Phataka Stalls, Ctizens & Rulers of the City!

“Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay. ”… Thucydides

Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. And what he wrote about rulers which is our elected members or self declared leaders that too some two thousand five hundred years back, it stands true even today, especially when it’s our dear Pune city! Now with the title like “Phataka Stalls & Pune City Rulers”, one must be wondering what the link in between these two & with the quote? 

Well, let’s start with phataka i.e. fire cracker stalls; we all have exciting memories from our childhood of burning firecrackers & it was fun to go to the phataka stalls with holding hand of our Dad & try to get as many varieties of fire crackers in the limited budget we had. Those were days of not the fancy fire crackers but standard few items were always on the list of all kids; atom bomb then small crackers called as lavangi, rockets, anar i.e. tree of fire, then there uses to be snake pills which when burnt used to emit black dirty smoke & a snake of tar; then there was floor fire wheel i.e. bhui chakra, that’s all! Not alike today’s fancy fire work which goes high up in sky & cover the entire surrounding with smoke & sound & burns a big hole in the pocket too! Also the volumes were less & most importantly we used to burn crackers only in Diwali not like on today’s any time any day & any event! The phataka stalls were limited & were at few places & it’s these stalls which are in news recently. 

Since last few years phataka stalls like Ganpati Idols stalls & Rakhi stalls are mushroomed all over the city but then Ganpati & Rakhi don’t cause fire nor needs any safety measure which are a must for phataka stalls. One such spot is our beloved PMC has been giving permission to phataks stalls which eventually has become a market in itself along the river side road, where I also live at one end of the very same road. First it’s just temporary arrangement as Sanas Ground near Saras Baug where earlier phataka market was used to be but Hon. High Court directed PMC not to use play ground for phataka stalls as ground gets damaged. So some brain in PMC came out with option on then newly made DP road which eventually became the major link between city & fast developing suburbs like Sinhagad road & Karvenagar. Also the area along this DP road got developed & no more the peaceful, traffic-less DP road which starts from Mhatre bridge remained that peaceful & the phataka stalls become a nightmare for the traffic as well residents along this road. But by then like man eater tiger gets used to human blood, the PMC has got used to the revenues coming out of the auction of these phataka stalls & needelss to say as any deal in PMC there was lot more in these auctions than that looks on surface. So in spite the increasing pressure from residents as well commuters using this DP road for not allowing the phataka stalls along this road yet PMC continued to allow the stalls here every year, making mess of the traffic for nearly fifteen days & even putting safety of the entire locality at risk!  There are lot more issues as the road is extremely busy at evening hours, the phataka stalls & their goods vehicles adds in the chaos of the traffic is one aspect. Already along this road there are number of illegal marriage lawns & restaurants in the so called green belt, their parking is all along the same road only. Then the testing of these fire crackers is big disturbance to the surrounding which includes even Mangeshkar Hospital too. Also some fifty odd stalls are there & approximately three hundred staffers working at these stalls which are mostly class-four poor people, lives at these stalls for twenty days. These people perform their daily rituals like bathing, eating & other things on the footpath itself making the scene very embarrassing especially the women on morning walk! In addition these people makes lewd comments to the women on morning walk on the road which is a normal routine for neighboring citizens. And then for name sake there is a fire fighting truck at one end of the road but if something goes wrong then in no time the entire market will be burn to the ashes such is mess in peak hours, so a safety is a big hazard which no one cares. Joke is right from fire dept to traffic police every concerned dept has said “No”, for this location for the phataka stalls yet year after year the phataka stalls get auctioned & gets this location.

