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Re: Nukkad

Post by Raja » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:27 pm

True that. It is indeed amazing that India has reached where it is despite Bandit ji, massa and his poodles. BTW I was not referring to India as one of the rudaali countries. India got sucked dry for 2+ centuries continuously. Even a WWII firebombing is nothing compared to that.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Raja » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:28 pm

In the Bay Area they may not leave the state in hordes but will certainly move further to the east like we already see - to Dublin, Pleasanton and beyond.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Zynda » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:56 pm

11 Deep Insights Into How India Watches P*rn From P*rnhub's Probing Study
One of the world's leading adult websites, P*rnhub, just released their annual review of users' p*rn-watching habits. While the data covered the entire world, their Indian users featured prominently throughout.

Here are the highlights from our year watching p*rn:

1. Search terms like "Indian HD" and "HD Hindi" showed a spectacular jump of over 1000% in India, almost all thanks to the rise in penetration of 4G cellular services in 2017.

2. In fact, 86% of all the traffic from India came from smartphones.

3. Another effect of this boom – India became the world's third-biggest p*rn enthusiast in terms of traffic in 2017!

4. In addition to 4G, Indian women were also hugely responsible for our jump. Female Indian visitors to the site increased by 129%, waaaaaay higher than any other country in the world.

5. In not-so-impressive news, Indians last only 8 min 20 sec per session. This is almost 100 seconds faster than the overall average of 9 min 59 sec.

6. "Indian Wife" and "Indian Bhabhi Devar" were two of the most popular search terms in the country, as per usual. The most popular category amongst Indians was "MILF".

7. While the age of the average P*rnhub user is 35, the average Indian user is just 30 years old – the youngest in the world.

8. The highest traffic drop recorded in India was 16% on March 12, thanks to Holi.

9. Site traffic dropped by an average of 37% around the world on New Year's Eve. But, while the world celebrated, traffic in India only dropped by 12%.

10. Friday is the least popular day to j$$k off, while Sunday is all about that self-lovin'.

11. And, for the third year running, Sunny Leone was the most searched for adult star in India.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Mort Walker » Sat Jan 20, 2018 7:37 pm

Raja wrote:
Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:28 pm
In the Bay Area they may not leave the state in hordes but will certainly move further to the east like we already see - to Dublin, Pleasanton and beyond.
I don't think people will move out of CA in any significant numbers, but growth in population will reduce. Even though incomes are high in the Bay Area, property prices and SALT will create a disparity. CA now has the highest poverty rate in the US when income and cost of living are combined. Upper middle income families who have saved will leave and cash out of houses they bought earlier. There will be a big gap between the rich and poor which will make the CA resemble the states of LA, MS, KY and AL.

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Post by Raja » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:32 pm

That disparity is already there and will widen further. It will be interesting to see if that triggers riots on the scale of LA. I keep telling SHQ we need to move to Boulder. She went to school there and it’s the mecca of trail running. :lol:

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Mort Walker » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:40 pm

Raja wrote:
Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:32 pm
That disparity is already there and will widen further. It will be interesting to see if that triggers riots on the scale of LA. I keep telling SHQ we need to move to Boulder. She went to school there and it’s the mecca of trail running. :lol:
Rajaji,

CO is one of the fittest states in the US and indeed the mecca of trail running and off road biking too. Very scenic area.
Moving from the Bay Area to the greater Denver area may be equally expensive. It may not be Bay Area prices, but higher property prices than LA area. At least it was that way a couple of years ago. Everything from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins has become expensive along I-25. I know of some people who live in Cheyenne, WY and commute to the Fort Collins area since that is more affordable.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Suraj » Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:49 am

Re: Japan after WW2, it wasn’t merely about aid. The most important thing that helped them, and which was also helpful to SoKo later, was that the quality of their human capital FAR exceed India’s. SoKo was poorer than India at one time, yes. But they had a literacy rate of >70% at that time. We are at that level today.

When Ikeda Hayato as FinMin went about establishing MITI and focusing on export led growth, they had a vast base of educated workforce, many who also had craftsmen and tradesmen skills thanks to wartime production work. They could take the aid received, focus on stable currency, peg it generously to the dollar, and export everything and the kitchen sink. Same tactic that Park Chung Hee followed in SoKo a couple of decades later. Ikeda also became PM of Japan later after Nobusuke Kishi, who was Shinzo Abe’s grandpa.

