rajesh purohit / blog

Okay folks, thanks for your time and comments on my thoughts about what I felt after attack on my country. Some of you pointed that we need to do 'something' to improve ourselves and our country. And this something was typically 'reduce corruption', 'remove politician' or even a hoax that we use some section/sub-section 49-0 in our constituent (which is incorrect off course). I'm a patriotic no less than any of you. What I simply asked is what current status of my country is and why I should feel proud of it. There were no suggestions on that. Bhagat singh, Rajguru are history and were never part of this country. And don't forget Gandhi didn't comment on their death sentence and never went on hunger strike and now he is father of our beloved nation. Someone talked about unity saying we are together in grief. Why we have to unite only in grief? Why can't we celebrate chhat puja, Ed, Diwali together in hormony? Why can't we teach all citizen o...

Today I was forced to think about my own identity and my feeling towards my nation. Till Wednesday evening I was proud to be called an Indian. However, Mumbai attack forced me to think why I should be proud to be part of this country and I couldn't think of any thing optimistic. Indians or south Asians normally are very positive about life. They are fond of recollect old days memory (which are generally almost 400 years old) and try to be content thinking of prosperity their forefather enjoyed that time. Nevertheless, when I was asked why I'm proud of India so much I had to take some time to dig out the reasons. So I decided to write down the points which I consider is positive about my nation, a nation, which is under attack from all direction (insider and outsiders equally). Unity – My foot! Everyone knows how united we are. Nagpurian can't live in peace in Pune, though both are in same state. North Indians do not like south Indians in their team/projects or vicinity an...

With reports that GM might go bankrupt, study by Center for Automotive Research predicts that the failure of GM in an event where the company stops production would cost 2.5 million jobs in the U.S. in the first year. Some lobbyist are working for bailout package for auto industries like banking/finance sector but unlike Banks, these are Manufacturing industries and will have to produce and sell. If know one is willing to or able to buy their product how can they survive? GM can’t even file for Chapter 11 Reorganization. First, the cost of running GM is 11 billion $ per month. Second, selling some of it’s portfolio to rival is not possible because in these credit crunch no auto firm will have guts to buy out GM (may be in parts). Filing Chapter 7 Liquidation seems the only option… Newspapers, magazines, broadcast television and radio are already feeling heat of the downturn in auto industry. In the first quarter alone, the auto industry spent $414 million less on advertising than in ...