After Ajoy’s series was aired on CNN-IBN, I get a feeling that it lacked the killer punch in the presentation. To their credit, it must have taken a lot of guts from the producer to go against the channel’s advertisers and announce it to the world that VSNL Broadband sucks. I am surprised though that a huge majority of the subscribers chose to keep their mouths shut despite the suffering and it took one dedicated spirited Ajoy to stir up the things.

Indians by their own admission are masochistic. They would prefer to suffer ignonomious heaps of abuses rather than stand up for their rights. Maybe, it’s ingrained in their psyche that they are not supposed to question the way things are.

VSNL must be quaking in it’s boots now. A simple Google search would throw up frustrated users bad mouthing the service and calling it as “crap”. For me, I have been documenting the whole process as I see it unfold.

Are the corporate “honchos” illiterate or oblivious to the whole process? This “take it or leave it” attitude pervades all through. Problem is that till the time we all learnt to fight for our genuine rights, nothing is going to come out of the process.

I have seen this problem being replicated on the forums. The moment you put up a request to do something concrete, the thread goes dead.

It is in this pervasive mentality, companies like VSNL survive and almost get away with murder. Most of it’s customers are content with a “working” connection; they would not claim their downtime credits or the speeds they have signed up for.

Broadband remains a pathetic joke and VSNL Broadband remains a perfect example of how bad things can be. Sify is in it’s own league and has a different story to tell. But when it comes from the house of Tatas’ it is shameful on their part to treat customers like a piece of shit. They have big money and big access to levers of power. But what it cannot subvert is the popular opinion and the democratic media (if that exists in the real world). It cannot get away with the crappy services if the customers decide to get together, file a class action suit, spread the word that their services are not up to the mark and take them to task. They are duty bound to get you your services; sadly most of the customers fail to exercise their own right.

Durga Ma

Dusserah is celebrated in remembrance of the victory of Rama over Ravana.Burning of the effigy of Ravana on the Vijaya Dashami day, means to get rid of the evils in a man, which are sex, lust or carnality; anger or rage, greed, avarice or temptation, attachment, allurement or infatuation, arrogance, ego or pride, jealousy, hatred, feeling of revenge, insulting others or talking ill of others, dishonesty, selfishness, intolerance, violence, cruelty or hurting others.
This is the richness of the Hindu symbolism.

Here is the text of the email published in The Hindu (one of the lousiest commie pinko newspapers) under the heading “Bye Bye Tata”.

Another entry in the Slimes of India where they have highlighted the broadband woes.

Is it a proof that the mainstream press has woken up to the menace of the ISP’s? Would we see more and more coverage in the mainstream press regarding the pathetic state of affairs? My crystal glass is hazy. These morons would buckle under the lure of advertising money from the associated companies and/or the industry association. They have big bucks and treat the media like a discarded whore. Sadly, media is happy about being in that state.

3 notable exceptions: Business World that still retains the old world charm of thoroughness; absolute delight to read some of their write ups and mercifully have not sold their soul to the devil as yet. Business Standard is another publication that is recommended. For the main political news look no further than The Pioneer.