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Subsidies are eventually bad, since you need money to maintain services. That is the problem here too, subsidized water for example never reaches the poor.It is guzzled by the middle class and stolen by water mafia.Plus there is no money to maintain the pipe system well, and eventually the poor...

It is $ 1 billion nonetheless, real estate costs are very high in Mumbai.Altamount Rd, where the house is located, is the 4th most expensive place on earth in terms of real estate.

The soil was legally imported and paid for, 20000 kgs of it. Master and slave might be your ideology, for us atithi devo bhava.

Yeah it does look shoddy....most of the stations do not resemble renders, or a better word to use ' fantasies'. Btw the road below looks awesome!

the biggest bottleneck of the indian economy, imo is infrastructure. it is also very important, because it is relatively easy to address. in this regard it seems the government has finally woken up.$1 trillion worth of investment is planned over the next five years. With infrastructure comes...

Good point actually.

In mumbai I dont think their is space ? May be it will be more like Navi Mumbai

yeah it still is tommorrow lol... btw the mysore palace looks great lit up...

Its a festival celebrated mostly by Hindus, sikhs, jains and buddhists.But most other communities also join in, I can see the Parsi family next door up with their light decorations, and the loudest crackers here are burst by a Christian family.It is more about having fun here.The importance of...

^least bothered is an old british phrase.superlative of non-annoyance.more common in the subcontinent though.

ah i am sorry..was browsing the namma metro thread and this came up in the related section.should have checked

India is spending $1 trillion in the coming 5 years....by 2016 the infrastructure in the country will have vastly improved.

agriculturists are not taxed in pakistan.i had some hope from musharraf but even he couldnt change things.

Ok some more research has thrown up very interesting things baghdad is an old persian word bhag+data "god" +" gift" .."gifted by god" baksheesh from old perisan bakshi+daan compare with bikhsha+daan shariyar="king" from old avestan: xshatra compare with kshatriya Bumi persian compare with...

you will find many persian words similar to Sanskrit words, the reason being Vedic Sanskrit is similar to Avestan, the forefather of persian. For one, Zoroaster's persian name is ' Zarathustrah' which is defines as " Owner of Old camels" . anyone here with a basic knowledge of sanskrit will...

raam mare raavn ke haathon, sitaa maiyyaa jl gai gaurugarnth bs garnth bn gayaa, umar buddh ki dhal gai kuch bhi nahin hai shesh, ab ye desh jlaa do. muslmaan ne hindu maaraa, khudaa hue preshaan hindu ne hthiyaar uthaayaa, ab royaa bhgavaan mandir masjid sab ghabraaye, khatre men hai jaan...

jab kashti sabit-o-salim thi sahil ki tamanna kisko thi ab aisi shikasta-kashti main sahil ki tamanna kaun kare.

And there ladies and gentleman, lets raise a toast to that! :toast_sign:

Chinese and Japanese and Indian cultures are very similar to each other, at least much similar than what our media would like us to believe..Indias greatest export to the east, Buddhism and Indian thought influenced chinese and japanese cultures for centuries. I was in this quaint little village...

interestingly much of today's generation in mumbai (dont want to make it a north-south thingy, so lets settle for fairly cosmopolitan mumbai..) speak a devised tongue consisting of a weird marathi-hindi mix, tuti futi english, and mind you the words are english, yet the sentence construction...