Ideas for a wall

Ideas for a wall

Design a bookshelf in any shape you want.

Whether or not you are an avid reader, bookshelves do make for great wall decorations. Imagine book shelves in all shapes and sizes and implement them on your favourite wall. You can spell out your name or your initials or any whacky idea you want to try. There are great ideas on the net to try.

Graffiti/ Paint it yourself

Bring out the artist in you. Give a personal touch to your wall. Bring out the spray paint cans and bring out your personality on a new canvas – your wall.

Paint a canvas

This idea is like the one above. The difference being that instead of painting graffiti you want to do some real painting. Sit down and paint your favourite motifs or themes or scenery and decorate them on the wall.

Your favourite posters.

If you are a collector of posters or have a list of them in your mind, now is the time to acquire them for your wall. Your collection could range from film posters to your favourite artists and heroes.

Have fun decorating.

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Communicate in clear and simple language

The use of plain and simple English is better than saying something that is incomprehensible or could have more than one meaning. If the people you are talking to have to ask for a clarification you are not a good communicator. Believe me, as a copywriter I know how important it is to be as simple and plain as possible.

You have used the word communicate. That means both verbal and written.

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Every individual is born with 8 Multiple Intelligences which talk about their inborn strengths and weaknesses. Psychometric test, on the other hand, helps individuals discover and understand their present distribution of Multiple Intelligences. After being born, over a period of time, what we acquire from the surroundings/environment, what we enhance based on our interests and what depreciates or deteriorates as a result of our disinterest is determined through Psychometric.

It is a result of the environmental factors and their influences in the lives of individuals and their strengths and weaknesses. How the society, friends, community, family affect the thinking, choices of individuals are all reflected by Psychometric Analysis.

Psychometric test is based on RIASEC Theory which helps understand whether one is Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising or Conventional. Based on the same there is career guidance. The test report is generated when individuals answer 80 objective questions based on their self-analysis and evolution and it covers:

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A General Intelligence Quotient Score (IQ Score)

IQ TEST is a statistically derived number which indicates relative and comparative abilities that can be used to obtain academic skills and knowledge. You have hundreds of specific mental abilities. Some of these abilities can be measured accurately. Some of these measurements can be reliable predictors of an individual's academic achievements. Though an IQ test measures only a few of a human's mental abilities, these few abilities are targeted for measurement, because they are well known to positively correlate highly to many other human abilities. How high you score in one of these measured abilities, will strongly indicate how high you would be expected to score on the unmeasured abilities.

A higher IQ score is not a guarantee that an individual will achieve happiness, maintain sanity, or obtain spiritual growth. A lower IQ score does not mean that an individual will be unsuccessful financially, emotionally, or morally. There are "high IQ" individuals in all walks of life, and conversely, even traditionally exalted groups such as "physicians" can have individuals who would be measured as having only "normal" intelligence.

Almost all ordinary human tasks require an individual to have an IQ Score of only 50 or higher. (75% of all people have this or a higher IQ) Though a score of 50 would indicate that that individual would find educational success only with special teaching methods and more time spent studying, it should be noted that persons between 50 and 75 IQ ordinarily can obtain licenses to drive, can succeed at 71% of all jobs, can have normal or above normal IQ children, and generally can be quite capable of successful lives.

History is filled with stories of humans of limited intellectual ability who have nevertheless been among humankind's most important contributors. It is also true, that all of history's worse tales are about very smart individuals who nevertheless were incapable of solving the problem of how to be a human whose actions had a positive effect on one's fellow humans.

Bottom line: if you score high on this test, get out there and do the right thing. We need you.

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Brain Power uses tools such as Biometric assessment, Psychometric assessment to find out a person’s abilities and therefore creating pathways for him to improve self. The first step in improvement of self is knowledge.

Brain Power is paying special attention to the education sector. Many students in the country are relying on rote learning to get through their exams. Unfortunately, this kind of learning is encouraged by the system since the syllabus includes much information that has to be remembered at least to pass the exam. Brain Power endeavors to make learning fun. When studies include activities that make remembering easy the hardest part of school life that is studying becomes an enjoyable process.

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FINDING A WORTHY OPPONENT

When do you call it level playing field? When the opportunities are the same, the rules that apply to all players are consistent and fair, and all players of the team are given an equal opportunity to prove themselves. The game then not only becomes interesting but will also involve other people - the audience. The importance of the involvement of stakeholders who are not playing cannot be emphasized enough. This happens only if the opponents are worthy.

