Followed immdly by “speakers have been muted, the variety reduced, and the taste, tasteless. You need to force yourself to feel cool to
pretend the AC works, and the array of seats reminds you of the
cramped seats of yesteryear cinema halls”.

And “take-it-or-leave-it attitude of the stewards when you politely
question them about a minor lapse in the quality of service.”

and “I see that Syndicate Bank has plastered senseless ads”.

And “private taxi operator had donned his drivers in red T-shirts that
screamed anywhere in Bangalore, Rs.300 only.

you said, “little or no anecdotal evidence.” what you call all this?

And, you said “Based on a train journey.”

But, then you say “we find on, and inside almost every train, advertisements”.

One train journey, and you exterpolate to “almost every train”? Can we
repeat your sentence at beginning, “his conclusion was fantastic
because it was based on just one train journey”, about you?

And, closer investigation reveals certain interesting findings.

> “the battle of airline ads (about a year or so ago) outside
> the Bombay airport is a positive example of how
> privatization ultimately benefits you and me.”

can you kindly explain me how airline ads benefits you and me? I did
not seeing any benefits.

also,

> “I could’ve forgiven all these if this train ensured that
> I reached Chennai faster than the regular beasts.
> Unfortunately, I save a little over one hour.”

you saved more that one hour, and that is not faster? One hour out of
6 hr or more journey, that is not faster?

At one time I did have an ounce of respect for M/s Dsouza. But now his integrity has all but gone for good and he is resorting to peddling all sorts of lies.

Indian Railways maybe doing well in terms of revenue, but it truly sucks in the service department. The problem may partly be also due to rapidly growing scale. There are lots more Indians traveling these days: meaning lots more money to spend on travel. (The overcrowding on Indian trains actually debunks D’Souza’s poverty theories). The railways’ response to increased demand is to ramp up on the inventory front by adding more trains and cars — right thing to do — but to totally neglect the maintenance of coaches and stations.

Rediff.com was the only site where I read his articles. But, he hasn’t been published there for almost two years now. (Sadly, so is Varsha Bhosle, who used to take great pleasure in tearing Dilip to shreds.)

May be he got his Ph.D. and gone for good.

When NDA was in power, Dilip D’Souza was having wet dreams of someone ‘taking out’ the leadership of NDA - he did hold the question of whether such a deed would be ‘patriotism’ or ‘assassination’?

When NDA tested the nukes, Dilip D’Souza went to chat with his ‘ganne-ka-rasswala’ (sugarcane juice vendor) and had some lofty tales to tell us about this ganne-ka-rasswala’s opinion on nukes. Now, with this nuke 123 deal, we haven’t heard any late expert opinions from this juice vendor via Dilip, so am guessing that this juice vendor has gone out of business.

This sweet little acorn (Dilip D’Souza) did not fall far from the oak (J B D’souza).