Ideas From New York

[london swaminathan]

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New York Ideas


The picture shows the dry cleaning rates in New York, The Big Apple, as of 3rd July 2012. Indian are lucky. You can get it done for a cheaper price!!
We went to New York last week (July First Week 2012). Some of the things I saw there gave me some new ideas. Why don’t we follow it in India and other parts of the world?


This will hold a juice bottle or a coffee cup and Chips or any solid food in the cone like area. They make paper cones and put Chips or Onion rings or Rolls in it and put it inside the metal holder. You can see extra space to hold tissue paper as well. I dont see such thing anywhere in London or India. This metal holder can be used again and again.
We went to United Nations building in New York. You can get a photograph of your self or your family and it is attached to actual stamps which can be used inside the country. They do it in London. If we do it India in big tourist centres like Madurai, Agra, Mathura, Jodhpur, Kashmir we can make lot of money for the P and T Department.


This is my family. We four became stars just by giving fifteen dollars. We can use the stamps in New York for posting letters. But I bought it for my album.


Just before entering in to Wall Street, the financial capital of the world, they have installed a huge bull to mark the bullish trends in stock market. Hundreds of tourists throng this place every minute to get photographs with the Metal Bull. I thought if we install a BIG COW, we can spread the message of Go Rakshan (Cow Protection) which was an ideal supported by Mahatma Gandhi and the RSS.

 

[mahakavi]

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Just before entering in to Wall Street, the financial capital of the world, they have installed a huge bull to mark the bullish trends in stock market. Hundreds of tourists throng this place every minute to get photographs with the Metal Bull. I thought if we install a BIG COW, we can spread the message of Go Rakshan (Cow Protection) which was an ideal supported by Mahatma Gandhi and the RSS.

The bronze bull symbolizes capitalism. It is there to represent the investment concept. But it is there during bull market as well as bear market. It is ironical that they don't install a black bear too by the side of the bull since bull and bear are integral parts of the stock market.

As for the installation of the cow in important places in India, overnight a few bandits would carry it away with the concrete base to be sold as scrap metal. The saying "Holy cow!" will be replaced by "Poor cow!"

 

[london swaminathan]

Mahakavi
Thanks for the comments. I was also looking for the Bear.Only my son told me that there was no such a thing. He is a frequent flyer to NY.

Talking about stealing scrap metal, you would be surprised to know that it is happening in London, not in New York or India. Tonnes of metals from the cables were stolen by criminal gangs in and around London.Train services were disrupted because of this.Some places lost electricity. Since the metal prices are going up, the criminal gangs have been very active. Police have set up special task forces to find the criminal gangs before the Olympics.

My wife made a comment in New York when she saw this huge metal bull. "Thank God! They have not installed it in London. Other wise it would have gone by this time!"

Can I add one more sentence?

Is India getting better? or is London going worse?

 

[mahakavi]

Talking about stealing scrap metal, you would be surprised to know that it is happening in London, not in New York or India. Tonnes of metals from the cables were stolen by criminal gangs in and around London.Train services were disrupted because of this.Some places lost electricity. Since the metal prices are going up, the criminal gangs have been very active. Police have set up special task forces to find the criminal gangs before the Olympics.

My wife made a comment in New York when she saw this huge metal bull. "Thank God! They have not installed it in London. Other wise it would have gone by this time!"

Can I add one more sentence?

Is India getting better? or is London going worse?

Stealing is an endemic to every country rich or poor. In India at the temple in tiruvayARu bandits got into the temple premises at night by climbing huge walls and then climbed the dwajasthambam and dropped inside the temple and tried to take the huge hundi out of the temple. Unfortunately they could not haul it out through the 10 foot wall and hence abandoned it there and left. In India if you leave a brass vessel outside your door it will be gone in no time.

Even in the US theives are stealing copper cables from airconditioning units in commrcial buildings for scrap. It was so widespread a couple of years ago when copper prices were going beyond $4 a pound.

Answer to your final question: Neither. India will get better only when corruption in govrnment/politicians is eliminated. Even god cannot do that. People (a vast majority of them) are also corrupt in the sense they expect something for nothing (election promises) like the freebies they dole out to the voters. They are loyal to such enticements and give a green signal to those who give them. Now the politicians begin to rake in the taxpayers' money in some way or other for themselves for the "service" they rendered to the electorate although they did not give their own money to the voters.

London is deteriorating because of the unruly immigrant population (not the majority of legitimate ones, mind you) who try to loot public property-----ironically a price being paid by the British for colonizing most of the world earlier.

 

[biswa]

Wall St. is in the business of selling dreams to make you part with your money. Clearly the bull is better suited to the dreams of stock market riches, than the bear. Unfortunately, the bear is also the smarter animal ...

Glad you had a good time in NY.