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[Kolandha @rombakashtam]

@Ask_koppal @ChristinMP_ Moved one station and stuck again lol

[St. Broseph @St_Brosephs]

A man rents out his car (worth nearly 9 Lakh Rupees) to another person. The other party takes the vehicle, eventually absconds with it, and cuts contact, effectively committing theft.

Why is it then that @sampigehallips refuses to file an FIR? Why protect these criminals? (1/3)

[Arsenal Babe @arsenalbabe_]

LONDON: A 15-year-old boy stunned a London courtroom after refusing to live with every family member the judge suggested claiming his parents, aunt, and grandparents had all beaten him.

With no relatives left to place him with, the judge asked who he wanted custody from.

The boy calmly replied:
“Chelsea FC. They can’t beat anyone.”

After checking legal guidelines, the judge granted temporary custody to the team.

That’s it, ladies and gentlemen.

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

28 deliveries.
15 hours of relentless work.
₹763 earned.

This is not a “gig economy success story”.
This is systemic exploitation hidden behind apps & algorithms.

I raised this issue in Parliament recently. Low pay, crushing targets, no job security, no dignity for gig workers.
This Blinkit case only confirms what millions live every day.

India cannot build a digital economy on the backs of underpaid, overworked human beings.
Fair wages, humane hours and social security for gig workers are non-negotiable.

[House of the Dragon @H_O_T_Dragon]

AQI has finally reduced to <100

Thank you Rekha Gupta ji.

@Saurabh_MLAgk @SauravDassss

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

> be me, 28m wagie living in Delhi
> wake up at 8 AM for my IT coolie job
> look out window, can’t see anything except a Grey haze
> neighbhourhood looks like the inside of a tandoor that hasn't been cleaned since 1947
> chest feeling heavy, congestion built up in lungs
> must be the weather changing
> check phone
> open IQAir app (Western propaganda tool)
> screen is deep purple
> AQI 650: "Hazardous. Do not breathe. Just die."
> panic.jpg
> am I being gaslit by the atmosphere?
> turn on nationalist TV news channel
> see senior Minister
> looks calm, composed, probably breathing filtered Himalayan air in the studio
> “Global rankings are not official. WHO guidelines are just suggestions.”
> “India sets its own standards based on geography.”
> realization hits me
> foreign AQI is a colonial construct
> Westoid lungs are weak, cannot handle the texture of Desi air
> they need ‘clean air’ because they lack civilizational immunity
> delete IQAir immediately
> install ‘Sarkari Vayu Sewa’ app
> refresh location
> AQI is 45: “Satisfactory”
> it’s not PM2.5, it’s ‘Atmanirbhar Particles’
> it’s not smog, it’s ‘Viksit Vapor’
> go to balcony
> take a deep breath of sovereign, non-aligned air
> taste the sulphur
> cough up a black glob
> stare at it
> it looks vaguely like a map of Akhand Bharat
> tears stream down my face (mostly from the nitrogen dioxide, but also patriotism)
> Global Index: Rejected
> Lungs: Congested
> Nation: Protected
> mfw I successfully rejected Western imperialism by reducing my life expectancy by 10 years

[Neil Borate @ActusDei]

EPFO meeting yesterday has announced some alarming provisions:
1) Full withdrawal in case of unemployment will happen after 12 months vs 2 months currently
2) Full withdrawal of pension after 36 months rather than 2 months currently
3) 25% of your EPF, kept in EPF always!

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

No Prime Minister in History has embarrassed India on global stages like Narendra Modi

From forced hugs to cheap touches, he is just too much 😭😭😭

Epic thread of compilation 🧵

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

Don't panic Modiji, it’s an old pic.

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

BIG BREAKING 🚨

DMK has written to ECI asking to STRICTLY FOLLOW the procedures during counting of votes ⚡

DMK made it clear to ECI to reserve the first 30 minutes of counting only for postal ballots.

EVM counting should start only after the expiry of 30 minutes when postal ballot counting is done & results are also declared.

Kudos to DMK for taking a powerful stand to ensure smooth & transparent vote counting 🔥

Every political party needs to ensure the same that ECI strictly follows the ‘Conduct of Election Rules’.

#LokSabhaResult #ElectionResults

[Chetty Arun @ChettyArun]

I spoke with yet another scammer today. I don't know why I do this, but here we go.

It all started with a few annoying Whatsapp messages trying to scam me. But we ended up wishing each other good luck 😂

1/n

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[Tonmoy Goswami @tonmoygo]

In 2004, my dad filed a case of medical negligence against one of India's most powerful hospitals viz. Batra Hospital, Delhi and Padmashree awardee cardiologist Dr Upendra Kaul.

