KM

Opinions expressed are mine.

[KM @_chynkm]

There's no such thing as a FREE lunch. Everything has a COST.

[DriveSmart🛡️ @DriveSmart_IN]

Buying vegetables with kid and kid noticed a small electric ⚡ pickup truck 🛻 going so fast and shaking !!

Kid : what ! He's going so fast on such small wheels !
Me : 😁
Kid : Japan has earthquakes 🛘, volcano 🌋, tsunami risks but feels safe,we don't have any such risks and feels very unsafe on roads 🫣
Me : This is what happens when we drive a lot without risk awareness. We start to believe that it's ok to drive as it never happened in the past and it won't happen again too !

That's why I always ask you to wear a helmet while cycling,skating as once you ride without them,you would believe that ,it's not necessary!
Kid : Understood

[Abhimanyu Kulkarni @abhi_kulkarni85]

Indians are surviving on luck more than road discipline.

In this video, two women on a scooter choose to stop on the wrong side, right in front of a bus that is about to move. Today they were lucky because the bus driver was alert. But luck eventually runs out. One day they will meet someone who isn’t able to react in time, and that is when such reckless behaviour turns into a fatal accident.

People don’t realise that heavy vehicles have blind spots and need more distance to stop. Unless traffic police start strict enforcement with heavy fines and licence suspensions for such reckless behaviour, these near misses will keep turning into tragedies.
@motordave2 @DriveSmart_IN

[Major Surendra Poonia @MajorPoonia]

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists openly attended Shoaib Akhtar’s brother Shahid Akhtar’s funeral. PMML’s Inam Rehman & other LeT terrorists were present…video officially released by LeT/PMML itself.
Where are the ‘keep sports & terrorism separate’ champions now ? Your silence is deafening.
@BCCI

[KM @_chynkm]

I sincerely hope that you write about its success in 2047

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

₹96.96 trillion. That's where Uttar Pradesh wants its agriculture sector to reach by 2047, up from about ₹7.41 trillion today.

It's an ambitious target, but what I found encouraging is that it doesn't seem to be based on a sudden announcement. Over the past few years, UP seen a steady push towards farm mechanisation, digital services for farmers, crop diversification, and better welfare coverage. Today's roadmap feels like an attempt to bring all those efforts under one long-term vision.

The plan talks about increasing agricultural mechanisation to 75%, expanding the use of AI, drones, IoT and precision farming, creating digital agriculture ecosystems across districts, and shifting the focus from simply producing more crops to adding value and boosting exports. Of course, only time will tell how much of it is achieved, but it's refreshing to see a government thinking beyond the next election cycle. If implemented sincerely, this could go a long way in improving farmers' incomes and strengthening Uttar Pradesh's agricultural economy.

#KrishiSeSammriddhi

[KM @_chynkm]

Pin code

[KM @_chynkm]

Tripunithura

[KM @_chynkm]

This is the reason

https://t.co/Qlq369NibX

[SriSathya @sathyashrii]

Justice Denied Since 1988 - When will the system wake up? 😔

A heartbreaking video from Maihar, Madhya Pradesh, has left social media users emotional and angry. Mr. Tripathi, an elderly man, claims he has been fighting since 1988 against the alleged illegal encroachment of his land.

For nearly 38 years, he says he has been running from one government office to another, yet his case remains unresolved.

The incident has reignited concerns about corruption, bureaucratic delays, and the struggles faced by common citizens in India's justice system.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Days shut in a year:

Hospital: 0
Border post: 0
Police station: 0
High court: 155
Supreme court: 159

[KM @_chynkm]

Even if five trains were operated daily from Trivandrum/Ernakulam to Bengaluru, every train would still run at full capacity, including the general compartments.

Authorities overlook this, else the bus lobby will be bankrupt.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

I still don't understand why we need to have pre scheduled trains for peak routes like Mumbai Ahmedabad, Chennai Bengaluru, Chennai Coimbatore etc.

You know there's demand. You know there are many small but crucial stations en route a lot of people want to get on and get off

So Why do we need to go thru that monstrosity of a site called IRCTC, battle the buggy site to look up trains, use more attempts than Robert Bruce's spider to book that elusive ticket and then reach the station on a specific time, even when we are traveling for a relatively small distance like Chennai Katpadi or Mumbai Surat?

Why can't the railways run one Vande Bharat an hour on these routes and allow people to simply go and board it like a local train?

[Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account @Calvinn_Hobbes]

“I just choose to ignore it.” Respect, honestly.
#CalvinandHobbes #KidLogic

[Shubham Mishra @brahma_4u]

India trains the engineer.

America files the patents.
Gurtej Sandhu was raised in Amritsar and trained at IIT Delhi.

He now holds 1,299 US patents at Micron, Edison topped out at 1,093.

Sandhu is the 7th most prolific inventor in American history.

His titanium nitride deposition work is why every DRAM cell in your phone and every GPU training a foundation model actually holds charge.

Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix own 95% of global DRAM.

None of them are Indian.

We export the inventor.

We import the chip.

[KM @_chynkm]

True

[KM @_chynkm]

This is something the majority of the car drivers need to put up in India.

PATIENCE and being aware of such Indian driving habits is necessary to survive the roads

[Sunita Sayammagaru 🇮🇳🇬🇧 @drsunita02]

I am in my small car. I give left indicator and am turning left into the side road.

There is a 2 wheeler on my left side. He has already seen my indicator and has also noticed that I have slowed down and am turning.

