Resurgence

An illustration of a phase of my life Content: Original Style: Inspired by the style of 'joiedevivre'

On Service Delivery Read the Telegraph Metro (Calcutta Edition) dated 11/02/2009 and you will find a news article in the left bottom corner titled ‘Cops run amok on train’. The article tells an incident of how two drunken cops created nuisance in a train where they harassed fellow passengers, puked and urinated (yikes!!!) on their bags. Women were chased and abused and the associated red tape prolonged this nightmare for the passengers as the GRP men at a mid-station refused to lodge a complaint citing jurisdiction problems (Apparently only Howrah GRP could have done something). The incident shows the ghastly state of affairs in two of the state based service providers: The Indian Railways and Police. I will take a few moments to ponder over the services offered by these two departments. Indian Railways: When I was a kid I felt pride in the fact that we are among the largest rail networks in the world (We still are). As I grew I understood that not everything is hunky-dory with this m...

Matt Harding and other unstructured things Have you seen the video of Matt Harding of ‘where the hell is Matt’ fame? If not then I recommend you to go to the youtube and watch it. I watched it much before (probably at the time when it was first released on youtube. A friend of mine had sent me the link). However I was reminded of it few days back when I saw the Visa ad (Yes the new Visa ad takes the concept from this video). According to the video description this video took 14 months to make and was shot in 42 different countries. In this video ‘Matt’ goes to different parts of world and dances (a very peculiar step. Attention grabbing and perhaps easy to replicate) and then he is joined by the citizens of that place in his dance. The second impact was greater than the first one and hence I am watching the video at least twice a day (I downloaded the video from the youtube for the purpose). I do not know what exactly inspired Matt to make that video but can sense a purpose. Wat...