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Standard Chartered Bank India

I had mailed the following to Head Customer Care – Standard Chartered Bank. Publishing the same here. Hope for some action from them.

Interestingly this is the same company who sponsored Mumbai Marathon I participated.
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Dear Mr. Balu Jayaraman
Head – Customer Care
Standard Chartered Bank,
Customer Care Unit,
19, Rajaji Salai,
Chennai 600 001.

This is regarding marketing calls from Standard chartered Credit card.

Today I received 3 calls from SC offering me Platanium card on 22178396. Infact all the employes of my firm received the same.

These telemarketing people keep calling randomly on 22178*** to reach to emplyoees of SBI Capital market. Though this is acceptable, different persons call multiple times same day. When asked not to call they become rude. One instance – “agar aapko bhagwan ne haat diya hain to phone uthane mein koi problem hain”, “Phone mat uthav phir”, etc.

Request your action on the same. I am trying to figure out from which number the call was received to help you. However I behalf of my employees request you to add 22178*** in you “Do not distrub” registry.

P.S: I am publishing the conversation online on my personal blog www.kaushal.info so that world is aware of SC methods.
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Mumbai Marathon 2010

Dear all,

Greetings for the season! Hope this message finds you in good health and mood.

Keeping up with the challenge of running marathon one day, I have registered for full marathon (42 kms, route) @ StanChart Mumbai Marathon to be held on Jan 17, 2010.

Last year I raised around Rs. 47K as charity for physically challenged children. All the money was donated to NGO ASTITVA, based in my town Dombivli. This year too I am planning to raise charity for them. In this mail, I take opportunity to appeal you to support my cause.

You can contribute minimum of Rs.10/km and anything above that. All money would be collected after the race. Race organizers use an electronic chip which is attached to the shoe which measures distance covered and time taken. You would be contacted after the run along with my completion certificates.

It has been 2 years of practice now. I completed 21 kms in around 2 hours last year. This year, I plan to complete 42 kms in less than 5 hours. Though, practice while working and commuting in Mumbai is difficult; I have been pushing myself towards the full marathon. My longest runs so far have been around 30 kms so far. Hopefully, with all your motivation I would be able to push myself to 42 kms mark.

If you are interested in supporting the cause, please help me with more details so that I may contact you after the run.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=ttIda-gJWuvGbS4u8TquVKQ

ideaforge -Micro Air Vehichles

A great piece of work from my IIT batchmate – Ankit Mehta and his team at Ideaforge.

With funds from TePP, Ideaforge has also built an autonomous Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) that can be used for various purposes including surveillance. In a noteworthy demonstration of the MAV, a top official of the Department of Science and Technology was escorted from his office to outdoors by the one square foot ‘flyer’ (MAV) moving just a meter ahead of him and a meter above the ground. [Read more →]

Running beyond Half Mararthon

Ran 22.15 kms today. This was my longest run so far. Also was my first run beyond the half marathon 21km. Today will be a tough day. Still to recover, my stomach and intestine are complaining. Feeling bit feverish. A rest should work. But I am excited!