Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Club Mahindra: Demystified

A few days back, the devil took me over, and I stepped into Club Mahindra's office for their "presentation". It was hardly a presentation, it was a systematic brain-job, geared up to make you fall into their trap. Some key points that make Club Mahindra's presentation an absolutely disgusting (in-hindsight) experience:
1. They make an absolute fool represent them, the guy I was speaking to had zilch knowledge of inflation, costing and was so retarded, that I simply gave up reason within 3-4 mins into the session.
2. Take now, or fugget-about-it policy. This is akin to crying out loud, "about making the worst decision of your life".
3. The sales guys' guts to say that reviews written about their company are false and lies.

Finally, I decided to signup, only after knowing that I had the option to back-out within 10 days. I took a total of 1 hour to back-out. No sooner did I hit the following sites: mouthshut.com, consumercomplaints.in and blogs of folks that had been duped, that I made the call. I got the money after a lot of headache, which I don't wanna recall at this point.

However, the more important thing was that, I did a thorough cost-benefit analysis of the holiday scheme that was on offer, and was surprised to find out that on an average, Club Mahindra charged its members around 3.5 times the price they would charge web-customers for a stay at their resorts. Please see attached for the calculations, and pass the word around. It is nothing short of a loot!


2G Scam: Getting murkier by the day

The $33bn swindling by Telecom Ministry, better known as the 2G scam, has got even murky today. Mr. S.Swamy's of the Janta Party took this scam right into international terrorism waters, by naming LTTE, ISI, Hawala and Dawood Ibrahim as co-conspirators in this scam.

Any new revelations relating to new/old scams hardly come as a surprise these days, but ISI and Dawood Ibrahim are not names to be taken lightly. Did Raja practically fund the Mumbai / International terrorism operations that took place over the last two years?

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Definition of Corruption

Picked this from a British web-site:

Corruption: Putting self-interest above social interest.

Simple, concise and very deep. It'd be a long time before Indian society weans itself off Corruption. If ever.