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PMP Certified Professional | 32 Yrs. of Excellence in Civil Construction Project Management | Project Manager | RT not equal to endorsement

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

Monumental effort! List of mosques built after demotion of Temple.
https://t.co/ZRE59kQHrX

[SUHEL SETH @Suhelseth]

It is extremely unfair to target the officials in Gurugram. Who ever anticipates that it will rain during the monsoons? Whoever does that? Rains during the monsoon season never occur. They’ve only started happening recently. For 4000 years.

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

QP 1195 BOM - AMD, 16 Aug. Only MALE passengers were frisked and had their bags checked in the aero bridge. Selective SLPC? Please.

[Akasa Air @AkasaAir]

@ascivil Hi there, we would like to inform you that security checks like Secondary Ladder Point Check (SLPC) are required on select flights as per regulations. We appreciate your understanding.

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

One wishes some consistency from the regulatory authorities. As such air travel is no longer a pleasant experience it used to be in the decade of 2000, why make it more difficult? If anything finds ways to make it bearable!

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

@DGCAIndia @AkasaAir one can only reach the air craft after going through rigorous security check after check in. So what is this new security check in the aero bridge just before boarding? Hand bags and personal pat down with a wand?

What with constant changes in rules?

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

@DGCAIndia @AkasaAir one can only reach the air craft after going through rigorous security check after check in. So what is this new security check in the aero bridge just before boarding? Hand bags and personal pat down with a wand?

What with constant changes in rules?

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

@UberIN_Support Info shared

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

@Uber on 13 Aug, booked a cab from pune airport. Driver accepted, then called demanding fare as per meter and not what is shown on the app. Please sit down with your cab drivers and agree what rates to charge! Constant harassment by the cab drivers is distressing. #CabsInPune

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

This is the same story for all aggregators. @Olacabs and @rapidoapp_ are no different. Also this demand of extra fare is somehow unique to #Pune Be it auto or cabs. The government, police as usual is fast asleep. The cab and auto mafia rules!

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

@Uber on 13 Aug, booked a cab from pune airport. Driver accepted, then called demanding fare as per meter and not what is shown on the app. Please sit down with your cab drivers and agree what rates to charge! Constant harassment by the cab drivers is distressing. #CabsInPune

[Ninaad Pai @ninaad_pai]

Pune has failed as a city.

And it genuinely hurts to type that as someone born and raised here who still owns houses here.

The traffic is pure, unending hell. Politicians and bureaucrats like @mohol_murlidhar @ChDadaPatil @navalMH @Dev_Fadnavis make beautiful promises, collect their cuts, and disappear. Coffers full. City empty of solutions.

@PuneCityPolice drop showbaazi videos of “catching criminals” for the algorithm. @PuneCityTraffic post fancy videos about how perfectly they handle the roads… while the actual roads look like a war zone every single day.

The RFD project is a catastrophe that’s actively worsening the urban heat island effect. Trees get felled at random and left rotting for weeks. There is no real public transport. Nothing serious is even planned. Just more roads, more digging, more flyovers - all of which do one thing: invite more cars and more chaos.

And the people. Native or migrant, doesn’t matter. Everyone drives like they own the entire street. Pure lunacy. Zero accountability. Never admit a mistake. Never improve. Never simply say “sorry” and move on.

I’ve seen lawless driving in this city since I was a kid in the passenger seat. It was never good. But at least back then people didn’t turn every small inconvenience into full-blown road rage.

These days just thinking about stepping outside takes a real mental toll.

Anyone else who lives here completely done with this place?

[AS 🇮🇳 @ascivil]

Doesn't suit their agenda..

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

Dear @Reuters, @Bloomberg, @WSJ, @nytimes, @wapo, @FT & the brown Indian sepoys who write for them, why aren’t you covering Pakistani army’s genocide in #PoK as fully as you did the cockroach party protests in India which led to zero deaths?

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

Posted this on Reditt at 6 subreditts, got deleted at all 6.

Hate 100% Critical Thinking 0%

[Opinion Bakery @IndiaSpeaksPR]

India is Meta's largest market - almost a billion users
US is a very very distant second

If the Indian Govt was serious, Mark Zuckerberg would have been in Delhi right now begging for meetings. He is not doing that & it means everything is likely just a show to fool us

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

Reality se Azaadi!

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Thanks @nethrapal ji for your response. In the interest of a helpful debate, here is my point by point rebuttal. Please excuse rough unstructured language as I’m writing while travelling:

(1) Fixed general seats vs adding extra seats.

You claim OBC reservation was done only by adding extra seats, so general seats never reduced. This is not wholly true and does not work presently at all. When 27% OBC quota started in central colleges after 2006, colleges were told to add more seats. Most colleges did not add enough seats. So the number of open (general) seats stayed almost the same or grew very slowly, while total seats increased. Once the percentage is fixed, every time total seats increase, reserved seats also increase automatically. Open seats stay only a fixed share, not a fixed number. The reform idea is not “never add seats.” It is to protect the open seats as a fixed minimum number that cannot be reduced. This is the only way to stop open seats from slowly shrinking forever. Talking about the old OBC expansion, that never was earnestly implemented, does not solve today’s problem.

