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| georgep wrote: | | Do you know why they close all those shops? |
Well, it seems that the ultimate goal is to clean up the city by wiping out a portion of the population. This sounds rather strong, but you can really look at that way. The government has been closing shops for no good reason. Obviously if shops and businesses are closed, shopkeepers, business owners and their family members can't survive. Furthermore, not everyone can start from the beginning. This essentially moves a number of people out of the city.
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:09 am Post subject: |
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They need to know your employment in India, your income, your family, your reasons for coming, who you are going to stay with. They analyse you very carefully.
Tough, tough rules for Indians to visit. If the Govt thinks you are a risk... you might run off and become an illegal immigrant... they set impossible rules. |
I am currently arranging a Japanese visa for someone; it seems that it's not as bad as Australian visa, but it's still not very easy. They say life is unfair, but it really is.
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:15 am Post subject: |
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Interesting development on 'Sealing (closing of businesses in Delhi)'
My friend just emptied his office/factory yesterday so that, if some government official stops by, he can just tell him that there are no commercial activities taking place; he might be able to avoid getting sealed for the moment. He will be in his empty office/factory today nonetheless because, in case that the government official shows up, he can respond properly. Tough deal ...
From what I hear, this is not the worst problem he's faced in his life time. How do people here manage to go through something like this? I can't comprehend ...
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Freak weather
Thunderstorm again. Weather is kind of weird or this is pretty normal around here? What feels strange that thunderstorm seems to come from nowhere. Maybe this is due to the weather change up in Himalayas?
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| Is it safe to travel alone, being a female? |
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| ourboyjack wrote: | | Is it safe to travel alone, being a female? |
Given the very low per capita income, the conventional wisdom tells you that India is not the safest country. But, in reality, you don't face a lot of physical danger; in fact, the murder rate in India is probably lower than that in US. However, India is a very male-dominant country, so in many places, you only see men. As long as you can let go of the discomfort you might feel, it is a country that you can travel alone relatively safely IMO.
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| ooen wrote: | | emjoi wrote: |
They need to know your employment in India, your income, your family, your reasons for coming, who you are going to stay with. They analyse you very carefully.
Tough, tough rules for Indians to visit. If the Govt thinks you are a risk... you might run off and become an illegal immigrant... they set impossible rules. |
I am currently arranging a Japanese visa for someone; it seems that it's not as bad as Australian visa, but it's still not very easy. They say life is unfair, but it really is. |
Good news is that he's got the visa today.
Bad news is that I almost fainted today. I created a couple of documents for him and he submitted them yesterday. He was going to pick up his passport and hear the result of the review and I was accompanying him. Since we were neighbors, he drove his scooter and I rode on the backseat. However, on our way to Japanese embassy, I started feeling sick. I knew that I was going to faint, so I had to ask him to stop so that I can take some rest. He drove for another 5 minutes, found a place that I can rest and stopped. As soon as I got off the scooter, I could barely stand up. He asked if he should get me a cab (3 wheeler) so that I can go home; I just asked him to go to the embassy alone because it was very important.
As soon as I got on the cab, I threw up. Maybe this was a result of bad (rotten) food or heat exhaustion. Maybe both. Anyhow I still could not sit straight at this point and reached home 30 minutes later. At this point, I could walk so I just walked up to my flat and slept most of the day. It was a rough day ...
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 11:27 am Post subject: |
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Bad news is that I almost fainted today. I created a couple of documents for him and he submitted them yesterday. He was going to pick up his passport and hear the result of the review and I was accompanying him. Since we were neighbors, he drove his scooter and I rode on the backseat. However, on our way to Japanese embassy, I started feeling sick. I knew that I was going to faint, so I had to ask him to stop so that I can take some rest. He drove for another 5 minutes, found a place that I can rest and stopped. As soon as I got off the scooter, I could barely stand up. He asked if he should get me a cab (3 wheeler) so that I can go home; I just asked him to go to the embassy alone because it was very important.
As soon as I got on the cab, I threw up. Maybe this was a result of bad (rotten) food or heat exhaustion. Maybe both. Anyhow I still could not sit straight at this point and reached home 30 minutes later. At this point, I could walk so I just walked up to my flat and slept most of the day. It was a rough day ... |
I feel better finally.
