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KumaarShah

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  1. MNP Retention Offer You Received

    Wowieeeeeeeeeeeee and we thought RCOM was the worst cheat Medu Vada Fone has become the baap of all cheats, now.
  2. Tsunami Hit Japan!

    I would say corruption is universal, thats all... BTW, interesting reading in the above link, esp the 'panties' one
  3. India Census 2011 - Provisional Figures Out Now

    @ Rajan, Good info and that too before the rest of the world comes to know of it. Just 2 things: - 1. Your Dist (Thane) is the most populous in the country..... 2. The growth rate in the last decade has fallen by 3.9% from 21.54% to 17.64%.
  4. Tsunami Hit Japan!

    Some more from Japan 10 things to learn from Japan 1. THE CALM Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been elevated. 2. THE DIGNITY Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture. 3. THE ABILITY The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn’t fall. 4. THE GRACE People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could get something. 5. THE ORDER No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just understanding. 6. THE SACRIFICE Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will they ever be repaid? 7. THE TENDERNESS Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared for the weak. 8. THE TRAINING The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did just that. 9. THE MEDIA They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No sensationalizing. Only calm reportage. 10. THE CONSCIENCE When the power went off in a store, people put things back on the shelves and left quietly This makes the nation great.
  5. World Cup 2011 : Cricket Season

    Now it should be modified to mean the Paks and Afridi!!!!
  6. Is it with the physical bill or an email? So those of us who have gone 'GREEN' (Opted for E-Bill) may miss out on such offers?
  7. Tsunami Hit Japan!

    GAMAAN THE elderly and exhausted Japanese survivor was carried by piggyback into the medical centre and gently placed in a chair. As her rescuer left the room, she struggled to her feet and bowed. Alongside the chaos and destruction wrought by the terrible earthquake and tsunami have been scenes of heart-breaking orderliness and self-control.Japan is prostrate and fearful, but there are no reports of widespread looting, panic or hoarding. There is, as yet, very little anger directed at the government.Western news crews search the wreckage for images of fear and anguish, for outrage and despair, but the Japanese survivors avert their faces and cover their eyes if they weep. This extraordinary stoicism can be summed up by the Japanese word Gamaan, a concept that defies easy translation but broadly means calm forbearance, perseverance and poise in the face of events beyond one's control. Gamaan reflects a distinctively Japanese mentality, the direct consequence of geography and history in a country where the cycle of destruction and renewal is embedded in the national psyche. The Japanese are not earthquake-proof but, like their buildings and bridges, resilience has become inbuilt in a nation adapted to sway and bend under shocks that would shatter other societies. Japan has known devastation before, and the horror of nuclear fallout, but its recovery after 1945, and the ensuing economic miracle, owed much to this uncomplaining tenacity, a collective pride in endurance, survival and reconstruction. When Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan described last Friday's earthquake as "our worst crisis since the war", he was deliberately invoking Gamaan. "In the past we have overcome all kinds of hardships," he said. "Each of you should accept the responsibility to overcome this crisis and try to create a new Japan." Gamaan is part of the glue that holds Japanese society together, a way of thought instilled from an early age. It implies self-restraint, suffering in silence, denying oneself gratification and self-expression to fit in with the greater good. Originally a Buddhist term, it has come to signify self-denial, solidarity and a certain patient fatalism. This hardiness and social cohesion enabled Japan to emerge from the devastation of world war and thrive. But the rigid order and self-abnegation that it implies are also what keeps the beleaguered "salaryman" at his desk, toiling away with grim determination. That rigid conformity, obedience and sense of national purpose helped to propel Japan recklessly into World War II. Some in the West find the Japanese unfeeling in their reaction to disaster, and assume that "normal" human emotions are being suppressed. There is some evidence to support that view. The Kobe earthquake in 1995 that killed 6400 people and wiped out about 2.5 per cent of Japanese GDP was greeted with determination to rebuild the city. Only later did the psychological aftershocks hit, with higher rates of suicide and mental illness. But to see this response merely as evidence of a bottled-up culture is to misunderstand how Japanese society is founded on a shared pride in recovery, and how risk and response to adversity are bound up with being Japanese. Japan lives on a psychological as well as a seismic fault line. Its founding gods were foul-tempered and ferocious. Successive earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and volcanic eruptions have left this land with an acute sense of vulnerability, but a corresponding mental sturdiness. Every Japanese child is brought up to expect upheaval. Disaster Preparedness Day falls on September 1, the anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 that killed 140,000. The importance of persevering and rebuilding in an uncertain natural world is reflected in traditional architecture, art and popular culture. The cult television show Endurance (Za Gaman in Japanese), in which contestants try to win by withstanding unpleasant experiences, is a target of mockery in the West, but it is more than entertainment in Japan, where physical and mental endurance are so highly prized. In the West, we look for reasons for natural disasters: we blame global warming, government failure or God. The Japanese relationship to nature is different: humanity is neither battling nature nor at its mercy, but part of it. Japan is braced for nature's violence like no other country. Every bullet train has an automatic shutdown switch that activates when an earthquake strikes. But as events at Japan's nuclear power plants show, safety technology has its limits. Disaster cannot always be prevented; it can only be coped with. The Japanese are coping in ways that some find hard to relate to: with deep sadness, but without breast-beating, complaint or recrimination. It is hard to imagine any other people who, when the Earth buckles and their world collapses, form an orderly queue. The contrast is illustrated by the way the tragedy has been covered. Western reporters stand before a backdrop of utter desolation; Japanese reporters tend to find a wider view, with a standing building. They do not thrust microphones towards the homeless and bereaved, demanding to know how they "feel". At a moment of acute national pain, the Japanese audience does not want to intrude. We like to think understated resilience in a crisis is a peculiarly British trait, but today the stiff upper lip is Japanese. Courtesy: An email received from my friend.
  8. It is obvious that its a 1x offer only. We are not nuts that RCOM offers us EVDO at Rs 169 per month and that too, unltd?
  9. Abhishek is 100% right that you need to have loads of patience with RCOM. Better go in for some other provider. RCOM is in the pits now - no customer care at all.
  10. Please do not expect anything more than what has been offered by RCOM. They need to survive too, after all.
  11. News Snippets

