Sandeep Bhalla's Blog, page 38
August 6, 2015
Terrorism for fun: monsters unleashed.
Terrorism: A longbattle ofhumanity? Terrorism is a major problem faced by humanity. Few decades ago it was perceived to be the problem of Middle East. Then 9/11 happened and bombings in Europe, Africa and where not. Russia had its own share of insurgency and terrorism. In this region it was India’s problem for last […]
August 5, 2015
Black Money Law 2015: a non starter.
Black Money Act 2015 being presented as panacea of reforms is a flop show. There is a fundamental principle of governance that without regulation and conducive atmosphere mere deterrence does not work. While this law is aimed at many things including money laundering, the most highlighted provision is the so-called encouragement to bring black money […]
August 2, 2015
कुछ चर्चा हिन्दी में और हिन्दी के बारे में।
If you do not know Hindi, do not bother, everything here is only about depletion of standards of Hindi language. मैं और हिनदी: हिनदी मेरी मातर भाषा नहीं है । मेरे माता पिता आपस में पंजाबी में बात करते थे परनतु हम बचचों से हिनदी में बात करते थे । मजे की बात यह है […]
July 31, 2015
Crocodile tears for Yakub Memon for publicity.
Bad choices are sometimes more than mere mistakes. Yakub Memon was hanged yesterday, 30th July 2015. He was found guilty of conspiracy of terrorist bomb attack killing 257 people and injuring over 700 people in Bombay in 1993. His second petition to Supreme Court was dismissed during the day. However certain legal and political intelligentsia […]
July 27, 2015
Eulogy to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Eulogy from a distant observer: Former President of India and eminent scientist APJ Abdul Kalam passed away in Shillong on Monday.Kalam collapsed during a speech at the IIM Shillong and was immediately rushed to the nearby Bethany Hospital. Later he was transferred to army Hospital and declared dead.Humble start of life, to make living by […]
July 26, 2015
Yakub Memon and Brady Violation
Yakub Memon is a convicted terrorist and is scheduled to be hanged on 30 July 2015, since his last petition to Supreme Court of India, by way of curative petition has been dismissed. It is not surprising because by very nature remedy of curative petition is to correct or cure a mistake or injustice. However […]
July 22, 2015
Secularism: Yet another meaningless word inviting debate.
Who is secular and who is religious! Secular means unrelated to religion and secularist state do not sponsor any particular religion. Constitution of USA has a mandate to be secularist state.Constitution of India did not use this word secularism but 1976 amendment added words ‘socialist secular’ in the preamble of the Constitution of India. […]
July 18, 2015
Telephony Companies crying wolf over VOIP
Telecom companies in India fear from OTT telephony: OTT telephony is the technical name of the VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol. Apps like Skype, Viber, What’s App, BBM etc. which offer voice calling fall in this bracket. While broadband providers have no problem, telecom companies feel threatened by these messengers which provide talking facility. […]
July 16, 2015
Kindle pay per read scheme will discourage research books
A review of KENP* read scheme of Kindle: (Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) Read)* Kindle has introduce a new method of payment of royalty to authors who have enrolled their books to Kindle Lenders Library (KLL) and Kindle Owners Lending Library (KOLL) where the readers can borrow and read the books. From this July the […]
July 9, 2015
ebay.com what a waste of time?
ebay.com is run by computers and robot like humans! I opted to purchase something on ebay.com and checked out as guest. I was asked all the details and in the end I had to enter confirmation code sent on my mobile phone. For 30 minutes, I did not receive SMS, I tried –it. Yet no […]
