What the world saw:
– 21 NEET students died
– Protestors were lathicharged
– Pellet guns allegedly used
– Expired tear gas
– Batons with nails
– Women beaten by male cops
– Male cop poked a woman's behind with a baton.
Modi's speech:
"Duniya ne dekha mujhe gaali di gayi."
Dainik Bhaskar journalist went undercover as a laborer in a flour mill in UP and exposed a rotten system that's playing with people's health.
Operators in mills across Agra, Firozabad are mixing stone powder from Rajasthan into atta, increasing their earnings by 70–80 paise per kg i.e. 7k-8k extra per day. These adulterated flour, sold under brands like Maharaja Bhog Atta, is even reaching school mid-day meals. These calcium carbonate can clog intestines and damage the liver and kidneys.
Being in the D2C industry, I'm aware of many brands who do these kinds of things just to save margins and make more money. We keep calling them out, but this looks much bigger.
Government and FSSAI need to act and take control. Consumer health should never be compromised for profit.
idk why nobody protests against police brutality in India.
We badly need police reforms, but nobody seems to give a fuck about it.
Everyone just accepts the ugly reality that police can assault any random civilian like an animal and get away with it like it’s nothing.
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.
Sir, the parents of Aditya Prabhu, a Bengaluru student who died by suicide in 2023 after his own professors told him to kill himself, called your office EVERY SINGLE DAY for SIX MONTHS just to get an appointment to expose the college's misconduct.
You didn't give them those five minutes. Their cries went unheard. I have witnessed years of agony that they've lived through since then.
Because of your apathy, three more students died by suicide at the same "University" that year. The chargesheeted accused still show up to that campus every morning and teach. You did nothing. You are still doing nothing.
This rage was not built in a day. It was built by your silence while children were dying. This has nothing to do with any political party, so please don't make it about politics.
Do the right thing for once and pave the way for someone who is more competent and is actually interested in running the Education Ministry properly.
It's the only thing anyone wants from you anymore 🙏
Just wanted to know, in all the global forums that we participate, does any other country have a regime that is so oppressive and brutal?
Or are we the only former democracy to be in such forums where the ruling regime fools those countries about “democracy, elections, rule of law” etc
Delhi shut down its own metro stations today to stop students from reaching a protest about exam fairness.
Let that sit for a second. The capital paralyzed itself to keep kids away from Parliament.
That’s not security. That’s fear of a crowd asking a fair question.
This is the protest that needs more people right now. 7000 families, tribal villages will be removed, the natural resources,animals from the Panna tiger reserve (61km forest that they want to remove ) wil be exported and sold, later they'll say we're bringing tigers back in India
I have lost faith in Safdarjung Government Hospital.
The hospital told us @Wangchuk66’s potassium had dropped to 2.9, describing it as alarming and life-threatening. Yet, in its public health bulletin, it conveniently omitted the actual number, referring only to "decreasing potassium levels." When after 10 hours and repeated requests, they allowed us to take samples of his blood at 10.30 pm, an independent laboratory test reported 3.5, well within the normal range.
Despite repeated requests, the hospital has refused to discharge him or allow us to shift him to a private hospital of our choice. With around 30 police personnel stationed on our floor and well over 100 across the hospital, our movement is severely restricted. It is not medical care. It is illegal detention.
If anything happens to Sonam, the hospital authorities and the government must bear full responsibility.
I have therefore moved the High Court and sought an urgent hearing today, praying for permission to shift Sonam before his health deteriorates further. No family should have to fight the system simply to choose where their loved one receives medical care.
To the world watching our democracy ending, this is how peaceful protests against examination paper leaks by students are broken, by a regime that believes in dictatorship, and not in a simple dialogue on its own failures.
It took the deaths of 375 miners in Chasnala in 1975 for us to realize that we needed safety in mines
It took the death of countless innocents in Bhopal for us to tighten industrial safety standards
It took the death of 25 people in Rajasthan to crack down on illegal modifications made by bus operators
It took the death of 25 people in Indore for authorities to realize that their water supply had major issues.
It took the death of two innocent people by a drunk minor driving a car in Pune for authorities to understand that bars were open beyond scheduled hours and drinks were being served to minors
It took the deaths of 14 people in Mumbai in 2017, for authorities to wake up and realize that pubs were flouting norms, building unauthorized structures and ignoring fire safety norms.
It took the deaths of 135 people in Morbi for authorities to realize that the bridge they constructed was atrocious in quality and all the norms were flouted
And it has now taken 21 horrible deaths in Delhi for authorities to realize that tons of hotels were operating by rampantly flouting norms, violating permissions, ignoring safety certificates and gave a damn about fire and other hazards
Why does it always take innocent deaths for authorities to wake up and start taking action in India?
Why do we have to die for authorities to start doing what they are paid to do?
Gen Zs are exposing each and every government website brick by brick, absolute cinema and belting b00mer should be the norm.
The country is suffering a lot of these b00mer macrohards