This year finally some sensible officer in PMC rejected the permission for phataka stalls along this road & gave alternate location for the stall owners in some distant suburb. But that is what irked our legislators i.e. elected members of PMC as well so called leaders of the society! As how some PMC administration officer of which these elected members considered themselves rulers, on its own can decide what’s good for the citizens & reject the permission to the phataka stalls! Had not the Punekars have elected these rulers because they understand what is good & what is bad for citizens of Pune? Where will now the poor citizens go to buy fire crackers as when the city doesn’t have good public transport? Why to burden the Punekars with extra fuel cost just to buy fire crackers? How the administration has neglected this aspect that the phataka stalls on DP road was a great convenience to the entire city; what if it is illegal to have stalls on road & causes some traffic disturbance to some million commuters? Are they not everyday suffering from traffic congestion & pollution so what it matters if some more delay in traffic happens, why to shout so much for it? And then the residents around the DP road, they are just one ward & not entire city! Alredy there always is sound & air pollution along with traffic problem on DP road due to few other respectable citizens who earn some little money by the marriage lawns as well restaurants in the green belt, is it big crime? So immediately all political party leaders came together & summoned PMC administration for giving permission the poor phataka stall owners to have their stalls on the DP road only & it’s not for the benefit of the phataka merchants but for the citizens is what every ruler insisted & I believe them as I believe in the people whom the city has elected!

Yet the media which always sees wrong side of any decision printed all this in news papers (read this as sarcastic) & somehow the administration of PMC remained firm for not re-granting the permission of phataka stalls along DP road, at-least till now!  But this entire episode is an eye opener, as it showed us real care takers of the citizens! If these rulers of ours think so much for the citizens’ comfort then why can’t they get down on street for many things which citizens are suffering daily? For e.g. in last many years no new bus for PMT has been purchased & the bus stops are nonexistent or in such a bad shape that commuters pray to god for their own safety while standing at these bus stops; but I have never read in news that any of our rulers has made any protest against PMT's service or helped PMT administration to improve its service! The city is having major problem with mosquitoes, stray dogs & pigs but never had I heard that our leaders have joined the citizens & protested if not acting against such problem which is a big nuisance for any person walking on streets! And the main reason for the stray dogs, pigs as well mosquitoes is heaps of garbage in open but seems no ruler of this city sees any garbage around or else they would have surely raised their voice for the same! There are no enough public toilets for men or women in the city & the public toilets which have been built are in such state that even the pigs will run away from them. But for our rulers this isn’t any discomfort for the citizens or else they would have took effort to maintain these toilets & pressurized the administration to build new public toilets. Barring  few elected members none have come forward to the concept of adopting a public toilet in the city in their wards, so I am sure public toilet is not a major issue for the city as our rulers themselves doesn’t think so!

On one side percentage of Carbon Di-Oxide in air is all time high & yet citizens’ thinks enjoyment is in burning more fire crackers! Are we Punekars so dumb that our children have to appeal us, “No Fire Crackers This Diwali”? In my dreams also I won’t expect such logical action from the so called leaders of this city, who instead of taking efforts for executing essential projects like public transport, are busy in fighting over what should be name of the company making the Metro! The list of problems citizens of our Pune city has to face every day is unending. Rather now the citizens have got used to the problem as we believe that our rulers cares a lot more for us than we think & trust that they are capable to take solve every problem related to our comforts! That’s why they want us to be happy & celebrate the Diwali with lots of fire crackers as with our rulers we won’t be having any discomfort! To all the doubting souls about intentions of our rulers, don’t worry for any sound & air pollution as already we inhale enough carbon di-oxide from the millions of private vehicles exhausts as well our ears are used to sounds from vehicles horns to drums & Dolby system speaker walls used in processions every day! So some more smoke & bang bang isn’t going to make any difference, is the message our rulers wants to give us! 

I think what better Diwali Wishes we could have got from our rulers, we should consider as luckiest city to have such people in whose hands our lives we have put in! What the great Thucydides has said about selfishness of rulers & its outcome is history & today’s mantra is create your own history; so be happy Punekars, someday you all will become history only! 

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Sanjay Deshpande

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Unbox Jindgi, This Diwali!

“You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, let things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy”… Shah Rukh Khan.

Well, sometimes our Bollywood stars does talk sense & in above quote our times melody king has shown some sense in speaking for what we as Indians are! Yes we do are shy in celebrating happiness as first we think people will be jealous with us & will try to steal that happiness from us & second we are a bit selfish when it comes to share happiness, though it’s not our culture! It’s in this country even a stranger if he enters our home we first give him water & something to eat; but somewhere in the age of carrier & success we have lost that touch of sharing & that took away our celebrating happiness also!

