Only God knows the full truth behind the Malviya Nagar tragedy. But the pattern is familiar.
Govt creates safety rules to prevent such disasters. Building owners violate them to save money. The departments meant to enforce those rules look away after taking their cut. Yes, owners/operators are responsible. But the officials who enable these violations year after year are the real culprits.
The irony? After every such disaster, instead of punishment, many get an opportunity to "revise their rates".
The lives of 21 people won’t go in vain; they will become another rate revision memo in the corruption ecosystem. The next few days will be money-minting days again.
"I didn’t pick up a girl from that garbage dump. I picked up a diamond."
This is not a movie story. A real miracle happened in the state of Assam.
Soberan, a 30-year-old man, earned his living by selling vegetables. He was not married yet.
One evening, while returning home after work, he heard the sound of a baby crying from the bushes near the road.
When he went to check, he found a new born baby girl left alone on a garbage pile. The child had been abandoned. Soberan looked around, but no one was there. The baby was innocent, cute, and beautiful. Not knowing what else to do, he took her home with him.
He decided to raise the baby himself instead of getting married. He named her Jyoti.
He worked hard every day and night to take care of her, making sure Jyoti never faced any hardship. He sent her to school and fulfilled all her needs.
Even if he went hungry, he never let her suffer. Jyoti completed a degree in Computer Science in 2013. She then began preparing for competitive exams.
She passed the Public Service Commission exam in 2014 and got a job as an Assistant Commissioner in the Income Tax Department.
Soberan cried with joy when he saw his daughter achieve something he never had the chance to do.
Jyoti now takes care of her father, but even after all her requests, he still continues to run his vegetable business.
Soberan told the media, "I didn’t pick up a girl from that garbage dump. I picked up a diamond. She is the light of my life."
Both of them are truly inspiring people.
@urbancompany_UC technician wrongly diagnosed my AC, charged ₹4000 for unnecessary gas refill, then later claimed the PCB had failed and demanded 4600 more. Issue still unresolved, customer care asks to wait but never calls back. @abhirajbhal@ra9z@varunkhaitan
My Twitter reach and Congress share the exact same trajectory; absolute peak before 2014, and heading south ever since. I blame the algorithm, they blame the ECI.
Every AC is a machine that makes one room cooler by making the outdoors even hotter.
With a typical COP of 4, cooling a room by 10°C dumps roughly 12.5°C worth of heat outside.
Without millions of ACs dumping heat outdoors, Delhi nights would become noticeably cooler.
cc: Thermodynamics people for verification.
न्याय की अवधारणा वहीँ ध्वस्त हो जाती है जब एक पक्ष न्यायालय में दस लाख की फीस वाले वकील के साथ अपनी पैरवी करता है और दूसरा पक्ष सरकारी वकील की काबिलियत पर भरोसा करता है।
जिस दिल्ली और बंगाल को भाजपा 'मोदी वेव' की चरम सीमा पर नहीं जीत पाई.. 2015 में दिल्ली में और 2016 में बंगाल में इनकी 3-3 सीट आई..
उस दिल्ली और बंगाल को भाजपा ने तब जीत लिया जब मोदी जी की लोकप्रियता पूरे देश में पाताल में जा रही... कैसे?
भाजपा ने बहुत मेहनत की, चुनाव आयोग किसी भी हिंसा और धांधली को रोकने में सफल रहा, सुरक्षा बलों ने मुस्तैदी से काम किया. सबको बधाई. अब परीक्षा कोलकाता अग्निशमन विभाग की है.
राज्यों में चुनाव होते रहते हैं, पार्टियां हरती-जीतती रहती हैं। लेकिन इस बार बंगाल में केवल तृणमूल की हार और भाजपा की जीत नहीं है, ये एक बहुत बड़ा राजनैतिक-सामाजिक परिवर्तन है।