Why more tax rebate to women ?A budgetary crime

The women who work and earn more than Rs 1.5 LPA get their compensation without any discrimination. I have seen no organization in India which would pay women any less if she meets the work criteria.

Further , the women who are earning are most likely to marry men who earn even more.

Now consider a man and woman working in the same organization. Both are married and are drawing salary of Rs 2LPA .The man to a house maker and the woman to a person who earns the same ,if not more. In this case the man shelves a tax of  Rs 4,000/= while the woman gives out only Rs 1000/=. She already has a surplus from her husband’s earning .
 The poor man however finds it difficult to make the ends meet.

This is the bullshit which successive Finance minister has been doling out to India and no body protests. The rebate should be given on need basis and in this case the poor single earning member should get it. I do not know why it will take a genius and dozens of tax reforms to understan that rebqte should be linked to the number od depensdents an earning member has. That person’s income supports larger number of non earning members.
 
This simple step would ensure that we tax all those women who are earning handsomely and pass the benefit to those who really need them . Will Mr Mukherjee listen  ? Probably not. Will couts take cognizance of this fallacy ? probably not. This inertia plagues our nation

Hello Rajiv Gandhi ! Whats you got to do with it ?

Hello Rajiv Gandhi ! Whats you got to do with it ? We got a brand new bridge. Did you have a dream that you would like to see a bridge like this in Bombay someday ? If yes, the Mumbaikars have had 100 times more nightmares in absence of this. Will you kindly let us rename it Mumbai Spirit bridge? If at all you were associated with this project your contribution is very well given here.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Economy/Infrastructure/Bandra-Worli-Sea-Link-A-hi-tech-incompetence/articleshow/4723268.cms

 

Pyschophancy  in your Congress runs deep and these days pays very well . Each time it has to exceed the previous one to secure a pie. Ashok  Chavan, Vilas rao, Sharad Pawar , Pratibha have revelled in your  Madam’s feet and are where they are today because of this. Once again they are at it and are dragging you in it . Sharad’s suggestion and Ashok Chavan’s seconding it reeks of scoring brownie points with Madam. Dont you think It is insensitive and incongruous to name it after you as you very rarely identified with this city?

Are you not happy and content that your dear Mani Shankar renamed Connaught Place as Rajiv Chowk?  Delhi was your underbelly aint it ? My question is why should you want Sonia to  inaugurate this ? Is it just because its a lasting monument ? Because the expenditure has been 1600 Crores( 5 time over budget )? Because it went 5 yrs behind schedule ? Can you be kind enough to let Major Unnikrishnan’s parents inaugurate this ? This Major if you have not forgotten 26/11 had laid down his life fighting to restore peace to it. Or should it not be a Karkare,  Salaskar or Tambe’s wife. Give it  a thought , the nation will be grateful to you for this generousity.

 

You were slained serving your party cause; trying to make a comeback after getting voted out on corruption charges. You were killed by Tigers for meddling in internal affairs of  Srilanka ( When you had no business meddling there).  You didnt know you will be blown away. These poor folks Major Sandeep in particular knew he may die saving his fellow soldiers and this city. He carried on in face of imminent danger to his life. Your death gave your party a sympathy wave and landslide victory. Your Madam now has unyielding grip on Indian political firmament. What have these martys got ? People have started forgetting their names. Can you prevent the nation from being ungrateful ?   

 

 

You ( Gandhis) are already are a rich family with name sprayed every significant structure or schemes Just see the list of places that have been painted in love for you and your family ( Not exhaustive )

1. J N Nehru Urban Renewal Mission

 2. Indira Gandhi National Open University

 3. Jawahar Rozgar Yojana

4. Rajiv Chowk

 5 Jawahar Aawaas Yojana

 6 Indira Gandhi National Cener of arts

7. Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana

 8 Rajiv Gandhi infotech Park , Pune.

9.  Indira Gandhi International Airport…

10. Rajiv Gandhi Bachat yojana…

The list is forever and end less

Naming everything important in nation on Gandhis is not enough to pay back your great services. We also wish to pay homage to people who died for Mumbai. Will you be kind enough this time to tell your Madam to let this thing go. The nation will repay this kindness by launching a thousand Soniya yojana, Rahul Nagar and Priyanka Space missions. Will you please talk to your brother Congressmen this one time?

