How rich do you think Indians are really (or) what is the true buying potential of the Indians ?
Mood:  bright
Topic: Indians Real PPP ????
I wonder what is the real worth of most of the folks in India. I know on paper it is lot lot less. I keep coming across people with small jobs but big properties in their or under some binami names. How are all this getting accounted for in the big picture? My father is a teacher and we spent most of our childhood in small villages. Begin a teacher they have to do all kind of census work in and arround their school village. Sometimes I used to go with him and help in filling out those spread sheets with the data. One such census I went with him was to collect movable & immovable properties, Anual Income of each house etc etc. I was amazed to see the numbers they come out with. A typical house in a village for example with a mother, father at a minimum two sons both married living together having one or two acers of land and all six also working as agriculture labour ( those days the minimum was 25 to 40 Rs a day ) say they anual income is 1500 Rs. We reasoned with them a lot we said it is not what you save we are interested in just the income. We had to give up and right down the amount they say. Also the big shots in the village with 30 to 40 aces of land will let us write something like 15000 to 20000 Rs a year. Of about 50 odd villages I went to with him only one house had a an income of above 30000. Rs per annum. I am not sure where and how these census end up but I have a feeling that ture purchasing power parity of Indians could be lot lot higer than what we see.

Rachabanda
Mood:  bright
Topic: What is Rachabanda?
Rachabanda is typical in almost every village in India. It is normally constructed in a circular shape around the trunk of a huge tree with stone or cement. Here village people sit and talk about anything under the sun. Someone might read a newspaper to the audience or discuss politics. Most of them being farmers have less things to do during off-season, they chill out and pass time under the cool shade of the tree talking, passing comments on the passerby etc. It is a lot fun and one will be amazed with the kind of things they talk.

Laptop Hard Disk Failure
Mood:  bright
Topic: Technical Stuff
One day my Hitachi 100 GB Hard disk gave a lot of weired sounds and crashed. On booting up the notebook it says either harddisk error or operating sysem not found. Tried booting through those recover cds no suceess in that front. Drove down to Circuit city and brought a 2.5 inch usb enclosure. pluged my lappi harddisk in it hooked it up to a desktop and ran a chkdsk on it. For 10 to 15 mins chkdsk laboured through the harddisk and found out few files with size and type "none". After reparing those files harddisk again started working like a charm. Even those weired scraching sounds stopped coming from harddisk. If you ask me what is the realtion between the sounds and files I have no clue. Anyway my lappi is back with life have to go to circuit city to return back the enclosure.

Beautiful Day for Cricket
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Cricket with Baseball
We found a way to enjoy cricket in US with out getting balls (Heavy tennis balls) from India and worry about broken bones by playing with traditional criket balls. We found this soft Nike Baseballs in Sports Authority for about $4.49. In a six month period we brought about 4 or 5 balls. I never saw these balls go broke except for loosing them by those mighty sixers that put them in a ditch where we did not dare to retrive them back. If you looking for some fun in weekends do try this balls even at full pace you need not worry about your limbs.