Just got back from Bombay after a hectic five day trip where connectivity was a major problem, so this blog post is for putting it all on the record:
1. GPRS: Airtel has two GPRS offerings: Mobile Office, priced at an insane Rs. 499 a month (they had initially told me Rs. 16 per day of […]
Translated: “If you keep a child hungry, then it steals food. And simultaneously, it will learn a few other bad habits. That is the state of auto drivers in…think about it”
Well, that’s an admission of guilt, all right, and a fallacious justification for cheating. The auto rates in Delhi have been hiked, but are autowallahs […]
Well, I’ve been severely critical of a few companies on this blog in the past, but I guess it’s time to give credit where it is really due.
We switch to DTH yesterday, in spite of our area not being CAS notified: there were only three channels on cable worth watching; English channels (including some sports […]
April 16, 2007 – 11:48 pm
So, The Shekhar points me to his latest term paper, this one on microfinance. I don’t have the time to read it, so I ask him for an executive summary. “Truth doesn’t come with an executive summary”, he says.
I guess the conclusion will do. Read Aberration or Synecdoche: Reflections on the microfinance suicides of Andhra […]
December 12, 2006 – 8:27 pm
Yesterday, I received a call from a lady called ‘Richa’ (phone number +9111-45092650) who claimed to represent ABM-Amro Bank. She just wanted me to confirm my (non-existent) request for an ABN-Amro Global Master Card. I’m in Airtel’s ‘Do Not Call’ list, and I usually don’t get cold-calls. On inquiring about how they got my number, […]
August 15, 2006 – 1:33 pm
Seriously - what is it with NDPL? All day today, every hour, the power has been cut at least once. Light goes, I quickly save stuff and switch the pc off. After 10-45 min, power supply resumes. 20-40 minutes and another power cut. Can’t get any work done…Now my UPS has given up, and I […]
(running slight temperature, and beset with allergic sneezing fits, so this is going to be short)
CSE’s out with another report on pesticides. The companies had not been cleared, but the issue had been forgotten for a while. Buried. Last time around, I argued for the companies in a college debate and won…even though I felt […]
Have been reminded that I’d forgotten to post the post-servicing review of the Wagon R
Before I took it in for servicing to Rana Motors at Wazirpur in Delhi, I made the following list of complaints:
1. Poor acceleration of the car with the AC, and the car slows down very fast if one doesn’t […]
MTNL blocks blogspot…or maybe it’s the other way round, though I doubt it. I’ve been unable to access my blog since yesterday. I’m able to post via www.blogger.com, but can’t read other blogs. Shekhar, Gautam, Dan and Minx in Delhi all use MTNL and can’t access URL’s ending with blogspot.com . Aditya in Mumbai, with […]
Taking a test drive and driving a car once you’ve bought it are two very different experiences; if you’re not happy with what you’ve got, then it’s termed ‘post-purchase dissonace’, and it usually does affect everyone. We bought the Wagon-R Vxi 20 days ago, and though it is rather premature to do a review on […]
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