Neeraj Khare

One should always be serious abt laughing!!!

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

The western world has modern superheroes like the Batman and the Superman. Where are India’s superheroes? Hanuman and others are ancient. I’m talking about the modern ones 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

You either die an organic post or you live long enough to infiltrate into human dreams

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

The day when AGI arrives, is the day when animals will have rights

[ameet singh @ameetgsingh]

Shri @prasadpanseMT Namaskar - Thank you for your exceptional piece of yellow journalism, you have covered several topics in your scathing critique of us actvists especially of @SVYadwadkar 's & Prof @gurudasn 's work with regard to the RFD & Dr @sushmadate 's Prof @sumitakale 's & @prajpanshikar 's work on the tekdi.

Allow me to inform you and other journalists of a few facts. Perhaps that alone should help straighten out some misunderstandings.

The BOD or biochemical oxygen demand represents the amount of oxygen consumed by bacteria and other microorganisms while they decompose organic matter under aerobic circumstances, to break down the organic matter in the river - basically decompose our shit and piss in Pune. It should be about 2 mg per litre and abroad their thresholds are 1 mg or lesser. That's potable water. Guess how much it is in our Rivers - its about 25 mg, In Pashan Lake it's even higher at 33 plus, generally such articles do appear in your newspaper but since they're not op-ed pieces written by authority figures such as yourself they don't get read much, an example of such an article is in the link below
https://t.co/I76uukx3tc

Now never you mind, who wrote what, it should suffice for you to know that there were over 60 species of fish and other aquatic life in the river, now not even few species of fish exist. The two that are commonly found Tilapia and Cat Fish or Magur are both invasive, Near Zero native species exist.

I'm sure this doesn't bother you, it doesnt bother the government either. What they're bothered about - as are you is the 4700 crore that will be spent in the 1546 acre land grab that is this RFD. Over 5.5 crore tons of Debris and 2.5 crore tons of concrete will be poured into the river basin for meeting this objective. Nothing on cleaning up the river water. Zero on treating and repurposing sewage. JICA has been in the works since 2016. Nothing has been delivered, so that no more sewage gets dumped into the river. Much has happened instead on slaughtering the trees and the riparian embankments. Who writes about this. Nobody. Nothing also on conservation of what already exists. Is this the definition of development ?

None of this land (1546 acres) will house anything natural or any institutions. All of it instead will be used for "real estate" leverage purposes to pour further more debris and concrete to completely kill a almost dead river. Nobody asks, What will the city do without clean water ?

Pune consumes 200 crore litres of water everyday.
160 crore litres of this becomes sewage which gets dumped into the rivers and water bodies as is.
Over 20% of Pune's population or over 15 lakh people now depend on tankers for their water supply. The quality of water in the tankers is questionable. Yet almost 4000 tankers make over 20000 trips daily to supply 15 lakh people with dubious quality water whch people further purify with water filters and RO or other mechanistics to make it work for themselves.
Water ?

Wouldnt the 4700 crores be better spent on ensuring all of Pune's residents get 24X7 high quality water supply.
Shouldnt the sewage of the entire city be treated and repurposed before it is released into the river or anyplace else.

In fact, Why should the sewage (treated or untreated) be released into the river at all.

Shouldnt these be questions that responsible members of the fourth estate be asking before they write what they do.

If 4700 crore of public money is at stake for this RFD project and so are increases in costs over a period of time as admitted by you. Did these questions Never occur to you ?

If they did, what did you do about them.

Allow me to illustrate a new problem with regard to water supply. Now you're aware that the new UDCPR has taken away all height and FSI restrictions.

It simply means that 40 to 50 storey buildings are now being planned across Pune. A 40 to 45 storey buildings with a floor plate of 25000 sq ft on a plot size of one acre will mean, 11,25,000 sq ft and 2500 residents. Thes people will need 350,000 litres of water. That's 35 tankers. If one tanker takes half an hour to come empty itself and then leave. Thats 18 hours of tanker operations. It might mean the society has tankers perennially coming filling up the water and then leaving for a refill. 24 X 7. Is this new reality acceptable to you. If it is not, how come i dont see a single oped piece by any of you worthies on these issues. Shouldnt the 4700 crore be spent on providing Pune and its denizens with clean tanker free "piped" water first. 4700 crore is a lot of money. How many vanity projects must one complete before one genuinely feels like doing more for real people. @RJSangram

I'm sure the dengue, chickengunya or malaria numbers don't worry you much either cos many journalists such as yourself are busy shooting and scooting at us "sundry" activists over taking on the powers that be. Just so you know out of the huge population we have in India, 50% of us already have antibodies to fight dengue and malaria. 1 out of every 2 people has already been afflicted with these vectors. Do you think this is a great indicator of development ?

