Mixed Shots

The K-to-K Dream

Kashmir to Kanyakumari is a political dialogue, patriotic song, or marathon바카라�s equivalent of the Everest. A dream. A nursing assistant with 60 Para Field Hospital of the army is letting his legs run his dream바카라�4,300-km from north to south within 50 days for a spot in the Guinness records. Naik Velu P. began his run from Jammu and will celebrate his 30th birthday on the way. The soldier from Tamil Nadu is no marathon rookie바카라�he became the first Indian last June to run 1,600 km in 17 days, an Asian record. This K-to-K nymphet has bewitched many바카라�like pro cyclist Adil Teli, a 23-year-old who broke the Guinness records by completing the trip in eight days.

The BEST Pay Is Heavy

Pay back in coins is not an ideal situation. Ask any BEST employee바카라�those who run Mumbai바카라�s buses and the power supply. The civic-run agency has been paying a sizeable portion of salaries of around 40,000 employees in coins over the past few months, giving their pay unwanted heft. BEST collects a massive quantity of coins from bus fares and power bills, and it had an arrangement with a private bank to 바카라�convert the chillars바카라� to easy, manageable money. That contract ended last year. And so, BEST staff are getting around Rs 11,000 or more in coins as part of their salary. The flipside? Weighty problems바카라�some employees have even defaulted on their monthly mortgage payment as banks don바카라�t support bulk coin exchanges.

The Beauty Of Our Polls

Elections in UP provide myriad models to appreciate the beauty of our democracy. Or, throw in a model바카라�the one from beauty pageants and music videos바카라�into the ring. Diksha Singh, a Miss India finalist from 2015 and a Miss Body Beautiful winner, is contesting the Zila Panchayat elections from Jaunpur바카라�her ancestral home where she studied till Class 3 before her parents shifted to Mumbai/Goa. Diksha is an independent from a seat reserved for women. 바카라�The place is stuck in the 바카라�90s,바카라� she says and intend to change the situation. A politician already, eh? 

Dial D For Double Dose

She tilted her head, pressed her phone between an ear and shoulder and continued talking. Hands free, she checked the disposable hypodermic syringe and loaded it with the Covid vaccine. Spirit-wiped the recipient바카라�s arm and gave her the shot. And another one. Yes, a second shot. The auxiliary nursing midwife at a primary health centre in Kanpur Rural district of UP was busy on her phone when she, by mistake, vaccinated a woman in her 50s twice. The woman is fine, no serious side effects. The midwife has plenty of calls to make, though.

Lex Talionis

바카라�Today after breakfast at restaurant, I naturally went to pay. Cashier hesitated to accept money. With great hesitation he accepted after insistence. I told him that we are from BJP. A party that respects all and protects all. Not DMK to do roll-call even from small businesses.바카라�

Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha president Tejasvi Surya after meal at Sree Annapoorna restaurant in Coimbatore

바카라�Dear Tejasvi Surya, we are glad to have served you at our restaurant. At Annapoorna we greet everyone with the same love and gratitude, in fact everyone comes forward to pay their bills. No one has forced us for anything free. As a token of love and respect we sometimes refrain from taking money from people who work for our society.바카라�

Sree Annapoorna restaurant on Facebook.

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Illustrations: Saahil, Text curated by Alka Gupta