PAN Card Address Change

My father applied for PAN Card address change. It has been rejected by our babus for want of

1) proof of my grand father.

My father (80 years old) is planning to tell the "Babu" that there is only one way to get proof:

a) he can take the application form and fall in front of a train. My father mentioned that he will come later to prove .

Now my father is having second thoughts about changing his address in PAN card. The best part is that he is a Retired Asst. Commissioner of Income Tax. 

This country can and never will change.

If anyone has faith please check with Winston Churchill [Commons Sitting of Thursday (India, Government Policy), 6 March 1947; House of Commons Debates, Hansard; Vol. 434, cc. 663-776.]

This can only be explained as the complete adoption of one of Mr. Gandhi's most scatterbrained observations, which I will read to the House. It was made on 24th May, 1942, after the [Cripps] Mission. He said: "Leave India in God's hands, in modern parlance, to anarchy; and that anarchy may lead to internecine warfare for a time, or to unrestricted dacoities. From these a true India will arise in place of the false one we see." There, as far as I can see, is a statement indistinguishable from the policy His Majesty's Government are determined to pursue.

Campaign against Diwali

Off late, I am seeing lots of campaign against celebrating Diwali where we use crackers or fireworks. This is propogated among the so called "intellectuals" whose brain gets drained reading lots of stuff.

Here are some simple arguments why this fireworks MUST continue on Diwali day.

1. As a child I had enjoyed it. It is fun. It gave me so much happiness. That's enough. Even today I relish it. This is needed for my life and existence in this world. Hence I will celebrate with fireworks.

2. It is for 1 day out of 365 days. Why can't I enjoy this day?

The arguments against are
1. Pollution: Please calculate the pollution of all the cars emitting CO2 on all the days. Is it much less than the pollution generated by firecrakers on Diwali?
2. Accidents: Tell me how many people have died due to accidents when compared to accidents on Diwali day.
3. Child labour: Ask the government to handle it.
4. Disease: Please compare with automobile pollution.

If you are so worried about pollution stop fireworks during IPL, during new year celebrations etc.

So please do not fall prey for some idiotic guys who cannot see others be happy say all this nonsense.

Enjoy your Diwali.

Thandavam - Illogical Irritating Film

My first hand experience with Thandavam: If you want to watch an idiotic script with illogical events do not miss this film. It is so funny.

This is another film where the director wakes up every day in the morning, reads a part of the news paper and introduces that idea in the movie. If  the above is not true how else do you expect the audience to understand the following items.

a) What was Nasser a British police officer doing outside the factory shop while  the hero and the villain were fighting and killing each other. (influence of   the news that the world  addicted to angry birds)

b) Nasser talking about Pancha Boothas after the climax (influence of the news  on reading about pancha boothas or watching Matrix)

c) British police more powerful than MI5 (influence of hearing words like  RAW, MI5, FBI etc).

d) Hero loving the ant (influence of Naan EE movie)

e) 3 heroines absolutely doing nothing, not even romancing the hero (influence  of dinamalar sunday edition center page, where it gives information on  actresses without movie chances).

f) Hero escaping the police while stealing the USB drive from a courier center  and then plunging into water AND escaping (influence of James Bond movies). Also if I remember correctly he steals in the night but falls with this car in the morning. Correct me if I am wrong. With so many comedy scenes, I could not remember.

Also it looks like the director had issues with "Call Sheet" of the artists because artists appear for certain scenes and then disappear after ten minutes. So on the days where some actors do not land up the director gets the story going with only the people present.

Finally I do not know why the director is so against Sri lankan Tamils. They have already been beaten to death by our Tamil nadu politicians and now film industry is also killing them. What else do you make out of Nasser who always plays video games, but talks very smartly and during climax only plays video games). Is this not an insult to our beloved Srilankan Tamils? Of course this could be the influence of the SL President visit to India.

Luckily the director has the habit of listening to some melody songs and hence the music is at least bearable in this movie.

