rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: Uber Case and Public Policy Thoughts
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2014/12/uber-case-and-public-policy-thoughts.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Sunday, December 28, 2014. Uber Case and Public Policy Thoughts. A few years ago public transport in Delhi (as in most parts of India) was pathetic. The public transport buses were unsafe; especially for a girl who can be reasonably sure of being groped (. Are the operations of Uber and OLA so dangerous that we need to ban it immediately? Our reaction has been to ground the ...
rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: Even Elephants Can Dance
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2011/05/even-elephants-can-dance.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Saturday, May 28, 2011. Even Elephants Can Dance. My friend Zakir Thomas is a revenue service officer; but he is more comfortable in developmental work than being an enforcement officer. At present he is the project director for Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD). What OSDD has done is to make the platform available to for these professionals to collaborate among each other a...
rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: Riding a Tiger
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2012/05/riding-tiger.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Wednesday, May 23, 2012. 8220;It was like riding a tiger; not knowing how to get off without being eaten” This is how Raju, former chief of Satyam, described his cover up of the poor quarterly performance he started few years ago that grew to a multi-billion dollar accounting scam that finally engulfed him and his company. The degree of dishonesty varies from coercion to man...
rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: October 2014
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Saturday, October 4, 2014. Reforms in Tax - A taxpayer’s wish list. Excerpts of my speech at Conference on India 2.0 as a part of 37th SKOCH Summit at India Habitat Center, New Delhi September 2014]. 8220;The only two things certain in life are taxes and death”. Why was taxes compared with morbidity and death and taxmen considered a villain? We need to go forward in our info...
rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: Digital India 2.0 Hoping for the best
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2014/09/digital-india-20-hoping-for-best.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Saturday, September 27, 2014. Digital India 2.0 Hoping for the best. Excerpts of my speech at Conference on Digital India as a part of 37th SKOCH Summit at India Habitat Center, New Delhi September 2014]. Why do I say so? The fundamental problem was in the “Implementation”. Let us take a look at some key learning from our experience of yesteryears. The we...One of the challe...
rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: Don’t do me a favor; Grant me the right to demand
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2011/07/dont-do-me-favor-grant-me-right-to.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Sunday, July 10, 2011. Don’t do me a favor; Grant me the right to demand. I was impressed by the Class 8 student Kavana Kumar from Karnataka who used this tool to get the garbage dump next her school cleaned by the municipality. These may be anecdotal evidence as of now. But these have potential to grow to stronger tools. Similarly when we give the citizen the ri...Dear Sir,...
rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: June 2015
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2015_06_01_archive.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Sunday, June 14, 2015. A Requiem for Mother. It was around 1 o' clock in the afternoon on Sunday 31. The song stopped in my throat. Ambily and Reni gave out a gasp. The only thing to be done now was to close those eyelids and kiss her still warm body that would fast turn cold. She was born in 1917, two years short of a century ago. In a time when girls were not allowed t...
rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: Taming the Corruption Tiger
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2011/05/taming-corruption-tiger.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Taming the Corruption Tiger. Corruption (‘private gain at public expense’) has always been a matter of concern for the mankind since time immemorial. Many people love to eliminate this completely; but this is a disease. Which we may never be able to eradicate totally. It is both. There is a strong mutual dependency between economic progress and CP...
rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: December 2014
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Sunday, December 28, 2014. Uber Case and Public Policy Thoughts. A few years ago public transport in Delhi (as in most parts of India) was pathetic. The public transport buses were unsafe; especially for a girl who can be reasonably sure of being groped (. Are the operations of Uber and OLA so dangerous that we need to ban it immediately? Our reaction has been to ground the ...
rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog: Moon shot and Mouse trap
http://rollingstone-revelations.blogspot.com/2011/02/moon-shot-and-mouse-trap.html
Rollingstone Revelations - Koshy's Blog. The weekly series that will make you think, laugh and cry. Don't miss. Bookmark this page. Tuesday, February 8, 2011. Moon shot and Mouse trap. 8220;Hello little mouse, what are you up to? Just trying to see if I can have some fresh air” little mouse replied. 8220;What is the big deal about fresh air? If you decide to come out of that hole you can always have as much of it”. The solution is very simple” The lion replied. 8220;But how is it possible? What is the di...