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Suggestions to Manmohan Singh

Dear Prime Minister,

If you have any desire to fight terrorism here are some of the suggestions.

Have a nationwide number for emergency response, similar to 911 in US. The control center should be equipped to detect the location of the caller and route the call to nearest fire/police and other law enforcement. If this number was effective the incident on Kuber would have got reported and terrorists could have been stopped in the sea.

Introduce two year mandatory military training for Indian youth. It will instill sense of command in them. Right now all that they do is stand on the sides and clap for commandos. Mandatory military training has helped Israel respond to persistent Islamic terrorists.

Introduce CCTV cameras for every 500 mt in the city like that is done in London. In a TV spoof, a suspicious looking alien on the street of London is responded in minutes by London Police.

Start a central agency like FBI in India with purely using new recruits, no deputations please. The whole Mumbai episode has exposed the serious flaws in policing such as listed below.

Conduct an investigation and summarily dismiss the officials who bungled resulted in

Not being able to wage a night warfare on the terrorists, Why was this not planned?

Not being able to provide bullet proof vests for the commandos

Not being able to provide simultaneous attack on Taj terrorists. ( there was considerable time delay between the heli dropping and the first bang on the building as seen on TV )

Not being able to instruct commandos to show their face on TV

Not being able to cordon off the entire area, even after two days

Not being able to provide detailed maps of Taj for security agencies? Which town plan agency gave permission to that hotel?

You decide!!

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Nataka Time!!!

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How Revlon got sold in Rural India

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I was surprised, that washing machines , are used to blend yogurt smoothies in India. When they have such population, blenders may not work!!!.

However , I know another story which is equally incredulous. This happened when I worked as an intern, at Revlon’s India office. Revlon wanted to introduce hair color in India and after careful market studies we decided to test two colors. Black and Brown. Almost all the Indians have black as their hair color and hence introducing brown was strongly opposed by the team. However since we wanted to test the reaction of India to an unnatural hair color we decided to keep brown option open. I was asked to lead the test market for brown color. I somehow felt that I was being setup for failure!!. The project given to me was to decide which shade of brown was the best shade to market. I created three shades. Dark brown like chocolate, a medium shade of brown that looked like dry leaves and yes.. a blond color. My logic in creating blond color was that it may get some corporate sponsors in Bangalore, particularly in a firm that encouraged employees to talk and behave like mainstream Americans. So I stuck to my shades and got the approval to test these three shades of brown on technology crowd in a software company.
We took 300 packs each of these three shades, dark brown, light brown and blond colors and went to technology campus of the test company. I will keep the name of the company a secret and call it Sikkapatai Important Company. We set up our counter near Domino pizza outlet inside the food court at the company and waited for the response. The first week we had a sale of 2 packs of chocolate brown and lo and behold! three packs of blond color!!. This was unusual and was proving my theory that technology crowd at Sikkapatai Important Company have secret desire to become blonds. However, my manager discounted this and said may be the blond colors were bought by some of the many expatriates working for the company. Next week we sold 12 packs of blond color!!. May be more expatriates were rushing in, to buy the shade that was not traditionally available in India, said my manager!!. Next week, I left for Delhi to finish my project and head back to America. When I reached Delhi the test market data for that week was in my inbox. We had sold 286 boxes of blonde color and we were out of stock midway between our test market study!!. Test report also said the employees who were buying were not expatriates!! Revlon had to fedex blond shades from America to replenish test market stock and next week we sold 400 cases of blond color.
Next week we took off to Mumbai to see Ganesha festival. After the Ganesha festival suddenly the demand vanished. We also did not see the employees sporting their new hair color. Why they bought the color but were not using it, was a mystery! The sixth week I had to finish the study and submit the report. So, I collected the data from earlier weeks and analyzed it. Off the 300 boxes sold from the first batch , 280 had been bought by two individuals from Rural part of the state. I remember the name of their town as Channapattana. I was surprised that two individuals bought so much of hair color. I happened to get an appointment with one of them, the other had gone to U S on a short assignment. Both had the same story.

