An example of consumer rights working too well in India!!

A colleague's friend applied for a Standard Chartered Bank credit card through one of the bank's/marketing firm's agents. In the application he gave his home address. Some days later he got the card at his office address. He thought it was strange. Fortunately he had a xerox copy of the card application. He learnt that the agent had changed the address by scratching out the home address and writing in the office address instead (for whatever reasons). Somebody advised him to go and file a complaint in the consumer court. So he went there and talked to an enterprising lawyer. The lawyer declared that this can be seen as fraud and filed a claim somewhere in the range of 70-80 lakhs. Yes you heard me right. Some time later the person was called by the bank for an out of court settlement. They settled "some" of the points in the claim for 5 lakhs + 1.5 lakhs credit on his card. I haven't heard what happened with the remaining points in the claim. But 6.5 lakhs for an address change..isn't that cool :) Next time you find something strange be sure to file that complaint!!

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Nasal Drops for the Singer Please

I have had enough of the nasal singing of the capped music channel darling Himesh Reshamiya. "Aashique Banaya Aapne" was listenable even enjoyable at times with the remix but now the congestion has set in even more and "Tera (tera tera tera) suroor" some "Naam hai tera tera" and the mix have just taken it over the edge. Help! Help! Help!

Be warned!

At last a voice of concern against increasing totalitarianism. (via Atanu Dey) I wish it were a secular message..something against all the religions :)

Acceptable Abuse of Sanctity

In most societies today swearing/abusing is common place. It is probably more prevalent amongst men than women. The chioce of words often is very colorful and can involve several blood relations and genetalia. Despite the sacrilege involved it is acceptable in certain social situations and contributes to a lot of banter, humour and entertainment. If it is possible to make peace with such offensive creations (offensive when taken literally of course) involving real and emotionally close people, why don't people do the same when it involves their "Gods" whom they never even get to see for real?