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Pune, India
Joined August 2009
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Pushkar retweeted
Driving on near empty roads of Pune shows you 2 things clearly -
1. Road surface, quality of build and footpaths are rubbish.
2. @MetroPuneri has destroyed roads, even concrete roads, and nobody in power has bothered to do ANYTHING about it.
Pushkar retweeted
Post-2010, the world witnessed a renewed fascination with strongman politics. People were persuaded to believe that democracy was slowing down progress and that one powerful leader could solve all their problems.
They placed their faith in leaders who considered themselves bigger than institutions and promised national greatness, prosperity and global dominance. Instead, what followed was the erosion of democratic institutions, repression of rights, wars and economic turmoil.
Recent political trends suggest that this faith in strongman politics is beginning to unravel. People are realising that concentrating power in one individual who claims to be strong does not necessarily make a nation stronger. They are rediscovering the value of democratic freedoms, accountability and the institutions they once took for granted.
More importantly, they are beginning to question what national greatness really means. Before promises of global dominance, people want something far more fundamental: economic stability, an affordable cost of living, and accountability from those in power.
Truly heartbreaking to read about what happened. As per his Strava, he's a Tata Ultra 50K & multiple 42K finisher with a sub-4 FM PB. He was clearly an experienced & extremely fit runner, so perhaps we should stop speculating about him being unprepared or doing this for "reels".
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Pushkar retweeted
The most normalized open extortion in Indian middle class life:
The Sub Registrar office on property registration day.
You spend 10 years saving every rupee from your salaried job.
You pay 30% TDS on your income.
You pay 7% official stamp duty online via net banking.
You pay 1% registration fee through a government treasury challan.
Every single paisa is accounted for on your bank statement.
Then you reach the government registration office with your builder or seller:
The deed writer pulls you aside into a dusty corridor:
"Sir, ₹25,000 to ₹40,000 cash alag se lagega for the desk. Official receipt nahi milegi."
You: "Bhaiya, I already paid ₹4.5 lakhs in official government stamp duty online!"
Agent smiles with complete indifference:
"Sir, mat do. Phir file 'Property Under Valuation' mark hoke audit me chali jayegi. 6 mahine chakkar kaatna."
You stand in an airless hallway, walk to the nearest ATM, withdraw ₹30,000 cash, and slip it inside the file folder just to get your own thumb impression scanned.
We aren't a digital, cashless economy.
We are a country where honest taxpayers have to withdraw physical cash just to get legal permission to own what they already paid for.
Did your property registration happen 100% clean, or did you have to pay the "corridor settlement fee" too?
Pushkar retweeted
An information which may be very disturbing to everyone. A medical distributor of a particular injection which is used in chemotherapy, his wife was suffering from cancer. She was taking treatment in a very renowned hospital. We will not take the name of the hospital. So the dealer requested the hospital authorities, sir I am myself a dealer and to me the injection comes at Rs. 11,000 dealer price. The hospital refused to administer that injection and charged Rs. 1,30,000 for that injection. Can you show any justification for this loot, please? Why this difference? Where does the money go? Supreme Court asks Centre
Pushkar retweeted
India's 2nd most congested city
Average speed: 18 kmph
10 km takes 33-35 minutes
Public transport share: 13%
Metro: 30 km
Buses: ~2,000
Arterial roads wider than 25m: 8-10%
Pushkar retweeted
Where does #Pune actually stand today
Size
$68 Bn GDP, up from $56 Bn in FY24
11% of Maharashtra's GDP
14.3 Mn people, 10% of the state
5.6 Mn jobs
All on 5% of Maharashtra's land.
Pushkar retweeted
US (in panic): Our AI will kills us all. We will all be dead.
China (laughs): Ha! Our AI will transform society. We will all be more alive.
India (smirks): You amateurs. Our AI will make dead people come alive.
US & China (in awe): Wow! And do what?
India (sheepishly): Er... praise PM Modi.
US & China: Dei!!!
VIDEO | Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with holographic avatar of Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati at Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan in New Delhi.
(Source: PM Modi YT)
(Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
If @PuneCityPolice and @PuneCityTraffic does not arrest the car driver and make a big example out of him then they should simply resign.
A biker in Pune stopped at a red light, causing a car behind to crash into him. Biker was assaulted by the car driver over this!
This is where we are now?
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Pushkar retweeted
Metro work on Baner Road started in 2017. I think the primary plilar work across most of the stretch was completed 5 years back.
And yet the road divider is not fixed. That entire divider stretch is a big dump yard, a garbage dump.
Metro trials are moving along, ad boards are in place, stations work getting completed- but no work on the divider! Looks very bad. And is also a serious traffic hazard at some places.
@PMCPune @OfficialPMRDA @navalMH @MDNagpure @SidShirole
Pushkar retweeted
Excited to watch Nathan Fielder's directorial debut called You.Can.See.Everything.2026.CAMRip.AAC.x264.mkv
Pushkar retweeted
85k H1Bs a year are an exceedingly tiny fraction of the 165 million working persons in the US. Also one of the least likely to depend on any govt support, minimal crime rate and high tax payers.
Vance is simply trying to shore up his sagging base to salvage the mid terms.
Vice President JD Vance breaks down the data:
"If you are working as an H-1B visa in the United States of America, you’re earning $20,000 less than an American citizen hired in the same position. If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you’re making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position. So I’m sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers and, if you’re a corporation, you make a ton of money by under cutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn’t be in the United States of America to begin with."
Pushkar retweeted
<US citizen>
*calls it US instead of America like most Americans*
*DD/MM/YY date format*
*somehow knows the full name, position, and jurisdiction of the inspector, while referring to him as "inspector" instead of officer*
*"purse"*
*"for the whole night"*
*"Jai Hind" (🤣)*
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Pushkar retweeted
2047 means absolutely nothing to us millennials. By then, most of us will be in our 50s, nearing retirement or already out of the workforce. So what exactly is the grand vision for our lives today?
For starters, tell us why it takes 8 yrs to build the Pune Metro line 3 while we spend hours every single day stuck in traffic breathing dust. And what about the SPPU flyover? The old flyovers were demolished in 2020, the new construction was supposed to take 36 months, and the deadline has already been extended. Meanwhile, we are the ones paying the price. 2 hrs in traffic every single day, dust in our faces. Concrete barricades everywhere, fuel wasted, productivity lost, stress piling up. We don't need promises about 2047 right now. Tell us what you are doing for the people who are trying to get to work, get home, raise families and simply live a decent life in 2026. Give usatleast one functioning road.... 2047 can wait. We are asking about tomorrow morning.