Customer Slayer – An Airtel interaction

Below is the actual interaction, I had with Airtel. They had been pestering me for more than 6 months on such a small issue as ensuring that I get my bill at residential address  Read on:

 

From: 121@airtelindia.com [mailto:121@airtelindia.com]
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 4:44 PM
To: Purohit, Arun
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] [SPAM] (MOBILE NO:=99XXXX AND 99XXXXX . COMPLAIN FOR NOT CHANGING MY ADDRESS DESPITE SEVERAL REMINDERS [|BAL|996XXXXX9|10620095142|]

 

Dear Mr. Purohit,

 

Thank you for contacting Airtel.

 

We understand from your previous interaction dated 04 May 2009, you have expressed concern over delay in change in billing address, non receipt of bills for your Airtel number 9XXXXXXX and inability to view bills in self care for your Airtel number 9XXXXXXXX.    

  This interaction has been on for at least 6 months without any appreciable response.      

We completely comprehend your viewpoint and sincerely apologize for any difficulty caused to you.

Fake sentiments , reeks of insincerity

 

We take pride in enhancing our customers with our responsive and friendly approach.  It has always been our constant endeavor to ensure, that our customers are delighted by our inimitable approach. 

The endeavor is not reflected in any of your actions

 

We would like to confirm that on checking our records the address has been updated and the same address will be reflecting in forthcoming bill dated 09 June 2009:

I seek an explanation as to why it was not done as committed for May bill. Does your deptt have any sense of responsibility and accountability ?

 

D /  XXX   XXX Towers,

Survey No .1XX/X,,

411057.

 

Regarding non receipt of hard copy of bills:

 

Please be informed that bill dated 09 May 2009 has already been delivered to your billing address and the same have been refused at your billing address. We request you to reconfirm your billing address to initiate further action on the same.

I acknowledge having received a call from the courier agency but refusal to accepts is impossible. My flat is inhabited 24X7X365 . The courier guy said he will resend but didn’t .  please do not sit easy on this

 

Regarding inability to view bills in self care for your Airtel number 9960731531:

 

The concern may be due to up gradation process in our Airtel website. We thank you for bringing the concern to our notice as it has enabled us to look into details of our services. We request you to revert with the screen shot of the error page for further investigation.

The upgradation SUCK has been on for months now. Please cook up something better. For upgrade there is something called test/production environment. Something which worked earlier if didn’t work why was it not tested before going live. I hope your website is not being made and maintained by a charitable trust of web developers. The website literally stinks

 

However, please find below the procedure to view bills in our website. You can logon to our website www.airtel.in to view the last 3 invoices with Itemized statement at free of cost after 5 days from the bill generation date.

 

I am too mature to start learning how to navigate in the website

 

1. Logon to our website, www.airtel.in.   

2. Please login with the username and the password and you would be able to view your Mobile account details.

3. Click on “Bill Guide” option

4. Select the invoice period to view the details and click on “Bill details”.

5. Click on “Itemized Call Statement” to view the itemized call details.

 

You can also click on “Receive bill on Email” option to receive bill in PDF format.

 

We request you to send a message as EBILL EMAILID MONTH to 121 (toll free) to avail any particular bill from last three months bill through email. The same will be sent to your email address within 5 minutes.

 

The bill through email is password protected and you can retrieve it by sending a message as “ebill password” to 121 (toll free) and it will be sent through message immediately.

 

For further assistance, mail us at 121@airtelindia.com.

 

We value your association with Airtel.

 

Warm Regards,

 

I wish to put this converstation on my blog to let people read how funny and testing interacting with customer care can be . Jai HO

BJP ki Jai Ho

 

 

Conntrary to Arun Jaitley’s claim that they performed poorly, I feel they have fared  much better than expected and deserved.

 There are not many uneducated Hindu voters  in this country any more. 