Yet, he cuts straight across. He wants to go straight.

Majority of times in these scenarios, the 2 wheelers come in the blind spot of the car driver. We can't see the 2 wheeler.

How can the 2 wheeler assume that I know that he wants to go straight?

What goes in the mind of the 2 wheeler?

Not always the 4 wheeler driver is at fault. So many times, 2 wheeler guys are at fault and drive rashly.

#Safedriving

[KM @_chynkm]

The one thing that arrives without ordering it

PROBLEMS

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

When Airman First Class Spencer Stone of the USAF, his classmates Alek Skarlatos of the US Army and Anthony Sadler, decided to board the Thalys Train from Amsterdam to Paris with on Aug 21 2015, little did they know that they were going to create history with their courage and bravery

Because half way thru that journey, a crazy terrorist decided to do his own little jihad and wanted to kill the 554 passengers on that day

The first guy who stopped them, was shot by this terrorist. Hearing this noise, Stone and Skarlatos with their military instinct flung into action.

Stone decided to restrain him. But the crazy terrorist took out his knife and cut him in his neck, head and hand. He nearly severed his finger too.

But Stone didn't let go. He held on to the terrorist while Skarlatos disarmed him. But Stone was not done yet

He went to the guy who was first shot by the terrorist, held his hand in his vein to stop the bleeding and held him till the train stopped and help arrived.

The actions of Stone and Skarlatos saved the lives of more than 500 people that day.

The French awarded them their highest honor.

The US Air Force promoted Stone to Sargeant and gave him the rare Airman medal. They even gave him the Purple Heart, the medal you get for being wounded on duty

Meanwhile Skarlatos recieved the Army commendation medal.

A great honour rightfully given by a grateful nation

Now contrast this with what happened to the parents of Capt Majinder Singh Bhinder.

He was a 26 year old Indian army captain who had gone to watch the movie Border with his wife and kid at Upahar Cinema on that fateful June 13 1997 evening

Thanks to the criminal negligence of corporate terrorists, or Ansals who owned that theatre, it caught fire trapping more than 300 people.

With smoke filling up the theatre and people suffocating, with scant regard to his and his family's safety, Capt Bhinder took charge of rescue operations inside the theatre.

He guided people to safety and helped evacuate more than 150 civilians. But before he could get out the flames consumed him and his whole family. .

This was as brave an act as what was shown by Sgt Stone and Skarlatos.

But how did we treat him?

When his father applied for his disability pension, the babus of MoD rejected it saying Capt Bhinder had not died in war. He was merely a civilian who was on leave, watching a movie when he died.

Therefore he was not eligible for the pension and benefits entitled to soldiers making the supreme sacrifice.

For the mandarins of the defence ministry the fact that he saved over 150 lives held no meaning. The definition as specified in the army rule book was all that mattered.

Even the army clarified that he was in service as "Army people are never off duty". But the great babus in India ignored it.

It took a seven year legal fight and a judgement by the Delhi High Court to restore what was his right

This is how we treated a civilian hero

We may praise our army and admire the men, but as shown in the case of Major Shaitan Singh, Capt Anuj Nayyar and Capt Bhinder, our Bereaucracy treats them as badly as they treat us.

This is not how a grateful nation treats its soldiers, especially the ones who are heroes outside the battlefield

[Elite Predators @elitepredatorss]

Chiefs of all CAPFs -BSF, CISF, CRPF, SSB, ITBP in one place!

Two facts about this situation:

First, this is unprecedented. I’m surprised how the roof of that building is holding up with such huge egos under one roof.

Second, you are looking at the men who can clean up some really dirty messes within months, messes that pose an immediate threat to national sovereignty.

Not just security, but sovereignty.

God bless the forces.

[KM @_chynkm]

CALM

[KM @_chynkm]

The best engineers do not hate hard problems.

They hate preventable problems that management keeps normalizing.

[KM @_chynkm]

🙏

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Oracle fired 12,000 of its Indian workforce and is expected to sack more.

Another reminder of how fragile stability is in the private sector. One secures employment, income begins to flow, long-term plans take shape, home, car, loans, EMIs. And then, a single decision by the corporate to “rationalize” or “downsize,” and everything collapses overnight.

Unless you quickly re-enter the job market, fixed liabilities don’t pause; they compound stress and can upend an otherwise steady life.

While you earn, you must pay taxes. The moment you lose your job, you’re on your own. In fact, you even have to pay tax on the severance also.

Maybe it’s time to introduce reforms, such as mandating severance pay ranging from three months to one year based on an employee’s tenure, as is the norm in the West; allowing EMI pauses for a 3-6 months; and providing a time-bound monthly allowance from the govt for involuntary job losses.

If Ladla/Ladlis can get free money, free ration, free water, and electricity, without paying any income tax, why not support a worker who has been paying taxes and contributing?

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name was Manjunath Shanmugam.

He was an IIM Lucknow graduate.

He got a job with Indian Oil Corporation as a sales officer.

His territory was Uttar Pradesh.

He found that petrol pump dealers were adulterating fuel and cheating customers.

He reported it. He sealed the pumps.

On November 19 2005 a petrol pump owner shot him dead outside his office.

He was 27 years old.

The killers were convicted. Sentenced to life imprisonment.

His parents did not get compensation for 15 years.

His college created the Manjunath Shanmugam Trust in his name to fight corruption.

Some men die because they refused to look the other way.

India forgets them too quickly.