My car broke down today, so I booked an auto home. It was a brand-new electric one. The driver, Vivek Singh, looked to be in his forties: quiet, focused, the kind of man who keeps to himself.
At a busy red light, a delivery boy pulled up beside us and, eyeing the auto, asked, “Ek charge mein kitna chal jaata hai?”
Vivek started replying in excitement, as if he’d been waiting for that question. “Company 210 bolti hai, lekin 190 hai. Ek charge me poora din nikal jaata hai, chalate jao, chalate jao. 20–25 ride ho jaati hain, charge khatam hi nahi hota.” The delivery boy asked about earnings. He shrugged: “Din ka 3–3.5 hazaar ho jaata hai. Koi ghate ka sauda nahi.”
Signal green. We moved ahead. But the delivery boy was still interested. He started driving next to us and asked, “Kitne me pada?” Vivek said, “Interest mila kar 6 lakh. 13–13 hazar ki 44 kisht hai. 70–80 mahina mai kama leta hu, usme se kisht aaram se nikal jaati hai. Kyu kisi ke yaha 15–20 ki naukri karna?”
The delivery boy laughed and rode off, but now I was curious. I asked, 20–25 ride matlab poora din hi bahar rehte honge. “Subah 8 nikalta hu, raat 10-11 wapas,” he said.
I said, fir aapki life kya rahi. He replied, “Agar kul ko gareebi se bahar nikalna hai to kisi ek peedhi ko apna sukh chhod kar ji-jan se mehnat karni padegi. Ek baar ghar ban jaaye, bachhe kuch ban jaayein, fir jiyenge apni zindagi.” He said that with the same excitement, without any complaint, no gareebi, majboori ka rona.
He dropped me at my stop. I watched him merge into traffic, a quiet man doing what’s expected from a man: providing. While mothers get due love, care, affection, and respect for what they sacrifice for the family, and rightly so, fathers’ sacrifice is generally downplayed as basic duty.
I hope his children grow up to make all this worth it for him. That, at least, is the bare minimum he deserves.
@aaraynsh 7. Many people didn't vote (heatwave and already 400 cross mistake)
If all of these are taken into account it is not really a surprise about what happened. But a lot of job opportunities have opened up, that is true. Smart ones have grabbed it.
Hope people wake up now.
@aaraynsh I am from Ayodhya, the points that hampered bjp votes imo,
1. When the corridor was built, a lot of shops were broken down, people that have been there for years. Most of these shops were on government land, people were paying 16rs as rent for shops in prime market area.
@aaraynsh 4. The standing MP has been only okayish in terms of meeting people and getting work done.
5. Sp and Inc running together so no vote cuts there.
6. Heard somewhere about mahants in temple being replaced by outsiders.
@aaraynsh Only the amount for the shop that was broken was given, not the land(obviously).
2. E rickshaw drivers were complaining about electric buses that had brought down their income.
3. Lot of business was taken over by big businessmen from outside.But this created jobs as well.(Staff)
@pallavserene If he was a minister, then they would have been running around him .
What a pathetic system we have made 👎
@OfficeOf_MM look into this matter
@HathwayBrdband really disappointing behaviour from you guys. My Internet is not working, App does not work to register complaints and crashes everytime. Customer care number always says busy. Service and lodging complaints are very difficult with you guys.
One thing I do not like is dishonesty and scamming. @ViCustomerCare why am I automatically subscribed to random value added services when I have not opted for them. And then I have to explicitly send messages to stop that service? @TRAI. Continued....
Also this happens right after I have done a new recharge. As if to cut my main balance by this cheap trick,so that I need to recharge more often. This is the definition of dark practices. Attaching screenshots as proof. @ViCustomerCare
@F1Robotic All the very best to you and I know you'll get through this. This tweet would not have been easy to write but doing that you have already won a big battle by speaking your mind out. I wish the road ahead only gets easier and you win this war!
JANHIT MEIN JAARI - HOW I ALMOST GOT SCAMMED - #Jamtara Real Life Incident. #threadstory
Today morning at around 09:45 AM, I got a call from 964675397 'FedEx' customer care saying a package attached to my Aadhar ID had been flagged because it contained illegal items. (1/n)
@ToriqueLincoln @RJPJournalism No need to give an explanation as well, whenever someone says something like this, just say - Yes we are breaking football, yes we will throw oil money and get players. What you gonna do about it? 🤣