Food for Blood

Ain't it bad? Can you imagine a person donating blood almost every day (May not be everyday practically, but pretty much continuous until he is in a position to donate)? It happens near few private hospitals in hyderabad (may be in other cities as well). I witnessed it near CARE, Nampally. It is something which cannot be avoided very easily, but the life span of blood donor is at toss.

There is a verbal say "You cannot donate blood if you have donated blood in last 3 months", but there is no means to identify it. Money can turn anything into business, incident is a fair example.

India's nightmare over

Its all done. Terrorists attacked financial capital of India. Civilians were attacked, police were attacked, commandos were attacked. No men spared. 26th November 2008 is to be book marked in Indian history.

Few emotional words from reporters/citizens/Foreigners and heroic incidents - i always remember these words

These are the words of Patricia and her boy friend. These two people are US citizens on a tourist visit in India for a month. These two US citizens appeal to every one not to panic and not to let terrorists win. They appreciated the efforts of Indian NSG.

They reiterated, We are going to stay India and our tour will continue. we will not let the terrorists win

Greek Multi Millionaire Andreas was one of the victim of this terror strike. One of the general manager of Taj Hotel jumped in to save Andreas. Unfortunately, one bullet went straight into Andreas. Both general manager and Andreas became victims.

Kudos to this great Indian who tried to save the life of a greek national

Pranoy (NDTV) - Advani announced that he will be joining PM in visiting Mumbai. But blame game started and they could not stay unite at least for a single day even in this kinda situation.

Barkha (NDTV) - Security people and Police whom we regularly blame were the heroes for the day. Lot of people SMSed me about ineffective governance of Vilas Rao Deshmukh, where is Raj Thackrey when lot of South and North Indians from security group fought a war against terrorists to save mumbai and its glory. Narendra Modi already announced 1 Crore to victims and started blaming PM for not being emotional.

Rajdeep Sardesai says " 2 Days back while probing Malegaon blasts, Hemant Karkare was called villain. Now today, Modi Calls him Hero. "
After an answer from Seshadri Chary to take back Rajdeeps words and BJP never called Hemant a villain and it is media which hyped it.

Rajdeep replied " I got an SMS from Hemant Karkare the very morning he died which says like this - I am sick and tired of being a police officer in such a country "

Harsha Bhogle - Today i saw in some news channel, Few politicians were discussing about Bandh on December 1st. Is that Bandh a necessary thing? Is this discussion relevant?

Few more politicians visited, are they leading NSG's? are they battling against terrorists? Are n't they nuisance in the middle?

When asked about International image of India - We have enjoyed the glory of India all these days, now it happened we have to bare this. We have to accept if England is willing to leave just because their families woule be waiting for them.

Kudo's to Taj staff and NSG's for their heroic acts. May not be a surprise, no politician got emotional. I am afraid, We (Indians) will be alienated going forward, let us face it.

Ads are funny some times...

Kadapa - Hyderabad - Dubai

Cricket fever!!! for that matter, not only kadapa..Its all over. Lot of money flowing. Betting game is reaching almost every person. From thousands to Millions transactions every ball. for every 4 or 6 or wicket, income percentage changes. Bookies using sophisticated infra to track bids.

Why are these games unofficial :( ? Why don't they put these things officially online :( ? Interested people will screw up them selves.

Iron Ore Crisis!!!

Lakhs of Tons of Iron Ore is still waiting at KrishnaPatnam port to be exported. Initially a ton of Iron ore was sold at the rate of 3000 - 4000 INR. Now China has announced that , for coming 5 years they have enough Iron Ore. Now rate for single ton is around Rs 300 and Government rate is Rs 600. Either way do not work out for mine owners. Already few mines are shut down and many are in the queue.

Another hit :-(

More about Satyam

Satyam is paying Rs 7000 to few freshers (they should get 25000 as salary). When approached Satyam authorities about salary deduction, 2 reasons given are

1. Miscalculation
2. We do not have much amount in hand to pay you

Certainly its time for HRD Ministry to intervene and set things right. Seems real estate is sexy place to invest.

