IS DISHONESTY CURRENTLY THE BEST POLICY IN INDIA????

Yesterday evening I was calling from my cell phone. After the conversation, my handset showed the call duration as 00.59 seconds. But I was charged for 2 minutes by my service provider (cant state the name of the service provider, as I don’t have any evidence, as the LAST CALL DURATION record gets overwritten when the next call is made.), which is twice the charge. I rang up the customer care. They replied that my last call lasted for 62 seconds and that’s why I was charged for two minutes. It seems, their software is programmed in such a way that every time a call is made, a few seconds is added to the total call duration of the customer and billed accordingly. This is not the first time, I experienced such an experience. It happened many times before too. Some of my friends and colleagues also had such experiences with different cellular service providers and I am sure you too had such experience sometimes sooner or later. Is this the way the multi-billionaire cell-bosses are becoming multi-billionaire? The cell-companies are having over million customers, if the companies cheat a customer once a day (although I was cheated many times on some days), they make millions of Rupees everyday just by cheating. My case was of a prepaid SIM. If you are a post paid customer, only God and cheating Cell-companies know how many times you are cheated, as in case of postpaid customers bills are generated once in a month. Forget Cell-operators, the other sectors are also equally dishonest. That is why, the reputed company like Videocon is banned by World Bank on dealing with them. The saga of Satyam is not unknown to anyone. These unmask the famous Indian dishonesty to the world. Can you name a place where dishonesty has not placed its root? Right from defense dealings to education, from medical sector to IT sector, Indian dishonesty is on a rampage. I too work in an environment where shameless dishonest employees are selling their soul and honesty in a worse way than that a prostitute does. Here, I recall my experience that I experienced while working with a Two Wheeler Company Authorized Dealer (again I can’t disclose the name of the dealer as I do not have any evidence), where the dealer used to increase the Prices of spare parts of two wheelers by 20-30% in the very next month, whenever the sale of the bike used to go down. Really, honesty is probably the cheapest thing that money can buy here in India. Actually India is ruled by foreigners for about 1000 years. In this long spell of time, we were taught to get our works done by hook or crook and to make money in any way – whether it is an honest way or a dishonest way, it doesn’t matter. So, dishonesty has entered in our Genes and we areGenetically Modified Dishonest. That is the only reason why the Multi Crore Stamp Paper Scan, Share Scam, Defence purchase Scams etc happens only in India.  Here you refuel in Petrol Pumps, 95% of their meter will run fast. You ride a taxi in a metropolis, 90% chance you will be over charged. You ask your gas vendor to supply the cylinder at your home on time, you have to count some extra notes. We are very happy in buying smuggled cheap Chinese products, but while buying Indian Products, we try to escape tax. Escaping Income Tax is seen as a heroic activity. On the other hand, are we getting the total benefit that we suppose to get from the amount collected from tax. A Major portion of the money is spent unnecessarily on the Politicians and Bureaucrats It seems almost every Single Indian is dishonest and in this country if you are honest, you are the most fool one.  

‘Jane Kya hoga Rama re….Jane kya hoga Maula re…………’

Collision between the Ships - Another Threat to Olive Ridleys in Orissa Coast.

Splitting of Oil from the MV Malvika has set a serious threat to life of Olive Ridleys in Orissa coast. The collision between an Indonesian Coal carrier and an Indian Marine Vehicle MV Malvika as resulted in the split of oil from MV Malvika, which reports says, has spread over an area of 16 kilometers along the coast in Ganjam District  and the Rishikulya Delta of Orissa.

This time of the year is the nesting season of Olive Ridleys. An estimated two hundred thousand Olive Ridleys has arrived in the Rishikulya Delta of Orissa this year. This year Olive Ridleys have chosen three places  between Gokharkura and Kantiagara as their nesting ground and have laid eggs. Within three weeks from now it is expected that the eggs would be hatched and thousands of lil Ridleys would born. They have a tendency to crawl towards the sea immediately after their birth. And this polluted water would become a serious threat to their life. Infact, environmentalists feel that the eggs may get damaged before they are hatched..

Surviving the Toughest Time of the Year - The Aftermath of Global warming.

With the mercury touching 45 on Saturday and Sunday, the horrible days are here. Its really unbearable here in Chittaranjan. The hot wind or loo starts blowing around 10.30 every morning and the morning mild weather turns into horrible hot weather within 25-30 mins. Immediately u have to close the doors and windows to save the mild temperature inside the house. But that don't spare you. Around 12.30 the temperature inside the room becomes equally hot.

This is my third summer in this staggering Climatic Zone. I have observed that the weather is getting harsher in every summer. Last time this climatic condition was prevailing in mid - end May and  this year it is only 2nd week of April. God knows where will the mercury reach at the end May!! I am aware of the difficulties that comes along with the hot summer. A few days later there will surely be shortage in water supply here. Since there is no rain since last rainy season, the water level of Sidhabari pumping station, which pumps water for Chittaranjan township from Maithon Dam, must have gone down. Last year when the water level was down, the water for household use was supplied from the dirty local lakes. that water was even not fit for washing clothes and utensils. Some hand-pumps were installed last year but they are inadequate looking at the population here. There will be long queues for collecting drinking water. Last year  I had to purchase drinking water for my house for the first time in my life. It was an amazing experience - good or bad, I don't know.

Why is “The Blog of Anirban” using Black Template?

The background of “The Blog of Anirban” has deliberately been kept black. This has an eco-friendly reason.

A research paper published over internet by an US based environmental agency Energy End Users Forecasting (http://enduse.lbl.gov/Info/LBNL-48581.pdf) says "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white screen than a black  screen."

A post published on http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/ says an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. Popular Search Engine like Googe gets around 200 million hits a day. Suppose, on an average, the google home page remains for 10 seconds on a CRT monitor, it consumes 15W (74W – 15 W) more energy than a Black Screened Google would do. This means we can save 8.3 Megawatt-Hour of Energy per day or 3000 Megawatt Hour a year. Using black screen version of search engines like http://www.blackle.com/ can help us saving electricity to a great extent