Diwali does makes many brands advertise aggressively & innovatively to en-cash the festive mood & I always love to read or watch advertises in news papers & on TV. Two advertises, first that of Snapdeal & other of Amazon, both are online shopping companies, caught my attention. Snapdeal’s advertise says, “Unbox Jindagi, This Diwali” whereas Amazon is appealing to people, “Ye Diwali Bade Dilwai’! What we mean when we say Unbox Jindagi? We all keep hidden many things which desire to do, may it be dancing in rains or may it be buying a purple color top for us, many things which we would have liked to do for our own happiness but right from what people will say to is it doing worth, so many what’s & it’s makes us box our desires in the box which we call mind. All we need is a little push to open up that box & show day light to our own desires, wish, whatever we may call it as there lays real happiness & celebrate that happiness with all around us! I think that’s true meaning of Diwali, isn’t it? As after all Diwali is festival of light so let’s enlighten our surrounding by opening up our very own box along with us!

The Amazon advertises makes us understand our desire to make others happy by our small acts for e.g. gifting something to our society’s watchman or our laundry man & many around us whom are not as fortunate as us. Often when we celebrate then we limit or say restrict our celebrations to our close ones only, may it be relatives or friends, but we forget many others who are part of our day to day life & actually making our life a bit easy by their presence! We are selfish as either we just ignore others importance in our life or curtail our wish to make them part of our happiness for many reasons; "why to spend on people who are not close to me", is one standard reason which we never openly acknowledge but get ruled by that is a bitter fact. Ask our own self, as some time or other each of us feels like doing something for those unknown faces which moves around us in many forms; may it be the boy who cleans your table when you are enjoying your morning coffee with your friends in Vaishali, that face may be of a doorman of a posh restaurant who opens your car door for you when you are driving back to your home after a dinner which may be equal to his months’ salary, or your societies watchman’s face who salutes you every morning when you are leaving for your office in your SUV or the garbage collector of your building who rang the bail of every morning to collect your homes dirt & the list goes on. All these faces looks at you & you even don’t return their looks avoiding, thinking what you have to do with them. Well, these faces are not of beggars; they all are respectable men, doing their duty honestly & with pride. Only thing is their life is not as easy as yours, because of many reasons & their faces do reflect that stress of every day’s battle for survival! Off-course you may not be responsible for the reasons of their stresses but you surely can be the reason to reduce those stresses a bit by just one small act of gifting something to them along with a genuine smile! Frankly speaking in the process of living by DP’s on whats-ap accounts of the people around we have forgotten to read the real life faces! This is what the Amazon advertises appeals to us, to respect the real faces in life & know your responsibility to make them happy, so open up your mind & even pocket also a bit for that. This is what Amazon advertise appeals us, “Ye Diwali Bade Dilwali” i.e. in English language it means, “Make this Diwali Generous”! 

And remember one thing whatever success in our carrier we may have achieved or whatever age we grow yet we love somebody making our face glow by small act of love & compassion; here I will share from my own experiences something. Even today on Diwali morning when my mother who has been retired as a school teacher gives me Rs 1000 & asks to buy a T-Shirt of my choice for myself, I become speechless; somewhere deep within something moves & it reflects on surface in the form of tears in eyes & smile on lips. It may be just Rs 1000 but it’s a time machine for me, taking me back in past! It brings back memories of a small boy in a small town, for whom Diwali was the only time to get something of his choice; so it brings the best glow on my face & I realize that 1000/- note is more precious than all my earnings! I am sure many of us are lucky enough to experience such glow on Diwlai but often we fail to understand importance of that glow. I think we ought to share this glow with as many people we can, is what I think celebrating happiness on the occasion of Diwali!

What I wondered most is how precisely both this advertises have pinpointed our Indian mind which Shahrukh was referring to! As this exactly is what we needed to remind our self while we go through our daily rituals of so called job, family & friends. There is a lot more life than what we see or hear around & that life have got boxed in our mind & then we make that box small by acts only, same way our hidden desires also get compressed & die eventually! Along with those dead desires dies something for more precious within us & that is true meaning of celebrating happiness. As if we forget to celebrate every small moment of happiness & if we are restricting that celebration to our own cage then we haven’t understood the meaning of life in itself! Diwali is festival of lights & that doesn’t mean just lighting your home with LED lights & fireworks; what it mean is make the other lives glow with your sharing of happiness as that is something which will enlighten their faces forever!