The one-sided game

If the game is one sided, then only die hard fanatics of one team will cheer for everything, every step, every move. Everyone knows the outcome and will not be surprised by it, but these fans will praise the prowess of their team. However, people who seriously love the sport or the other teams' fans will either abandon the game or watch disgustedly to abandon it later for better interests. The loss unfortunately, is for the game. The winning teams' fans will learn only later. The sponsors stop their support one by one since the game loses its audience. The team becomes haughty.

Our Political Arena  

When people's lives, lifestyles, and livelihoods are at stake, it is necessary to have strong opponents. Worthy ones. If the current teams cannot provide one, then they are as guilty of killing the game as the team that goes on winning. They have let down the game and supporters have suffered because the winning team has been left to do as it likes.

FINDING A WORTHY OPPONENT

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How to Make News Old and Boring

The Preview Establishment now says that they ordered surgical strikes too, but did not resort to chest thumping. Very nice. But why not? Why didn't you? By the looks of it, you should have. People seem to like it. These are the days of media. Being on the news for the right reasons. Something my Mumbai punters would call 'show shining'. 

Any Establishment takes advantage of the media in many ways. One is to highlight achievements. 

Highlighting Achievements 

Nothing new here. All kinds of companies, firms, NGOs and organisations do that. States too advertise achievements, Exaggerating their achievements! However, the other kind of media usage is becoming more popular. That is to make news disappear. The trick here is to fade the news rapidly as time passes. News becoming old and obsolete is bound to happen until an effort is put in to keep it afloat. 

How to make News disappear?

The media talks about insignificant things, blow then out of proportion so that the awkward story would become just a ribbon on the screen or be buried somewhere inside the paper before it disappears.

This aspect has now evolved into making news rather than picking up random news items to blow up.
The bigger the news item, the more significant the news that is buried inside. This may have happened before, but we are noticing it now. Or maybe it is just wishful thinking.

The Art of creating News

Gone are the days of some poor laborer's child falling into a tube-well made news on national network. Today we have news like men being killed in an encounter days before they are too be released. An Islamic preacher being targeted because some people happen to be his fans and committed crimes. MP seems to be notorious for creation of News. Land mafia actually killed people being transported to a jail. And of course the latest being SIMI activist who had no reason to run, broke out of jail and were killed in an encounter some hours later.

At times like these, you read between the lines. What happened when this news was airing?
What could be so terrifying that someone could go to such an extent to veil this news?

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Smiling in the Mumbai local

It is a surprise that a person who sells wallets and card holders is so popular. My first impression of him was that he is gay. He spoke in the tone and manner that we usually associate with women. He was talking to a gentlemen he knew probably. That day it was raining and he was cribbing about how the trains have been delayed. Everybody was actually. He went on to sell his wares. He did quite well too. Engaged other people in his talk. A bearded Muslim next to me. He called him mullah ji. He explained how h his wallets were superior to the others sold similarly. I smiled at him. I had been reading up marketing and sales material and at once recognised what he was doing. He saw me smile and started chatting me up. However I did not respond to him more than a couple of nods. 

I saw him again some days later. As usual the train was packed this time he was chatting to a couple who obviously had just meet him. He told others to take care as his'sister' was in the compartment. The couple were obviously quite impressed with him though the guy was a little hesitant. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that the guy was only a vendor or the girl might just run away with such a sweet talking man. Sorry couldn't resist that jibe. 

Anyway the vendor saw me and surprise surprise he recognised me. Or maybe he didn't but he told me one important thing. People never go behind in the compartment they always want to go forward. Well not in those words but that's what he meant. Whichever direction the train is moving the end of the compartment is usually emptier. Not true of course the case of certain trains during peak hours but I did find this true during normal time. If I went back to the compartment there was usually place to sit out at least stand easily.

So advise from anyone is advise. The other thing that i took away from this is the man would talk to anyone a trait that helped him win friends and influence people.

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Finding a Leader

Look at Simon sinek video leadership had nothing to do with rank and

Nir eyals article about leadership

Haven't you heard that politics is a dirty thing. Ask anybody who considers himself honest and a person of integrity. It is also the statement of cowards who don't want to stand up for what they believe in. They will tell you politics is bad and yet they do not contribute to the well being of the country in any way. It is our way of hiding behind other people who would like to lead. Ambitious people. People not necessarily honest people we don't like. That's how we end up electing the least worst of the worst

Standing up for what we believe in.

