Sandeep Bhalla's Blog, page 31

How to remain poor and miserable?

Birth in hideous poverty is a matter of accident but to remain poor and miserable needs efforts. It is not easy to remain poor. Education opens new avenues of prosperity but it requires extra ability to miss opportunities and remain struck in abysmal poverty. Vacations and holidays: To remains poor it is important to religiously […]

Megyn Kelly, Kejriwal and Donald Trump in Information Age.

Seeking information in this era. Information Age is the era we live in. Information gathering was never so fast. In 1966 when Star Trek , a ScFi TV show  was launched the dream of information age was first envisaged. Star trek had a talking computer which could answer back any information which was asked to it. […]

Amazon kindle editors are no more reasonable.

What is reasonable? Justice has to be reasonable. Any decision which is based on no reason or taken in a whim or fancy is unjust. Similarly if the reasons have nothing to do with the decision, it is arbitrary and perverse. It is also nicknamed as Wednesbury’s Arbitrariness, due to the decision of House of […]

ICJ to consider Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case

Jurisdiction of ICJ International Court of Justice (ICJ) derives its jurisdiction from a voluntary declaration by each State that accepts its jurisdiction. Islamic Republic of Pakistan has filed a fresh declaration submitting to the jurisdiction of ICJ on March 29, 2017. ICJ is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It was established by […]

Illicit liquor/hooch tragedy, fundamental cause

Finance Minister blood is on your lapel! Spurious Liquor and death therefrom is seasonal ritual in India. Every year or next, a tragedy or the other happens at one place or another. Causes for such recurrent tragedy are apparent policy failure and it is unlikely to be corrected under present Hindu myopia. Earlier the reason […]

Are we friends now?

Friendship is a relative word. Every acquaintance is not a friend but all friends are acquaintances. Though there may be invisible friends as well, but who indeed is a friend? Who is a friend? Definition of ‘friend’ is very dynamic. It changes from situation to situation, age to age and even place to place. But […]

Wait is eternal.

Wait became my last name when she promised to come; Wait became my middle name, when she failed to come, Wait become my first name, when she remembered none, In years wait is known to everyone, Me known to none.

U.P. election 2017: The gamble that it was.

Analyzing election results. Uttar Pradesh or U.P. in short, which literally means ‘Northern Province’, has finally got a new BJP Government with Yogi Adityanath as its Chief Minister. BJP won and all the rest lost including media which had  predicted BJP a distant third. But the results raise a few unanswered questions. Unanswered questions: The […]

How to self publish on Amazon Kindle?

A self help guide for aspiring authors to self publish. Why self publish? Publication means two things: 1. Communication/delivery of content; 2. Marketing. Most authors presume that the publisher would do the both. No. He will at best do the first and would expect you to market your product. However the publication contract would have […]

U.P. election 2017: BJP won but who lost.

The biggest loser in the elections in 5 states is the credibility of the media (a.k.a. Journalism). The media was no where near the ground at all.