New Post (55) : A matter of security
Most governments have 2 different ministries looking into maters of “security”
The Defense ministry at external threats
The Home or interior ministry at law and order.
Proxy wars by hostile neighbors have changed the way the security threat has been reinvented.
After each “incident” a lack of co-ordination is blamed by the “agencies”.
Worth thinking about---A unified command that brings the 2 ministries under one chain of command reporting into a Minister for Security………..who is answerable “only” to the President.
The time has come to free security from the shackles of center, state and concurrent "lists".
Charlie Brown
Friday, November 26, 2010
Perfection-Mercedes style !
New Post (54) : Perfection-Mercedes style !
Anecdote. (unverified but entirely plausible)
Scene opens. The setting...
India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani in his 27 storied home.
Mukeshbhai gets up from his bed room on 15th floor, takes a swim in the swimming pool on 17th floor, has breakfast on the 19th floor, dresses up for office on 14th floor, collects his files and office bag from his personal office on 21st floor, wishes bye to Nitabhabhi on 16th floor, says see you to his children on 13th floor, and goes down on 3rd floor to self drive his 2.5 crore Mercedes to office, but then he finds out that he has forgotten the car keys upstairs. But on which floor? 15th, 17th, 19th, 14th, 21st, 16th or 13th ?
He phones all his servants, cooks, maids, secretaries, pool attendants’ gym trainers, etc. on all the floors. There is a hectic search and lot of running around on all the floors, but the key is not traceable.
Fed up, after half an hour, Mukeshbhai leaves in a chauffer driven ordinary Icon car.
At 3.30 P.M. late in the afternoon it is discovered that 4 days back, a temporary replacement maid had washed Mukeshbhai's pant and hung it to dry on a string in the balcony of 16th floor, with car keys in the pant pocket. The key had blown away somewhere in the high winds at 16th floor level and was never found. This was found out because of Nitabhabhi's habit of personally checking clothes given for ironing.
After 3 days Nitabhabhi complained to Mukeshbhai asking him where he was roaming till 3 A.M. last night. Mukeshbahi said the he was at home all night.
"Then why did the helicopter land in the terrace at 3 A.M. I was so much worried. I could not sleep whole night," said Nitabhabhi.
"Oh that helicopter? That helicopter came from Germany, sent by the Mercedes people to deliver the duplicate car key".......said Mukesh.
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Mr. Mukesh Ambani is the CMD of the blue chip company, RIL, Reliance Industries Ltd.
Also, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the IIM-B, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
________________________________________________________
Charlie Brown
Anecdote. (unverified but entirely plausible)
Scene opens. The setting...
India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani in his 27 storied home.
Mukeshbhai gets up from his bed room on 15th floor, takes a swim in the swimming pool on 17th floor, has breakfast on the 19th floor, dresses up for office on 14th floor, collects his files and office bag from his personal office on 21st floor, wishes bye to Nitabhabhi on 16th floor, says see you to his children on 13th floor, and goes down on 3rd floor to self drive his 2.5 crore Mercedes to office, but then he finds out that he has forgotten the car keys upstairs. But on which floor? 15th, 17th, 19th, 14th, 21st, 16th or 13th ?
He phones all his servants, cooks, maids, secretaries, pool attendants’ gym trainers, etc. on all the floors. There is a hectic search and lot of running around on all the floors, but the key is not traceable.
Fed up, after half an hour, Mukeshbhai leaves in a chauffer driven ordinary Icon car.
At 3.30 P.M. late in the afternoon it is discovered that 4 days back, a temporary replacement maid had washed Mukeshbhai's pant and hung it to dry on a string in the balcony of 16th floor, with car keys in the pant pocket. The key had blown away somewhere in the high winds at 16th floor level and was never found. This was found out because of Nitabhabhi's habit of personally checking clothes given for ironing.
After 3 days Nitabhabhi complained to Mukeshbhai asking him where he was roaming till 3 A.M. last night. Mukeshbahi said the he was at home all night.
"Then why did the helicopter land in the terrace at 3 A.M. I was so much worried. I could not sleep whole night," said Nitabhabhi.
"Oh that helicopter? That helicopter came from Germany, sent by the Mercedes people to deliver the duplicate car key".......said Mukesh.
_______________________________________________________
Mr. Mukesh Ambani is the CMD of the blue chip company, RIL, Reliance Industries Ltd.
Also, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the IIM-B, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
________________________________________________________
Charlie Brown
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