Today after much deliberation and 5 days later I have the courage to post this out here. My family is shook
I've moved to Gurgaon about 7 months ago and always thought the road rage , mugging ,kidnapping and robbery were incidents seen on Reels .
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I will tell you something very honestly, after a lot of introspection. The entire North is disintegrating very fast. I have lived in Delhi-NCR for 30 years and have never seen such civic grief around me. Nothing is working, one feels exhausted just coming out of the gated society one lives in.
It’d be criminal to move my old father at this age because of our history. But after that, I will not live in these parts for a minute. Not a minute, I swear.
#WATCH | Delhi: On air pollution, Dr Vijay Hadda, Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine & Sleep Disorders, AIIMS, says, "These green crackers reduce emissions by only 30%. As far as the gases and particulate matter are concerned, 70% of the emissions remain the same as those from conventional firecrackers. The AQI, which used to be in three digits, has now reached four digits. If you compare Delhi's air quality with that of other cities, you will find that there is almost a 50% difference. Obviously, life is not going to be easy for the people living here. You keep inhaling this poisonous smoke, breathing it in continuously. Every minute, you breathe at least 20 times, taking in at least half a litre of air with each breath. I am honestly surprised that we are still alive. I do not think this kind of air is suitable for human survival. I am absolutely certain that as time passes, we will begin to see its effects. Many of my colleagues who are otherwise completely healthy have been calling me and saying, "I am unable to get rid of this irritation. It feels as though something is stuck in my throat." We saw patients during our last OPD session, and they have returned again today. This happens every year, but somehow, we all forget. The general public forgets, and even policies remain somewhat in a grey area, making it difficult to understand how they should be interpreted. Overall, the situation is not good at all. You should understand that you are simply inhaling poison and exhaling it..."
Diwali used to be a holiday everyone came home and celebrated together. Now most people who can afford to, head out of town if you're live in NCR. We're governed by morons, idiocy is celebrated and rewarded in New India.
Cousins and friends keep sending Diwali or fall pics from the US and Canada. Beautiful landscapes, golden light, clear skies. It is wonderful to see these images. But they also make you stop and think as it’s impossible to have that quality of image in most of India. कुछ भी कह लो। कितना भी देश प्रेम हो, सच यही है कि हम सब अंधे और मजबूर बने बैठे हैं। Corruption, pollution, civic sense की कमी। हमने गंदगी को सामान्य मान लिया है। प्रदूषण को अपनी किस्मत और भ्रष्टाचार को व्यवस्था का हिस्सा। पिछले कुछ सालों में जितनी नई गौशाला बनी उससे ज़्यादा सड़कों पे गाय है। माँ-बाप जब बच्चों की हर गलती पर पर्दा डालते हैं, तो बच्चे सुधरते नहीं, बिगड़ते हैं। देश के साथ भी हमारा व्यवहार कुछ ऐसा ही है। देशभक्ति के नाम पर हम उसकी कमियों को छिपाते हैं, सवालों से बचते हैं और हर आलोचना को देश के खिलाफ मान लेते हैं। देश प्रेम सिर्फ गर्व करने में नहीं है।
99 out of 100 most polluted cities in the World are in India right now.
Keep yourself informed on your local air quality with https://t.co/mXIZvSRAaO. Stay safe, stay aware, and take necessary precautions.
Tell us in the comments what the air quality in your area is right now.
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#India #AirPollution #DelhiPollution #Delhiair #AQI #AQIIN
Hello Ranveer, it is also prudent and ethical to disclose your interests.
Ranveer Allahbadia (BeerBiceps) is an angel investor in Temple, the health-tech and AI wearable startup founded by Deepinder Goyal. While the exact decimal percentage of Ranveer Allahbadia’s personal equity is not publicly specified in regulatory breakdowns, he participated in Temple’s landmark $54 million seed funding round as a prominent angel investor.
https://t.co/2RKg2pqJrz
At least let him launch!
At least an Indian is trying something new.
Look, innovation is finally happening in Bharat!
You trust a foreign Whoop but can't trust an Indian Temple?
Get ready for a healthy dose of desh bhakaiti ki afeem in the coming days.
I am on my 1200th km here, and I haven’t spotted a single pothole so far. How is this even humanly possible man? That too in a country where the monsoon rains are at their peak. What quality are they using? I shouldn’t have come here. More than enjoyment it is saddening me. Wtf.
Trump Towers: M3M vs Home Buyer
The viral video by a home buyer of Trump Towers against Gurgaon-based developer M3M reminded me of a case in Mumbai almost a decade ago. A spirited YouTuber Krishnaraj Rao published a video against the construction quality of Lodha New Cuffe Parade, Wadala.
I had no idea about that video. But I got to know about it after Lodha filed a INR 100 crore defamation case against the YouTuber. Today that video has 20 million views on YouTube.
Since then social media has exploded exponentially. So when Varun Suhag, the resident of Trump Towers, published his video on X showcasing that he could not access the lift due to the vindictiveness of M3M - it had to blow up. His presentation was calm and measured. He was not a man in a rage.
