Here’s the story of Ranjish. 💔
He was 38, a bus conductor. He married the girl he loved and had a daughter.
Two years later, his wife left them both and moved to the Gulf. There she found another man, fell in love, and abandoned Ranjish and her daughter.
Ranjish raised his daughter alone for 8 years, pouring every drop of his love and strength into her.
Then his ex-wife filed a case. He fought desperately for the child he had brought up with his own hands. But the court sent the daughter to her mother and “stepfather.”
He lost his wife. Then the system took his daughter too.
Completely broken, Ranjish took his own life.
Apparently, men seem to have no rights in this society. No one sees their pain, their struggles, their silent battles.
Pranamam Ranjish 💐
Unsolicited advice on anyone planning to buy a house in Pune / PCMC.
Get a map of 2010 or pre 2010 Pune / PCMC and check the area under the municipal corporation limits. And buy a house only inside that perimeter. The reason being Pune's real estate boom was rapid and unplanned bcz of the growth of IT parks and quality of life it offers. All these areas Hinjewadi, Kharadi, Wagholi, Keshav Nagar, Mundhwa, Undri Pisoli, NIBM, Punawale, Tathawade, Ravet were barren lands / farms just 20-25 yrs ago. There are no water connections, u have to rely on Tankers, the service roads are in a mess, u will spend hours in traffic daily to get to your home because roads weren't planned keeping such growth in the mind. Most of these projects are built on nalas and springs, be ready to have water logged in ur society for days. And because of rampant construction and unauthorised RMC plants its always polluted and dusty. Its borderline unlivable.
You want the young officer to sacrifice his life for the love of the Nation, but you don’t want him to express his love for his fiancée.
In the Army we say ‘Youngster nahi karega, toh kaun karega’.
If you can not find a fault in his professional capabilities, don’t do this nuktachini for such a pure gesture of love and belonging.
Military equipment has been on display during many ‘Know your Army’ exhibitions around the country. The students and non military personnel have clicked pics with it showing pride and love for the Army. So, please don’t bring in the national security angle into this.
Let the young soldier do his national duty with pride and honour 👍
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
I met an administrator recently and this was my first question - why don't we fine people who litter or spit on roads?
He told me fines won't and cannot work in this country. I asked him why, he gave me three reasons.
1. People are dheet. (stubborn). You fine them 200₹ or 500₹ or 5000₹ they will just deny to pay. Straight on your face. There is nothing you will be able to do. You think you can jail them for this? Jails are already full. You think you will do some lathi work? They will gather the entire local area or village on you. Would someone risk his or her life for 15-30k salary? I don't think so
2. Local volunteers and administration are people of people around. That traffic police guy you see on road is a distant family member or a friend of the guy who is breaking the signal or painting the footpath red. No one fines their own family members. If not family member, same religion or caste also plays a role here.
3. We are overloaded and there is too much of traffic and crowd everywhere. You cannot possibly stop every bike riding on footpath because that will cause huge traffic jam during peak hours. You cannot stop every car before zebra crossing. You cannot stop two people in a religious place of worship to maintain queue.
The only way to solve this problem is to educate the entire generation to generation. Or maybe some large revolution in the entire country like from tonight 8pm every truck will drive in 3rd lane. Every thar owner will have to go under test, every creta owner will have to change their horn and headlight.
5 years old - Dad knows everything!
7 years old - Dad knows.
10 years old - Maybe dad doesn’t know?!
12 years old - Dad doesn’t know.
14 years old - Dads gone crazy!
16 years old - Can’t take dad seriously.
18 years old - What does dad know?!
22 years old - Dads talking rubbish!
24 years old - I know more than dad!
26 years old - Dad seems to know some things after all.
30 years old - Think I should ask dad about this?!
40 years old - It’s amazing how dad went through all this!
45 years old - Dads been right all along.
50 years old - If dad was here, I could have learned a lot from him.
Your father is the only man who's proud to see you doing better than him.
A 45°C day in Phoenix, US, — functionally the hottest major city in the developed world — and a 45°C day in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, are arithmetically identical. But they are not the same event.
Heat stress is what happens when the human body, in a specific climate, doing a specific kind of work, in a specific kind of building, can no longer dissipate the heat it produces.
