Governments increasingly seem to prefer turning history into spectacle because it is far easier than solving the problems of the present.
After Assam's greatest hero is brought to a national and global audience, what next? কি হব তাৰ পিছত?
#আলবাল
At what point do we stop calling this "heavy rain" and start calling it what it really is, that is, a failure of urban planning?
A few hours of rainfall, and Guwahati begins collapsing. Maligaon, Jorabat, Six Mile, Kahilipara, Zoo Road, Beltola, Panjabari, Hatigaon and several other localities are either submerged or crawling under massive traffic congestion. People are stranded for hours, businesses are disrupted, emergency services struggle to move, power cuts become routine, and an entire city's productivity is lost. In Jorabat alone, commuters reportedly remained stuck for over 10 hours. How can this ever be accepted as normal?
The question is no longer whether Guwahati will flood. The question is why it keeps flooding despite years of assurances. If desiltation has been carried out, where is the water supposed to go? If drains have been cleaned, why do they fail within hours? If plastic waste is blocking the flow, why is waste management still failing? If hills are sending down silt, why aren't preventive measures in place? If wetlands and natural drainage channels have disappeared under unchecked construction, who allowed that to happen? Every stakeholder has a role in this crisis, but no one seems willing to own it.
What is even more frustrating is how predictable all of this has become. The administration knows the vulnerable locations. The public knows them. The rain knows them. Yet every spell of rain unfolds exactly the same way, as if the city has learnt to prepare for traffic diversions instead of preventing flooding itself.
Infrastructure is not judged by how it performs on sunny days. It is judged by how it performs when conditions are tested. And right now, Guwahati is failing that test every single time it rains. DISAPPOINTED!
#Guwahati #GuwahatiCity #Flood
Hooliganism by Assam BJP youth leader Abhilash Dutta on the streets of Guwahati is condemnable
Holding power is not a licence for violence
Driver physically assaulted only for overtaking his vehicle. Victim filed FIR in Police station and alleged he later received death threats
The man who built Guwahati's first double-storeyed cement house was a timber merchant who exported Gharial skins to Australia and Canada from Guwahati, later became a successful tea planter, flew his own plane and even gifted the first animal to the Assam State Zoo. 1/9
Just look at the condition of a busy road in Guwahati in broad daylight. Green buses are blatantly choking the entire road, and it's evident that this is entirely deliberate. The entire stretch comes to a standstill simply because these drivers behave as though the road belongs only to them.
Yesterday two innocent people lost their lives because of the hooliganism of these green bus drivers. After countless complaints, repeated violations and endless inconveniences caused to the public, why are the authorities still silent?
Why is this behaviour still being tolerated? What exactly is wrong with the authority ?
Credit: rambabukumar_58 (Insta user)
#guwahati #guwahaticity
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma was seen taking a walk through the streets of Shillong without any visible security entourage.
Videos and photographs of the Chief Minister interacting with people and moving freely through the city have gained attention online, with many social media users highlighting the accessibility and public connect displayed during the outing.
@SangmaConrad
#Meghalaya #ConradSangma #Shillong #MeghalayaNews
@NewsAlgebraIND In most of the weddings in Assam, you will find this to be very common. Mentally challenged people, beggars, all come in and join the wedding. This is the beauty of my place ❤️
In most of the weddings in Assam, you will find this to be very common. Mentally challenged people, beggars, all come in and join the wedding. This is the beauty of my place ❤️
A mentally challenged man attended a wedding ceremony uninvited in Assam.
He quietly joined the guests for food, and nobody questioned him.
Before leaving, he took out ₹10 from his torn pocket and placed it in the bride’s hand as shagun 🥹❤️
Fantastic...In fact, when Shiva is asked by Parvati: "How can a wise man easily chant the 1000 names every day? It takes too long."
Shiva responds with a mathematical shortcut, a line of pure code that serves as a compression algorithm:
"राम रामेति रामेति रमे रामे मनोरमे ।"
सहस्रनाम तत्तुल्यं रामनाम वरानने ॥"
Chanting the name "Rama" 3x is equal to chanting the entire 1000 names. In ancient Katapayadi numerology (where Sanskrit letters are assigned numerical values):
Ra (र) is the 2nd semi-vowel (valued at 2)
Ma (म) is the 5th labial stop (valued at 5)
When we say "Rama", it is mathematically processed as 2*5 = 10. Saying it 3x in succession behaves like an exponentiation loop: 10*10*10 = 1000
Our ancient texts gave us the mathematical formula, the binary structure, the error-correcting codes, & a compression algorithm to run it all in a fraction of the time!
🚨HISTORY MADE🚨
World-famous Pakistani cricketer Babar Azam has been specially invited by FIFA to attend the FIFA World Cup opening ceremony and the opening match as an honored guest. ⚽🏆
Babar Azam will arrive in Mexico on June 14, where he will watch the match between South Africa and Mexico as a special guest.
This will be the first time in FIFA World Cup history that a cricketer has received a special invitation from FIFA.
It is not only a proud moment for Pakistan but also for the entire South Asian region.