A Blackberry addict discovers grassroot enterprise in India

A smaller ‘hole in the wall’ you cannot imagine. A small fading sign
on the top saying “Cellphoon Reapars” barely visible through the
street vendors crowding the Juhu Market in Mumbai. On my way to buy a
new Blackberry, my innate sense of adventure (foolishness) made me
stop my car and investigate. The ‘shop’ was not more than 6 feet by 6
feet. Grimy and uncleaned.

‘Can you fix my Blackberry?” I asked the young boy.

‘ Of course I can, show me”

” How old are you”

‘Sixteen’

Bullshit. He was no more than 10. I am not handing my precious
Blackberry to a 10 year old in unwashed and torn T shirt and pyjamas!
At least, if I buy a new Blackberry in a proper Store, they would
extract my data for me. Something I have been meaning to do for over a
year now.

‘What’s wrong with it?”

‘Well, the roller track ball does not respond. It’s kind of stuck and
I cannot operate it”

He grabs it from my hand and looks at it

“You should wash your hands. Many customers have same [ ......... ]

The only living terrorist of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai , Ajmal Kasab got death sentence by the court today. More than a year past the attacks did court was able to decide the punishment to be given to Kasab. Even after getting a death sentence, Kasab’s execution may be delayed by few months or even a year cause of certain processes that need to be followed.

According to our previous post here, the attacks were one of the worst in the history and it moved whole world.

My take on it?

Well, firstly I would salute Indian soldiers and police team who fought continuously against the terrorists for hours and the verdict is definitely a token to their hard work that they have put in. Secondly, Ok fine Kasab will be hanged.. but When ? I mean it took over a year for them to decide what is to be done and now it’ll take one more to punish him? I mean I know Indian courts are not  punctual, cases go on for generations.. but cases like these should be taken foremost..

And finally taking about Kasab, I think he shouldn’t be hanged? Yes I [ ......... ]

Apunkaworld.com completes a year today. Makes me feel happy

Its a year older and 12 months mature

Hope to get it bigger and bigger !! [ ......... ]

Indian politicians are famous for their monkey tricks and high level dramas particularly to show how shameless and pathetic they are in spending public money on self advertising. Guess who is the latest one? It’s none other than Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh!

Amidst the rising Bareilly communal violence for which she has been criticized in New Delhi, Mayawati gave a hard hitting answer by taking out a Rs 200 crore rally (Rs 2000 million), trying to prove that her people are all united and stand one for her. She has been in criticism for quite a while for the violence that erupted in Bareilly. Since the passing of Women Reservation Bill, she and her party has been protesting for the fact that there is no separate quota for the Dalits in the bill. She calls all the other parties who approved the bill as Anti-Dalits.

This massive rally took place on Monday on the 25th anniversary of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and was attended by a million people. The entire event costed a whopping 200 crore rupees (or 2000 million rupees)! Besides the regular arrangements, a 30 bed hospital comprising 200 doctors and around five hundred paramedics was build exclusively for this event. For the decorations, a 1000 quintals of flowers were brought from various parts of the country. Nearly 1600 government buses and five thousand private buses were arranged for the transport of public to the event. In order to dress up the city in blue color [ ......... ]

Delhi Metro – A dream come true. Started in Delhi just a few years ago, its already rocking. I still remember visiting Metro from Shahadra to Kashmiri Gate and vice versa when it first started and even since it has become part and parcel of life.

Is Metro a success?

No second thoughts on whether Delhi Metro is a success. Every Delhitie will proudly say YES. You can see hundreds, no thousands of people traveling via Metro each passing day. Kashmiri Gate comes and the train gets filled up, gets empty on Rajiv Chowk

Kashmiri Gate is the largest metro station till now. Metro is going to be extended upto the NCR region soon and Delhities are eagerly waiting for it.

Why Metro is success?

1. Fast
2. Cheap
3. Fully Air Conditioned
4. Connects major places
5. Secure

Problems?

