Debate is on. The RBI policy is clear. Growth is the need of the hour. Inflation was a major concern, and still remains so. But reserve bank of India in it’s monetary policy only hiked CRR rate. The cash reserve ratio will become 5.75% from the present 5 percent.

Today (25th January 2010), N.N Sathyavrathan, former course director of Kerala Press Academy and veteran journalist, passes away. He was also the news editor of Mathrubhumi daily,one of the leading newspapers in kerala.

Brokerages in India are doing everything possible to woo their customers. In terms of investor population India is a poor country compared to rest of the world. Only Less than 2 percent of India’s population is investing in share market. Stock Exchanges and regulatory bodies are doing aggressive campaigns to attract more people towrds stock market investing. Like other sectors financial services sector also on it’s verge to boom in the recent future.

Recently Bayt.com (middle east’s no.1 job site- as they are claiming) published a survey regarding the usage of internet in the middle east. The survey found the internet crowd population in the middleeast increasing drastically.People in the middle east uses internet primarily for checking their mails. Their second priority was reading the news, then they surf for better job opportunities.

When slow down hits the market every sector will be affected badly. Kerala, god’s own country, witnessed a real boom in the real estate sector recently. Which was the first of it’s kind in the tail ender state of the country. Land broking had become a lucrative business for hundreds across the state. The hike in land and property prices made life simple for land owners and there were some who skipped their dreams of owing a home.

In the union budget there was some hike in the personal income tax limit. This proposal came at a time when global recession showed withdrawal syndrome. It is a simple logic that when the people in a country spends then only the economy of the country booms, we can’t always look overseas for development. Which was evident during the time of global recession.

Don’t stare at me
What have you given to me
A heart full of dreams
Without the ingredients to achieve them
A brain full of thought
Without the courage to implement any
Now you have stolen my life from me
My all happiness
I can’t even breath properly
Every times when I try
I can smell my half baked dreams
That unfinished journeys
That swallowed thoughts
You have [...]

I am walking
I don’t know where I am going
Yet, I am walking
Under the orange sky
Under the asbestos roof of the world
I can’t fold my white umbrella
Since it is not working well

Why life is so reserved
Why it is shielded from all the blessings
Like a plant inside a black cover
Everyday in day and in night
You remind me of the colors of life
The beauty of dreams,
And the proud of being
But at the same time
All the colors were stolen
Painted them black
And left the road of promises far behind
Why this [...]

Today I lost my blood
Yesterday it was there, like a red ocean
But today it is lost
How and why is still a mystery
The fact is today I lost my blood