Inflation woes #2

I am now regretting why I did not do a ‘Full karo do bhaiya” for my dear bike before the petrol hike came into effect.

She will have to be now drink lesser fuel for upcoming times.

Inflation woes #1

Inflation woes #1.

My regular pohawala used to sell one plate poha (what is poha? click here) at 5 Rs. Today I went to his open air stall after may be a week gap and I had to give 7 Rs. Now thats 40% hike in the price.
My salary hike has not been more than 15% (effective would be <10% after my lovely goverment eats out from my plate).

So now is the poha hike is justifiable?

LPG increased by 39 Rs (+50-11 adjustments after “revolution” by opposing political parties and public aware public) and thats a 13.4% increase ( previous price was 295 Rs)

And taking into consideration another 7% for the other stuff required to make the poha the total increase should not have been > 20%.
So Poha wala’s 40% hike is not justifiable.

But so is the price hike in oil, and LPG. Arab nations are looting us. We and all the countries which are not “DESERTED” like the arab and oil pumping nations should make sure we don’t feed them food they cannot grow on their deserts and let them know they have to reduce their money demand for oil when they sell to world.

Slippery Oil and Steep prices

So finally the the oil flowing down from a steep sloped hill and the prices running up the flow has taken toll on the market indices.

Global market has slumped and slipped due the the slippery oil’s steeply rising prices.

BSE is down by 444 points and NSE is down 126 points.

How far is this to fall?

 

It is necessary to curb the dependancy of human system on oil and give more thought and money to other resources.

Now we don’t have to waste money on deodorants :-)

A recent news article published ( http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/3648 ) says that the odour produced from under masculine armpits attracts women and that the odour is not bad.

So what is the basis of vaious staged by Deodorant companies saying that if you want a girl following you all the time then use “OUR” blah blah deodorant. Axe shows that if you use an AXE DEODORANT then you just need to put it on and you are ready to get wooed by hundreds of girls and women.

Next time you go out with your girlfriend don’t put on your Fa or Axe and then check whether her nostrils turn towards you or not.

 

 

Recent fuel prices hike, its consequences, what happens against and where we as a nation are wrong

So it was a big head line for all the news papers and breaking news for all the TV channels yesterday when the Govt decided to raise the prices of petrol and diesel.

And a clear fodder for the opposition to protest.

And a clear indication to vehicle owners to line up on the eve before the hike day to full-up the stomachs of their hungry cars and bikes.

And a clear sign for middle class to rethink about their young boy/girl’s demand for a new 2-wheeler and the long sought dream to buy a car.

So what does this mean. I was searching on net. Here’s what CommodityOnline posted 2 days back. Calculator for fuel prices(http://www.commodityonline.com/news/topstory/newsdetails.php?id=9164.

Suppose if the petrol price per litre in Chennai is Rs 51.90, here the break-up of cost calculated by the  government:
Basic Price = Rs 21.93
Excise duty = Rs 14.35
Education Tax = Rs 0.43
Dealer commission = Rs 1.05
VAT = Rs 5.5
Crude Oil Custom duty = Rs 1.1
Petrol Custom = Rs 1.54
Transportation Charge = Rs 6.00
Total price = Rs 51.90 

So we pay more than 50% of what we pay for petrol in taxes only. This is internal to the country. The management and the government of the country is responsible for how the taxes are levied on goods and products and how it affects the end user price.

But then taxes are mandatory for public growth and for keeping the public system ticking all round. And then the question comes as to whether this much taxing is justifiable or not?

International prices for crude oil have also increased and is equally responsible for increase in barrel prices. But even then the actual prices of the fuel that we pay are much more than what we should be.

Owing to the sudden increase the next consequences are far more disheartening. Following things happened or will happen:

Shiv sena protests and does a local train jam which disrupts public order and wastes time and money of public. Does not make sense as it does not do any good. Shive sena wasted “OUR” money.

CPM will holds a rally and does a bandh, again public balance is hampered. Everything is closed. No offices, No earning, no hospitals, no doctors, no treatment. Who is affected? “PUBLIC” “WE”. Possible outcome: ” Loss of public revenue”

Govt anticipates the protests and declares an increase in fule prices by Rs5/ltr for petrol and Rs3/ltr for diesel. Then takes a decision to decrease sales tax on fuel to show that a decrease of 1.50, 0.66 is happening. (We must not forget the LPG for which increase has been 50 Rs per cylinder and subsequent slash has been 11.35 Rs, and that LPG is a very essential past of life because it is a household item and not a luxury item) So the decision by the government taken yesterday can be taken as one which it anyways would have taken and is not an effect of protest, because govt knows they are doomed to happen.

But then Govt says the losses due to sales tax cut are to be bore by cutting down on development projects because then govt would not have money. And why does Govt not have money? Because after it is done with the following it is left with very left:

Restrucuring of Statue of Mayawati after she “DOES NOT LIKE” her current one because she “THINKS” it is not taller than the one of Kanshi Ram. Story will go one with upcoming politicians(read UPCOMING ATTRACTIONS) and they will demand taller and taller statues and at the same time their own image of being public workers is getting diminished.(http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/where-your-taxes-go-34/, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Mayawati_pulls_down_her_own_statue/articleshow/3093155.cms)

“OFFICIAL” Foreign visits of High profile poiliticians and judges which are in fact very personal.(http://ibnlive.com/news/are-judges-holidaying-at-public-expense/65630-3.html)

And the list will go on….

