Joke of the month
Pakistan police blame India for day of terror attacks
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Source: TOI
Naming Convention
It is a trend in AP to name projects and places after two persons, both do not have any credentials what so ever personally or politically to be considered great people. While one person at least had ‘citizenship’ (please read that a citizen is a person who obeys the land of the law/birth) while the other one was very close to being a terrorist (by definition a terrorist is a person who inflicts damage on society without provocation and with…
The Kings area back
With the death of AP’s CM comes the million dollar question. Who is that macho who would take the reins and build an empire on his own. Well, the process is simple during pre-Raj days. The eldest son of the King would always succeed the throne, the Aristocratic way of electing the people’s representatives. The funny part is not much has changed since then. Panditji’s mantle was carried over by Indira and her legacy was safe-guarded by Rajiv and his…
Somethings never change..
After a long long break, I was browsing Deccan Chronicle on the web and had a deep sigh “somethings never change”. It was more or less a crappy news paper which it had been during my days in Hyderabad and God forbid, its still maintaining the same status-quo. Although it covers some national and international news, its primarily a local English language News Paper and what I see in its Entertainment section headlines are… Jessica Simpson’s lawyers issue legal warning……
Joke of the year :) :) :)
No prizes for guessing what it is! I know most of you would come up with the same one (without blinking). So here it goes.. “The Andhra Pradesh State’s FY ’09-’10 Budget” Told ya! no prizes for guessing. Anyway, the story goes like this (all figures in Crores)… Total Budge 103,485.33 (Anything after the decimal is considered missinglenous). Planned Expenditure 40,184.11 Un-Planned Expenditure 63,301.22 (Again, please do not guess!) Free electricity increased to 9 hours from 7 hours (8 out…
Death & Taxes
Folks at WallStats has put together this eye-candy on 2010 US spending. Read more here.
Senate * Committee
First and foremost is that I would request the congress to kindly ‘grow up’. Wasting valuable time in the name of Senate * committee is wasting people’s time. The Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor can easily beat Potter’s 7 episodes in length, breadth and conviction. I guess if Jesus Christ was nominated instead, they would ask him “can you claim yourself be kind to other religions when you have long vocalized for the Christianity? Do you have the credentials…
Hyderabadi Fools
HMDA Master Plan The above link is the news item published in Times of India in the Hyderabad section today. The article briefly discuss the so called ‘Master Plan’ to widen roads in Hyderabad to accommodate the growth and traffic in Hyderabad Metropolitan area. We had a close family friend who is now retired used to work in Town Planning Office located in Masab Tank area. Its a huge complex housing hundreds (may be more than thousand) of employees authorized…
Obituary
This is a message to extend my deepest sympathies to the people of Andhra Pradesh. Not that I hate Congress or love any other party in general, but the rulers often decide the fate of the public. The state has been raped, looted and deprived of its resources and this will continue for the next 5 years as well. Of course it is the people of AP who are at fault of not learning from their mistakes. When only 60%…