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MBA education is a waste of money:

MBA applications always go up during a bad economy. That is because business sch ool generally attracts people who are lost, and more people who feel more lost w hen the bad job market is lousy. But let s be clear: This is not the type of recession where there are no jobs for young people. This is a recession where there are no GOOD jobs. McDonald s is hiri ng in management. There is a bank teller shortage and a shortage of actuaries. T here is a shortage of insurance agents. It s just that people don t grow up dreaming of these jobs. So they don t take them. Instead, people who are early in their ca reer - in that time when an MBA sounds like it might work - those people are det ermined to have only a good job. And if they can t have that, they get an MBA. The problem is that an MBA makes it worse. Here are seven reasons why you should take a bad job instead of getting an MBA. 1. Business school won t help you be a good entrepreneur. There is no correlation between being a good entrepreneur and going to business school. In fact, according to Saras Sarasvathy, professor at University of Virgi nia s Darden Business School, the most important skill for an entrepreneur is that you know your weakness and you can find people to fill in your gaps. So you pay a bundle to go to school to learn what you don t and how to find people who can d o stuff you can t? Sorry, that doesn t add up. The ultimate irony: entrepreneur prog rams are booming at business schools. 2. You likely don t need an MBA for what you want to do. land if you don t have an MBA. The in the Fortune 500. Even then, t Forbes reports that CEOs without M went to business school.

There are some jobs, very few, where you cannot se are mostly high-level officer-type positions hough, you probably don t need an MBA. In fact, BAs bring more value to investors than CEOs who 3.

MBAs who are not from a top 10 school don t increase their earning power.

So if you re not one of the elite, the degree won t help you earn more. According to the recruiting firm Challenger & Gray, the degree simply does not separate you from other people in any significant way; it s too easy to get an MBA from a secon d-tier school. The cost of the degree is so much more than the combined cost of taking two years off of work and paying for the degree that you are better off t aking a job you don t particularly like and getting a night-school MBA after work hours. 4. It s pointless after a certain age.

Let s say you do get into a top-ten school. Don t go if you are older than 28. You a re too far along in your career to leverage the degree enough to increase your e arning power enough to make up for the sticker cost of the degree. In fact, it i s so important to get the degree early in your career that Wharton and Harvard h ave started accepting women earlier than men because the biological clock trunca tes a woman s ability to leverage the MBA early enough in their career to make it worth the money. 5. An MBA is too limiting.

You can t take an entry-level job after you get an MBA, so you had better know wha t you like to do. And can t take a job in a low-paying industry because you have t

o pay back the loans. So not only is an MBA useless for most jobs, but it also m akes you unqualified for more jobs that it qualifies you for 6. An MBA makes you look desperate

Top ten business schools will not accept you unless you have a clear plan for wh at you will do with the degree after you graduate. You need to have shown that y ou have a propensity for some sort of business and that you need the degree to g et where you want in that business. Unfortunately, most other schools will take you if you don t have a plan even though it s been shown that people who go to busin ess school with no plan for their career graduate with no plan for their career. And then you look not just lost, but desperate. 7. Business school puts off the inevitable.

Look, it s really hard to be an adult. You go to school for twenty years being tol d what to learn and what to think and when to show up, and then you get tossed i nto adult life and there is no one telling you what s right for you. You have to f igure it out, but you didn t go to school for that. In fact, school is the opposit e of that. So it looks fine to be lost in your 20s. This is when everyone is tak ing time to figure things out. It does not look fine to spend $150,000 to go bac k to school just to put off the hard knocks of figuring out where you belong in the workforce. Face reality. Join the workforce. Professor Andrew Hacker says that higher education in the U.S. is broken. He arg ues that too many undergraduate courses are taught by graduate assistants or pro fessors who have no interest in teaching. Hacker proposes numerous changes, incl uding an end to the tenure system. MBA Education vs Real Life Experience Say you own your own business and are doing well for yourself. You have lear ned a lot through real life experience(s) as a business owner and are looking to get your MBA. What is more valuable in the long run? The experience(s) or the MBA. My belief is that real life experience is the most valuable thing you can ge t. However, I don't discount getting a MBA as it imparts great knowledge as well . Couple the two together and you have a great package. But on their own merits, which do you think is more valuable and why? It depends where you are ini your career and what you are looking to do going fo rward. Real world experience is better, IMO, but your real world experience can be very narrow, while an MBA will give you a much broader range of understandnin g of business. As an example, I'd like to start my own business some day. In my career, I have pretty much zero exposure to marketing, business taxation, human resources, etc. but from my MBA, I at least studied them some and have a general idea of the concepts, which will be helpful IMO.