Simply put, the human body cools through four channels: convection (air moving over skin), radiation (giving off heat to cooler surroundings), conduction (touching cooler surfaces), and evaporation (sweat). When ambient air is hotter than core body temperature of around 37°C, the first three reverse and the body starts absorbing heat from its surroundings. Sweat becomes the only channel left. And sweat only works when the air can absorb the moisture.
This is why scientists measure heat stress with three metrics, not raw temperature:
Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) – It combines temperature, humidity, wind, and radiant heat. It is the standard for setting safe limits in outdoor labour, sport, and military operations.
Heat Index – It is the “feels-like” temperature, which factors humidity into perceived heat. This is what your weather app shows.
Wet Bulb Temperature (WBT) – It is the most critical. It is the lowest temperature achievable by evaporative cooling. The widely cited 35°C wet bulb threshold is the theoretical survivability limit for a healthy adult in shade with unlimited water. Beyond it, the body cannot cool itself, regardless of acclimatisation.
Two cities can both hit 45°C and have completely different heat stress signatures.
Heat stress is not a temperature. India needs to learn that (as well as most other countries)
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Every single one of the points are a real problem.
But your understanding is broken, let me explain. :)
Norway has 55 lakh people. Total. That’s smaller than the population of Pune. Their entire country has fewer citizens than India’s 25 smallest cities individually. Norway also has 1.2 trillion dollars in sovereign wealth from oil reserves, accumulated over 50 years.
They have $250,000 per citizen sitting in the fund. India has roughly $3,400 per citizen in forex reserves.
Norway is what you get when a small population sits on top of one of the largest per-capita oil discoveries in human history.
The right comparison is other low-income, high-population, post-colonial democracies. Brazil. Indonesia. Nigeria. Bangladesh. Pakistan. Egypt. Mexico. South Africa. Vietnam. Philippines.
Compare on these and India isn’t doing badly. It’s doing better than most.
UPI is the world’s largest real-time payments system.
Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric identity system.
We absorbed the global pandemic, the Ukraine war, the West Asia conflict, Trump’s tariffs, the Iran war, and a rupee fall without going into recession.
Most of those countries above did. Pakistan went to the IMF 24 times. Sri Lanka collapsed. Bangladesh is unstable. Egypt needed emergency Gulf bailouts. Argentina has 60% inflation. We stayed standing.
India is the only country in human history to add a trillion dollars of GDP every 18 months. We added our first trillion in 2007. Our second in 2017. Our third in 2024. Our fourth coming in 2026.
The problems you mentioned exist in every large, low-income, high-density country on earth.
Mexico City’s pollution is worse than Delhi’s.
Manila’s traffic is worse than Mumbai’s.
Lagos has worse road quality than Delhi.
Jakarta has worse air than Delhi.
Cairo has worse adulteration.
Karachi has more corruption.
Hanoi has higher pollution.
None of these countries are run by Modi. They’re all dealing with the same impossible math.
Industrialising a country of 145 crore people during a global energy transition, with limited natural resources, while keeping democracy intact, is the single hardest governance challenge in human history.
> China did it without democracy.
> South Korea did it with a population one-tenth our size.
> Japan did it with no major religious or linguistic diversity.
> Singapore did it with 50 lakh people total.
Nobody has done it at India’s scale, with our diversity, in democratic conditions.
So when someone asks “why hasn’t Modi built one city like Norway,” the answer is because building one Norway requires not having 144.5 crore other Indians to look after.
Her name is Rita Kaushik.
She was the Principal Family Court Judge in Jaunpur Uttar Pradesh.
In December 2024 Atul Subhash named her in his 81 minute video and 24 page suicide note.
He alleged she demanded Rs 5 lakh bribe for a favourable verdict in his case.
He alleged a court clerk demanded Rs 3 lakh just to schedule hearing dates.
When he refused the alimony order came. Rs 80,000 per month.
Atul Subhash died on December 9 2024.
No FIR was filed against Rita Kaushik.
No inquiry was ordered.
On June 6 2025 she was promoted to District Judge.
Atul Subhash’s case is adjourned to November 2026.
The accused in his death are on bail.
The judge he named is now a District Judge.
