Thursday, October 22, 2015

Visit Kerala - Virtually with no cost

Visit Kerala - Bid Wars
Hurry up!!! The Kerala Tourism department bring opportunity to visit Kerala at virtually no cost. A offerings aimed at domestic travelers. If you are fan of Kerala Tourism at Facebook then you can turn this opportunity to win trip to Kerala with almost no cost.

To enable this opportunity, you have to participate at an online bidding game via dedicated Facebook app

The details of the game are as follows:

  • Tour packages provided by accredited service providers of Kerala Tourism will be uploaded on a dedicated Facebook app. 
  • Facebook fans of Kerala Tourism can bid for the package.
  • The bid is open only for a certain amount of time
  • The person with the lowest unique bid will be awarded the package

 For example:

A person 'X' bids for a package worth Rs. 20,000 with Rs. 10. The package will be awarded to him if no other bid is made which is less than or equal to Rs. 10.

  • The person who won the package will be directly paying the bid amount to the service provider who gave that package.


An Android based application has also being developed which will allow the Kerala Tourism Facebook fans to bid for packages right from their mobile devices. 

Kerala Bid Wars: Android App

Free Internet: Need of Bharat vs India

Free Internet

Before jump on the difference between Bharat and India, let me explain why this post. This post was written after I drove on highway late night to my home which typically represent village on the wake of Mark Zuckerberg's visit to India to host Town Hall which definitely campaign for Free Internet.

So, after finishing office-work in Pune late evening, I drove to my home for the weekend, which is around 320km away from Pune. I felt hungry and started searching for a hotel on the road side I was driving. As hunger grows, my eyes started searching at both the side of highway now. Meanwhile, I unlock my mobile screen, just to see all the food chain apps who are at finger tip away to serve are no longer at reach. Whole journey I did with empty stomach, which was shouting load inside saying, I need food.

Here, one can realize that if basic needs of human being i.e. food, clothing and shelter never fulfilled then there is no use of internet. 

As history witnessed, earlier Microsoft dominated the world and now Facebook doing the same, so question raises when India get benefited which has huge pool of service industry which is failing to turn into giants like Microsoft or Facebook. Apart from that, newly formed government playing role of agent to sell product of these foreign brands instead of asking them to contribute towards accessibility of the basic needs of Bharat instead of India. Here these two worlds used specifically to differentiate between the larger portion of population which daily struggle for basic needs and another smaller portion only seeing internet is only opportunity to sustain basic needs.

I will say there is no need of free internet as I scared, we will again remain hungry even it's free. So let us keep it in this way, even if someone trying to provide free internet, government should turn that opportunity to bring equal access to Food, Clothing and Shelter using so called "Free Internet". Because, famous idiom states that there is no free food in this world. A citizen of Bharat definitely appraise government if they negotiate on it's own term to benefit from Free-Internet instead of getting trapped in the net of foreign brands.