An IAS Officer Who Brought Water...
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
An IAS Officer Who Brought Water—and Hope. Divya Mittal’s journey is inspiring. An IIT-IIM graduate, she left a promising career in London, returned to India and joined the IAS. But her real achievement was not clearing prestigious examinations—it was using that opportunity to change lives. As District Magistrate of Mirzapur, she confronted the decades-old water crisis in the remote hilly village of Lahuriyadah, where residents had struggled for generations to obtain drinking water. Despite difficult terrain, the administration worked to bring water to the village through an ambitious supply project. When water finally arrived, the villagers celebrated emotionally. An elderly woman’s blessing for Divya became a powerful symbol of what public service can mean. Divya Mittal has now resigned from the IAS, but for families who no longer walk kilometres searching for water, her name will remain unforgettable. Positions are temporary; the lives you transform become your real legacy.
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
Where the Road Ends, the Indian Army Begins. At nearly 18,600 feet in the Nun-Kun region, amid freezing winds, thin air and treacherous slopes, the Indian Army carried out an extraordinary medical evacuation. With no space for a conventional landing, Army Aviation pilots reportedly manoeuvred a Cheetah helicopter onto the steep mountainside, using an extremely demanding partial-contact landing to evacuate an injured JCO. At such altitude, reduced helicopter performance, unpredictable winds, blowing snow and nearby rocks can turn the smallest error into catastrophe. Yet the crew completed the evacuation and flew the injured soldier to the Army hospital in Kargil. Tragically, despite their efforts, the JCO later succumbed to his injuries. The mission could not ultimately save his life, but it demonstrated something remarkable: where ordinary human limits end, the courage, skill and sense of duty of our soldiers often begin.
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
Worship Beauty, Reject the Grotesque. Pune has historically been a laboratory of social reform—from Jyotiba Phule and Dhondo Keshav Karve to R.D. Karve and later reform movements. Today, that progressive tradition faces a simpler test: can we celebrate festivals without tormenting fellow citizens? Festivals bring joy and social energy, but uncontrolled DJ walls, deafening Dolby systems, lasers, obscene songs and vulgar dancing turn celebration into public nuisance. The objection is not to Ganeshotsav, nor to any particular religion. The same standard must apply to Eid, Christmas, religious processions and celebrations of political or social icons. Your freedom to celebrate cannot include the freedom to frighten infants, disturb patients, endanger senior citizens or make neighbourhoods unbearable. Pune’s Ganesh mandals have a proud tradition of social service. They can lead another reform: celebrate Ganeshotsav with music, dance, devotion and beauty—but without noise becoming violence.
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
Ambedkar’s Uncomfortable Verdict on Gandhi. Those who portray Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi as politically harmonious conveniently overlook how bitter their disagreements actually were. In a 1955 BBC interview, Ambedkar spoke extraordinarily harshly about Gandhi, saying he knew Gandhi better than most people because Gandhi had “opened his real fangs” to him. Ambedkar accused Gandhi of maintaining different public and private positions, particularly on caste and untouchability, and rejected the saintly image built around him. One may agree or disagree with Ambedkar’s assessment, but suppressing his criticism does injustice to history. Gandhi and Ambedkar represented profoundly different approaches to caste, political representation and social reform. Instead of sanitising their relationship to suit modern political narratives, India should read Ambedkar’s own words and confront the intellectual conflict between these two towering figures honestly. History deserves evidence, not convenient mythology.
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
Rahul Gandhi’s Demand Came True—with a Twist! Rahul Gandhi demanded that an FIR be filed over the controversial “purification” ritual held at Haldwani’s Ramlila Ground after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s rally. Well, the police case did come—but the political twist is that Rahul Gandhi himself ended up facing it! Amit Kumar, a member of the Valmiki community who says he participated in the ritual, complained that Gandhi had wrongly portrayed the event as caste-based discrimination and thereby insulted Scheduled Caste participants. Reports say an FIR was subsequently registered against Gandhi under provisions of the BNS and the SC/ST Act. The complainant maintains that people from different communities, including Dalits, participated in the cleaning and ritual. Politics sometimes produces ironies better than fiction: Rahul Gandhi demanded an FIR—and an FIR arrived, just from the opposite direction!
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