The first individual belonged to an agricultural family and he was first one in his family who tried something else other than agriculture. He seemed very uncomfortable interacting with a white woman like me. I was curious to know what he did with hair color? He said they were cattle merchants and bought and sold cows in Channapattana Cattle fair during the month when Ganesha festival is held. He explained that blond cattle fetched more money than other colored cattle!!. He also explained that cattle can be dyed using hair color and buffaloes are regularly colored to pitch black to get premium prices. He hit upon an idea to use the blond color on cows because cows are liked if they are blond colored!!! So his family bought colored cattle in the fair and colored them blond and sold them at premium!!!

Enclosed: Images of a cow salon in Channapattana where such cow laundering is done. The colored cow near the salon door is yet to get the color treatment. The cow standing in front is a happy customer after the color treatment. The tanks contain Revlon blond solution. Image courtesy: Our undercover operators in Sikkapatte Important Company

Great Fiction Writer

Aravind Adiga got Booker and many Indians are having heartburn because they argue that protagonist of the novel “White Tiger” is pure figment of imagination unconnected to real shining India.
Why read too much into fiction when Adiga’s earlier news reports in prestigious Time magazine were also a bunch of fiction!!!

Arvind wrote pure fiction as Time correspondent!!! and it got sold!!! Probably Aravind has found his true calling is writing fictions rather than concocting news!!!.

For the damage Adiga did refer to this newslink from 2004. Adiga sang eulogies to then DM of Patna that resulted in he getting man of the year!!! But DM was stealing money and everyone associated with flood relief work knew that DM was a gas bag because no intended benefits were ever seen reaching the poor!!!! How Adiga missed such a scam is a mystery and Adiga has not done any explaining despite repeated calls to Time.

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New Life Voice -Google Cache

Kannadaprabha reported sudden disappearance of NewLifeVoice.org site. Google cache of the site provides an inkling on blurring of boundaries between church and state.

Look at the point 10.

Google cache attached.

This was one of their prayer meeting!!!

1. For complete healing of baby Elijah , God’s grace upon Luke and Sunitha, and for the physical healing of many who are sick in our church (including Pr. Ravikumar of Kannada church.)

2. That our church will double this year by every person bringing one soul into His kingdom (committed to the great commission and commandment), and for a greater passion for souls.

3. For the land project as we are short of approximately 59 Lakh rupees. Pray for a supernatural provision and for a permanent place of worship in the city.

4. For the upcoming New Life Fellowship Silver Jubilee celebration to be held in the month of May on 20 th , 21 st , and 22 nd in Bangalore . Pray for God’s presence, practical arrangements, and for the financial resources.

5. For the evening service beginning in the month of March.

6. For right life partners for our young people.

7. For financial breakthrough in the life of our believers.

8. For the upcoming examinations of our children.

9. For a revival in Karnataka.

10. For a favorable government to come to power in the next elections.

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This is in response to reported move by Indian government to ban exit and opinion polls once the poll dates are announced as reported by Indian express. This goes on to prove that democracy in India has just been a lip service. The real democratic process is so intimidating for our rulers that they have successively rallied together to neuter the Indian democracy and intentions now point to another attack.
Hey my countrymen, unite and resist this new attack on democracy.
The reported move is an assault on free speech which is the most necessary ingredient for building a working democracy. The question of banning free poll is so anathema to democracy that I did not get any historical precedences requesting banning of exit polls anywhere in the western democracies.
This idea can only originate in the stale indian politics with rampant inbreeding.
Umpteen number of times constitutional experts have opined that banning of exit polls is contravenes Indian constitution. Still the government when saddled with stark prospect of loosing seats in the forthcoming elections is trying to misutilize its powers to override law and neuter the democracy further.
I am not a constituitional expert. But my emphasis on retaining exit polls stems from the Greek phrase of “Vox Populi, Vox Deus”. The peoples voice is God’s voice in democracy. Exit polls are equal to gagging the people’s voice.
Present government may think that exit polls influence the poll outcomes and make an impartial poll difficult. But is it not the democratic process? Are’ nt we supposed to reject the representatives who failed to deliver. And don’t we have right to influence others on issues where current government failed. Banning of exit polls is like a gag order. And gag orders are anathema to democracy!!