Charts speak a million words without saying anything. If you see this chart and pass it off as nothing, you have no clue how the world is changing rapidly under your feet
Every great scientist was once dismissed by their peers and ridiculed by the public as a madman for their ideas, only to be vindicated decades later as a visionary who changed the world.
The same will happen with Shri Nitin Gadkari. He is facing criticism now, with people calling him names and even abusing him, but remember, one day a Maruti Alto running on 100% ethanol will beat Ferrari in an F1 race, an Indian growing up drinking govt-supplied 100% ethanol from the tap will break Usain Bolt's 100m Olympic record, Vande Bharat running on 100% ethanol will break the space-time continuum and reach Mumbai from Delhi in minus 6.023 x 10²³ seconds, and the first human manend rocket that lands on Pluto will run on 100% ethanol. Only then will people realize who Gadkari truly was.
It is safe to say that he is India's answer to Elon Musk.
Imagine flying all the way in from the US expecting a 1915 Gandhi-style homecoming, convinced that 250 million followers would rally to overthrow the regime... only to find yourself stranded on a street corner, with nothing standing by you except your erect nipple and a handful of the usual professional protesters, while GenZ is more interested in following the FIFA World Cup.
It isnt surprising that NEET exam has been cancelled by the @NTA_Exams . The hub of this entire operation is Sikar, where the success rate is 6X of national average. A similar thing happened in 2024 too, but the allegations were brushed under the carpet. Had we dealt with it in 2024 with an iron hand, this wouldnt have repeated.
What we know is that 140 of the 180 questions in NEET were part of a guess paper of 410 questions. What is alarming is that the order of the questions and the options were exactly the same.
The modus operandi is simple. In Sikar, the students are called in for a Mock test, a day before the actual exam and made to prepare for each of the questions in the guess paper. The students had 140 of the 180 questions preepared, thus guaranteed 600 of the 720 marks even before they entered the exam hall.
Time to go after the paper leakers. Jail them. 23 Lac students and families will pay the price of the brushing under the carpet we did in 2024. @careers360
Fuel switch malfunctions again… this time on AI 132 bound for Bengaluru from London. So naturally, Boeing’s next step will be to psychoanalyse the pilot: depressed, unstable or suicidal?
His approval rating is only 15 percent plus political instability in france is huge . India need to invest more in Research and development. It's the right time we should cut out waste ful money and give more funding to iits ,iisc, IISER . We need doge in india it can save Billions of dollars which we can invest in our research program
BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates is restricting their nationals from enrolling at British universities over fears that UK campuses are being radicalized by radical Islamist groups.
THIS IS BEYOND HILARIOUS! The UAE has a lower tolerance for radical Islam than the freaking UK.
Air India is overbooking flights, and if you don’t web check-in early, your confirmed ticket won't guarantee you a seat!
I learned this the hard way today! Read this if you have an upcoming Air India Flight! ✈️👇
I had a 3 PM @airindia flight today. Didn’t web check-in till yesterday, and I tried doing it this morning. It kept failing with an error saying “Web check-in unsuccessful, contact the Air India counter.”
Tried 3–4 times. Didn’t work.
Reached the Delhi airport and went to the main queue for luggage drop and waited 20mins → staff redirected me to the self baggage check-in queue where I waited 15mins → the machine said I couldn’t proceed without a boarding pass → went back to ask → again redirected to the special assistance counter.
Reached there and suddenly everything made sense.
My flight was overbooked!
And because I hadn’t web checked-in earlier, my reserved seat was quietly given to someone else.
A confirmed ticket, but no seat on the plane. And NO COMMUNICATION ABOUT IT!
And this wasn’t just me!
There were dozens of people stranded there, all stuck in the same loop, web check-in failing, queues moving painfully slow, and people realising at the airport that they don’t have a seat despite a confirmed ticket.
This whole week, the @IndiGo6E fiasco has already wrecked havoc across airports, and it’s now spilling over into other airlines too.
Flights running full, systems overloaded, and the passengers + ground staff are the ones suffering.
The frontline staff genuinely looked exhausted; they had no information, no clarity, and were getting yelled at nonstop for things decided way above their pay grade! They were not responsible for the overbooking, yet they had to bear the brunt of all the angry passengers!