More News from other site -

http://siliconindia.com/shownews/48454

Satyam harsh towards employees leaving company?

He joined Satyam recently. He is happy with his package but not with the kind of work he is doing. He requested to change the team so that he can get a kinda quality work. No one responded. He made his decision to leave the company and he got an offer from another org.

Now notice period is 2 months. As his experience is less, certainly team has got no dependency on him and client accepted to release him. But Satyam refused to send him out since he is billable resource. He agreed to stay back for 2 months.

After 2 months, they made final settlement to him and gave a cheque worth Rs 70,000 INR. when he deposited the cheque, he came to know that cheque is stopped. He tried to reach various people there, but no one is accepting the call. He mailed and got no reply.

Even i heard another incident from another colleague while he was leaving Satyam. They held his passport and threatened him of not giving passport if he leaves.

P.S. I donot have any grudge towards Satyam. The news i heard is very genuine.

Its a miss...

There was a fight between husband and wife. After some time, husband went wild and took out Ax to Kill/Warn his wife. Their child was in the center and watching them. In the middle of fight, accidentally Ax fell on child's thy. Ax is removed and wounded thy is left.

No treatment, No police complaint.

Few weeks back in same village, one persons's leg was completely caught in fire and the fire is stopped and leg is left.

Again no treatment, No police complaint.

I am talking about Barbaric villagers in State of Andhra Pradesh. These Tribal villages are situated in west godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. I came to know about all these incidents after i came across a news in Eenadu daily (Snippet attached).

An NGO group (Sathya Sai devotees) along with few officials were on some visit to these forests and identified these two incidents. and villagers are not ready for any kinda treatment. They are happy to lead their life with those wounded legs but not with people in Cities/towns (In other words, with us). Its true, tribals are scared of us. this NGO group took lot of their energy out to bring these children for treatment in city.

Now my friends started funding to this incident and i was supposed to visit those villages with the help of these NGO's on saturday. Our bus got delayed delayed delayed testing our patience and at the end, we decided to cancel the trip. Otherwise i would have got good pics and videos of villagers and their lives. Its a miss , but i am sure even after 10 years they will be like that only. I can get pics / videos any time i visit later.

Questions -
1. NGO people are feeling pain to collect funds, why no Arogya Sri or any other government schemes to tribals (May be just because they are not part of vote bank and no one from their end will come out for protests against government).
2. These people ran into forests during british rule, why are they still hiding and still scared of us? who should be held responsible for not motivating them for all these years? are tribal officers there only to preserve forest? Not to preserve villagers there?

paper snippet:

Making good money during fuel crisis?

Are Kingfisher and Jet bribing to make following announcements and take those actions? Rumors are airing out -

Is it very true that Air India is suffering so much loses? reducing flights the only action they can take to reduce loses?

Anyway these are just rumors.

Air India's losses may touch Rs3000 cr

http://news.in.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1672613

Air India has to reduce flights to cut losses: Patel

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Air-India-has-to-reduce-flights-to-cut-losses-Patel/338004/

AI likely to reduce flights to New York

http://www.aol.in/news/story/AI-likely-to-reduce-flights-to-New-York/2008061907539022000008

Vacation hang over

Just came back from my native after 10 days trip. I was expecting many things happening and many mails flowing in office, but only 4 mails were waiting in my outlook and other things didn't progress. I am still on bench without work. New project got delayed allowing insecurity (about job because of current market situation) to continue. Time to be more active than previous 2 months just because i am not doing anything to my company for the money paid.

My tax for charity?

Hello Government Officers - It is highly appreciated that you are spending several millions for the welfare of poor people,farmers and women. But please think a while before you spend my entire tax for this charity activity. I'm doing enough charity in my life, Please do not spend my tax also for this purpose. My company deduct tax from my salary and credit rest of the salary to my bank account. Therefore i consider myself as sincere tax payee. So this tax payee want to bring few things to your notice.

