After immense diplomatic pressure from India, pak released BSF jawan Purnam Shaw and handed him over to India at attari border.
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PSA: Beware of medica hospital
I am just putting this up as a warning for any one considering taking their loved ones to medica. Please be very careful, my dad was admitted with high levels of myocardial infarction (heart attack) markers (Troponin I and NT Pro BNP). They did not initiate any treatment for the massive heart attack he was brought with. He just passed away. Despite this they billed him about 7 lacs. Of course we can’t sue because places like this have “setting”s with the right orgs and people. So all I can do is spread a little awareness.
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I am just putting this up as a warning for any one considering taking their loved ones to medica. Please be very careful, my dad was admitted with high levels of myocardial infarction (heart attack) markers (Troponin I and NT Pro BNP). They did not initiate any treatment for the massive heart attack he was brought with. He just passed away. Despite this they billed him about 7 lacs. Of course we can’t sue because places like this have “setting”s with the right orgs and people. So all I can do is spread a little awareness.
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went out after a whole day of being in my room, and this was the view ☁️
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Kolkata impression
I just visited Kolkata and it strucks me how different it is from the rest of India.
It's like stepping back in a 1970s film of India. First sight is the sheer amount of poor and homeless people and rubbish are everywhere, even in the downtown part of the city. Old cars and buses that should have been in the museum. Even modern hotels, shopping centers and restaurants have this outdated feeling. And it's not just about a place having some economic downturn, but it's like witnessing the fall of Rome itself. Whole British-era buildings slowly eroding away under banyan trees like ancient temples. The whole city has a post-apocalyptic, dystopian aura as if something terrible has happened to India during the 1990s and never recovered from there. The level of neglection and abandonment can be compared to countries devastated by wars like Afghanistan and post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia.
I've visited India before: Kerala and Bangalore are like any places in South East Asia where I'm from. Prayagraj and other places in Bihar are poor and rural but relatively clean and peaceful. Varanasi is traditional, somewhat chaotic but Kolkata is simply at another level, so much that if it had been the first place I visit in India, my impression of the country would've been completely different.
I can still see the the old glory of Kolkata: Park Street and the great mansions. I saw streetscapes that could be well in London or Paris if they are cleaned up a little bit. Kolkata, not Mumbai or Delhi, has potential to be the jewel of India. But why so much abject poverty and neglections in this metropolis?
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I just visited Kolkata and it strucks me how different it is from the rest of India.
It's like stepping back in a 1970s film of India. First sight is the sheer amount of poor and homeless people and rubbish are everywhere, even in the downtown part of the city. Old cars and buses that should have been in the museum. Even modern hotels, shopping centers and restaurants have this outdated feeling. And it's not just about a place having some economic downturn, but it's like witnessing the fall of Rome itself. Whole British-era buildings slowly eroding away under banyan trees like ancient temples. The whole city has a post-apocalyptic, dystopian aura as if something terrible has happened to India during the 1990s and never recovered from there. The level of neglection and abandonment can be compared to countries devastated by wars like Afghanistan and post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia.
I've visited India before: Kerala and Bangalore are like any places in South East Asia where I'm from. Prayagraj and other places in Bihar are poor and rural but relatively clean and peaceful. Varanasi is traditional, somewhat chaotic but Kolkata is simply at another level, so much that if it had been the first place I visit in India, my impression of the country would've been completely different.
I can still see the the old glory of Kolkata: Park Street and the great mansions. I saw streetscapes that could be well in London or Paris if they are cleaned up a little bit. Kolkata, not Mumbai or Delhi, has potential to be the jewel of India. But why so much abject poverty and neglections in this metropolis?
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amar mon kharap er tonic; amar bisshash we all have this part some buried in ourselves
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