Online shopping in India – growing rapidly
I remember my first purchase of flowers on rediff.com somewhere in the 90′s. I was forced to use a credit card, the delivery took a few days and the quality of delivered flowers wasn’t as expected. Yet, it was a great to know that online shopping was possible and would improve in India. In the year 2005, I setup my own online store selling computers. Facing 100′s of issues – including interstate taxes, poor delivery services, fraud rates and high transaction rates from payment gateways, I eventually shut it down. However, I was even more convinced that some day, online shopping would grow large in India. From 2011, we’ve been seeing a regular release on new online stores. While most of them are limited to selling few kinds of...
New Ministries required in Govt of India
One look at the overall infrastructure in India and you seriously feel the need for a Govt revamp. After thinking about it for some days and going through an experience where my SUV’s wheel nearly couldn’t come out of a pothole on a State level highway, I think these 3 new ministries must be created by the Govt. of India: a. Ministry of Finishing The role is to finish everything left unfinished by all other departments. Roads (made narrower than possible), footpaths, landscape open areas, cover drains, complete the road dividers, finish boundary walls, put signage’s, connect to the drains etc. You get the idea. You know this kind of work is required to be done everywhere, in every city, town and village. The ministry will be inundated with...
Shame, Shame Mr Rahul Gandhi
Dear Mr Rahul Gandhi I am shocked at the speech you gave in Parliament today, you have no right to be a leader of the masses if your speech reflects your thinking. I am left with no choice but to educate people by dissecting your speech in detail: You have said: “I have been deeply distressed at the developments of the last few days. Many aspects of the situation have caused me anguish.” Are you speaking the truth? With a surname like Gandhi, that’s the least expected of you. Where were you for the last few days? The entire nation awaited your intervention to resolve the impasse but you were absent. Various TV channels and eminent people in the Media tried to get your comment, there was none. Everyone in India gave their comments, from the general...
Mac OS X Lion – Must upgrade
Just upgraded to Mac OS X Lion (10.7) on the Macbook and iMac. As in most Mac updates, faced no issue at all. I’ve been playing around with Mac OS X Lion for some time and it’s really cool. Here are a few quick notings: 1. On the Macbook with a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 and 3 GB DDR2 RAM (Mid 2009), Lion is as fast or probably faster than Snow Leopard. 2. Some of the Key new features of Lion over Snow Leopard are : Mission Control – I would rate this as the most useful new feature. I’ve never managed to use Spaces effective, with Mision Control, I can use multiple desktop screens much more effectively. LaunchPad – This too is useful, for the first time, I can see the whole host of Applications that are there on the Mac and think of...
Buying an under-construction apartment? Keep this in mind.
This article is for all those who are buying under-construction apartments for the purpose of living in it. Based on my bad experience over the past 6 years, I’ve put together some crucial points that will help ensure that your investment is safe and you get what you are promised. There has been a trend to “book” an apartment, which a builder would construct over time and deliver to you. Normally, builder promises 36 months as the time required to complete the construction but in most cases, this gets extended. If the delay is minor, you should accept it but if it’s significant, it makes sense to drag the builder to a consumer court. Also, builders make wild promises to lure customers in but fall short on the delivery. They’ll promises swimming pools,...
Stop that music – now!
This is a simple complaint- stores in India need to stop playing music- specially at a volume that could cause permanent damage to their customers ears. We decided to spend an evening at Connaught Place on Saturday evening. We started by getting coffee at a Cafe Coffeeday outlet, the cafe was packed but we found a nice table in a corner. The moment we sat there, we realized we couldn’t talk to each other across the table as the music was too loud. Requesting the waitress to reduce the volume did result in some sanity that lasted only for a couple of minutes till our order was processed. This time around, the volume was incremented with a vengeance and the choice of a sleazy Bollywood number made it worse. Why does a coffee store that’s supposed to...
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