In India’s case, we had ~9% literacy and a life expectancy of about 30 years, in 1947. Due to an enforced policy of deindustrialization, we lost a large base of craftsmen and trades focused people over time. We were effectively surplus in uneducated , unskilled and physically weak people. That’s not a very helpful ingredient for fast growth. Nehru and INC did very little to fix that in 60 plus years. it shows in simple things even today. Look at the quality of general furniture and home construction craftsmanship. It’s hard to find a large base of uniformly skilled labor, which directly impacts economic activity.

Sorry for the Econ stuff here mods :)

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Karthik » Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:54 am

Suraj wrote:
Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:49 am
Sorry for the Econ stuff here mods :)
Take your revenge here.

Regarding SoKo, IIRC they spent almost 20% of their GDP on education during initial years, even now, their expenditure on education is very high > 7%. How much we do? Ours has been plagued by subsidies, doles etc. If we had spent similar amount on education, our literacy would have been nearly 90%.
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Re: Nukkad

Post by Raja » Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:57 am

Jernail Singha trucking strong at the Mumbai marathon - crossed 29K in 3:55.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Karthik » Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:10 am

Jason M. Lemkin @jasonlk
Follow Follow @jasonlk
More Jason M. Lemkin Retweeted Scott Kupor
What I learned from 5 weeks in Beijing + Shanghai:

- startup creation + velocity dwarfs anything in SF
- no one in China I met is remotely worried about U.S. or possibly even cares
- access to capital is crazy
- scale feels about 20x of SF
- endless energy
- not SV jaded
Hope same will be told of India in 5 years time.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Raja » Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:57 am

Singha finished 5:57.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Vikas » Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:22 am

Karthik wrote:
Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:10 am
Jason M. Lemkin @jasonlk
Follow Follow @jasonlk
More Jason M. Lemkin Retweeted Scott Kupor
What I learned from 5 weeks in Beijing + Shanghai:

- startup creation + velocity dwarfs anything in SF
- no one in China I met is remotely worried about U.S. or possibly even cares
- access to capital is crazy
- scale feels about 20x of SF
- endless energy
- not SV jaded
Hope same will be told of India in 5 years time.
Startup vibrancy in India is right up there with the best. I am part of startup ecosystem and know that for sure.
Valuations right now are more practical but we do have our own challenges of mentorship and successful idols.
Thanks JDAM initiative by NM sarkaar, there is lot of push related to this sector by startups.
Most of the state Govt in India are encouraging startups and looking at setting up multiple incubation and accelerator programs.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Karthik » Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:35 pm

Vikas wrote:
Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:22 am
Karthik wrote:
Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:10 am
Jason M. Lemkin @jasonlk
Follow Follow @jasonlk
More Jason M. Lemkin Retweeted Scott Kupor
What I learned from 5 weeks in Beijing + Shanghai:

- startup creation + velocity dwarfs anything in SF
- no one in China I met is remotely worried about U.S. or possibly even cares
- access to capital is crazy
- scale feels about 20x of SF
- endless energy
- not SV jaded
Hope same will be told of India in 5 years time.
Startup vibrancy in India is right up there with the best. I am part of startup ecosystem and know that for sure.
Valuations right now are more practical but we do have our own challenges of mentorship and successful idols.
Thanks JDAM initiative by NM sarkaar, there is lot of push related to this sector by startups.
Most of the state Govt in India are encouraging startups and looking at setting up multiple incubation and accelerator programs.
Good to know, why don't we have similar number of unicorns as the Chinese? Are our startups again focused on service rather than products? Could we see a google, MS within next decade, that will give employment to other 50k?
Also, are there startups in electronics area too like the Chinese or just IT?

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Mort Walker » Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:22 pm

Both Japan and SoKo had and have a security umbrella provided by the US and they don’t have vast unprotected borders like India. Food security was a priority after India’s independence and it had wars foisted upon it 15 years after independence. SoKo had a dictator, Park, who promoted industrial development. I agree that the INC made bad choices for India, but in part their hands were tied. If Banditji had decided not to contest the 1962 elections and stepped aside with IG into retirement, India would have been much better off.

Pakistan had the chance the become like SoKo, but they took the retarded ideology path instead.

