A free advice to Mumbai mayor @TawdeRitu:
You don't need to travel with your social media team and cops holding your umbrella across the city in this time of crisis.
Allow @MumbaiPolice to do their job. You coordinate and ensure the babus are responding to citizen calls.
Request 🙏
A daycare employee at Capgemini's Bengaluru campus couldn't bear the abuse of the kids at the centre.
She reported it to supervisor, but instead of taking action, they fired her. She then became a whistleblower and leaked videos that exposed the abuse.
In the videos, toddlers were made to sit inside the drum of a front-loading washing machine, had water sprayed into their mouths using a toilet jet spray, were locked inside bathrooms, and were forced into narrow, water-filled pipes to frighten them. The videos triggered outrage, forcing authorities to act.
Today, according to media reports, the police have arrested the whistleblower only for allegedly "leaking sensitive videos." Lol! What a system! A poor woman with a clear conscience stood up to the powerful and went public, not for personal gain or with any malicious intent, but solely to protect those children. And she's the one who gets arrested.
The bedrock of economic progress is choice, not coercion. A sensible approach would be to offer consumers a choice and reserve mandatory E20 only during energy emergencies.
My views, with five scientific arguments on why the costs of E20 blending far outweigh its benefits:
Woahh!!!!
What a wonderful & logical take against reservation system, eating India's growth.
Whole atrocities lies busted.
This is fire.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It must be appreciated 👏🏻👏🏻@ajeetbharti
Ajeet Bharti destroyed the fake Victimhood culture of Ambedkarites in a debate organised by Delhi Union on Reservation . 🔥 🔥
Dhanyawad
@ajeetbharti Bhaiya 🙏🙏
Gurugram, April.
Tata Harrier.
Speeding on wrong side.
Driver drinking.
Mows down Rapido bike taxi.
2 youth Karthik & Rithik dead.
Driver throws out bottle of alcohol.
Driver flees the spot.
Gets bail the next day.
Please improve the toilets at Sinhagad Fort. Everyone like Sinhagad fort @CMOMaharashtra@ThePuneMirror@PMCPune
Jai Naar Veer Tanaji! Gaad Ala , Paan Sinh Gela.
Devastated to see this video. Parents of 34 year of Sarthak Mattoo who was killed by a speeding Thar while he was driving his bike in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj. Hope justice prevails. On His Way To Work, Gurugram Rider Dies As Thar Rams Him In Delhi https://t.co/mSiFVOwIQU
#Shocking EXPOSE by kar sevak Santosh Dubey ji
Not just that Modi awarded Nirpendra Mishra and Mulayam singh Yadav , the two killers of Kar sevaks ..
But its was sanghis who had looted the Ram mandir treasurers even on 6th December 1992!!
What the bloody hell !! Even that day they robbed Ram Lalla ???
Santosh dubey knows because he was there that day on top of Babri masjid who hammered the middle tomb for two hrs and brought it down!
These r the real kalnemis and one day whole Hindu samaj will see thru them
It’s the wish & will of Prabhu Shri Ram now.. he is only EXPOSING them !
The face-off between BJP MP Medha Kulkarni and BJP MLA Abhimanyu Pawar in Pune is deeply shameful. Kulkarni was reportedly asked not to sit in the front row because it was a Sarthi event to felicitate successful UPSC and MPSC students from the Maratha community.
Chairs don't have a caste. The absolute irony? The chief guest on stage was CM Devendra Fadnavis, a brahmin.
If govt officials assign front-row seating based on protocol, yet a public servant is gatekept over her identity right under the chief guest's nose, what merit are we teaching these newly selected officers? This regressive identity politics needs to stop 😡😡
Case in point: bureaucratic corruption is at its peak - things like this happen because babus feel they can get away with anything and everything. They’re right. They can & do.
A family was sitting in a car, eating snacks and throwing their trash onto the road in Delhi.
When a man saw this, he confronted them and said, Don’t throw your trash on the road. Pick it up
They argued with him and replied, “Tere baap ka road hai?” 😳
I ran across this video a few days ago and couldn’t stop watching it.
