We asked readers to share experiences they've had with their cellphone service providers. Here are some more accounts.
We asked readers to share experiences they've had with their cellphone service providers. Here are some more accounts.
We asked readers to share experiences they've had with their cellphone service providers. Here are two accounts.
Everyone loves to hate their mobile service providers. Here, A. Ganesh Nadar shares his recent experience of having a cellphone connection go from bad to worse while travelling.
'It is easier to make friends with strangers as they are non-judgmental.'
'There have been many cases where clients have indicated that they feel suicidal as they feel they have no other options to deal with their financial hardship.'
The Tamil actor on his latest movie Singam, his famous father and why cinema is not his first priority.
'If the army says sit we have to sit and if they say stand we have to stand. We were better off under the LTTE.'
No posters, banners or blaring loudspeakers the election buzz is missing in Dharavi, till recently known as Asia's largest slum.
'The Northeast is the biodiversity saviour of the country,' says Sikkim MP Prem Das Rai. 'Thirty to 40 per cent of the biodiversity of the country is housed in the Northeast. It is the battery of India. Not only oil and gas but it has a hydroelectricity capacity of 70,000 MW. It has so much colour and diversity within itself.'
A Ganesh Nadar finds out if the 2G scam will play an important role during the assembly poll among the rural voters of Tamil Nadu.
Meet another Extraordinary Indian: The amazing Sandeep Bacche who looks after the needy.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's last journey in Hyderabad on Friday took him from his home to the Congress Bhavan where party workers paid their last respects. Then the body was taken to the Lal Bhahadur Stadium for the public to pay homage.
'During Congress rule, the government used to get both the fishermen and the boats released whenever the Sri Lankan navy apprehended them.' 'Under BJP rule, only the fishermen are being released.'
'Rajinikanth has fans in every political party. They will not change their mind because the BJP prints posters of him with Modi.'
We asked readers to share experiences they've had with their cellphone service providers. Here are some more accounts.
We asked readers to share experiences they've had with their cellphone service providers. Here are some more accounts.
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'There is a big communication gap between leaders and party workers in the Congress.'
'Tambrahms do not demand or take dowry. UP and Bihar Brahmin girls can marry here without dowry.'
In a year that will be remembered for the scams that exposed the deep rot in the government and the system of governance, A Ganesh Nadar looks at the big scams unearthed in 2010.
Murugan was the first to vote in Panickanadarkudieruppu. "I wanted to vote before the heat gets unbearable."
On the night of November 26, 2008, as Mumbai reeled under a series of terror attacks, doctors, nurses, ward boys and others at the JJ Hospital worked frantically to save as many lives as they could.
'I am glad my driver's wife got compensation, but am I not entitled to anything? I have been running around for succour but have not received even sympathy.'
A Ganesh Nadar tracks down four Mumbai police officers who confronted the terrorists on 26/11, but whose bravery that night has gone unnoticed or unrewarded.
Mansi Hemdev is an entrepreneur -- and a very young one, at that. At the age of 21, she already owns her own cafe in Chennai. rediff.com's Ganesh Nadar caught up with this enterprising young lady to learn more about her business and career success.
A Ganesh Nadar visits the mortuary in Mumbai, where the bodies of the terrorists killed in the 26/11 attacks are kept.
Ravi Gulati left a corporate job and took to teaching children of drivers, barbers and maids near his home in Delhi's Khan Market. 'I don't expect the kids to pay me back but pay it forward," he says.
'You can do anything after retirement. You have to pursue it. You have to take it up as a challenge.'
'By birth, you are not superior or inferior to anyone.' 'There are millions of people who want to have a casteless society. I am one of them.'
'One quiver cannot have two different kinds of arrows.' 'The party cannot progress with two leaders.'
'The actors are far out. They all underplay their parts. There is no overacting and there is no trying to achieve dramatronics.'
'The persons who are arrested are the ones who have played an active role in the blasts.' Maharashtra Director General of Police A N Roy defends the investigation into the July 11, 2006 blasts in Mumbai.
Not only is he a doctor and social worker, Dr R Koelhe has also taken the government to court for having failed in its duty to protect the Korku tribals of the region.
'We as citizens should be bothered about how a former President is treated. It is about the institution of the Presidency and not about any individual.'
'IIT-Bombay is the most preferred institute for education in technology.' 'The environment is very good and I will be a good student and a better asset for the nation.'
Sri Lanka expert M R Narayan Swamy speaks about the impact of Prabhakaran's death on Sri Lanka and India.
Sona College of Technology's integrated Japanese course has helped seven engineering graduates find jobs with six-figure salaries in Japan.
Heavy rains accompanied by high velocity winds on Monday pounded Chennai and coastal districts of north Tamil Nadu due to severe cyclonic storm "Vardah" which made landfall around 3pm, uprooting hundreds of trees, disrupting land and air transport and throwing normal life out of gear.
'The problem is not with the infrastructure but with the source. Mumbai has a much better water source because of the Western ghats. The availability of water is more there. Chennai is rain-dependent only. Mumbai gets its water from reservoirs in the Western ghats which are well-fed,' says Sunil Paliwal, MD of Chennai's Metrowater