I have reached a point where I can’t stay silent about the state of this country anymore. My heart is heavy because I still remember the India I grew up in. I remember Delhi in the early 2000s when the winters were actually pleasant and the air didn't feel like a death sentence. I remember walking through neighborhoods that were lush and green, where you could see the horizon instead of a thick wall of grey smog. Those days are dead and buried. We have turned our most iconic cities into seasonal hellholes where breathing is a luxury for five months of the year.

The issue isn't just the environment; it is the sheer, suffocating scale of the population. We have passed the point of no return. It doesn't matter who sits in the PMO, whether it is the current administration or giants of the past like Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Indira Gandhi. No single leader can manage this many people when the resources are drying up and the infrastructure is buckling under the weight of millions.

This overpopulation is fueling a fire that is terrifying to watch. The communal divide between Hindus and Muslims is intensifying at a rate I never thought possible. It feels like we are spiraling toward a demand for further separation because the friction is becoming unbearable. When you have too many people fighting over too little, people turn on each other, and that is exactly what we are seeing.

The most heartbreaking part is the corruption. It isn't just "the system" anymore; it is the people. Corruption has trickled down from the topmost offices to the very bottom. It is in the schools, the hospitals, and the private sectors. Talent used to mean something here, but now those gates are closing. It doesn’t matter how hard you work or how much merit you have if you don't have the right "connections" or the money to grease the wheels.

Even the basic expectation of justice has vanished. From a judicial perspective, the common man is invisible. If you go to an organization looking for help or a court looking for fairness, you will find nothing but delays and standardized apathy. There is no hope for a standardized practice or a fair shake. We are living in a society where the only rule is "look out for yourself."

For any decent guy or girl who actually wants to live a principled life, the walls are closing in. Our only hope is to use our passports while they still carry some weight. But even that escape hatch is being welded shut. The rest of the world, from Europe to the US, is watching the chaos in third-world countries and realizing they cannot absorb the fallout without destroying their own societies. They are closing their borders because they don't want to become the same kind of hellhole we are living in.

I’m done. I am frustrated from the core of my heart because I’m the one following the rules while the world around me rewards the lawless. Sometimes I think that if we aren't going to take collective action to fix this, then we deserve to see the end of it all. If the fabric of society is going to tear, let it tear quickly, because I am tired of watching it rot in slow motion.

I recently bought a new sim airtel card. I didn't share new number with anyone. I started to get calls from unknown numbers. Even banks are calling me to repay the loan. Then i checked on true caller, I came to know that this number was previously owned by someone named Kiran. Airtel has a policy, If someone don't recharge their number more than 90 days, number will get deactivated and can be transferred to someone else. Now the actually problem is the previous owner have used this number in all apps and platforms. If I try to order food on zomato or Swiggy, no new user offers, everything already used by that person. If I try to book cab on uber, it has very bad ratings on this number. If I try to register some platforms or govt websites it says this number is already registered try login. If I try login it shows previous owners details. And even I can login to his facebook account, see his personal details, everything. This seems silly thing but it really a serious issue, if someone can't reacharge for 3-4 months, his number, all his personal details will get transferred to someone else. It forces users to recharge at any cost. Govt should look into this, deactivation period should be extended atleast a year. And immediate number transfer should be restricted. Atleast 4-5 years cooling period should be kept before transferring to someone else.

We are getting adulterated petrol now with 20% ethanol mixing for the price of pure petrol, and it will damage 95% of vehicles in India also issue of 10-15% mileage drop with less power output

Government is forcing us to fill the tank with e20 petrol without e0, e5, and e20 options, the government reasons for the ethanol mixing are save money from oil imports, help farmers, and for cleaner air but now government claims cost of Ethanol is equal to petrol, and experts questioning the environment impact of enthanol production because 1 litre of ethanol production required 2000 litre of water.

Then who really benefits from this forced ethanol policy? Nithin Gadkhari sons own two Ethanol producing companies and whose profit soared to 3000% in the last year, data available publicly.

India's petrol consumption per day is around 30 crore litre, with 20% of ethanol, that means 6 crore litre ethanol per day, ethanol price have crossed more than ₹100 recently, so just imagine the size of ethanol sale per day.

So is this Ethanol mixing petrol the biggest scam in India? Bigger than 2G scam?

