Witnessing a roadside hazard in Chennai? Wait no further!

If you witness a roadside issue or a traffic indiscipline in Chennai the remedy or redressal is just a click away. Whilst Chennai City Traffic Police had an online complaints section this was like erratic in functioning. Now they have embraced social media with the round the clock grievances monitoring and realtime updates on the traffic scenario in the city. At least I had 10 complaints pending before them waiting for more than an year but the transition to Facebook mode now accelerated addressing of the same.

You can reach the social presence of CCTP here.  If you are stopped by a cop and demanded bribe or other traffic issue, you can quickly reach the traffic discipline cell through the following:

A list of complaints that I had found and transferred to their social media are shared here for ready reference of everyone. As you observe, I use Zoho Sheet for tracking the same.

 

Amba, Bheeshma and Salva — Born Again?

The latest turn of events of ‘Meerut Love Story‘ is highly disgusting. Here are the turn of events in chronological order:

1. On the nuptial night the girl (‘Aarthi’) seemed to have expressed her dis-satisfaction on the marriage to her husband (‘Nitesh Tyagi’) because she had been ‘already wedded’ to her college pal. My simple query here is that what caused to her to remain tight-lipped when all the wedding procedures were going through till the nuptial night. I am sure the wedding process would have taken months and even the wedding day they should have been shared several hours together.
2. The groom’s side had been maganimous to relinquish his leash as a ‘husband’. They diplomatically seemed to have agreed to turn their relationship into fraternity with a symbolic rakhi. ToI reports that the matrimony home is morphed into ‘extended paternal home’ for the girl.
3. After two days the girl moved to her first – paternal home. They have made efforts to unite her with her ‘lover’ (‘Vivek’) who turned down their offers stating that ‘she is married to some one else’.  Is Aarthi going to be another Ambha to jump pillar and post between Salva (‘Vivek’) and Bheeshma (‘Nitesh’)? The cops and the local magistrate are in a fix on how to deal with this complicated issue.
4. After one week our Ambha has moved the Domestic Violence Astra against Bheeshma. The DV is purely towards husband-wife estrangements and here I am really confused on how does it befit into a brother-sister relationship? Interestingly, Aarthi herself had clarified that her ‘extended family’ is courteous and friendly whilst her paternal family is a threat for her. Refer CPR India.
5. Interestingly this wedding itself was organized in a fast-track. Aarthi’s elder sister was originally engaged to Nithesh but she eloped with a local cop. The fast-track process now brings another dimension of complication with point number (1) mentioned above.

Where is the rich heritage of Bharatvarsh heading to?

 

Status of Mercy Petitions with the First Citizen of India

A shocking revelation from IndianLeaks that the terrorist (Afzal Guru) who is still enjoying the Indian tax-payers revenue for his comforts and lamenting that his mercy petition is pending with the president when actually there is no mercy petition with Rastrapathi Bhavan linked to him. Check out a series of mercy petitions currently pending with the President here.

And interestingly this has been updated on 23rd December 2010. Almost six months has passed. None of the petitions have moved an inch. So what is still pending to execute Afzal Guru other than petty minority vote agains for a handful of unscrupulous politicians?

 

Reckless Telemarketing from Standard Chartered and a Lucrative Proposition to them …

Around 27th April 2011 a telemarketer from Standard Chartered hysterically disturbed me in the mid of a meeting. She was also persistent with her seductive speech in some how pushing some hopeless crappy personal loan product.

Calling Number: 91-9789048293

Calling Date: 27th April 2011

Calling Time: 12:02 (Called just after afternoon. Was the telemarketer struck mad because of mid-day sun? )

The caller refused to even introduce herself and started to yell and shout hysterically why does me want her name? I wrote about this incident to Standard Chartered the same day along with a suggestion that not merely a telemarketing violation but the telemarketer needs a bit of psychological medication.

I would advise Standard Chartered that besides taking action against this stupid telemarketer she should also be taken to Institute of Mental Health (commonly known as ‘Mental Hospital’) which is in Kilpauk because of the way she presented herself. I think she became mental because of the disturbing climate of hot sun and intermittent (summer) showers in Chennai and I think there are also case of lustful managers in Standard Chartered call centers disturbing the employees and sub-ordinates for their bestial instincts.