Finally pity Vikram. I think he looks old after acting in such a movie. Talent of a nice actor wasted on a pitiable story line. I still have no idea why there were actresses in this movie, just giving them 33% reservation does not mean much for the movie.

On the whole, better buy the songs DVD and listen to it. Do not waste your time going to the theatre.

PS: I enjoyed the comments of some young guys in front of my seat which made this movie thoroughly enjoyable. Otherwise I would been out much before the interval.

My complaint to Airtel - phone numbers edited

Dear Sir/Madam

I had applied for an Airtel 3G connection on 24/10/11 through Laser Valley Telecom
at Bazullah Road, through Ms. Anitha. 3G number xxxxx xxxxx.

Subsequently Airtel had sent a person for address verification (Rajini, probably not the
cinema actor I think).This person met my father and got all the details regarding me.

But now I found that my service has been suspended due to non-availability of the person or
signature does not match.

Here is the list of "LOGICAL" things that he should have been done, unless Mr. Rajini is a Robot
as in the movie.

1. There was no prior intimation of the visit, inspite of the fact that my contact airtel number xxxxx xxxxx
is more than 5 years old. Probably Mr. Rajini thought that a GHOST has met Ms. Anitha and
applied for connection.Please also note that there was NO DEFAULT payment in this number.

2. My father whom your INTELLIGENT verification employee met is my BIOLOGICAL father and it can
be proved in the court of law, therefore this is another evidence that I am not DEAD.

3. Personally I had applied for the connect with Ms. Anitha and this proves that I am not DEAD and I
had signed in all the letters dealing with my application.

Having proven that I am not DEAD, the least your intelligent security verification person could have
done is called me.

As far as the residential address is concerned, it is a purely legal construction and it exists.

I would like Airtel to do two things:

1. Restore my connection.
2. Inform me of what action has been taken against the employee inspite of the fact that I am ALIVE
informed Airtel that it was not a right address where i live.

If I do not get remedial measures for these items I would be force to take legal measures for the
mental strain and torture that as a "PRIVELEGED" airtel customer i have been forced to undergo.

Thanks,
Shankar Raman

Koovum temple

this week's visit to http://www.shivatemples.com/tnaadu/tn14.html -a very serene location - well maintained temple

Irumbai temple

This temple is near auroville. For details check http://www.shivatemples.com/tnaadu/tn31.html. Well maintained.

E-bills and Indian management jokers

Another e-bill issue this time with airtel. They stopped printed paper bill because some management joker told them to "GO GREEN". I mean this is good in the US who have swindled most pf the wood available in the world to build houses for them. In India half the time you do not have power, other half the Internet fails. Rest of the time If there is any, MS Windows works on it's own and does not care about the person in front of it. If you want to take a print out of the PDF file, they have Advertisements which take my toner along with it.. No point writing all this - half our people are brainless, other quarter spine less. Ok the solution? I told them I am a Computer Illeterate and then they agreed to send me paper bills.

More Film Reviews

Inception: Wonderful

More White Boards??

Now-a-days see more of white board buses in Chennai. Prices are coming down.. Are there elections around the corner?

Dell to move from China to India

It is nice to see companies move from China to India.
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/03/24/dell-moving-factories-china-dell-computers-moving-25-billion-labor-equipment-china-india-citing-environment-concerns-western-companies-bailing-china/

However we have jokers like Mayawati, Mamta Banerjee, The Thackerey's and others who will not provide a "conducive" environment for these companies.

Haven't we spoiled our independence which we got? Why can't the same thing happen here?

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya - Tamil Film - A review

First of all it looks like most of the directors / story writers in Tamil Cinema think that the population which goes for movies are fools of the highest order. Gautam Menon tries to prove this point in this movie. Here is the story line.. a 'x' year old boy falls in so called "love" with a 'x+1' year old madam, and in most part of the movie mentions that if x is 49 then x+1 is 50 and if x is 80, x+1 is 81 etc. The other role this x year old boy plays is to go behind this 'x+1' year old madam, and then ensure that this madam says what this x year old boy wants her to say which she wants to but does not say (Got the twist?? ). The madam does not say so.. the director / story writer gets now confused - so he brings in another director and the story writer is our 'x' year old boy. He produces a movie ( producing movies in Tamilnadu can be done by any one - next election announcement is that every family can produce one free movie) and the climax is whether the climax of movie within the movie is the climax of the movie. In between A R Rahman plays the background "love" music and the whole cinema crew visits Europe, US etc. Need i say more?