Below is something I wrote for my team on Diwali, sure you too can read it & share with yours family/friends & do add something of your own glow in it, they will feel nice…

                              

                    Happy Diwali !

“Love & hatred, both provide us a cause to live; it’s up to us what we choose to live for”… Malala Yosafzai.

Dear Team,

As you know your boss is very much fond of quotes by people around the world, not that because they are big names but they are big names because they share such wisdom or feelings with us through such quotes! The youngest Noble prize winner for Peace has suffered herself a lot & above words can come through only extreme suffering as that mind only can understand importance of love!

And how correct is Malala, because unfortunately knowingly or unknowingly we allow hatred to rule us making us walk on that path only. Outcome is in present times we have forgotten even to smile genuinely leave apart celebrating happiness as where hatred exists happiness has no place! And hatred doesn’t mean you want to harm someone deliberately, for many reasons however small or irrelevant those reasons may be yet we despise many people around us; may it be colleagues, suppliers, contractors or even our clients too, in some cases! And in the process we miss to notice small joys or moments of happiness the very same people brings for us, may it be a hot cup of tea served by our office boy on a rainy noon or an umbrella handed over to us by our driver on a hot sunny day at site, so many times we fail to appreciate such small acts of concern or promptness in duty. At home also scene isn’t different, a loving hug by your small daughter when you enter in home or your better half waiting for you for dinner on a late work day! These are smallest of acts which actually say so much to us & with deaf ears we just walk on with carrying hatred for unpleasant moments which in a way is like carrying some unnecessary baggage, making us tiered & irritated with the journey of life! And all these people around you doesn’t expect something great from you, just a smile & a thank you message which can be conveyed by your eyes is what needed but even that we  fail to do!

This Diwali lets enlighten our mind with love as that’s one sure way of keeping hatred away & let this unnecessary baggage of bad memories melt, just the way darkness melts when you burn an Anar at Diwali night! As your boss, I promise to make an effort doing the same, starting from myself as I too am not the exception to what I have shared above! What better wish I could have made for my team which makes my every day bright & beautiful! Happy Diwali to you along with your family!

Sanjay 

Sanjay Deshpande

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Common Man, Hon CM & Image of State Govt!

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”… John Wooden.

John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," as head coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including a record seven in a row. No wonder he could say above words with such authority & the reason I recalled these words is none other than our Chief Minister of our State! Recently I read in newspaper that Hon CM is worried about his govt’s public image as well about allegations being made about entire functioning of the govt & is keen to facelift the image of the govt! Well, nothing wrong as a boss of the govt, he should be concerned about the govt’s image in the eyes of the Public & good thing is he does understand its importance but can it be made just by some advertises or social media campaign, is the question I will like to ask. CM Sir first of all let’s understands who “the Public” in first place is, then we can work out the way to lift image of govt in public eyes or minds!

When we use the term public, do we mean our voters? I think that’s too large a term as every eighteen year & above comes in that category! I think when we say public; mostly we are considering common man which again is very relative term. Yet a common man in common language is the one who gets hit most or say affected most when govt is not performing properly is what I will define.  

