In 2002, an IIT Kanpur civil engineer working as an IES officer wrote to Prime Minister Vajpayee, exposing corruption in the $10 billion Golden Quadrilateral Corridor - India's biggest highway project.
Designed to construct 14,000 km of 4-lane expressways connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata, it stands as the modern bedrock of Indian infrastructure.
He left his letter to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) unsigned. Knowing the deadly stakes, Dubey attached his credentials on a separate sheet with an explicit instruction:
"Before moving the file, please remove the attachment containing my particulars to ensure secrecy."
But the PMO did not redact that information. It forwarded his complaint down the ministry chain with his identity attached. His name reached the very people he had exposed.
One year later, on his 31st birthday, Satyendra Dubey was shot dead outside Gaya railway station by the mafia.
They called it armed robbery. His family never believed it. The men who ran the murder racket were never touched, even after a CBI probe.
His death led to the Whistleblowers Protection Act in 2014. It was never brought into force, and it still doesn't protect a whistleblower's identity to this day.
His father, a poor sugar mill clerk with 7 kids, spent his entire life’s savings to raise an honest son who went to
@IITKanpur and then joined the IES to serve the nation.
On November 27, 2003, instead of celebrating Satyendra’s 31st birthday, that old man received his son’s bullet-riddled body in a wooden box, forced to weep over the casket of a hero he spent a lifetime raising for a country that wasn't brave enough to keep him alive.
கள்ளக்குறிச்சி: சின்னசேலம் அருகே பட்டியலின மக்களை கோயிலுக்குள் விடாமல் தடுத்து நிறுத்திய மாற்றுச் சமூகத்தினர்; கோயிலின் பூட்டை உடைத்து பட்டியலின மக்களைச் சாமி கும்பிட அனுமதித்த மாவட்ட எஸ்.பி. ஷானாஸ்; நள்ளிரவில் நடந்த பரபரப்பு
#police | #discrimination | #prejudice
Manchester City may as well forget the appeal.
The leaked emails show board member Simon Pearce, who CC'd in Ferran Soriano (CEO) saying they should hide the payment routes.
It's not "an opinion" @ferransoriano
Interesting experience I had in Argentina last week !
The cab driver is a Vijay fan, and says he’s joined TVK with an aim to make TVK win in Argentina in 2027! No problem with the party name being ‘tamizh’ he says, because ‘Vijay is bigger than that’ 😍
There is nothing worse in sport than being found guilty of cheating.
Lance Armstrong is a great predictor of how the world will come to look at Man City.
No corporate sponsor outside of Abu Dhabi will touch this brand for a decade.
No kid outside of the families of existing fans will wear the shirt.
The light blue shirt and crest will be synonymous with cheating in the same way as the yellow Livestrong wrist band
Game over.
And good riddance.
Let's be honest, City struggling to sell out a then 48k stadium each week yet also matching Real Madrid for revenue was clearly dodgy, the only miscarriage of justice was its taken over a decade for them to be found guilty
City cheated. Ridiculous. Unconscionable. People have not really understood what this means.
Them getting Guardiola, Yaya, KDB, Kompany, Fernandinho, Nasri, the two Silvas, Aguero and Kevin De Bryune was because they cheated.
A false history, a false glory, a false club.
📌 | REMINDER: @Bloomberg previously reported that UAE officials warned harsh sanctions against #ManCity could risk damaging diplomatic and economic relations between the UAE and UK.
The club is owned by UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour.