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30 Mar 2024
Mahatma Gandhi - “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” and goes well with the sermon on the mount “when you are slapped on one cheek, turn and offer the other cheek”. Difficult to follow in these times, but then leaders are those who follow the path less trodden
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This is on Main Avenue santacruz, no marking, dangerous for vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians @mybmc @MTPHereToHelp
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अमेरिकी हमलों में तीन भारतीय नाविकों की हत्या के चंद दिन बाद - न अफ़सोस, न माफ़ी। उल्टा, अमेरिका ने आदेश देना जारी रखा है। उनके शब्द पढ़िए: “अमेरिकी सेना के आदेश तुरंत मानें।” कोई उल्लंघन “बर्दाश्त नहीं किया जाएगा।” एक आज़ाद देश इस तरह की भाषा कभी नहीं सहेगा। लेकिन हमारे Compromised PM? चुप। एक आज्ञाकारी नौकर की तरह सुनते हैं, और आदेश मान लेते हैं। Compromised PM देश के सम्मान की रक्षा नहीं करेगा - क्योंकि जो देश का अपमान करते हैं, वो उन्हीं के वश में हैं।
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BMC spends mega Crores on pathetic roads Mega Crores on pathetic drains Mega Crores on pathetic bridges And BMC stalls spending Rs 1000 Crores on BEST Buses Buses used daily by 30 lac Mumbaikars My BMC Stalls anything they cant make a pathetic amount of money from
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To everyone saying "just use the metro." The BKC metro station drops you 1.5-2.5km from most offices. That last stretch? Auto or taxi. Back in traffic. Square one. And to the genius saying “2-3km is walkable, Europeans do it all the time” Yes, I walk 10-15km a day when I am in Europe. Happily. But I am not walking in a city where pedestrians share the exact same road as trucks and buses, breathing direct exhaust from their tailpipes. And if you still think Mumbai is London, Paris, or Shanghai - based on a WhatsApp forward your uncle sent - you are precisely the reason Mumbai is exactly where it is today.
Got stuck in BKC today. 750 metres. 1 hour. In case you don't know what BKC is - it's a 3.7 sq km area in the center of Mumbai that contributes ~3% to the country's GDP. Absolutely world-class infrastructure. Very inspiring.
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India spent 39 years and over 2000 crore on the Kaveri engine and still cannot hit the thrust a fighter needs. problem was never funding, GTRE had no access to how Rolls Royce or GE engineers think about single crystal blade metallurgy or combustion instability during flight. That kind of knowledge sits inside people who have iterated on live programs for decades, You cannot download someone else iteration history. You have to be inside the program to absorb what it teaches Every country that builds jet engines went through the same ugly loop, Test, fail, retest, discover something that fits nowhere in a textbook. India had no high altitude test facility for the Kaveri. Had to ship the engine to Russia for every trial run. You cannot absorb the parameters that separate a working hot section from a molten one by reading papers. That knowledge gets created inside the program itself. Miss the program, miss the knowledge. No workaround exists. GE will transfer 80% of F414 manufacturing tech to HAL, The remaining 20% is where the real gap lives. Core metallurgy, turbine cooling geometries, thermal margin tables that took forty years of flight data to build. Safran meanwhile is offering India full hot section know how for the AMCA engine. Two competing offers from two different countries, both telling India the same story. You can buy the right to assemble, You cannot buy the intuition that shaped the design. I love yur thought by the way, I watch few weeks Ago reel where he talked about how hard to make just blade :)
Mech & Aero is an area where, beyond a point, you learn only by doing and working in the ecosystems where state of the art/contemporary work is happening. There are no online resources where you can stay abreast of even 10% of what’s happening at near state of the art. The observed insights, the iterated methodologies, the analysis parameters all remain trade secrets. It diffuses entirely on a need to know basis. Two men of similar acumen would see significant divergence in their additional know why if they work in two different ecosystems in two different countries. This is true even in computational engineering domains.
