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36 Floor ‘Tower of Irregularities’

  36 Floor ‘Tower of Irregularities’  at Altamount Road, South Mumbai  Who said 2 and 2 make 4 ? A few people believe that 2 and 2 make 22. They plan things that way. And they also make this weird mathematics… Read more ›

December 14, 2012 9 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Architecture, Bombay High Court, Bureaucracy, Current Issues, Insensitive, Legal Dilemma, Legal Issues

How to Fight Corruption Effectively … Sequel

Now an Income Tax Officer is arrested for taking bribe Now, an Income Tax Officer is arrested in Thane for taking bribe . The following news item gives the facts.

November 3, 2012 10 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Bureaucracy, Corruption, Culture, Current Issues, Legal Issues, Lok Pal, Public Issues

How to Fight Corruption Effictively

How to Fight Corruption Corruption is big news today. A lot is being written and said about corruption. Why is Bribery and Corruption Flourishing in India

November 1, 2012 8 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Anna Hazare, Bureaucracy, Corruption, Culture, Current Issues, Insensitive, Legal Issues, Lok Pal, Public Issues

Anjali Damania

          Anjali Damania….. a little bit of unanswered questions from people like me I heard Anjali Damania, the activist, and a number of panelists, on TV yesterday. They left me in a dizzy. The TV show has left me… Read more ›

October 20, 2012 7 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Corruption, Current Issues, Insensitive, Legal Issues, Public Issues, Right to Information

Ashok Khemka IAS……..Right or Wrong

Ashok Khemka IAS……..Right or Wrong  Yesterday evening, I watched Ashok Khemka live on TV. I listened to the Panel Speakers, some eloquent, others less so. So many people supported him. There was an avalanche of congratulatory sms and email messages.… Read more ›

October 17, 2012 7 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Bureaucracy, Corruption, Current Issues, Insensitive, Legal Issues, Miscarriage of Justice

Consumer Forums and Right to Information Act

Judicial Injustice …should be immediately corrected National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission’s view There are a number of decisions of different Consumer Forums, that an aggrieved applicant, who has paid the prescribed fees for obtaining information under the provisions of the… Read more ›

September 30, 2012 12 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Consumer Protection, Current Issues, Legal Issues, Public Issues, Right to Information

Carnivorous Plants …the Venus Fly Trap

The  Venus Fly Trap             (   Dionaea muscipula )                            I had to hunt around for more than three years before I could acquire my first carnivorous plants and some seeds.

February 25, 2012 120 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Forests, Hobbies, Nature, Wildlife

Canivorous Plants……..

Carnivorous Plants are exremely fascinating. They do not stalk and hunt prey like the larger animals, but have remarkable adaptations to attract, capture and digest their prey.

February 24, 2012 6 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Forests, Hobbies, Nature, Wildlife

Terrarium set up your own

Terrariums are beautiful. Terrariums are elegant. And they have played a very important role in our daily lives.

February 22, 2012 7 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Conservation, Hobbies, Nature, Wildlife

General V K Singh – Date of Birth

Some one forwarded me a e-mail……I have reproduced it down below. I do not know whether it is authentic or fake. A google search on ABHIJIT+BHATTACHARYYA did not throw up any result. But the issues are not as simple as… Read more ›

January 18, 2012 13 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Bureaucracy, Current Issues, Legal Dilemma, Legal Issues, Public Issues

Butterfly Parks of India

Butterfly Parks of  India   Butterflies are so beautiful that I find it difficult to refer to them as insects, but they are insects. They are attractive and graceful. Vivid and multi coloured – representing nature’s canvas at its finest. The… Read more ›

January 4, 2012 4 Comments
Binoy Gupta
Conservation, Forests, Nature, Public Issues, Wildlife

Vanishing Vultures

  Vanishing Vultures  Nature’s Scavengers         Perhaps you have noticed that at present there are considerably less vultures in our skies than there were a few years back. In the early eighties, there were about 40 million… Read more ›

November 10, 2011
Binoy Gupta
Birds, Conservation, Current Issues, Endangered Species, Forests, Nature, Wildlife
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