Education and health spending in India is currently less than 2.5% of GDP with the current government. It does need to be higher.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Suraj » Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:30 pm

Japan and SoKo have food and energy security concerns as well, especially Japan which is mostly mountainous and has 125M people squished into flatlands that are earthquake prone . Tokyo can be absurdly crowded at times; pretty much all the locals know when not to venture where, as familiar as they are with the train occupancy patterns . SoKo and Taiwan have security concerns regardless of any US umbrella.

Growth fundamentally needs human capital . Given that, many different approaches can be pursued . Even without a security umbrella , just the development of a military industrial complex is economic activity that boosts GDP . We are still struggling with that , both the question of mastering technologies and the ability to engineer them to the right tolerances and manufacture them .

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Indrad » Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:18 pm

Ek Tha Tiger: UP cops bury their bravest 4-legged officer wrapped in national flag https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cit ... 594538.cms

BAREILLY: Tiger was one of the best Uttar Pradesh police force ever had. Having cracked 150 cases single-handedly in his career spanning 14 years, he rose to the rank of deputy superintendent of police, the highest any police dog could have. A sniffer Labrador with 20 nails on his claws - a rarity according to his caretaker, he would just dash to the crime spot and dig out bodies or other crucial evidence in open fields, jungles or even water bodies. There was nothing he had not done.
So, when Tiger breathed his last on January 17, the police force decided to give him his due. Wrapped in the national flag, Tiger was buried with the traditional guard of honour as his colleagues as well as admirers paid their last tributes. The director general of police's office called up Muzaffarnagar SSP, enquired about Tiger's last rites and asked for his pictures to be sent to Lucknow.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Kabir » Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:43 pm

Zynda wrote:
Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:56 pm
11 Deep Insights Into How India Watches P*rn From P*rnhub's Probing Study
One of the world's leading adult websites, P*rnhub, just released their annual review of users' p*rn-watching habits. While the data covered the entire world, their Indian users featured prominently throughout.

Here are the highlights from our year watching p*rn:

1. Search terms like "Indian HD" and "HD Hindi" showed a spectacular jump of over 1000% in India, almost all thanks to the rise in penetration of 4G cellular services in 2017.

2. In fact, 86% of all the traffic from India came from smartphones.

3. Another effect of this boom – India became the world's third-biggest p*rn enthusiast in terms of traffic in 2017!

4. In addition to 4G, Indian women were also hugely responsible for our jump. Female Indian visitors to the site increased by 129%, waaaaaay higher than any other country in the world.

5. In not-so-impressive news, Indians last only 8 min 20 sec per session. This is almost 100 seconds faster than the overall average of 9 min 59 sec.

6. "Indian Wife" and "Indian Bhabhi Devar" were two of the most popular search terms in the country, as per usual. The most popular category amongst Indians was "MILF".

7. While the age of the average P*rnhub user is 35, the average Indian user is just 30 years old – the youngest in the world.

8. The highest traffic drop recorded in India was 16% on March 12, thanks to Holi.

9. Site traffic dropped by an average of 37% around the world on New Year's Eve. But, while the world celebrated, traffic in India only dropped by 12%.

10. Friday is the least popular day to j$$k off, while Sunday is all about that self-lovin'.

11. And, for the third year running, Sunny Leone was the most searched for adult star in India.
prawn looks like a subversion by the west against India, drugs were used by isi in Punjab. It is a double edged sword but the western youth was already beyond the point of no return in hex perversion; in India they have found a perfect weapon against youth consciousness.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Kabir » Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:43 pm

Zynda wrote:
Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:56 pm
11 Deep Insights Into How India Watches P*rn From P*rnhub's Probing Study
One of the world's leading adult websites, P*rnhub, just released their annual review of users' p*rn-watching habits. While the data covered the entire world, their Indian users featured prominently throughout.

Here are the highlights from our year watching p*rn:

1. Search terms like "Indian HD" and "HD Hindi" showed a spectacular jump of over 1000% in India, almost all thanks to the rise in penetration of 4G cellular services in 2017.

2. In fact, 86% of all the traffic from India came from smartphones.

3. Another effect of this boom – India became the world's third-biggest p*rn enthusiast in terms of traffic in 2017!

4. In addition to 4G, Indian women were also hugely responsible for our jump. Female Indian visitors to the site increased by 129%, waaaaaay higher than any other country in the world.

5. In not-so-impressive news, Indians last only 8 min 20 sec per session. This is almost 100 seconds faster than the overall average of 9 min 59 sec.

6. "Indian Wife" and "Indian Bhabhi Devar" were two of the most popular search terms in the country, as per usual. The most popular category amongst Indians was "MILF".