If this is the telemarketing attitude of Standard Chartered I would recommend your board and Ministry of Corporate Affairs to re-christen yourself as ‘Stupid Cabbages’ bank.

It took three full weeks for the bank to respond with the following gibberish response (seeking credit card number in an unsecured email and telling me that they can not trace a telemarketing report on a customer otherwise. Don’t they have a log of the outbound calls. What if a erring telemarketer turns out to be another Al Queda terrorist outfit hiding as a bank employee? We have already seen in a recent incident that ‘John David’ the merciless butcher who murdered his colleague at Annamalai Medical College had been working for seven years in Sutherland before he was found out.

The following is the gibberish response from Standard Chartered:

Hence I just thought I would write back and this time a stronger email to Standard Chartered with a proposition that they should stop the banking business and concenterate on some sort of phone entertainment service just like premium adult lines operated over 900 numbers. I think that is the best business Standard Chartered should be better off with than wasting their time with banking which seems to be a difficult one for them.

The warm welcome response given by me was as below and the video URL embedded in the email (which was also attached to them for their offline viewing pleasure as MP4) is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmL5tinrE3Q

 

When would our Indian brides be emulating ‘Saraswathi’ of Sri Raghavendra?

We have been seen scores of posts on paramour relationships, brides eloping from matrimony house clinging to their parents house with the base objective of shrieking their moral obligations. I would like to share the noble discussion between Smt. Saraswathi (divine consort of Sri Raghavendra) as enacted in the Mahaan serial.

Nowadays even if the bride is cooperating with live peacefully in the matrimonial home, her parents poison her mind with wild speculations either in their over-affection or avaricious greed or reasons best known to them.

I fondly hope if we could see a bride like the one in the attached conversation of Mahaan Serial (Sri Raghavendra Life Story) where she defends her matrimonial home to her parents and upholds our rich heritage. With the blessings of Guru Raghavendra let us hope we get happy families reinstated in our country.

You can check out the video from Vodpod. For those non-tamil speaking folks here is the translation of the conversation.

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Saraswathi’s parents are visiting her at matrimonial residence. Saraswathi’s sister-in-law leaves them in private conversation and goes to help in preparing a few refreshments for them.

Saraswathi’s Mother (SM): Come near Saraswathi. How are you?

Saraswathi: I am doing good, mom.

SM: Hope you are without any issues and are happy in your matrimonial home!

Saraswathi: I am perfectly feeling blissful. His brother and sister-in-law are indeed mine. They treat me like a treasured asset. Even if it is my blood-brother I don’t think they would take so much care and focus on me.

SM: If they treat you from the view of a brother and sister-in-law would they dare to be so callous and careless?

Saraswathi: What mom? Why do you talk so rubbish and inebriated?

SM:  How on earth should I talk more diplomatically? If they treat you like their kit and kin would they leave you in a lurch like this?

Saraswathi’s Dad (SD): What the heck are you talking to Saraswathi without focussing on the topic that we had come for?

SM: Shut up. I can not be keep quite seeming my daughter’s plight. My blood-born daughter. My heart is burning. In this tender loving age,  did we give her away in wedlock only to make her suffer in anguish of solitude?

Saraswathi: Mom. What are you trying to convey? Have you decided that ‘I am not happy here at all?’

SD: What to do research and decide in this experiment? Had this been their family daughter would they ever dare to do this?

Saraswathi: Dad. He didn’t go to Sree Matam dancing to anyone’s tunes.

SM: If he wanted to go on a learning spree on Vedas shouldn’t he have the moral obligation of informing the bridal family too?

Saraswathi: Who the heck came and told you that he eloped without my consensus?

SD: Why do you talk on a separatist attitude?

Saraswathi: How in other diplomatic tone do you express me to convey more? Who told you that I am crying on a melancholic tone? The veena that he used is lying around here. The sacred chair that he adored is here. His favorite God resides in this place and spreading positive divine vibrations. To peak everything else, his heart beats in me. He might be physically absent but his memories are omnipotent and all-pervasive here.

