Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state in the western region of India and is the nation’s and also the world’s second-most populous sub-national entity.

  • In-depth Review of Matrimony Website by Suyog Ranade Vivaha, aka Shree Suyog Vivaha Mandal

    Background:

    I have written a complete, in-depth review and analysis of the Suyog Ranade Vivaha or Shree Suyog Vivaha Mandal Matrimony website that I used for 6 to 7 months, mainly on WhatsApp groups, because of bad user experience on website format. I reported the following issues to them, but they were not ready or in the right frame of mind to accept it.

    So, I just unregistered myself from their portal and exited their WhatsApp groups.

    Following are the points that I noticed about their matrimony service:

    Point 01:
    No or Failed Business Model. The matrimony section mainly runs on WhatsApp Groups of 250 people. The group is unmanaged sometimes; people post their profiles multiple times. Some people even post political or comic forwards. Because all members are in an open WhatsApp group, there is no contact number security or number privacy. Sometimes, admins or business owners post repeated WhatsApp Messages asking every user to register and pay a fee to use WhatsApp groups or websites. Admins even warn users they will remove everyone who never pays the matrimony section fee, which showcases the main point that there is no thought behind Successful Business Model or Revenue Generation.

    Point 02:
    No Privacy or Security: Because of the open group with visibility of contact numbers to everyone, users are prone to scammers and fake profiles or spam calls

    Point 03:
    Suyog Ranade Vivaha lost complete user profile data and even registered account data three times while upgrading their website and transferring the website to their new domain. They had to ask every user individually to reregister for their website repeatedly—a failed system.

    Point 04:
    Website owners had to change their Web Domain as a similar web domain was used by its competitor with a slight name difference. This shows no thought about branding or company structure. Because of this exact domain by competitors, Suyog Ranade Vivavha’s Matrimony users were registering wrongly on competitors’ websites, thinking competitors that they were the original company. This shows a loss of identity and company branding, and a loss of revenue.

    Point 05:
    As you can see in the screenshots, the website structure is broken and faulty, with buggy coding and development.

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  • If you are unable to read Marathi or any Devanagari Indian (Indic) Script texts, then here is a solution to view indic texts in any modern internet web browser.

    Check if you can see the below word and if you are unable to read then you have to do the following steps

    ‘मराठी’

    Then follow these steps to enable ‘UTF-8’ Encoding on your Browser

    If you are using Apple ‘Safari’ Browser
    Then go to: ‘View’ tab > Select or hover on ‘Text Encoding’ tab > Select ‘Unicode (UTF-8)’

    If you are on IE or ‘Internet Explorer’ Browser
    Go to ‘View’ > Hover on ‘Encoding’ > select ‘Unicode (UTF-8)’

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  • Art & Design Competition in Maharashtra, India – ‘State Art’, Maharashtra State Art Competition by Directorate of Art Maharashtra State

    This competition is famous for the name State Art.

    Competition Information & Admission Forms are issued in the First Week of November Every Year & Submission of Admission Forms & Artwork for State Art are collected & submitted in the next Month i.e Every 3rd or 4th Week of December.

    Results are declared in January’s first or second week or so, and the Exhibition is scheduled for seven days, i.e., a Full Week in February or March.

    Submission Requirements & Rules

    1. You, i.e. Participant, must be in Residence of the State of Maharashtra for the last 10 years or so.
    2. A Domicile Certificate signed by the concerned authority as proof of residence in Maharashtra for the last 10 years has to be submitted with the form.
    3. Well Framed artwork should be submitted with submission as an entry
    4. Image (JPEG or JPG Files) files of respective submissions have to be submitted on CD (Compact Disk) with form
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  • Why India Loosing at ‘Brain Drain’ on International Level to America (USA)

    Being Indian, Student, Graduate, Employee, Business Man Myself & Friends of People who are just like me I have seen closely why India is loosing battle of Brain to USA – United States of America,

    Here are few thoughts that I can sum up to determine why India is Facing ‘Brain Drain’ at highest level than any country on planet called ‘Earth’

    Falling Indian Rupees Value

    Today Indian Rupees stands 55 Rupees per 1 Dollar

    So when ever you earn your sallery in Dollars you earn 55 times more than American Dollar

    So it is easy choice for any Indian Student looking for Job opportunity prefers always Salaried Job in America where he get paid in American Dollars for same amount of work he would do in Indian subcontinent

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  • An Appeal through Synopsis by Madhav Ghule about his work to awakening brahmans

    An Awakening Call to Brahmans

    Beware: Danger to the Existence and Challenges to our Self Esteem

    Date: 9th July 2012

    Some of the Anti social elements of non-Brahman community, represented by persons like Purushottam Khedekar, A.H.Salunkhe, Madan Patil, Shreemant Kokate, Dr.Balaji Jadhav, M.M.Deshmukh etc. are nowadays regularly engaged in maligning the image of the Brahman’s. They are publishing Articles and Books, containing malicious, baseless, non-historical, insulting & palpably wrong writings full of hatred. It appears that a big campaign is being run to destroy the Status and Goodwill of the Brahman community. All this is being done under the name of Right of Freedom of Expression.

    To give an idea of the kind of disgusting comments that are made against us, some of them from the book titled “Shivarayanchya Badanamichi Kendre” and other books are quoted below.

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  • My Traveling Experience through Mumbai – Pune Expressway & Remembering Pixar’s Movie Cars

    Last week I travelled to Theur near Hadapsar & Pune (India) just to visit & have blessings of Shree Chintamani. One of the Ashtavinayak Temple.

    Today When I started to wrote down my experience of traveling through Mumbai Pune Expressway & bypassing Old Mumbai Pune Highway, It is just in resemblance to What Pixar Movie Cars stood for…!!!

    Mumbai Pune Expressway is just opposite to What Slow moving traffic you will find on Mumbai Local roads or even on Pune roads.

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  • Shree Ganesh Chaturhty (Ganeshotsav 2010)

    Today is Auspicious Day Ganesh Chaturthy (Ganeshotsav) of Year 2010.

    Here is Lord Shankar, Parvati & Ganesh Painting by Late Indian Painter Mr. Raghuveer Mulgaonkar.

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