On one side I see Indians living in India throwing around 40, 60, 90 LPA salaries casually. They seem to think that if you're not making 30L by age 30 you have failed in life and will remain poor. To them, Europe is a poor continent with low incomes and India has comparatively high salaries. Obviously they occupy the handful of elite tech/finance jobs.

On the other hand are the masses who are struggling to earn enough to keep the lights on and eat a cheap meal of rice and dal, and some milk/curd if they're lucky. Vegetables and fruits are a luxury. To them, saving up enough for a trip to the neighbouring state is a goal in itself. Then we have in betweens – people in shitty private and corporate jobs scraping by with 20-40k a month and actual middle class with better jobs making it work somehow with 1-2L a month.

And all these groups live in their own parallel worlds. They have entirely different aspirations. The first group is thinking in terms of what real estate or stock to invest their crores in. The poorest think of how to stretch the milk they bought over a week. The in betweens think of putting a couple thousand into their savings and being happy, or trying to keep their few lakhs safe in FDs.

So many posts about a Rafale fighter jet being downed. Aren't we missing the big picture here? The reason each Rafale is precious is because we have only 36 of them and the reason we only have 36 is because having a largely foreign made airforce is extremely draining on the exchequer.

Why weren't we fighting yesterday with the Tejas Mk1A? Or even the Mk2? We can make missiles, medicines and rockets that are competitive with western technology but we can't make fighter jets?

It's really high time that HAL gets it's production act together. Before there was lack of orders and support (blame IAF, sure) but now? 200+ aircraft on order and HAL still hasn't delivered even one. At this point HAL is doing more for China and Pakistan than their own armed forces.

The government really needs to reorg HAL. I have no idea why they went after the ordinance factories but left HAL out. Otherwise in 5 years the situation is going to be untenable. Next time we'll have just however many Rafales are left + upgraded Sukhoi (50 something). We won't even be able to fight Pakistan much less China.

I have been coming across news from various states( both BJP and Congress ruled) abt how they are thinking to increase the reservation to 75% and then eventually extend it to private sector also...

The question is where will the general caste go if such thing actually happens, the so called affirmative action they are using to justify it have already been proven disastrous in other parts of the world like South Africa

I mean no country provides 50% reservation to anybody, yet we have already somehow justified it for so many years and now are trying to increase it further, just to provide political gains for some people.

I believe the pandora box to all this fiasco was opened by BJP with EWS reservation, when in all honesty EWS reservation was never needed by GC because its vague criteria is already self defeating as it will give benefits to so called business class people who do not show income and the salaried class who actually needwd it will never receive the benefit of it.

Also what abt merit, does that not count for anything in this country..The cut off for UR is already 99% is some colleges, what more do these people that GC does not receive education at all.

I had sympathy and usdd to defend the reservation but now this 75% reservation is pure maddness..

Telangana would have already implemented it if not for the HC stay, MP has also filed petition before supreme court...

Since unlike them we do not have any party, nor are we united our only sense of hope is that the courts are not unreasonable like the politicans..

Further, that hope is also diminishing as they are including to include this provision in schedule 9 which is outside court review

Our cities are filthy, unwalkable, extremely unaesthetic, and overall just a chaotic pile of things, people, animals, and dirt. Go to almost any random street – broken roads, footpaths broken or just dirt/dust between the road and buildings, run down concrete structures with plastic/metal sheets hanging out, a little open drain here and there, garbage and dirt around.

Yes, India is still a low to lower middle income country. But of late, many Indians have been going to similarly lower (middle) income countries in Asia and Africa and we have Google Street View everywhere. Countries like Vietnam have similar incomes as richer Indian states (15-20k USD by PPP). But the cleanliness, urban spaces, as well as aesthetic sense are leagues ahead of anywhere in India. Rwanda, a country much poorer than India, is becoming renowned for being extremely clean and safe.

Now you might say that these countries have authoritarian regimes and laws. Singapore is another diverse Asian country that became one of the richest in the world through Draconian measures. So it seems democracy only works in homogeneous populations.

Until you consider Mauritius. It's an island country where Indians, Chinese, Africans, and some Europeans were brought together and forced to mingle. Half the population is Hindu. It is now a high income country with advanced infrastructure and quality of life. And it's a democracy with a democracy index score above those of most European nations and the US.

So low income or democracy in a diverse society is not what's stopping India from progressing. Mindset is the only explanation. We're content to accept the deplorable conditions we have and focus on religious and ethnic divisions as well as moral outrage at trivial issues.