7. While the age of the average P*rnhub user is 35, the average Indian user is just 30 years old – the youngest in the world.

8. The highest traffic drop recorded in India was 16% on March 12, thanks to Holi.

9. Site traffic dropped by an average of 37% around the world on New Year's Eve. But, while the world celebrated, traffic in India only dropped by 12%.

10. Friday is the least popular day to j$$k off, while Sunday is all about that self-lovin'.

11. And, for the third year running, Sunny Leone was the most searched for adult star in India.
prawn looks like a subversion by the west against India, the way drugs were used by isi in Punjab. It is a double edged sword but the western youth was already beyond the point of no return in hex perversion; in India they have found a perfect weapon against youth consciousness.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by saip » Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:02 am

Raja wrote:
Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:57 am
Singha finished 5:57.
I was expecting him to crack 5:00. How was the weather in Bombay this time around?

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Mort Walker » Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:34 am

Suraj wrote:
Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:30 pm
Growth fundamentally needs human capital . Given that, many different approaches can be pursued . Even without a security umbrella , just the development of a military industrial complex is economic activity that boosts GDP . We are still struggling with that , both the question of mastering technologies and the ability to engineer them to the right tolerances and manufacture them .
Agree. Partly what prevents a developed MIC is that the armed forces will not accept weapon systems like the LCA Tejas and Arjun in significant numbers. They should be told to take it or nothing.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Suraj » Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:50 am

Karthik wrote:
Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:54 am
Regarding SoKo, IIRC they spent almost 20% of their GDP on education during initial years, even now, their expenditure on education is very high > 7%. How much we do? Ours has been plagued by subsidies, doles etc. If we had spent similar amount on education, our literacy would have been nearly 90%.
What can be done ? Well, literacy wise we're already there. Youth literacy is well north of 90% now. It's the older people pulling the numbers down. For those older than 50, public expenditure on literacy efforts has little yield on return, since they're close to retirement and they simply don't have the physical ability to work much more, due to decades of malnutrition.

IMHO, the poor state of literacy and life expectancy is the most damning metric of our government history. We may have started out at <10% literacy in 1947, but there's no reason we could not have forced youth literacy level to 75-90% by the 1980s at the latest. But no, we took another 30 years to do that. Ditto for caloric intake and life expectancy. We've only gotten to the >90% youth literacy level in the early 2010s.

The next step is widespread training in skills to support a base of industrial and services employment.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by ashokk » Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:59 am

This is a slum in Mumbai, not pic postcard Italy town
There is something wrong with the parrot drawn on a black wall in this uneven Ghatkopar slum. Its neck is missing and it seems to be inspecting its own back at an odd angle, as if searching for the neck. The parrot, it turns out, used to be an owl. An artist had drawn the nocturnal bird first but then the rustic residents of Sahyadri 2—one of the many slums perched like Lego blocks on this Asalpha hillock—decided that they didn't want to wake up to "a bad omen". So, his chalk hastily replaced the hawk-like beak with a pouty, curved bill and, just like that, an inauspicious bird of prey became a loved domestic pet.

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From the Mumbai Metro, you won't be able to see this mutant bird. Neither would you be able to see the mural of a cat sitting inside a soapy bubble inspired by a resident's kitten. All you can see of this Asalpha hilltop from the air-conditioned train is a loud, multi-coloured installation of shanties that is likely to make filmmaker Rohit Shetty go: "Next song location."

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Drenched in 400 litres of paint by around 750 people, Asalpha is not only distracting Mumbai Metro users, as intended, but also seeing foreigners with SLR cameras ascend its stone stairs. Just a few days ago, an unfamiliar buzzing noise that sounded "like a giant fly", made Krishnamma—a chatty, nose-ring-sporting elderly resident—abandon the quilt she was stitching and step outside her tiled 10x10-ft-home. Above, three drones circled her freshly-coated neighbourhood. "Flying cameras with red and blue lights," recalls Krishnamma as she winnows grains of wheat. A "BMC survey" that began right after the army of paint-can-wielding volunteers applied the first coat on December 2 had made Krishnamma somewhat suspicious of the bout of charity. Soon, government officials were taking measurements of her house and profile photos of the entire family. "The last time such a survey happened was 18 years ago," says Krishnamma. Unfounded rumours of razing and redevelopment now haunt the air of this enameled pincode that finds itself in the grip of sudden, unsolicited spotlight. "What exactly is the paint for?" at least three residents ask.