The happiness I get here would not be summarily missing at my ex-parental residence. The only thing I would get there is an open hurling of abuses from public — ‘The shameless girl who can not live a peaceful life at her matrimonial home and who does not know to live in harmony with her ethically legitimate spouse.’

Dad. Please pardon me. I beg and plead you that do not solicit and tender request to me inviting you to your home. I can happily wait for any number of ages for my sweet-heart.

SD: You are a little girl. We were deeply disturbed whether these turn of events would have roughly shaken you up and left you in distress amidst incessant tears. That actually drove us crazy and made us to run fast and meet you.

You have grown mature. We are proud to see you with this bright and blooming maturity.

SM: I was apprehensive whether you might be reeling in a deep mental trauma all alone yourself with no one to support/console you and/or extend supportive shoulders.

Nay. I vision got corrected now. Let my son-in-law return whenever he feels so. I am sure your pious devotion to your spouse would get him back faster and fastest to you. Only now the parents heart feel fully satisfied to the brim. Be blessed my child.

SD: So we are starting home now. Good luck my child.

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I express my heart-felt gratitude of Sri Raghavendra for His profound and unbound compassion and blessings in helping me translate the conversations into English above. It is again another miracle of knowledge bliss similar to the one He blessed the illiterate poor shepherd in the Adoni samstanam with profound knowledge and got Him as a diwan of Adoni itself.

Om Sri Raghavendraya Namaha

 

A so-called venomous snake succumbed because of brushing against a slut!

In a bizarre incident that struck in the capital city of the national empire where the sun never sets down, a snake died because it accidentally contacted the tit of a model during her lewd photo shoot that she was engaging herself onto. Whilst the slut survived by just going through a bit of tetanus shots, the unfortunate reptile succumbed to silicon poisoning.

It had been a shameless development on the pretext of modernity that our female fraternity ‘over-exposes’ and violates our ethical code of conduct in more ways than one.  A tit is supposed to be a private organ and is considered to be source of life for a new born. It is really shameless that people use it as a source of ‘glamor’ to perform ‘lecherous’ gestures in the open. Nature has proved it as a more severe and unethical threat and many times more in intensity than the poison from the pangs of a venomous reptile.

Let me recall a good song from ‘Vandicholai Chinnarasu‘ which vehemently condemns women against dressing lecherously and advising them to behave with responsibility. Thanks to samart14 for sharing the song across.

News Courtesy: The Times of India

 

More than telemarketing menace from TimesJobs …

The furore started with Timesjob on 26th February 2011. The telemarketer was giving a missed call continuously on my mobile number. The following was reported to the cellular operator too.

Number: 91 120 6189290

Call Times: 1500 to 1530 hours

Call Dates: 26th, 27th 28th Feb 2011 and 1st Feb 2011.

The Timesjob also seems to have another form of reputation that if the callee does not respond and dance to their tunes they shout at them in a brink of hysteria. See this URL. I have also captured a screenshot of this post for a quick and ready reference.

And when I reported the same to Timesjob team some one again called two days later. He had a broken language besides the fact that whilst initially he defended that the call was not made from them but agreed that it was indeed a telemarketing call from them but tried to ‘cover’ it as a ‘robo call’ (automatic call). This incident comes close to our discussion on ‘Telemarketing Disturbances and Treatment by FCC‘. But he lacked the courtesy and just banged the call and ran away. I took a diligent proactive stand to bring this also to the attention of TimesJob. Today morning I got a funny email from Timesjob with a third dimension added to the problem meaning the phone number and account details belong to a different customer and ‘soliciting’ my details (perhaps in a fresh endeavor to start another telemarketing session?).

I chose to go the way of our ‘British Telecom’ hero and hence drafted an affectionate love letter to them advising them on the demerits of unsolicited telemarketing besides explaining my stand towards unsolicited calls. I know the descriptive love letter I flirted to them might be an ‘A-certified’ comedy but it is a humble endeavor and a maiden venture to beat the records of our BT hero. Wish me!!!! Parallely the other inspiration for sounding little harsh was the Saami tamil movie where in the climax Vikram would say to Perumal Pichai that ‘He knows to create, preserve and destroy. There is no need for ethical tolerant behavior to the ever-continuing incessant trouble and these truants need a pat back on their arse for them being an acute PITA’. A complete conversation thread has been enclosed below for viewing pleasure:

I have also attached the snapshot in a video along with the climax dialog of ‘Saami’ movie here.

