Car Market In India – More Lucrative Than Ever

The scope for marketing cars in India has been flourishing at a prompt pace. The rising GDP rate, per capita income, economic independence and high ownership ability has made way to the sudden increase in the Indian Car Market. As India gets more and more economic liberty, the need for comforts becomes a priority and that is where, a car comes as a ‘precedence'. In India, about 1.4 million four-wheelers were sold in the 2006-2007 only.

Cars, once considered to be a style statement or status symbol have acquired the position of ‘needs’ of a common man. India has a majority of middle class population where owning a car was a dream. But, with cost effective small cars like Maruti and now, Tata Nano with a mere price of 1 lakh rupess, the market for cars becomes vast.

It is not only the small cars but the image of style statement still remains in India that has a fine market for luxury cars where the growth rate is 28%.

Another field to look at is the passenger car market with a growing rate of 18.3%. All over the country, one can see passenger cars running either intra-city or intercity or even inter-state, and the requirement for such vehicles grows with industrialization and better infrastructure. Companies like Tata, Suzuki, Hyundai, Bajaj and others are already in the race to explore this not so familiar market.

With increasingly new cars coming up on the prospect, the scope for used cars (second hand cars) cannot be neglected. Large numbers of cars are being sold out every day and you have buyers for them. This market is not fresh, but unrevealed. The scale for earnings is, therefore, highest.

India has a majority of young populace with growing income stages, an under discovered rural market, and an economy running at 9% plus increase rates. A major reason for this growing market is the easy availability of the cars. By availability, it means the access to cars and the ways to acquire it. Banks and other finance companies offer car loans to people at a considerable rate of interest and without much hassle. This is evident from the fact that 80% of the cars sold in India last year were financed by banks and other financial corporations.

In the last few years, only General Motor, Fiat, Honda, Nissan, and Hyundai have announced Indian venture valued at roughly $1.5 billion. India is considered as the most captivating promising market opening in Asia.

According to the consultancy Keystone - a subsidiary of LaSalle Consulting Associates, India has been predicted to become the world's third biggest automobile market by 2030, after China and the US. A very important aspect of this future success lies in the coordination between the car industry and government which seems to be going well until now. Take for example, like the duties on small cars were cut down from 24% to 16% and the government is willing to spread out the markets.

It is a right time for investments in Car Market to garner the maximum benefits. Start now before the occasion gets too far from you.

According to Mamkol, “I must own a car to $urvive, it is ONe of my ba-sick needs”.

Veto plastic for your future, otherwise it may never arrive

I went into a shop recently and saw a beautiful jute bag which had a tagline written on it saying, “Ban Plastic, especially smiles”. Felt good to see that people are really getting conscious about the hazard of plastics. You know plastic bags are prepared from petrochemicals which are not a renewable resource. When littered or inappropriately disposed of, they are horrid and can be a danger to wildlife. Most plastic bags do not readily decompose when littered nor in a sealed sanitary landfill.

That single line really made me reflect a lot and I finally planned of buying the bag. As I was making the payment, the guy in the counter handed over that jute bag to me in a ‘plastic carrier’. An unusual feeling came on to me and I left the place. That guy might not have even realized what he had done because he does not care and even I say that no one cares. Plastic seems to have become a very important part of our lives, you can’t even think of a world devoid of plastic.

Plastic bags can even cause unsupervised infants to suffocate. About 15 children die each year when plastic bags accidently cover their faces, leading to suffocation. About 80% of the deaths reported to the Consumer Products Safety Commission from 1990 – 1997 were of children under one year old where ash, garbage, and dry cleaning bags were most often involved.

The guy who comes to my place in the morning to pick up the garbage doesn’t like garbage being given to him in the bin. His preference is that we put the stuff in plastic bags which makes him feel comfortable to do the job. Even I agree that we cannot do without it but can’t we limit the use.

The worst danger comes from the plastic grocery bags. Many of these grocery plastic bags are reused as book and lunch bags as kids head off to school, as trash can liners, and so on. But like candy wrappers, chewing gum, cigarette butts, and thousands of other pieces of junk, millions of the plastic bags end up as litter. Once in the environment, it takes months to hundreds of years for plastic bags to breakdown. As they decompose, tiny toxic bits seep into soils, lakes, rivers, and the oceans.

According to United States Environmental Protection Agency in 2001, somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year.

Many governments have prepared laws to ban the use of plastic bags like The Delhi Degradable Plastic Bag and Garbage Act, 2000 but the implementation has to come in the actual sense, not just simply on paper.

The dangers are too many to think about. As always, the charity begins at home, let us promise to ourselves to limit the use of plastic for a healthier future.

According to Mamkol, “Blast and Plast-ic have a lot in common, they just kill, only the effect is immediate or gradual”.

A Speacial Valentine's Day

Valentines Day is considered as an occasion when lovers express their love for each other. This celebration includes writing poems for your dear ones, exchanging gifts, cards, partying, shopping and many more such things. It is an ideal occasion to spend time with your lover. On this occasion, we honor nothing but ‘love’.

One wants to spend this time with a very special person, and the dreams comes true also. I tried to figure out some of the very remarkable pairs that should hook up together this Valentine’s Day.

George W Bush and Osama Bin Ladin

Osama will surely gift him the blue print of attack behind 9/11 and Bush will honor him as the ‘last guest’ while in office.

Hillary Clinton and Obama

Clinton will carry the edited version of Obama’s speech (correcting the so called ‘mistakes’) and ask him be rehearsed it next time, you know proud Americans. Obama will extol her with a copy of speech that the Clinton family has been using for ages (to keep as a memorial).

Britney Spears and Michael Jackson

Both of them might agree to start a charity show for the people (u know who?). All the planning can be done there only; of course it is possible when Britney is around. They can also discuss their “not so personal” lives if they feel there is nothing left.

