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@Psps69919765@nirupamakotru Sirji, on the other hand it is you who is moaning.
She just reported a factual situation.
Ghettoisation is a threat to harmony. Hope the Gujarat Model does not prevail in Malabar Hill.
@Psps69919765@nirupamakotru Paresh bhai..... Food customs cannot be an adjustment.
It is not a preference either.
It is just like language.
It is culture.
Market will find its way. But the unwritten Maharaj influenced tactics is what is resented.
@devinamehra@nirupamakotru They semi-killed the fun of hill-stations like Mahabaleshwar and Matheran.
The few non-veg resorts n restaurants are charging exorbitantly, and the veg. one are cheaper.
Gatiyaisation of tourist places is quite a let down for the majority of non - veggies.
Their religion is an ammonite fossil?? Religious people should donate their brain to science, they don't use it anyway, it might help scientists study the "religious blind spot"
A Life That Served a Purpose
In a world chasing fleeting applause, some souls choose the long, quiet road of service. Today, welfare economist Jean Drèze has been honoured with a global award for his profound research on poverty and inequality in India.
Born in Belgium, he made India his home and its people his purpose. With a scholar’s rigour and a revolutionary’s heart, he stood beside the forgotten—documenting their struggles, amplifying their voices, and shaping policies that reached millions.
His tireless advocacy helped birth two landmark legislations that still stand as lifelines: the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which offered dignity through work to the rural poor, and the National Food Security Act, which sought to ensure no one sleeps hungry in a land of plenty.
This is not just an award. It is recognition of a life lived in radical empathy. Of choosing dusty villages over ivory towers. Of measuring success not in citations or comfort, but in the quiet lifting of human suffering.
Jean Drèze reminds us that the highest calling is to use one’s intellect, privilege, and time in the service of those who have the least.
In an age of cynicism, his journey is a living ode:
To knowledge that heals. To scholarship that serves. To a life that mattered.
Congratulations and Thank You Professor Drèze.
India is better because you walked among us.
May your example inspire a new generation to stop performing compassion and start practising it—with depth, persistence, and love.
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यह वीडियो टूरिज्म के नाम पर उच्च हिमालय के पारिस्थिकी तंत्र से हो रहे खिलवाड़ का बड़ा नमूना है।मनाली लेह हाईवे के बीच 16,040 फीट पर स्थित बारालाचा दर्रा का यह हाल है। पर्यटकों द्वारा छोड़े जाने वाले कचरे प्लास्टिक, बोतलें और कचरे के ढेर लगे पड़े हैं। सरकारों का काम पर्यटन के नाम पर राजस्व उगाही के साथ उस क्षेत्र का संरक्षित भी करना होता है। चूँकि टूरिस्ट तो नहीं सुधरेंगे, ऐसे में सरकार को यहाँ प्लास्टिक कचरा निस्तारण की सुविधा करनी पड़ेगी।
@SamirKhan240109@rushikesh_agre_ It has never been so humid & hot during this time. At least I can't recall.
Is it due of weak monsoon winds, or is it that we r facing the cumulative effects of large scale uncontrolled development, ironically though, under the Development Control regime.
Kya vidambana he yeh?