Taj Hotels

Are Taj GVK different from the TATA's Taj Hotel chains? Either ways, Taj name itself will pull the crowd as a five star...
So, what's up with Taj GVK? They already have 3 hotels in the same road in Banajara Hills, Hyderabad & now they want to expand to one more hotel bit clobe by to their already existing hotels... Does this really make business sense? Hyderabad is booming for sure but how about 4 five star hotels in the same city & that too bit far away from the new international airport or from the HiTech SEZ's...

Semi final berths

It has been one tough fight for all the IPL teams & things have almost turned out to be 3 teams out of 4 are from North India. Well, in the case of ICL the winners were like Chennai & Hyderabad.

But the final game for Chennai has almost turned about to be one crucial one as it is between Chennai & Hyderabad & Chennai has a sleak chance to win. But what matters is, if Chennai wins they are in semis. If they lose, still they can be based on Mumbai's game against B'lore....

Hmmm.... This has become more than talk of the town.

Sensible talk by 12 year old

Lallu's Rails

Even a bottom level selling person knows what rule has changed in rails - How Lallu is making sure things are changed upside down...

Recently when I was traveling, one fella was selling samosa & another person was in uniform. He advised the first person not to be on train or otherwise, he'll inform police.

It is as simple as it is... Let's take a train journey of 12 hours which usually has around 13+ second class coaches. Each coach has 72 berths. And one berth in 9 blocks is for RAC. So, total number of customer hours we are looking into is like 81 * 13 * 12. What more you need to turn around the financial status of rails.. :)

Reservations

No idea why all politicians are still behind different kinds of reservations based on castes.

The reservations in any place just makes the caste (if you see from one angle) to be lower in the society-community & so, I don't understand why the caste people want to put their caste lower in society. Just take the case of current Gujjars' crisis in Rajastan. Is it the mistake of the Chief Minister Vasundara Rajie to just keep on making promises from before the elections to the community that they'll get ST status...

India is improving & we should strive to get away based on caste based reservations. Because people are not differentiated no more based on their castes. It is all cross culturals now a days. Everyone gets their proper opportunity & the world is open for those who can work on it - Survival of the fittest/best. Even yesterday there was an article in the dailies on how a tribal women has scored a big rank in IAS exams.

Let's shun away from casteism & get into more reality based reservations - Check the intelligence, give the appropriate opportunity based on their financial status...

Natural disasters

Why are so many natural disasters occuring that too in the most populated segment - Burma's Cyclone, China's quakes?

Man... those are really some of the real disasters... Is that the nature's way of healing the imbalance created by man power?

Inflating to 7%

So what is driving the current inflation in India? It is way above the comfort zone of 4.5% just like last year.

• I think the supply of basic commodities are well enough but there is a speculation or assumption that we are going to run low. Likewise, the global commodity prices will also have an impact. No wonder why Milk & vegetable prices are up.
  
• Did you see the gingiley oil prices recently? It has gone up from like Rs 100 to around Rs 160. Is this purely to do with the crude oil price increase?
• Obviously the per capita income in India has gone up & hence, the demand has also increased.

Let's see how Government is going to react.

Airport Compromise

With Shamshabad airport wide open for operations, the AP CM has made an initiative to reopen the "old" Begumpet airport for civil operations atleast for inter state flights.

That is in fact a good thought considering the time to commute to the new airport from inside the city which takes more than 2 hours & then to check in & other formalities another 1.5 hours while the total flight journey takens less than 0.5 hours...

Blu Ray... Is it?

I have been waiting to hear this news story for a long time - probably from the time i started blogging - like anyone else in the world... Which format of DVD is gonna win?

Seems like Blu Ray is making its impact. What are the statistics? Sony, Fox & Disney are ardent fans of Blu Ray. Lately, Warner Bros attached themselves to Blu. With that goes all of HBO & New Line. Blockbuster has now its word for Blu Ray. The remaining majors are Universal & Paramount pictures including Dreamworks. With Universal also claiming that their exclusive commitment to Toshiba's HD DVD is ending, in no time Blu Ray will be all over.

Blu Ray better got to start working on customer friendly features on top of its heavy storage capability.

BOA...

A deal of USD Four Billion... that too for the mortgage agent Countrywide Financial Corp who are now down below after sub-prime. It all stops there for me - Why would Bank Of America which has built a fort of its own want to let open its door for this act & that too for a heavy price?

It's all my guess but where I see this going - To leverage the benefits of those huge number of home loan customer base which Countrywide is currently holding. That amounts to around 9 million is what I see. But how? Take Yahoo - Any new service they open can reliably go behind their existing huge customer base. Likewise, BOA has a new 9 million customers who would possibly start opening bank accounts & use other BOA services. May be that itself is a big boost.

With the already built in reputation which BOA has, more people will tend to move towards Countrywide. Ahead of it, BOA has to make sure Countrywide shifts culturally. That is like LIC offering any new service and people going behind them without even understanding like a a matter of ULIP - without even understanding the underlying market risk.

Disgusting... Yet Another Time

This is new year time and this is that time of the year when you get to hear from India that girls are molested in public. What a shame??

Is India really developed? Has girls got all freedom they want? People of one class think that they have all freedom to do what they want in public... The high class girls think they can booze as they wish, they can walk around on the roads in the nights as they like, they can dress to show off... And the other low class of guys who don't care about anything, they take advantage of such gals & molest them.

You get to hear a lot of news about foreigners getting raped & molested by Indians. How disgusting??

Bhutto's death

There is for sure something behind Mrs. Bhutto's death.

The very next day her body was allowed to be buried. That itself was kind of surprise for me. With so much of varying reports coming from different news channels, from Pakistan government, from doctors on the way she died things were more of confusing people rather than giving belief. But why weren't the doctors allowed to do postmortem?

Pakistan government openly blamed the terrorists Al-Queda but the terrorists group rejected the blame. The heights is people are ready to believe the words of terrorists but not the government.

Within 2 days after her death, her husband & son are ready to run the party?? People can be patriotic but can that overtake the so close personal loss emotions? I doubt especially for her son who is just another human doing his studies in Oxford...