fagun suchde

dreamer, critic, flâneur. Support capital punishment for traffic offences

[Vaibhav Bodana @VaibhavSpace]

Captain Santosh Kumar,
a retired Army officer who noticed something wrong the moment he came home.

He returned to Muthanallur in Anekal Taluk after retiring from the Army in 2008. Every monsoon, roads flooded while nearby lakes stayed dry, and that contradiction bothered him enough to start digging.

He documented lakes and stormwater drains across the taluka and traced the problem to Bengaluru's buried Raja Kaluves between 2017 to 2019. Ancient channels that once moved rainwater from lake to lake. He found British-era maps from 1923 and used them to walk village by village, matching old waterways against what had been built over them.

While studying the link between Muthanallur and Bidaraguppe lakes, he identified four historic Raja Kaluves. One had been so thoroughly encroached that it no longer looked like a waterway at all. Working with residents, he got approvals from the Minor Irrigation Department and restored nearly four kilometres of it, reconnecting it to Battalakere Lake.

The lakes he helped revive are believed to be close to 1,000 years old, some dating back to the reign of Rajaraja Chola I.

This monsoon, neighboring areas flooded again but not Muthanallur.

"In natural settings, rainwater either gets soaked into the soil or makes its way to rain streams, lakes and rivers. If these are maintained efficiently, we will never face floods and calamities." ~ Kumar

The fix already existed, buried under a century of concrete, waiting for someone to go looking with an old map instead of a new budget.

[fagun suchde @fagun]

@niraj_shah @Shrimichoudhary This will lead to many transactions moving back to cash thereby increasing cash handling and management costs for businesses, banks & the RBI. It will also result in lower tracking of transactions as people move to cash.

This is a cost that the government & banks must absorb

[gkundra @gkundra]

@niraj_shah @Shrimichoudhary Whether Business news channel need to cover
1. banks save money as they dispense lesser cash
2. Govt saves money as it prints less notes
3. Govt earns more money thru taxes as more transactions are in formal mode

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

My article (with Payal Sharma) in today’s Telegraph on India’s “Caesarean Problem”. We present data from latest NHFS survey that suggests suspiciously high rates of caesarean section births in Indian private hospitals (over 80% in some states). Does this reflect a wider problem? Does India’s private health sector need tighter regulation?

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

Nuts: How much is healthy? Which ones? Raw, roasted or soaked?

Nuts are among the healthiest foods you can add to your diet. But there is a lot of confusion around them:

❓How many should you eat?
❓Are almonds better than peanuts?
❓Should you soak them overnight?
❓Are roasted nuts unhealthy?
❓Are nuts the same as dry fruits?
Let us separate science from social-media nutrition myths. Bookmark this thread for future reference, and share for wider reach.
1/n

[Harrapa Civillisation Times @harrapasabhyata]

Amazing that instead of East Asia, AMD wanted to Make India its Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub and was investing 3 Billion$ in a Fab in India back in 2005 but it all fell apart just because,

When their Equipment came it got stuck at customs and wasn’t cleared leading to return!

[fagun suchde @fagun]

@PareshPatel @rushikesh_agre_ Why shouldn't he? He hasn't stopped tweeting general weather alerts. All he is saying that if you want something specific which may require extra effort on his part then pay for that effort.

[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

Michelin is fine. But a Tukaram Mundhe rating? Now that's an endorsement people would actually queue up for. It’s time for a TM approved list.

[Bhooshan Shukla @docbhooshan]

Many stories of good-old kings talk about the king moving about in the subjects in disguise.
This was seen as necessary action for the king who otherwise has ears only for his courtiers and ministers.

This was the time when the great kings knew importance of listening without ministerial and bureaucratic filters.

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

I'm tired of pretending this is fine.
I pay full tax. Full school fees. Full hospital bills. Full EMI, every month, on time. No subsidy comes down to me. No loophole exists up where I am. I'm stuck in the exact middle where nothing reaches.
The poor get support fair, they need it. The rich get write-offs, exemptions, structures I don't even understand how to access. And Me? I get a salary slip, a TDS deduction, and a "thank you for your contribution to nation building note"
I'm too well-off to qualify for anything. Too stretched to actually build anything. One medical emergency, one job loss, and this entire middle-class stability collapses like it was never real to begin with.
And I've finally understood why nobody fixes this: I'm the most reliable taxpayer this country has, and the least organized voter. I don't protest. I don't strike. I just pay, quietly, every single month so nobody in power has a reason to protect me.
So here's where I've landed. Nobody's coming to save the middle class. Save yourself, plan for yourself, protect what's yours because the system was never built to do it for you.
I'm not angry anymore. Just done expecting anything different.
#TaxReform
#MiddleClass
#realstruggle

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Why is the Global Media completely silent on civilian protests across Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK) and killings by Pakistan Military? International live coverage on protests in democratic India but complete mute spectator to Army ruled Pakistan’s atrocities in PoJK.

[` @worshipVK]

Mrunal Thakur exposed the reality behind the resignation 🚨

- She posted a story where she said that Harsh Dubey is the reason behind Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation
- He pushed the narrative towards reservation
- Neither the BJP nor CJP wants to touch reservation
- No one is on the side of the general category or OBCs
- They all want to play it safe. Even celebrities know about this

It's high time that general category and OBC students stood up for themselves 🙏

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

This incident happened 1 week ago. No arrest. She hasn’t even been questioned yet. That’s VIP thuggery.

[Dr. Neha Das @neha_laldas]

"हमारी क्या गलती है कि हम जनरल कैटगरी से हैं? क्यों हमको इसके लिए सज़ा ही जा रही है?"

ये कहना है जनरल कैटेगरी की छात्रा का!

#EndReservation

[Neeran Karnik @neeran]

Does anyone still remember Nirbhaya? (GenZ is excused)

The outrage, the protests, Jantar Mantar, candlelit vigils. Then the "tough new law", the fast-track courts. Have rapes gone down since?

What makes anyone think the same solution will work for paper leaks?!

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

As the buzz around the Jantar Mantar protest dies down, Madhya Pradesh is back in the news.

SDM Ram Niwas of Panna district ordered two mobile covers worth ₹120 from Flipkart.

When the delivery boy arrived with the sealed package, the SDM opened it and found only one mobile cover instead of two. Rather than raising a complaint with Flipkart, he allegedly abused the delivery boy and demanded an immediate refund.

The delivery boy dared to tell His Lordship that that's not how e-commerce works. He explained that the parcel was sealed, that it was likely a packing or logistics error, and that the proper course was to raise a complaint with Flipkart, which would handle the resolution through its return process.

His Lordship took offense at being told how the process worked. He allegedly called the police, and the delivery boy was reportedly arrested under Section 151 of the BNSS.

(Source: Aaj Tak)

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

If you're talking about "fair education system," start with Reservation.

It is one of the biggest issues affecting hardworking students.

Hats off to Harsh Dubey. We need more such voices at student protests.

[Dr Prashant Mishra @drprashantmish6]

When it comes to the reservation system, everyone goes silent—whether it’s the CJp, BJP, Congress, or AAP. The careers of millions of hardworking students are ruined because of caste-based reservations. Now, everyone claims to want a fair education system, yet they still insist on keeping reservation.

[Arindam Paul @arindam___paul]

🤣🤣

[Zoru Bhathena @zoru75]

Hello @MumbaiPolice

Juhu Road 1.15pm

Every traffic rule & every signal has been broken by Mumbai Police escort jeep
Escorting some "elected representative"

These Representatives are elected to serve the people
Not rule over them

They cannot break the law
With Police Escort