This is the system Indian men are fighting.
Nepal banned student politics as soon as the new govt took over. An excellent decision because:
1. It distracts students from their primary purpose. Instead of studying, they get involved in protests, campaigns, and power struggles.
2. At a young age, students are rebellious without purpose and more vulnerable to influence, and political parties exploit these traits and use campuses to push their own agendas, limiting independent thinking.
3. Student politics frequently leads to clashes, violence, and unrest, turning educational institutions into conflict zones rather than safe learning spaces.
4. It politicizes the functioning of colleges, affecting merit-based decisions in admissions and administration. Most importantly, it wastes valuable time that could be spent building skills and careers, especially since very few students actually enter politics later.
The only argument in favor of student politics is that isne desh ko Shri falana, Shri dhimkana jaise mahaan leaders diye hain. Arre aise ki taise mahaan leaders ki. Those who have interest and capability in politics will rise irrespective of whether student politics exists or not.
India too should seriously consider banning it. Few things are as unproductive, nuisance-creating, taxpayer money–consuming, and low-IQ-driven as student politics.
महाराष्ट्रावर विकासाचा प्रकाश पाडण्याच्या ध्यासाने रोज सूर्योदयापूर्वीच उगणारा आमचा तेजस्वी #सूर्य अस्ताला गेला! या सूर्याला अखेरचा निरोप देण्यासाठी आणि पवार कुटुंबाला आधार देण्यासाठी आज बारामतीत राज्य आणि देशभरातून आलेले मा. अजितदादांवर प्रेम करणारे सर्वपक्षीय नेते, पदाधिकारी, कार्यकर्ते आणि सामान्य माणसं यांचं ऋण पवार कुटुंब कदापि विसरणार नाही..!
माझे मित्र आणि राज्याचे उपमुख्यमंत्री अजित पवार यांचं निधन झालं. महाराष्ट्राच्या राजकारणाने एक उमदा नेता गमावला.
अजित पवार यांचा आणि माझा राजकारणातला प्रवेश हा काहीसा एकाच काळातील, अर्थात आमचा परिचय हा बराच नंतरचा. पण राजकारणावर कमालीचं प्रेम या एका गुणावर अजित पवारांनी महाराष्ट्राच्या राजकारणात खूप मोठी झेप घेतली. अजित पवार हे पवार साहेबांच्या मुशीत जरी तयार झालेले नेते असले, तरी त्यांनी नंतर स्वतःची स्वतंत्र ओळख निर्माण केली. आणि ही ओळख महाराष्ट्राच्या कानाकोपऱ्यात ठसवली.
१९९० च्या दशकांत महाराष्ट्रात शहरीकरणाने वेग पकडला. ग्रामीण भाग अर्धशहरीपणाकडे झुकू लागला, तरी तिथल्या राजकारणाचा बाज हा ग्रामीणच होता, जरी तिथल्या प्रश्नांचं स्वरूप हे काहीसं शहरी होत चाललं असलं तरी. या पद्धतीच्या राजकारणाचा पूर्ण अंदाज आणि ते उत्तम पद्धतीने कसं हाताळायचं याचं कसब अजित पवारांकडे होतं. पिंपरी चिंचवड आणि बारामती ही त्याची दोन उत्तम उदाहरणं. पिंपरी चिंचवड असेल की बारामती असेल अजित दादांनी या भागांचा कायापालट केला हे त्यांचे राजकीय विरोधक पण मान्य करतील.
प्रशासनावर अचूक पकड आणि एखाद्या फाईलीचा गुंता सोडवताना त्याची गाठ नक्की कुठून सोडवायची याचं अचूक ज्ञान असलेला हा नेता होता. प्रशासन हे सत्ताधाऱ्यांच्या पेक्षा वरचढ होण्याच्या काळात असा नेता महाराष्ट्राने गमावणं हे अतिशय दुर्दैवी आहे.
