Rasta Satyagraha- Part 1: When the System Didn’t Move, Chaitanya Patil Walked the Mumbai-Goa Highway CITIZEN WALKS WHERE SYSTEM FAILED  Mumbai–Goa National Highway (NH-66), Maharashtra https://www.moneylife.in/article/rasta-satyagraha-part-1-when-the-system-didnt-move-chaitanya-patil-walked-the-mumbaigoa-highway/79178.html 

https://stg-www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/young-activist-walks-490-km-to-flag-safety-hazards-on-mumbai-goa-highway-1017657398984

Chaitanya Patil (28), an engineering graduate from Raigad, has completed a 490-km on-foot audit of the battered Mumbai–Goa highway and submitted a 59-point hazard report to Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari.

‘RASTA SATYAGRAHA’ — A WALK OF SHAME FOR BAD ROADS
•Walked entire NH-66 stretch •Duration: 29 days
•Identified: •Potholes, •Missing signage, •Incomplete bridges, •Accident black spots, •Exposed iron rods & debris

59 critical danger points documented with: •GPS data, •Photos, •QR-coded digital report

75–85 km of work still pending, Service roads incomplete, Bridges half-done, Lives fully at risk

Patil even collected accident-causing debris by hand — broken glass, metal pieces, hoardings — items that authorities somehow “missed” for years.

WHO IS CHAITANYA PATIL?
•Engineer from Kasu village, Raigad
•Flagging highway flaws since 2019
•Earlier complaints led to repairs within 24–48 hours
•Proved one thing brutally clearly:

 Problems exist because silence is convenient, not because solutions are hard

Wa by Jaikishin..  When a citizen walks half a thousand kilometres to do what institutions were paid to do— It’s no longer activism.  It’s an indictment.

The road to Goa shouldn’t require courage. It shouldn’t require sacrifice. And it certainly shouldn’t require a Satyagraha. Fix the roads — before more citizens have to walk over broken promises.

New Court Order May ERASE The Aravallis, Expose Hills To Mining & Construction  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nplSe5cTpcc    Let's Get Real -- we’re not talking about the Aravallis being destroyed by bulldozers. We’re talking about something far quieter—and far more dangerous - they're being erased by definition. 

A technical change in a ruling by the Supreme Court has quietly reclassified over 90 percent of the Aravallis as 'non-Aravalli', stripping them of legal protection.

This change in definition could decide the future of our air, water, biodiversity and climate in Delhi–NCR, a region already gasping for breath, and dealing with deangorus levels of pollution. 

Modi’s Own Invisible Man: Hiren Joshi’s Rise and Retreat https://thewire.in/politics/hiren-joshi-narendra-modi-pmo  In Modi’s era, the power over information has tightened into a centralised machinery where messages are crafted, curated and released with calculated precision. At the heart of this ecosystem stands Joshi, the prime minister’s discreet yet formidable media aide.

Many journalists privately claim that he keeps dossiers on Modi’s critics, tracking their posts, their patterns, even the private corners of their lives. It is also an open secret that Joshi commands the loyalty of BJP’s IT Cell, a digital ‘troll army’ known to influence trends, drown dissent and smother inconvenient facts under waves of coordinated outrage.