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Did you know that if you put 100 black ants and 100 red ants together in a jar, they usually coexist peacefully? But if you shake the jar hard, they immediately turn on each other and start killing one another. The red ants see the black ants as enemies, and the black ants see the red ants as enemies. Yet the real enemy is the one shaking the jar.
The same thing happens in human society. Before we turn on each other, we should stop and ask ourselves: who is shaking the jar?
दिल्ली में जिस बस में हुई दरिंदगी, उसे बस के 80 से अधिक चालान, ऑल इंडिया टूरिस्ट परमिट खत्म लेकिन उसके बावजूद सड़कों पर दौड़ रही थी ? कहां है दिल्ली ट्रैफिक पुलिस ? @DelhiPolice@CMODelhi@gupta_rekha@dcpouter@dtptraffic
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Everyone is underestimating how big the shortage of compute and power exists.
The bears are wrong. The bulls are going to make money. Choose wisely.
His name was Rajan.
He was a final year engineering student at the Regional Engineering College in Calicut, Kerala. His father, T V Eachara Varier, was a Hindi professor at the Government Arts and Science College in the same city.
On the morning of March 1 1976 the police came to the college campus and took Rajan away.
India was under Emergency. Civil liberties were suspended. Courts had effectively turned away.
His father found out the next day from the college principal.
He went to every police station in the district. No one admitted to having his son.
He met the Home Minister of Kerala, K Karunakaran, directly.
He sent petitions to the Home Secretary of the Government of Kerala three times. Not a single reply or acknowledgement came.
He wrote to the President of India and the Home Minister of the central government, with copies to every Member of Parliament from Kerala.
Nothing.
What Eachara Varier did not know at the time was that his son had been taken to an illegal police interrogation camp at Kakkayam.
He was tortured.
A practice called uruttal was used, where a heavy wooden log is rolled over the body of the victim.
Rajan died from his injuries. His body was disposed of by the police and was never found.
When the Emergency ended in 1977 Eachara Varier filed a habeas corpus petition in the Kerala High Court.
It was the first such petition filed in Kerala after the Emergency.
He did it without legal training, without political backing, without money.
He had spent everything searching for his son.
The court case slowly unravelled the truth.
It forced K Karunakaran to resign as Chief Minister of Kerala in 1978 when the adverse judgment came.
Rajan’s mother became mentally unstable from the grief. She died in 2000 still not knowing where her son was.
Eachara Varier wrote his memoir, Memories of a Father, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004.
In its final lines he wrote, “I don’t close the door. Let the rain lash inside and drench me. Let at least my invisible son know that his father never shut the door.”
He died on April 13 2006. He never found his son’s body.
Rajan was picked up from his college campus on a March morning in 1976. He was never seen again.
Repost this. Some stories must not be allowed to disappear.
Indian roads are not run by law anymore. They are run by fear and roadside extortion.
My driver was returning from UP to Maharashtra in our MH registered commercial car during wedding season because railway tickets were unavailable.
At MP border before Samriddhi Expressway, RTO officers stopped him.
They checked every paper. Everything was perfectly valid.
Then suddenly they changed the game.
They said: Your licence is illegal. Commercial vehicle needs TR licence. You have NT licence.
My driver told them Supreme Court guidelines clearly allow LMV licence holders to drive commercial vehicles under 7500 kg.
He even showed them legal updates and news reports on his phone.
They did not care.
Instead they started threatening him: We will challan you. Suspend your licence. Take your licence to court.
Then came the real reason for stopping him.
One officer quietly said: Give 1500 rupees and leave.
He paid 1000 and was allowed to go.
This is the reality of Indian highways.
If all papers are correct they create confusion. If confusion fails they create fear. If fear works they collect cash.
And thousands of drivers pay because fighting corruption costs more time and money than bribing the system itself.
How many people face this unofficial toll tax every single day in India?
@VatsRishap One of the biggest myths in India is that if only the US were shown what a deceptive actor Pakistan is, Washington could finally be drawn away from its Pak-entanglement. This approach has failed 792 times, but somehow we continue to believe in it.
Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.
@Vidyut Better than savings account get a delay account and put the money in short term debt funds. It’s the same advantage as an FD with tax optimisation and great liquidity.
My mamaji is on ventilator. He had all his life’s savings within PSU bank in FDs. All his accounts have been sealed as due to being bed ridden he could not do re-KYC in person. His kids asked bank to take humane view. Bank said if he cannot come in person, accounts will not open.
FDs in PSU banks can be useless in time of need due to KYC regulations.
@narendramodi@RBI this KYC mess is draconian. Please help in this time of need
These online orders in India are a total scam. Pic 1 is a case I received
Pic 2 is what I paid for
It is entirely different
The cheap plastic badly scratched case is ridiculous
The phone number provided on the site doesn’t exist. DONT ORDER FROM BUGARIO
IN PUBLIC INTEREST
Now is a good time to reconsider Great Nicobar Island Project. $10 Bn of public money is no small amount to blow up on vanity projects under current circumstances. For security needs, INS Baaz can be upgraded at fraction of this cost.