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Retun to India - my experiences

This is a post on my experiences in India after moving back to India after 5+ years. I am writing this post after nearly an year of moving back to India. So, some of the things have blurred over a period of time. Since, I moved back to India without having made a single refresh trip in between, I had lost a feel of many things and so , perhaps, had more surprises than others.  Infrastructure: The grand reception at the Delhi's T3 terminal sets in a great mood about India. Followed by Indian builders who seem to have created fantastic monuments in and around the metros. India's builders are, perhaps, the most visible face of India's growth story. Roads have tried to keep up with the new lifestyle with most of the flyovers in place. Apartments with swimming pools, greens, gyms, clubs are a no big deal now. In short, private parties made big and have certainly done their bit. Metro is a great achievement and so are happy customers in the new DTC buses. However, ...

Nano car to Auto rikshaw

In my opinion, tata's new innovation in small cars - the Nano car - will soon rock the Indian market and be a true each family's car. in fact, this car can be a good substitute to the cramped auto rikshaws. Why? - rikshaws cost arround 1 lac - rikshaws will become much comfortable and can use the 4 door lure further customers.

What Indya needs to do !?

Short answer: Many things :) What i wanted to focus on this blog is few of the key things that will make a big difference to Indya. 1. SSN (Social Security Number) for everyone - Well, if you have been US or any of the european countries, you would have known the importance of such unique number for all the citizens. for the unstarted, this is a killer number, you just need make it mandatory at the transactions we need to monitor. In India, we have a multitude of such numbers - PAN for tax, voter id for voting. Thankfully, only 2 of these are the big ones. Infact, we started voter id for a while and this had a fair success. I think we stopped because the so-called bahoo wali politicians were getting screwed. And it wont happen overnight or without the political will to do it. So, as citizen (the regular mundane lot), we need to create a difference by creating enough momentum to this thought. Once, we have SSN, just like PAN number has made a big difference to the tax collection, it wi...