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Make In India needs Fab In India First

Make In India needs Fab In India First

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In today’s world electronic parts plays a great role in almost all kinds of product. Be it consumer products like mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches or many other gadgets or industrial products like sensors, network swtiches, power controls, home automation or the upcoming IOT revolution. Ubiquitous usage of electronics in products is known fact. Chip manufacturing is a very specialized field which is more or less absent from Indian manufacturing scene as of now. Chip manufacturing facilities are normally called “Fab”…

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Purging of Black Money hits real Estate Hard

Purging of Black Money hits real Estate Hard

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The real estate prices are bound to go down if the black money is sucked out of the system which may be good news for all the people looking to buy their dream house. Imagine a situation that people don’t have black money to buy flats after flats and with excess capacity already in the real estate, it may be the best time to get your hands dirty and keep your research going on. There may not be a better time…

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Dumpy in Hampi – Part I

Dumpy in Hampi – Part I

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Dumpy, Macha and Magne were wondering what to do on a long weekend which is a thought that crosses through their mind every time their is a “long weekend”. “Long Weekends” is a off day from office either on a Friday or Monday that makes a normal Saturday/Sunday weekend into to a long weekend. This is probably somewhat new to us in India as trips were not that common and mostly if at all the trips were done it was…

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The General Theory Of Investing

The General Theory Of Investing

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The general theory of investing is quite simple and exhibited by people in everything. We generally want to buy good things at good prices and sell things at a profit which means making it for less and selling it for more. This is true unless you are someone who wants to have snob value attached to things like some of the super rich people who are probably less than 1% of the world wide population. The central idea to investing is…

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Hawa Mahal (All India Radio Program) – A primer

Hawa Mahal (All India Radio Program) – A primer

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Hawa Mahal is 15 min radio program broadcasted by  All India Radio’s (run by Indian goverment) channel Vividh Bharti. These days there is a FM channel 102.9 MHz where this program is played at 8PM (Mon – Saturday) Stories, Anecdotes, Snippets, skits, plays or natak, jhalki, vyang in Hindi are what Hawa Mahal deals with. The specialty is the  local stories that are close to us, our culture and stories of this land. In this globalized world where a Television Series like “Game…

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Travail called Life :)

Travail called Life :)

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“This is a story inspired by real life incidents but any resemblance may merely be coincidental and unintended.This is work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are products of the author’s imagination” A group of young people were eating lunch on their hostel mess table and the topic being discussed was more like a scholarly debate championship and was on “Dowry System in India” India is country of diverse beliefs and culture that we famously call “unity…

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Every drop makes an ocean

Every drop makes an ocean

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“Boond boond se banta hai sagar” is what we normally say in  Hindi in India Here is picture from my personal experience  which does convey this message  This is a snapshot of my Runkeeper and I had kind of promised myself that I will share my experience once I had done 1000KM recorded on the app. I have been active on this app for more than one and half years and had tracked around 217 activities of which 70% is walks averaging 3-4…

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Passport Reissue -> Here is firsthand experience

Passport Reissue -> Here is firsthand experience

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I still remember the struggle of getting my first passport. I had applied seeing few of my friends in the final year of college and time it took I had already passed out and was not there to collect it. Eventually my dad tried with some of his friends as one had to go to Guwahati in order to collect. Somehow that didn’t work out and Guwahati Passport office suggested that the passport can be sent over to Bangalore, where…

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Ringing Bell’s Freedom251: Reality or Fallacy

Ringing Bell’s Freedom251: Reality or Fallacy

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Sometime back checking news online, I came across this eye catching news item where it talked about a smartphone for in INR 251 (under $4) and it got me excited as Aakash tablet did some years back. I had ordered Aakash (didn’t get one though) then and I was looking to order to Freedom251 as well. I believe that any “for profit” private entity would never sell its products without making profits. Lets assume that Ringing Bell Pvt Ltd  …

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The Other India: Story of Post Office Visit

The Other India: Story of Post Office Visit

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In the year of 2010 I followed footsteps of one of colleague and took a National Savings Certificate popularly known as NSC and it is one the tax saving instruments and as far as I know it is sold by the Post Offices all over India. According the official website of Postal Department and here is copy of that ” India has the largest Postal Network in the world with over 1, 54,882 Post Offices (as on 31.03.2014) of which…

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