This is Yamika Gandhi, who has been a data scientist living in New Zealand.
She said:
тАЬSo it's 4 PM, and my office is empty because people usually work from home on Fridays. My colleague sent me a message saying, 'Thank you, Yamika. I really appreciate the work that you do.'
I am confused about what to reply because I'm not doing them a favor. These are my normal work hours, between 9 to 5, and I'm paid to do this work. If I do something even mildly good, people notice it and appreciate me for it.
My manager told me not to do more than 40 hours a week. And if I am doing a little more one day, then I should take some time off the following day to balance work-life.
But in India, our managers forced people to work overtime and sometimes even on the weekends because the harder you work, the more respectable you are. And it's often measured in the quantity of hours rather than the quality.тАЭ
I completely agree with Yamika. Having a healthy personal life is important.
But in India, there are people like Narayana Murthy who have good personal lives themselves but want others to work 70-72 hours a week.
Petrol Price = Rs. 50 (Without Tax)
Ethanol Price = Rs. 85 (Without Tax)
Ethanol is costlier than Petrol
Ethanol is damaging vehicle Milage
Then why government is promoting Ethanol ???
What is the benefit of Government ??????
If that's the case, then why not simply sell pure petrol, which is cheaper? Why add ethanol to it? What purpose does it serve, other than making a few families richer and richer?
The 1978 Ranga-Billa case involved the brutal kidnapping and murder of teenage siblings Geeta and Sanjay Chopra in Delhi by career criminals Kuljeet Singh (Ranga) and Jasbir Singh (Billa).
The horrific crime shocked the nation, leading to a massive manhunt and the swift conviction of both killers, who were ultimately hanged in 1982.
The investigation was led by Inspector VP Gupta of the Delhi Police, with SI Ram Chander serving on the team. A bystander, who had tried to save the children, and later helped the police identify the killers by providing their descriptions was Babulal. The journalist who covered the case was Prabha Dutt.
Amazon Prime's series Raakh, which is based on this incident, replaces Inspector VP Gupta with SI Jayprakash Jatav, explicitly portrayed as a Dalit officer navigating institutional bias. Furthermore, SI Ram Chander is replaced by SI Javed Murtaza, Babulal by Saleem, and Prabha Dutt by Nisar, while a lazy hawaldar character named Mishra has been added to the narrative.
This isn't creative liberty. Creative liberty is meant to enhance a story, not distort historical facts to fit a specific ideological agenda. Another stark reminder of how easily history can be rewritten in plain sight under the convenient guise of creative freedom.
So many of us have looked after our cars like family.
Watching them get damaged right in front of our eyes is painful.
This is unacceptable. This ethanol obsession must stop!
When during Covid, the Govt kept increasing the Excise duty on fuel, people didn't object much as the usage was less due to WFH for most.
Later, the govt didn't reduce excise till crude became expensive late last year / early this year.
Now after state elections, they increased prices in stages but no sign of reducing them when the price is falling.
This only prices that the intention of this Govt is to loot its own citizens, while the PM, ministers, MPs make merey at the cost of taxpayers.
People should remember this before voting in 2029.