We can also count the educated but bereft of intelligence people in the previous category . Their nos. have fast declined

 The BIMARU ( Bihar, MP,Raj, UP ) states too are not mentally BIMAR to fall prey to its stupid free rice /Gehu /Mandir lures. Also the Hindus today are not insecure enough to seek some uber kid to break somebody else’s hand.

Their hitech campaign to put advt on all pornographic sites( They know Sex only sells) too didnt help. Probably , had their top campaigners got their breasts enhanced and flaunted cleavages it woulld have been a better titillation. 

Their allies are already behaving like whore; having fought election on a common plank, now they are looking for a better paying customer. The lotus which comes out of crap probably in political world is as big a crap  itself.

20 -30 seats  across the country roughly covers most of fascist yucks in our country. Considering this,  160 seats in Elections 09  is a great achievement. Though this is still dangerous for harmony of the country

Many Congratulations, their Gaddi in Opposition Benches is barkarar intact . They wont have to miss their slain pimp Mahajan who used to talk on Mool and Sood ( Principal and interest) for forming the govt. In absense of unrequited wish to become PM of India, their Supremo can take a vacation , lick Jinnah’s grave and pray for getting Sitara -E – Imtiaz ( High Pakistani civilian award) . He can then resettle peacefully in Sindh

Application for Parliament

Hillarious Application from with really groovy Options. 

Note : Those who cant read Hindi/ Devnagari will find renting a translator /interpreter worth the cost

What an MP

 

 

 

L K Advani as PM ?

Leaving all his misgivings aside ( Baburi destruction, Jinnah bootlicking,  Freeing Terrorist, Reaching Bombay to add to security problems post 26/11, ridiculous sense of history and propriety) , I wonder if he is physically fit enough for the most demanding role in the nation.

 

cartoon : courtesy : desicartoonist.blogspot.com

At 83 , I am sure all his teeth must be implanted replacements, lungs not powerful enough to climb 30 stairs in 5 minutes, kidneys on perennial pressure to clean the bad blood.Must have been good 45 years since he last sprinted. 

Having him on helm would appear like  having to commute daily to office using a 1930 model of a god forsaken car brand. Its good for a car vintage rally held  once in a year but daily usage as a nation’s driver, it would suck.  At his age and fitness , i wont trust him to take a dog across the busy street , let alone entrust the nation.  His projection as a PM reminds me of a story written by Anton Chekov.

 An old widow has her daughter’s husbandvisit her for a night . The lady wants to seduce , and in order to show the guy that she is young, she dresses up exotically and attempts chewing hard crumbs of bread. Her gums give way and they start bleeding.

 

His is a case of a highly power greedy lech who always had sight set on the throne but always was a misfit. Probably , out of sympathy, ” Last wish before death” he has been projected as a candidate by his party. The sulking baby finally has been given a chance which doesnt truly exist.  . We will never be sure of the time he spends oscillating between hospitals and office. It feels like Sunil Gavaskar is recalled to lead Indian challenge in T20 world cup.

Same is the case with Dr Manmohan who is not fit enough to hold any office. Is there any organization in world which would employ a 75 yr old with muliple health disorders as its CEO? In an era where leadership is getting progressively younger, the state of Indian politics is stinkingly regressive.

Probably , in a country with average  life expectancy of less than 60, expecting a person at 83 to lead is morbid lack of hope or obsessive compulsive necrophilia . Can we for once expect a leader without a single grey . I may be wrong , but I would expect a nation’s leader to be able to :

1. Jog a mile at least in 8 minutes.

2. Write his own speeches.

3. Dress up contemporarily

4. Know the Technologies.

5. Display good taste in sports, art and culture.

 

Both advani and MM will score zero in this test.

ICICI Bank and its customer vexations

A customer requested a final statement of accounts for homeloan 30 days after last EMI debit: 

 

The mail from ICICI customer care  : 

From: Customer Care [mailto:customercare@icicibank.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:00 PM
To: Ms X
Subject: RE:’ICICICARE=033-604-357′ Regarding Home loan (account number – LBXXX0000XXXXXX\8) 

Dear Ms.X, 

You will pro-actively receive the Final Income Tax Statement for the financial year 2008-2009 to your communication address in the month of May, 2009. 

