Friday, October 16, 2009

Lalu 2 Mamata: Khullar 2 Vodafone

Lalu Yadav's term as Union Rail Minister would be remembered for many
reasons, one of which was his much talked of introduction of khullars
(pottery cups). The stated aim was to use a labour intensive
technology to create jobs and promte Indianness. For some reason that
was discontinued after a few months and we were back to paper cups
with the logo of the rail caterer printed on it.
Now if you travel by Indian rail (here i am talking of my experience
is Kalka - Delhi Shatabdi), you will be served tea in paper cups with
the Vodafone logo on them.
Well what has changed? Instead of Lalu we now have Mamata Banerjee as
the Rail Minister. What else has changed? The inference is yours.
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Arjun Ghosh
http://sites.google.com/site/arjunghosh/

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