-> Recently i was crossing a circle and a sincere police officer caught me and charged me some amount for not having pollution checked (I got receipt as well). When i said, i don't have money, sincere traffic police asked me to deposit my license and get money from ATM. Unfortunately, signal lights were not working near that circle. I asked Traffic Police to let me know whom should i penalize about these signal Lights. Traffic police asked me to penalize CM of our state for not allotting proper budget for these roads and signals improvement. Traffic Police also informed me that they have collected 14 Crores in the form of fines (from people who are not following traffic rules) and transferred it to government. Its really unfortunate that you are spending my fine money also on charity. Recently i faced similar issue when there were rains in Hyderabad. My tax and fine amount with same old roads and traffic signals
-> I was waiting for a bus at mantralayam and i got ticket to hyderabad. Bus is supposed to leave at 1:15 PM in Mantralayam. But it reached mantralayam bus stand at 3 PM. When i demanded(requested) explaination, driver responded " We have only one bus here and if the bus condition is not good, what should i do". After paying so much money and waiting for 2 hours, i got very soft reply. Recently i heard a statement from a minister who takes care of RTC that you have not provided any funds to RTC this year.

-> I saw one fly over in Secunderabad (Seethaphalmandi), where construction was started 10 years back and flyover didn't make any progress. It was stopped in the middle of construction thus blocking vehicles there.

So no roads improvement and no transport improvement for us. Good Good.

-> I was very happy that you have implemented some new schemes to poor people like Arogya Shree. I read in one news paper that one guy couldn't get enough help from Arogya Shree and he needs immediate help for an operation. I immediately approached him and found the problem. He got arogya shree card in febrauary during Arogya Shree launch. After that they gave birth to one of the child and child's name was entered in ration card but not in Arogya Shree card. This is september and till date child's name was not entered. This was not of much concern when hospital authorities accepted the case as the name was available in ration card. Hospital authorities accepted to treat and without any basic tests, hospital authorities asked these poor people to come after one month as child got cough and the season is not good. What a nice doctor, without any basic checks asking patients to come after a MONTH. I also heard that if anything happens and if patients complain about hospital, Government is going to stop payment to hospitals. I have not listened any successful arogya shree case except the one shown in TV ad.

Sincerely
---Tax Payee

Papikondalu - Single stop for all

When i searched for papikondalu, Everything Google has to show is about its tourism and sacred places around. This sacred place/tourist destination has got its dark side as well (may be brighter side to Playboys) - I am only going to discuss about the dark side as you can find ample number of resources about its beauty and nobody will dare to deny its beauty.
I booked tickets for a boat travel from Kunavaram ( also called as SriRamaChandraPuram) to Papikondalu. On the back side of ticket were 5 instructions, one out of them was "You are not allowed to Booze/smoke while on travel" . So boat started. I was right on the top of cabin room. From the top, i observed many people openly smoking (Though it is very common, we still have to accept the fact that few people might be alergitic to smoking and they are in the middle of water).
It was a sunny day and i couldn't stay on top very long. I came down, i parked myself infront of cabin room and observed lot of boozing inside cabin roon and cabin crew serving them chicken and all special snacks. It was all GOOD and i was not enough surprised seeing all these. It was afternoon after a halt and i moved infront of boat, which is rear end of boat. I was requested to move back to same place because another gang was boozing there. I felt OK now. And now the real game, Boat owner has asked both these gangs to share the cabin room. Both the gangs had enough drink and they don't want to share. One emotional guy from a gang started shouting at other person, " I want to share with you but subah ye geda kuch jyaada baath kiya " . There was little argument on the boat. Now i felt bit WORRIED. Of course the argument didn't last long. If the argument strengthens, who should be held responsible for this loss?

Playboy's guide -

-> If you want to enjoy boozing on boat. Call the owner of boat directly and offer them Rs 200 more than ticket price and order what ever you want.
-> If you want to enjoy with your girl friend or anybody, take her on boat till Kollur. You will have cottages available in Kollur. No police riding nothing because police will get scared to reach that place. No harm to you ofcourse. Next day you can find some other boat to take you to your destination.
-> If you come from Rajahmundry, you will have A/C rooms in boats and you can do what ever you want there.