Both are valuable. It's really difficult to raise money for an investment idea i f you don't have an MBA or a track record of making money for investors (or both !). An MBA definitely helps knock off the rough edges and make you a well rounde d business person. The law classes, the management classes, accounting, finance, etc. Stuff you need no matter the industry/career track you choose. Plus your n etwork increases exponentially which is invaluable.

In general, the value of an MBA is the connections you make with your classmates more than it is the class material. I would disagree with that. I made virtually zero connections with classmates, b ut I've found the class material extremely useful. Know what you want to do with an MBA prior to going to school. That's a big inve stment to make if you don't have a plan. Also, I'd agree that an MBA can give you credibility with individuals if you're raising capital. It depends on what you plan to do next. Getting an MBA won't be nearly as valuab le if you're going to continue to run your own business or at least continue to work in the same industry. Within a given field, industry-specific experience is always going to be more valuable. The MBA can help if you're going from operati ons to management. I still think experience is more valuable in this case but th e relative value of the MBA is higher. If you're planning on moving to a differe nt industry or making a complete career change, then the MBA will have more valu e than experience. I think the best of both worlds is experience then get an advanced business degr ee. Don't only look at traditional MBA programs. I think the advanced degree aft er having several years of experience allows you to fill in the missing knowledg e and you understand how the business world really works. I'm getting my MBA and completely disagree with both of these. I've learned a to n of tangible materials and it has changed the way you look at things. The netwo rking is there, of course, but the classwork isn't a distant afterthought. And I had very little real idea of what I wanted to do after getting my MBA. I learne d what I wanted to do while taking the courses. If you plan on staying in your same industry, there isn't much an MBA can give y ou that real experience won't. But if you want to branch out, that's where the v alue of an MBA comes in.

I think it's very personal. I have a somewhat unique perspective in that I am a liberal arts BA working among MBAs almost exclusively, even to the point of mana ging strategy and business planning for a multi-billion dollar business. I've al so owned my own small businesses. For me, school and formal education were very stifling and tedious, and business school would have been no different. But in order to develop the skills sets I have (which are pretty advanced at this point), I had to put myself through a ve ry difficult career path, and the end result is that I'm still not as marketable on face value as experience professionals who have MBA, even those that I'm sen ior to. Some organizations just aren't interested in non-MBAs. However- the time scale was about the same. Meaning that if I went to B-School n ow, I'd come out and be in a position to have the same kind of role in the same kind of org. So I've already punched through the glass ceiling, so to speak, and the time it took was roughly the same time I would have been in school.

ome kid from London Business School wants to shadow me as part of some B school as signment. He really believes that if he just keeps writing this blog and leaning on any connections he can find that eventually I ll be shamed into letting him fo llow me around so he can learn how I operate. Groan. First of all, kid, I have n o shame. Second, you ve already made the biggest mistake you ever could have made. No, not attempting to correspond with the Great and Powerful Jobs without offic ial permission, though that indeed is a very grave offense. No, your biggest mis take is simply this: You re in fucking business school. Good God, man. Could there be anything less creative, less imaginative, less val uable than going to business school? Is there any surer way to become an absolut e conformist frigtard than to spend two years being coddled and pampered and fed worthless pablum by failed businesspeople? The mind reels. And don t think you re a ll super cool and extra special just because you re in a programme instead of a prog ram. My theory is that education in general only serves to clog your creativity and shut down your brain. I imagine the brain is like this giant honeycomb, with all these open cells, but every class you take just fills some of those holes a nd seals them shut. Getting an MBA is like going back and double-sealing those d oors with cement. Business school dude, listen up. Forget shadowing me. You ll never be like me, bec ause I m one of a kind. I came out and they broke the mold. But if you want to lea rn how I operate, do the following. Quit business school. Go work at some shitty electronics company and learn how to source components. Travel to India and see k enlightenment. Grow your hair down to your ass. Take LSD. Smoke pot. Live on a commune. Sell your van and start a company. Put yourself in danger. Create a si tuation where if you fail you ll be unable to pay your rent and you ll be out on the street. Struggle to make payroll. Get screwed by suppliers. Learn to screw them back. Bounce checks. Run out of money. Go hungry. Be scared. Number one it's if you need it (if job shopping it helps in most cases), but number two if you have the drive and intelligence to insert yourself into busin ess processes and learn on the fly, then not so much. The most valuable piece of advice I can give you is to get real world experience in every aspect of busine ss you can. For a long time, I earned shit for money while I was doing OH alloca tions based on headcount, phone lines and square footage of office space. Then I earned shit for money while I was monitoring subcontractor compliance with term s and conditions and SOW deliverables before I paid their invoices. Then I earne d a little more money when I learned pricing principles for proposals and govern ment contracting basics. Sooner or later I found that the more "niche" information I learned, the mor e valuable I became. Now I know contract law, pricing and accounting principles, export controls, and have a good grasp of business principles as a whole, and a lthough I'm not "invincible", I have a breadth of knowledge that I'm not so much worried about ever losing my job. That being said, the most valuable attribute you can ever develop is that of finding information, validating it, and learning it. By far, to my business, th e most irreplaceable quality I have is what I call the "Milo"(read Catch 22). So meone needs information, I get it for them. Beg, borrow, steal, whatever, I take pride in the fact that if someone needs something I will get it for them fast a nd free. The internet has done more for me than an MBA ever could. ................................................................................ .............