If we don't stand for what we believe in know that someone else will. No, not stand up for what we believe in he will stand for he believes in.

Honesty integrity
he ideology of honesty does have its appeal. Men used to die for honor. That may have been a long time ago. Even when i was a child I heard things like a poor man has nothing but honesty and integrity. Two faced liars and back stabbers were looked down upon. Today they rule us and the men of learning and integrity serve them well. Re assuring themselves that they are doing the next best thing.

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The Fear in Our Lives

It may be politics, but what are the people doing? In the age of internet and quick news do people not want to acknowledge the truth or is it simply don't trust it. We in Mumbai don't trust anything. When somebody is lying on the road after an accident, we are okay watching him die. These days we may even video graph him but not help him. That is because we fear getting into Police problems. Nobody trusts the police. Only if you know that it is necessary will someone go to the police. 

Rape victims, domestic violence they are particularly afraid. Maybe the police will turn the whole thing on its head. If the perpetrator has political connections then god help you!

The Message in the Chaos, the Message of Chaos

The Message in the Chaos, the Message of Chaos

A man has questioned the powers that be. He was trolled. He was threatened. he apologised. He resigned from the party he supported since his own leader respected the person he had questioned. No! He did not insult anyone. He just questioned somebody's presence and it was taken as an insult. However he raised a question. What was his question by the way?
If I am not wrong then the man's original question was what was the saint revered as he maybe by a community doing in the vidhan sabha. Are we setting a precedent to invite religious speakers to our institutions of elected office. If yes then why stop at Jain why not Sikhism and Buddhism. I named these only because i believe they are pertaining to that state else every religion has something good to say. Or simply keep them away from places like these since it gives the idea a certain religion is being given more importance over others in a place where it is preferred to keep personal opinion limited to the good of people at large. And Jainism which claims to be peaceful but forcibly shuts down shutters of non vegetarian joints during their festivals.
The point is that it has become a habit to create enough chaos to lose the actual point in the din and many times it is deliberate. We are going from a democracy to a situation where only the strong can do what they like.
The public is the strongest, the real mahabali so they are best kept ignorant illiterate and fearful of each other so that they never unite.

Why women take all our insults?

Does the fact that we have taken them as wives give us power over them or have we taken an oath to share our lives?
Why is it we expect the woman to wash our clothes, make our food, take care of our children and warm our beds inspite of all we do. What do we do? We like to believe we give them food and shelter. Some may even say that we are better husbands than the drunkards who hit their wives, but the fact is we do insult them time and again when we do get the chance.
This is the normal middle class I am talking about. Educated or not we simply believe the wife is our property. That is because we have been taught so, by no other than our mothers who would not like the same treatment to be given to her daughter.

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Why does Allah try to scare us?

He says in the surah... save yourself and your family from the fire. A fire that is so hot that it will scald faces people will be given their own pus to drink and water that will be so hot it will scald the face. Food will be given but it will have no nourishment and while in the fire when the skin shall become roasted and charred angels will pull your skins out (which will be terrible it is and replace the skin with a new one and you will be thrown back into the fire. And that's just a gist of it. There are enough other punishments to give you sleepless nights.

Not getting into the specifics that no one around the immediate vicinity has sleepless nights - the prophet and his companions couldn't sleep - why isn't it simply mentioned that you should worship your good because he is your creator.

Rape is the woman's fault!!

Delhi: Woman set on fire for rejecting marriage proposal, chances of survival bleak

Women's Pipe Dreams

Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. According to the National Crime Records Bureau 2013 annual report, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012. Out of these, 24,470 were committed by someone known to the victim (98% of the cases).

1. “The victim is as guilty as her rapists. … She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop.”

– Spiritual leader and alleged rapist Asaram Bapu on the Delhi gang rape and murder

2. “Boys are boys, they make mistakes.”

– Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi party chief

3. “Young people go drinking and it often leads to law and order problems. Our sisters and daughters are getting spoilt.”

– Sudin Dhavalikar, Goa Public Works Department minister

5. “Rape is a social crime which depends on the man and the woman. It is sometimes right and sometimes wrong.”

– Babulal Gaur, BJP politician and Madhya Pradesh home minister

9. Ninety per cent of rapes are “consensual”.

– Dharamveer Goyat, Hisar Congress spokesperson

12. “Girls should be married at 16, so that they have their husbands for their sexual needs, and don’t need to go elsewhere.”

