Next big crisis will be of Water.
Lots of societies in the area are not getting water for an hour a day from last 2 months.
Societies are digging multiple bores in search of water but they are not getting a single drop.
You can live with lack of fuel
But u cant live with lack of Water.
J'ai de la peine pour William Petersen qui a joué dans deux films policiers qui ont floppé et qui sont de loin les plus grands polars de la décennie 80. Quand tu les vois, c'est dur de trouver un niveau égal à ceux-là à cette époque. Puis assez amusante cette rumeur où
Places that receive more than 3500 mm of annual rainfall should be the only ones allowed to have concrete roads
blocking groundwater recharge when cities are already struggling to maintain water levels
This is more like a scheme to make money for contractors & ruling party.
You either have very less population OR you straighten your people with danda.
There is no other way to civilise a country. Unfortunately India is high on imaginative vishwaguru and democracy churan.
I still don't understand why we need to have pre scheduled trains for peak routes like Mumbai Ahmedabad, Chennai Bengaluru, Chennai Coimbatore etc.
You know there's demand. You know there are many small but crucial stations en route a lot of people want to get on and get off
So Why do we need to go thru that monstrosity of a site called IRCTC, battle the buggy site to look up trains, use more attempts than Robert Bruce's spider to book that elusive ticket and then reach the station on a specific time, even when we are traveling for a relatively small distance like Chennai Katpadi or Mumbai Surat?
Why can't the railways run one Vande Bharat an hour on these routes and allow people to simply go and board it like a local train?
But hey, this is Bharat.
You have
1. Laadli and other freebee Yojnas
2. Ethanol blended fuel to support farmers
3. Reservations
4. God’s gift to mankind- IAS officers
So be grateful for that.
In Netherlands, there is train to Schiphol Airport and Amsterdam every 30-45 minutes from any part of the country. Best part is that ticket is valid till midnight for that day, so if you miss a particular train you can catch other at no extra cost
We missed a train somewhere in Europe in 2016, and I kid you not, my heart was in my mouth.
The tickets had been pre-booked by the travel agent months before, and we did not expect we would miss the train in such a dramatic fashion.
We were to take a bus from opposite our hotel to the railway station, barely a 50 m walk, but right at the moment we were supposed to step out, it started raining cats and dogs.
We saw a bus come and leave from the bus station while we were stuck in the hotel lobby without umbrellas and a boatload of luggage. How that hotel did not have a single umbrella, I still do not understand.
I think this was before Uber was available and no local taxis were to be found. We had already faced issues with our luggage being delayed by two days inbound by the Italian airline.
At that moment, I thought our entire trip was ruined because we would miss the train and the journey was too long and expensive by road.
I was already multiplying euros in my head. It was our first trip outside Southeast Asia, and we were still early in our careers.
Once the rain stopped, we took the next bus to the station just to find out how many days we will need to continue to be in this city.
You cannot imagine how surprised I was to find out that trains left every hour.
We were out a few thousand rupees, but the learning trains can be available every hour has stayed with me for all these years.
I only started traveling abroad around 2013 and first visited only Southeast Asia. It was only when I went to the Western Hemisphere that I understood how systems and processes can run for common people.
It is not that these countries are without issues or do not have significant inequality, just like India.
But their ability to get the basics right for their citizens is something we should emulate.