One plus two first experiences

I have  migrated to one plus  two  from  an older  Samsung  Galaxy  grand Quatro. Overall  I am enjoying  the new phone.  But I did  find  some issues.

It doesn't  ship with  a headset. For now I am using  the headset  of my previous  phone.

It doesn't  have  fm.  I used to use my earlier  phone  to listen to fm while  driving.  I don't  have  this capability  anymore.

When I connected  the phone  to laptop  today  it didn't  start  charging. Towards  the end of the day  I looked at the battery  details page to realize that it is not charging. Disconnecting and reconnecting  the  cable didn't  help. Finally  I restarted  the device. Then it started  charging. I could  not  figure  out  why this happened. Probably  it is a software  bug which  will get fixed later.

The phone  comes  with  a single  cable.  Thus one has to keep carrying  it around.  My earlier  phone  came with  two cables. One with  a wall socket  adapter  and other for pc connection. Having  two  cables I think  is useful.  This  seems to be a cost cutting  exercise. However official USB type c cables  from one plus are out of stock on amazon.  So getting  an official  spare isn't  easy at this  time.

Btw the phone is really  fast and worth  the money.

On the mirage of one rank one pension

Not sure how many people know about the so called apex scale in Indian bureaucracy. This is the highest scale at which bureaucrats in India can retire. Some years back, they introduced One Rank One Pension for (only) those bureaucrats who reach this level before retirement. In some sense, this is a preferential treatment given by the top bureaucrats to themselves. I believe this should be abolished. The idea of one rank one pension is indeed flawed. It causes unnecessary load on the exchequer. And if it is awarded to military persons, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be awarded to other government servants also. After-all, teachers also serve the nation! The only thing worthwhile is some sort of compensation to military people in pay commissions since they retire much earlier. This I believe is done in form of dearness allowances so far. In general, the focus should be on ensuring that during the military career, or just after it, people get trained enough so that they can easily get good jobs in civilian life and can continue to earn their living for doing real work and contributing to the growth of the nation. Living off pensions for able bodied persons is not a great way of living in my view. I don't have the statistics but my guess is that most of the military veterans do get absorbed in decent civilian roles post retirement. I would also mention that armed forces have different provisions for martyrs and people who get physically disabled while on duty.