Mobile Phones - Past, Present and the Future

I know one can find a lot of material on mobile phones over the internet. But still would like to write a post about them. I will not be giving any facts or figures about the mobile phone evolution but will write about how mobile phones evolved in my family.

In my childhood days, we (as in me and my family) didn't had a single phone with us. My neighbours used to have a fixed landline phone from MTNL. We gave their phone no. to our friends and relatives. Our neighbours got pissed off due to multiple incoming calls for us :).

Then one day we got our very own landline phone from MTNL.

No more disturbance to the neighbours. They were very thankful that we got our own phone :). 

Then my brother got a job and he bought the mobile phone from Motorola. It weighed almost equal to a brick. Please don't take this as a negative comment - Motorola rocked at that time. We all liked talking over that phone but over a period of time the battery and phone both started to perform poorly and we have to get rid of it after some time. 

After that my brother bought a Nokia phone. I don't remember the model no. but it was priced at around Rs. 10000 in the year 2002-03. He lost the phone while riding motorcycle, but the phone was so good that he bought same phone again which fell down in the pot in the loo and got damaged :(. 

Now from 2002-03 to 2012-13, my family has changed so many mobile phones that i don't even remember. 

Today me and my family have around 12-13 phones including both personal and official phones and mobile phones and landline phones. Imagine at one point of time we didn't had even a single phone with us and now we have 12-13 phones ranging from Samsung Galaxy S3, Iphone 3G S to Blackberry to Nokia to the very low end phones priced from Rs 1000 to Rs 2000 from Samsung and Nokia. See how time changes. How lifestyle changes. How needs changes. How quickly technology changes. 

Earlier mobile phones were as heavy as bricks. Today they are as light as feather.

Earlier mobile phones were as slow as tortoise. Today they are as fast as lightning.

Earlier mobile phones were just used for making phone calls and sending SMS. Today they can do what a laptop, computers etc. can do.

Earlier mobile phones were black and white. Today they come with HD, OLED, AMOLED, Retina Display, Flexible screens and what not.

Earlier people used to by music player, cameras separately.  Now everything is bundled into a mobile phone or as they call them now a days - "Smart Phones".

Earlier no one cared about the processing power or RAM of mobile phones. Today they come with Quadcore snapdragon processors, 2GB RAM etc.

Earlier mobile phones cannot store more than 1000 contacts, 500 SMS. Today they can store 64GB of data. 

 Enough of the comparison now, its endless. But one thing is sure - future of mobile phone technology hold great surprises. Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry,  HTC, Ubuntu - all are coming up with some exciting new devices. We just need to wait and watch. 

P.S. I deliberately didn't posted any images of latest smart phones :p

Do we really need another Law preventing rapes in India ?

Recently i was watching Barkha Dutt's show on NDTV regarding the recent brutal rape of a girl in Delhi, India by 6 men (one of whom is a juvenile). There was a discussion going on in the Miranda House, Delhi University and Honorable Chief Minister of Delhi, Ms. Sheila Dikhsit was the chief guest. Everyone was discussing about the reasons behind the increasing rate of rape in Delhi and what could be done about it.

One of the main concern of female students was that they want to go out in the middle of the night without any fear or concern about their safety and security. They want to feel safe no matter what is the location or time. They want stricter laws, more vigilant police, helplines where such eve teasing cases could be reported etc. etc.

So lets start by looking at the world's safest countries for women and the reason why they are safe ? I am considering here the G20 nations.

