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@Paul_Koshy Would like to know more about this

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@IamShajanSamuel @jojosevn And what's wrong with concerts?

[Neil Borate @ActusDei]

My Uber driver got stopped for violating a 'blinking light' before the signal turned red. After he argued the matter, the issue became not wearing a white shirt (uniform). A creator friend said he got pulled up for not displaying GST number on his office door.

All these endless, pointless rules make life difficult in India. Government must get out of people's lives.

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@NIKHILLJHA @AdityaD_Shah Are you saying that you would get the claim passed which otherwise would not pass because the policy was bought from you?

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@DaleSteyn62 Well played SA...

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@niraj_shah Not true at all places, changed tyres 1.5 back in Thane, did get reasonable discount

[Ranvir Shorey @RanvirShorey]

This kind of goonism is utterly deplorable. Physical violence and intimidating someone for speaking their mind is so cheap. The BJP is damaging its own reputation by such acts at time when it is peaking. #shame

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@NAN_DINI_ Have been receiving similar calls since last few day. In my case apparently I was sending drugs to Russia and the customs had blocked it....

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@yatrikart Hi, saw your offerings on the Start ab tak, we have a retail outlet on Mumbai Goa highway, can we associate?

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@itsTarH Comment seems like clickbait which is surprising from your account...

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Appointment. On the MEA site, did not find any option to book appointment. In the Appeals segment, it says that for given reference number, Appeal can not be made. Pls help.

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@passportsevamea Need to renew my son's passport. I was out of country n hence out of reach for a week. Police station has sent back the application actually verifying address. How do I resolve this. Had gone physically to Regional office at BKC, Mumbai but they need online

[Dr. Devashish Palkar @psychidiaries]

As someone who has never traveled abroad, I am happy that Indian tourism is being highlighted. But I am a little concerned as well.
Around 2 years ago, we went for our honeymoon to Puducherry(Pondi).
While the beaches, the views, and the cafes are spectacular, it's hard not to miss a sewage line directly dumping all the waste in the sea (see the last pic), and this is just next to the famous rocks of the Rock Beach.
If that's not enough, people casually litter all the plastic waste at the places of natural beauty.
This happens not just at commercial places like Goa but also at the home of our gods. We saw this on our Kedarnath pilgrimage as well.
Now that we are deciding to travel in India, let's at least pledge to not litter & use as less disposable products as possible. Also, I hope the government authorities won't be as callous as to directly open a sewage line next to the famous beach!
Jay Hind.

[ameet singh @ameetgsingh]

Now it’s Chennai.

Our cities are urban dumps of garbage, untreated sewage and pollution.

All of them.

All of this behaviour goes on until a great flood which has become a repetitive annual occurrence, comes and drowns the entire city in a deluge.

It simply compounds the problem as now the pollution, garbage & sewage are uniformly distributed in a layer across the city or simply carried into our water bodies, rivers and the sea polluting our water sources permanently.

Lakes that existed don’t anymore. Riverbanks are tied down and have become concrete run-offs. The sea is a seething miasma of sewage washing up ever more pollution and plastic on our beaches and shorelines.

We witness all this while desiring ever more prosperity, larger cars, constant air conditioning and trees being sacrificed.

The economy loses billions of dollars due to these climate events. Chennai has a GDP of 7 lakh crores. The city will lose 2000 crores / day due to this lack of climate preparedness.
A fortnight of this damage, is 30k crores gone down the drain.
Untold numbers of people will busy themselves salvaging what’s already lost., production lines will stop humming and flight schedules will get thrown into disarray. All forward and backward linkages will break down.

They’ll repair things somehow with get-a-fix solutions. Basically pour even more concrete.

Then the flood visits again. Washes away the city. Renders slum dwellers homeless along with fancy villa residents. Insurance companies refuse to settle claims for submerged cars, neighbourhoods & property. The election results preoccupy mind-space, Nobody asks any real questions. Life goes on.

All of this can be avoided if carrying capacities of neighbourhoods are taken into account before planning a city. If natural flows of rivers and water are given their due respect and made into no-go buffer forest zones.
If Sponge cities are deliberated upon. If constant increase in FSI is avoided and urban sprawl made into a mitigated co2neutral water positive zero discharge community based development.

So many If’s.

The best part is it’s really easy to do…

The math doesn’t go wrong though.

India deserves to become 1000 Copenhagen’s not these urban islands which keep visiting disasters upon themselves.

This obsession with pouring concrete over everything is going to cost us. Hugely. Just like all other Indian cities cc Delhi, Mumbai, Pune & Bengaluru. Welcome this annual deluge, Chennai is centre stage today.

Chennai isn’t on planet Mars. It’s barely 1200 kms from Pune. 345 kms from Bangalore. 630 kms from Hyderabad. Barely a few degrees of latitude.

Building stupid high rises with no idea about how the sewage is to be treated or where the garbage is to be disposed don’t provide any answers.

So, Either Wait until the deluge comes to drown you too or fix the approach to development.

Is anybody listening.

#Puneसंवाद

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In case you’ve read this far, don’t forget it was Dubai a few weeks ago. Nobody is spared by the weather.

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@drprashantmish6 🙏🙏

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@aditya_kondawar Where is this? Loved the view