We Indians are raised to never question elders even when they’re wrong. Turns out the country runs on the same system. Speaking up for issues means disrespecting the nation. Staying silent means you’re a good citizen. Same conditioning, bigger stage.
An enumerator from Rajasthan told The Hindu on condition of anonymity, “In the mobile app, if we enter that a household has a tin roof, we are asked by our superiors to change it to concrete. Are we supposed to lie? Similarly, if the house does not have a toilet and occupants are defecating in the open, we are told to check if there is a toilet nearby, even that of a neighbour or a relative, which they may be using occasionally or even a public urinal. Then the entry can be changed from ‘open defecation’ to having access to a toilet.”
The Modi regime has hollowed out this country:
“In the mobile app, if we enter that a household has a tin roof, we are asked by our superiors to change it to concrete. Are we supposed to lie?
Similarly, if the house does not have a toilet and occupants are defecating in the open, we are told to check if there is a toilet nearby, even that of a neighbour or a relative, which they may be using occasionally or even a public urinal.
Then the entry can be changed from ‘open defecation’ to having access to a toilet.”
In india, if your best friend kills themselves after the mismanagement of the most career and life defining exam in your life and you are upset about, people will tag the home minister to complain that you are saying fuck and talking about it as a teenager
🚨: Chinese biologist Hongmei Wang seeks to extend women's fertile life by making menstruation occur every 3 months.
Which would theoretically preserve more eggs and extend the fertile period.
Big change for Oscars: International movies can now be submitted if they win a major film festival, even if their home country doesn’t submit. Will prevent great films from being snubbed for political reasons and make the Intl category even more competitive.
Everyone get this? How do you randomly disturb millions (billions?) of users in one go with an alarming msg? Zero thought given towards how to test.
DoT is building quite a track record: Sanchar Saathi, SIM binding...this.
I expect @JM_Scindia will mess up Net Neutrality too.
Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing.
I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean.
https://t.co/hivzYl1N0Z
Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵
Tree transplantation and afforestation claims in India by the govt and its agencies aren't just barefaced lies but a money-making scam of monumental scale.
Don't. Fall. For. Them.
Too many people in their 30s and 40s are afraid of being out of step with the youth. You *should* be out of step with the youth. You need to be discovering very niche genres of music. You need to develop a fixation with an historical era. Welcome to being gloriously uncool.
Exactly! When we had to go to from Versova to Andheri to BKC to Crawford by metro – no connecting buses, the marol naka stations where the crossover is, is walkable due to roads being dug up, no footpath and too short for a rick. It's bad planning.
Metros run on steel tracks, but their ridership runs on buses. Remove the city bus routes that feeds their ridership and half the metro will become white elephants overnight.
West Bengal's 2026 electoral rolls are 'public' for the record. But they are published as scanned image PDFs, behind CAPTCHAs, with watermarks obscuring voter names. You can't search them. You can't analyse them. And that's not an accident. @Holytripper
https://t.co/goUEaYwwcO