Archive for the ‘Society’ Category

Posted on April 6, 2009 - by rdilipk1

A Miss or, a Mrs. – The controversy of the title

A couple of days back there was an interesting article in one of the leading dailies. It was about the usage of a title in the name. The article was around the usage of Miss and Mrs as the title to a lady’s name.

Posted on September 2, 2008 - by rdilipk1

Metro – The Pre-cast revolution

Traffic-snarls were not a rare scene in the city of Delhi till about a few years back.It was normal to spend about an hour or, so at each traffic intersections, if it had a signal and more than a couple of hours if, the intersection had no signals. It was then that the government sanctioned the Metro-rail project and this changed the face of the city.

Posted on July 2, 2008 - by rdilipk1

The DTC revolution

The Delhi Transport Corporation is finally going through a renovation. The baking oven kind of buses are now bein replaced with cooler buses.’, ‘

The Delhi Transport Corporation is said to be the largest bus network in Asia. But the condition in which this transport system was maintained did not live upto this. A travel in one of the DTC buses was a nightmare but a lesser one as compared to the privately owned and run ”Blueline” buses.

Posted on June 30, 2008 - by rdilipk1

The Story of a new blast

The Indian Government has again and again proved to be inefficient in handling terrorist attacks and innocent citizens are facing the consequences.

In one of my earlier post I had discussed about the blast at Mumbai. Its is been more than a year since then, and here we have the latest blast at Jaipur. In this long one year our government is yet to start their initiatives against these terrorists. Condolences, political visits to the site and everything else is still on, but ask them what is the action they have taken to prevent these things from happening again and you would not find an answer. At times I wonder what could be the reason to this? Probably the reason is that in the recent past there has been no instances of terrorist attacks or, blasts where a renowned politician has been killed. Oh! so that says it all. Then what is the need to panick and ponder over security measures. Just relax my dear politicians, till it happens.

Posted on June 4, 2008 - by rdilipk1

The Politician moral police

Our politicians have now turned moral police. A group of people who are unable to do their primary duties turning moral police is indeed funny?’, ‘

Camera….Lights…..Action…..

You would now not be able to see your favorite character on the big screen drinking or, even holding a glass of wine or, champagne. For a moment just imagine, the thespian actor Dilip Kumar, or, Shah Rukh Khan in the role of ”Devdas” without the glass of whisky. Imagine a dialogue where Devdas says that, “Ma asked me to forget Paro, The world now askes me to forget drinking”, without the word “drinking” in it. Wondering why all this imagination!!!!

Posted on May 19, 2008 - by rdilipk1

The BRT Corridor Drama

The Indian government is busy implementing measures to reduce traffic congestion on Delhi roads in preparation to the Commonwealth Games. But how far are these measures relevant?’, ‘

Another 100 Crore has been wasted and another huge and much hyped about project is on the verge of abandonment. The BRT corridor has turned out to be a major flop with traffic congestion increasing and utter chaos ruling on the stretch. The efficiency of the planners in the government is under question again. Was this required?

Why is it that measures to reduce traffic congestion are proving to be in-effective? There are multiple reasons to it.

Posted on March 5, 2008 - by rdilipk1

Tax system and structure

What is the impact of taxes on the general public? How does the tax structure affect the middle class? How is it that a layman would realize this?’, ‘

I have been a tax payer from the 3rd year that I started to work. I used to pay 20% of what i earned in the first 2 years and then 30% of my earnings since the 3rd year of my career. Appraisals would not make much of a change to my salary because a more that proportionate amount would be deducted as TDS (tax deducted at source) and when I get my salary, the amount would be much like what I was getting normally.

Posted on February 4, 2008 - by rdilipk1

The transition from a town to a city

How is it when you move from a small town to a big city? What are the changes that you go through and how difficult is it to adapt to these  changes.’, ‘

I still remember that day at college. The elections were just over and the president and other office bearers were rejoicing their win in the elections. The other junior office bearers were to be elected. The elected office bearers walked into the hall where we were all seated and took their respective seats.

Posted on November 25, 2007 - by rdilipk1

How many more such blasts?

The picture of bodies lying scattered here and there is not new to any NEWS channel in India because we are probably the worst terrorism affected countries in the world. Terrorists can walk into anything and anywhere and plant a bomb which will go off killing scores. The NEWS channels, the government and we the people would mourn for the dead for a few days and then forget everything and move on as if nothing happened only to see the same thing again in a few days.

Posted on August 19, 2007 - by rdilipk1

Beggary in India

A common scene while you are driving, at any crossing in Delhi is that of a group of beggars pouncing onto the vehicles at these crossings, the moment the light turns red. You wonder at what is happening at times because these people don’t even care that they could be run over by a vehicle if it doesn’t halt for some reason. The same is the situation when the light turns green. They are still there in the middle of the road not bothered about the heavy traffic.
Another common scene at these crossings is a SIGNBOARD reading “”Do not encourage beggary””. The government is bothered about the rising numbers of beggars.I am very happy to realize this fact when I see this signboard. But are we doing enough to stop the increasing number of beggars.