“India’s number one problem is false pride. When a society becomes more interested in defending its image than fixing its problems, progress stops. Pride without self-reflection is not strength, it is denial.”
— Sabeer Bhatia, Founder of Hotmail
Have we elected these people to do all this drama? Elected CM to do havan like a megalomaniac on Modi’s birthday? Which other country has such scenes? Satya Niketan is fresh in people’s minds. Has Rekha ji done a shanti havan for those students’ families? They are complete failures when it comes to building a developed India of our dreams.
Since when did one man’s birthday become a govt event?
IAS officers doing arrangements, state machinery at work, 30,000 people being gathered.
Who’s paying for this celebration, the birthday boy or the taxpayer?
It’s a birthday, not a national festival.
You don't buy gold.
You don't travel abroad.
You do a car pool.
You sacrifice for the nation.
But we will burn Rs 50,00,000 worth of oil - in just one city - in a single day - to celebrate the birthday of a public servant.
If he is not given death plenty & executed within 3 months then entire Indian judiciary system from High court to Supreme Court must die in shame!!
A Hero That Trusted His Intuition.
The problem wasn’t that Morgan Stanley didn’t believe him.
Rick Rescorla had already been right once. After the 1993 basement bombing of the World Trade Center, the firm’s security chief walked the towers, studied the site, and reached a conclusion most people preferred not to hear: the World Trade Center was still a target. Next time, he said, it would not be a truck. It would be an airplane.
An airplane. In a 1993 report.
Executives listened. Then they looked at the lease.
Morgan Stanley was the largest tenant in the complex—twenty-two floors of the South Tower, thousands of brokers, and a trading infrastructure that could not be packed into boxes and wheeled across the Hudson.
They literally made it a trading center.
The contract with the Port Authority ran until 2006. Walking away from premium Manhattan space of that scale would have meant penalties measured in the hundreds of millions, plus the operational chaos of relocating an entire downtown machine. So the company stayed.
Rescorla adjusted. If they could not leave the building, they would learn to escape it.
He built a protocol and treated it like doctrine. Unannounced drills. No exemptions. Brokers who billed by the minute were pulled off their desks and sent into the stairwells two by two, starting from the top floors, leaving a lane for firefighters coming the other way.
People complained. He did not care. Practice, he believed, was the only thing that would beat panic.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower. From the 44th floor of the South Tower, Rescorla could see the fire. Then the Port Authority came over the speakers: the South Tower was secure. Stay at your desks.
Rescorla grabbed a bullhorn and ignored them.
He started the drill his people already knew by heart. Floor by floor, two by two, down the stairs. He sang as he moved—Cornish songs from childhood, then “God Bless America”—keeping the line moving, refusing to let the stairwell become a stampede. Seventeen minutes later, the second plane struck the South Tower.
By then, most of Morgan Stanley was already on the way out.
Of the 2,687 employees in the building that morning, all but 13 survived.
It was stunning.
Rescorla could have been outside with them. He went back up instead. Colleagues told him to leave. He said he would, as soon as he was sure no one was left behind.
He was last seen around the 10th floor, heading higher.
The South Tower fell at 9:59 a.m. They never found him.
He was one of the 13.
He was a hero in every sense of the word.
Remember Rick Rescorla, he remembered for us.
If i was a foreign fund investor , I would have sold entire holdings in india.
But wait they are already doing it inspite of GDP growth of 7.8%
What kind of growth is this , where no one is willing to buy india .
Can someone explain me this logic please , ye wala finance nahi padha aaj tak ,that people are not willing to buy growth 😂
When Politics Was Not A Business.
Meet Sardar Teja Singh Sutantar, our MP from #Sangrur#Punjab in 70s.
When he died in Parliament on 12 April 73 due to cardiac arrest, he was Carrying A Jhola, which when opened in the presence of the then PM had two chapatis and pickle.
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A can of Fanta sold in London has 63 calories. Buy the same brand in India, and it contains three times as much sugar. It also includes artificial dye, whose presence in food products in Europe requires a prominent health warning.
In India, the colorant’s presence is noted merely in small print on the back of the can. That suits some of the world’s biggest companies, which have long resisted Indian efforts to mandate nutritional warnings on the front of packaged products. Read more: https://t.co/AdhqNFiVG5
A can of Fanta sold in London has 63 calories. Buy the same brand in India, and it contains three times as much sugar. It also includes artificial dye, whose presence in food products in Europe requires a prominent health warning.
In India, the colorant’s presence is noted merely in small print on the back of the can. That suits some of the world’s biggest companies, which have long resisted Indian efforts to mandate nutritional warnings on the front of packaged products https://t.co/skAERVVhl9
If traffic is not a problem on Indian roads - Why do VIP’s clear it for themselves?
If education is ok in India - why do VIP’s send their kids abroad and pay huge sums of money for them ?
If religion in India is about love-then why is there so much hate and violence in it?