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May 2010

Wow ! Napolean Bonaparte’s Preserved Penis worth US $ 100000

Paulo ‘The Alchemist’ Coelho fascinates me….”If you chase your dreams,your dreams will chase you”…Wow ! love visiting his blog…he’s embarking on a spiritual retreat from tomorrow for a few days and will have access to the internet for only 20 minutes everyday…uncanny coincidence !…because I too am doing the same later this week ! Caught …

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Standard Chartered Bank INDIAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPT…Looking Beyond the Financials…At the Exchange Risk Involved…What if the Rupee Appreciates !?

I’m Looking Beyond the Financials here…..at the Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) INDIAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS (IDRs) Issue….am not inclined to recommend Investment,although the Pricing looks reasonable and it will not form part of the Overseas Investment Annual Limit of US $ 200k per Indian Citizen….probably a contrarion here as all seem to be recommending the IDR….I’m a bit …

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Sad Saturday…India wakes up to an Air India Tragedy at Mangalore….We will survive Sensex crashes everytime…but How do we survive such Air Tragedies…even when we’re not aboard!

At @ 6 am this morning as I was getting up to a Saturday Life, 166 aboard an Air India Flight from Dubai to Managalore in South India were Landing to their Death ! …Apparently the Plane overshot the Tricky 8000 feet Table Top Runway atop a Hill and cracked up after landing a went up …

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S & P’s Sovereign Rating of USA remains at Top ‘AAA’….Amusing!

One often gets wise after the Event…. but what if one does not !… does not deliberately want to actually! I don’t want to get into the game of Bashing up the Rating Agencies… but was curious to see how Standard and Poors have rated USA on long term and short term sovereign domestic and fx …

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Your Family is being Dictated by Another that’s Living with you !

There’s another Family that’s Living with you and dictating your Life…Your eFamily TV is the Husband & Father…..Computer is the Wife and Mother…..CellPhone is the Elder Child……and the IPod is the younger sibling And they’re all dictating your Life …..your upbringing is full of moral convictions,no expletives and curses,ban or restrictions  on alcohol and tobacco and total …

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‘Tainted’ Telecom Minister A Raja ! ? The Conviction grows stronger…for his deliberately ‘gifting’ the 2G Licenses on a First Come First basis for just Rs 1000+ crs when the current auction of 3G Licenses has fetched over Rs 16000 crs!

In November 2008,I had covered in two blogs,what our Telecom Minister,A Raja had blatantly done….he had gifted 2G Licenses to vested interests at a pittance…just over Rs 1000 crs,when he could have got ten times more for the Government Today, after a 34 days auction process it has been announced that the 3G Licenses auction has …

‘Tainted’ Telecom Minister A Raja ! ? The Conviction grows stronger…for his deliberately ‘gifting’ the 2G Licenses on a First Come First basis for just Rs 1000+ crs when the current auction of 3G Licenses has fetched over Rs 16000 crs! Read More »

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