If you turned 30 this year

In my nostalgic moments I think about those times when things were more simple. I am putting together a list of things that existed in the early 90's but are unheard of today:

So if you turned 30 years old this year (or a few years ago) you would remember the following

1. 5 paise coin. You would have seen it and used it too. 10 paise, 25 paise coins too
2. You wouldn't have heard about an inverter till you were 12-15
3. You remember Black and white TVs with wooden shutters
4. Antennas on rooftops
5. TV serials "without' commercial breaks
6. White Coloured Horlicks Powder
7. Cable Television with 3 channels: Zee TV, MTV and Star Plus
8. Kapil Dev and Prabhakar opening India's bowling attack
9. Ravi Shastri's slow strike rates
10. Sachin Tendulkar as ray of hope (well that still hasn't changed!)
11. One Day Cricket in White Uniforms
12. Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg matches
13. Pink Colored Movie Tickets
14. Calling your neighbors when their family members called them up on your phone
15. Cartoons were a luxury
16. VCRs and VCD players with one cassette to clean the "Head"
17. People without phones and phones usually dead
18. 1 rupee plastic ball, 2 rupee plastic ball and the super rich "2.5 rupee" plastic ball
19. Making wickets by bricks
20. Playing "Business" - buying cities for 100-800 Rupees
21. Played Dave on computer
22. Scooter called "Sunny"
23. Discussed with friends about something called "mouse" in computer
24. Color monitors in computers were a dream
25. Waited till 8:30 for News
26. Watched movies on Doordarshan- waited with baited breath before the movie slot to know the movie name and brief story
27. Watched Rangoli and Doordarshan
28. If 2-3 songs of the same actor were shown on Doordarshan he was presumed dead
29. 6 o clock on Sunday evening roads would be empty due to movie on Doordarshan
30. Regional movie on Sunday afternoon in Doordarshan
31. Cars without A.C. or power steering (In fact 3 car types only - Fiat, Ambassdor and Maruti)
32. Audio Cassettes and two brands-HMV and T Series
33. Fountain Pens- filling ink and dirtying hands

I think i may still have not filled even 5% of the possible list. Oh how i miss those days.

Anybody has anymore thoughts

Who never lies

There was Satyawadi Raja Harishchand in the ancient days. But contemporary times do have not one but many such compulsive truth speaker. However these truth speakers are not individuals. They manifest themselves as a body- a group that involuntarily manifests itself as a collective and unapologetic voice. This body is called "the market" . The market needs, it desires and it reacts. It does not lie.

If market does not like something it simply says so. There is no way that the market does not like something but still buys it. It cannot be forced it cannot be coerced. It rewards what it likes and it is fair.

It does not do any favors. It won't buy from you because of the largess of its heart. It will dump you if your competition brings something which is better.