What I Want In Tomorrow's Budget

6 documents to be linked with adhaar card: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/6-documents-that-must-be-linked-with-your-aadhar-card/tomorrowmakersshow/60188595.cms?utm_source=WAP&utm_medium=HP_News&utm_campaign=TDMC?utm_source=ETWAP&utm_medium=WAP&term=HomeNews&utm_campaign=&CampaignTerm=HomeNews

1. Linking Aadhar card with PAN - the mess: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/now-link-aadhaar-with-pan-through-id-proof-scan-otp/articleshow/58092575.cms?from=mdr and http://www.financialexpress.com/money/heres-how-you-can-link-your-pan-with-aadhaar-on-income-tax-india-website/665164/ and here is the process sending an SMS only: http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/how-to-link-your-aadhaar-with-pan-through-just-an-sms-117060100349_1.html
2. Duplicate adhaar cards removed - find if an adhaar card number is valid: http://teckbe.com/81-lakh-aadhaar-numbers-deactivated-see-if-yours-is-in-the-list-or-not-heres-how/
3. Increase taxpayer coverage to 20% from the current level of 1-2%. Use the data from demonetization drive. Aim to bring tax rates down.
4. Address benami properties. Ensure every property was bought from white money. 
5. Reduce the number of pending cases in courts by 90% and max time waiting for cases to 1 year. 
6. Reduce subsidies from LPG to trains to fertilizers to Haj travel. 
7. Bring rural poor into the banking system. Remove Rs 2000, Rs500 notes from the system and stop printing the same.
8. Improve the safety, profitability of Indian railways. 
9. Roll out GST by Jul 1, 2017

And what the Budget 2017 is:

• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/union-budget-2017-highlights/articleshow/56905903.cms
• http://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/Highlights-of-Union-Budget-2017-18/article17127298.ece

Nice article on Aadhaar Card Issues (UIDAI): https://scroll.in/article/832595/privacy-security-and-egality-are-not-the-only-serious-problems-with-aadhaar-here-are-four-more

What is happening also:

Chandigarh land records to be computerized: http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/powered-by-aadhaar-chandigarh-set-to-be-indias-first-city-to-have-conclusive-land-titling-system/545055/

Aadhaar and PAN are to be linked: (Updated on May 5, 2017)
A friend sent me this procedure:

The IT Dept had been asking people to link their PAN no. with Aadhar before 31 July and many were finding it difficult as their names did not match in both. ( Eg. Names with initials in one and expanded initials in another). Responding to complaints, the IT dept has come out with a simple solution now. Just go to their www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in website and log in. Then go to Profile settings and chose Aadhar linking. Then enter Aadhar no. and ENTER NAME AS GIVEN IN AADHAR CARD. Then both get linked and u will get a confirmation about its success to ur email too. This is a simpler process than several other methods tried earlier. Please note that this is mandatory for filing tax returns.                        I have tried and it was linked successfully

If you misplace your aadhaar card: http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/lost-your-aadhaar-card-or-didn-t-receive-it-here-s-how-to-retrieve-it-117071500379_1.html 

Best Micro Cap Funds (India)

1. http://www.moneycontrol.com/mutual-funds/performance-tracker/returns/small-and-mid-cap.html
2. http://myinvestmentideas.com/2016/06/best-small-cap-mutual-funds-to-invest-in-2016/

Additional reading:

• http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2015/07/interesting-mutual-fund.html
• http://calmisc.blogspot.com/2011/01/indian-mutual-funds-in-top-25-best.html
• Stock pickers under perform in falling markets too: https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/05/12/sorry-stock-pickers-history-shows-you-underperform-in-bad-markets-too/

Handling Difficult People

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-smart-people-handle-difficult-dr-travis-bradberry

Trial Week Interview

http://www.businessinsider.in/why-a-300-person-san-francisco-startup-doesnt-offer-anyone-a-job-until-theyve-undergone-a-trial-week/articleshow/56743225.cms - nice way to recruit in San Francisco.. I used to do a similar thing 15 years back.

Sujoy Ghosh's Thriller Ahalya

A friend sent me the link to this short Bengali movie Ahalya. Quite interesting. While I usually avoid short stories and have never seen short movies, Ahalya was interesting. Just 14 minutes. Though I am not able to come up with a logical  explanation for what happens. Just woodoo comes to mind.

