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Truly unbelievable it is .. This doesn't look like India at all.. But trust me You don’t need a passport to experience this paradise on earth 🌎. This is Tungtao Resort in Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh. Imagine dining with your feet dipped in crystal-clear stream water, surrounded by nature.. One hell of spectacle and holiday.. *Not any paid post 📫

This is the image of Vettuvan Koil, located in the village called Kalugumalai in Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) district in TN. This was built in 800 CE by the Pandyan king Parantaka Nedunjadaiyan. And this might have been one the of few temples or monuments in history, which was the output of an Architectural Dance-off between two powerful empires. You see in 800CE, the Early Pandyans were neighbours of the most powerful empire in India at that time, the Rashtrakutas. I guess some bilateral summit or a G-20 type of gathering might have happened in that time, which bought the kings of Pandyan and Rashtrakutas together. Now the Rashtrakutas, would have wanted to show off their architectural wonder called the Kailasa temple, the rock cut temple that was carved out of a single hill. I guess Nedunjadaiyan. saw it and told to his aides, "I have to get one of these", then went back and started the construction of the Vettuvan koil in Kalugumalai. Unfortunately, due to shifting priorities, change of Kings in 815 CE and other factors, the construction of Vettuvan koil was never completed, and it stays incomplete till this date. But it is fascinating to know, 1250 years ago in India, apart from battles and wars of conquest, there was an temple build-off, between two great empires, in two locations, 1500 Kms away from each other

Can you guess what this number is: 43 crore? That is 430 million. Not vaccine doses. Not Aadhaar cards. Not UPI txns this time. That is the number of free doctor consultations delivered by a govt telemedicine platform most urban Indians have never even heard of. It is called eSanjeevani..... And it might be the most quietly massive digital health system on the planet, bigger, by consultation volume, than any telemedicine platform any country has ever built, public / private. Look at how fast this scaled, most people assume govt tech moves at govt speed. This one did not.... - 2019: platform rolled out, mostly experimental. - Mid-2020: crossed 3 million consultations, right as COVID lockdowns hit and OPDs across the country shut their doors. - Within a couple more years: past 120 million. - By January 2025: past 250 million. - By November 2025: 430 million. That is not linear growth. That is a curve that bent hard upward because a health worker sitting in a primary health centre in rural Chhattisgarh, with zero specialists for a 100 KMs, suddenly had a video line straight to a doctor at a district hospital. How it actually works and why the model is smart: - It runs on a hub & spoke system. 131,000+ rural health centres (the "spokes") connect to ~17,000 hospital hubs. - A nurse / health worker at a village level centre does the first line consultation and if it needs a specialist, they do not send the patient on a bus ride to the nearest city. They connect them, live, on video, right there. - And this is not a niche pilot anymore, 93%+ of all usage runs through this doctor to doctor model, meaning it has become genuine day to day rural healthcare infrastructure, not a COVID-era stopgap. A few more fascinating data points for people mostly doubting any govt run schemes: - 57% of beneficiaries are women, the demographic that has historically had the hardest time physically travelling to a city hospital for a routine consultation. - 12% are senior citizens. This is reaching exactly the population that private telemedicine apps, built for smartphone literate urban users with credit cards, were never going to reach. 1 of the largest single interventions in healthcare access in human history, built quietly, by an Indian govt lab (C-DAC), running almost invisibly in the background of "Digital India" headlines that usually go to UPI and Aadhaar instead. Bharat is rising. 🙏🙏

Three weeks ago, our BLO rang the bell. He left the forms and shared the website where I could verify my electoral details dating back to 2002. My husband’s demise in 2022 had already been duly recorded following an earlier notification. For the life of me, I couldn’t find my records on the website. A YouTube tutorial on navigating the portal did warn that the exercise was possible, but tedious. So I called the mobile number the BLO had shared. I told him I vaguely remembered - because it had been a great source of amusement at the time - that my maiden surname Bahri had become Bihari and both my husband and I were Bihari Dhanda. I had no idea when it was corrected because my current voter ID and my husband’s now carry correct names with correct spellings. He asked me to WhatsApp him the QR code on my form and assured me that once he had the details, he would come by. Four days ago, at 10 a.m. sharp, we sat on my verandah over chilled nimbu-pani and warm mathris. He had patiently worked through the records and had tried every conceivable combination: my maiden name, my married name, reversing the order, even the infamous Bihari spelling. And he had found it. With all paperwork complete and records updated he moved on to my neighbours with a cheerful “Ram Ram, Ma’am,” I thanked him for his service before he left. Managing the electoral records of a billion people and doing it with patience, good humour and courtesy is no small feat. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

BBC Bangla coverage of return of Illegal Migrants to Bangladesh. Illegals accept on camera that they are in India illegally and now would want to return. Few points which the coverage shows: > On avg illegals have been in Bengal for last few years, only there are few cases where they have come to Bengal almost decades ago. > Some of the family members of illegals had left for Bangladesh during the inception of SIR in Bengal and rest are attempting to leave now after the new Bengal govt came to power. > Most of the illegals have been brought via smugglers/touts in batches from Bangladesh and were asked to start working in Bengal. > Some of them have documents issued by Bangladesh govt which cannot be declined by Bangladesh Border Guard Force. > a few echoed that they won’t be able to return to Bengal again, only way to visit India would be apply for appropriate visas. >Before illegals are leaving India, extensive documentation biometric details are being captured of all individuals.