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How Blogging By Experts Can Help Comparison Web Sites Get Personal and Gain Customer's Trust and Google's Love.
With the evolution of the web, if you have a presence and a website on the internet for any reason, you are going to be compared with someone else. Even a mere search for something on Google in fact shows up a comparative statement, based on some criteria for relevance set by Google!
Even if you don't own a web site, comparison sites have become an indispensable part of 21st century life whether you are aware or not. From booking an air ticket to finding your life partner on matrimonial sites, the web just don't offer unprecedented choice for everything you need in life but leave you little option to do without some form of comparison. That is unless you live by your emotions and go after your needs for a spouse to your pet merely by your impulse.
Saturday, November 02, 2013
Posted by Unknown
One Shot And Two Birds Of Raghuram Rajan
Can't blame Raghuram Rajan, the
new Governor of the Reserve Bank Of India, for springing a surprise on everyone
concerned with the Indian stock markets and the growth of Indian economy by
hiking the interest rate instead of lowering it.
Every sensible Indian who is able
to think for himself and even a little for his country would do the same if he
or she were in the RBI Governor's shoes.
It may not be rocket science the
Indian Media and financial market has started to expect from a financial whiz
who is famously credited with correctly predicting the last world financial crisis,
but it certainly smacks of a well thought out political strategy, in resonance
with the need of the hour and the ruling government.
If the media, especially the
Indian set up which struggle to prove to be a biting one has failed to see the
truth, it is because their myriads of persons touting a mike with a satellite
dish at the other end, somehow forget to ask the right questions at the right
time.
It may be an understandable
lapse, especially when the celebrity they are facing is someone as
charismatic and charming as the young
RBI governor who seems to have turned the press meet to be an occasion more glamorous
than the latest Bollywood release of a
super star.
How else can you explain why none
of the media persons and expert reporters at the Governor's press meet raised
the question with Rajan if his measure had anything to do with the impending
state elections?
Reuters have sited analysts
explaining out the governor's action as "interesting experiment".
However, the Governor's actions seem to be only the beginning of a well thought out strategy which goes beyond economic policy."I am not saying whether I know it will work or not, but I think it sort of shows the RBI's hand in the sense that they really want to focus more on the inflation side of things than on growth at this point."
At his first-day press conference on assuming charge of the RBI Rajan had hinted at a comprehensive action plan to bolster the rupee and strengthen financial markets but also joked his job was not to accumulate "likes" on Facebook.
Somerset Maugham
once said If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its
freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values
more, it will lose that too.
Whether Raghuram Rajan ever read
any of Maugham, he seems to have had some similar insight guiding his actions
when he accepted his new post as the Governor of the RBI. Why else should he
take some steps which has wiped out a large chunk of capital off the market in
a few minutes, when country's Industrial lobby had been hankering for
concession in the name of growth.
Rajan seems to believe that by
harnessing and clamping inflation for once, he can bring the much needed stability to the economy, which
as an ex IMF economist he knows is what the foreign investors love. But doing
that now has also advantages which are not strictly financial, at the least.
For one thing, a lower steady
inflation over a few months leading up to any election is what the voters like.
On the other, there is no big merit in fattening up a lobby working against the
government just before the elections, giving it additional clout, especially
when things can wait until after the general elections.
The proof of the pudding in this occasion
is the lack of visible whining from the North Block about the Governor's
action. It was only a short while ago statements like "if we have to, we
will walk alone" emanated from the Finance Minister when RBI actions did
not meet its expectations.
One thing was clear from his
"tounge in cheek" responses
punctuated by disabling smiles and jokes at the press meet. Rajan was seriously
wondering why no one was raising the obvious question he would have found so
difficult to answer. Has it got anything with the coming elections ?
Monday, September 23, 2013
Posted by Unknown
Is India, the Land of Contradictions, Falling Apart In Its Own Flip Flops?
No, this isn't about the contradictions Rudyard Kipling found in pre colonial India which made his stories so vivid and won him a Nobel prize. Neither is this about the gargantuan gap between the Ambanis and the poor Dalit family Rahul Gandhi spent a night with.
It isn't even about the dismaying array of differences curious foreigners visiting India find difficult to comprehend and the nasty feeling of unease in their guts they go home with.
I am talking about the double standard a billion Indians practice day in and day out, which makes nothing an Indian says can be taken seriously by the rest of the world. Not even what its defence minister reads out in the parliament about the death of five Indian soldiers and then change to please millions of war mongers.
Were they terrorist in soldier's uniform or soldiers in terrorist garb who killed the Indians? Who cares?
In the rest of the world when people say yes, or yes I do, they mean exactly the same. In India you are never sure what they mean.
When the Government says they need foreign investment they don't really mean it, because for some reason, Mauritius becomes not a foreign country for India.
When the government says we won't tax foreign investment, it doesn't mean they can't go back several years and claim taxes on ambiguous corporate deals like the one Vodafoneengaged in.
When Government says Indian companies are free enterprise and they can trade their shares and capital in world market like other countries allow, they don't mean its CAG can deem such transactions as corruption like in the 2G saga.
No doubt, the Indian administration has acquired this art of contradiction and flip flop from its neighbour who can only lie whether it is about the presence of Osama Bin Laden or Davood Ibrahim or about anything else for that matter, a nation which the word has acknowledged with a motto 'We Will, We Will Only Lie'.
For India, a nation which declares 'Truth Will Prevail' on its currency, such a trait smacking of national dishonesty is indeed matter of shame.