Strong Railway But Do We Care

http://www.thehindu.com/society/Strong-railway-strong-India.-But-do-we-care/article17102277.ece - another nice article by Biswanath Ghosh of Hindu newspaper

Perspectives About And In India And Pakistan

https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/instep-today/181414-A-shared-perspective - a documentary

Intelligent Submarine From IIT Bombay

https://qz.com/889388/iit-students-may-give-the-indian-navy-its-next-big-thing-an-intelligent-unmanned-submarine/

Additional reading:
https://scroll.in/article/827645/as-funds-flow-in-iit-bombay-is-finally-turning-into-an-innovation-hub

Girls Republic Parade In Kashmir

Nice photo

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/Snow-and-steady/article17091287.ece

Ganesha

A friend sent me this drawing of Lord Ganapathy.

Who Dunnit?

A friend sent me this.

Good one to read 

On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. 

Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency. 

As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly. 

Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been installed just below the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

"Ordinarily," Dr Mills continued, "A person, who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide."

That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands.

In the room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. 

The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window striking Mr. Opus. 

When one intends to kill subject "A" but kills subject "B" in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject "B".

When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife were both adamant and both said that they thought the shotgun was unloaded. 

The old man said it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, if the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident. 

It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. 

Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder even though he didn't actually pull the trigger. 

The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist. 

Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. 

He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. 

The son had actually murdered himself, so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.  

A true story from Associated Press, Reported by Kurt Westervelt

Brilliant - facts are sometimes stranger then fiction !

And you thought Sheena Bora case was complicated..

Interpreting Business

http://www.oldschoolvalue.com/blog/tutorial/this-is-how-buffett-interprets-financial-statements/?__s=i7qbwkzyuu55sb2hjou3

Settle Health Insurance Claims Over Phone

http://www.livemint.com/Money/YtvsVJnAWTokN7sttcaV0I/Now-get-health-claims-via-mobile-phones.html

Travel From Asia To Europe

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/180308-First-Silk-Road-freight-train-from-China-arrives-in-London: China to UK by freight train

Is Your ID Phished Or Compromised In A Data Breach?

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

JaaliKattu

I hate it. Showing one's manliness against poor animals.. Men should show their courage at home. Let them tame their wife...idiots..vanduttanga kalaiya adakka..

Apparently there are other economic aspects to Jallikattu as per this article: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/this-is-how-the-economy-of-jallikattu-works/articleshow/56704037.cms

The Mistry-s Shapoorji, Pallonji et al

1. https://scroll.in/article/820018/an-indian-irish-billionaires-journey-from-outsider-to-kingmaker-and-then-opponent-at-the-tata-group
2. http://www.independent.ie/business/world/cyrus-mistry-and-the-mammy-factor-at-the-heart-of-tata-30728963.html
3. https://www.joe.ie/news/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-pallonji-mistry/15594
4. https://qz.com/818357/pallonji-mistry-an-irish-billionaires-journey-from-outsider-to-kingmaker-to-opponent-at-the-tata-group/
5. http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Layout/Includes/TOINEW/ArtWin.asp?From=Archive&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIM%2F2011%2F11%2F25&ViewMode=HTML&EntityId=Ar00101&AppName=1

Additional reading:

• Incidentally the Mistry - Tata spat seems kinda similar to Narayanamurthy Vs Sikka of Infosys: http://www.livemint.com/Companies/HrZ1roa8TVtdvKoAIHG9AM/Infosys-row-seen-as-a-Narayana-Murthy-vs-Vishal-Sikka-person.html

Why Do Women Fall For Cruel Men

A friend sent me this.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/snow-white-doesnt-live-here-anymore/201205/why-do-women-fall-cruel-men

Big Data And Amazon

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669551/how-companies-like-amazon-use-big-data-to-make-you-love-them

Tamilian's View On Jallikattu

https://scroll.in/article/826873/i-am-a-tamilian-and-i-support-the-supreme-courts-jallikattu-ban

India Donated to US

A friend sent me this:

Q.What is difference b/w India and USA?
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Ans.
1.🇺🇸America produced Microsoft🖥, 
🇮🇳India produced Satya Nadella (CEO)👱👱

