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Mr. Vijay Mallya,


First of all, my heartiest congratulations to you and the whole of the Kingfisher group for the successful take-over of Air-Deccan.

I am sure that you would have been well aware of the respect/status of Air-Deccan before you decided to strike a deal with the company. Therefore, I have full faith that you would fly the airline to great heights. I am also sure that you would be well aware of your public image as the cool, intelligent and classy business tycoon. Frankly, this particular take-over came more as a shock than a surprise.

I do understand that business decisions of a group cannot be, and should not be, made on the basis of the “public image” of the director of the group. On the other hand, a conflict of the ideologies would definitely be unpleasant and unwarranted.

To make my point limpid, I am bringing to your attention an incident that happened with me. Once I was to fly Air-Deccan and I was not sure of the weight of my baggage. Since the airline is very particular about the not allowing the passengers to exceed the baggage-weight limit, I thought it would be best if I could weigh my baggage, before the baggage-security check. So that in the event of my bag exceeding the prescribed weight-limit I could take a part of it as hand-baggage. I talked to an Air-Deccan representative about this and he politely told me that it would not be possible to check the weight on the Air-Deccan counter as it is very busy at the moment. But, he guided to another empty counter and asked me to weigh my baggage. Fortunately the weight was just 14.5 Kg. I got the baggage-security check done and proceeded to get my boarding pass. What the hell, all of a sudden my bag had become a Kg heavier - the Air-Deccan machine showed my bag’s weight as 15.5Kg. As this was also well in the prescribed limit I chose to happily ignore the situation and I moved-on.

I am pretty sure that this tampering with the weighing system is a deliberate move by the airline, not necessarily with the intention of cheating its customers but more likely to ward of the unnecessary hagglers who would haggle to not pay up for the extra half / one Kg that he would be carrying (but cannot refuse to pay for the extra 2 Kg). The people at the counter are also not very strict about the weight being exceeded by upto1 Kg, which is just fair. What is wrong, although, is that the person who is supposed to pay Rs. 70 for the extra 1kg he is carrying ends up paying Rs140 ( 70 for his baggage and 70 because of the tampering in the machine). The revenue gains by this technique would be minimal and ignorable. And it is definitely unpleasant and cheap.

There are always infinite cheap tactics to make money in every business. What separates the Class from the sadakchaap is whether they choose to follow the tactics or not.

It is sad enough that Indian Auto-wallas tamper their Auto-meters and cheat the public. It would be disgraceful if these tactics are used by the Airlines also.

I hope you look into the matter sincerely.

Thanks.

Regards,
Aman Jain



P.S:- I have actaully mailed this letter to the kingfisher PR guys. If I recieve any reply i will keep you updated

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Its pretty simple: no matter how cool u get as a computer guy, u will be the one on the street asking a "loser" I Banker, driving a flashy car, for a lift.

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He got his daughter-in-law to marry a tree, while it was expected that she would be un-lucky for his family. Now that Bad luck has befallen upon his dear ones what does he plan to do??? Make her sleep with a rock.

Bachchan parivaar has never been one of my favorites, now I have all the more reason to curse it. I was not surprised to hear that Amitabh Bachchan had the documents forged to prove that he is a farmer. Infact I always knew (and I suppose eveyone did) that he had forged the documents with the help of Amar and Mulayam Singh. This is on of those facts that beautifully qualify as “true rumors” (Facts that are obvious, but are not easy to legally prove due to practical complications.)

Why he had to prove himself to be a farmer? In Maharashtra anyone who is not a farmer is not allowed to buy agricultural land. And Bachchan wanted to buy some piece of land. Bachchan found the easy way out- called up Amar Singh.

It is now, a known fact that Indian politicians are way above the law (If a politician ends up in jail, he is either really unlucky or really-really dumb). Now, having politician-friends and politician-wife makes you above the law too.

Surprisingly, there are neither any protests on the streets nor any on the blogosphere (that I read regularly read). I guess we are all fed up of this Family No.1 of the Indian Film Industry and that the only person concerned about this whole case is Ms. Mayawati.

Not that I am approve of her or of the work she is doing. I know that the only reason for her actions is her desperate attempts to cut of SP’s arms and to drain the living strength out of them. Infact she is going a step ahead than most politicians do. Usually with change of power, there is a change in the top IAS/ IPS and the other state government machineries. But, Ms. Mayawati has decided to book all the officials involved in helping Mr Bachchan under criminal acts. This way she can happily ensure that all of Amar Singh’s aides and “his” bureaucrats cannot help him in the near future. And that, she can reign in peace.


Anil Ambani 1, 2, 3.
Sahara Group 1.
Amitabh Bachchan 1.

Evidently, she is NOT doing this with the intention of doing well for the nation. In all probability her sole motto is to gain total control of the state and win over peoples heart simultaneously.

This is the same strategy that politicians use in Tamil-Nadu. Whenever M.Karunanidi comes in power Jayalalitha is in trouble and vice-versa.

Note: - It is Jayalalitha and M.Karunanidhi who come to power and not AIADMK and DMK.

I don’t want to get into TN politics, will do that later.

So, basically the point is :

Bachchan messed up big time.
Mayawati is trying to sort out things but will end up messing them up more.

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