It’s about something ordinary & boring, a plastic gas lighter. But it changes how one thinks about manufacturing.
That lighter in so many of our homes, holds pressurised gas. It has over 30 microscopic parts, has to pass international safety codes, & travel 10,000 miles by sea, & the total cost of doing all that, materials, labour, freight, every middleman along the way, comes to fifteen U.S cents.
So how does anyone make money on this?
Turns out almost the entire world’s supply comes from one place: a county called Shaodong, in China’s Hunan province.
It wasn’t always there.
But today, Shaodong has 114 lighter-related companies packed into the place & between them they source more than 200 different components from each other, all within a 20-kilometre radius. They supply something like seventy percent of the world’s disposable lighters. And the industry alone employs over 80,000 people locally.
Nobody there is winning on cheap labour anymore. They’re winning by shaving a thousandth of a cent off the thickness of a plastic wall, or redesigning a base so a few thousand more units fit into the same shipping container.
It took my thoughts back to an old professor of mine, Michael Porter.
His 1980 book, Competitive Strategy, is still the 1st book most MBAs read, the one that gave the world the Five Forces and basically invented modern strategic thinking.
But there’s a quieter piece of his work, on industrial clusters, that never got nearly the same attention, and it is the one that explains exactly what is happening in Shaodong.
His argument was that nations and regions rarely win because of cheap inputs. They win when rival firms and specialist suppliers crowd into the same small geography for long enough that they keep pushing each other past what any one of them could manage alone. He found it in the Swiss watchmaking towns of the Jura, in the German printing press industry and in Italy’s ceramic tile and footwear districts (interestingly, it’s the SAME blueprint which built Morbi, in Gujarat, into the world’s second-largest ceramic cluster, now outproducing Italy by volume. I have posted before, about Morbi)
None of these started out as giants. The neighbourhood made them giants.
Which is exactly why it’s so relevant to India’s climb up the global manufacturing table
I’ve also attached a slide with this post that I saw recently and which shows us breaking into the top 5 manufacturing globally. (A quick reference check told me that we may not have overtaken Korea yet, but the trajectory’s clear)
That climb has happened on the back of scale: bigger plants, bigger parks, more FDI.
I should declare an interest here, because the Mahindra Group set up 2 of India’s first integrated, plug-and-play business cities, in Chennai in 2002 & Jaipur in 2006.
Both have been extremely successful. Chennai’s business zone alone today employs 45,000 people..
But I admit that we need to think differently.
A park brings in investors and hands them a ready plot, power, water & roads
A cluster is a completely different animal: hundreds of small, specialised suppliers, each obsessed with doing a tiny thing better than anyone else, feeding off each other’s presence for years until no outsider can compete with the whole.
I think that’s the work ahead of us now.
Not just more factories, and not just more parks.
Policymakers & developers like us need to start consciously pulling as many of the inputs and resources a sector needs, the toolmakers, the component suppliers, the testing labs, the logistics specialists, into the same neighbourhood.
Shaodong and Morbi both got there by accident, one town stumbling onto a way to shave a thousandth of a cent off a lighter wall, the other discovering it had the clay and, later, the gas pipeline for tiles.
We don’t have the luxury of waiting for accidents anymore.
We need to do it on purpose
Talegaon Dabhade, Pune Police !
A college-aged man was stopped by a policeman on a three-seater bike in Talegaon Dabhade, Pune, as he was riding a triple-seater bike.
Stopped and asked him to pay a fine for driving a triple seater. "However, the law student told the police that he would pay the fine only if they gave him a receipt.
After the student gave such a reply, the police got angry and the police literally beat the student inhumanly.
When the young man went to file a complaint at the police station, the police there also threatened to file a case against him. This information has been given by the student's family. It will be important to see what action the police administration will take on this.
While crime is rampant in the state as a whole, the inaction of the police is clearly visible, while on the other hand, it is evident how the police are harassing ordinary people for trivial reasons
@PradeepMaikhur3 Yeh IAS officer ko kis baat ka itna ghamand hai bhai ? Respected @AmitShah@HMOIndia jara is officer ko apni duty, responsibility or powers ka ahsas karvaiye jara.