Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Agar tum mai ( gai)ka doodh piya ho to isko maro

 Stupid ass  cow protectors of Gujrat,
if you really want to protect cows and if you have  the  guts go to Australia and beat up these beef producers.
Sir kidman 

Gujarat: 7 of Dalit family beaten up for skinning dead cow

After beating them up, the attackers reportedly took Vashram, Ramesh, Ashok and Bechar to Una 











"My grand child can recite A to Z in dinosaur names" . The tragedy of bragging rights

 yes  my  grand child can " can recite  A to Z in dinosaur names" 

Credit cards Human psychology and Hypocracy/ Behavioral economics


Holiday spending volume on Visa credit and check cards between November 24 and December 29, 2000, reaches $101 billion.
 Online spending more than doubles over the past year.
 Visa U.S.A. launches its national consumer education program, Practical Money Skills for Life which is aimed at helping high school students learn better money management skills.

It is  well established in Behavioral economics experiments that  people tend to spend more when they are not dealing with cash. this is the main underpinning of all credit card business. it is like  a small child thinking  money can keep coming out of an  ATM machine.

There is actually an anecdote narrated by  Dan Ariely  about the time he approached  some bankers  with an  idea of  a " responsible  credit card " idea where  the  credit card will not allow you to spend  more than what you have in the bank.

As you can surmise  he never heard back from the bankers.



Shame on you Director Devang Khakhar!"IIT Bombay embraces khadi"

"New Delhi: The IIT Bombay has placed an order for 3,500 convocation robes made of khadi cotton, inculcating the feeling of nationalism in the students.
"After Gujarat University, now khadi has also made a niche in the hearts of authorities of premier Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay," the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises said in a statement.
They have placed an order for "3,500 uttarias or angavastrams" made of honey comb towel cotton khadi for use by students at the time of convocation, it said.
The institute has adopted khadi to inculcate feeling of nationalism in the students, IIT, Mumbai Director Devang Khakhar said."

As a premier institute  which should be show casing   cutting  edge of Indian technology  falling  back on  to empty gestures like this is a shame.

I  would  have  expected  some  kind of nano tech material to be   the  show case of  such  a convocation.
M.K.Gandhi chose khadhi  not because  it  was the  cutting  edge of  textile technology  it was the  only textile technology  which was  still  indigenous. but now  we  have   the  best  technology in textiles.We need to  inculcate the idea  that  it is  Indian  that is  important   not  fundamentalist  clinging to the  past  thinking  of " good old days" in fact there was nothing good about old days