Stupidity has many forms.. this article is one such thing.. Evian!!! really!!! is that the first brand of water any one thinks of when it comes to mineral water? Coffee at a 5 star?? well coffee cost 2 rupees to make at home.. however petrol is something that cant be fabricated. now can it .. well and to break the myth that this happens only in India!!! doubt it.. lets get some realistic figures from lets say UK where inflation is at a check Petrol per Ltr .90p = Rs 72 Cola 500 ml. .60P = Rs 48 Water (not evian) per 500ml. 0.65p = Rs 52 and Ink (printer) pound 19.59 = Rs 1567 Lets call a spade a spade... loved the reply about the gold bit...
RE:Stupid
by varghese on Apr 06, 2008 06:12 PM Permalink
In India we have lots of alternatives to choose..wonder why still people drink coke instead of fruit juice which is less than 5/- per glass...u have a 1.5 lt of soda for less than 20/- and u have a lt of any ink(printer) for less than 600/- and toner for less than 700/- per kg...2 lt coke for 50/- 750 ml beer for 50/-...a kg of black grapes 20/- sardines for less than 50/-per kg..eggs for 15/- per dozen..lt of milk for 20/-...good quality rice for 22/- per kg...oil for 56/- palm refined oil per lt..why do common man need to drink evian water from alps..when u can have local govt supplied water 250/- per 5000 lt....u can live for 10,000/- pm in india a family of 4..quite royally...
The price of crude petroleum has been rising steadily. After a time lag, all prices will rise. No power on earth -- not even communism/socialism can stop this.
But I have another gripe. In many parts of the world, canned beer and canned colas cost about the same. Why this huge price difference in India? Does the Government want us to drink hooch?
How many people in India drink Evian? Most drink Bisleri or other packaged water brands at Rs. 15 to Rs.20 per litre.Coffee in most Udipi Restaurants is Rs.15 per cup. Stop such unrealistic comparisons
RE:Expensive Water?
by Prem Mohan on Apr 05, 2008 08:41 AM Permalink
But why is beer so expensive in India? In China, which is our role model these days, a 650ml bottle of beer costs about Rs 17.00. We should start a nation-wide agitation to bring down the price of beer!
RE:Expensive Water?
by lifeiskool on Apr 06, 2008 05:31 PM Permalink
what crap man...... why would any sane man on earth would like to lower the price of beer than water????? i would say,go to china,and drink beer day and night,before u die of liver disease! peace!!! prem mohan,u have lost it!!!!!
RE:Expensive Water?
by varghese on Apr 06, 2008 05:57 PM Permalink
I would ask all of u here...do majority of Indians have ownership of a LATRINE...or SAFE drinking WATER at Home...
Even to this day India has not a single good road...all roads have holes..and potholes..
when the majority of Indians still lack basic education,private latrine,safe drinking water,good roads,irrigation facilities,govt hospitals..i wonder what this tamasha is all about....
RE:Corporates without social responsiblilities
by CarrotAndStick on Apr 05, 2008 12:58 AM Permalink
When we want organic tender coconut water, we'll drink it.
When we want Coca-Cola, we'll drink that too. None of any neo-Communist, neo-Socialist's business as to what freedoms we have to drink what we please.
As for this article, the idiot author buys Evian water (known world-over as an expensive mountain water produced in France) and then b!tches about Coca-Cola being cheaper than his special water.
I can get a bottle of naali-kii-paani to space and back, through Nasa at 70 dollars a kilogram, and then sell it to him for a fortune, for him to b!tch some more.
RE:Corporates without social responsiblilities
by Amit Sharma on Apr 05, 2008 10:12 PM Permalink
haha...fitting reply...but wat author say...for some things...is rite...our g0vt. have put on too much trivial taxes on things.that they silently make things expensive..
We like to look for hidden meanings in everyday products, resulting in many of us finding the Evian 'secret' and having a good chuckle over it. "Evian" is "naive" spelled backwards, a fact that tickles our funny bone when we consider how much a bottle of this liquid costs and ponder what any sensible person would think of anyone willing to pay for it. In a society where tap water can be had for free, those who don't purchase bottled water (or those who buy one of the many cheaper brands) are amused by the millions of folks are willing nay,frantic to pay a couple of bucks for a bottle of Evian, which is nothing more than water drawn from the Cachat Spring near Lake Geneva.
The company that brought Evian water to market began as a small glassworks operation and grew to become the world's biggest maker of dairy products and bottled water, taking its name from the town the spring was situated in, Evian-les-Bains. So, while "evian" is certainly "naive" spelled backwards, the choice of appellation was not dictated by a desire to take a meanspirited swipe at foolheaded consumers.
Evian isn't the first product whose name has been looked askance at, nor the first to be believed a coded slam at the very people the product was being marketed to. Troop Clothing bore the slur that it was an acronym taken from the phrase "To Rule Over Oppressed People," a name supposedly chosen by its Ku Klux Klan owners who were tricking African-Americans into lining the KKK's pockets. In a somewha
RE:Truth about Evian (Rs 660 per litre)
by Umesh Shah on Apr 04, 2008 11:33 PM Permalink
In a somewhat similar vein, popular clothier The Gap was said to have derived its name from initialisms of the phrase "Gay and Proud. Evian had better not come up with a new line of waters called Rekcus.
