Honk Honk... (Part -1)

There has been abrupt improvement in national road infrastructure across the country under the leadership of honorable central Minister Shri. Nithin Gadkari. With new expressways being planned across all the cross sections of the region the travel time between the destinations has been drastically reduced. The difference between expressway and highway is that expressways are designed for high-speed traffic and have controlled access, while highways are designed to connect cities and towns.

In India, the speed limit on expressways is 120 kilometers per hour, which is the highest speed limit for vehicles in the country. The speed limit on national highways is 100 kilometers per hour.

With greater speed comes greater dangers associated with the accelerated speeds. South India's first expressway between Bengaluru and Mysore was notoriously called "accident den" as 296 accidents and 132 fatalities were reported within six months of its inauguration according to report published in Indian Express ( https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/296-accidents-132-fatalities-recorded-on-bengaluru-mysuru-expressway-since-january-official-report/ ) 

But these figures were drastically reduced due to efforts of Karnataka Police, wherein Karnataka Police in collaboration with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), has ramped up surveillance efforts on the expressway. AI-driven cameras have been installed along the route to identify and penalise traffic violators, particularly those involved in speeding or other unsafe practises.

To further curb accidents, a dedicated team of police officers were reported to be stationed at the Kanimanike Toll Gate in Mysuru to catch speeding vehicles in real-time. Despite fines being issued through Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras, many violators have not paid the penalties online. As a result, the police plan to collect fines manually from those caught speeding on the expressway.

Myth that to win a country you need to win its countrymen

Of late there has been amplified noise within the country on who constitute nationalists and who are to be identified as its traitors. Officially whosoever adheres allegiance to constitution of the country are indeed eligible to identify themselves as nationalists. But entire spin is about unofficial domain.

Informally a rule is being setup on ways to segregate the population as friends and foes of the establishment based on allegiance to local dominance. And who forms the local dominance, it is yet another complex permutation and combination of caste, religion, politics, money and so on. This local dominance brag about its influence both political and monetary that they dictate their own diktats on recognizing newcomers as a nationalist.

 

They are so emboldened that they openly challenge whosoever tries to override local dominance and label them as the traitors. Their only logic for being so emboldened is the fact they have been a localite for generations guarding the land and culture since ages and hence expect newcomers to be obliged to them. 

Speaking in their own language, assuming the locality as women, is it enough to just guard the body of the women in order to appropriate her self ? More than guarding the minerals of the locality guarding the values represented by the locality gives more impetus to the argument of feeling ownership of the locality. If a newcomer intakes values and enshrines them in his contribution he becomes more localite than the one who simply guards the material aspect of place.

Tips to take care of bedridden family member at home

Dear friends, most of us are going to step into our forty's in a couple of years. And so are our parents and grand parents aging gracefully. There are chances that they be getting bedridden due to age factor. A bedridden patient's physical mobility gets restricted affecting them both physically and mentally.

Let us concentrate on certain tips to manage bedridden patients at home.

1. First and foremost bedridden patient needs a fair amount of dignity. The dignity gets reflected in each and every service we do for them. Be it in feeding them food and medicines, regular checkup of vitals i.e. blood sugar level, blood pressure level, daily bathing, changing diapers and keeping the bed neat and clean.

2. Spend some quality time with them. Just like a new born baby enters this world with lots of dreams to be fulfilled into reality, so does an aged bedridden person prepare themselves to leave this world with quality memories and it is the duty of the family to help them achieve the same.

3. Keep them involved in the current affairs of the family. They might not be of any immediate contributors to the happenings of the family but still keeping them in loop shall make them feel wanted and valued.

4. More than women, a male bedridden member needs more care and attention as they get easily offended to slightest mishandling since they had spent most of their life respected and cared by their female counterparts.

5. You may appoint third party personalized care-taker for your bedridden family  member, but such arrangements shall not replace the personalized attention that you provide for your bedridden family member.