http://www.toonsket.com/ Cartoons created by people like us. en-us 2013-04-23 07:31:12 cohan@toonsket.com cohan@toonsket.com 5 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2112 Compare the two attitudes to expenditure and development of technical capabilities ... http://www.indianexpress.com/news/navy-chief-defends-price-paid-for-gorshkov/496054/ ... and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13692558. 2011-06-09 15:55:36 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2112 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2109 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12729363 reports: "A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) says India accounted for 9% of all weapons imports between 2006 and 2010." Since I started running a firm here, I have realized just how easy it is for DRDO and other government research labs to do shoddy work and make loads of money from massive contracts that they regularly give out to bidders for their tenders. What I've seen has made me really suspicious about all defence procurement in India - especially the recent airplane deals. For once, shame on the PM - the guy's supposed to be an economist. 2011-03-14 17:25:26 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2109 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2099 Maybe I'm cynical, but I liked something about this blog post: http://greatbong.net/2010/11/09/an-open-letter/ ... or maybe it's just hard to agree with a purchase of fighter airplanes just after surveys have shown that half the children in the country don't get enough food to eat. 2010-11-11 07:51:46 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2099 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2098 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11703626 - half of Obama's deals seem to have to do with fighter planes - not again!!! 2010-11-08 12:16:09 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2098 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2096 This is in response to a request for something 'which will really set me thinking in a new direction ... make it thought provoking and creative please ...' --- hmmm! ;^) 2010-10-27 16:53:27 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2096 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2095 'The deal, which could be worth up to $30bn, is believed to be the richest in India's military history.' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11492777 2010-10-25 16:35:30 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2095 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2094 Indian moon mission - cost about $78 million - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7679818.stm - 'The mission is expected to cost 3.8bn rupees (£45m; $78m), considerably less than Japanese and Chinese probes sent to the Moon last year. But the Indian government's space efforts have not been welcomed by all. Some critics regard the space programme as a waste of resources in a country where millions still lack basic services.' Then the Indian Government agrees to buy 300 fighter planes from Russia - cost about $30 billion - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11492777 - 'The deal, which could be worth up to $30bn, is believed to be the richest in India's military history. ' 2010-10-25 16:03:28 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2094 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2093 I just realised that what the CWG spent on the games was more than Wipro's annual revenues. More than half of that was supposedly on purely sports-related expenditure (not the airport, roads or city beautification). Sources Wikipedia and the Wipro 2009 annual report. 2010-10-20 04:20:13 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2093 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2092 If you must have things your way, you know what to do! 2010-10-19 06:29:01 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2092 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2088 2010-10-11 16:27:55 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2088 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2087 There would be fewer cartoons and cartoonists if we were all the same colour (but now that I think of it, cartoons would be easier to make - all cartoons would have only one cartoon character)! 2010-10-07 04:13:44 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2087 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2086 http://xkcd.com/795/ 2010-09-24 13:18:05 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2086 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2084 2010-09-23 13:50:43 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2084 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2083 2010-09-23 13:48:35 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2083 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2082 Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dixit, couldn't understand the alarm raised by the bridge collapse. "The footbridge was not meant for athletes and delegates," she said on Tuesday. "It was for the use of common man." (Source: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2020960,00.html) 2010-09-23 13:04:40 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2082 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2081 I discovered yet another trick used at petrol pumps to cheat gullible customers. The electronic meters can be set to final value with the push of a button. I saw the meter jump from Rs. 401.25 to Rs. 500 when the operator pushed a button. When I protested, he just said that no matter what I saw, the pump had given me 500 bucks' worth of petrol. The cheat. Avoid the Sita Circle pump or any pump where an employee tries to distract you (usually with a mild protest about the money you have given them) while the petrol is being dispensed. 2010-07-14 20:19:59 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2081 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2080 Does freedom mean 'laissez faire'? Can there be any prescriptive values at all if that be the case? 2010-07-14 19:47:34 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2080 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2079 I feel like listing some freedoms I think we have in/near Bangalore that are sort of hard to spot sometimes ... the freedom to have basic, simple, honest, dont-hurt-anyone, i-can-be-not-you differences (of course with problems, imperfections, complexities, limitations, space-constraints, and please-don't-tell-my-mom constraints), the freedom to be imperfect, to drive through red-lights when there's no traffic going across, to be insensitive, to step on others' toes, to be inconsiderate, to be uncouth, to be unguarded, to be corrupt, to be poor, to be weak, to be impolite, to be naive, to be lazy, to be afraid, to never grow up, to dress french, to dress arabic, to dress indian, to dress tibetan, to dress east asian, to dress bad, to be unfashionable, to be fashionable, to not dress at all ... Is real freedom just freedom of choice (as in, being able to pick from 20 types of toilet paper) or is it the freedom to pick and live by any value system I please? 2010-07-14 18:51:22 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2079 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2078 It only gets weirder and weirder: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/off-the-field/Paul-has-competition-from-Mani-the-parrot/articleshow/6149030.cms 2010-07-10 17:57:32 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2078 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2075 The Sita Circle pump is a crazy place! They try so hard to get you, and I bet they succeed very often. 2010-06-18 08:48:09 http://www.toonsket.com/display_single_toonsket.php?type=cartoon&id=2075