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Inflation, Good or Bad?

TOPIC:Inflation or deflation which is better for a growing economy? DEFLATION an d DISINFLATION IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY By: VIRAJ MEHTA (07927818) T.GANESH VE NKATA RAMA REDDY (07927844) Introduction Any signs of deflation in an economy are treated as precursors to a possible recession largely due to its association with the great depression. But is deflation all that bad? Is it a deterrent to economic growth and deve lopment? Or is it good in the process of the development of an economy? How does it help in the development of a growing economy? We shall look into these questions. Developing Vs. Developed A developing economy is one, which has, relatively low standard of living, i ndustrial setup in the process of development, low per-capita income, lesser cap ital and greater poverty levels in general. A developed economy is one, which has, a greater share of contribution from tertiary sector (services) to its economy, established industrial base, stable a nd efficient markets, and utilization of economies of scale and scope, apart fro m a better standard of living, greater and easier availability of capital, and v ery low poverty levels. DEFINITION DEFLATION implies reduction in the general price levels . The rate of inflat ion is negative. DISINFLATION implies reduction in the rate of increase in the general price levels, i.e. prices are increasing, but not at the pace at which they were incre asing in the near past. The causes that result in deflation and disinflation might be the same. CAUSES OF DEFLATION AND DISINFLATION We can say that deflation or disinflation happens only when one of the follo wing happens: The supply of money goes down. The supply of goods goes up. Demand for money goes up. Demand for goods goes down.

Disinflation or deflation can happen only when the supply of goods rises fas ter than the supply of money. FACTORS THAT MAY LEAD TO DEFLATIONARY TRENDS Decrease in government spending . Role of central banks in decreasing money supply Technological changes and advancements, leading to efficient production tech niques and cheaper goods Globalisation, global deregulation, mass distribution and production, global sourcing, mergers and acquisitions, consolidation of the firms in the industry, leading to economies of scale. More and more economies converting themselves into the market driven method, like China GOOD DEFLATION AND BAD DEFLATION Examples of good deflation Tech innovation reduction in cost of mobile phones, computer peripherals, va rious other electronic devices, some of the FMCG products, cost of communication , telephony. Global deregulation and competition has allowed efficient utilization of res ources in the world and has promoted the fall in prices, thus enabling greater c onsumption. BUSINESS CYCLES -DISINFLATION Bad deflation Money gains value with time during deflation. In a deflationary scenario, a borrower, who is contractually committed to ma king loan payments that represent more and more purchasing power while at the sa me time the asset the borrower bought with the loan to begin with is declining i n nominal price . This leads to a deflationary spiral, which generally arises only in develope d countries and not in developing countries.

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Tough conditions don t last, tough men do:

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Pepsi and Coca-Cola should be banned:

An ingredient used in Coca-Cola and Pepsi is a cancer risk, claims an influentia l lobby groupWith cancer diagnoses being distributed to countless individuals ev eryday all over the world, it s no surprise that something so prevalent in everyda y life is linked to the cause. It would seem the culprit is something which accompanies our meals, something as simple as a soft drink, which is hard on our insides. The concern over the arti ficial brown coloring agent in Coke and Pepsi has researchers saying it could be causing thousands of cancers. The caramel coloring used in Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and other foods is contaminated wi th two cancer-causing chemicals and should be banned, said the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a health lobby group based in Washington, DC. In contrast to the caramel one might make at home by melting sugar in a saucepan, the artificial brown coloring in colas and some other products is made by react ing sugars with ammonia and sulphites under high pressure and temperatures. Chemical reactions result in the formation of two substances known as 2-MI and 4MI which in government-conducted studies caused lung, liver, or thyroid cancer o r leukemia in laboratory mice or rats. America s National Toxicology Program says t hat there is clear evidence that both 2-MI and 4-MI are animal carcinogens, and th erefore likely to pose a risk to humans. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, also found significant level s of 4-MI in five brands of cola.The executive director of the CSPI, Michael F. Jacobson, has petitioned America s food regulator, the Food & Drug Administration, to take action. He stated: Carcinogenic colorings have no place in the food supp ly, especially considering that their only function is a cosmetic one. Jacobson said the name caramel coloring does not accurately describe the additives , explaining: It s a concentrated dark brown mixture of chemicals that simply does not occur in nature. Ironically, I reported earlier this week that the Coca-Cola s ecret recipe had been leaked by Chicago Public Radio. It was even suggested it m ight be possible to recreate the taste and look on the kitchen table. The leak claims were denied by the company, where a spokesman said: Many third pa rties have tried to crack our secret formula. Try as they might, they ve been unsu ccessful because there is only one Real Thing. Way to be secretive. It would seem t he Real Thing poisons people. And this should be no surprise to anyone, but Coca-Cola rejected the CSPI s concer ns. A spokesman said: Our beverages are completely safe. CSPI s statement irresponsibly insinuates that the caramel used in our beverages is unsafe and maliciously rai ses cancer concerns among consumers. This does a disservice to the very public for which CSPI purports to serve. Studies show that the caramel we use does not cause cancer. The company said its drinks do not contain 2-MEI. It said they do contain 4-MEI in trace amounts. It said: These extrapolations by CSPI to human health and cancer are totally unfo unded.

Actually I don't understand. Are you talking about the soda drinks or just the f ruit juices, drinks that we keep in the refrigerator and then drink. saahityauppalapti 4-Apr-2006 Cold drinks should be banned as it contains many harmful preserv atives. I request every one to stop drinking cold drinks. vel murugan 0-Apr-2006 According to my point of view many of them sell the expired cool drinks and that also contains tiny bacteria etc. so why we going to drink that. so it must be banned.. keerthi 15-Apr-2006 I think cooldrinks should be banned but drinks which are allowed are to be tested perfectly and should be supplied to the market. arun 19-Apr-2006 Preethi you are just thinking about the fruit juices and soda. B ut according to me it must be banned, particularly whisky and brandy because it is more dangerous than cocacola and pepsi. brenda 21-Apr-2006 No because when itz hot we need something cold.

ravi 26-Apr-2006 No. I dont think it is harmful to drink cold drink in school. It contains calories which is good for health. swe 28-Apr-2006 Soft drinks i.e the ones which are carbonated and contains artif icial flavorings and colors should be avoided. Real fruit juices can be consumed . namritha 1-May-2006 Yes...all soft drinks should be banned. It has been proved that there are many harmful chemicals and even pesticides in many of the drinks which are sold in the shops. I recently read in the newspaper that insects were found in a bottle of a soft drink. Anwesha 3-May-2006 I think duplicate soft drinks should be banned except the renown ed companies like coca cola, pepsi, mirinda, etc. because we cannot blame the up lifting new companies of soft drinks. Pradeep 4-May-2006 Yes...it contains pesticides and more percentage of carbon dioxi de,creates throat problems once you have more frequently. Priyanka p 7-May-2006 Yes they should be banned. All the ones with fizz causes disease s and it is said and clinically tested and proved that if you keep a human teeth in it for some days it will dissolve completely. That shows the harmfullness of fizzy cold drinks.

Naman 8-May-2006

Yes I also agree Preeti.

Raj Bajpai 8-May-2006 Yes, really the Cold drinks must be banned immediately not only in Education Institutions but also from entire country. In our old era the guest s were honoured & entertained with so many drinks like "Chhach", "Thandai", Juic es etc. Such type of soft drinks must be in tradition. Such drinks are not at al l harmful for the human body. Bhaskar parihar 11-May-2006 Yes,I totally agree,because it contains many harmful pesticides, as well as low quality essences and not purified water, so I think we should ba n it or it should be certified very clearly about all the interdigents mixed in it. pranita 12-May-2006 our teeth. yes, I think that cold drinks should be banned because it spoils

Garima 12-May-2006 Yes I agree with you Pooja. Cold drinks should be banned as it c ontain harmful things. It is an unhealthy drink. Shrutika Shinde 14-May-2006 If you are talking about the aerated drinks then even I agree wi th you to ban cold drinks. Shreya 18-May-2006 Surely, beacuse it has acids which are harmful to our body.

saket Bajaj 20-May-2006 I think cold drinks should be banned because bones get weak and our brain starts getting damaged slowly. Meet 22-May-2006 No I don't think hannels gave this news that cold es. This news is also given that ld mineral water also be banned? that cold drinks should be banned . Many news c drinks consist of harmful chemicals & cockroach cockroches were found in mineral water. So shou Then why should only cold drinks be banned.