In fact somehow there is always a disturbing disconnect between what any Indian says and what he or she means, which can be anything according to the circumstances.
This is not same as accusing all Indians of blatant lying but not owning up to a genetic makeup of a race which they should ward off with conviction and commitment to honour one's word. The least they can do is to think before they open their mouths before they put their feet in them.
Not a day, not a headline pass without a contradiction, retraction or denial. So much so that news is reported more like the first serve in tennis which is bound to be a 'let' than a 'fault' and the server gets a second chance to take a position depending on the reaction.
Day in and day out so called, leaders, celebrities, spokespersons and anyone the media will insanely pursue and compete to get a word out of for filling the above fold of their publications and news channels will blurt out something or other which is an affront to common man's intelligence.
So you can ignore headline news and wait for the denial like the media who are now a days even providing empty space or time slots to accommodate such lat minute pearls of wisdom from those who control the destiny of the nation.
If for any reason, the statement is not exciting enough, there is always the 'misquotes' which are also so conveniently denied by a later statement.
Another word which should be banished from the Indian English dictionary is the much bandied 'slam' which lets everyone blow up and complicate non issues and stuff one should ignore in to massive waste of time and resources.
The truth is that, lack of intelligence, ability to grasp the subject and do a contextual analysis and necessary historical checks, all fundamental requirement of journalistic profession, on the part of the reporters and editorial staff are conveniently ignored, even condoned for the sake of circulation and eye balls.
The result is creation of dangerous mass hysteria like the recent one which forced a change in well thought out government stance, taken in national interest, making India look ridiculous before the world.
Spoken words can't be taken back. When blurting out irresponsibly and irresponsible relaying and amplification of statements without context, like in the recent speeches of Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi can play with the emotions of a billion innocent Indians, the media is indeed toying with dangerous stuff more powerful than, at least a part of India's arsenal.
The question is who in India will own up to this shameful trend and do something to change it? Is it going to be the so called educated young or the media which tend to lay claim to parity with world media in quality and standards?
It isn't even about the dismaying array of differences curious foreigners visiting India find difficult to comprehend and the nasty feeling of unease in their guts they go home with.
I am talking about the double standard a billion Indians practice day in and day out, which makes nothing an Indian says can be taken seriously by the rest of the world. Not even what its defence minister reads out in the parliament about the death of five Indian soldiers and then change to please millions of war mongers.
Were they terrorist in soldier's uniform or soldiers in terrorist garb who killed the Indians? Who cares?
In the rest of the world when people say yes, or yes I do, they mean exactly the same. In India you are never sure what they mean.
When the Government says they need foreign investment they don't really mean it, because for some reason, Mauritius becomes not a foreign country for India.
When the government says we won't tax foreign investment, it doesn't mean they can't go back several years and claim taxes on ambiguous corporate deals like the one Vodafoneengaged in.
When Government says Indian companies are free enterprise and they can trade their shares and capital in world market like other countries allow, they don't mean its CAG can deem such transactions as corruption like in the 2G saga.
No doubt, the Indian administration has acquired this art of contradiction and flip flop from its neighbour who can only lie whether it is about the presence of Osama Bin Laden or Davood Ibrahim or about anything else for that matter, a nation which the word has acknowledged with a motto 'We Will, We Will Only Lie'.
For India, a nation which declares 'Truth Will Prevail' on its currency, such a trait smacking of national dishonesty is indeed matter of shame.
In fact somehow there is always a disturbing disconnect between what any Indian says and what he or she means, which can be anything according to the circumstances.
This is not same as accusing all Indians of blatant lying but not owning up to a genetic makeup of a race which they should ward off with conviction and commitment to honour one's word. The least they can do is to think before they open their mouths before they put their feet in them.
Not a day, not a headline pass without a contradiction, retraction or denial. So much so that news is reported more like the first serve in tennis which is bound to be a 'let' than a 'fault' and the server gets a second chance to take a position depending on the reaction.
Day in and day out so called, leaders, celebrities, spokespersons and anyone the media will insanely pursue and compete to get a word out of for filling the above fold of their publications and news channels will blurt out something or other which is an affront to common man's intelligence.
So you can ignore headline news and wait for the denial like the media who are now a days even providing empty space or time slots to accommodate such lat minute pearls of wisdom from those who control the destiny of the nation.
If for any reason, the statement is not exciting enough, there is always the 'misquotes' which are also so conveniently denied by a later statement.
Another word which should be banished from the Indian English dictionary is the much bandied 'slam' which lets everyone blow up and complicate non issues and stuff one should ignore in to massive waste of time and resources.
The truth is that, lack of intelligence, ability to grasp the subject and do a contextual analysis and necessary historical checks, all fundamental requirement of journalistic profession, on the part of the reporters and editorial staff are conveniently ignored, even condoned for the sake of circulation and eye balls.
The result is creation of dangerous mass hysteria like the recent one which forced a change in well thought out government stance, taken in national interest, making India look ridiculous before the world.
Spoken words can't be taken back. When blurting out irresponsibly and irresponsible relaying and amplification of statements without context, like in the recent speeches of Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi can play with the emotions of a billion innocent Indians, the media is indeed toying with dangerous stuff more powerful than, at least a part of India's arsenal.
The question is who in India will own up to this shameful trend and do something to change it? Is it going to be the so called educated young or the media which tend to lay claim to parity with world media in quality and standards?
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Posted by Unknown
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