg?) by the nation, -- perhaps the sincere ones do not deserve this!. I feel would it not have better effect if such waiver is done on a selective basis through a committee after going through the facts and figures, but this will not provide the much needed political mileage to the party/FM?.
Why not they think of reducing various wasteful expenses and also provide a part of the tax collections like luxury Tax, to a corpus which may be used to provide the essential grains to the people below poverty line thru Public Distribution Schemes? Now the ration card is only used as an identity and proof of residence document!!
WILL ANYONE BELL THE CAT... at the least we may voice a joint protest.
Expect this to be forwarded to all your contacts including media.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
I am back to the fore - sure not to Bore!!
I am extremely sorry for not having updated ny earlier blog since my return to India. In fact, one of the main reasons was the lack of available time, since my vocations and travel, apart from the daily chores consumed my day, unlike the free time I enjoyed while at US. Thanks of course to my daughter and daughter-in-law, who took pains to take the best care of me and provide me the much needed time for my writing. Anyway, a new leaf in the form of this new blog begins.
I was shocked to view a TV programme on INDIA TV - a news channel last5 week, which said that the WORLD/UNIVERSE will have a total collapse on 21st December 2012, which is supposedly the end of KALYUG and then the SATYUG begins, This has been predicted around 5000 years back by some one. The channel said that there will be multi dimensional disasters like massive earthquakes/slides, Tsunami, floods. and strong shake-ups in the space which may totally dislodge the planets from their present positions drastically and there may be very negligible survivors and thereafter, the SUN will start emerging from the west and set in the eat!. There were a panel of experts who said so many gloomy things as predictions. However, no other channel seem to air this and there are no such references I could get from the web as well.
Trust some of you must have also come across this news - please blah-blah.
I was shocked to view a TV programme on INDIA TV - a news channel last5 week, which said that the WORLD/UNIVERSE will have a total collapse on 21st December 2012, which is supposedly the end of KALYUG and then the SATYUG begins, This has been predicted around 5000 years back by some one. The channel said that there will be multi dimensional disasters like massive earthquakes/slides, Tsunami, floods. and strong shake-ups in the space which may totally dislodge the planets from their present positions drastically and there may be very negligible survivors and thereafter, the SUN will start emerging from the west and set in the eat!. There were a panel of experts who said so many gloomy things as predictions. However, no other channel seem to air this and there are no such references I could get from the web as well.
Trust some of you must have also come across this news - please blah-blah.
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