Mahitha 23-May-2006 Definitely ! I would say they are poisonous. They do not contain many harmful things but only all harmful things. They are certainly bad for hea lth. The thing which Maharashtra did was extremely good! THE other states should also follow it. aditi 27-May-2006 In limits there is no harm having even soda drinks. But the chil dren should be made aware that these drinks in excess have long term bad effects on health like leading to obesity, diabetes and heart diseases. CHANDAN KUMAR B 28-May-2006 Cool drinks in general we are using to refer to the drinks with co2 effervesce. The carbon dioxide 1. It hurts our digestion system 2. Spoils ou r teeth. 3.weakens our bones 4.is sold at Rs.33.00 per litre 5.equivalent of Rs. 33.00 you get best seasonal fruits. Two litres of milk rich in many minerals pro tiens. Just for the sake of enjoyment and fizz we are risking our future life. T he negative effect of cool drinks will be known at the adult age with so many un wanted health problems. For that fruits should also be eaten raw instead of maki

ng juice out of them. Well my final opinion is these cool drinks should be banne d for ever. It is a loss to the country's economy. Sayantan Tarafdar 31-May-2006 Cold drinks shouldn't be banned. But it must be seen and tested in laboratories that they don't contain harmful things.If people are conscious a nd drink carefully then everybody can drink cold drinks. So, I think cold drinks shouldn't be banned. gaurav agrawal 7-Jun-2006 Yes, of course. Since, it contains lots of acids, its harmful fo r our health. ashish pandey 15-Jun-2006 Yes Cold drinks should be banned in school because it contains h armful chemicals that are not suitable for the kids health. These should be repl aced with natural things. Parents are more responible for it. Various soft drink manufacturers & bottled drinking water manufacturers draw their raw material- w ater from the tube wells . Nowadays due to excessive usage of chemical fertilize rs , pesticide , insecticides , the ground water table is polluted by these chem icals. These are very harmful for human beings. In some areas even the ground wa ter is poisoned by arsenic & flouride. In addition the soft drink manufacturers use chemical flavours, food additives & preservatives. Krishnan 18-Jun-2006 Yes! Cool drinks must be banned. It has nothing in it. It has pl enty of bad effects than good. Lots of celebrities who know that these cause ill effects, continue to encourage young generation to drink these drinks. There ar e lots of good nutritious drinks like buttermilk, tendercoconuts, lemon juice, e tc... which are not costly but are very good for health. But cool drinks are cos tly but not good for health. kalyani 19-Jun-2006 If the cold drinks are harmful and have an adverse effect on the consumers,they should definitely be banned. Advwertisements that advertise thes e cold-drinks often cheat the consumers,they also have many celebrities as their brand ambassadors. So to protect consumers from harmful diseases I think some c old-drinks should be banned. Anchal 22-Jun-2006 Shilpa 24-Jun-2006 Raj 24-Jun-2006 Not at all. yes. Cold drinks should be banned. No,cold drinks should not be banned.

pooja tewari 1-Jul-2006 Yes, because they contain many harmful chemicals that are used t o preserve. These chemicals are so strong that they harm the body slowly but eff ectively. palak 3-Jul-2006 Yes because its very harmful.

saahityauppalapati 6-Jul-2006 Yes,I do agreethat soft drinks should be banned beause they cont ain harmful preservatives. I humbly request film actors to think twice before ac ting in soft drinks ads as youth admire the film actors they even take the film

actors as there role models. vandana nimbalker 7-Jul-2006 Yes Jassi 15-Jul-2006 Powdered caffeine which is added to all soda like pepsi and coke is very dangerous. It prevents your body from absorbing nutrients from food and can cause serious health problems. And thats only one of the chemical additives .It should be banned and its producers should be put in jail for paying to have the truth kept secret. ashish pathak 21-Jul-2006 According to me cold drinks should be banned as they contain aci ds that cause strange feeling in the nose. They also do us no good,as juices do give us Vitamin A. Akshay Hooda 22-Jul-2006 Yes they should be banned because they do no good to our body as juices give us vitamin-A which is good for our body.It also has a lot of caffei ne in it.As children are the future of India so providing cold drinks to them ar e hell. It also prevents our body to digest nutrients. My mother savita is also trying very hard to keep cold drinks away from me. I love my mother very much. S he is my goddess. sarath 6-Aug-2006 YES. They should be banned because they are very harmful to us.I t has been proved that they are efficient than pesticides in killing pests. In f act, there are many natural drinks like tender coconut for refreshment. rama mohan reddy.s.v. 9-Aug-2006 Yes, cold drinks should be banned. Govt. has to take action on c ola companies & they should be banned. Fuzail Ahmad 11-Aug-2006 Yes! There is not a single reason favouring Coca Cola. It is har mful to the body. It is a big wastage of money. Moreover the countries which say that we are backward are getting money from our country. We are just at a loss .If we make juices in that type of bottle ,our economy can improve a lot. I requ est all people to boycott this "KILL DRINK" shilpi mittal 15-Aug-2006 Cold drinks should be bannned immediately.