Is govt ready to checked the potholes on it own pathway?

Is govt ready to accept that the black ribbon on the eyes of the “MOTHER JUSTICE” should be removed and it is now necessary to do a reverse research as to why Govt and its own people are behaving like leeches and sucking up its own blood.

Does the govt need another 1857 war to be started and another civil disobedience to start over again?

The taxes we pay are NOT being used for US but are being used for feeding the personal hungers of some of the very corrupt poiliticians and criminals who are sitting on CHAIRS.

We are responsible for feeding them and making them fat, so much that they cannot sit up and walk and work and that we cannot throw them out easily.

Public parties are supposed to make opposition to what government does if it feels it is bad for public and nation but at the same time it should make sure that for doing this the real need is to make sure that the reasons for such bad happenings are brought up and not to do nationwide bandhs and rail-roko.

How many political parties and organisations stage a rally against the incidents mentioned above. We speak through the media but is it truly falling on right open ears or it is falling on deaf ears?

“PRICE RISE AND PROPER USAGE OF TAXES IS A HIGHLY INTERDEPENDANT CORRELATION”, which cannot be and should not be ignored.

We speak but we ignore it because the issue in front of us gets replaced by another issue and we lose the track of what issue we were dealing earlier.

 

IQ score 130 on IQTEST.COM

Got a score of 130 on IQTEST.com.

Missed out by 19 points here. Target be 149 if you want to be extra-ord

 

IQ score on International High IQ Society

Got a score of 115 and missed by 9 points to reach 124 and be a member of the society. But I will try again.

 

courtsey: http://www.highiqsociety.org

What is the International High IQ Society?
The International High IQ Society was founded in the spirit of the urban academies and intellectual salons that first sprang up during the European Enlightenment. These communities of amateur scholars were devoted to the casual pursuit of the arts and sciences, and their members represented the learned professions, merchants, writers, and artisans. After flourishing throughout Europe and North America, many of these communities were displaced by modern research universities and influential government and private sector research foundations. Much was gained from this transformation, but something was lost as well.
 
The International High IQ Society takes what’s best about the golden age of the intellectual salons–tolerance, moral engagement, and faith in the free play of ideas–and applies them to a contemporary setting.

Presentation Design: A B C D of Presentations

Here comes another slide show which I would like to share.

“Less Words .. More meaning” aptly describes the show.

Very creative. Ample and perfect use of colours and photographs.

What does death teach us?

I had been to Nagpur last weekend. An unfortunate and an untimely accidental death of my Grandmother shocked our families. It was a great loss to all of us.

Death is the ultimate truth in this world. No sadness, no happiness is as real and as true as death. I had a feeling of guilt all the time over me. All because I had a feeling that I should have been with my grandmother for a long time. I felt there could have been oppotunities when I could have possibly been able to be with her and at least tried to provide some comfort to her. She did not die a painful death but still did not die at utmost painless death. There was pain, physical and emotional. The emotional pain deceased her and the physical pain ceased her.

She went away into the eternal light and I felt the sudden hole in our lives. It is not very easy to confront someone from your lives who is now dead and is sleeping peacefully in front of you, and with this feeling is another feeling that the person is not going to wake up again. You are afraid to go near and accpept the truth.

Her death brought knows and unknowns to our home who paid homage to her and blessed her soul and cried their hearts out.  There were people who cried because they did not want to be alone with granma and there were people who were crying because they did not want to be seen not crying. Nonetheless, inspite of bickerings and fights of the past all were now on the same level. All now knew that the ultimate culmination point is the death.

“We a born and we are shackled, Death lets us free”. This is right but may be fanatics and non religious people will not agree with this saying this is too much non practical. But if you want to see the practical side of this then you need to record you life till date you are alive and see it in fast speed to see the situation you are in and how much you are in shackles. We are all travelling the same path from birth to death. We travel intermingled pathways and crossed roads which meet multiple times and are the reasons why we get more and more complicated and dependant on being alive as we go on ageing. But then in the end we all reach to a common point and we die.

Our Birth creates imbalance in the system and Death is the leveller.

We ask questions that “what does our life teach us?” ” WHat is it that we got from our lives?”

But sometimes we must ask a question to ourself “What does death teach us?”

May God bless her soul and she be blessed with eternal fragrances of heaven.

 

Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

Another book that I am current reading in parallel is “Wikinomics” by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. Recently I happened to have acquired this from my library The authors are talking about huge surveys done at a mass scale putting in billions of dollars to ascertains and derive the various ways how globalisation and the rise of web 2.0 is helping scores of people in getting bonded with the society and the ever increasing economics of the world due the fast and speedy communication.

Every person is now able to connect to another so easily resulting in mass collaboration. The consumer is now prosumer (producer + consumer). He connects with service providers and is connected by them for various proactive inputs which act as quintessential idea building blocks for the companies and help them understand the masses better.

According to the official website www.wikinomics.com wikinomics is “Based on a $9 million research project led by bestselling author Don Tapscott, Wikinomics shows how the masses of people can participate in the economy like never before. They are creating TV news stories, sequencing the human genome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding a cure for disease, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.”

The fact is very clear these days. Each one of us is contributing directly or indirectly to the economy some or the other way.