2. 🇺🇸America produced Pepsi Co.🍷, 
🇮🇳India produced Indra Nooyi (CEO)👩👩

3. 🇺🇸America produced Adobe Systems📖, 
🇮🇳India produced Shantanu Narayen (CEO)👱👱

4. 🇺🇸America produced CitiGroup💵, 
🇮🇳India produced Vikram Pandit (Ex CEO)👱👱

5. 🇺🇸America produced Berkshire Hathaway Insurance, 
🇮🇳India produced Ajit Jain (President)👱👱

6. 🇺🇸America produced MasterCard💳, 
🇮🇳India produced Ajay Banga (CEO)👱👱

7. 🇺🇸America produced Quest Diagnostics🔧, 
🇮🇳India produced Surya Mohapatra (Ex CEO)👱👱

8. 🇺🇸America produced Deloitte📊, 
🇮🇳India produced Punit Renjen (Global CEO)👱👱

9. 🇺🇸America produced Google 🔎, 
🇮🇳India produced Sundar Pichai (CEO)👱👱

And finally,

10. 🇺🇸America produced Quora📜, 
🇮🇳India produced Balaji Viswanathan.👱👱

It’s sad😞 to see so many comments📝 with negative👎 perspective which “completely disregard " the role of India played to mold those top Indians.

So here is a little stat:

1. Satya Nadella- B.E Electrical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology

2. Indra Nooyi- (PGDM /MBA) from IIM Calcutta

3. Shantanu Narayen- BSc. Electronics Engineering from Osmania University

4. Ajit Jain- B.Tech Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur

5. Ajay Banga- PGDM (/MBA) from IIM Ahmedabad

5. Surya Mohapatra- B.S in Sambalpur University

6. Sundar Pichai- B.Tech Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

7. Balaji Viswanathan- B.E Computer Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering🏫🏫

🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳Indian Schools were the ones to provide the “basic” for those geniuses👔 which created the roots for the 🌲tree to grow.
Proud to be Indian🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

How To Be Effective As A Rookie Teacher

This is an interesting course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/rookie-teaching/lecture/7EmRM/big-ideas

https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/flex-rookieteaching/Readings/Week%201%20Reading.pdf

A friend sent me this -an article about teacher effectiveness: http://www.rand.org/education/projects/measuring-teacher-effectiveness/value-added-modeling.html

Toyota-Style Problem-Solving A3 Reports

http://www.lean.org/Search/Documents/406.pdf

Autism

About autistic parents:

• http://www.autism.org.uk/about/family-life/sons-and-daughters.aspx
• http://www.parents.com/health/special-needs-now/4-moms-share-what-its-like-to-be-an-autistic-parent/
• http://koenraadt.info/essays/raised-by-autistic-parents.html (very nice, deja vu)
• http://doris-mash.blogspot.in/2008/02/parents-with-aspergers.html - nice
• https://aspar.wordpress.com/stories/
• http://www.aspergershelper.com/asperger-syndrome-symptoms.html
• http://www.faaas.org/asperger-s-syndrome.html
• http://autismmythbusters.com/parents/therapy/thanks-mom-what-my-mother-did-right-frank-klein/: What mothers shouldn't do with autistic children

Additional reading:

http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2016/02/i-me-and-myself-and-my-inner-child.html

Haraamkhor Movie

Haraamkhor seems interesting: www.financialexpress.com/entertainment/haraamkhor-movie-review-nawazuddin-siddiqui-is-brilliantly-revolting-shweta-tripathi-shines-in-this-forbidden-love-story/506536/

Quarter Million Dollars To Raise A Child In USA

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2017/01/09/just-had-a-baby-prepare-to-spend-233610-raising-it/

Moon At Dusk

Moon and a blue sky behind tree leaves around dusk and street lamp light trying to suffuse in the foreground.

BHIM

UPI Enabled App:
http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/bhim-app-payments-cashless-online-transaction-narendra-modi-how-it-works-shortcomings-4456264/

LPG Payment

With cash becoming scarce, I was wondering how to pay for gas (LPG).

Here is how.

Go to MyLPG.in and choose your gas company (Indane, Bharat etc) and then you need to register yourself online. You need to know your distributor name, your customer ID (usually a number), your 17 digit LPG ID (you can get this from your LPG receipt) and your aadhaar number. Once you have registered and created a user id, you will receive a mail. 

You are all set now to book online and PAY ONLINE.