A few days ago Shri @nitin_gadkari visited Pune and announced 150,000 crore Rs worth of infrastructure projects for Pune alone. Not one journalist amongst you had the courage to ask him, when will Pune's roads become pothole free, zero defect and world class.

Not one of you media personalities could show him or @mohol_murlidhar or @SidShirole the disaster upon disaster that his projects worth thousands of crores have already heaped upon Pune, The pile up zone that Navle bridge has become, The story in confusion that the Jalebi of "Chandni Chowk" is, The fact that the Mumbai Pune expressway is perenially jammed to capacity on every long weekend and the gaping holes in the road on Atal Setu. This after having spent lakhs of crores on infrastructure both old and new which simply fail to deliver world class quality and accident free performance. Everyday Pune loses between one and two lives to accidents. Are only death by Porsche cases worth covering in newsmedia. What use are these roads if Traffic isnt mitigated ?

Unfortunately for us, you are the opinion makers without any control who question why we protect our rivers and our hills.

So, let me position this a bit differently. When PMC or Pune Municipal Corporation was founded in February 1950. Pune City limits were an agglomeration of a few villages and a few sq kilometres of territory, few hundred acres in all, the rest of the areas were either forest or villages, rivers & hill areas as the case may be.

Today Pune City along with PCMC is approximately 520 sq kilometres and about 130,000 acres. The forest area is now only 5000 acres. One thousand acres out of which are encroached upon and can never be reclaimed. That leaves 4000 acres and almost all of it is concentrated in the tekdi's. The tekdis are connected to each other, this Vetal tekdi complex alone harvests over 900 crore litres of rainwater every monsoon. It runs off into the Pashan Lake which holds 400 crore litres of the rain run-off. Now you want to bore tunnels into these open spaces and take elevated roads through them. You call this development. Aren't Punekars entitled to any forests any more ? Where do we get clean air from ?

What do we do for relief from air pollution, Where is the biodiversity of a city or is it only about buildings and more buildings nothing more...

Most children born after 1995 were born in concrete buildings, They played on concrete or asphalt. They perhaps never climbed a tree. They went to schools with Air-Conditioning and Fans. If an ant, bee or bug bites them, They have to be rushed to hospitals and given anti allergens. Many suffer from auto immune disorders. In Delhi 7/10 kids born after Year 2000 have some or the other form of COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Now that this is our truth, Should this continue to be our reality.

Pune kids can still go climb in the wilderness that surrounds us. Yet. They can cross over the sahyadris and go to the sunkissed beaches of the Konkan. How long will this last. If Dr Madhav Gadgil is to be believed it wont last long. Climate change will extract its toll. Therefore, shouldnt those thousands of crores be spent in making Pune city more climate resilient. Every time a journalist or a respected voice such as yours begins to write about development and delays surrounding development. Victimises the activists who question authority and environmentalists who talk about conservation. It is simply one more nail in the coffin of Pune.

Everytime its rains heavily enough that roads become sewers and swimming pools and life in Pune gets thrown out of gear, Everytime it floods and low lying areas get submerged, Everytime the heat is unbearable, Everytime you're stuck in crawling traffic that is simply grid locked, Everytime you breathe dust in the air and drink your water with some suspicion, Everytime you have a stomach upset and Everytime that you dont know where to throw the packaging your food came in. Everytime a mosquito bites you and Everytime you shut your nose to the stench of sewage and rotting piles of garbage, its "Development" Delay or no Delay, its all Development. Dont look any further.

[Tanmay Kanitkar @TanmayKanitkar]

काल एक महत्त्वाची गोष्ट घडली. कर्वेनगरमधला २५ लाख रुपये खर्चून बांधलेला सिमेंटचा एक छोटा रस्ता फारच खराब झाला आहे. Karvenagar Citizens' Forum कडून आम्ही पाठपुरावा करून माहिती काढली की Defect Liability Period (सोप्या भाषेत वॉरंटी पिरीयड) संपायच्या आतच रस्ता खराब झालाय. (1/3)

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

@vineet_tropmet @speak_zense @ajinkyab1991 Hey Vineet chances of rain on Sunday?