I expected the video to vanish soon as I assumed the familiar route in real estate: Developer reaching out to buyer, cajoling him and then settling the matter. Instead it felt that M3M had executed the dumbest crisis management campaign in the history of Indian real estate. Numerous small-time influencers published CCTV videos that showed the home buyer actually accessing the lift. It was supposed to be rebuttal. How did they get CCTV footage of an elevator in Trump Towers? It was as unsubtle as a Sandeep Vanga movie.
Seeing the backlash the videos were then deleted. Interestingly then M3M issued a statement which actually COULD have had some argument: "With over 200 workers entering the tower each day for interior fit-out works being carried out by homeowners in their apartments, floor-level lift calling was enabled only for apartments already occupied. This regulated the movement of fit-out personnel across residential floors and protected the safety and privacy of families already living in the tower."
No one probably believes them - but this is not uncommon in many projects that are in the last mile of completion. Yet this is a good education for developers across India but in particular NCR. The old form of Crisis Management in many cities was threaten and blackmail the buyer. It still works to an extent. But often it needs just one buyer to burst that power-trip. There is a new form of Crisis Management that is taking shape: Talk to the buyer. And solve the issue. M3M may have killed a big part of its brand equity but it has given an education that many of its peers can learn from. And that is - WHAT NOT TO DO.
Delhi NCR is all red this morning with AQI figures in the range of 350 - 800 across most stations on 4th November.
Stubble burning fires across Pakistan, Punjab and Haryana had drastically increased in last 24 hours. With the flow of slow north west winds, the thickest layer of #Smog plume has seen settled over #Delhi NCR and adjoining central, south west #Haryana resulting in worst morning with highest AQI so far at many stations. No major improvement expected today.
Housing prices are declining 📉 across most countries, but our Gurgaon Reel Estate experts have enlightened us that prices in India have never fallen and never will, at least not in Gurgaon.
According to them, prices here only go up 🚀 or at worst, remain stagnant.
And ya who would know better than these experts?
Considering most of those making such claims entered the business of selling builders' projects during post COVID upcycle and believe to kick-started the entire housing rally with their extraordinary expertise.
Perhaps they have some divine blessing, coz global housing upcycle also just happened to begin around the time they entered the business here and that can't be a coincidence!
24 घंटे हो गए मोदी जी। मैंने आपको चैलेंज दिया है।
आप कहते हो कि opposition देशद्रोही है। किसी भी स्टेज पे आप जगह चुनिए, डिबेट कीजिए मेरे साथ।
देशद्रोही कौन है? विदेशी फोर्सेस का कनेक्शन किसका है? और किस प्रकार का कनेक्शन है? जल्दी से जल्दी कीजिए, डरिए मत।
दोनों मिलेंगे, मीडिया होगी, देश के युवा होंगे, टेबल होगी, एक साइड आप बैठोगे, एक साइड मैं बैठूंगा। जिसको आप जज बनाना चाहते हो, बना दो। मोहन भागवत जी को बिठा दो, चलो। और फिर डिबेट करते हैं।
सवाल उठेंगे फाइनेंशियल सिस्टम पर, फाइनेंशियल स्ट्रक्चर पर, US डील कैसे हुई, क्यों हुई, इतनी जल्दी क्यों हुई, सिर्फ आपने क्यों की, कैबिनेट को क्यों नहीं बताया, अडानी का केस बंद क्यों हुआ, Epstein - ऐसी बहुत सारी चीजें हैं जिसपे खुलकर डिस्कशन होगा।
आ जाइए, डरिए मत।
दूध का दूध, पानी का पानी कीजिए।
आप एलिगेशन लगाते हैं ना मेरे ऊपर, आ जाइए, सब साफ हो जाएगा।
बाकी चीजों पे आपने defamation केस लगा रखा है, शायद 45 defamation केस मेरे ऊपर हैं।
मगर इस डिबेट मामले पे, foreign कनेक्शन पे आप defamation नहीं लगा रहे हो। लगाइए ना, वहाँ भी डिस्कस करेंगे, खुल के। ये सब डिस्कस करते हैं, आइए।
हैप्पी दिवाली, मोदी जी।
It’s been 24 hours since I challenged you, Modi ji.
You say the Opposition is anti-national. Choose any stage, any venue, and debate me on this - Who is anti-national? Who has connections with foreign forces? And what is the nature of those connections?
Let’s do this as soon as possible. Daro mat!
We’ll both be there. The media will be there. The youth of this country will be there. There will be a table. You’ll sit on one side, I’ll sit on the other. You can appoint whoever you want as the judge. You can even make Mohan Bhagwat ji the judge.
There will be questions about the financial system, the financial structure, how the US deal happened, why it happened and why so quickly, why you made the deal alone and didn’t inform the Cabinet, why the Adani case was closed, Epstein - and many other issues. We’ll discuss all of them openly.
Let the truth come out. Let everything be crystal clear.
You make allegations against me, don’t you? Come forward. Everything will become clear.
You’ve filed defamation cases against me over other matters. I think there are around 45 defamation cases against me.
But on this issue of the debate, on the question of foreign connections, you haven’t filed a defamation case. Go ahead, file one. We’ll discuss that openly too.
Happy Diwali, Modi ji.