By nandan on April 20, 2010
I completed my tour guide training in December and my license was printed in January. Now the Ministry of Tourism office in Delhi asked me to bring a police verification certificate from my local police station. The Police verification certificate certifies that there are no legal cases against me. Actually they had provided a proforma [...]
Posted in Corruption, Varanasi | Tagged character certificate, Corruption, india, Indian police, Varanasi
By nandan on April 10, 2010
It is one of my relative’s wedding in the last week of May. The bride is a graduate student and the groom works for a CA (charted accountant) in Lucknow. The bride’s father has a small saree business so not much money. The marriage was arranged by some relative of the bride. This marriage is [...]
Posted in Women in pain | Tagged dowry, Hindu wedding, india, indian women, Varanasi, wormen rights
By nandan on May 25, 2009
I have always been interested in the people who feel like they are affected by bhoots (ghosts) and destroy their lives going to some baba or exorcists to get rid of the ghosts. I have always wanted to hear more about ghosts by people who say that they are somehow affected by ghosts or have [...]
Posted in Exorcism | Tagged Exorcism, ghost, india, Varanasi
By nandan on January 26, 2009
This is a big question in India- How much is your salary? Since the India has started developing, people have changed the way they used to talk. About twenty years ago, the first question after meeting someone was- What your parents do? But today the first question is what do you do and then what [...]
Posted in Corruption | Tagged bribe in India, corruption in government offices, india, Varanasi
By nandan on December 18, 2008
On 22nd of October, 2008 India launched Chandrayaan, a satellite, to compile a 3D atlas of the lunar surface and map the distribution of elements and minerals. I am sure these kinds of work costs huge amount of money. Right after one month of this satellite launch India faced the biggest terrorist attack ever. Almost 200 people [...]
Posted in Corruption, Politics | Tagged development in India, india, sanitation in India, security in india
By nandan on December 12, 2008
I think it has become our compulsion to use the word “Pending” again and again. Maybe we use this word most in the whole world. We have most number of legal cases pending before courts in the whole world. People file a case and spend their lives but never get any result. Now people feel [...]
Posted in Corruption | Tagged civil courts in India, india, indian government, Varanasi
By nandan on October 29, 2008
Inflation is killing India nowadays. Everything is at least twice as expensive as the usual price. It was Diwali yesterday but it didn’t fell like the Diwali five or six years ago. Usually people like to buy lots of crackers, buy new clothes, bring something new to their homes but this year everything was so… [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged india, inflation in India, Varanasi
