Saturday, May 28, 2011

Business of Charity


Business of Charity

Charity has always been a very tricky topic. Where does the money for the charity come from? Where does the money for the new temples come from?
How does the business of the NGO run? What are the intricacies of charity?
It’s a fascinating topic that we are going to uncover today.

Charity is a business. If someone donates 100 k to a school he wants his name to be mentioned in the local news magazine that he has donated. This is basically the expectation part of the charity. You are expecting something in return. Charity is not supposed to be done by keeping expectation in mind.

In social circles charity is used to gain moral upper ground. For example, the owners of Manickchand donate in millions in religious places. On one hand they spoil health and on other hand they want to butter the God. They are segregating their business from religion.

In Gujarati circles, charity is used as a tool for gaining a reputation. During arranged marriages both the parties cross examine as to how much charity does one do to please the God.

The ironic point is that no one contributes to teach the kids, they do it to please the God. I thought kids were the form of the God


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Friday, May 20, 2011

Train from Boston to Bombay

Train from Boston to Bombay

Disclaimer: I am a customer and I can demand anything that money can buy.

Planes are supposed to be the rich vehicles. I mean compared to car, rickshaws etc, planes are superior vehicles. But many of my friends and me have a lot against planes. I will specially focus on international flights.

Lot of my engineering friends go to US for pursuing their higher studies. Every December when the holiday season in US is at peak, everyone wants to come back to Bombay (I am purposely using Bombay and not Mumbai…I am politically neutral as such!!). They want to come back to the happening city. They want to eat WADA PAV, visit Marine drive, Haji Ali, Nariman Point. They want to meet friends, relatives…have all the fun that the three weeks allow them to.

However, during these times airlines start acting pricey. Adding insult to injury, many of my veggie friends feel that food in the airlines is not worth it. Many of my non-drinking friends feel ripped since they don’t drink tons of whiskeys which Pakistani flyers do to get their moneys worth. There is no standard set for the prices of the airlines. One has to keep on browsing internet daily to find the cheapest deals. Luggage is always an issue. Guajarati junta generally finds this as the biggest issue because invariably they have a lot to bring because invariably they have a hug relative-friend circle. One cannot sleep in plane except for Business class. It’s too much to expect the cattle class to travel in business class. Spaces are cramped. Air hostesses are good but I won’t spend 50 K tickets for that. I would rather become the member of Naughty America. There are n numbers of issues and planes suck.

I want Sonia Gandhi and Obama to start a railway line between Boston to Bombay. They should build underground pillars to support railway tracks. There are a couple of oceans and few thousands of kms. Why to spend so much on NASA? Spend on something useful. As such also NASA’s success ratio is lesser than my mathematics score which was thankfully not in negative. We can use African laborers. We will get cheaper labor. We should primarily target employees from Zimbabwe and…OO..OBAMA KNOWS better than me which countries to target!! The speed of the train should be better than that of stupid planes. Its ok if we don’t have air hostesses…we will serve our own food and water also. We can have all the features applicable in Indian railways. R A/C , Waiting Lists, reservations for old. I also want student discount. All the folks from Boston will book tickets in September.

I am a customer and can demand anything money can buy…and if Obama and Manmo..sorry…Sonia agree folks at Northeastern University, Boston are going to throw a party for me…the only purpose for the article!!

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Young and Socially Sensitive

Though the article which we are going to post at this moment is not very creative, it talks a lot about the power of creativity. We are redirecting links to a sister body named aarambh-diaries;
Link 1: Young and Socially Sensitive :
http://aarambh-diaries.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
After 2 years Link 2: Winds of change:
http://aarambh-diaries.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html

Both articles have been written by Jay G.