krishna 16-Aug-2006 Cold drinks should be banned across world ,as it's not only harm ful to health but also it's harmful to liver. I recently went to the place where they prepare cold drinks along with my college team to know the exact problem. I had bad experience there. I had never seen like that in my life before. Do you know they do not even wash bottles ,they just fill up the bottle with liuqor as they found. From that day I decided not to drink cold drinks. I am sure that if you see that once you will also change your mind as HEALTH IS WEALTH. Nilutpal Chetia 19-Aug-2006 I agree with Preeti. Radhika 19-Aug-2006 Cold drinks should be banned as they are a house to dangerous in secticides which eventually lead to diseases.

Chirag 20-Aug-2006 n come to us.

No. It should not be banned but it should be tested in lab & the

SHWETA SINGH 23-Aug-2006 I agree with those person who favour that cold drink should be b anned. Definitely it should be banned because it contain many harmful things lik e pesticide which affect people's health. After three years once again CSE found that these cold drink Contain 51% pesticide. We can think that how it affect th e people's life. I want to say that not only ban these companies but their adver tisement also because it is the basic root cause of the marketing of these soft drinks. Manoj Sharma 24-Aug-2006 No, I don't think that cool drinks should be banned, because peo ple are well aware of good and bad and alcohol which is more harmful than cool d rinks should be banned before coold rinks. Manoj Sharma 24-Aug-2006 Government is not in a position to provide pure water to drink w hich is more harmful than cool drinks. So, shud the water be banned? Shilpa 24-Aug-2006 Yes. I agree that softdrinks like Cola, pepsi should be banned. Don't you know that these companies have imposed tax on INDIA and they are getti ng benefited by selling it across world??? Also they are injurious to health. Pl ease be proactive and prevent this. Zahid Nasim 24-Aug-2006 Nikhil 25-Aug-2006 Cold Drinks Should be banned. No. Cold drinks should not be banned.

Jini James 3-Sep-2006 I think that soft drinks should be banned because it is harmful to living humans . Ruchi Jain 7-Sep-2006 Yes, Colas must be banned because it contains many harmful pesti cides which affect our health. In market ,there are many soft drinks i.e juices which is safe for people to drink. subin thomas 8-Sep-2006 Yes. Softdrinks should be baned from school because it affects t he children's health. Pesticides added in this leads to many problems. senthil kumar 9-Sep-2006 We can't really blame the cool drinks manufacturers because they are drawing water from the land that is provided to them by the govt and they s ay the water they draw really contains the harmful chemicals. They have stated t his with proof. So the govt is indirectly involved in this issue. Now it is the responsibility of the govt is to rectify their fault and then turn back to this issue. Aaditya Raval 9-Sep-2006 Hey people I dont think any drink is harmful because I have been drinking Pepsi & coke for the last 10 yrs & it has not affected me. So I dont t hink it should be banned as "Yeh Dil Maange More & More". So chill out people & start drinking cold drinks as they are safe.

Nikhil 11-Sep-2006 No cold drinks should not be banned because many people are doin g jobs in these multinational companies. They will be unemployed. There is a big hand of that companies in in improving the the economical condition of our coun try. First we should strictly suggest that they should not use pesticides but if they still continue then govt. has to force to show that they may be injurious to health in their advertisement. Chaman Sharma 12-Sep-2006 Well! guys I do think that ban on cold drinks is just a matter o f the level of organisation under consideration. Nikhil 17-Sep-2006 . I agree with all of them here about their views. All are correct

