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Do you vote for the person (candidate), or the party (ideology) ?

03/22/09 04:57 - silkboard

* Candidate * Party

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CPI(M) manifesto - misleading facts and too broad?

03/22/09 04:18 - silkboard

Writing this to point out what fact based means, this post is inspired by TN Ninnan's editorial in Saturday's Business Standard. He picked out a few statements from CPI-M's new election website, and argued that a few of them are not supported by facts, or even observations. Mr Ninnan has picked out certain statements from CPI-M manifesto (here), and taken objections to them:

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BMTC-RTI Meeting Minutes and updates

03/22/09 04:03 - Rithesh

Meeting minutes - March 22, 2009

Participants - manjari, ritesh, kbsyed61

Points of dicussion:

  1. Manjari summarized this week's progress including meeting with prof Mahesh.
  2. BMTC Administrative report for 2006-07 was discussed. Felt the need for 2007-08 report.
  3. RTI Info spreadsheet was reviewed

 To Do List:

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There are no dustbins in my locality...damn!

03/22/09 02:51 - shekhar_mittal

7am in the morning i just happen to go for a walk and all I end up feeling is that this city which I have fallen in love with over the past 2 years is 1 huge trash can! Depressed at that thought and thinking what we at praja can do about it...it just happens that 1 gentleman throws an empty cigarette box on the road right in front of me.

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Mixing "what" and "how" - Mysore water supply protest example

03/21/09 18:55 - silkboard

Not writing this to take sides in the recently lit 'protest' over supposed privatization of water supply at Mysore. Good friend Vinay forwarded this article from Star of Mysore which goes by the title "Intellectuals oppose Tata deal"

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Meeting with Prof.Ashwin Mahesh

03/21/09 16:47 - Naveen

As part of ABIDe, Prof.Ashwin Mahesh appears to have thoroughly understood all the limitations of having to deal with issues for commencing new city transport services within the existing framework of our polity & citizenry.

He touched upon prevailing operational practices & existing mindsets within BMTC as also those of the expectations of people with regard to BMTC services. He dealt with various issues in an extremely systematic & orderly way & explained all aspects – indeed in a most impressive manner.

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BTRAC signs - How much thought ?

03/21/09 08:57 - rs

HI

B-TRAC has been putting up a lot of signs all over the place. I was wondering a couple of things -

1. How much thought/analysis has gone in to the positioning.

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NICE wins court case (Gottigere)

03/20/09 06:17 - s_yajaman

Read this in the Hindu today.

http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/20/stories/2009032060780600.htm

"The peripheral ring road to be built around the lake "

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Ped subway fever in Mysore

03/20/09 06:18 - Arun

In what appears to be an act of aping big bad brother BBMP, Mysore City Corporation is building subways of pedestrians at not so feasible locations and with no involvement of public.  Am posting my letter sent to the local English daily.
 

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Is this the answer in india?

03/20/09 02:41 - jennypinto

The Hindu of March 19 had an interesting article : A Gandhian idea gets a British makeover by Hasan Suroor the gist of his story about a new campaign in the UK is "A high-profile campaign, funded by a flamboyant millionaire Tory donor Sir Paul Judge was launched this week with the grand aim of reducing the dominance of the three main organised political parties (Labour, the Conservative

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