Day 5 of patchwork on the LucknowโKanpur Expressway.
Not even a month has passed since it opened to the public.
This is one of the easiest ways to make money.
A perfect heist - no one gets caught or held accountable. And everyone walks away freely.
Hello space, we have arrived! Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 has completed it's mission.
The first ever Indian private sector launch has been successfully completed.
#Vikram1#MissionAagaman#OpeningSpaceForAll
Open letter to Indians in America.
--
Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat:
Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way.
Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned.
You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict.
Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect.
Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself.
As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal.
Respectfully
Sridhar Vembu
18โ25-year-old, well-off youth from top colleges in mega-metros, living on Instagram and cafรฉ aesthetics, have zero connection with ground realities.
And the cruel irony is that the children of poor and lower-middle-class families die young at the borders, so this curated, WiFi-wrapped group can perform its โfreedom of speechโ theatre without ever paying the cost of it. Insulated, overconfident, ill-informed, and intellectually hollow.
Shri @nitin_gadkari,
You don't give direct answers to direct questions, instead, you deflect with lines like โmere against hitjob haiโ or โpaid propaganda haiโ to media channels.
Again asking a few direct questions. If you can answer these satisfactorily, directly, through media, or even via your influencer campaigns, promise I wonโt raise E20 petrol issue again.
1. Why fast-track E20? The original plan was to implement E20 by 2030. That timeline made sense because, by then, most vehicles on Indian roads would be E20-compliant. Accelerating it so quickly is like launching 6G services when no 6G phones exist yet. This is not like polio eradication, where early achievement deserves praise. There was no pressing reason to push it ahead of schedule. Even NITI Aayog had reservations about rushing it.
2. You said thereโs no car damage due to ethanol blending โworld over.โ Thatโs because other countries match fuels with compatible vehicles. Brazil rolled out E20โ30 only after most vehicles became compliant and still offered E0โE10 for older ones. E20 cars on E20 are safe; non-E20 cars, which form the majority in India, are not. India is probably the only country that created this mismatch. If E-20 doesn't damage the non-compliant cars, like you claim, why is there even need for E-20 complaint cars then?
3. Why hasnโt fuel price reduced as you promised? Instead, mileage has gone down, so people are paying more for the same distance.
To summarise, we have no issue with E20 itself, only with how it was implemented. Please answer these questions. And no, saying โwe did it for the benefit of farmersโ is not an answer. If you want to help farmers, do it through your budget, people are already paying enough taxes for that, donโt cut into ordinary citizensโ pockets or damage their vehicles. "To become self reliant fast" is also not an answer. In that case, non compatible vehicles given E5-10 option would not have stopped you from becoming self-reliant. If you canโt answer, at least donโt call us paid propagandists. You are one of the most powerful ministers; if you truly believe this is a paid hit job, then investigate and prove it. Whoโs stopping you?
Someone make a National City Roads Authority of India. Just like NHAI, and give it to Ashwini Bhide. We badly need to fix our roads, reclaim it from the municipality and get rid of the blatant corruption. Even African countries have better roads.
๐จ From Insta to Facebook to Twitter, citizens everywhere are demanding accountability.
If politicians & bureaucrats enjoy power, they must answer to the people.
India deserves better Infra, not excuses. ๐ฎ๐ณโ