ganpa's rants

During the last two decades of the previous century and the first two of the current century, the world has witnessed, an amazing spectacle of unhindered trans-continental harmony in movement of goods, services, capital, ideas, technology and people from one end to the other.  It is irrefutable that the whole world has reaped a mountain of benefits from this era of globalization. Developed countries explored new areas to shift labour intensive manufacturing jobs, which resulted in enormous cost savings and consequently more healthier bottom lines.  Under developed and developing countries world over gained huge benefits of this surge in jobs and opportunities and managed to transform their countries to emerging economies. The new found middle class emerged in these beneficiaries and huge hitherto unheard-of numbers were hauled out of poverty. The undisputed champion to benefit from globalization has been China which has become the defacto manufacturing shop floor ...

Appa !!!! for God’s sake please don’t be soo stingy!! Just throw that cover off and get a new one on line. It hardly costs you 300 bucks. My daughter screamed across the room at me, as she saw me struggling to repair my smart phone’s flip cover. There was nothing too wrong with the cover of my smart phone. It was a flip cover and the flip cover had gotten unfastened from the silicon base partially. All that was needed was   Rs 5 worth of Fevikwik and some dexterity and Lo the flip cover was restored to its former glory. That, the former glory itself was a bit tattered is a different matter altogether. However, that’s a different story for another day. Similar scenes play out in my house almost every other day. The antagonist is always me while the person expressing deep anguish could be my daughter, or my wife or my mother, or could be any possible combination of the three afore mentioned characters. Mr Scrooge, Mr Miser, I have been frequently addressed as such and...