I am sure you must be feeling bad that Govt did not do enough in the past one year to prepare.
But please realize that it is still not late for many districts since they are not yet severely affected.
Do focus there as well. 1/n
Apart from the team that is dealing with the ongoing full-blown crisis in many places, please create another team to focus on the districts that are yet to be as severely affected.
Start preparation in those districts also on war footing. 2/n
I don’t want to burden you with any new suggestions or sermons dear PM @narendramodi.
But would like to share some screenshots of the suggestions/requests that were posted last year during the lockdown. 3/n
Keep transparent, up to date and accessible database in each district about availability of various drugs, alternate options etc. Please be upfront about it. 4/n.
Don’t repeat the same mistake of everyone reporting we did our best, we sent a train, we did this, we did that. It will help only for PR.
Instead, keep a target for district/department etc, make the target transparent & then let people assess the progress. It is their lives. 5/n
Please understand this. We are not at war with any enemy. War time propaganda & narrative is not the way to go. Transparency is the way forward. Each citizen of this country has a right to know what is available in the place where she is staying. 6/n
Do not listen to those who underplay the scale of the crisis. What we are facing today needs a collective response beyond administrative solutions and bullying enforcers.
Bring everything and everyone together. 7/n
Don’t fill your team with people who are afraid of you and are mere yes-men. You need honest feedback and truth to reach you at this juncture. Otherwise your tears are worth nothing to those who have lost their dear ones. 8/n
Dear PM @narendramodi, we’ve all been doing our bit.
But if I can be of any better use, as a citizen with some administrative experience, consider my services as awaiting your direction. Whatever it be.
Oh I still can’t stand your Govt. But that is a fight for another time. GL.
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Dear PM @narendramodi, after the surprise incursion from China last summer & the Galwan valley incident, I have been trying to understand China, by studying their history, culture, language etc.
I am no China expert. But here is two cents on why they did what they did. 1/n
As with India, China also should be studied based on its current position in its civilisational and historic journey.
And in that journey, there is not a more important theme than this theme of "Unification of China" 2/n
Unification phase and disintegration phase is a repeated pattern in Chinese history.
Hence it becomes important to understand which phase they view themselves to be in, in the present.
And in their collective imagination, this is very clearly a unification phase. 3/n
1. The VVPAT that sits in the middle is an active device and one which was connected to an external device like SLU or laptop for symbol loading unlike the BU which was an electromechanical device.
1. There is no active verification at the time of voting as irrespective of whether voter has seen the vote or not, the printed slip falls down & gets stored.
2. VVPAT auditing (not verification) during counting is less than 2%.
Some of you might be aware of my curiosity driven project : whatchinareads.com.
Today, I added Science related news section to the website and I came to know that a Chinese academician has applied for emergency use of nebulized inhaled covid vaccine. 1/n
Also added another section for academic papers abstracts.
A mine-field of information for those who are interested in the field. Only abstracts though. Those really interested will still have to go to the original site and get the full paper PDFs 2/n
An astonishing thing is the number of papers that are on industrial and manufacturing technology.
A 20 minute video on my concerns regarding the vulnerabilities of current EVM-VVPAT design.
On how it surrendered the strengths of pre-VVPAT EVM design & also did not bring in the checks of a true VVPAT design. What we have is a jugaad EVM-VVPAT now.
To all who are watching/reading these concerns, my humble request is to please don't link it to election results one way or the other. These are process concerns. And it will be there irrespective of which party wins.
Attended an interactive session in Bhagalpur today. #BiharDiaries
Then visit and interaction at Rajoun, Banka. #BiharDiaries
Also got a chance to visit Mandar hills and the temple there. Had no idea the Mandar parvat of Samudra Manthan fame is situated in Banka. That was a pleasant surprise.