Sincerely.

Chatur Siyar 

 

Customer Service Officer

ICICI Bank Limited 

 

Now see the response from customer 

 

Dear Mr Chatur Siyar, 

                It pains to see educated people butchering wonderful words mercilessly. I am peeved to see that you have used the word’ proactive’ in as incongruous manner as possible. Just to refresh, please see the definition   

pro·ac·tive or pro-ac·tive

 

 

 

  (prō-āk’tĭv)   Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Acting in advance to deal with an expected difficulty; anticipatory: proactive steps to prevent terrorism.
pro·ac’tion n., pro·ac’tive·ly adv., pro·ac’tive·ness, pro’ac·tiv’i·ty n.

 

 

 

 

 

As I understand, the opposite of proactive is reactive.. 

What I understand from proactive is: Sending the final statement before the customer feels a need for it.  ( Race Horse) 

What I understand from reactive is : Sending the statement when customer demands it. ( Work horse) 

What I see worth retribution is : Delayed sending of statement by  months even when some one asks ( Washerman’s companion) 

 

 

Where your response and attitude fits is for you and your organization to judge. 

 

 

The last crap I would like to read from you is that for all EMIs we paid through ECS till 10Mar09 ,Some Babu in your organization will take 2 months to sign

 

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

Now see the response Bank

 

 This scathing mail shook the sleepy Customer care : The result is : 

Dear Mr X,

 

We refer to your e-mail of April 10, 2009 addressed to Nodal Officer.

 

Your complaint is being attended to. We will respond to you by April 20, 2009. 

 

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Samajhdaar Madam
Office of Head Service Quality

In 2 days the  Bank actually acts

Dear Ms X,
 
We refer to your e-mail of April 10, 2009 addressed to Nodal Officer.
 
Kindly refer the attached copy of the Final Income Tax Statement for the financial year 2008-2009.
 
Sincerely,

Jagi Madam
Customer Service Manager

Conclusion :

1. The customer care of banks actually takes customer for granted

2. They project highyl inflated times to do simple tasks

3. If you question them objectively, the matter gets escalated.

4 At escalated levels there can be reasonable resolutions to your problems.

5. Bottomline :

If you find your bank executives behaving in asinine way , dont just accept. Mount an offensive and probably you will get right treatment.

Customers Jai Ho

Most Romantic mail of FY10 and reaction to it

I recently received a mail written in romantic red font.

An amazing Love Story: He met her on a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised, but due to being polite, she promised. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, she thought, please let me go home…. suddenly he asked the waiter. ‘would you please give me some salt? I’d like to put it in my coffee.’ Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red, but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously; why you have this hobby? He replied: ‘when I was a little boy, I was living near the sea, I like playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who are still living there’. While saying that tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched. That’s his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart. A man who can tell out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home. Then she also started to speak, spoke about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story. They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who meets all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful. He was such a good person but she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee! Then the story was just like every beautiful love story , the princess married to the prince, then they were living the happy life… And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee e, as she knew that’s the way he liked it. After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said: ‘My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie. This was the only lie I said to you—the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead.I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything.. Now I’m dying, I afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth: I don’t like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste.. But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life! Since I knew you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life. If I can live for the second time, still want to know you and have you for my whole life,even though I have to drink the salty coffee again’. Her tears made the letter totally wet.Someday, someone asked her: what’s the taste of salty coffee? It’s sweet. She replied. Love is not 2 forget but 2 forgive, not 2 c but 2 understand, not 2 hear but 2 listen, not 2 let go but 2 HOLD ON !!!! Don’t ever leave the one you love for the one you like, because the one you like will leave you for the one they love. Find a guy, who calls you beautiful instead of hot. Who calls you back when you hang up on him. Who will stay awake just to watch you sleep. Wait for the guy who kisses your forehead. Who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats. Who holds your hand in front of his friends. Wait for the one who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you. Wait for the one who turns to his friends and says, ‘…that’s her.‘

 

Enclosed is the reaction to this mail :

Kya pakau  mail hai.. Isko Karan johar ko bhejo.. who isme apni gay lovestory ka rabb dekhega..

