Thought Garage

Just 7 hours of Electricity for Agriculture that too in 2 separate shifts ?? How much land can you water in those dire circumstances? That too at this time of summer!! Source: Eenadu.net

People of Andhra Pradesh have exercised their fundamental right of democracy to elect their next Government with a whopping 72.5% turnover. While every political party has feverishly pitched their plans, they gave little chance for individual voters to raise their local issues and ask questions. Ask a question or Vote for a question today. Click on the following link: Set Agenda For The Next Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh   In about 20 days, the next Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh will be decided. Its time for the People of Andhra Pradesh to set the Agenda for the new Government. Whoever the next CM, we will take the top voted 50 questions and get answers with an action plan to each of the questions right from the NEW Chief Minister. And we also would like to take questions relevant to each Constituency to their elected representative for their answers and action plan. So exercise your right to ask a question and demand an action plan. This process is e...

Yahoo bought GeoCities for more than $2.9 billion in dot-com-priced stock in 1999, when GeoCities had more than 1.1 million users. However, while the idea of having a personal presence on the Internet has caught on, GeoCities turned out to be a backwater, not the mainstream. "We will be closing GeoCities later this year," Yahoo said in a note on the site . "We'll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer." Source: CNETNews

One of the most intriguing presentations I have ever watched on how to market a startup.  Key take-a-ways (in my own words): Don’t even bother, if you don’t have an insanely great product. Trend means end. Never follow the trend, but try to create your own trend. Charge early. Charge a lot. Your price could be your best marketing strategy. Spend as little money on advertising. Instead spend on developing an insanely great product. The product will speak for itself and your customers will advertise for you. You can never have enough budget to promote a crappy product. If you ever have to give out your product free, build a beautiful and amazing UI to give a much better experience to customer. I must admit and warn you, if you ever watch this video or read about the presentation either on this blog or elsewhere, take the advice with a pinch of salt. While appear sound (and anecdotal and may have worked for him and his team), the advice is quite narrow and ...

You may just beat it as featured in Sakshi TV, the congress party’s ’ official ’ media channel, but its a good summary of all Surveys conducted so far and all of them give a clear victory to Congress while TDP alliance comes second. Now the big question of whether surveys are accurate enough, no body can guarantee that. But if all surveys predict the same or almost similar result, and based on past results of how surveys predicted, well, Congress may win again. Good or bad!!

Every political party alleges that everybody is seriously corrupt. And yet, each Politician, irrespective of the party he/she represents, spends as much as he/she can to BUY votes by offering primarily liquor and money. Some political parties are creative and offer sarees, cricket kits of youngsters and kind. No Political party, Absolutely NO political party has any hint of honesty or guts to put out their account books to the public. Source: The Hindu I wrote a while back about the three questions each Political party must answer. So far, barring all the pep talk about ending corruption, no political party has demonstrated any transparency in the party to prove they are NOT corrupt. It appears, I am asking too much from the politicians!!! The Real Questions ( YesToPolitics ) If there is any party that is promising to end corruption, we ask the following questions to prove that a) they are not corrupt, b) they will not resort to corruption during elections and...

Quite an interesting collage set up as an Ad for a program in local TV. (Rajahmundry) (Source: Kalyan’s Flickr Photo )