Eventually, Air India offered me a flight 5 hours later + a ₹10,000 compensation voucher.
But I realised after the voucher issuance that the voucher can only be redeemed offline at the airport counter!
Nobody told me this when issuing it. No T&Cs shared.
Online redemption doesn’t work, and even the support team had no clue!
Standing there, the thought of having to come back to the airport someday just to book a ticket was honestly frustrating!
Thankfully, I remembered I had an upcoming trip, so I sat at the airport and got that ticket booked using the voucher right away. And even that took over 30 minutes of signatures, Aadhaar checks, and internal approvals for voucher redemption!
All of this was avoidable if Air India had simply informed passengers earlier that the flight was overbooked.
Instead, people came all the way to the airport only to discover their ticket was worthless.
Anyway, if you’re flying Air India anytime soon, web check-in as early as possible.
Because right now, a confirmed ticket isn’t a guarantee that you’ll be allowed to board!
#AirIndia #Indigo #IndigoCancellations #IndigoFlightsCancelled #IndigoCrisis #Flights ;
More bad news for mobile phone users in India (after SIM binding): Our government is mandating a government app (sanchar saathi) on every new phone, permanently, Reuters reports.
Will be pushed to your phone via OTA. New smartphones need to have it. Users cannot delete it. This is a first. India has never before required an unremovable state app on every device. Russia does btw, with its MAX Messenger (started September 2025).
A few comments regarding this:
1. Sanchar Saathi is a lost phone tracker, but if it gets embedded with no possibility of removal, it becomes a government tracker on your device.
IF the government is allowed to get away with this, what’s next? A mandatory digital ID app? Digiyatra forcefully installed on each device? An app that disables VPNs or tracks your app and browser history? An app that sends copies of your messages to the government once a month?
Once the OS layer is opened to the state, it doesn’t close.
2. Legally, one can argue that your mobile phone is your personal space, and this is an invasion of your personal space.
It’s where we have our most private conversations. Exchange sensitive information with people we trust.
How do we know this app isn’t used to access files and messaging on our device, which is unencrypted on device? Or a future update won’t do that? This is clearly an invasion of our privacy.
3. Remember how the government exempt itself from much of the Data Protection Law. This explains why.
The Data Protection Law will make private companies more accountable and the Indian government less accountable.
4. Bloatware is already an issue with some phones (It’s why I don’t use Samsung). Now there’s more, and this time the government is forcing bloatware. I guess we’ll all have to root our phones now. When you buy a phone with bloatware, you're choosing to buy it with bloatware. This is different.
5. The way things work with India’s Department of Telecom, there was no public consultation, the order wasn’t disclosed. Just forced. This is dictatorial in nature. If they get away with this, more will follow.
Road dust is a major contributor to air pollution, and truck-mounted sweepers are supposed to use integrated water sprays to keep it from turning into airborne dust. But clearly, the BMC has other ideas. Richest municipal body for a reason.
I visited the Chittorgarh Fort when I was 10, on a family holiday.
Have never been back.
But I should.
Because when I checked online, it turns out it’s the largest fort in the world!
Approximate Global Ranking:
🥇 Chittorgarh Fort, India ~700 acres (2.8 sq. km)
🥈 Kumbhalgarh Fort, India ~1,100 acres (4.5 sq. km), walls 36 km long
🥉 Nanjing City Wall, China
Yes, Kumbhalgarh is the second largest in the world.
(Chittorgarh and Kumbhalgarh are fort cities, not boundary walls.
They enclosed self-sufficient communities and were built to withstand sieges, not to demarcate empires.)
And yet, they rarely appear on the ‘must-visit’ lists for global travellers.
They’re not even on the extended Rajasthan “Golden Circuit”:
Jaipur → Jodhpur → Jaisalmer → Udaipur.
We need to tell their stories differently.
“A kingdom that refused to yield. A fort that never fell.”
Illustrate these stories through specialised experiences:
sunset drives along the ramparts, private storytelling sessions, and expanded comfortable accommodation.
We already have a Club Mahindra at Kumbhalgarh, and we’re pleased to have helped build its popularity.
Perhaps it’s time for one at Chittorgarh too.
#SundayWanderer
(Aerial view of Chittorgarh Fort courtesy @MayankRighteous )