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Selfie, Pouts & Potholes

Hey babes, did ya chck thz meme out?

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So fny, ain’t it totally rockin’? So ‘Us’ na! Mah bae sent it to moi. Am toh totally rofling ovr it since morn.

Now, tell me you haven’t heard somebody around you do this?! Don’t lie haan dear. 😉

Woh chhodo chalo, look at this:

selfiewithdeal selfiewithmodi selfiewithtruck

 

Ok..fine…ye thoda zyada ho gaya…a little ‘too wack’. Chalo, we don’t do these kinds, but we can’t deny that we do click a ridiculous number of selfies each day. Sitting-idle-at-home selfie, Driving selfie, Hanging-out-in-a-mall selfie, chilling-with-ma-bestie selfie etc etc….

We wonder, if we can take selfies at an avg rate of 20 selfies per minute (ok..fine …that’s made up), why can’t we click a single picture per day of an issue around us. These issues are practically everywhere around us. No need to scout for them.

Imagine each one of us clicking a picture each day and uploading it on www.ChangeBhai.in or atleast tagging ChangeBhai on social media, how much difference would that make collectively. Accha, selfie hi leni hai? Thik hai bhai, selfie le lo issue ke saath. Pothole selfie, overflowing garbage dump selfie, bad traffic signal selfie. In fact, somebody had launched this initiative in Bangalore, #selifi withpothole after PM Modi launched #selfiewithdaughter. The citizens were told to take a selfie with a pothole and mark the BBMP on social media.

Courtesy: Bangalore Mirror
Courtesy: Bangalore Mirror

Of course, nothing happened because who will take the issue up? But, in this case, there is ChangeBhai to take up your case!

Socho. Kaam toh aayengi tumhari selfiyan.

So here’s a call to all the baes and boos, babes and loves, darlings and dudes, Pls click atleast one picture of an issue around you each day and report it on www.ChangeBhai.in. Ye hoga sahi ka ‘cool stuff ’, kya bolte?!

 

Vote for us – Smart City Idea

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Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had recently launched a contest called ‘Maza Swapna, Smart Pune’, which when translated to English means ‘My dream, a smart Pune’. Under this contest, the citizens were asked to submit one idea that they think will be a step forward towards making Pune a smart city, in the real sense.

Needless to say, being active citizens, we, at ChangeBhai participated in the contest as well. Our idea (snapshot below) has been selected among the top-30 ideas out of 6000 ideas. In the second round, a voting process will decide which ideas inch forward towards implementation.

Our idea!

Our idea!

Vote for us on www.punesmartcity.in. Our idea is called ‘PMC money’. You will have to browse and locate it.

The idea behind this ‘idea’: We believe that for any PMC initiative or scheme to work, the most crucial bit is ‘citizen engagement’. Citizens should adopt that initiative. There is no point emulating smart city concepts of cities in developed countries, as our cities are very different from theirs. Installing sensors, kiosks and adopting digital technology is not going to work in our cities, where even the streetlights and traffic poles get stolen! The need of the hour is to incentivise citizens to participate in the existing and future PMC schemes and initiatives, which is what our idea is all about.

So, do vote, if you feel our idea will make a difference in the way our cities work. The voting closes at midnight of 9th August 2015. Do not forget to click on Submit button at the bottom after clicking on Vote. And, yes, you can vote for multiple ideas. So if you like any other idea other than ours, do vote for it as well.

Happy change making!

Zzzzzzzz. This is all I do when it rains. And You?

Heylo ChangeMakers!

Am sure you saw our video Rains, Love, Chai, Pakodas …And?, which was launched last week. No, you haven’t? Click here to watch it.

Dunno about you of course but I could so relate to the paper boats and the frogs bit in the rains. As kids, we used to go crazy with these thingies when it rained. Some solid timepass!

But, know what..what I didn’t see/hear people referring to in the video and what I totally do in rains nowadays is this one thing:

Sleep my ass off till it hurts. :)

Comment below if you agree with this.

sleep

Neways..

Wo kya bolte hain..Watch the first drop of rain fall, feel the breeze, stop by, notice the smiles, smell the roses. Sorry, ye thoda zyada ho gya cuz all of us know what it smells like when we walk on the roads in rains. 😐

The video rekindled many fond memories but know, what the sad bit is, it’s just not the same anymore. The rains just doesn’t bring that cheer it used in the earlier days. The mess , the bad roads & the traffic just screw up the whole ‘rain’ experience, which by the way, you can report on www.ChangeBhai.in.

Check User Issues# A0481 “Pathetic roads” & A0516 “Drainage” & do report similar rain related problems in your area. And, if you have no issue to upload then do share the post to spread the word.

Issue#481, "Pathetic Roads"
Issue#481, “Pathetic Roads”
Issue#516 "drainage"
Issue#516 “drainage”

I’m just a pothole. Did you hear this song?

Looking at the beautiful weather today, we decide to chuck our regular weekday issue related post and share something you will enjoy.

So Doston, here’s a beautiful song written and performed by an Indian blues rock punk fusion band called G2 Live sent to us by their lead singer Jiten about guess what…Potholes. What else did you think ChangeBhai will post a song about!?! Rainbow! Medak! Pakoda! Aashiqui-3 :)

G2 Live In Full Swing
G2 Live In Full Swing

But… but…hang on…if you think it will be a boring or a preachy kinda song, then you are so wrong!

Close your windows. Turn up your system volume and be ready for some serious head banging. #DhyanSeHaan

Audio clip and song lyrics below.

 

Song Lyrics :
Staring at the starlight
On a new full moon
Thinking of tomorrow
Same Old doom
Wondering in the daylight
Howz it gonna be
Hoping for an angel
To come n kill me

 I’m just a pothole
Wanna break down n cry
Im just a  pothole
Wud Somebody jus try
I’m just a pothole
For everyone to see
I’m just a pothole
Please set me free

 Woke up last summer
As  the sun shined away
Facing peoples anger
Till the  roller came that day
White linen men
Counting the bucks
Khaki clad workers
Toiled the stoned trucks

 I’m just a pothole
Wanna break down n cry
Im just a  pothole
Wud Somebody jus try
I’m just a pothole
For everyone to see
I’m just a pothole
Please set me free

 Shiny happy people
Forgot about me
Jus the clouds opened
Wont let me be
Back to the horror
People cursed away
Brakes n screeching torture
Mishaps every day

And after listening to this cool song, even if 10% of you guys go ahead and upload a pothole issue on ChangeBhai, this post will be worth it. Totally! C’mon, be an Angel and kill them. Arre..gaane mein likha hai aise. Angel waali baat.

An Ideal Garbage Bin!

At Changebhai, one of the most common targets of the citizens filing issues under the ‘Civic’ category is the ‘Garbage Bin’. Overflowing garbage bins. Dirty area around the garbage bin. Garbage not picked up for days at a stretch. And so on..
I, for example never took this issue seriously ever. I once remember passing by an overflowing and stinking garbage bin and telling my mother in my usual what’s-the-big-deal tone ‘It is impossible to keep these bins clean in India. Have you see the variety of garbage thrown here? And the number of people who stay in this locality. Don’t think that can ever happen.’

Never say never, folks. I was passing by an army area in Pune yesterday and look what I saw.

army-garbage-bin

It is Ganpati time in Maharashtra and this bin was kept in a fairly crowded area open to civilians and right next to a water body where the idol immersions were happening. And boy, look at it. Neat. Painted. Organized. A good example for our municipal corporations to follow. What say?