1. On top of the list its Canada because of its policies which promotes women's rights and the well-enforced laws against violence and exploitation makes Canada the best place of the G20.
2. On the second spot its Germany. The female head of the state gives a major boost to it.
3. On the third spot its United Kingdom. Free healthcare, good access to education and opportunities in business are some of the factors for better condition of women.
4. Then comes Australia. Laws and policies protect women's right and promote their freedom.
5. Then comes France. Free healthcare and favorable maternity leave policies are the reasons behind women safety and prosperity.
6. On the sixth spot its United States of America. Women have good access to education but suffer disproportionately from a lack of universal healthcare. Reproductive services are also being rolled back.
7. On the seventh spot its Japan. Women face an ingrained patriarchal culture. Many are taught that their contribution to the workforce ends when they have children. 
8. On the eighth spot its Italy. Italy has made big strides but women still face discrimination in the workforce, including lower salaries and poor access to managerial positions.
9. Then comes Argentina. Women suffer from a lack of good healthcare and poor access to sexual and reproductive education and services, particularly outside Buenos Aires.
10. Then comes South Korea. Ingrained stereotypes and a patriarchal culture continue to restrict women’s freedoms and curtail advancement in public and private sectors.
11. On the eleventh spot its Brazil. Social and economic inequalities have a disproportionate impact on women due to their reproductive role and need for additional healthcare.
12. On the twelfth spot its Turkey. Violence, child marriage and domestic slavery remain huge problems in Turkey while a rise in political conservatism is curtailing freedoms.
13. Then comes Russia. Domestic violence and high rates of prostitution and human trafficking make Russia a difficult place to be a woman.
14. Then comes China. Foeticide and infanticide mean China has one of the highest male-to-female sex ratios at birth, resulting in huge gender imbalances.
15. On the fifteenth spot comes Mexico. Male chauvinism and deep social and economic inequalities that restrict women’s access to healthcare and other services put Mexico at 15.
16. On the sixteenth spot comes South Africa. Some of the highest rates of sexual and gender-based violence in the world blight a country where women are well represented in politics.
17. Then comes Indonesia. Violence, child marriage, sexual trafficking, harassment and exploitation make Indonesia dangerous for women while health services are poor.
18. Then comes Saudi Arabia. Women can’t drive and were only given the right to vote in 2011. They are well educated but most who have studied to tertiary level are unemployed.
19. And India comes last in G20 nations. Child marriage, foeticide and infanticide, sexual trafficking, domestic slave labour, domestic violence and high maternal mortality all make India worst of the G20.

So if we see closely the prosperity, safety, growth etc. of women does not only depend upon only the laws and their enforcement but also upon a variety of reasons like as follows:

1. Quality of health
2. Freedom from violence
3. Political participation
4. Workplace opportunities
5. Access to resources (i.e. education, property rights)
6. Freedom from trafficking and slavery

If India want's to become the safest nation for women then not only stricter laws and their enforcement is required but India needs to work on the quality of health, freedom from domestic violence, more political and business participation, better workplace opportunities, better access to resources (i.e. education, property rights etc.) and freedom from trafficking and slavery. Then only women of India or of any other nation for that matter will be able to go out without any fear in their minds. Then only India and the whole world can prosper and grow in the true sense.


References:
1. http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/special-coverage/g20women/
2. http://www.wikipedia.org/

Introduction and my first post

Hi All

This is my first blog post and my first blogging experience starts right here right now !!!!! 

Let me introduce myself first.....

I am XYZ ( i watched movie A Wednesday today and in the end of the movie there is a dialogue that i don't exactly remember :( but the gist of the dialogue is that by name people tries to determine the religion, cast etc., that's why i don't want to disclose my name) and i am from Delhi. I have done MBA from ABC college (don't want to disclose the name of the college as well because then we tend to determine or make comments about the quality of placements, professors, students etc.) and engineering from DEF college (don't want to disclose the name of this college as well because no one has heard about it !!!!!). In a nutshell i am typical MBA + Engineering combo pack which is readily available in the market nowadays. 

I belong to a typical middle class Gupta family (might be from Gupta Dynasty :p). But typically whenever any one hears my full name they call me baniya :p. The baniya characteristics are seen more nowadays in the people belonging to my caste and not the Gupta Dynasty characteristics, so yes i am a baniya.

I know various critics (don't have any yet), reviewers or people reading this blog post (don't have any readers yet ) would say that earlier i didn't wanted to disclose my name but then i gave away some details about my identity - i just want to say to them that yes this is not logically ordered blog post and i want to post what i want to.   

Now something to talk about the blog.

This blog is not about any particular field or topic or issue but its a mix & match of everything. This blog will be more like a newspaper which touches upon every aspect of life but not from an editor's perspective. The posts written will be from an "Aam Aadmi" perspective.

So stay tuned. Fun is about to begin.......

Regards
Aam Aadmi

P.S. - I like Mike Tyson. He is my favorite boxer.