    Hi, Any idea which will be better IE9 or FF4?
  12. MNP Retention Offer You Received

    I fully agree with Chirag Thakkar's views and also Kepal Patel's views. RCOM cannot be trusted for anything now. They have totally become 'UNReliable' Maybe very soon they will change their name also. I have had a very acrimonius INP recently and I have decided to quit RCOM altogether across all my connections. They are pathetic now and have lost all will to survive now, it appears. They are ready to let their subscribers switch elsewhere now. "When Rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy" - courtesy AB. This seems to be their attitude now.
  13. Best Bank For Current Account

    I have a Citibank current Gold account for quite some time - everything is full free.... There is no minimum balance requirement and I can even keep the balance as 'Zero' because any excess is in the deposits account. Overall I am supposed to maintain Rs 30 lakhs across all my accounts - current, savings, deposits, investments, loans etc But for the last few years (since Citibank was in trouble), I maintained only Rs 5 lakhs across all my accounts and my account status is still Gold. For Net Banking, there is no bank which can beat Citi. Since I am in Chennai, I am enjoying their services a lot.
  14. Non SMS Stuff

    good one, csmart.... So this is what you taught your child when you went for admissions? Just joking.... +1 to you
  15. Me 2 having a 1GB valid for 2 months Ozone Wifi access card. More info on ozonewifi.com Anyone needs it, can PM their full address to me.
  16. Gift From Reliance : Spread A Smile With Holi

    I have got a 'HOLI' SMS asking me to subscribe to Local Onnet Pack for Rs 50 for full free unltd R2R calls. Now the funny part is that the period is not mentioned, assuming it should be 1 month, because the default plan is at Rs 99 per month. So effectively we get 50% discount. Now that a lot of RCDMA subscribers have switched operators, I think there is a lot of free capacity on CDMA, so RCOM is giving 50% discount now. Or else, the existing subscribers also will jump fences soon. Serves them right....
  17. So now, the Total debt will go up to $ 9 Billion..... Nothing more to add...
  18. Reliance HSD / EVDO / Netconnect Broadband+ coverage update

    ravi for the terrific share.... Makes really interesting reading... but not too sure how it will benefit the mango man's usage and cost. One thing is certain - they want to eliminate all 'free lunches' which will be good news for the financial people, but then the mango man will have to pay up more, month after month. Not too sure, if the mango man will take kindly to this and allow RCOM to charge higher or use MNP to switch elsewhere. And the GSM network being what it is (as we all know it) I doubt if the mango man can willingly afford to pay more for poor services.
  19. World Cup 2011 : Cricket Season

    Arre bhai, "gold" ka logo hai and you know the gold prices today, no.... So when you want to liquidate the phone, you can melt it first and get all the gold in the logo. This will give you more than Rs 2500 that you have paid initially, you see????
  20. I don't think so, as the date has been extended to Mar 21, 2011. Till then, one can send more than 100 SMS' per day.
  21. Sibal to meet telcos next week to discuss spectrum issues, M&A Courtesy: ET
  22. Maybe the figures released are the successful Port-ins and hence the number of pending cases are not being reflected. RCOM is the master of the game as they do not want the customer to do INP also and neither does RCOM want them to do MNP. So if these subscribers become successful in their MNP quest, the figures will dramatically increase. RCOM is not allowing INP and MNP purposely, so that the figures do not set off an alarming trend. They will be successful only in delaying the inevitable, IMHO....
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