A perfect ending!!

So, it was one of those few beautiful Sundays when the wind was wet & it was the time to get high on some good Wine under the dark sky on the top of my house with few good friends & the music adding flavors to the mood. After a good chaotic week this was a perfect ending to it when you have the guitar Wizard Mr. Steve Vai entertaining you along with some good food & wine. Looking forward to another great weekend...

Mind Trip!!!

With the arrival of beautiful rainy night, when the droplet hits your face & a smile comes onto it while thinking about the good old memories, when they start floating in every direction leaving you alone in the middle of your past where in you miss certain people, certain incidences etc which totally changed the path track of your life.

Mind Blowing Facts of Indian Corruption!!!

See if any of these numbers astound you as much as they did me (btw, it’s a pretty safe assumption that these numbers underestimate the ground reality) -

1. More than 50% of people have first-hand experience of paying bribes to public officials in order to get their work done.

2. Inter-state transport: Truckers in India alone pay $5 billion (yes, US Dollars) in bribes annually.

3. The monetary value of petty corruption in 11 basic services in government (education, healthcare, judiciary, police) amounts to about $5 billion annually.

4. India’s telecom ministry apparently siphoned $30 billion from various projects over the past few years.

5. According to ex-IPS officer Kiran Bedi, about $16 billion is lost to corruption every year in India. Of Rs.100 meant to be spent on infrastructure, only about Rs.16 is used and Rs 84 is lost. Is it in any wonder the state of the infrastructure?

6. A recent report by World Bank showed that only 40% of grain handed out to the poor reaches its target. This report says that aid programs in India are beset by corruption, bad administration and under-payments. Yet another embarrassment for the ruling party.

7. The Bangalore-based website ipaidabribe.com, which encourages citizens to report bribes anonymously they have paid, has so far compiled 11300 reports with a total bribe value of about Rs. 295,000,000. While this is just a fraction of all bribes, the fact that people are taking the trouble to report them tells me how tired and angry they are with the situation. What is the tipping point?

8. Independent reports published through 1991 to 2011 calculated the financial net worth of India’s most powerful and traditionally ruling family to be anywhere between $9.41 billion to $18.66 billion, most of it in the form of illegal monies.

9. India tops the list for black money in the entire world with almost US$1456 billion in Swiss Banks – that is about $1.5 trillion. Staggering!

10. According to the data provided by the Swiss Banking Association Report (2006), India has more black money than the rest of the world combined. To put things in perspective, Indian-owned Swiss bank account assets are worth 13 times the country’s national debt.

Sickened yet?

No doubt about it, this is a debilitating cancer on the nation; it is an affliction of such epic proportion that it impacts everything and everyone. A recent report by KPMG states that “high-level corruption and scams are now threatening to derail the country’s credibility and [its] economic boom”.

That’s minor compared to what this scourge is doing to, and cheating from, the citizens of this country.

Are you a citizen of India (past or present) or a descendant of one?

Reference:http://yin-yang-india.com/2011/07/14/incredible-facts-stats-and-effects-of-corruption-in-india/

Indian Olympic Dreams!!!

So finally some medals coming in India's bag after a long struggle at the London Olympics. Although performance wise, I am still not happy with my country, but i don't know i have this false hope that we can do better next time. At least, the cricket crazy nation is now giving some due respects to other forms of sports too.

 Saina Nehwal's bronze is just another learning for the female athletes of this country. Woman are not just a child bearning machine, they bring medals too for their motherland....Kudos to Saina!!! lot of expections from this young girl at the coming tournaments.