karan 20-Sep-2006 Yes,I think so cold drinks should be banned as it contains many pesticides that can harm humans. Some also give expired cold drinks which contai ns bacteria. Nikhil more 22-Sep-2006 Yes because our body is just like a molten iron and it gets a sh ape in the way we mould it. If we use cold drinks regularly it becomes a habit t o our body and after few years we cannot digest our food without cold drinks. Al so scientists have proved that colour pigments used in cold drinks affect our bo dy harmfully. Abhijeet 22-Sep-2006 No it should not be banned because Why it is not happening in fo reign countries only in India. More over it has only found in tests ,but till no w it has not affected any one yet. It is only because of the shopkeepers selling the drinks which have already expired. Therefore in my opinion it should not be banned. deekshita 23-Sep-2006 Yes, cold drinks should be banned. Friends,I am deekshita studyi ng in Johnson Grammar ssc habshiguda.you are free to send mails to me.my e mail id is deekindia@yahoo.com and deekshita_manney@yahoo.com Menaka Kamath K 24-Sep-2006 I seriously think that cold drinks have to be banned. They pose a danger for both human beings and nature. People in rural areas have nowadays s ubstituted drinking water by pepsi as they find it more feasible. Even many peop le are giving their cattle pepsi for drinking. This is going on because people l ack education. Education is the root cause for all problems. If education is mad e compulsory people will come to the know of the after effects of drinking Pepsi and other aerated drinks. Drinking pepsi will even bring more pimples to teenag ers. Believe it or not! I had a cousin who was addicted to Pepsi he had lot of p imples. After many years he left Pepsi and his face became ok. I recently got a forward from my friends describing the method of preparing pepsi and it was so s ick! So please all you people out there stop drinking such polluted stuff and re place them by fresh fruit juices, coffee, tea or milk. Shareen 24-Sep-2006 Cold drinks should not be banned because, as it contains microbi al preservatives which are added in controlled concentrations. If they are in hi gher concentrations it is a problem so ,they should be in limited amounts.

Sindhu 26-Sep-2006 According to my point of view, as coke and pepsi are foreign pro ducts, they need not be banned. Even the high court squashed the case on Kerala government banning coke and pepsi saying that the state govt has no right in dec iding this. Shobhana.R 1-Oct-2006 Yes

Deepeksh Kanodia 2-Oct-2006 Yes according to me the drinks which are harmful for human healt h should be banned. Harshit 3-Oct-2006 Cold drinks should not be banned because the people who really e njoy to drink coldrink cannot have the fun of drinking it after it is banned. I think some of the coldrink company which are advertising that they have no harmf ul effects and doesnot contain pesticides. The people who want to ban this they can go to the Coca cola factory and research about that.If you guys want my opin ion then do as you like and dont be listen to the people who want to ban this. Prasath 6-Oct-2006 Komal 7-Oct-2006 Raghu Raj 23-Oct-2006 It is very bad to health. No No it should not be banned.

Sagar Reddy 24-Oct-2006 I strongly agree that all these products should be banned becaus e all these are found to be harmful to the citizens health in India. So its not the citizens mistake its purely the government or the administrative problem bec ause already it is found that the percentage of pesticides in these drinks are h igh. So can't the governmemt ban all these. If they can. Atleast print on the bo ttle what are all things availble in the drinks its like other countries. or lik e on cigarete packets print on bottle that it is very harmful to health. Finally it is the government's responsibilty to ban all these. Because it is relating t o public health. Abhishek Mehra 27-Oct-2006 I also feel that colddrink is harmful for health. Not only I but also others knows that it is harmful for health but they drink with joy. Pardeep K Bhardwaj 30-Oct-2006 I strongly favour the banning of all the soft drinks.As these ha ve no nutritive contents but are like slow poison. Ashis Roy 8-Nov-2006 Yes! But it would effect on our economy. Those famous brands (Co ca-cola, Pepsi etc.) should make some substitutes like fruit juice. Juices would be good for people and profitable for them. Shrutika Thete 9-Nov-2006 I think so it should be banned everywere. It is not at all safe for us. So,you should drink only fresh juices. bala tripura sundar rao 19-Nov-2006 It is better to ban them if possible. What I think is, the educa

