Reetika Sharma

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[Reetika Sharma @rashireads]

I dont know why people don't understand that they there is a Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir.

[Bibhu nandan @Bibhunandan5]

Why I support 5 working days of bankers -
2 years ago I went to a bank for car loan at 7pm and the lady (probably a PO ) who was pregnant sanctioned it at 8pm . I asked her wasn't she getting late!
She said it was normal .
Imagine her work life balance .

[Phantom @ElonUncleSays]

Public Sector Banks would turn into Negative Gross Profit , if such fine is imposed on PSBs for late sitting as per SOL-EOD timing.

But we have a Union Leader who proudly come back home after signing with IBA that there are no such instances of Late Sitting observed in Public Sector Banks in last year.

Pathetic leadership by @rupamsmail

I respect @ChVenkatachalam because he has achieved fixed working hours for Workmen.

Only Union Leader who talks against late sitting culture in his every speech is @kmarkri , none other has such guts to be outspoken like he is. Give him your support, he can achieve which is always a dream for Bankers. Give him a chance, see the change.

Would request every banker to retweet it and tag such leaders who speaks against late sitting as a token of appreciation here.
@alashshukla @idesibanda

[TheBanker’sMirror @bankaffairs]

After 30 YEARS of loyal service, SBI employee K.S.R. Sastry applies for VRS in 2001, gets ACCEPTED... then dies of heart attack just weeks before retirement date.

SBI's response? "Sorry, no benefits for your family. Rules!"

Denied ₹9.48 lakh like vultures circling a corpse.

Court had to SLAP them in 2026 to pay up! SBH merged into SBI but humanity didn't.

Banks scream "We serve the nation" but treat employees like disposable trash. Heartless monsters.

Shame on SBI!

#SBICruelty @TheOfficialSBI
News Source : from Hello Banker

[Alankrit Shukla @alashshukla]

Hi Indians,

Keep an eye on bankers. Kahi lunch na kar lein. Karte dikhe to turant videos banane lag jaao.. views ki 100% guarantee.
Wo kya hai na.. kisi aur office me ye kar nahi paaoge.

Regards,

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

Vipin Kumar is an Indian construction worker in Romania.

One day, while he was walking near Nicolae Romanescu Park in Craiova, he saw a girl slip through a thin layer of ice and start struggling in the sub-zero water. Her father tried to reach her but became trapped in the broken ice.

Without any hesitation, Vipin used a nearby sledge to slide toward her. When the ice broke beneath him as well, he plunged into the freezing water, managed to grab the child, and held her above the surface for nearly 30 minutes until emergency crews arrived.

Both Vipin and the girl suffered severe hypothermia and were rushed to the hospital, where they received treatment.

Romania granted honorary citizenship to Vipin Kumar for his bravery and for risking his own life to save the girl.

Nowadays, social media is filled with hate against India, and Indians are increasingly being targeted. But when stories like this emerge, they rarely receive the same attention. They are not shared as widely, and somewhere along the way, these stories get buried and forgotten.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

"He has to go play."

Says the mother, clutching the bat of her son, Vihan, 11, who died after a tree fell on the school bus he was travelling in, in Mumbai. She says her son will return and go play, just as he did every day after school.

All of you, especially those who have children, can imagine the unbearable pain she must be going through. You bring a life into this world. You love them, nurture them, teach them values, witness their first smile, their first word, watch them run into your arms when you come home from work, and create countless precious memories. Once you become a parent, your children become your entire world. The thought of losing them is something no parent should ever have to endure.

This fate would still have been understandable had it been a truly unavoidable accident. But, as usual, there were warning signs. Residents of the area where the tree fell on the bus had repeatedly complained to the BMC about the condition of the trees.

In fact, the Garden Dept of BMC had also warned the Road Dept of BMC that road excavation was damaging tree roots, making the trees vulnerable to collapse during the monsoon. It asked them to stop digging near roots, remove the debris and warned it would be held responsible if any tree fell. But it wasn't taken seriously.

Now, the mayor has ordered an inquiry. Now, tree pruning will begin. Now, every necessary action will be taken. Sarkari kaam hota hai, lekin balidaan ke baad. Vihan ne balidaan de diya hai. Ab kuch dino tak sab kaam honge.

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.

‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.

‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’

‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’

‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’

She stopped dead.

‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’

That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.

Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.

So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.

‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’

A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.

My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.

‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’

The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.

Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’

Case closed.

At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.

If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.

The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.

Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.

Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’

The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.

