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Whats up with the women CMs in India? They seem crazy (some nut loose somewhere), quick to anger, autocrats - Jaya, Maya (until recently CM) and now Mamata. Sheila is the exception. Missed anyone? My guess is their road to power has taken a toll on them. [URL]http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/man ...

I am starting a thread on the topic because I find little informed debate on the issue on the Internet. There is a possibility that PM may concede the demand in his Aug 15 Red Fort speech. [URL]http://www.rediff.com/news/special/ex-servicemen-take-their-battle-for-one-rank-one-pension-to-pm-special ...

[URL]http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article598333.ece[/URL] [quote] [B]Results from village surveys [/B]Between 2005 and 2009, the FAS conducted surveys in 14 villages in six States — three in Andhra Pradesh (2005), two each in Uttar Pradesh (2006), Maharashtra (2007), Rajasthan (2007) and M ...

The incremental value of an additional segment or node in a network increases with the size of the existing network. This is true not just of telephones, but also of railways and roads. If I am the only guy in the world with a cell phone, I can use it only to take pictures. When tons of others have ...

[QUOTE=Sarkar07;470096]^^^ Bobus, Thanks for your response. I could respond but think that the utility of this discussion for me is going down + I will have limited time in the next few days. So may be some other time if interest persists I may respond. Thanks for your time. Have a good weekend ...

[QUOTE=Sarkar07;470090] 2. Supporting a scheme in addition to other is also ok if one had unlimited resources - and your method to tackle this argument of unlimited resources is to increase the resources by cutting from OTHER programs that cater to other constituencies (and you seem to focus on the ...

[URL]http://grameenfoundation.org/what-we-do/mobile-phone-solutions/why-mobile[/URL]

[URL]http://dsc.discovery.com/technology/tech-10/cell-phones-help-nations.html[/URL] [quote] [B]1. Improves profits for farmers and business owners [/B]Instead of having to depend on a middleman to determine what price to sell, say, bananas, chickens, or some other commodity, farmers can now use a ...

[URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/mar/17/what-poor-people-want[/URL] [quote] What do poor people want? It's a stupid question, because of course "poor people" aren't a single homogenous group and everyone wants something different. But it's also the only question ...

[QUOTE=Desi;470067] As to level of discourse going downhill, from some quarters, the level of discourse has never been objective, from some quarters always misconstrued intentionally and from some quarters downright insulting and from some quarters, blunt truth deemed as obnoxious insult ( if some ...