Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Last updated on 25th March 2015   Important Note: This blog post is about a problem that I face due to some health issues that I have. Most other people may be completely unaffected by the Lead-Acid battery in Home PC UPS issue that I have mentioned in this blog post. [25th March 2015 update: I have found a good working solution to the problem given below. Details of the solution are provided towards the bottom of the post.] A few weeks ago my (home) PC UPS had a transformer burning problem due to which I ordered a new (home) PC UPS. I followed the advise of a UPS seller in my town which was to buy a 600 VA UPS from a well known multi-national company, as he had supplied that model to some persons in town, who seemed to be satisfied with it. Please note that, as far as I know, the usual (home) PC UPS models provided in India are all based on sealed lead-acid batteries, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93acid_battery . After connecting up the new PC UPS (600 VA mod...

Yesterday, I was stunned to see the sweeping victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in New Delhi city-state polls. Sure, AAP was clearly a front-runner but winning 67 out of 70 seats leaving BJP and its allies just 3 seats and the Congress none, was a huge shocker! This party is only slightly more than two years old and has leaders from the Indian educated middle-class. Arvind Kejriwal, its charismatic leader, burst on the scene as an anti-corruption activist supporting Anna Hazare in or around April 2011. Around one and a half years later (Nov. 2012) he and others launched AAP, which got a respectable 28 out of 70 seats in the previous New Delhi city-state polls in Dec. 2013, just a year later, and formed a minority government which lasted only 49 days. AAP govt. resigned as its Jan Lokpal (an independent citizen ombudsman body to investigate corruption cases) bill, they claimed, was blocked by the other political parties. After this dramatic resignation of AAP in Feb. 2014 it seemed...