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

What the mess! Is it a bird?! Is it a plane? What is it? #Findyourhappy_ess

[Kunal Kalkundri @kunaallk]

Twitter folks.. something interesting coming up.. do follow on Insta and stay tuned! ⁦@neerajkhare⁩ https://t.co/u1qpJ4hJKc

[Chinmay Bhandari @iTsChinmay]

This is a deeply personal post, and it is my personal thought process.

Not many know that I am @Madhavbhandari_ (Madhav Bhandari, Vice President of BJP Maharashtra) son.

Today, I want to write about my father.

My father joined the Jansangh/Janata Party in 1975, a few years before it would become the BJP in 1980. It has been nearly 50 years.

Most people know him as a fiery spokesperson who became one of the most prominent voices of anger against the UPA government in Maharashtra from 2008 to 2014. But he has been much more than that, and he has done much more than that.

In these 50 years, he has helped build the organisation in various parts of Maharashtra in multiple roles. He has helped thousands of people and hundreds of villages across the state. He has positively influenced lakhs of lives.

He has shaped narratives and has brought attention to the misuse of power and many pressing issues the common people face. He has played a key role in solving critical challenges faced by the party and the party’s government after 2014. He has mentored karyakartas and local leaders across the state. He has authored several books, and has tried to preserve the intellectual core of the ideology he so deeply believes in.

All this while, he stayed away from the limelight for his work. He never misused his position and influence for personal gain.

I will give you an example of its extent. When he was vice president of Sindhudurg Jilha Parishad in the late 90s, our house was outside of town. The electricity grid is a kilometre away. So, instead of forcing MECB to build it for one house, he chose to wait for 18 months, and we lived without electricity for that period. This is while he was building roads and bringing electricity to many other villages.

There are countless such examples when he has put the party and people above him.

It has made him one of the universally respected political figures in the state.

Unfortunately, he remains one of the least rewarded leaders at the same time, too.

12 times in my life, I have seen his name in contention either for assembly or the upper house. And 12 times, it has not been finalized. I am not in any position to question or judge the leadership. I don’t even want to do that. Because, like my father, I too believe in them.

But it is my place to feel the hope and the pain. again and again.

He has never expressed his anguish in public. He has never tried to hurt the party that he has spent his life building. He has never stopped working for the party, not during his ill health, not even when he lost the person closest to him last year. In contrast, I have seen people who have been ministers or MPs multiple times cry of “injustice”, at the drop of a hat.

I am incredibly proud of the career that I have seen in front of me for the last 30-plus years.

It is in the last phase now.

I just hope for a due reward for somebody who so deeply deserves it, someone who has so richly earned it.
I know there are other people like him who have worked tirelessly and selflessly for the party and for the betterment of society. And I do hope the best for them too.

I have never shared something like this before, and mainly because I have stayed away from public life. Also because I knew that while I can't add to his legacy, I can destroy it in a moment. But I have been a silent witness all my life, and today I felt it was a moment to speak.

I know my father, stbacks and disappointments do not deter him, and they never will. He will continue to work for the party as long as he can, putting this nation, this state and its society first, as always.

[Kunal Kalkundri @kunaallk]

@shreyaghoshal on a random board in Salzburg! @ShreyaGhoshalFC

[Kunal Kalkundri @kunaallk]

Super cool. Can’t wait to see this one!

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

It is sad that relationships have an expiry date

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

Let’s go!!

[Aditya Reds @aditya_reds]

Let's f**king have it REDS #UpTheReds #NewVideo

Manchester United Season Preview 2023-24 by #adityareds

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

Nothing is permanent in life 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Watch the entire first episode on this platform. Great move by Apple!

Note, you can Airplay from your iPhone to TV to watch on a big screen.

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

@kunaallk Hahahaha 🤣

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

It's time for India to sell to the world!

[Nikhil Kamath @nikhilkamathcio]

To my many friends who have graduated from fancy colleges in the #US, working there, considering moving back home to start something. All indications point to #India being 'the place' to be this decade; from a relative standpoint, for an #entrepreneur, the opportunity is here...

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

The scenes are so heartwarming. You can see how much it means to Ten hag and the players #mufc

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

This win feels special. You can sense this is just a start. Bald is best. Casemiro is a beast #CarabaoCupFinal

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

Manchester is red. Ten hag you beauty. Marcus el phenomeno! #MUNMCI

[Neeraj Khare @neerajkhare]

Travelled via Samruddhi Expressway yesterday from Pune to Wardha. Entered at Shirdi interchange. Travel time decreased by 3.5 hours. The expressway is surely going to bring a new dawn for Vidarbha!