By – Randhir Thiyam, Uripok
After the last punch card is stamped,
what remains?
A lifetime of service
should not dissolve
into market volatility.
Do not mistake restraint for weakness.
We have balanced ledgers of patience
for decades.
Restore OPS—
let it be a covenant,
not a memory.
Let pensions be anchors,
not weather forecasts.
Let NPS/UPS not gamble futures
on the roulette wheel of markets.
Raise the retirement age to 62.
Experience is not expired milk.
Time does not erase relevance;
it deepens it.
Wisdom should not be archived
while still breathing.
Release what is due—
DA, DR—
these are not gifts wrapped in grace,
but deferred dignity.
Privatisation is often dressed
as efficiency—
yet too often it is
a quiet migration of common wealth.
