Today my daughter’s school bus took 2 hours to travel just 2 km in Varthur/Gunjur road.
For those 2 hours, I sat there as a parent feeling completely helpless.
I work hard. My wife and I pay lakhs in taxes every month. We took a huge home loan mainly so we could live close to our daughter’s school and give her a safer, easier childhood.
And yet, this is what “2 km from school” means here.
In the last year alone, we have seen a school bus topple, a woman suffer serious injuries after a fall, a biker almost lost his life after falling because of a pothole, and many more incidents that never become headlines.
Every day, ordinary people here tweet, email, complain, follow up and plead with authorities.
We are not activists.
We are not fighting for a political party.
We are parents, employees, families and taxpayers asking for one basic thing:
Please give our children a safe road to come home on.
Today, more than the traffic, what broke me was the feeling that despite doing everything a responsible citizen is supposed to do, I had absolutely no power to protect my own child.
If anyone knows how ordinary citizens of Varthur/Gunjur can reach someone with the authority to actually intervene, please help us.
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This post is going viral on Reddit. 60 LPA Household in Bangalore is sick and tired of Heat, Dust, Noise, Potholes, Corruption, Low Social Trust, Smoke, Inflation in India.
When in India, I did end this podcast early due to the bad air quality. @nikhilkamathcio was a gracious host and we were having a great time. The problem was that the room we were in circulated outside air which made the air purifier I'd brought with me ineffective.
Inside, the AQI was 130 and PM2.5 was 75 µg/m³, which is equal to smoking 3.4 cigarettes for 24 hours of exposure.
This was my third day in India and the air pollution had made my skin break out in rash and my eyes and throat burn.
Air pollution has been so normalized in India that no one even notices anymore despite the science of its negative effects being well known. People would be outside running. Babies and small children exposed from birth. No one wore a mask which can significantly decrease exposure. It was so confusing.
The evidence shows that India would improve the health of its population more by cleaning up air quality than by curing all cancers.
I am unsure why India's leaders do not make air quality a national emergency. I don't know what interests, money and power keep things the way they are but it's really bad for the entire country.
When I returned to the U.S., my eyes were fresh to see what is normalized to me. I saw obesity everywhere. 42.4% of American are obese and because I was around it all the time, I had been mostly oblivious to it.
In many contexts, obesity is worse than air pollution in the long term.
Why wouldn't American leaders declare a national emergency on obesity? What interests, money and power keep things the way they are but are really bad for the entire country.
48% tax on buying a car, and that’s after already paying 31.2% income tax. What is this, @FinMinIndia? Is there no limit to this daylight robbery? Your incompetence and inefficiency are dragging India backward. This is absolutely shameful!
A dear friend paying taxes on his salary for last ten years lost his job in layoffs by company
My simple question to government. Neither does he fall in group of freebies ( which he funded for government to get votes). Neither he falls in government job which is more or less guaranteed nor for big farmers enjoying many subsidies and MSP
Doesn’t he deserve some social security for few months till he gets a new job? What did he get back for taxes paid for his personal life?
Time to incorporate social security for salaried class the most honest tax payers
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We are forced to buy 35K per Vial by taking loan as there is no reply. Please Look into the request.
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My friend's father recently had nasal surgery for mucormycosis and he needed Amphotret inj for the next 2 weeks. We are currently in short of injections and need to provide it today. We already sent an email request few days back but still didn't get any info @KTRTRS#COVID19
@ZoomCarIndia Zoomcar is a fraud company. Don’t ever book a car or pay them for anything. I guess they are syphoning from customers as much as they can before declaring bankruptcy.
I have 30k refunds pending for over 3 months. Search for #ZoomCarRefundScam to know the scale of this scam.
@ZoomCarIndia Zoomcar is a fraud company. Don’t ever book a car or pay them for anything. I guess they are syphoning from customers as much as they can before declaring bankruptcy.
I have 30k refunds pending for over 3 months. Search for #ZoomCarRefundScam to know the scale of this scam.