‘Saamy‘ style: where he would get an offending MLA booked by taking the help of a call girl because the rogue had support of top brass cops and hence only using such a trick he could be taken to task for his mis-doings.

‘LD‘ style: Do not get disturbed by such pranksters. Turn them into hilarity and make the world smile. A lot of people have different types of stress and we can make use of these skunks to relieve them of their stress.

I think TRAI should tighten the noose on the telemarketers and cellular operators further in order to control this telemarketing menace which is increasing at an alarming proposition and proportion.

 

A Spammy Security Company that treads with stealth through the blogosphere…

Today whilst moderating the comments on one of my blog found a funny comment from ‘The World Protection Group‘, a snapshot of which has been captured here:

I am really surprised if this corporate group who can not spend a few bucks to promote their business with the most affordable advertising systems on the Internet like Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising but resort to unscrupulous crop-dusting of crappy dirty comments on blogs and that too on an unrelated posts in a totally different audience and how would they add value to the customers leave alone accomplishing the business objectives mentioned in the website. What is the guarantee that they won’t run away with my corporate assets if given an assignment because of their sheer immaturity.

I  have seen stupid companies like Chennai Online Florists, Rajastan Travelling who resort to these but they are just another low-level jokers (as reflected by the state of the website itself). But one can not expect this type of advertising mis-demeanor from a global corporate security group. Shame on them!!!!

 

When are we going to seriously implement the telemarketing regulations?

The next time a telemarketer calls you try getting a response for the following ten questions. These were pulled based on the informative video here and may predominantly be applicable to US Do Not Call register. But who knows an ingenious and diligent analysis and use of the telemarketer’s abusive gesture can render you lucky by a few bucks.

1. Is this a telemarketing call? ($500)
2. Will you tell me your full name? ($1000)
3. What is the name of your organization that you are calling for ($1500)
4. What is your company’s phone number (area code first please) ($2000)
5. Does that organization maintain a Do Not Call list? ($2500)
6. I would like my number to be put on the Do Not Call list. Would you be doing it now? ($3000)
7. Can you make sure that your company would not call me for any other reason? ($4000)
8. Will your organization keep my number on the Do Not Call list at least for ten years? ($4500)
9. Does the organization has any written policies that they wouldn’t offer me pesky calls? ($4500)
10. Can you send me a copy of the policy? ($5000)

Read further:

1. Offences for calling after being on the Do Not Call list and after requested with a couple of calls ($5500)
2. Calls before 8 AM and calls after 9 PM ($6000)
3. Calls using pre-recorded message (Robocalls) ($6500)
4. Calls without a proper introduction on the purpose of the call ($7000)
5. Calls that don’t carry a message that the call does not require you to buy anything ($7500)
6. Unsolicited Fax ($8000)

Violations can be carefully gathered with evidences and if followed up with the small-claims court (a rough equivalent may be a consumer court in our country) should be rewarded with the penalties as indicated in the brackets above with each offence. The offence in each of the query above is that if the telemarketer refuses to give a reply or knowingly/unknowingly gives an inaccurate response.

 

Remit2India makes afternoon hilarious with two telemarketing calls…

A few days back we had an interesting experience or rather an encounter with Times of Money powered Remit2India which you can check it out here.  Similar to Citibank where the databases get formatted every six months and they resort to the same joke again today there was two calls from Times of Money Remit2India.

Caller ID: 1 223 083 3100

Call Times

1. 1732 hours (1 minute long)
2. 1733 hours (1 minute long)

I just thought instead of just making a complaint I should rather help FCC, TRAI, Times of Money and Remit2India help-desk more hilarious and fulfilled about their folly. Hence drafted a small love letter for them. You can find the same attached. I also attached the hymns of glory sung by ‘Zand33Pottz‘ which you can check it out here to them to make it colorful Wednesday for them. A snapshot of the love letter is attached along with this note.