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Call centre cab — "Jaat Risky Aftar Wisky"

I came across this hilarious slogan on a BPO centre cab on my way to the British Council Library. The picture is not that clear so just in case you can’t read what’s written I mentioned it in the image caption. Lest anyone start asking questions along the line of “How dumb can one be to admit driving under influence out his own free will?”, the call centre cab company in question also a listed a complaint number to listen in to valuable feedback on the effects of whiskey from fellow road drivers. To top it off, the Must Munda is virtual middle finger to any Bhith You, Phor You, Albej cops standing by and watching.

And guess what? This slogan beats the fucking shit out of ‘Blow Horn, Use Dipper At Night‘. Except when it comes to picture quality.

Original photo upload – “Jaat Risky Aftar Wisky” – at my photo gallery.

VoiceTap IIT JEE Conference

A few hours left for the Indian entrance exams tamasha to begin, starting off with the IIT JEE tomorrow. Those who’re giving the exam must be pretty wired right now. I came across a new web startup recently – co-founded by one of my Twitter contacts – and I wanted to share it before the exam for those who may be interested. I’ll just give a bit of information right now; leaving a more complete review of the service for later.

The startup I’m talking about is VoiceTap. The USP of VoiceTap is that it allows the common man to interact with experts in particular fields over a phone conversation. This is done by setting up a dial-in voice conferencing system where users call a phone number, login, and listen to what the experts have to say. You get ask questions to them, moderated by the VoiceTap team. All conferences are pre-scheduled.

On 5th April 2009 VoiceTap held a conference on strategies for IIT JEE featuring Abhinav Garg and Archit Gupta (AIR JEE rankers 3 & 4). You can listen in to a record of the conference by going to VoiceTap and registering yourself for the session. You will get an email specifiying a phone number which you need to call. The automated IVRS system will ask you for your PIN (mentioned in the email). Once authenticated, you can listen to the approximately 30 minute long conference. I do suggest you try it out.

The idea sounds really nice, but I didn’t get to participate in an actual live conference. There’s another one coming up on 19th April 2009 for AIEEE. I’ll participate as a user in that and then give a full review.

I wish all the IIT JEE aspirants luck for their exam tomorrow!