 

Chopra ko bhejo.. who uske aanshoo mein mandolin bajayega aur sooraj mukhi ke khet mein is ulloo ka saaya dekhega

 

Saari Behenji aur titliyaan( aur kuchh chikney bhi ) isko dekhne hall main jaayegi ..aur apney coochey coochey teddy bear par aansoo bahayegi…

 

 A front runner  : Nominated for the mast pakau mail of FY10 

 

Painting with oil on canvas- Words of wisdom from the maiden effort

 

Photo courtesy  : http://www.paintingsdesign.com/images_art/oil-painting-1.jpg 

 

I recently started with my first painting with Oil on canvas. I did my own research on various art sites but the real teacher was the actual execution . The lessons learnt in the painting lifecycle are as follows:

 

1.      Subject selection : Select subject with coarser details . Fine work which you imagine and are able to draw with pencil are too difficult ( If not impossible ) to reproduce with brush and that too with oil color. I tried to make ornate pattern of a guitar and scales on a fish’s body.  I  am still struggling to meet my own expectation

2.      Color and Brush purchase : While in the shop for purchasing oil color tubes, I was offered 2 choices : Artist grade and student . I wanted my first painting to come up really well so bought  Artist grade. This , however was not a good decision. The main color to be used in painting was needed in larger quantity and Artist’s variety was not available as an extra tube. I had to buy a closer shade from student’s grade ( Hence a compromise). Same for brush. Do not buy a full set. At most 4 brushes will be needed . Coarse , Medium thin and outline. Save your money for better things J

3.      Medium purchase :  Turpentine appears to be a good medium for pain but also buy 0.5 litre of paint thinner ( Roughly 1USD or INR 46). This can be used for cleaning the brush economically .

4.      Subject first :  The guides on web speak of ‘Fat over slim’ , multilayered paint etc. This tempts you to believe that you need to paint the back ground first and then move on to the subject. This is catastrophic. The back ground covers the light outline and you are left wondering where the subject is and how to paint it .

5.      Center to Edges :   Always paint the central items before those near the edges. This prevents the edge color to stick to your hand and get messy. Starting from center and then moving out helps maintain the clarity in the inside .

6.      Drying period : The paint normally does not dry up in projected 24 hours and one may have to wait for 48 to 72 hrs . This may aid in planning your painting better.

7.  Paint selection : When trying to get the exact shade flesh tone, water waves , we may try hard a lot and still the right shade  may elude. Thus the subject and brushing enthusiasm is lost. For initial first few paintings just try black and white subjects.  You need only black and white paint to create numerous shades of gray. Now try to recreate that in the painting .This gives a good brush stroke practice and confidence to create better paintings

….. And we shall pass as strangers

 

 

Some distant moons in past

You took to earth.

This soul too existed

In some frame , it took birth,

You existed and so did I

At different places

Totally indifferent.

 

The words “You” and “Me”

Beggared for substance

A turn of fate

Or reasons arcane

The space dissolved

The miles collapsed

Yet those meters

Were aplenty

To leave your world

And my world too

Spinning in different planes

Unbridled…. untouched.

 

We could have passed

As strangers

As you and me are

To many….

But the conjunction

Of space and Time

Dwarfed meters to inches.

Then closed in frames…

It wasn’t strange

In the myriad world

Many had closed in….

And the frames have passed

As Strangers

 

But in the confluence

Of space and time

It meant as it cajoled

The neurons to

Select loving words

And sing some ode

The words flowed

In vehement mode

Agape at expanse

Of matter in space

Some blood? Some soul?

The beauty it did adore.

 

But then,the entropy;

The rearrangement

Of mass and energy

Took toll

The trajectories drifted

The affections shifted.

You had your space and

I had mine

Yet spinning in gaiety

It did remind….

Some spaces traversed

Some memories left behind.

 

Should effoerts go in vain?

Do we forever

Persist with the pain?

Probably, we wont.

Gorging alive in the sweltering flame

Shall we pass…

As Strangers

If ever meeting again?