KFC – unhygienic and insanitary in India!

I’ve always believed that big American companies treat developing countries like their dumping ground and violate rules without the fear of being sued. If a KFC in the US was found to be “un-hygienic and insanitary”, I’m sure courts would impose a penalty running into millions of dollars on them. The most popular KFC in New Delhi, the capital city of India, was shut down yesterday as it was a “Health Hazard”. The government order, clearly stating that the KFC was found to be “running under unsanitary and un-hygienic conditions” is posted here.  This particular KFC was located in the densely populated North Campus area and was a regular hangout of Delhi University students. If such a well located and prime restaurant...

Open letter to Paypal business head – blocked services in India

Dear Farhad This is in response to your post - https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/02/an-open-letter-from-farhad-irani-on-the-situation-in-india/ Hundreds, maybe thousands on Indians, particularly young people from the IT software industry are dependent on Paypal for receiving payments from abroad. After few years of service, Paypal faces some issues with RBI and it suddenly decides to stop all payments and withdrawals to bank accounts.  You must currently be holding thousands if not millions of dollars that belong to people in India. It raises several questions about the whole way in which the issue is being handled and the ethics at work : a) There is NO official information on paypal.com/in about the difficulties you are facing. Why are you hiding...

Starting a blog now !

A lot of changes happening in the year 2010, hopefully for the good ! First off, I have one email address . In the past, I’ve always managed to be strangled with free email ID’s from yahoo, hotmail, in.com etc for various reasons. Its nice to be able to reduce the time required to manage the spam and lists in all of them and to know your own email ID explicitly.  Next, I’ve finally booked a domain name for myself – anil.biz ! I’ve done if for so many people, companies organizations and entities that I never got around to getting one for myself. Another reason I could never decide on the domain name was unavailability of a short simple name meant for me. Now I need to plan what to do with it . WordPress or Drupal,...