The ghetto in the sky

In a city like Mumbai, with it slums, high-rises and fancy apartments, the entire population lives in a ghetto. To me a ghetto is an overcrowded, over populated urban area. There is not much of a difference between people living in a poor area and of those living in high-rises. Both are squeezed into small places and this makes them very angry, exasperated and frustrated. These people are more likely to commit crime.

In the poorer area, because of the overcrowded, social and economic living conditions, crime rates are high. In the areas where there are high-rises, streets below are unsafe. The higher one lives, the higher is the possibility of crime being committed. If one lives on the ground floor, one has more and immediate access to the streets. One’s car is much safer on the streets if one lives on the ground or the 1st floor. The higher the building, the more people are lifted from the street level.

Now the ghettos are in the sky!

The Art of Bargaining

At the end, I don’t want to lie on my deathbed and wish that I had spent more time in the office with those gloomy fluorescent lamps, those countless emails & phone-calls, those colleagues stabbing you in the back, those over paid bosses, those talents going unrewarded, the countless absurdities of office life. No sir, I would not like to spend time at that frustrating and most illogical place on earth.

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People don’t take much interest on other people except for their social positions

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The Art of Bargaining
I spent sometime in Linking Road trying to understand how stuffs are bargained and purchased.
Bargaining must be an art, otherwise how do we define the following
1. The customer disagrees, bickers, squabble with the shopkeeper.
2. The customer points out defects in the object that is to be purchased
3. The customer sweet talks, coax, pursue, entices.
4. The customer displays, irritation, displeasure, annoyance.
5. The customer derides, mock and scoff at the shopkeeper
6. The customer intimidates the shopkeeper never to come to his shop again
7. The customer shrug shoulders.
8. The customer cautions and reprimands the shopkeeper
9. The customer feigns walking away from the shop displaying resentment.
10. Finally when the bargain has been won, heads are shaken in melancholy as if
defeat has been acknowledged with resignation.

So the next time you intend to purchase something, try out the above points and see for yourself the art of bargaining

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We people are a crazy lot.

We people are a crazy lot.
We consider ourselves smart,
but we smoke, drink and gamble.
We fall in love.
We have morons running the offices.
We declare war on each other.
We react irrationally during the boom and collapse of the stock market.
We don’t listen to our parents and we don’t seem to have much respect for them,
but we are ready to kill or die for faith and religions which were created by ancient barbarian civilizations.
We people are a crazy lot.