In any other country, this would be treated as a grave criminal act.
A young life lost due to poor quality of infrastructure and callousness of civic agencies in the heart of our capital city.
Hearing out Gen Z.
My father's caretaker is a 24 year old guy. Hails from Kanpur. He has done BSc Nursing and we have hired him through an agency that provides elder-care professionals at home.
Spends 12 hours at our home (8 am to 8 pm), rarely takes a leave. A very diligent guy, soft-spoken, well-read (keeps reading books from my collection) and speaks pretty fluent English.
On the morning of 20th July, he calls up and says he is not feeling well. On 21st he came, was limping a bit. Did not share what happened.
Yesterday he shared with dad that he told a lie. On 20th he had gone to Jantar-Mantar for supporting the students' protest and was hit by the police truncheon during lathi-charge. While running, lost his shoe and twisted his ankle.
Last night when I went home and was having dinner, dad told me about this. Today morning when he came I talked to him and realized what 'generation(al) gap' means.
While talking to him I realized, he was 9-10 when Anna Andolan happened. He was 10-11 when Arvind Kejriwal became the CM for the first time. He was 11-12 when BJP formed the government in 2014. The NEET aspirants are even younger than him. They were toddlers 12 years ago.
Some of the things we have lived through, are alien to him. All he has seen since he started experiencing the world is the current government and Modi as the PM. So for him, everything that he and his generation is been through in last 7-8 years since he 'grew up' - the responsibility lies with the current government.
He mentioned that there are 1000s of youngsters who have travelled from as far as Lucknow and Varanasi for these protests.
Again on being asked why? Why did he and his friends join the protest? Why these students have come so far to join the protests?
NEET exam leak was the last thing on his mind. The reasons he gave were - everything becoming expensive and unaffordable, no job opportunities, government's and police's high-headedness, corruption everywhere - and then went on to mention falling bridges, broken roads, no footpaths, stray dogs and cattle all around and dumps of garbage everywhere. He called ethanol-blending a scam.
I felt he was just waiting to burst out everything that's piled up in his mind. Glad that heard him out.
Then I realized that there are millions like him and these protests are not just about the NEET exam leak. These are the piled up frustrations finding a way out.
I was calm when Mbappe stat padded in a third place game to eclipse Messi to win the WC golden boot.
I was calm when Olise did the same to surpass Messi on the assist chart.
I lost it when a player who won 6 MOTM out of 8 was not given the Golden Ball award that he deserved.
@shivaji_1983 Stick to wealth management and funds boss. Stop the CR7 narrative nonsense.
Have some respect for greatness. Reaching 3 out of the last 4 finals and winning 1 out of 3 is no joke. It’s a dream for the so called star studded “Tall” CR7’s teams.
@jdcarX Greatest WC match of all time was the 2022 final. STFU with the stupid English propaganda over a half hearted irrelevant match. Your hype is the main reason why English team hasn’t won a WC since 60 years. Motivate your team to win something FFS.
I am not anti national but this ethanol Petrol is giving heart attacks from bike users to high-end car users . My friend( a sympathiser of BJP) who bought Toyota Camry recently had to change valves of the engine. Which cost him 3.5 lks . If the same happens to my new Porsche Panamera the cost would be approx 12 lks🤯. So I had to shift to high octane 100 Petrol at the cost of. Rs 165 rs a litre . What about bike users or anyone for that matter . nightmares . As a former leader of bjp i understand, the party has a strong think tank plans a,b& c but this decision to protect the environment at the cost of crores of people certainly look very hasty & radical . With about 2 years for the next elections & the last results which ended up in a coalition government is any indication , this is red signal for the Bjp. Small countries like Brazil have successfully implemented ethanol in a phase wise manner and succeeded. Why the hurry? See the cost of various petrol variants I posted below . Just telling.
The E0 Petrol which was available for Rs 65 per litre while crude was $130 per barrel is now available at ₹170 per litre when crude is $80 per barrel.
Isnt this development ?