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I submitted docs for Passport Renewal on Bhogi afternoon.

Police verification happened that very evening.

There was Pongal and a weekend intervening

Yesterday passport was printed and now I have received it.

i.e. Within 3 working days and this is NOT Tatkal.

Why are we doing this to ourselves?

The folks at the Passport Seva Kendra were visibly under pressure when I was there. I got an appointment on Bhogi day when applying just the day earlier online. How many cases/day do they take on?

Why is it a mere Rs.1500 to renew a passport? Isn't that what requires a whole lot of volume for the service-kendras economics to work? And what in heaven's name are these Service-Level's? Why is a policeman at my place two hours from when I submitted the application.

I remember my first passport. I travelled from Madurai to Trichy and submitted papers and the 'interview' was two days later.  I had to stay in a hotel (thankfully it had StarSports unlike my no-cable-because-studies house, so I got to Dravid centuries in Hamilton).

Good travels at a snail's pace..... Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time. But evil has wings.

- Gandhi, Hind Swaraj

We need not agree with the Man's discomfort but it would be a great loss not to relate to it all. 

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  1. Planet ManuJune 5, 2021 at 10:04 AM

    न तिष्ठति तु यः पूर्वां नौपास्ते यश्च पश्चिमाम् ।
    स शूद्रवद् बहिष्कार्यः सर्वस्माद् द्विजकर्मणः ॥ १०३ ॥

    Manu Smriti 2.103

    But he who does not stand during the morning-twilight, and who does not sit through the evening-twilight, should be excluded, like the śūdra, from all that is due to twice born person

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    1. dagaltiJune 5, 2021 at 11:23 AM

      The relevance of the quote to the above mentioned post escapes moi. Perhaps not standing up in dawn nor sitting down in dusk has excluded me from my due - understanding.

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