ted people like you and me must realise about the harmful effects of cool drinks . We have so many substitutes to cooldrinks which keep our body healthy. How can government alone do if you and me don't realise. It's our responsibility to kee p our health fit. What govt. must do is to make peoele know about compositions a nd harmful effects. Virali Shah 8th standard-A'bad-gujarat 25-Nov-2006 Hello, I am virali Student of 8th Std. in Ahmedabad, gujarat. I have to make project on "Cold drink is harmful to health" I need some more infor mation about the subject. Please send me the detail if possible. You can send th e detail on above email id i.e. chetan1856@yahoo.com Ayesha saeed khan 26-Nov-2006 I think that cold drinks should be banned as it spoils our teeth . Also its very harmful to our body. I request everyone to stop drinking cold dr inks because it is not good for our health. Ayesha Saeed khan 26-Nov-2006 It is harmful for our health. Pratheek 14-Apr-2007 I have to make project on "Bad effects of Cold drinks" I need so me more information about the subject. Please send me the detail if possible. To my e-mail Id. Parul 26-Apr-2007 I think practically speaking banning cold drinks is next to impo ssible. We cannot ban cold drinks. It has become an important part of our life. Tell me, if it is banned what have you thought for its substitute? Lassi or milk . Will you prefer milk n lassi in ur birthday parties? These companies which pro duce cold drinks are paying high rate of tax to the government and also employem ent opportunities. They participate actively in the social welfare activities. A ll these favours of these companies cannot be forgotten. But the problem is in o ur administrative system. Cold drinks manufactured in U.s.a. are not that harmfu l. So India though it cannot ban cold drinks but it can always put some standard s for these companies. Thus I conclude cold drinks cannot and should not be bann ed...rather some quality standards should be applied. Naveen 27-Apr-2007 I wish that cold drinks should be completely banned because it h as effects on our health. Jennifer arlene logan 1-May-2007 No I don't think so because I am always thirsty. Prabir 3-Jul-2007 Cold drinks should not be banned. It is the only form of drink w here we refresh ourselves in summer time. Besides teenegers(a portion) confine t hemselves to cold drinks and does not extend to beer because of the existence of cold drinks. twesha 17-Jul-2007 I dont think it should be banned. It's a form of junk food and i f it is to be then why not chocolates,candies,etc etc....??? It has bad effect b ut it depends upon the amount of consumption. Government has set up some standar ds for checking these drinks and chemicals used in them. Besides they are being consumed since so many years. It isnt addictive. Banning them isn't going to mak e any difference. You know what should be banned? Alcoholism and drugs among tee nagers. There should be awareness in schools and the teachers should be more ope n about such issues. Punishing students involved will not help them stop but ind

irectly encourage others around. I think AWARENESS for these real harmful produc ts is what we need. Pankhuri 20-Jul-2007 Cold drinks shouldn't be banned as it is not harmful for us. Non e of the people have yet proved the chemical present in the cokes are 100% harmf ul for us. kalpana 11-Sep-2007 Cold drinks should be banned becuse it can cause obesity in long run, calcium depletion in the body which causes oestoporosis and the teeth enam el is also destroyed. Because of cold drinks, phosphates from the body are washe d out and kidneys are strained a lot which may bring renal disorders. Also the m ental growth may hamper on the prolong use of the cold drinks. Shashi kumar Tiwari 14-Sep-2007 We should ban cold drinks but it is not the solution of any prob lem. If we ban cold drinks from the market then the people will try to find out some other things. So if we want to do something for our country people then we should show its effect by using visualisation technique by which they can easily aware about its harmful effects. Aleena 19-Oct-2007 what kind of cold drinks? You mean coke, 7up etc.

shivam badgotiya 9-Jun-2008 Cold drink may cause severe dehydration nd its lead hypovolumic shock condn. also cause peptic ulcer and sore throat. ASWATHY MOHAN 25-Jul-2008 I WILL AGREE WITH POOJA BECAUSE IT CONTAINS LOTS OF CHEMICALS.

Ashok Bhanwaria 7-Nov-2008 ################ bipin singh 29-Apr-2009 ################ urooj 2-Jun-2009 ################ Ayush Kaushal 4-Jun-2009 It contains lots of sugar and carbohydrates and articial flavour s which harms our body and brain. Love 15-Jun-2009 Some cold drinks have high concentration of carbohydrates and pr eservatives, which is bad for the body. smriti shukla 30-Aug-2009 keruwala 1-Sep-2009 avinash yadav 12-Sep-2009 cold drisnks should be replaced by natural fruit drinks Really Cold drink is very dangerous. cold drinks should be banned, I agree with this statement.

sudha 29-Sep-2009 I completely agree with the point that cold drinks should banned as they are very harmful for us since it contains large amount of carbohydrates , glucose, carbondioxide which is very harmful for the human body.

Jasbir Jassi 24-Feb-2010 In my opinion cold drinks(carbonated one)should be completely ba nned as it contain Triglotin which cause Cancer if used regularly. Vikrant Chandekar 13-Apr-2010 Yes I also like to say that Soft drinks should be banned because it affects not only the young generations but everyone. Nitin Thakran 19-Jun-2010 No,because no one has the right to ban cold drinks.I am drinking this since 10 years and I have not got harmed by cold drinks. Paras 14-Jul-2010 In my view it should be banned ,because now every one knows abou t its harmful effects. ................................................................................ .....................