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It's a question that Harvard degree-holder Dedeepya Reddy answered many times before founding 'Chal Rang De'—a non-profit initiative that tied up with the Mumbai Metro and paint manufacturer Snowcem Paints—to give the drab vertical slum a postcard-like makeover reminiscent of Italy's vibrant Positano. "I even showed residents Photoshopped after-renditions of the slum," says Reddy. As a Metro traveller, the artist in her would cringe at the morose sight of the grey hilltop houses, whose walls often had to wait for Diwali for a fresh external coat of dull distemper colours. An eyepopping paint job could change the perception of Mumbai's slums, decided Reddy, the welltravelled cofounder of creative agency Fruitbowl Digital.

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Soon, after getting residents on board, Reddy got her team to create a website and found several hundred volunteers, including senior citizens, online who finished painting 175 walls in two weekends. The muralists came later. Reddy's brief to them was: "Reflect the life of Asalpha's locals or relate to them." So, besides its many women home entrepreneurs and cats, you will also find an astronaut dangling from a planet on a wall here—a reminder to local kids to dream big. "Many of my school friends have come over after the paint job," says seventh grader Siddhesh Jadhav of nearby Shivneri Vidya Mandir school who chipped in by painting three walls.

The day-long painting exercise stripped Reddy and her team-—who had never stepped into a slum before—of their own grim stereotypes. Spontaneous lunch invitations from residents gave them a peek into the obsessive cleanliness of the one-roomhome dwellers. "They are now like family to us," says Reddy, who bit into pooran poli at the oneroom home of the affable Surekha Gade, a housewife whose son's wedding invitation card bore the names of their deceased pet cats 'Lalu' and 'Prasad'. :mrgreen: Reddy now calls her "billiwali aunty".

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Zynda » Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:36 pm

Bikers, autos, cabs and TTs all do this (& they have been doing this at least for 8 years now...I don't think this used to happen in early 2000s in BLR)...at almost every intersection at traffic lights, there are few folks who don't want to wait back in the line but want to get ahead by hook or crook. So what do they do? Go on the opposite lane which is essentially driving on the wrong side of the road, even if there is a frikking median and block half the road width/lane there. Try to argue, shame them or reason with them...its like talking to a stone. Most of them abuse you back...nothing will deter them. I have seen this behaviour even if there is presence of cops near the intersection (who are also happily willing to stand by in groups and stop freight vehicles & two wheelers only...). What to do...this is India onlee...swalpa adjust maadkole...perhaps there is an written rule that there is a degree of intensity when it comes to breaking the law. No black or white...but shades in grey just like everything else in life...OK to jump red lights if the intersection is clear, block the half of opposite road...

I think increased fines have now become a central law (?) but not sure if the implementation has happened on ground. 'Cause many intersections now have cameras and if BTP wants to increase the revenue, they can send notices about offences (assuming the driver of the offending vehicle actually still resides at the address that is on file with RTO) and perhaps that is already happening but as far as I can tell, there is very little change on ground.

Here is a video captured by a TBHPian using his car's dash cam about what I am talking...

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Zynda » Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:57 pm

I had to buy a replacement charger for my laptop. I had to undergo the same experience last year...change charger. Last year purchased it from OEM and paid 2000 INR for both charger & power chord. Thanks to Make in Cheene maal and possibly getting 2nd rate quality for emerging markets, the charger developed loose contact with in a year and obviously no one will even attempt to repair it. Solution...buy again a new charger.

Went to the same OEM shop and to my surprise the price of the charger alone has increased to 2900 INR with GST. The product being a computer one attracts 18% GST and apparently from last year budget, computer parts are more expensive.

Currently, most of the items that I am purchasing have seen increased prices post-GST. I am yet to see any savings incurred for vendors due to simplification of taxes etc. being passed on to the consumers. The only thing which is not keeping pace with inflation is paycheck hike.

I get it that GST had to come...but as of now paycheck is not keeping pace with inflation and with a weak white collar job market (which has stagnated job opportunities along with salary), the perception among my peers is that consumers are hurting.

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Re: Nukkad

Post by Indrad » Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:24 pm

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cit ... 594538.cms

Tiger Labrador dog buried with full state honour wrapped in tricolour for outstanding services to UP Police. He cracked over 150 cases over 15 years.
He is the first dog to have risen to the rank of DSP.

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