🖋️ From the desk of Abhijeet Rane:
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- Jun 4
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🖋️ From the desk of Abhijeet Rane:
Watching Virat Kohli fight back tears on the podium felt like the closing scene of an 18-year epic. Few athletes have carried a franchise’s hopes as visibly or for as long. Season after season, he piled up runs, took the criticism for every near-miss, and still fronted up with the same snarling energy the next April. That emotional release in Ahmedabad wasn’t only about a first trophy; it was about validation of a career spent refusing to compromise on fitness, intensity, or loyalty to a single team in an era of quick transfers.What stood out in his post-match remarks was how quickly he shifted credit to the youngsters and the support staff, proof that the uber-competitive Kohli has also grown into a custodian of team culture. He spoke of “belief” more than “stats,” signalling that the real legacy he wants to leave at RCB is psychological resilience. For Indian cricket, his journey underscores a larger truth: greatness is measured not merely by records but by the capacity to sustain hunger across two decades, transform setbacks into fuel, and lift those around you when it matters most.
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🖋️ From the desk of Abhijeet Rane:
Tensions inside Maharashtra’s Mahayuti coalition have sharpened as Shiv Sena (Shinde) ministers openly accuse deputy chief minister and finance boss Ajit Pawar of throttling departmental funds and blocking local projects. Their two-hour gripe session with Eknath Shinde reveals how resource allocation, not ideology, is the flash-point in a three-party government where every faction expects proportional spoils. For Shinde’s camp the stakes are high: having staked its 2022 rebellion on promises of faster development, it cannot afford stalled roadwork and empty district treasuries just a year before civic polls.
Ajit Pawar, meanwhile, holds the coalition’s most powerful portfolio; tighter purse strings strengthen his bargaining position within both cabinet and party. The BJP, watching from the apex of the alliance, now plays referee: if it lets disputes fester, governance slows and anti-incumbency grows, but siding too plainly with one partner risks another round of desertions. Shinde’s pledge to “sort it out with Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar” is therefore more than conflict management—it’s a test of whether Mahayuti can move from opportunistic arithmetic to stable chemistry.
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🖋️ From the desk of Abhijeet Rane:
With active Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra nearing the 500 mark, the state health department is urging a return to simple but proven safeguards: masking in crowded indoor settings, voluntary testing at the first sign of fever or sore throat, and booster doses for seniors or those with comorbidities who missed last winter’s drive. Genome sequencing indicates the rise is linked to newer Omicron offshoots that spread quickly but, so far, cause mostly mild illness—unless they find unvaccinated or immunity-compromised hosts. That makes targeted vigilance, rather than blanket restrictions, the sensible path.The immediate risk is less about hospital overload and more about workforce absenteeism and ripple effects on routine healthcare. Even a modest uptick can sideline staff in public hospitals already stretched by monsoon-season dengue and flu. District administrations have therefore been asked to refresh isolation wards, check oxygen audits, and re-train primary-health teams on home-monitoring protocols. For citizens, the message is pragmatic: treat Covid like any other contagious respiratory infection—mask if you’re symptomatic, stay home until you test negative, notify vulnerable relatives, and keep digital vaccination certificates handy in case districts reintroduce entry checks for high-density events.
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🖋️ From the desk of Abhijeet Rane:
Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde deserves unequivocal praise for approving a 53 percent dearness-allowance hike for Maharashtra ST employees. In one stroke, he has acknowledged the frontline role these drivers, conductors, and mechanics play in keeping the state connected—especially rural and hilly regions where the red bus is often the only affordable lifeline. The move not only eases the pressure of rising living costs on nearly one lakh families but also restores dignity to a workforce that braved strikes, wage backlogs, and pandemic risks without abandoning their routes.Strategically, Shinde’s decision shows that fiscal prudence and employee welfare need not be mutually exclusive. By boosting morale and narrowing the pay gap with other government cadres, the state is likely to see better staff retention, fewer service disruptions, and a more motivated crew—outcomes that translate into safer, more reliable transport for millions of daily passengers. It is a timely reminder that compassionate governance can strengthen both public services and the social contract they rest on.
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🖋️ From the desk of Abhijeet Rane:
Raghuram Rajan’s warning is blunt: India’s growth ambition will keep hitting a ceiling unless New Delhi reins in over-zealous tax authorities. Investor conversations still bristle with stories of midnight raids, inflated demands, and years-long appeals that tie up working capital. Even the new “faceless” assessment system, meant to reduce discretion, has been dogged by technical glitches and fresh notices that feel as arbitrary as the old ones. For domestic entrepreneurs the hidden cost is risk capital diverted to legal contingencies; for foreign firms it is the perception that policy certainty ends the moment a tax officer opens a file. Until that fear premium is removed, cheaper PLI subsidies or headline tax-rate cuts will struggle to offset it.
The remedy lies in institutional, not one-off, fixes: time-bound dispute resolution, personal accountability for egregious demands, and real-time dashboards that let headquarters see how many cases a field office actually wins on appeal. A credible internal-audit regime would signal that the state values compliance over extraction, aligning the tax apparatus with the broader goal of making India a predictable production hub. Rajan’s larger point is that macro reforms—free-trade corridors, infrastructure splurges, semiconductor subsidies—can achieve only so much if micro-level coercion persists.
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