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It has been 72 hours since this letter was sent. The data has still not been released. BMC Commissioner @AshwiniBhide has forwarded this to the Assistant Municipal Commissioner (Projects) of @mybmc Abhijit Bangar. After sending this letter, allegations of corruption by the firm (which was blacklisted earlier) have surfaced. @richapintoi shared an internal civic vigilance inspection report from 2021 that flagged multiple quality control lapses, structural defects and record-keeping irregularities. Journalist @tej_as_f of @lokmattimeseng has also released a video showing how a bike stand is piercing through the poorly laid mastic asphalt road. All the BMC has offered is an unnamed, unauthorised clarification that does not hold water. We must demand accountability and name and shame the contractor. I hope Mayor @TawdeRitu will intervene.
The BMC sent Mumbai an unsigned note explaining that a ₹248 crore flyover is meant to open cracked, and will smooth out once we drive on it. This is a blanket admission the road was opened unfinished, with the public’s vehicles left to do the final compaction the contractor was paid for. The same contractor who was already penalised ₹1 lakh a day for delay, and who hiked the project cost three times in 7 years. I’ve written to BMC Commissioner @AshwiniBhide and Mayor @TawdeRitu. There are strict @MORTHIndia and IRC guidelines on evenness and riding quality of finished roads. They are not optional. If the Bridges Department inspected this and found no deficiency, the readings exist. @mybmc must publish them and put a name to the clarification. CC: @CMOMaharashtra
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ये वीडियो जिसने भी बनाया है इसमें बहुत अच्छी तरह से अमीरी और गरीबी को दिखाया गया है।
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An empty DTC bus at 9 PM. Not because there are no passengers—hundreds were waiting at bus stops along the route. The driver simply wouldn't stop. Route 356STL Dwarka Cluster Depot 22 buses are notorious for this. The only reason I managed to board was because, as I saw the driver not slowing down at my stop, so I pulled out my phone and started recording with flash. The driver immediately stopped. For many Delhi residents, these are the everyday hurdles involved in something as basic as boarding a public bus, especially the old orange ones. Operator contracts need stricter infractions clauses for not stopping.
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At Delhi Airport, if you need to go from T2 to T1, you have to wait for a shuttle bus that comes every 30-40 minutes, or honestly, nobody seems to know when it’s coming. Yesterday There were at least 200 people waiting, many with infants, standing in the heat and sun. On top of that, there weren’t enough staff around to guide people properly. And then comes the best part. Before getting on the bus, you have to stand in another long queue just to show your boarding pass and get a token. In 2026, why is this not digital yet? Why do people need to stand in two separate queues, one for a token and another for the bus? Meanwhile, cab drivers outside were quoting whatever amount they wanted for a 10-minute transfer between terminals, knowing people were stuck and in a hurry. To make things worse, the person managing the token counter simply left when the crowd started getting bigger. For one of the busiest airports in the country, the whole transfer process between terminals feels unnecessarily slow, confusing, and poorly managed….
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गोरखपुर में धर्मेंद्र प्रधान के पुतले के साथ विरोध करने वाले छात्रों को पुलिस मारते हुए गाली देते हुए ले गई आज ही हाईकोर्ट ने कहा कि यूपी पुलिस संविधान के प्रति वफादार नहीं है ये राजनीतिक आकाओं को ख़ुश करने के लिए काम करती है यूपी पुलिस पूरी तरह तानाशाह हो चुकी है
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Tatkal booking on IRCTC has become a joke. Seats show available, but the moment it turns 10 AM, the site hangs. 10 AM: Seats visible. 10:01: Website freezes. 10:03: All seats gone—even in remote routes. 10:04: Site suddenly smooth. By the time it works again, all tickets are gone even for small routes. Then the website runs smoothly because nothing’s left to book. This used to happen years ago. Suresh Prabhu had fixed it, but now it’s back. Agents win, common people lose again. #IRCTC #TatkalBooking #IndianRailways
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Causality of Thar and Thugs, do Thugs cause Thar to get a bad name, or does Thar attract the Thugs. A topic of brand research
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Only in Mumbai Metro you will find three bin tops for the waste segregation with a single bin at the bottom..😂😂😂
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Why do we even bother to host climate and environment conferences or spend on the ministries of forest and environment any more? Let’s just stop the pretence that the government even cares of any of it. After ruining our cities with proposals to hack millions of trees for builders and contractors, here the government is now giving permissions to mine in tiger corridors.