Case was filed in the state consumer court, Delhi & my dad asked for a compensation of Rs. 80 lakh. (80,00,000 INR)

After 11 years, in 2015 my dad passed away, without getting justice.

My senior citizen widowed mother decided not to give up.

TLDR; we won the case after 19 long years, but what transpired is a story that teaches you that, in India, it's better if you can settle outside the court.

But, sometimes it's not about the compensation, settlement, or winning a case; it's about making sure the perpetrators are taught a lesson so that the negligence never gets repeated. It's also about closure.

Here's the story of how a common middle-class Indian family from Assam fought a mighty & powerful establishment in their own city (Delhi) for 19 long years and brought the hospital to its knees:

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It's a long story, but I'll try to keep it short.

In 2004, my dad went to Delhi alone for a routine heart check-up & returned with a pace-maker in his chest.

Escalated too quickly? Exactly my mother's reaction when he called from Delhi asking her to immediately board a flight from our hometown in Guwahati, Assam.

Long story short:
1. Dad went for a diagnostic study called EPS. Batra hospital took consent for it.
2. Protocol is that if EPS study came abnormal, RFA is suggested as the next step as a treatment after discussing with the patient. Patient needs to provide a fresh consent for RFA.
3. However, if the pathways are too close, RFA is risky & is not recommended as it can be fatal.
4. EPS shows if pathways are close or not.

My dad's EPS showed that pathways are close.

In spite of that, Batra hospital and its cardiologists went ahead and performed RFA:
a. Without consulting with the patient or relatives.
b. Without taking fresh consent as it's a separate procedure.

Things then went south real quick.

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Due to closeness of pathways, obvious complications occurred & my dad's life was in danger. The only way to save him? Put a pace-maker in his chest immediately!

So that's what they did: put a temporary pace-maker while informing my mother to immediately catch a flight to Delhi so that they can put a permanent pace-maker the next day.

And you would think, the ordeal would end there? Cute.

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My parents returned home after a few days & dad was supposed to recover.

But instead, we saw his chest area getting swollen day by day. We freaked out and consulted a cardiologist in Guwahati. And they confirmed the worse: the pace-maker was not installed properly and one of the pipes pierced through his heart.

He needs an urgent emergency open-heart surgery to fix the pace-maker.

So, my family went through another few days of anxiety, stress and disbelief.

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My dad, is known in our friends and family circles as someone who's always been an super-active person; always engaged in some form of work; be it gardening, fixing electronics, repairing things around the house. My mother used to call him the perfect engineer since he could fix anything compared to the other two engineers in the family viz. me and my sister who were lazy compared to him.

The series of surgeries and a pace-maker did slow my dad down, but couldn't kill his spirit. However, we could see the difference. We would pace himself while climbing stairs etc.

It would hurt us a lot. And him too.

So he decided to drag Batra Hospital to the consumer forum.

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Our family advocate resides in Kolkata and he agreed to take the case up pro-bono. We assumed it'll be an open and shut case. And since it's consumer court, we assumed it will be quick justice.

Oh, we are so wrong. So so wrong.

My dad attended every single hearing of the case from 2004 till 2015 when he passed away. He used to take a flight from Guwahati while booking a ticket for our advocate from Kolkata. Then there was cost of accommodation in Delhi.

Attending these hearings was no cheap affair. When you add up each hearing over 19 years...it quickly adds up to a large amount.

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On many occasions, someone from hearing judge bench would be absent so nothing would happen. You get a new date, months in the future.
Or the opposite party advocate would be absent, or cite lame excuses to stall the proceedings. E.g. once the opposite advocate asked the court for a new date since his colleague was stuck in traffic and couldn't reach the court. And we were given a new date!

Imagine the frustration.

And this happened over 11 years till my dad passed away.

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When dad passed away, Batra Hospital might have heaved a sigh of relief. Can't blame them; they had not yet met my mother.

She decided to continue the fight. That's when I started taking active participation as well.

Let's take a pause and understand why it took so many years?

1. It's a medical case and the judges felt inadequate without proper medical advice.
2. The opposite party was a Padmashree awardee celebrated cardiologist and the hospital was founded by people walking the corridoors of power.
3. Deliberate delays of absenteeism, withdrawing evidence from court etc.

The court asked an independent medical board for their recommendations. The medical board tilted in our favour for obvious reasons: the medical negligence was apparent.

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Batra hospital tried to confuse the judge's bench by claiming that consent was taken for RFA. When asked to provide evidence, they would repeatedly provide the EPS consent form. This would delay the case and do nothing else.

They also never submitted the EPS traces to the court. They claimed that the traces were provided to my family and they have no record in their system. Which was utterly bullsh*t because we didn't have the traces.

