Alastair cook

Indian, UR , Unapologetic Hindu, Patriotic, Engineer

[Sagar @sagarcasm]

Me watching Bhuvneshwar Kumar with purple cap

[Alastair cook @MacMohanLine]

Article no. EI759411075IN has been stuck at Satna ICH for past 4 days. Please expedite its delivery. @IndiaPostOffice

[Alastair cook @MacMohanLine]

@IndiaPostOffice @pib_comm @DARPG_GoI
My parcel (EI759411075IN) booked on 7th april at jabalpur city post office reached satna on 8th, since then its missing/no update. Please help me find it. Its important for me. Here attaching the remark on my complaint.

[Alastair cook @MacMohanLine]

@IndiaPostOffice @IndiaPostOffice @pib_comm please don’t lost my parcel, and later suggest me to collect penny compensation, because no amount of compensation can justify its worthiness to me.

[Alastair cook @MacMohanLine]

My Speed Post article (EI759411075IN) has been stuck at Jabalpur ICH for the past 3 days. Expected delivery was within 2–3 days, but it’s delayed. Kindly look into this. Speed post is not justifying its name. @IndiaPostOffice @pib_comm

[Alastair cook @MacMohanLine]

@IndiaPostOffice Hello @IndiaPostOffice , please tell me where is my parcel (EI759411075IN). It is very important for me. India post officials made joke of speed post. I am really tired of this system, zero accountability.

[Alastair cook @MacMohanLine]

@IndiaPostOffice is cheaper because it provide cheap services.

I urge govt and pvt entities please send important documents and parcel through private couriers.🙏🏻

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

These entitled freeloaders were warned weeks before the war broke out to leave, but they didn’t.

Then the moment the war started, it was “help, help.” Now the Indian Embassy is escorting them out of Tehran on arrangements made by the embassy, essentially at the taxpayer’s expense.

Soon they’ll be flown back, and once they reach here, some will complain that they didn’t get proper meals or Wi-Fi on the bus, while others will demand to be dropped at their homes.

The govt should bill them for the resources spent and the risks taken to evacuate them. Otherwise, this cycle of entitlement will continue forever.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Finding flaws in Yogi Adityanath’s governance has become so difficult for his detractors that they always rely on twisting his words to manufacture controversy and push a "rift narrative".

Yogi’s remark on Delhi’s air pollution was essentially a civic caution, not a political statement.

He was making a simple point: keep Gorakhpur clean and environmentally balanced so it doesn’t end up like Delhi. Delhi’s air quality crisis is no secret; it is there for everyone to see and learn from, and it was cited as a warning, not to target any particular govt, though I personally believe he should have, the govt of so-called educated IITian who held power for ten years and did absolutely nothing about it.

What he stressed was people’s behaviour and collective responsibility: reducing single-use plastic, maintaining cleanliness, and ensuring development does not come at the cost of environmental health.

Delhi’s pollution is a well-known reality, caused by a decade of administrative failure marked by excuses, theatrics, and zero long-term planning, along with poor civic behaviour. Everyone should learn from Delhi, what went wrong and how it can be avoided elsewhere. This was Yogi’s message: learn from existing urban failures instead of repeating them, a point that got lost in needless politicisation.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Abuse me all you want, but Yogi should not pay for the Centre’s blunders. Don’t scapegoat the one CM who has actually tried to impose order on a chronically misgoverned state.

Yogi is among the rare CMs running a large, complex state toward development, with no appeasement, no reckless freebie culture, and zero tolerance toward extremism and organised crime. While other states proudly market cash doles and monthly handouts as “development models,” even the so-called DMK development model runs Ladli Behna–type cash schemes, yet UP has resisted that temptation so far. What the future holds, I don’t know. Pressure politics exists, especially if Akhilesh starts dangling promises, but till now, UP has held the line.

Yes, democracy forces you to perform a few symbolic rituals you may personally dislike. That’s the price of electoral politics. But symbolism is not governance, and optics are not law and order.

If Yogi goes and Akhilesh returns, UP regresses straight back ten years: an era where the state bent before Azam Khan, Mukhtar Ansari, and Atiq Ahmed were power centres, organised crime thrived, police stations were ornamental, and appeasement was state policy. Don't let it happen.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

India has scripted history.

Biochemistry, the crème de la crème of the sciences, whose discoveries are adorned with 56 Nobel Prizes, whose portals are illuminated by Indian giants like Khorana and Subbarow, has today officially welcomed a student who scored minus 8 out of 800.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Driving on Indian roads is very easy; you just have to be careful of:

1. Dogs.
2. Cattle.
3. Children.
4. Potholes.
5. Open ditches, sewer lines, manholes.
6. Non-standard speed breakers.
7. Wrong-side drivers.
8. Pedestrians crossing abruptly.
9. Someone suddenly emerging from a divider cut.

10. Drivers abruptly changing lanes.
11. Turning without indicators.
12. Thar, Scorpio, Fortuner, buses, trucks, tractors, irrespective of their driving methods.

13. E-rickshaws and auto-rickshaws stopping/turning anywhere, anytime.
14. Vehicles overtaking from the left.
15. Parked vehicles opening doors without warning.

