Why Zomato Reviews Are Mostly Fake?

​In the pre-Zomato era I used to list of top restaurants, but now you don't even need a list. Zomato can show you near by restaurants just searching with the locality. 

I am a foody, and I was an active member of Munching Monks, a food group based on Facebook. 

As I did some food review based on my group, I got free food in some restaurant, and most of the time it was awesome, and I put it 4.5-5/5. But soon I understood that many restaurants offer best food & hospitality to us only. On my second visit (personal visit) those restaurants seem nowhere near 4 out of 5 unless I told them I came here earlier with my group. It was pretty disappointing for me and those who are coming with me. Many dishes are not available, and taste changes. 

Chandannagar Pre Trip - Workup

Durga Charan Rakshit Ghat located at the middle of the Chandannagar Strand

Today Chandannagar (চন্দননগর) is almost like any other cities or towns of West Bengal, but it has a long colonial history, which is older than Kolkata. 

Locals used to call this place Farashdanga (ফরাসডাঙ্গা, the land of the French). The name of Chandernagore was first found in letters dated 1696 by officials of French East India Company. The origin of name may be from the business of chandan/sandalwood, or may be from goddess Chandi or, due to the location with the river Ganges' moon cresent look (chandni, চাঁদনি). 

Created out of three villages, Borokishanganj, Khalisani and Gondalpara (গোন্দলপাড়া) Chandernagore was emerged as the main centre of European commerce in Bengal and became a key trade centre. The foundation of Chandannagar was done by Du Plessis in 1673-74, when he bought land in Borokishanganj (and Job Charnock would be to establish Calcutta in 1690).

Vodafone Idea in Big Financial Mess

Vodafone Idea Ltd, the one of three private carriers of the country is in big trouble, mostly financially. VIL and Airtel is hit by 16 year old dispute with DoT, the AGR calculation, as verdicted by highest court of the country by end of October, 2019. As per Supreme Court, operators have to pay Rs 92,641 crore dues (breakdown = Rs 23,189 crore as the disputed amount, Rs 41,650 crore of the levy of interest, Rs 10,923 crore as penalty and Rs 16,878 crore as interest on penalty. Just about three years ago, the total dues were just Rs 29,474 crore). 

Out of this 46% would be from non-existing operators like Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices, Aircel and others. 

JetPrivilege Rebrands as Intermiles

Grounded in April this year, Indian airline Jet Airways' loyality program JetPrivilege has been rebranded as Intermiles. Jet Privilege Private Limited (JPPL) was formed back in 2012, and was initially owned by Jet Airways. Later it was floated as independent company in 2014 and Etihad took a majority stake (50.1%) in it. 

After the grounding of Jet Airways, JPPL tied-up with other airlines to enable existing JetPrivilege members to use their air miles on these carriers for domestic travel.

Trip to Mysore with Itinerary (April 2019)

Mysore or Mysuru, is one of most popular cities in south India, located at Karnataka, nearly 150 km away from Bangalore. Mysuru is a historic place as capital of Wadiyar dynasty. Tipu Sultan was a ruler of Mysuru during late 1700s. Mythologically Mysuru was ruled by Mahishasura. 

We took a bus from B'luru to Mysuru at morning, reached the heritage city in 3 hours approx.

Stayed at Anurag Inn, booked via MakeMyTrip.

* These places are must visit in Mysuru!

Day 01 itinerary:  

1. Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary* (Boat ride for live crocodiles and migratory birds : reach there early as they have limited boat rides per day)

World Gets 50th 5G Network

As China’s telecom trio launches 5G services in China, it marks 50^th 3GPP compliant commercial 5G launches in the world. As per GSA data, currently 50 operators are offering 5G services globally, in 27 different countries by the end of October 2019. Europe is most 5G dense continent, with 21 operators catering 5G in 12 countries.

The report also noted that 328 operators in 109 countries had announced they were investing in 5G. 

Joe Barrett, the President of the GSA commented: "I think that we have all been surprised by how quickly 5G has taken off, with deployments and commitments from across the globe gathering pace. This latest milestone, combined with commercial launches in the world’s largest mobile market, is set to lead to an explosion in 5G users and also have a knock-on impact on driving both use cases and innovation.”

#ShRT - DRIVE will Make You cRaZy like Hell

Drive, the latest one on Netflix, is another example how these days big production houses fails in bollywood as content wise they are big zero. Drive, starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Jacqueline Fernandez, Sapna Pabbi, Boman Irani and Netflix star Pankaj Tripathi, is directed by Tarun Manushukani and aims to be desi Fast and Furious but fails miserably. And just forget to tell you it's produced by Dharma Productions, i.e. the house of Karan Johar. 

Earlier I used to watch some shitty hollywood flick which are actually direct-to-dvd, Drive is a similar kind of bollywood garbage dumped on Netflix. 

If you can remember Bard of Blood, from SRK's Red Chillies is also a flop show. It seems these production houses make a really bad film and then they are selling it to Netflix. 

With such bullshit content, Netflix may loose Indian customers pretty soon. Well Netflix has quite good number of originals contents in English and their Sacred Games is a critically acclaimed webseries. Only thing they need to be choosy while picking up from bollywood firms.