The Metro is constantly becoming popular, but Govt is not able to cope up with this. The security checks are good, but lose sometimes. The trains are late and late (actually on time according to Indian punctuality).
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You are probably Chinese, if…

1. You eat rice for breakfast.
2. Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
3. You remember or still use “the bowl” for haircuts.
4. Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
5. You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
6. Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
7. You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
8. You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
9. Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
10. You never made the school football or basketball team.
11. You have two middle initials instead of one.
12. You have an inherent “fear” for bamboo feather dusters.
13. Your “hot” date is going to your parent’s house to have “jook”.
14. Your living room sofas have covers on them.
15. You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
16. You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
17. You sneak in snacks at the movie [ ......... ]

Paypal just showed their business secret / tactic of how to make money fast.

If you see the many payment processors they are having little tough time of making money. Many pyment processor like moneybooker.com , alertpay.com are struggling to take the market share. But paypal made a million $ profit from indian market in just 10 days that to from only Indians.

you can see one blog post about paypal tactic of making money by holding users money in bank and enjoying the interest of that money.

Here is a sample transaction from my paypal account

29-Jan-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details -$200.00 USD

29-Jan-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Cancelled Transfer Completed Details Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details -Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details $185.22 USD

i lost 14.78$ for their crappy processing system

so just imagine how much money they have made from this kind of scam from all paypal indian users.

when we withdraw they gave currency rate 44.7817

now when they adding to amount they want 48.35 ( even now it is 46 )

so basically it is a well planned scam from paypal company.

After these lot of idiotic moves this company not given any explanation still. Because it knows how effectively scam users [ ......... ]

Top 22 things an Indian does after returning to India from “US”.

22. Use Nope for No and Yep for Yes.

21. Tries to use credit card in road side hotel.

20. Drinks and carries mineral water and always speaks of health conscious.

19. Sprays deo such so that he doesn’t need to take bath.

18. Sneezes and says ‘Excuse me’.

17. Says “Hey” instead of “Hi”.
Says “Yogurt” instead says “Curds”.
Says “Cab” instead of “Taxi”.
Says “Candy” instead of “Chocolate”.
Says “Cookie” instead of “Biscuit”.
Says ” Free Way ” instead of “Highway”.
Says “got to go” instead of “Have to go”.
Says “Oh” instead of “Zero”, (for 704, says Seven Oh Four Instead of Seven
Zero Four)

16.Doesn’t forget to crib about air pollution. Keeps cribbing every time he steps out.

15. Says all the distances in Miles (Not in Kilo Meters), and counts in Millions. (Not in Lakhs)

14. Tries to figure all the prices in [ ......... ]

Paypal the most used medium to send money (http://www.paypal.com) has started returning payments to be sent from or to India. Here is the letter they have sent -

Dear SENDER,

Your payment of $XX.XX has been returned to you. If you sent the payment with a bank account, the funds will be returned to your PayPal balance. If you paid with a credit card, the amount will be credited back to your card.

We returned the payment to you because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India.

If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a personal payment, then you may resend the payment to the seller by following these steps on the PayPal website: (a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select “Goods,” and (c) provide a shipping address.

If this payment was a personal payment, such as a gift to a friend or family member, then we request that you find another payment method until we restore personal payments to and from India.

We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.

Thank you,

PayPal

Now, thats really unfair on Paypal’s part. People are contacting paypal with literally no good support apart from copy pasted content.

Here is the digital point thread – http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1681660

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Despite posting a 13% rise in net profit at Rs 2,321 crore on 9% higher sales of Rs 9,846 crore for the quarter ended September, Bharti

Airtel’s shares plunged over 6% on Friday. With the latest round of tariff cuts impacting the financials of all companies, Bharti Airtel’s CEO Manoj Kohli talks to ET NOW on the road ahead and how India’s largest telecom company plans to respond to competition. Excerpts:

Bharti Airtel’s shares crashed close to 7% despite posting profits. The stock has closed at year’s low and has lost 18% this year. Are you concerned?

At Bharti, we don’t look at our performance based on the reaction of the stock markets. We look at the real market and we are satisfied that we have improved our marketshare even as competition is heating up.

But, your market share has fallen over the past 12 months…

When we refer to market share, we refer to revenue share. Bharti accounts for about 32.7% of the mobile sector’s revenues. This indicates the quality of our customers are better and that their usage is higher. Over the next few quarters, our primary objective is to improve our revenue market share.

How long do you expect the ongoing price war to continue? What is Bharti’s strategy ?

The tariff war is set to continue for the next few quarters. This will lead to a natural [ ......... ]