#SundayMusings

[Newton Bank Kumar @idesibanda]

Chief Manager of SBI slapped by AGM for requesting early leave for Son's Birthday celebration.

How he dared! Being CM U can't leave Bank Branch before 9pm, Coz Scale 4 is just a Executive Peon Class. That's reason many talented people don't take promotion above Scale 3 in PSBs.

[Hellobanker @Hellobanker_in]

🚨 Breaking News

SBI Chief Manager slapped by Senior Officer for leaving early to celebrate child's birthday. Can't Bank employees celebrate birthday of their childs also? The toxicity in banking is increasing day by day. The incident took place in Junagadh Gujarat.

The complaint has been filed by Chief Manager Ravindra Dharmanath Prasad against SBI Office Head Sudhir Sharma, who is posted at the SBI office near Bhadadheen College.

Read full news: https://t.co/XtizXRSdwx

@TheOfficialSBI #sbi #gujarat

[Hellobanker @Hellobanker_in]

People expect one bank employee to handle 200 customers a day. Is that realistic? Banks across the country are facing severe staff shortages, and the public needs to understand the pressure under which employees work. Lunch breaks are a basic necessity in every office—government or private. Should bank employees be expected to work without lunch?

[Yogesh Kumar @bankpediaa]

If anyone wants an example of the worst Finance Minister in the world, just point at her.

Let me tell you what this failure looks like from inside a PSU bank.

Wage revision was pending for years. Bank employees sat in offices, served crores of customers, kept the financial system running — and waited. Pension issues remained unresolved. Promises were made in meetings and forgotten in minutes.

5-day banking was discussed, debated, demanded. Every other government department gets it. Bank employees don’t. They work 6 days a week, miss weekends, miss their children growing up, miss their own health breaking down slowly.

Mental health inside PSU banks is a silent crisis. Nobody talks about it officially. But if you work in a branch, you already know.

Officers are pushed to sell insurance policies, meet targets that have nothing to do with actual banking. The pressure doesn’t stop at 6 PM. It follows them home.

And while all this was happening, PSU banks posted record profits. The Finance Ministry celebrated. The employee who made it possible got nothing extra. No five-day week. No resolved pension. No fair wage revision.

Economic pain, rising burdens on citizens, zero accountability.

This is not just bad policy. This is a complete failure of leadership.

If you are a banker and you felt this, share this post. Because this conversation needs to be louder.

[TheBanker’sMirror @bankaffairs]

#5DayBanking demand continuously ignored.
Huge #PLIDiscrimination
Bankers are overworked, harassed, humiliated, and still denied fair wage revision and work-life balance.

Nearly 7 lakh bankers across India ( Leaving Executives as they benefitted by huge Pli) , along with their families and supporters, represent a powerful democratic voice.
If every banker influences even 100 votes, nearly 7 crore votes are in our hands.

The 2024 Lok Sabha election proved that even a small vote swing can change political equations.
The national vote difference between major alliances was only around 10–15 lakh votes.

While corruption and financial irregularities keep increasing in the banking system, the genuine concerns of honest employees are sidelined.

Ignoring the genuine demands of bankers is no longer just an HR issue , it has become a major public issue.

@nsitharaman
@DFS_India
@narendramodi @RahulGandhi @BJP4India @INCIndia

[Yogesh Kumar @bankpediaa]

My branch hit 102% on deposits that year.

My section had zero audit objections. Zero customer complaints. My individual target achievement was documented at 94%.

I expected an ACR of 85. Maybe 88.
I got 74%.

The remarks said: "Officer shows satisfactory performance but needs improvement in taking initiative beyond assigned duties."

I read that line four times. I did not understand it.
Then a colleague explained.

My Branch Manager had wanted me to attend weekend marketing drives. And after-hours customer outreach programs. These were not in my KRA. Not mentioned anywhere in my targets. I had politely said no. Family commitments on weekends.

That 'no' became: does not take initiative beyond assigned duties.
That one line kept me out of the promotion pool for that entire year.

Not because I failed. I exceeded every target they gave me.

Because I went home on a Saturday.
This is not a complaint. This is just what the ACR system actually is.

Performance is what you achieve. ACR is what your manager felt about you while you were achieving it.
I wrote a book about this. Because nobody should find this out the same way I did.

- A Banker

Link in first comment.

[Pratiba Kaul @pratiba_sk]

Official Name: Anantnag. Named for its numerous springs, Anant means “many” and Nag means “serpents/springs.” This area is home to many natural springs.