(2) Creamy layer for SC/ST is “impossible”

You say courts and Bihar data prove creamy layer cannot apply to SC/ST. Well, the main idea is simple: Once a family has got good education, good income, good connections and good social position through reservation, their children should not keep getting the same benefit. Otherwise the still-poor people in the same caste get pushed aside. Bihar data does not change this idea. Creamy layer is not only about money. An IAS or IPS officer’s children get coaching, good schools, networks and advantages that a poor farmer’s children in the same caste do not get. Refusing to exclude them means the real poor keep losing the seats.

(3) “Even after creamy layer the ratio stays 50-50; elite capture is everywhere; officers’ kids study abroad”

You accept there is a problem but say it exists everywhere, so we should ignore it! Data clearly shows elite capture inside reserved groups. Rohini Commission found that 10 OBC castes took around 25% of all OBC seats. Many other OBC castes got almost nothing. The same thing happens inside SC and ST lists. The claim that most officers’ children study abroad and do not compete is not proved. Even if some go abroad, those who stay in India still have a big advantage. Lack of public data is not proof that the problem does not exist. It is a reason to collect the data and then apply the rule.

(4) “Only some sections take benefits but Yadavs and Cha**rs are still low in Group A jobs, so no change is needed”

Your argument says only top jobs matter and lower jobs do not count. That is incomplete. The same strong sub-castes already take most of the college seats and lower government jobs. These are the pipelines that lead to Group A jobs. Rohini Commission itself proved the problem is real for OBCs. The same logic applies to SC and ST lists. Parliament can add or remove communities from SC/ST lists under Articles 341 and 342. Just because no one has proposed removal yet does not mean the power does not exist. Courts have repeatedly said governments should use data to divide groups and exclude the advanced sections. Refusing to collect or use this data is a political choice, not a constitutional requirement.

(5) “Ambedkar’s 10-year limit was only for political seats; education and jobs are permanent; 2/3 majority is impossible”

The text of Article 334 is correct, the 10-year limit applied to seats in Parliament and Assemblies. Perhaps you missed that I myself mentioned this. Fact is Dr Ambedkar said reservation should be temporary, not permanent. Just because Articles 15(4) and 16(4) have no time limit does not mean reservation becomes a permanent group right forever. The argument that SC + ST + OBC numbers make it impossible to get 2/3 majority is an admission that the system now continues because of numbers, not because of remaining need. That is exactly why a better reform plan uses time limits, data checks and one-generation rules instead of waiting for a majority that will never come.

(6) “Fraud is higher in EWS and disability quotas; upper castes take fake certificates”

Fraud happens in every category and must be stopped. This does not mean we should ignore elite capture inside SC/ST/OBC categories. Pointing to EWS fraud is a way to change the topic and leave the real problem untouched. The solution is strict checking for everyone, not looking away from some groups.

(7) “One-generation or one-family limit is an American idea and should apply to all or to none”

The simple idea is this: After a family has used reservation to get education, a government job and social position, their children start from a better place. Giving them the same reservation again is no longer help for the disadvantaged. It becomes inherited advantage with a different name. Applying the generation rule only inside reserved categories makes sense because reservation itself is a special group benefit meant to be temporary. Asking for the same hard rule for every judge’s or MLA’s child is a different and much bigger debate about political dynasties. It does not mean we must drop the limited rule inside reservation.

(8) “One-time reservation is just a fancy idea; the goal is to fill top positions; lower cut-offs prove we still need the system”

The goal of creating a large pool of graduates and officers from these groups has already been largely achieved in absolute numbers. Keeping the same percentage forever after that turns a temporary ladder into a permanent parallel system. Lower EWS cut-offs in some exams happen because that category is poorly designed and often has few applicants. It does not prove that reserved-category candidates as a whole are still as disadvantaged as in 1950. Toppers from reserved categories are good and expected. But the entry marks are still systematically lower. This has real effects on quality in medicine, engineering and administration.

(9) “There is merit among SC/ST/OBC; mark differences are small”

No serious reform plan says there is zero merit in reserved categories. The real point is that average preparation levels and the cut-off marks are different. In important professional courses, those differences affect patient safety, engineering quality and government work. Praising individual toppers while ignoring the lower entry bar is not a defence of merit. It is a refusal to look at the full picture.

(10) Creamy layer has already reduced OBC share in Group A; empty seats should go to the poor

If creamy layer exclusion has reduced OBC numbers in Group A, that shows the rule is working as planned, benefits are moving toward the less advanced people. The right response is better implementation and sub-division of groups as Rohini Commission suggested, not dropping the rule. Empty reserved seats should be handled openly. The better way is to open them for general competition instead of creating more small sub-quotas that make the system even more complicated.

(11) Private sector, elite schools and DEI

It is true that SC/ST/OBC students are very few in top private schools and private universities. The solution is not forced caste quotas in private companies but targeted scholarships, early help for children, and strict non-creamy deployment of the existing seats. Copying American DEI language does not solve India’s real problems of elite capture inside groups and never-ending preference.

