Ishant Jain

This film should be shown on national TV for a few weeks and during special festivals like Hanuman Jayanti. Additionally, the government ought to help release it in regional languages so that Adivasi and tribal communities don't miss out on its blessings. – at Noida, India

Not sure about the trend, but the train has gone outside Punjab already. – at Vododara, India

It's a democratic treatment by our Harayanvi bhai's. Have been a part of it since years during my bachelor days. Loved it ❤️ – at Vododara, India

Electric trains collect high voltage 25 kV AC only via the pantograph on the roof. Insulators isolate this from the rest of the train body. Return current flows through the wheels to the rails (the return path/earth). The metal body of the train acts like a Faraday cage. Current from a fault preferentially flows through the highly conductive metal shell and into the rails, not through the interior or passengers. People fully inside are generally unaffected. Even people touching the exterior (doors, handrails) while the train is properly on the rails are usually protected because the train-to-rail connection is a far better path than a human body. Touch or step potentials can pose risks mainly to people outside. Incidents involving high voltage mainly affect people who climb onto roofs, approach fallen live wires, or trespass near the infrastructure—not seated or standing passengers inside coaches. Arcing, smoke, or fire from electrical faults is a separate (and real) concern, especially in tunnels, but that is not whole-train electrocution. #IndianRailway @RailMinIndia – at Vododara, India

Let me share my story. I secured All India Rank 525 in the General category while still in the final year of my BTech. At the same time, a teacher from my college (who was my senior and had already passed out) had been desperately preparing for GATE for 3–4 years. He used to take my help in structuring his preparation. Based on my score, I got a call from BARC and was selected. That same teacher also got selected there. Like many of us, my dream was IIT Delhi. I appeared for the Design programme in Mechanical Engineering. The cutoff was 17.5 out of 30. I scored 17 and missed it by a whisker. The same teacher scored only 1.5 marks out of 30 — and still got the admission. That day I first felt the sharp edge of the reservation system in our country. Later I cleared the first interview of ISRO (ISRO has its own separate exam, which is even tougher than GATE), but chose not to proceed because I had got IIT Kanpur. At the same place I saw that teacher again. He had got admission in the Design department of Mechanical Engineering. I couldn’t even appear for Design because my university exams clashed with their dates, so I took Metallurgical and Materials Engineering instead. In IIT Kanpur, he couldn’t clear the internal exams and failed miserably. So he decided to drop the idea of doing M.Tech and join BARC instead. He still had options from three IITs and probably some PSUs as well. His GATE rank was somewhere around 25,000. What hurt most was this: he occupied seats wherever he got them and later didn’t join. Those seats could have gone to someone else — from any category — who actually needed and valued them. He came from a comfortable family that already had cars, while at that time I couldn’t even afford a bicycle at home. On top of that, he told me he received substantial support from the UP Government for his studies — fees and other facilities — which was denied to General category students. I also applied for government subsidy, but everything went in vain. I carried the burden of an education loan, and it all felt pointless. I am not against reservation. Those who genuinely need it should get it. I myself came from a very poor background and took a loan for my bachelor’s degree. When I finally got into IIT, the support from the Indian government became a real turning point in my life. I leave it to all of you to decide how our country can solve this problem. #Reservation #Endreservation – at Vododara, India