I did some work this morning, but I had minor headache. I tried to get rested, but the headache didn't go away. So, I finally went to a pharmacy and bought some medicine. I took two pills and I also took shower; I was sweating like crazy. I have no headache now and I feel so much better.
I've been to several countries, but India is a difficult country to live in. That doesn't necessarily mean that India is a bad country, but life is not easy here physically ...
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According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), one in every four girls and one in every seven boys in the world are sexually abused. But Lois J. Engelbrecht, a researcher working on the problems of child sexual abuse, quotes studies showing that over 50 per cent of children in India are sexually abused, a rate that is higher than in any other country (see interview). Huma Khan of the Kanpur-based Centre for the Study of Human Rights terms child sexual abuse as one of the least documented violations. But studies made across India, documented in Grace Poore's resource book The Children We Sacrifice (which accompany the documentary on sexually abused girls) show the wide prevalence of the problem.
The Delhi-based Sakshi Violation Intervention Centre in a 1997 study that interviewed 350 schoolchildren, found that 63 per cent of the girl respondents had been sexually abused by a family member; 25 per cent raped, and over 30 per cent sexually abused by the father, grandfather or a male friend of the family. A 1999 study by the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences revealed that 58 of the 150 girls interviewed had been raped before they were 10 years old.
RAHI, a Delhi-based organisation that provides support to victims of sexual abuse, reports that of the 1,000 upper and higher-middle class college students interviewed, 76 per cent had been abused as children, 31 per cent by someone known to the family and 40 per cent by a family member, and 50 per cent of them before the age of 12.
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Not a very pleasant report, but I'm very keen on finding out what's really happening. This is not necessarily related to traveling, but if anyone knows anything about this subject, I'd like to hear about it.
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Glad to hear you're feeling better. You sure have had a rough patch lately.
Tell me what do you do just for fun?
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| Dawn Patrol wrote: |
Tell me what do you do just for fun? |
That's a great question. Sounds pretty pathetic, but I haven't had fun in a while. I do things like going out to watch movies, window shopping and so on, but I haven't had real fun, a blast, in a while. Something needs to change ...
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Ok, back in India.
I was in Japan for two weeks plus and I went to visit the following cities:
Gifu, Nagoya, Tokyo and Kyoto. I had a company and this was kind of like a business trip. We covered good distance and we also visited many places. We only spent four and a half days in Tokyo, but we covered ...
Ikebukuro
Shinjuku
Harajuku
Shibuya
Ueno
Ginza
Akihabara
Roppongi
Aoyama and briefly
Ichigaya
More on this later ...
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For variety of reasons, I didn't have A/C or cooler in my flat, but when I got back from Japan last week, it was too hot here and I finally bought cooler. I finally slept well. But this thing is huge. I don't know if anyone can find cooler this large for personal use anywhere in developed countries ...
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| ooen wrote: | | For variety of reasons, I didn't have A/C or cooler in my flat, but when I got back from Japan last week, it was too hot here and I finally bought cooler. I finally slept well. But this thing is huge. I don't know if anyone can find cooler this large for personal use anywhere in developed countries ... |
Yet another crappy day in India.
So, the cooler I bought the day before yesterday stopped working within the first twenty four hours. Obviously, I'm not happy. The shop I bought this from is supposed to send a guy to my flat to fix this, but he hasn't arrived today. Is he coming at all? I don't know.
No wonder, so many people think that India is full of cheats and scumbags ... *** sigh ***
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| ooen wrote: | | ooen wrote: | | For variety of reasons, I didn't have A/C or cooler in my flat, but when I got back from Japan last week, it was too hot here and I finally bought cooler. I finally slept well. But this thing is huge. I don't know if anyone can find cooler this large for personal use anywhere in developed countries ... |
Yet another crappy day in India.
So, the cooler I bought the day before yesterday stopped working within the first twenty four hours. Obviously, I'm not happy. The shop I bought this from is supposed to send a guy to my flat to fix this, but he hasn't arrived today. Is he coming at all? I don't know.
No wonder, so many people think that India is full of cheats and scumbags ... *** sigh *** |
Well, the latest on this.
The shop owner claims that he sent a man to my flat today, but he couldn't find it (Oh ... really?). Now this a** h*** wants someone to go to his shop, pick up the repair guy, bring him here and then bring him back to the shop once the job is done. Wow ..., what an amazing service ...!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what you get (or don't get) in India ...
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