The Scorched Soul Erotica...

Route taken: Delhi-Chandigarh-Shimla-Spiti-Lahaul-Manali-Chandigarh-Delhi Date: 18th June – 25th June, 2011 View Larger Map When under-preparation meets over-excitement, you’re usually headed for disaster. But not when luck is on your side, and when the risk takers are professional bunglers par excellence. For even had we prepared ourselves for the trip we were about to undertake, the outcome would not have been much different. With caution thrown to the wind and our heads deprived of oxygen and our blood streams full of toxic carcinogens, we would have still done the same things that went wrong. And we would still have had the same great time that we had fighting the odds and the gambling with what was to come. It takes one brave mind to think up an audacious plan, and a thousand fools would follow. When Araib Hassan , our captain and land navigator announced a round trip to Lahaul and Spiti valley in Himanchal Pradesh, we just knew we had to go. Ever since we have left ...

There was a study released by CRISIL in 2011 that stated that Indians spent Rs.5.8 lakh crores extra between between 2008 and 2011 because inflation had been higher than the targeted 5%. that we spent 5.8 lakh crores more than we would have spent if inflation had been at 5%. [8]  That means for the same amount of goods and services, we had to shell out an additional 5.68 lakh crores. This was because of inflation higher than 5% by 3 percentage points. Imagine how much the figure would have been if inflation had been taken zero. But.....how did we, the citizens of India, manage to shell out 5.8 lakh crores collectively in order to buy our goods and services? Where did we get this money from? Did we remove it from our savings and if so, then our savings must have substantially come down now. But that doesn't seem to be the case . Certainly the amount of money in circulation is rapidly increasing. More and more people are earning more in a month than their fathers did in a...