— Sube Singh Samain, Haryana Khap Panchayat leader

13. “Chowmein leads to hormonal imbalance evoking an urge to indulge in such acts.”

– Jitender Chattar, Haryana Khap Panchayat leader

What women want

The female venerated goddess to some and an object of lust for some. They should be respected, shouldn't they? We somehow enjoy reducing them to just objects whatever our perspective is.

Dream of an equal society 

The politics of hiding behind the news

This tactic is not new and we all know about it. The problem is that we realise what is happening and we just let it go. Some people have come to realise that when the news channels start screaming about something too much, it means there is a possibility that some scam is going down and the news is just dust on our eyes. However, the best we do is talk about it ourselves and that's it. I think we should take one step forward. I don't know what your step is but take it a notch higher start more buzz around the smaller news that effect economy and our rights as citizens. If nothing, make the establishment a little more cautious that we are informed citizens and not just fools they want us to be.

I don't trust the establishment. Not because they are bad guys, but because they are the establishment. They are accountable. We have elected them to do certain jobs for us so that we don't have to. Not because we want to relax,but we need someone full time to get those things done.

At our homes we trust the people we employ. The house cleaner, the cook etc enjoy our gratitude and watchman. However, when we pay them we hold them accountable for things broken, stolen and spoilt. We certainly do not allow them to slap us, back-chat at us and have fun at our expense. They too avoid corruption because if they are caught the most certainly will be asked to leave. So, why does the guys at the establishment enjoy perks most common people only dream of, yet are not held accountable. They get elected every time even when they tell the electorate things like 'do you want me to pee if there is no rain'. Imagine that!

September 12, 2016
This morning's headline: 

Cauvery water dispute: Politicians, officials and media only add to confusion not truth

Courtesy Firstpost

This is the usual route to most if not all Breaking News. This is what is usual not at all surprising. This is just the headline. Telling us what usually happens. This is just a start of analysis of other news that will happen. 

As to the bad neighbor

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It may be politics but what are the people doing? In the age of internet and quick news do people not want to acknowledge the truth or is it simply don't trust it. We in Mumbai don't trust anything. When somebody is dying in an accident we may watch him die maybe even video graph him but not help him. Police problem who wants to get into it. Nobody trusts the police they are the worst. Only if you know that it is necessary will someone go to the police. Rape victims, domestic violence they are particularly afraid. Maybe the police will turn the whole thing on its head. If the perpetrator had political touches then good help you if you have Apaches the police.

The message in the chaos

hat bad man vishal dadlani has apologised and he resigned from aap. He should have been shot. How dare he question the powers that be. What was his question by the way? If I am not wrong then the man's original question was what was the saint revered as he maybe by a community doing in the vidhan sabha. Are we setting a precedent to invite religious speakers to our institutions of elected office. If yes then why stop at Jain why not Sikhism and Buddhism. I named these only because i believe they are pertaining to that state else every religion has something good to say. Or simply keep them away from places like these since it gives the idea a certain religion is being given more importance over others in a place where it is preferred to keep personal opinion limited to the good of people at large. And Jainism which claims to be peaceful but forcibly shuts down shutters of non vegetarian joints during their festivals.
The point is that it has become a habit to create enough chaos to lose the actual point in the din and I think many times it is deliberate. Did the saint say d something pertinent to the assembly or was he there just to be honored.

Bad neighbor

How dare any one say our neighbor is good. He is bad. I have been told they are gun toting, bomb blasting, stone pelting bad guys and God help those who say otherwise. Who is this Ramya? Who wants to pollute the air with her poisonous thoughts. What if people started to think the neighbor is a good guy? All hell will break loose. All the years spent telling people how bad they are will be waste. And at this time when their own politically motivated brothers had started supporting our cause.

Go to the neighbors house. Enjoy their hospitality. Why? We go there too! But don't praise them. Certainly not in public. It is very anti national. We are the best. There are no better people on earth and you should know it.

Atta Girl! Keep Going!

Sindhu is back and we have honored her the best we could. We met her at the airport in hordes, we garlanded her, told every body who cared to listen that our daughter has saved India's respect while our sons were busy soiling it.

Dipa, Sakshi and Sindhu. We even gave them a Khel Ratna. Okay fine. Now it's been a long day. Yawn, gotta have some rest. In a few days we will forget these names unless they keep winning, and stay in the news, which is unlikely. Back to business guys party is over. 