Islamabad, an Islamic name given by Muslims, undermines the historical significance and cultural heritage of the region.
RT for ANANTNAG 🧡

[Rishap Vats @VatsRishap]

As an Indian, the pure satisfaction of watching these people being humiliated on the global stage for their ridiculous claims about mediation and their pretenses of rejecting “off ramps,” after what they pulled following Op Sindoor last year, is truly priceless.

[Aditya Kondawar @aditya_kondawar]

The most radical innovation at Lemon Tree Hotels had nothing to do with room design or pricing. It was about who stood behind the reception desk, who cleaned the rooms, and who served breakfast

In a dialogue between the HR department and the CMD, Patu Keswani, they decided to hire 2 differently-abled people. "It was an experiment. The team was not sure how the new staff members would integrate with the rest of the team or if they could do the job," says Aradhana. The impact of this small gesture was apparent when Mr. Keswani was approached by a very emotional mother of one of these persons with an invitation to attend his wedding. The possibility of this nuptial would have been negligible if the boy had no job. By merely giving an opportunity, everything changed. And, the business continued to gain from the services of 20+ differently-abled resources. Since that day, there has been no looking back.

What started as an experiment evolved into one of the most ambitious inclusion programs in the global hospitality industry. Currently, ~13% of Lemon Tree employees are from this disadvantaged segment of the population, although the company targets and often achieves a rate closer to 20% in many properties.

"This is not charity, it is our business model" became Lemon Tree's mantra. The numbers backed it up. Employees with disabilities showed lower attrition rates (12% v/s industry avg of 50%). They demonstrated higher loyalty, better attendance, and often superior performance in their designated roles. The deaf employees in housekeeping communicated through visual cues and checklists, often resulting in more thorough cleaning. Staff with Down syndrome, working in consistent routines, excelled in laundry and food service roles.

Lemon Tree Hotels has been presented the National Award by the President of India for 'Best Employer of Persons with Disabilities' in 2016 and 2011, and a third National Award in 2012 for being a 'Role Model in providing a Barrier Free Environment to Persons with Disabilities'.

The business case was compelling. In an industry plagued by 50-100% annual turnover, Lemon Tree's inclusive hiring created a stable, dedicated workforce. Training costs dropped. Service consistency improved. And something unexpected happened—guests noticed. The genuine warmth from employees who had been given opportunities they couldn't find elsewhere created an authenticity that no amount of hospitality training could replicate.

The ripple effects went beyond the hotels. Lemon Tree partnered with NGOs to create training programs. They developed visual communication systems that became industry standards. They proved that infrastructure changes for accessibility—ramps, visual alerts, modified workstations—cost less than the savings from reduced turnover.

By making inclusion a business strategy rather than a CSR initiative, Lemon Tree didn't just change lives—it changed the economics of hospitality employment in India.

This is awesome!

Src – Empor top, no reco

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

India’s most popular leader, who entered the 2024 election dreaming of 400 seats, lost nearly 10% of his vote share at his own constituency, abruptly, without any organisational collapse or visible anti-incumbency.

This didn’t happen randomly. A "conditional" support base, one that supports power only in exchange for special privileges and constant political reassurance, shifted its voting pattern almost overnight, triggered merely by the narrative that “samvidhan badal diya jayega.”

The result was telling: Modi’s victory margin crashed from 4.8 lakh in 2019 to just 1.5 lakh in 2024. He sailed through because another group, the "unconditional" supporters, who ask little, defend fully, and absorb mistakes silently, held the fort. Imagine the historical embarrassment if 75,000 more votes had shifted toward Ajay Rai.

Now, the BJP has managed to alienate even this unconditional group. Their tolerance had a long rope, but even that has been breached. It won’t end too well for the party unless they make quick amends.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Very few people know that science at the time of Aryabhatta was so advanced that he built a time machine in 499 AD and travelled to modern India, specifically to 27 January 2025, where he watched Dharmendra Pradhan giving aashvaasan to the media that he would not allow anyone to misuse the UGC rules.

Thereafter, Aryabhatta returned to his time, applied advanced calculations, limit theory, and repeated-value analysis on Dharmendra Pradhan’s aashvaasan. After multiple attempts to derive its practical worth, every equation consistently converged to the same result: 0. That's how Aryabhatta invented zero.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

If a person gets into MBBS through reservation and, even after 5½ years of medical training, still can’t secure basic qualifying marks for PG, forcing PG cutoffs to be pushed down to minus 40, then reservation at the MBBS level was pointless. It didn’t empower anyone.