They didn't provide the traces as it would immediately shut the case. Traces will show that the pathways were close, so RFA was not warranted.

Unable to provide consent form & Unable to provide traces went against them.

And in 2018, we won the case in the Delhi state consumer forum. The court awarded 10 lakh (10,00,000 INR) compensation with 7% simple interest from the date of filing the case.

While it was nothing compared to the asked compensation of 80 lakhs, we were happy as it was never about the money anyway.

But our happiness was short-lived, as Batra Hospital decided to appeal the judgement in the higher court: The National Consumer Forum.

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And so we were back to square one. I promised mom that even if it takes another 14 years, I'll continue the fight.

And so we did. Date after date, hearing after hearing. Same BS all over again.

However, our advocate Mr. Neguive Ahmed is one of the best in the business. A senior citizen himself, he was so frustrated that he took it upon himself to turn Godmode on. I witnessed one of his argument session at court and he ruthlessly thrashed the opposing party left, right and center. He didn't even spare the bench & schooled them for taking forever to deliver a judgement.

This time, he was not going to let it continue for 10 more years. So he pushed at every hearing for shorter dates.

And in 2023, we won again!

Batra was brought to its knees. They can appeal again, yes; but it has to be the Supreme Court.

And after getting their a** whopped twice in a row for 19 years, they didn't have the courage to approach Supreme Court. And finally gave up.

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It begs a question: Did we really win? And even if we did win technically, at what cost?

I would say, it comes at a price of your mental wellbeing, financial expense, a lot of frustration, shameless advocates and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

Batra's advocate is so shameless, he allegedly told our advocate, "We have worked for so many years on the case, won't you give us something? Your client has won a hefty amount"

Bloody bloodsucker! You worked AGAINST us all these years and now you want 'something' for your 'service'?!

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So, is justice delayed justice denied?

Definitely yes, my family is just happy that the case is over. But we are also happy to have never given up. I understand that it may not be financially possible for everyone to not give up on a long legal battle, but that's what they want: drown you into date after date so that one fine day, you simply give up because it starts looking futile.

If you can, persist. As my mom did and my dad would have.

Even if it's justice denied, it's justice nonetheless for the future patients.

It's like paying for the next person.

At least the next time they perform any surgery that requires consent, they will remember the Goswami family.

Thanks for reading.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 BREAKING: Zlatan Ibrahimović has now decided to retire from professional football with immediate effect.

Incredible player, incredible icon. 🦁👋🏻

[Kolandha @rombakashtam]

@nsnsethi All the best ! Hope to meet you in college :)

[meghnad (Nerds ka Parivaar) @Memeghnad]

Since yesterday, there have been horrendous tweets and opinions being put out by BJP supporters about the #TrainTragedy.

These kind of incidents prove yet again how deranged that whole ecosystem really is.

Here's a quick summary of the kind of shit that is being put out from their toilet minds...

(TRIGGER WARNING: This list will piss you off)

- Why should the Railway Minister resign? What's the point? Instead he should work harder!

- Kavach safety system? Stop talking about that. It was not deployed on this track ok so it's not anyone's fault. Check your facts.

- Train accidents happen in other countries too ok. These kind of things keep happening around the world. No need to make a big deal of it.

- The opposition is responsible. Why is Rahul always outside India when some big accident happens huh huh huh?

- Why are all these other political leaders visiting the accident site huh? Something is fishy, something is afoot! But Ayega toh M....

- Look! There is a masjid beside the railway site. You know what THAT means right? TERRORISM.
(It was not a masjid, it was an ISKON temple)

- This is what happens when you let the reserved category inferior type people do railway job. Now suffer!

- Overpopulation. That's the problem. It's just too many people ok. And some of these people die when they crowd around.

- PM Modi rushed to the scene in such heat omg what great leader doing great things WE NEED HIM SO BADLY RIGHT NOW IN THIS DIFFICULT TIME!

- LEAVE MY MODIJI ALONE ITS NOT HIS FAULT NONE OF IT IS HIS FAULT PLS LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!!

***

If any of those made you angry, good. It should.

Because these shits will deflect blame everywhere away from the government. If you notice ANY of these arguments, you know where its coming from.

Don't fall for their triggering crap and keep demanding accountability for this tragedy FROM THE GOVERNMENT.

[meghnad (Nerds ka Parivaar) @Memeghnad]

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[SirKazam {blu tik} @SirKazamJeevi]

Whats more numbing than this train accident?
Someone might be preparing a video script like this:
-Video of train accident site
(Hon. PM watching video in somber mood)
-Dead bodies video
(Close up of hon. PM’s teary eyes, his lips trembling)
-Video of rail minister’s visit..
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