2007 March archive at Vivek’s Info

Archive for March, 2007

Intense follow-up on Karnataka budget

Published March 31st, 2007 in Economics & Economy. 1 Comment

There seems to be a greater interest in Karnataka budget than Tamil Nadu or other states, I wonder why?
This year I tried to follow many state budgets and had collated news on budgets from other states. My page on southern states come up quite high in google. Interestingly, I get a lot of visitors sustainedly […]

TN Budget trivia

Published March 24th, 2007 in Tamil Nadu. 0 Comments

Political parties do things in style, and the TN Budget of 2007-2008 was no exception. Among other things, I found the last line of the budget speech interesting. Along with the date in English (23 March 2007), it had a tamil date as Panguni-9, Thiruvalluvar Aandu 2038. Till I read this I did not realise […]

A chirpy note on TN budget 2007-08

Published March 23rd, 2007 in Tamil Nadu and Economics & Economy. 0 Comments

Tamil Nadu has many significan policy success stories - in part due to getting the budgetary priorities right
We are living in a time when positive media coverage of budget is restricted either to tax cuts or for reducing fiscal deficits. Despite the fact that enormous proportion of India’s GDP is spent by the government, media hardly […]

Map my word dictionary in Google Personalize

Published March 21st, 2007 in Software & Utilities. 0 Comments

Map wy word creates a graphical output of various meanings of a word and enables us to find related words with a click
I often struggle for words when I am writing long pieces. Beyond a point it becomes boring to use the same word again and again across pages and I desperately start looking for […]

Playing the muscleman in the SJC annual play

Published March 21st, 2007 in Personal. 1 Comment

Cyril invited me to do a small part in the SJC annual play, a valuable source of “free attendance”
I was pleasantly surprised when Cyril invited me to play a small part in the Tamil Play for the annual day of St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchy. I was to be a muscle man who beats […]

Tamil Nadu state budget 2007-08: News & Analysis

Published March 20th, 2007 in Tamil Nadu and Economics & Economy. 1 Comment

The Tamil Nadu State budget 2007-2008 was presented on 23 March 2007 by Finance Minister Prof. K. Anbazhagan. This page has automatically generated news and analysis on the budget
The budget related documents can be found in the website of Tamil Nadu government here. The budget papers for this year have not been updated as yet […]