That's how we do things.

If we really wanted to honor these women would pledge not to rape, to give the same amount of respect to the women in our lives as we give the men, give them proper education and equal opportunities, and allow them to live instead of killing them in the womb.

Can we do that?

Here come the cow protectors!

First it was Bhajan Mandals now cow protectors. The government is doing everything it's power to give credibility and strength to the Hindutva mischief mongers all the while lying that they will bring perpetrators of vigilantism justice. Dream on guys of minorities that one day there may be peace. It seems these guys don't want it.

Beating Phelps

The Indian contingent to Rio Olympics is having fun. They are not winning any medals so I am assuming this.

I don't want to demean their efforts, but since they are not winning they might as well enjoy their outing in Rio. You know what I mean. When you know you're screwed, lie back and enjoy. It may be too early to rethink our games strategy. We will leave that till after the closing ceremony. 

But, first things first - who the fuck has been thinking and rethinking our strategy all these years?

Easier said than done m'boy. However, as a friend hoped yesterday, some day we will be strong enough to beat Phelps medal tally. 

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The Muslim as the villain

Zakir Naik speeches pro-terror, IRF paid money to lure youth for conversion: Mumbai Police report – Indian Express

Traveling by the local train you get to meet or observe many people. There are many types, kinds, etc. I leave it to your imagination to form your own different categories. Religion, caste, colour, region and what have you. Actually get to meet is an old way of traveling. The new way is to watch what they are watching on their big screen phones. One day, finding no place to sit I started looking around, as usual cursing my luck. Since I had an optimum view of other people’s phones I started looking for a good film to watch. Mind you I was just not in the mood to take out my own phone since I was afraid of dropping it while swaying to the shaking of the train. I found that almost all the screens had the hero – be he from the south or the north – beating up a guy who looked seriously bad. Bad as in dirty bad. Someone, who you would never talk to on the street. And this bad guy was either wearing a skull cap or a Pathani dress. Gone are the days when the Muslim used to be a good friend of the hero standing shoulder to shoulder to fight the bad guys.

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The Daily Dose of Paranoia

The daily dose of conspiracy theories being fed to us keep the fires burning. Literally in some senses. Sentiments are being flared. Houses being burnt. Bombs being thrown. People being mowed down. 

Then there is more rhetoric. Nothing to smoothen ties, nurse egos or root out the evil. There are just more stories. Stories on both sides. In fact there more than two sides. There is the victim's side, the perpetrator's side, the right side, the wrong side and of course the side we hear on the news. 

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The Masters of the Universe

Flying Saucers Vimans and other facts

It is a scary situation when you are confronted with a fact that only can be thought up by a twisted mind. Imagine living in a world where your knowledge is of no use. When you realize that what you have been taught was false and a waste of time. What's more, whenever you open your mouth to state a fact as you know it you are laughed at since it does not exist in history and it has been recorded differently.

The point is that young minds are the easily influenced and eager-to-learn kind of sponges, but if you are deliberately feeding it nonsense and packaging it sweetly in the name of patriotism then by the time this young mind steps into mainstream career market it is already late for him to restart and there are high chances that he may take the easiest route out of this situation and join the many goons languishing under some higher power's bid and command. Gau-Rakshaks anyone?

Out the ever angry bahu. In the calm son.

With Ms Smriti Irani gone fears are that Mr Javadekar will be far more efficient in saffronizing the education system than Ms Irani would ever be. Sometimes you wonder that the whole appointment and release of Ms Irani was preplanned and all the critics of Ms Irani, who felt she was not qualified enough would feel vindicated and would welcome a well-educated and always smiling Mr Javadekar with open arms. He would then proceed to wreak havoc in the education space effectively and without hindrance. He has recently consulted with RSS experts on the education policy.

Maybe the RSS would become successful in creating a China like situation of factories catering to the whims of the fair masters of the western civilization who the RSS usually claims to oppose – in terms of dress and valentine. However they agree the Aryans should be master and everyone else should be slave. Everyone is equal, however, someone should be first among equals. Aryans!

The RSS bastions have already produced people who are ready to kill without much provocation. With the saffronizing of educational institutions it will not be surprising if we have terror groups in every Street. Maybe as time passes people will realise how wrong they were, and there will be condemnation, but the damage would have been done. A whole generation of Muslims, Christians and Dalits killed for political reasons and many generations of Hindus who would have no proper education.

