The Small Voice

Climate is changing for the worse Climate change is there for all to see. Wherever you are placed on the globe, please jig your memory and you will realise seeing weather phenomena getting weirder every year. Climate changes are happening NOW as we speak and dither on what to do or not do. Sweaters in Mumbai, blizzard in China: indicate terrifying change happening For example, record low temperatures across globe, resulting in galloping food prieces in China and world over. In Mumbai, we had 9 degrees temperature (coldest day for the last 10 years) which is a surprise as this seaside city usually is warm or hot round the year. People wearing sweaters in Mumbai, is the weirdest that can be. Various news article and reports claim that within 10 years the global warming will be irreversible. I feel that we may not have even that long. Forget politicos: Let see what we can do As concerned and free individuals, it will be great if we all could have found a way to contribute to lessen the ir...

I came across a great blog on the telecom dispute dealt with great clarity and depth. You can read the same on http://www.neerajgutgutia.blogspot.com/. It explained Neeraj's point of view over the spectrum tussle in great detail and clarity. Though i may lack his long experience, in my view, auction of available spectrum by TRAI will be a WRONG move. Let me explain how. Govt's prime motives are (in order of priority): 1. consumers benefit with quality of service at reasonable rates 2. increasing teledensity 3. making sure market remains competitive Assuming govt decides to auction all the available spectrum. Then we will not acheive any, though the cellcos will certainly be very happy and i will sell all to buy their shares. Lets see what happens to the above objectives in their order of happening: 3. all the spectrum is gone so new players cant enter and thus existing players got legal right to squeeze customers, shoddy service 2.No effort taken to increase no of cell sites by...

Its a bit out of the usual boring stuff that i post but can't help it... HAPPY Birthday Menaka!!! Thanks for lighting up the dull and dreary evenings of legions of market followers.

So much has already been said about the pros and cons of the Tata car: NANO that more in the same vein will be mere repetition. Hence am touching the untouched topics. We did it!!! First of all, the towering but aristocratic Ratan Tata is the perfect Indian answer to the doubting thomases of the world. Osamu Suzuki’s words that the 1 Lakh car is impossible to make will continue to mock him(Suzuki) and will soon be inducted into the unofficial Hall of shame quotes amongst other legendary faux pas of history. Remarkably, what was impossible for the Japs (who are making cars for almost a century) was made possible by a Indian team who has been making cars for a mere decade now. That’s the power of conviction and the power of the young India for you. Protests of Singur displaced: Secondly, the silent protest of the well-wishers of the displaced of Singur was a jarring note in the whole episode. I believe that for one, these well-wishers should be going hammer and tongs after the g...

According to the “ International Comparison Program” of 2005, which recently published its report, the largest contributor to the world GDP is US at 23%. Next comes china with 10%, Japan with 7%, whereas India stands fifth at 4%. This GDP contribution is PPP adjusted, which means that it takes into account the latest currency movement where the USD had depreciated against ALL the major currencies of the world, and the Indian Re appreciation wasn’t an isolated event. US Recession: the impact We believe, that with 23% and more than double of its nearest competitor (China), US is too important an engine for the world to go into recession. Approx. a quarter of China’s GDP comes out of exports, and more than half of the total exports, are to the US. This means, that any slowdown in the US may immediately impact the GDP and hence the GDP growth of China too, immediately, ceteris paribus. This is just one case, and other countries like India again owe a major portion of their GDP to ...

This common enough question ran a chill down the spine of innocent peasants, farmers, fisherman etc. of Sierra Leone when RUF’s (a foreign sponsored militia) matchet-wielding killers gave them a choice of getting their arms chopped off from the elbows or wrists. Their crime: allegedly participating in the country’s general elections. The Horror… Gruesome, yes but equally true. I did some reading on the so-called “civil war” (it was more like foreign sponsored coup resulting in anarchy and widespread banditry) that took place in the country for nearly a decade. Nearly 2 million died and countless maimed thus (for participating in the elections) as the child-teenage armies controlled by greedy pigs like Sanokh (tried, but died before sentence could be passed) and Charles Taylor (still being protected by US despite being held guilty by the UN council of perpetrating war crimes) ravaged the innocent populace of Sierra Leone. Marching on drugs and effective brainwashing, these...

One of the most beautiful creations is being brutally killed. Read below to know how. And also read what we can do to help. Excerpts from the site: “Shark finning is killing sharks every year at an alarming rate! It is estimated that 100 million sharks annually are killed for their fins alone. This practice is mainly for supplying shark fins for the so-called delicacy known as shark fin soup. Sharks that are caught and their fins cut off are not always dead when their bodies are thrown back into the sea. Without its fins the shark simply sinks to the bottom of the ocean where it dies. Such a horrible death for such a magnificent creature! How aweful it must be for these animals... to think that when their body hits the water again that they will be safe, only to realize that they can no longer swim, and end up dying in an ocean, which was just moments earlier their safe haven, and is now their doom. All of this killing for a bowl of soup! What if human foot soup sudde...