Boat owners - Just for the sake of money, don't allow many gangs to enjoy on boat. It would be good, if you just allow single gang and disallow them to smoke in public. If any gang has got huge number of people, redirect them to booka boat only for them so that they will write their own destiny. You cannot do all these things in the middle of many families because Holy Dignity of that place will be lost.

It was all about entertainment, now about the blind tourism ministry-

This is such a great tourist destination, which lacks very basics.

-> Single road ( it can accomodate only one vehicle) with lot of hurdles in the middle, your vehicle will definitely hate you at the end.
-> It is all naturally grown up, no body really cared to make this tourist destination more attractive. You will not even find much police around (You will find naxals around. Lap of naxals is the safest place than police - one localite has to say).
-> Not much transport arrangement/hotels from tourism ministry.

Don't say that this is naxal's place and you can't improve tourism here. No Naxal will stop you from development and at the same time, this development will help tribals around Papikondalu.

Beautiful kollur island and few huts visible :-)

Heavy Rains Paralyse Hyderabad

I started from Banjara Hills towards Seethaphalmandi. Till ErraManjil traffic was normal and moving. After some movement i observed that Traffic Police took shelter far away from signals and vehicles zigzagged across roads. Even i didn't bother to care about following traffic guidelines as it might be foolishness to follow and moved in my way. When i reached khairtabad rains were not that heavy, but vehicles were moving at Snail's pace.

I moved towards lakdikapool , telugu talli fly over and then via khawatiguda. Roads are flooded and all vehicles were almost blocked and any vehicle could hardly move an inch. 4 feet of water made roads look like river. I travel via this very road regulary and i know how many hurdles i have to cross in a normal sunny day. Imagine the hell when the water is about 4 feet on this road. I was going mental and at the same time doing some mental calculations about how to overcome this traffic mess.

The only thing GHMC do when heavy rains lashes hyderabad is opening the manhole. I really wonder if this is a manhole or small hole, when i see 4 feet water flooding on roads. If the government is really calculating, there were many deaths due to these open man holes few years back. Few questions were always left unanswered

-> every now and then heavy rains lash roads and there will be no mitigation plan from GHMC
-> where are traffic police? and why signals are not working? They are monitoring. Guys you are supposed to regulate traffic, not monitor. I observed few civilians and shop keepers regulating traffic. Hats Off to these guys.
-> Why so many hurdles on roads? when are you going to level roads?
-> Why iron man holes? why not plastic?
-> Do you really care about ambulances during these rains?

Seems nothing bothers them. Work proactively guys. Oops what a greedy guy i am, when they are not reacting for rains, i am expecting them to work proactively. God only can help us from these lazy dumb officials.

See some pics of beautiful hyderabad roads -

Dedicating first post to Lord Ganesha

It was around evening 5 and i was bit drowsy. Desperately looking for some interesting conversation because i cannot log out by 5 PM. Suddenly a person was coming out from meeting. He look tired and is done with days work. He is into marketing in my org. Out of my curiosity and interest on marketing field. i started poking about his background. i was surprised enough to ascertain that he is not an MBA but a business editor with some media before.

I re-positioned my chair and turned more attentive now.

He continued..

He was a business editor who took care of corporates upcoming ventures, investments, market shares and profits and etc and etc. On the flow, we started discussing about crime reporters. He said, Crime reporters work till 2 AM until final edition is published and printed. and the job involves more risk. Now explained about a news printed and threats he received. Though he was into business media, he took care of one licenses scam where few MP's of other states were involved. Till the news was limited to local media, there was no issue. Once the news reached national media and MP's names were revealed, he received few threats and ultimately came out of that field to play safe game in life.

Now my enthu turned towards crime reporting and media. after few questions he suggested me to start free lance journalism through blogs.

Although this blog is not completely a free lance journalism, most of the posts will be on what i saw, what i observed and what i believed. I need no proofs to write something. I write about wonders as well as blunders, i talk about failures as well as success, about good as well as bad.

Dedicating my first post to Lord Ganesha. Expecting more from Lord and less from me :-)