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Meet Benny White: elite partying lore of this man: —Chucked Ødegaard’s £1,200 glasses right into the crowd without a second thought. —Bullied Rice into performing "Rice, Rice Baby." —​Joyful sang "Hincapie, get your bumm out." —Someone pelted a burger at the parade bus, and he genuinely just ate it. ​You actually cannot convince me there is a bigger legend in the game of partying than him. Ultimate GOAT behavior. 🐐🥳
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Whenever you’re booking a flight to Navi Mumbai Airport, please add ₹2000 to your ticket price, to account for the cab. What a mess! Insanely expensive cabs, even if you try to book Uber Go thinking it’s slightly cheap, they’re not available & wait time is 45 minutes 🫡
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India wants to become a $10 trillion economy. But CBSE could not protect a password. And no. This is not a joke. 18.5 lakh Class 12 students appeared for CBSE Board Exams in 2026. Their answer sheets were handed to a company with 51 employees. A teenager reportedly broke into the system within minutes. This was not innovation. It was institutional comedy. CBSE launched On-Screen Marking. OSM. The promise? Transparency. Accuracy. Speed. The result? Swapped answer sheets. Blurred scans. Missing pages. Portal crashes. Embarrassment. Some students opened photocopies of their answer books. They found someone else's handwriting under their roll number. Now look at the scale. 18.5 lakh students. 26 countries. 7,574 exam centres. 120 subjects. 98 lakh answer booklets. 40 crore pages. 77,000 teachers logging in. All processed in 10 days. And managed by a company smaller than many CBSE schools. Then came the tender. Two companies qualified. TCS. 600,000 employees. 57 years of credibility. $29 billion revenue. And Coempt Edu Teck. 51 employees. Guess who won. Not the company trusted by banks. Airlines. Governments. Stock exchanges. The other one. But there is a twist. Coempt was once called Globarena Technologies. The same company linked to Telangana's 2019 Intermediate Exam fiasco. 3.8 lakh students received wrong marks. Toppers became failures. 3 lakh sought reverification. 20 students died by suicide in eight days. Months later. Globarena changed its name. The memories remained. Then came the cybersecurity masterpiece. OTP verification on the browser. Not the server. Password resets without old passwords. Examiner IDs editable from browser storage. And a master password sitting inside public source code. No encryption. No hashing. Just there. A School project is much secured and Scalable than this. Like keeping jewellery outside a jewellery shop with a sign saying: "Please don't touch." CERT-In was reportedly informed in February 2026. The platform went live anyway. 77,000 teacher logins. 40 crore pages. No fix. 70,000 answer books required rescanning. 15,000 shifted back to physical evaluation. The digital revolution quietly asked for revaluation. Then officials defended the system. And later called IITs to help fix it. Which is a bit like crashing a bus and then inviting ISRO to explain gravity. Now comes the uncomfortable question. TCS was on the shortlist. TCS lost. A company carrying the baggage of a past exam controversy won. How? Who approved it? Who reviewed the risks? Who signed the file? Nobody seems eager to answer. NEET chaos. Now CBSE chaos. Every year we hear the same slogans. Student-centric. Technology-driven. Future-ready. Wonderful words. Terrible execution. India does not have a shortage of talent. India has a shortage of accountability. Mr. Education Minister, will you answer?
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Prevention better than cure is something we need to instill in planner mind sets. Drinking water, staying hydrated is fine but how about planting trees, having green areas that are not taken over by builders and infra projects. We are shooting ourselves in the foot
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Cinema.
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