अजित पवार हे कमालीचे स्पष्टवक्ते होते. काम होणार नसेल तर ते तोंडावर सांगायचं आणि होणार असेल तर त्यासाठी ते सगळी शक्ती लावायचे. आश्वासनं देऊन स्वतः भोवती माणसांचा पिंगा घालायचा हा त्यांचा स्वभाव नव्हता. राजकारणात सडेतोडपणाची आणि स्पष्टवक्तेपणाची किंमत मोजावी लागते, त्याचा अनुभव मला पण आहे आणि त्यामुळे ती अजित पवारांना पण किती मोजायला लागली असेल याचा अंदाज करता येतो.
अजित पवारांच मला आवडणारं अजून एक वैशिट्य म्हणजे ते अजिबात जातीय नव्हते आणि त्यांच्या राजकरणात जातीपातीला अजिबात स्थान नव्हतं. सध्याच्या राजकारणात जातपात न मानता राजकारण करण्याचं धारिष्ट्य दाखवणारेच नेते कमी उरलेत, त्यात अजित पवार हे अग्रणी होते हे नक्की.
राजकारणातला विरोध हा राजकीय असतो, तो व्यक्तिगत नसतो. त्यामुळे एकमेकांवरची जहरी टीका ही व्यक्तिगत घ्यायची नसते, हे भान असलेले नेते महाराष्ट्रात कमी होत चालले आहेत. राजकारणातले दिलदार विरोधक एका मागे एक जाणे हे महाराष्ट्राच्या उमद्या राजकारणाचं मोठं नुकसान आहे.
मी आणि माझं कुटुंबीय पवार कुटुंबियांच्या दुःखात सहभागी आहोत. महाराष्ट्र नवनिर्माण सेनेतर्फे अजित पवारांना भावपुर्ण श्रद्धांजली.
राज ठाकरे ।
A 4-lane flyover in Mira-Bhayandar suddenly narrows into just 2 lanes.
MMRDA says this is due to space constraints and future planning.
If space was the issue, a long merging ramp could have been provided instead of an abrupt 4-to-2 lane reduction. But in India, creating “modern engineering marvels” clearly takes priority over commuter safety.
Hats off! And if anyone meets with an accident here, please don’t complain, just remember, it was all for space constraints and future planning.
I am genuinely surprised why more people in India aren’t talking about this openly.
If you want clean drinking water, you have to buy a water purifier and then pay 18% GST on it.
If you want clean air, buy an air purifier again, 18% GST.
If you want 24×7 electricity, don’t rely on the grid buy an inverter.
If you want quality education for your child, forget government schools, you have to go private, where fees run into lakhs.
Government schools are not even a serious option for most middle-class families.
If you want good healthcare, you go to a private hospital and once you step inside, your bank balance starts bleeding. Many families literally take loans to survive medical emergencies.
Now leave all this aside.
Even pure food is hard to get.
Paneer is adulterated.
Dal is artificially coloured.
Street food?
Nobody knows what’s being mixed dirty hands, sweat, sometimes worse. We just hope nothing happens.
Try walking outside:
• Footpaths barely exist.
• Vehicles come from all directions.
• People don’t follow lanes.
• Potholes everywhere.
One wrong step and:
you might get hit by a vehicle, or
you might fall and injure yourself
And who takes responsibility?
No one.
Ask questions and suddenly you’re:
• called deshdrohi
• told to “go to Pakistan”
Why should expectations from my own country be compared with Pakistan?
When India plays cricket, do we compare ourselves with Kenya or Zimbabwe?
No.
We compare ourselves with Australia, England, big teams.
Then why, as a country, shouldn’t we compare ourselves with: China, the USA, Japan, Australia other large economies?
People say “India is Vishwaguru.”
If that were true:
• why are so many millionaires leaving India?
• why are top celebrities and athletes settling abroad?
• why do people with money still choose foreign education, healthcare, and passports?
Loving your country doesn’t mean staying silent.
Asking questions is not anti-national.
Expecting clean air, safe roads, honest food, affordable healthcare, and quality education is not a crime.
Patriotism is not blind worship.
Patriotism is demanding better because we believe India deserves better.
If this made you uncomfortable, maybe it needed to be said.
Share it.
Talk about it.
Silence won’t fix anything.
Dear @nitin_gadkari
We need a public website that shows:
> Which contractor built road
> Which babu approved it
> Total cost & ministers involved
> Firm responsible for maintenance
Contractors are becoming billionaires while people die on roads
Bring real accountability now!