16. Loose gravel dumped without warning.
17. Temporary barricades placed suddenly in the middle of the road.
18. Uneven resurfacing.
19. VIP vehicles honking behind.
20. Unmarked unfinished flyovers.

That's it.

[खुचरेंप @khuchrep]

Booked a train ticket via IRCTC for ₹321 (Kanpur → Delhi).

Ticket remained Waitlisted (WL 10) and got auto-cancelled.

Facts: • Ticket fare: ₹290
• IRCTC charges deducted
• Refund received: ₹250
• ₹60 deducted without any service

My questions: • Why is IRCTC charging fees when the ticket is not confirmed?

What exact rule allows deduction of ₹60 for a cancelled waitlisted ticket?

• How is this fair to passengers?
Passengers deserve transparent rules and full refunds when no service is provided.

@IRCTCofficial @RailMinIndia
@AshwiniVaishnaw

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

He is Suraj Bhaskar.

He wanted to become a doctor. Realising it was not possible through the normal route, he cut off part of his own leg to become eligible under the disability quota.

Since a police investigation report is required for a disability certificate, he informed the police that he had been attacked by unknown assailants who beat him and cut off his foot.

During the investigation, the police checked his phone and found his girlfriend’s contact. She was summoned and told the police that he had been trying to obtain a fake disability quota certificate by bribing officials even before the incident.

The police later discovered evidence, including anesthesia syringes and surgical tools that were used to cut off his own foot.

What a waste! He should have consulted someone UPSC-qualified on how to get a fake disability certificate instead!

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

If a dalit neighbour has a personal dispute with you, all it takes is a complaint alleging that you used a caste-based slur to fix you.

There is no requirement for a preliminary inquiry. The police can register the case and arrest you immediately, after which you are produced before a court and only then allowed to apply for bail.

Even if there is no evidence and the case eventually collapses, the damage is already done. You may be arrested from your home, face social stigma, cause severe trauma to your family, risk job loss, spend days in custody, pay legal fees, and deal with endless procedural hardships, sometimes even bail becomes uncertain, depending on the court’s discretion (read bribe).

In such situations, acquittal does not undo the punishment. The punishment lies in the process itself. A man in UP stayed more than two decades in jail for a false compliant.

This is the power the Atrocities Act carries in its present form. A law that offers no effective safeguards against misuse is an atrocity itself against the innocent. This is not an ideological argument, it is simple logic. Yet no one is willing to address it openly, because in a democracy, questioning such laws is politically dangerous.

And it could have ended there. But now, a miniature version of the same approach has entered universities through the UGC equity regulations, extending the same logic into academic spaces.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

He is the world no. 3 badminton player, expressing air pollution as the reason for withdrawing from the Indian Open at Delhi.

Fine. You can’t fix pollution overnight. But what’s the compulsion to host the Indian Open in Delhi in January, when pollution is at its peak? India has many non-northern cities that are comparatively cleaner and have far better air quality, where such tournaments could easily be organised. So why this obsession with Delhi?

Another embarrassment, especially after yet another player raised concerns about hygiene and pollution yesterday.

@BAI_Media, headed by @himantabiswa, needs to explain this. And if there’s no reasonable answer, we might as well label these players as Soros agents trying to internally sabotage sports superpower India.

[Garvit Sethi @garvit_sethii]

Dear @JioCare ,
My plan ends on 17th Jan. Today is 13th Jan.

Since morning:
• You’ve already made 3 phone calls to me.
• And on top of that, every call I make is hijacked first by your recorded lecture
“Aapka recharge jald hi samapt hone wala hai… please recharge now” both in Hindi AND English.

I KNOW.
I WILL RECHARGE.

Why the hell am I being mentally spammed 3 days in advance, on every single call?

Dear @TRAI is this how customer experience is supposed to work?
Remind once. Not bully people all day.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Every day, mainstream media reports 2–3 sarkari karmcharis being caught red-handed in corruption. Yet such is the junoon for desh seva that the rest refuse to learn any lesson and are willing to risk it all.

Today, the CBI caught Ankit Aggarwal, a Central GST Superintendent, red-handed while accepting a bribe of ₹5 lakh. Ankit ji had conducted an audit of the complainant’s company. The complainant alleged that Ankit ji threatened to fabricate a tax demand of ₹98 lakh against his firm and demanded a bribe of ₹20 lakh to “settle” the matter. After negotiations, Ankit ji was gracious to reduce it to ₹17 lakh, but the complainant was greedy enough not to accept the offer and instead approached the CBI. A trap was laid, and the accused was caught red-handed.

A very heavy price has been paid by Ankit ji for desh seva, but I’m sure he won’t lose heart. In a few days, he’ll be out on bail and will once again devote himself wholeheartedly to the noble cause of serving the nation.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Chaos and vandalism at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium because fans who paid thousands of rupees for tickets to take a selfie with him couldn’t even see him. During his 20-minute stay, he was surrounded exclusively by VIPs.

I say, well deserved. Don’t you know that whenever a foreign celebrity comes to India, the first right to selfies and greetings belongs to the families of politicians, bureaucrats, cops, actors, businessmen, and the like? You know this, yet you still paid ₹15,000 for a ticket and went to become part of the crowd. Why? You got precisely what you signed up for.