Tuesday, August 28, 2007

cool calculator

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Sir Sir

This is the picture of govind jaiswal. He’s a son of Narayan Prasad Jaiswal who gives out rickshaws on contract, and does not know what IAS means. His son Govind Jaiswal qualified for the civil services, coming 48th. It was difficult for his father to believe that ‘Govinda’ would become a “collector saheb’’. Living in a 12x8 sq ft rented room on the first floor of a house at Usmanpura, Varanasi, for the past 35 years, his father had been spending most of his earning on his son’s education. After graduating from a local college in 2003, Govinda shifted to New Delhi to prepare for the civil services and has cracked it in his first attempt. He got a dozen marriage proposals after the result, one from the family of local liquor king offering 4 crore as dowry but he turned them down.

In his words “ I decided to try for IAS because this is a one government job where you don’t need money or approach to get in, and I had neither………Earlier the police used to harass my father now they do sir, sir ”


Saturday, August 04, 2007

Coka-Cola and You

Pick the odd-man-out: Alcohol, Cigarette, Coke. Incorrect questions you say, huh? Exactly the point. All three are no-good, and yet so prevalent in our society worldover today. And who is reaping all the profits? Well you know that. The Companies that sell these products!! e.g. Coca-Cola, Revenue, $24Billion Profit $5 billion (more than 25%).

Here are some people who are doing something in this regard:

Read the Anti-Coke campaign article here