Now let’s see who comes in this category of common man? First it is every that person who has either less or inadequate money to buy his way out of difficulties or who don’t have any power or authority to mend the things as per his needs or who has no high profile friends who can make life easy for him, is the common definition of the common man! For e.g. it’s the common man who don’t have money to pay hefty donations & get admission to his kids in a reputed public school when his son or daughter doesn’t get 95% or above marks & many a times even those marks are also not enough! Common man is the one who can’t buy a car or afford to use it daily because of high petrol prices; he can’t afford a driver either so because of parking problems he can’t dare to use his car even if he affords fuel costs & has to be dependent on public transport which is very poor in city like Pune. Common man is the one who has limited budget with small insurance cover when it comes to any treating illness of his or any family member & has to worry for high treatment costs of private hospitals as public health or govt hospitals are known for the kind of service thy offer if you are a common man! Common man is the one who can’t change his home at his wish, leave apart choosing the location of one as he just can’t dream to buy a home in some elite location where water, drainage, good roads like basic things are available in. So he has to settle for his dream home in either at a location which is far away from his work place & without any infrastructure; many a times even legality of that home is in doubt yet he has to surrender to some fly by night developer, looking at his own limited salary & EMI equation & even after paying all installments in time is not sure about getting the possession of the home leave apart quality of the same! Common man is the one who stop buying green vegetables or commodities like Chana/Tur Dal when the prices of these items sour & settles down for potato or pumpkin subji for months as he can’t afford the black marketers rates for these items & the list of characteristics of the common man goes on. In nut-shale common man is the person who surrenders to the situation rather than making the situation surrenders him! One more aspect, common man is the one who has to make multiple visits to any govt office for slightest of his work, even when he is not wrong; for e.g. correction in electric bill or getting property tax on his name of his property & nightmare is dealing with anything related to documents like 7/12 or demarcation of his small piece of the land! Lastly one more characteristic of the common man, he is the one who is afraid of going to police station even to launch the complaint for any injustice happening with him!

CM Sir now once we have identified the public which is common man, then we can take a review of what it is which is making image of govt damaged in the eyes of this common man! For that you can try what the famous Akbar Badshah used to do i.e. roam on streets under disguise, alas you don’t have a aide in form of the Birbal like Akbar Badhsha had but never mind, you can give a try by yourself as it seems you are the only one who is worried about the govt’s image! So let’s have a little walk on the streets of our Pune city & what you will realize is, there is no place to walk as the roads are flooded with private vehicles as public transport either doesn’t exists or very insufficient. The bus stops are joke as they are like tail of sheep, existing for the name sake offering neither shelter nor the information to the commuters! Then there are auto rickshaws standing right in front of the bus stops blocking the way to the bus if it comes on time as there is no time table displayed on any bus stop.  Here in our city there are no way-boards or signage about the places on roads making you clueless about the destination you are going, if you are a new comer to the city! Instead you will find cut outs/banners/hoardings of every size & shape covering whatever way-boards & signage’s are there & yet the leaders or faces on these hoardings keep appealing not to flaunt hoardings of their faces! Neither the karykarta's takes any cognizance of the leader’s appeals nor local public bodies’ e.g. PMC, has any guts to take any action against such hoardings! As you start walking on footpaths, if they are in place then you will know some hoardings even block the foot paths itself but you are not supposed to complaint as but bow your head in front of the hoardings & keep walking, that’s characteristic of the common man, do mind!

If you are able to dodge the hoardings then there are Vegetable vendors to Chinese food stalls & many more aligned on every foot path claiming their ownership on the space.  So you have to walk on road itself making you vulnerable to signal jumping pillion riders, who are not afraid of any traffic policeman if they are there to manage the traffic! Please neglect the footpath condition i.e. the flooring of the pavement as it can be anything as per the whims of the local elected members, right from sleeper ceramic tiles to concrete blocks & be careful about the level of the flooring of foot paths as its being dug for every known reason like rain water pipe lines to optical fiber cables to pipe gas & all round the year & each agency conveniently forget to make the surface as it was when first time the footpath was made. By the way the very same PMC don’t allow the common man to dig the road for most of the year even for essential things like water connection, that too after paying hefty road cutting charges! Also don’t ask what happens to the collected road cutting charges from all these agencies which has dug the footpaths & roads, because you are walking as a common man & not as CM! And the common man doesn’t know whom to ask such questions & if he knows & asks then nobody is required to answer his questions about the city or such issues, mind it!

Ahead on road you will have to face one more hurdle i.e. garbage bins which are mostly on footpath & ever over flowing. Reasons may be the only garbage depot for the city which is at fursungi, the villagers have blocked the PMC garbage vehicles or the personals who are supposed to collect the garbage are on strike (Though I don’t blame them considering the attitude of very common man about throwing everything here). So the footpaths may be blocked with the garbage or the stink is such that you won’t be able to walk & prefer to risk your life by walking on roads! By the way there was a news in news papers that in a recent Hon Vice President’s visit to the city, as the local authorities couldn’t clear the road side garbage in time so they just covered the road side by green net shades, to avoid the sight of garbage from the eyes of Hon Vice President, brilliant idea, isn’t it? But you are a common man so you will have to look at the garbage heaps, mind it! Last but not least if you are lucky enough then you can have entertainment in form of some marriage procession or any party’s candidate has got some post at local level procession, with loudest music & fire crackers, take it as entertainment & not as disturbance to your ears & eyes as that’s what a common man is supposed to do at such times! Don’t ask any karykarta in the procession to reduce the volume of speakers or ask to show them for police permission for procession, the consequences can be fatal for the common man! One thing more, ignore the Cycle Track signage on footpath & don’t ask where is footpath & where is Cycle Track as the signage’s are just for name sake & no cycle rider will dare to ride on said cycle track, so walk freely!

