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India has its 82% population living in areas where the air quality is worse than the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)-PM2.5 greater than 40microgram/cubic meters! World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation for this 5microgram/ cubic meters !!! Is it some kind of joke (sick)- hell has not broken loose as yet? Standards or Perceptions Idea of setting standards is getting challenged here. Or human being is such a surplus commodity on earth that in a period between 2009 to 2019, 1500000 deaths are linked to the cause- poor air to breath, no heads are turned forget crucification in public for owning the responsibility of governance. Such is civil apathy that life as usual with no restrained is the swan song on every soul pretend playlist. Bard of Avon danced out of this world under blue sky in April 1616 in England little wondering that The Taj mahal, a white marble tomb getting ready at distant land in India (it took 21 years to build, completed in 1631)would yet anothe...

Mark Twain birthday today, world is still celebrating hypocracies even after around two centuries having past since his birth in 1835. Even Truth had many colours during his life time, truth has many more shades today. "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people, astonish the rest,"says one of his many quotes. "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is oblidged to stick to possibilities;truth is not," so goes another. Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice charged two officials of a renewable energy company listed in the U.S. in connection with a bribery scheme allegedly perpetrated by Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group, and his associates including his nephew Sagar Adani. Several officials of an Adani Group company have been accused of bribing government officials in various Indian States to receive business favours.