Demand a passbook for your bank savings account
In one of the best banking news in recent times, RBI has made it compulsory for banks to issue passook to savings account holders.
Pune Corporation – The Art of Converting Public Parking Spaces Into Private Property
As per construction rules in cities, all buildings need a certain parking capacity to be approved by the corporation. Although even these standards seem inadequate to handle the traffic mess in Pune, builders have found a way to make it appear as if they are conforming to the law without doing anything of that sort. They just convert the parking potential of the public road into a private parking facility.
Is resignation to circumstances inherent to Indian culture?
One of the most striking things about Indian culture is that we rarely resist. For hundreds of years we have been ruled by the Mughals and the British, but apart from the independence struggle early in the last century and in 1857, there’s not much record of resistance from the masses. A few rulers did resist foreign rule but those weren’t people’s movements.
Footpaths are for pedestrians and not illegal chaat stalls
Encroachments on footpaths and by the roadside are so common that most of us barely notice them. We have to step around these vendors, be very inconvinienced by them and their customers and yet we choose to ignore them. We do not even hesitate while buying things from these very vendors that cause us so much trouble everyday. Why?
Thinking beyond IIT and IIM
A clarification before I get into the subject: I am not against IITs and IIMs. They are wonderful institutions and I respect the handful who get into these institutions. The IITs and IIMs have not failed the nation. It’s the nation that has failed the core idea behind these institutions.
Please Do Not Litter – Waste bin just 1 minute away
One of the big problems in Indian society is the lack of civic sense. This manifests in various forms, one of the most common being the way in which we…