India moon mission - Chandrayaan 1

Below is what I posted at BBC Discussion forum about India moon mission. BTW, Star News (in Hindi) and Times Now (in English) coverage was best. NDTV which was highlighting the cost of the mission again and again seem to be upset about it.
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I got up very early to see the live telecast of launch. Almost all TV channels were showing it live. Indian scientists were educating the viewers about this mission. I am expecting to see comments from some 'suffering' westerners who would blast India spending so much money on this mission while many people are poor in India. Just a info to them..India does not lack money..we lack the proper management or system where is money is not properly distributed..so back off and take a chill pill..

US Presidential Debate

Yesterday saw debate of Obama and McCain on CNN. Politics outside India is almost of no interest to me. But I appreciated and liked the debate of these 2 candidates. They were asked questions from people sitting there and via net. The answers were quite nice n to the point. Obama obviously won the show by suggesting the practical solutions and ways to implement them. I could see that he has a vision of USA in his mind. Where as McCain was relying more on reminding viewers that US is great nation. He had nothing concrete to offer other than playing the 'US Superpower' card and pointing fingers at Obama. He was suggesting the policies which have failed US miserably. Same policies resulted in the financial mess US is in today.

If Obama became US president,which he most likely will then it will be best for that country. US might achieve same admiration and superpower status under his leadership, which she was known for in 20th century.

Hindu's Awakening

The recent protests by Hindus, against Govt. giving in to unjustified demand of Muslims of not giving any land for temporary stay of Hindus pilgrimage at Amarnath shrine, shows awakening of Hindus souls. More than hundreds of years of rules by Muslims and then by Britishers have made our soul and intellect inert. But now we are realizing about what, who we are.

Bangalore New Airport

Today new Bangalore international airport was opened. I went there to pick up my family. It is great..comfortable.looks good..and airport staff is more than eager to help. Signboards were easily visible..and finding car parking and parking car was a cakewalk.
It gives good feeling that in India too we can have such good projects..well..only if we could get rid of kinkos..

While coming out I was interviewed by Deccan Herald reporters..they took lots of our photos..lets see if any of it gets published in their newspaper.

US H1B Visa and Americans Hypocrisy

This is what I wrote in response to a businessweek article where some US folks had written bad things about Indians.

Some myopic, less informed, suffering people from US think that only IT is driving Indian economy. Well, what else you can expect from the community which preaches free trade and when the churning process starts and it challenges them to come out of their comfort zone, they start complaining. And come to the level of cheap talking, finger pointing and mud throwing.

Almost 1% of Indian population is dependent on IT in India. Even IT is concentrating itself to domestic market in India. Maybe if US starts protective measures than India also should start thinking of restrictions on US goods and services in India.
Indian economy is driven by
- Telecom (of which a US company has for billion USD project)
- Aviation(Boeing gets lots of orders from Indian companies)
- Insurance(has AIG,Prudential and many more)
- Banking(has citibank, ING, standard chartered etc)
- Manufacturing (GE and hundreds of many more US companies which are creating and selling from India and to India)
Like any other thing, a country's economy has its ups and downs and India is no different.

Perverted Mind

What a perverted, timid mind can think of? See for yourself

http://www.hindujagruti.org/activities/campaigns/national/mfhussain-campaign/intro.php

Awkward situations

Sometimes you are faced with strange situations where you don't know how to react.

- In Germany I was having lunch at cafeteria. 2 German gals came and sat on the same table. Germans always speak in German language amongst themselves. But these 2 gals started talking in English, amongst themselves, and were discussing Hindi movies and Shahrukh Khan. I kept thinking what to say, but ultimately did not say anything and got up and left quietly after 10 minutes.
- Once while in US, while travelling from bus I was not having change for 50 dollars bill for tickets. Neither did the driver had any change. I asked everyone in the bus for change but no one would have. A poor looking person came and took tickets for us himself and gave us. He would not take 50 USD bill. We kept asking the persons who would board bus on intermediate stops for it. Ultimately we got it. I walked at the front of the bus where that gentleman was sitting and gave him 4 USD for which he had bought out tickets. Fellow passengers misunderstood it and started giving him money. As I said he was poor looking. I felt bad as I made him look a beggar but he himself was laughing and taking all the money.
- After i came back to India from US, one of my ex-colleague in US started emailing me about how a woman..with whom I was also working is trying to flirt with him..and wants to do much more. What could I reply..so I stopped replying to his emails.