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Public Funding of the Election Dance – Try the ‘Rao Twist’ !

Public Funding of the Election Dance? Try the ‘Rao Twist’ ! Ganga Prasad G. Rao http://myprofile.cos.com/gangar We may be between elections, but corruption is a perennial river - a river with many sources, one dirtier than the other, each seeking the rainbow, and, both the setting sun on the horizon and the rising moon as the serpentine merges in to the confluence of the sky and the sea. Elections, doubtless, are one of the largest of these corruption sources; the reason being that a change in government brings about changes in policy that affect large domestic business houses, VHNIs, and foreign industries, beyond impacting, in a fundamental way, the multitudes invested in stock markets and fixed assets. The consequent large shadow values attached to electoral results is the motivation behind many-a-backroom pre-election moves. Practically, every one of these moves is an underhand deal with payoffs arranged in one of the many discrete and not-so-discrete ways. So, what can we, as Anna...

A 2-Part Vehicle Insurance Proposal that Enhances Road Safety and Saves You a Buck (or two)!

A 2-Part Vehicle Insurance Proposal that Enhances Road Safety and saves you a Buck (or two)! Ganga Prasad G. Rao http://myprofile.cos.com/gangar Man (or, was it the ape?) invented the wheel eons ago. 4-wheeled powered transport is all of 2 centuries old. Road networks came in to existence a hundred years ago. Car insurance some 50 years back, GPS and interactive maps yesterday…..and yet, accidents continue to recur on our roads at a frequency that would shame those who conceived transport as a panacea - a means to foster equity across a large, spread out population. Every nation, whether advanced or developing, loses a not insignificant fraction of its well-heeled, even well-educated population in accidents; in fact, accidents have claimed some of our better known social personalities. No one seeks an accident so why does it happen? True, the improvement in automobile safety features and better road infrastructure have tended to cut down on fatalities if not on accident frequency, but ...