Roger Fedrer and Rafael Nadal

Both of them didn’t catch up in the Australian Open finals, so, it is the day to meet. To express what it feels when you and your competitor both fail on the same occasion. A huge mug of beer as the end note

Sania Mirza and Shaun Tait

They will discuss the idea about not playing. The fame they generate from saying all this, the revenue to come and the future statements. They can share a lot including the very famous frequent injuries.

Darell Hair and Steve Bucknor

They must be discussing about who hurt Asian’s more and planning for a retirement plan. Even considering umpiring a series before retiring in Asia is also a probability.

Martina Hingis and Maria Jones

It will be the same old drugs and sports. Hingis has a book titled ‘When to Say The Truth?’ for Maria and she too has a lovely book titled ‘List of enhance drugs that don’t show up in tests?’ for Hingis. An anti-drug campaign is certainly a possibility here.

Christiano Ronaldo, Richard Gere, Shilpa Shetty and Bipasa Basu

This one will be a big hit, keeping all the speculations alive. The only person curious here would be Ronaldo, as he hasn’t visited India yet. He would be dying to know what does a “kiss” means in India.

Shahid Kapoor and Rosa

Shahid will surely gift Rosa some of the belongings of Saif he found in Bibo’s room, at least she can keep them if not something else. Rosa will furnish Shahid with a list of upcoming events which he should avoid attending (so that he doesn’t see his ex with a new Gen-X).

Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narsima Rao

Atal Ji must have written a poem for Rao titled ‘Gone Are the days” (Chale Gaye Vo din) and Rao will reciprocate with a video of those days when Ataj Ji preferred not to speak (to let him know how actually he looked like a PM). The perfect “Old Age Home" probable’s.

According to Mamkol, “Be-live in love, a date will surely arrive accompanied by your Valentine”.

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?

Religion is a sacred ‘possession’ that all of us carry from our parents, something which is too susceptible, too sensitive to talk about and always protected. This has always been one of the major criterions of dividing the world population into different categories. But, instead of looking out the differences in the religions, cannot we look at the similarities? One cannot claim that all religions teach their followers the ‘same’ thing but the underlying concept of following a religion remains the ‘same’. It is just the different means of serving “GOD”.

All the religions teach us a genuine, obedient, and an honorable way to live. They teach us the win of ‘good’ over ‘evil’. All believe in GOD and the submission to HIM in one way or the other. But, we actually have forgot all this and drawn boundaries, which if broken, are considered the biggest ‘evil’. All religions teach us to love each other and live peacefully.

India is a land of many religions। Do you actually remember the total number of religions that exist in India? Believe it or not, there are 6 major religions here, and about the rest of the religions, we may have no or very little idea.

• Hindus: 82.0%
• Muslims: 12.12%
• Christians: 2.34%
• Sikhs: 1.94%
• Buddhists: 0.76%
• Jains: 0.40%
• Other Religions & Persuasions: 0.44%
• Miscellaneous: 0.05%

One cannot out righty label a religion as ‘good’ or bad’. Every religion has its customs, rituals, rites, and beliefs which need to be respected. It is really awful on the part of people who tend to generalize a religion on such basis or on the grounds of the behavior of few of its followers. Say for example, terrorism. No religion favors terrorism, killings, or bloodshed but because of the fact that few “Muslims” are involved in the act, one tends to term “Islam” as a religions that favors it. All one needs is to accept the existence of other religions, try to understand it and give respect.

Fighting in the name of religion does well to none. In fact, it has all the dreadful repercussions which continue to haunt our lives. It just leaves scars which even time is unable to heal. In first quarter of 2007, 23 people were killed and 611 injured in 191 communal incidents in India. It means effecting more than 600 families directly and all the other families related to them. What all do we get from it, actually ‘nothing but the pain’.

We live in an era where everyone feels himself to be an expert to comment on anything including ‘religion’. We all have sentiments associated with our religions; it is quite a delicate subject. Do not ever try to use it for personal benefits. Next time, you might see someone else commenting the same for your religion.

All one needs is to accept the existence of other religions and respect them. This will do the world of good to humanity and believe me, there will be peace all around.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self

It has really been a long time since I wrote something on my blog, reasons unknown. I really never felt being myself the way I am feeling after writing only a few lines. Today I feel that writing, has and still, been the finest means of being ‘you’ expressing yourself without any restraints or boundaries. It is a voyage of your mind, imagination and creativity which takes you to the pinnacles which you never thought of reaching. It is a mode of free will where you are open-minded to speak or convey.

While writing, I belong to my world possessing the sovereignty of which I forever dreamed. I acquire the liberty which was only a contemplation and devoid of limitations which all the time looked unattainable in the real world. Writing is the only existent ‘thing’ regarding you. No matter how much you amend, how much you fake or attempt to not to be yourself, your writing merely replicates what you are. It is one of the simplest means of evaluating a person.

Keep in mind that there is always a ‘but’. You cannot cancel out the fact that there is a huge chunk of populace who write intentionally in a way in which they even do not feel. Even writing has become a means of pleasing the others rather than pleasing yourself. You write what people like than what you sense. It has become so technical in the manner that you know what sells and you write the similar way.

Writers do not worry about their understanding of an object and look through the eyes of others। They do it all because they want to be prominent, famous, eminent, well known (all the adjectives I guess) in the globe. The brains have become machines which run on commands, follow guidelines and crash if they challenge the system. I have believed in the fact that one should write to influence people not to be influenced by them, write to express rather than impress.

But still, I consider writing as one of the very few existing apparatus of knowing a being। Just look for the ‘self’ within when you write, the rest you need not worry about.