Whatever the scenario, it does not look good in the immediate future, not for minorities, neither for India as a country. At best it would be a factionalized country overwhelmed by in-fighting and gnawed away by the very neighbors we so proudly abuse from our living rooms.

Colonization still exists

The superpowers have always succeeded in colonizing states for their personal gains. Other countries usually stood around looking helplessly. Now in the name of terrorism the colonizing has taken a legal turn. The countries that dominate still remain the same. India on the other had seems adamant to become a colony rather than be independent.

The Demographic Advantage and our Education System?

The much touted Indian Demographic Advantage has been languishing and trying to find its way to a better life. Unfortunately, the powers that be haven’t been able to provide the jobs they had promised and the parents have their own ideas regarding their children’s careers. The question now is not how many hands we have on deck but that if we have a deck that can accommodate the hands that we have or will it capsize the ship before we learn to take advantage of our talents. Right now it is every man for himself.

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Sauban Pathan is a communications expert and copywriter. He is an English Speaking Coach and teaches Business Communication as well. He also advises the corporate sector with content marketing.

One new compartment please

Walked into the local train compartment today to be pleasantly surprised. The Indian Railways department has been experimenting with the interiors of the compartment for sometime now. All the while I have been drawing up my own plans, mentally of course, regarding the best way to accommodate the most people. That happens only when the compartment is crowded, of course.

Well my plan was to convert the three seaters which often accommodate four people, the famous fourth seat of Mumbai Locals, into two seats. Like in the bus. Only here the rest of the plan will remain the same. While this plan has stuck in my head I have seen the authorities change the seating plans by removing one seat near the door or the two seats in the middle of the compartment or re-plan the seating to resemble the metro. People who travel everyday would have noticed what I am saying.

So yes I was glad to see my plan converted into reality. It needed some finishing touches, but yeah the plan was there. But the experiment was at the wrong time, wrong train. The Kalyan fast, in the morning is hardly crowded. In fact, there are hardly any people in the train. I travel around the same time every day, but I catch the Kasara fast or Thane fast sometimes, depending on what time I reach the platform. However, people avoid the Kalyan train for whatever reason. That is upto Dadar. Even then it is not really crowded and there are enough seats available.

The best time would be to see this was in the evening or while coming back from Kalyan in the morning. However, I am not going to do that. Have to reach office in time and I do not have the courage to jostle the crowd. So keeping fingers crossed that they like my plan and look forward to less crowded trains.

Just to inform whoever is reading, that I used to dabble in interior designing some years ago and that’s why I keep doing these renovations in my head all the time. So, since I am talking about my great plans, I have one more request from the Indian Railways and that is double decked long distance trains. The ones that go up to Virar, Kasara and Karjat. I have been expecting them for the last 10 years, but now everybody is talking about it. Even while I was getting down at my station I heard a man telling a fellow passenger that it would be nice to have double deckers to ease the crowd. So if anyone out there is listening please help get this message across to the proper people. Ciao!

CARS, CARS Everywhere and nowhere to go

Just the other day I was discussing with a colleague that there are more cars in Bombay than there are parking spaces. I remember the good old days when the sole concerns of most car buyers were size, just enough for the family to sit, and fuel efficiency. Brands did not matter. Somewhere along the way brands started to sense. This was simply because certain brands guaranteed quick and efficient after sales service, and spare parts availability and price. More recently car buying preferences have changed and there are more international brands on the roads. That was not surprising, since the number of millionaires is increasing. What is really worrisome though is that the concern for buying a small car has gone out the window and fuel efficiency has become the bread and butter for the environmentalist. So as I sit reading a survey report informing me that Indians are more open to buying cars online, I expect to see nightmares of bumper to bumper traffic that is not going anywhere and me having to walk to office. 

why doesn’t the central line improve

The central railway local trains are pathetic. Yet, they seem adamant to stay the way they are. What is even more pathetic that we, the commuters seem to accept them the way they are. Why don’t we protest. or has protesting lost its value because a group of people have become protest specialist and others who do become anti nationalist.

why doesn’t the central line improve

The central railway local trains are pathetic. Yet, they seem adamant to stay the way they are. What is even more pathetic that we, the commuters seem to accept them the way they are. Why don’t we protest. or has protesting lost its value because a group of people have become protest specialist and others who do become anti nationalist.