India Poised

India Poised: a video featuring Amitabh Bachchan. Here's the transcript.

There are two Indias in this country. One India is straining at the leash, eager to spring forth and live up to all the adjectives that the world has been recently showering upon us.

The other India is the leash.

One India says "Give me a chance, and I'll prove myself."

The other India says "Prove yourself first, and maybe then, you'll have a chance."

One India lives in the optimism of our hearts.

The other India lurks in the scepticism of our minds.

One India wants.

The other India hopes.

One India leads.

The other India follows.

These conversions are on the rise. With each passing day, more and more people from the other India are coming over to this side. And quietly, while the world is not looking, a pulsating, dynamic India is emerging.

An India whose faith in success is far greater than its fear of failure.

An India that no longer boycotts foreign-made goods, but buys out the companies that makes them instead.

History, they say, is a bad motorist. It rarely ever signals its intentions when it's taking a turn.

This is that rarely ever moment. History is turning a page.

For over half a century, our nation has sprung, stumbled, run, fallen, rolled over, got up and dusted ourself, and cantered, sometimes lurched on.

But now, in our sixtieth year as a free nation, the ride has brought us to the edge of time's great precipice.

And one India, a tiny little voice at the back of the head, is looking down at the bottom of the ravine, and hesitating. The other India is looking up at the sky and saying, "It's time to fly."

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Mobilis: No frills Mobile Desktop

CSIR announced launch of 10k mobile desktops. On Hindu:

It will have no hard disk but will have built-in memory and facility to plug in memory cards for any storage over and above that provided for in the built-in memory. It will not have games. High-speed computing is ruled out. The reasoning is that "while adding to the cost, these are of no use to many users.''

This sounds cool. Infact one of my close friend was part of the development team for this product. But in this world where high speed computing is becoming ubiquitous, I wonder how competitive mobilis would be. A good start for sure.

Almost spoofed!

So, I was looking for a convertible on ebay! saw this beautiful 2003 ford mustang at a throwaway price of 4200!!! It sounded too good to be true, but still I go ahead and email the seller showing my interest. Now comes the interesting part, he emails me back:

Hello

I am glad to see how many people are interested in buying my Ford Mustang.The car is in immaculate condition and has no scratches on and hasn't been involved in any accident.The motor runs very well. The tires are almost new.The car is very fast and extremely furious.You must know that now i am located in Athens, Greece.I got married and moved here two months ago.The final price is 4200 USD.The price includes all shipping , handling and insurance charges.Shipping will be done via Lufthansa Air Cargo from Greece it is INSURED and it will take no more then 5 days.I have a friend at Lufthansa who will manage me a low price shipping and I assumed that it is from me to pay for shipping it.When I will shipp it,I will declare it as a gift so that you will pay no customs when you will receive it and for this it will be delivered directly to your address. I don't want to get rich by its selling, just want to give it to someone who will take good care. Because of my job I am traveling a lot and I can not stay home and expect to meet potential client. I'll also cover the fees for the ship and inssurance to your home adress.About the price...I am selling it at this price because it is difficult and expensive to transfer registrations from US to Greece.From the begining you have to know that for the payment I request ONLY secure pay.I prefer the payment to be hold by a third party like Square Trade and only after you receive and test the car the payment has to be released to me.After you will receive the car you have 15 days to decide if you will buy it or no.

Please let me know your thoughts.

From GREECE!!! the cost of shipping from greece would be 4000$!!! but i still decide to play the game and asked him on how to get ahead with the deal

For the payment , I've choosed money transfer , because this way the funds will be available the same day you will make the transfer.
The most important thing in all my activity here is that I am affiliated at Square Trade , I have a a purchase protection account for 10.000.00$ and I assume you know what this means.How you are protected by Square Trade, in case we have a deal:
1) If you will not receive the car as i described to you,although this is not the case, Square Trade will refund you with 100% from the whole amount which you paid me.Even in case you will not receive the car,they will refund you the money.
2) You can send the money to my name and address but you will not give me the details from the payment.You will give the details to Square Trade.They will verify the payment and if is ok,if the money exist and are availble under my name they will notify me to proceede with the shipping.
After you receive and see that the car is the one you want,you just notify Square Trade (by email) and ask them to forward me the payment details in order for me to pick up my money.
Square Trade willl NOT revile the trasfer details until you willl confirm them that the car is what you have expected and arrived at your home addresss in perfect order.
Let me know if this is ok with you,so that we can move forward with this deal!
Regards!

Still curious, on how he is thinking of fooling me sitting from greece. I asked him to tell the licence plate number of his supposedly US car and cost that can incur in transfer of the same in my name.

if you don't like the car you will send it back and i will conver all the shipping costs.
Here is how we can close the deal:
It is very safe for both:you'll wire the payment to my name
and adress then you'll forward the payment details to the Square
Trade data base.After that they will notify me that the payment has
been sent.Once I'll receive the confirmation from them I'll immediatly
ship the car to you and email to you the tracking number.
Once you'll receive the car you'll contact Square Trade to forward to
me the payment details to be able to receive the money.
In case you will not receive the car as i described to you,Square
Trade will refund you with 100% from the whole amount which you paid to
me.Even in case you will not receive the car ,they will refund you the
money.But this is not the case.
One conclusion,you are protected.
Let me know if you are still interested and if so, mail me your full
name and shipping address.Square Trade will inform you on how we can
close the deal.
Have a nice day and hope to end this deal sooner.

And finally this guy whose email address had DAVID SOLLIS all the time, sends me a phished (don't know if thats even a word) from Square Trade Customer Support [support@squaretrade-department.org]. Now his real name is Paul Gaughrab who stays at baros no 23, Athens, 11855, Greece.

so, this is my chance to let the world know about this fool who thinks and believes that he can fool people sitting from greece.!!

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