Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Interesting facts

Did you know?

# The market of the TATA group is $45billion and they have spent Rs.4500 crores into acquisitions since 2002 and wait a minute, TATA employs a mind boggling 2,20,000 people.

# NR Narayan Murthy is a Western Classical Music freak and owns the full collection of Mozart on CDs, all 176 of them.

# Rajinikanth took a whopping Rs.15 crore as salary for Chandramukhi and hasn't commercially endorsed a single brand or product till date. Apparently Kamal Hassan also hasn't endorsed a single product for money till now.

I picked these from last weeks India Today which had a list of 50 'powerful' people.

Friday, March 03, 2006

The Pakistani Dictator

Who said the following lines?

Now the other thing that I've said: if he thinks everyone is crossing from here, I've been saying let us fence the border and let us also mine the border. We are experts at mining, they should mine the border on their side. We will fence it on our side. If that is all right I am for it, so that they are not allowed to go across at all. And then let us see what is happening in Afghanistan.

Why don't they agree to this, I've said this openly many times before, they don't do it, for whatever are their reasons. I know how effective the fence, the Indian fence which is about 1,800 kilometres, and they are fencing the Kashmir mountains also, it is so difficult.

Why are they doing that, are they mad, they are spending billions of rupees. Because it is effective. Let's fence this border so that this blame game is killed once for ever


In an interview to BBC the above was the non-chalant reply by General Pervez Musharraf to a question about President Hamid Karzai's allegations about infiltration of militants from Pakistan into Afghanistan. This same bugger fires at Indian soldiers working at putting up the fence to prevent militants entering into India from Pakistan. Doublespeak for Musharraf is like water to fish, way to go General. The full chat transcript is available here