Enroll Your Business On GST Website - One Nation One TAX- Slogan by Modi

The concept of One Nation and One TAX is certainly one of the biggest tax reform, we have seen in recent decades, perhaps after the independence. Our Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, had announced the demonetization of old Rs. 500 and Rs. 100 bank note denominations on November 8th (last week) and before that, in our previous session, a common consensus on GST was unanimously passed in the Indian parliament. Now people can enroll their business on the official GST government website- https://www.gst.gov.in/ starting now to avoid last minute rush. 

According to the PMO official website, Modi said that in the last session, a major decision on #GST was taken and the parliament did made a major contribution towards realization of the dream of "One nation, One tax.". He added by saying that when all parties work together in the larger nation interest, positive outcomes and results emerge. The press note adds, "The consultation process has been going on ahead of this session as well. Government is ready for open debate on every issue and we hope that it will create a conducive atmosphere for significant and fruitful decisions."

The entire draft of the GST law is available here at the Finance Ministry website. According to Ernst and Young, the GST will become a potential game changer.The site says "GST will be a game changing reform for the Indian economy by creating a common Indian market and reducing the cascading effect of tax on the cost of goods and services. It will impact the tax structure, tax incidence, tax computation, tax payment, compliance, credit utilization and reporting, leading to a complete overhaul of the current indirect tax system.

GST will have a far-reaching impact on almost all the aspects of the business operations in the country, for instance, pricing of products and services, supply chain optimization, IT, accounting, and tax compliance systems." 

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The tax system is very complex in India and pretty archaic and in need of a complete overhaul. According to the Wikipedia  

Thar Desert = Vegas ?

Idea of the Day- Can we translate or take a small portion of the vast 'Thar Desert' total area 200,000 km² (77,000 sq mi) to use for air borne gambling interest? Something similar to the Vegas? Why not is my question. Who has the idea?

Blue print- What;s Parachute got to do with it?

-The Chute starts from Manesar Gurgaon or Jaipur and then picks up the punters and players at a super luxury parachute and they play up there. The chute lands at a small designated place and gamble to their heart's content. Rajasthan govt can crack a jackpot if they allow legalized gambling in their vast, arid land.You (investors) can pick the spot, be it near the Rann of Kutch area or near the Aravalli range. Gambling is the world's oldest pass time and Rajasthan (also the source of the Indus Valley Civilization) is absolutely the right spot to begin with something we (Indians) have not dared. Rajasthan attracts almost every third foreign traveller coming to India. Infact according to the the Rajasthan Tourism Department  in 1971, 42500 foreigners came here and by 2012 the number has risen to 3,00,63,201. It's nothing compared to what China (Macau) or Singapore has done to tourism industry in general.  

What next GOA, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh - Rajasthan next?

Google Interactive Doodle -216th Anniversary Of The First Parachute Jump

Today when I logged in saw an interactive Google doodle to my surprise. The page celebrated 216^th  anniversary of the first parachute jump. French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin, on October 22, 1797 was the first person to conduct a parachute jump. The Frenchman’s near historic jump was conducted from a height of 3,200 feet (1,000 metres). Again five years later Mr. André-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a height of 8,000 feet (2,440 metres). Silk parachutes were used over two centuries ago.

About Garnerin-Born on January 31, 1769

Education- studied physics and became an inspector in the French army in 1793.

Death- August 18, 1823. 

TIME LINE

1000 B.C.E.-Kite is invented in China.

852 B.C.E.-English King Bladud is apparently killed attempting to fly.

400 B.C.E.-Archytas of Tarentum is reported to have made a steam-propelled pigeon.

1250 A.D. -Roger Bacon, English cleric, writes about mechanical flight.

1485-1500 -Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines and parachute.

1670 -Francesco de Lana Terzi publishes a design for lighter-than-air ship.

1680 -Giovanni Borelli, Italian mathematician, concludes human muscle is inadequate for flight.

1709 -Bartolomeu Laurenço de Gusmao designs model glider.

1783 -Jacques Alexandre César Charles and M.N. Robert fly in a hydrogen balloon.

1785-Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries cross the English Channel by balloon.

1785 -Jean François de Rozier and Pierre Romain are the first ballooning fatalities.

1797 -André Jacques Garnerin makes the first human parachute descent, from a balloon.

1809-George Cayley publishes classic treatise on aviation.

1843 -William Henson's design for aerial steam carriage is published.

1843 -George Cayley's biplane design is published.

1852-Henri Giffard's steam-powered airship makes first flight.

1867 -Wilbur Wright is born.

1870- Alphonse Pénaud experiments with twisted rubber to power model helicopter.

1871 -Orville Wright is born.

1889 -Otto Lilienthal publishes Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst.

1891 -Otto Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments.

1895- Otto Lilienthal flies biplane gliders.

1896 -Octave Chanute begins biplane gliding experiments in Michigan.

1896- Samuel P. Langley produces successful steam-powered models that fly.

 1896- Otto Lilienthal crashes while gliding and dies next day.

1901 -Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator, circles Eiffel Tower in airship.

1903 -Samuel Langley's full-size manned "Aerodrome A" crashes on take-off.

1903- Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.

1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont makes first successful powered flight in Europe.  

1909 - Louis Bleriot, French aviator, makes first airplane crossing of English Channel.

1926 -Robert H. Goddard makes first free flight of a liquid-fueled rocket.

1927 -Charles A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.

1930- Frank Whittle, British inventor, invents the jet engine.

1932 -Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.

1933 -A modern airliner, Boeing 247, flies for the first time.

1939 -Germany's Heinkel 178 is the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly.

1947 -Charles E. Yeager pilots Bell X-1--the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight.  

1957 -Soviet Union launches first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik 1.

