@Ankittskedia It works both ways. The government definitely needs better infrastructure, stricter fines, more dustbins, proper footpaths, etc. But citizens also need basic civic sense. You cant complain about the system while littering, spitting, and treating public spaces like garbage dumps!!
Travel once outside India and the biggest culture shock isn’t luxury — it’s basic governance. Clean roads, working drainage, walkable streets, disciplined traffic, public toilets, no garbage mountains. Then you return and realize how much tax-paying citizens settle for while netas keep selling “development” in speeches.
Once you visit small countries like Sri Lanka, Thailand, or Vietnam, or cities like Dubai for the first time and then come back to Indian streets, you realize how much you’ve been scammed by your municipality, local MLA, MP, and the whole system.
playing hide-and-seek with 3yo son. just the two of us. he wants to hide together. we are hiding together. we are in the closet. it’s perfectly dark. we’re very cramped. there is no one looking for us. i am trying to explain this. he is laughing uncontrollably
Appealing for Work From Home (WFH) won’t change anything. If the govt genuinely wants it, it can strongly push or effectively enforce WFH in sectors where physical presence isn’t essential.
It’s common in the West but not in India because Indian companies still operate on a “presence equals productivity” mindset, where managers feel employees work seriously only when they are physically visible. If an employee isn’t exhausted by traffic, long hours, and physical attendance, they assume no real work is being done. There’s also a deeply ingrained feudal mindset where control, surveillance, and making juniors “feel the grind” is treated as management instead of actual productivity.
Otherwise, WFH can solve many problems for both individuals and the country. It reduces traffic, pollution, fuel consumption, stress, travel time, road accidents, and daily expenses for individuals while improving work-life balance. For India, it cuts crude oil consumption and import bills, reduces pressure on dollars, inflation, and urban infrastructure, while easing overcrowding in metro cities and saving huge amounts of productive time otherwise wasted in commuting.
New HR policy introduced in TCS with immediate effect. Now onwards employees willing to resign are not required to write resignation letter/email.
They just have to say..
Resign.. Resign.. Resign
India was as cowardly as a country can be during the UPA era.
We delinked terrorism from the Pakistani state, signed agreements, and echoed the line that Pakistan itself was a victim of terror driven by poverty and lack of education. We kept talks going despite repeated attacks, maintained trade, and pushed confidence-building measures.
We resumed dialogue after every provocation, sent dossiers instead of deterrence, and relied on global pressure that never delivered. Cross-border infiltration continued, but consequences didn’t. In trying to appear responsible, we ended up looking unwilling to act.
Every terror attack had the same standard response: “Agar unko lagta hai ki is kayartapoorna harkat se wo hamara hausla tod sakte hain, to wo galat hain.” We were so submissive that even on the morning of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, our diplomats were in Islamabad signing a joint agreement stating that both sides condemn terrorism and are satisfied with the steps taken to control it. Four days later after the attack, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had the audacity to say that India should not overreact to the attack, and we didn’t.