Now after walking for a while if you are feeling like having “Nature’s Call”, then you are in real trouble! Because there are no public lavatories at regular intervals in our city & the one in existence are in such a dreadful condition that even poor beggars’ doesn’t dare to use them. CM Sir we don’t need any signage for public lavatory as you can locate one from a distance because of the stink it generates, is what typical Common Puneri residents says & I agree with them! And as you are a common man so you can’t dare to go to any restaurant alongside the road & ask for permission to use their toilet facility, so what you do is turn your back to the public & answer your Nature’s Call, putting all your shame aside & neglecting the sticker on the wall, “Yaha Peshab Karna Mana Hai”! This too is possible as you are a common man; don’t even imagine what if you had been a common woman!

See, now you must have had a glimpse of what common man has to face on road & what image he must be having of govt in his mind. And the scene isn’t different in any of the city in State only difference may be at some places you will have to face over flowing drainage on road as well beggars may bother you along with stray dogs while walking. Also domestic animals like cows & buffaloes too can be add on along with the cow dung on footpath or roads also be present in some places, if you are unlucky enough! And then this was just a little walk on any street in the city or town; if you want to see further then lets visit local governing body’s office & ask for water connection or let’s go to Talathi office & give application for change in name on 7/12 of your two guntha plot. Here you will realize right from just locating the concerned person & to make him realize that your work too is important to get that job done, what a common man has to undergo in the process!

Now if you are thinking what my fault in all these issues is, as does the CM or any Minister has to look in so small things? Then Sir agreed all above works may not be directly coming under your control yet these are the things which makes image of a govt in the minds of the so called common man. And common man need not necessarily be a peon or clerk in any bank or working in some private firm; you will find the common man in ever business man, shop keeper, proprietary firm owners, in doctors even in the form of real estate developer too you can get a common man! All these men are the ones who want to follow the laws of the system & make their living. They still respect the system named govt as that’s why they follow the laws but they are frustrated now as they experience every day here, the laws are only for those who follows them. If you go to the so called authorities then there are hundreds of permission which takes years & ever changing policies to build one single building. But if you don’t care for any authority & build as many buildings you want without fearing any law then eventually these buildings get regularized by the very same law makers, is what hurts the common man most!

CM Sir if it’s this class which you are targeting to face-lift your govt’s image then all you have to do is improve the system to such a level where day to day things need not have required to follow! We can think of forming a special squad which will go in public, will visit all such points of obstacles within the govt & spot the lacuna in the system which is repeatedly failing to serve the common man & then remove these spots. Identify good officers in the system as there are still many such & give them free hand as these people will be the best brand ambassadors for the govt! Sir, bitter truth is the so called common man just doesn’t believe any more in any govt or such system; fault is not yours but this is what has been happening years after years. Whatever I mentioned above about small problems related to any department’s office, the system makes the common man surrenders either to the agents who has key to open up the way through various tables or just leave & become NRI! That too if he is capable enough of getting NRIship or else drag on with life here & express his frustration on FB or Whatsp or write a letter as “Jagruk Nagrik” in news papers which most no more bothers to read now a days! So CM Sir instead appointing any  high level officer or professional media to face-lift image of govt, make every person associated with the govt understand very clearly that he or she is the face of the govt & if they are not doing their job & keep making the face ugly then remove them by plastic surgery! As that’s what need of the time is or else the day is not long where the govt will have a beautifully make-up face but there will be no Common Man left to appreciate that face!

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Sanjay Deshpande

Sanjeevani Dev.

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