1961 -Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space.

1962- John H. Glenn, Jr., is the first American to orbit the earth.

1969 -U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first to walk on the moon.

1971- First space station, Soviet Salyut 1, is launched into earth's orbit.

1981- U.S. launches the first reusable spacecraft, the Columbia shuttle.

1998- First two modules of the International Space Station are launched and joined together in orbit.

Source- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-timeline.html

June-Rain-Quote

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” - Bob Marley

The last Tweet- RITUPARNO GHOSH- RIP

It appears that the golden era of Bollywood (60’s) is in the air. The passing of legendary ‘regional’ global filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh yesterday morning at his Indrani Park, Anwar Shah Road, a South Calcutta residence has and will leave a void in expressive cinema.  Cine lovers, the LGBT’s, silent admirers like me (I’me sure there are bigger fans too).

BLACKJACK- 21/21 

21 movies in hindi and Bengali in 21 years (Hirer Angti (The Diamond Ring) - 1992 to Chitrangada in 2012), this technically translates into one movie in a year. Quite a quality, what I am looking forward to see is Satyanweshi and another hindi film called Sunglass- it never got released and was produced by Arindam Chowdhuri’s Planman in 2008.

Twitter was buzzing whole day yesterday and he made Kahaani director Sujoy Ghosh, to act in his upcoming crime thriller Satyanweshi. The talented director and now actor (only for this film) tweeted, sujoy ghosh ‏@sujoy_g 2h “rituparno ghosh had about a few million questions that he wanted to ask satyajit ray. i can imagine whats happening up there right now.” 

The Mad Men in RituDa’s Life

Rituparno Ghosh studied at South Point and completed Economics from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Rituda dabbled with Advertising and prior filmmaking his worked as a copywriter from the Ballygunge Circular Road based agency, Response. The Asian Paint Sharad Samman (managed by the then O&M – Ogilvy and Mather, Kolkata, India’s office) is near legendary till date, quotes Derek O Brien in his blog.

The Last Tweet

The blog is a small tribute to a brave human being who did contribute not only in regional cinema, but was able to influence his counterparts living elsewhere in Mumbai, Berlin, Delhi or New York. I saw Ritu for the first time at Nandan and most recently at the India Habitat Center, the year was 2011. 28^th May, 2 day before he left us read  “Surprising that the brooding prince of Indian cinema Guru Dutt stayed in the same palatial mansion to his film sahib biwi aur ghulam” Saw Noukadubi (Boat Wreck), 2011 at the closing day.

His last tweet on 28th May- two days before he left us read  “Surprising that the brooding prince of Indian cinema Guru Dutt stayed in the same palatial mansion to his film sahib biwi aur ghulam”

Ghosh told about Tagore (2012) "What comes through is what a lonely man Tagore was — from childhood to old age. There is no one in his life to share even his success with him. It's the journey of a lonely traveller. 

Pic source- filmartproject.tumblr, Twitter

The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act

The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 1958 takes care of monuments of historical importance and going by this act/or law, an "ancient monument" means any structure, erection or monument, or any tumulus or place of interment, or any cave, rock-sculpture, inscription or monolith which is of historical, archaeological or artistic interest and which has been in existence for not less than 100 years.

According to ASI here are the following criteria which define ancient monument and the veracity and importance of it. • Remains of an ancient monument • Site of an ancient monument • Such portion of land adjoining the site of an ancient monument as may be required for fencing or covering in or otherwise preserving such monument. Last time I went to the Wikipedia meet at Hauz Khas, it emerged that Wikipedia is seriously doing something about historical monument. And yes they do it. My friend Ankit reminded me. There are over 3650 ancient monuments and remains of national importance, and supposedly protected by the ASI. Over 8,000 monuments are protected by the central government, including temples, mosques, tombs, churches, cemeteries, forts, palaces, step-wells, rock-cut caves, and secular architecture. S Suchindranath Aiyer a thinker from Bangalore feels the need to give importance to such moneuments across India and this memorial in particular, he said, "Its probably a good thing that its inside the golf course and the public don;t know about it. Else it might be banished to the grave yard of marble in North Delhi! "Soldier Sahibs" by Charles Allen gives a lot more on the Battle of Delhi and the men who forged the Empire." Why can not be this War Memorial elevated to a structure of national importance?

Winds of change

I guess the meteorological department and the national media too are a little bit too hyper about jumping their guns and predictions pertaining to the advent of monsoon. I remember how the meteorological people have tough times to predict monsoon or when or not the rains might arrive. So what if they are somewhat right this time? Winds of change, despite low rains and waging recession. The rain is flirting with us. Delhi recorded 203 mm of rainfall in August alone and 383.2 mm for the total season. the bigger question still is for farmers committing suicides in Chattisgarh and Andhra. Cumulative forces like the recession and rainfall has put brakes in India's development this year. Despite, reports indicating total growth crossing 6% in the 2Q. India still is dependent on the monsoon rains and the lack of it has adversely impacted rice, sugar and cotton. Eventually leading to high prices of eatables.

Can we build a mechanism to check mate low rainfall and of course it's after effects?

Religious Intolerance

At the first place i couldn't understand why Sikhs in Mumbai were after a particular so-called self made guru from North India. You can attribute this to my ignorance also that I was unable to read the growing or say it was already there tolerance between the two communities. I failed to understand why both of them are after each other's lives. I don't have many words to describe the events but only can say that no one should be allowed or encouraged to speak against faith, speech, words or actions. The people who created a ruckus and held traffic for ransom should be accounted and charged. If not legally, then a word should come from the PMO. We need to hear what our respected prime minister has to say about the issue and growing intolerance which is just not confined to a freak accident but everywhere.