Thank you. WDTP

[Lt Gen L Nishikanta Singh (R) @VeteranLNSingh]

In football, can you imagine India beating Brazil in the final by 2-1 and win the Gothia cup in Sweden 😳 and that too after defeating England 12-0 and France by 17-1 🤔 ?

Proud that most players were from Manipur.

Yes! This actually happened 👆🇮🇳🏆

That's India's U-15 team from Minerva Academy / Ranjit Bajaj's squad making history at the Gothia Cup 2026 in Sweden - the world's biggest youth football tournament.

What they pulled off:
1. Beat England 12-0
2. Beat France 17-1
3. Won Helsing Cup in Europe a week earlier
4. Final: Beat Brazil 2-1 to win the Gothia Cup.

They won 8 matches straight and scored 86 goals in the whole tournament. "European Double" complete - Helsing Cup + Gothia Cup back to back 😳

The clips show:
- Kids in orange India jerseys celebrating goals
- The goalkeeper screaming "BACK TO BACK CHAMPIONS"
- Fans waving tricolor in the stands
- Team lifting the Gothia Cup trophy with "GOTHIA CUP FINALS" board behind
- Ranjit Bajaj with tricolor draped, holding medal

This is huge because in a country where cricket gets all the money and football still struggles for support, these kids proved talent isn't the problem - opportunity is.

Absolutely viral-worthy moment for Indian football ✌️

[Aravind @aravind]

BBC brown sepoys from London:

"Modi building airports and ports when Indians are poor. British woman got parasites when she visited India in 2007. Should poor India have a space program? India's blocking UK's free foreign funds."

Meanwhile, their localities in London:

[Frank Indian 🕉 Unreserved @natkhat]

There is permanent victimhood by dalits and they cannot progress even if we give them 100 % .

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

AAP supported Abhijeet Dipke can fly to Bharat from US to start 🪳 protests.

Rahul Ghandy can go to PM residence & do Nautanki to prove he's bigger 🪳.

But they both CAN'T go to Jharkhand & demand justice for these REAL Students because Jharkhand isn't BJP ruled State.

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

“India has not yet reached where it should be. We think that we are independent and all our responsibilities are over. India still faces internal as well as external challenges.

Our progress is not such that everyone feels happy. Rather, India’s progress is still dangerous for several people, several countries and elements, and we have to fight these elements" ~ NSA Ajit Doval after receiving the Lokmanya Tilak National Award.

[Dr. Navneet Mishra @navneetmishra99]

यूपी के पूर्व डीजीपी सुलखान सिंह की राय 👇

निहत्थे लोगों पर पेलेट गन क्यों चलाई गई? ये सवाल आजकल सोशल मीडिया में छाये हुए हैं। इसपर यद्यपि मैं पहले लिख चुका हूं लेकिन आज इन सवालों पर सीधे जवाब लिखूंगा।

पेलेट गन 12 बोर आग्नेयास्त्र है। भीड़ के ऊपर 6 नंबर के छर्रे वाली कारतूस चलाई जाती है। इससे बहुत ही पास से गोली मारने पर जान का खतरा है अन्यथा नहीं। यह राइफल के स्थान पर लाई गई है। राइफल बेहद घातक है।कमर के ऊपर राइफल की गोली लगभग 100 प्रतिशत घातक है लेकिन कमर के नीचे भी पैरों में यह भीषण फ्रैक्चर करती है और जल्दी इलाज न मिलने पर घातक है। इसलिए जो लोग पेलेट गन पर सवाल उठाते हैं वे क्या राइफल की वापसी चाहते हैं?

दूसरी बात है निहत्थे लोगों की भीड़ पर गोली चलाने की। तो यह समझना आवश्यक है कि यदि भीड़ पुलिस अधिकारियों/मैजिस्ट्रेट के आदेश पर तितर-बितर नहीं होती है अथवा किसी ऐसे स्थान में घुसना चाहती है जहां भीड़ के घुसने से बड़ा जोखिम हो सकता है तो भीड़ को तितर-बितर करने के लिए, पुलिस सभी उपाय कर सकता है और यदि आंसू गैस, लाठीचार्ज वगैरह असफल हो जायें तो गोली चला सकती है। यह बल प्रयोग तब-तक होगा जब-तक भीड़ तितर-बितर न हो जाए। यह जरूरी नहीं है कि भीड़ हथियारबंद हो। उदाहरण के लिए यदि एक हजार लोगों की निहत्थी भीड़ संसद में या प्रधानमंत्री आवास में, अथवा राष्ट्रपति आवास में घुसना चाहती है तो इसकी अनुमति नहीं दी जा सकती और भीड़ को रोकने के लिए सभी आवश्यक उपाय किए जायेंगे। यही कानूनी और व्यावहारिक स्थिति है।

नोट - सुलखान सिंह, भले ही योगी सरकार में डीजीपी रहे हैं, लेकिन वे भाजपा के प्रशंसक नहीं हैं।

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

How about Replacing Modi & Meloni with Rajiv & Sonia?