Temple Visit last week

Had been to some old temples near Vellore, Tamilnadu -
1. Thiruvalam
Surprised to see such a nice temple in the Chennai - Ranipet- Chittoor road, many times i have passed by this place but never had "time" to visit it. Spent a good 45 minutes inside the temple. Well maintained.
2. Vallimalai
Surprised to see a cave temple for Lord Muruga. This place is between Thiruvalam and Ponnai.

Week before last visited Pulipakkam, this is the hill on the Chingelpet Chennai road just after the toll gate if you are traveling to Chingelpet. Very small temple but the view from this hill is great.

Doomed to be Universities under section 3 of UGC act

Hue and cry is being raised on all quarters about these doomed universities in India, most of them in Tamil Nadu. But why are these questions not answered?

1. Who was responsible for giving them affiliation as Doomed Universities?
2. Why is nothing being done to those who granted affiliation?
3. When there were reports appearing in media about these Doomed Universitites what was the government doing/
4. What is the guarantee that this will not get repeated again?
5. Will we EVER compete with other countries in education? Can we?

As a next step there will be people who will say that Doomed Universities must not exist and everything should be with the government. Remember Anna University Coimbatore in recent times?

As usual the rule of this land is to catch the innocent and torture him, while letting rich corrupt people get away.

Traffic rule violation in Chennai

Day before yesterday, the police caught me in mylapore for violating the traffic rule - turning left on NO FREE LEFT. So I asked the policeman for the board which says FREE LEFT NOT ALLOWED or NO FREE LEFT - something to that effect. He replied that he usually does not catch any one but since it is Deepavali time he has to collect some fine. Paid Rs. 100/- in the receipt he did not mention anything...

But I have now on resolved to violate as much rules as possible. That will help me have peace of mind so that I get value for fine..... that these police guys collect...

Thanks police for asking a law abiding citizen to change.....
Hats off to Chennai Traffic Police...

Laloo Again - Indian Railways makes another announcement

Only for unreserved tickets

The first time our minister tells that he has reduced the amount by Re. 1. That made headlines in India.

Today we had the taillines - what else do you call a small note that appears in the paper?

This informs us that Re. 1 discount is for unreserved tickets.....

But the news is out that Laloo is for poor people !!!!

BTW, is it only poor people who travel 2nd class unreserved?

My Dream Book: Object Orientation and Advaita

My Dream Book which I am planning to write one day...

is Object Orientation and Advaita.

Most of the time people write a book, because they do not understand the concept well....
and want to get reviews from those who have understood it well.. if not, why should they
ask others to review?

But I want to write a book after I understand the concepts...so that there can be no reviewers...

Atleast something is missing right now....Don't know which ones...

Object Orientation or Advaita or both or reviewers !!!!

If you want to be a co-author in this endeavour please write to me...

Indian Railways or How Laloo was able to reduce the cost by Re 1?

Indian Railways have reduced the 2nd Class Fares by 1 Rupee (1 USD approx is 43 Rupees):-

Actually most of the Southern railway employees are involved in Multi Level Marketing - that's what I was able to see after attending a MLM campaign last sunday where there were many of them were platinum / bronze and diamond sellers...

Not sure whether these guys work in office or sell powder, toothpaste and brushes...

Days are not far off when you are asked to buy a tooth brush if you want to book your ticket...

God Save My Mother Land...and travellers in Southern Railway...

And may be that's the reason Lallu was able to reduce the price by Re. 1 for the second class and attract lots of travellers, since these MLM guys were not generating enough revenue for Railways?