After Los Angeles, I waited for Mumbai to do this.....We are headed for Satyug.

All you want to know about smoking ban
NDTV Correspondent
Wednesday, October 01, 2008, (New Delhi)


Banned effective in: Restaurants, banquet halls, refreshment rooms, discotheques, malls, cinema halls, coffee houses, pubs, bars, airport lounges, hospitals, public offices, court buildings, amusement centres, educational institutions, workplaces, libraries and public conveyances.


Allowed in: Open spaces, which do not include an open auditorium, a stadium, a railway station or a bus stop. Hotels with more than 30 rooms and restaurants with the sitting capacity of more than 30 people will create separate space for smokers. Airports can have smoking areas if they comply with the rules.


Who all implements it: The owner, proprietor, manager, or the authorized officer of a public place will have to implement the rules. They will have to display signs as well as name of the person to whom one can complain.



Penalty: Rs 200, which may increase to Rs 1000.


Similar ban in other countries: Hong Kong, Ireland, South Africa, France, Italy, Thailand, Canada, England, California, Egypt, Scotland and Panama.

Sanitation in Mumbai!

Need we even mention about it. With each train passenger very happily chewing over the goodies available on the station platforms, only to litter the tracks of Mumbai!

Enough is enough and then they go ahead and revel "Amchi Mumbai". Well, is it your Mumbai or your off spring's. I haven't dared to ask them. May be rather than being a silent spectator, one should think about taking some action. (That includes me too.)

No posts as we wonder!

Haven't found an enterprising/interesting real life incident to write about. I believe in writing something really unique, otherwise, it wouldn't interest the readers.

Hipster Jeans and Bikes

Clarification: The following article/snippet is a personal view. Your independent view could be a different one and you are definitely entitled to it.

This post is not about liberal thinking, but about bad taste. With hipster jeans in vogue,an expression to further promote "independence" of women (in terms of the choices they make)! But I feel sitting on a bike with a short top exposing the undergarment, is it a fashion statement or a blooper? Good question, isn't it. Its all about how you express yourself in totality!!

While sitting in a cab, I noticed that a bike stopped nearby and the girl was constantly trying to cover up her "crack". Is she trying to say....OOPS, my mistake for a wrong choice of clothing! Or is she trying to say don't watch it! Well if its the latter, her mere act of covering up actually commanded unwarranted attention. Her face clearly didn't suggest that she was trying to entice the entire "street".

This hasn't happened once, but several times over and with fatter buttocks. (Not to undermine abilities of buxom women.)

Boy!! What a blooper!

This could be related to the markets also. How we act/invest is influenced by the past and present and future and our own act at this very juncture, which in turn influences the markets spontaneously, because your competitor is trying to outwit you.

Opponents are already thinking about what you are about to do and its better to keep him/her baffled.

Hence, what one thinks is only a part of what one thinks.