Aakanksha Bajpayee

Consultant

Tracking infrastructure, urban planning, startups, and economic development.

Thoughts on building a better Hyderabad and a more competitive India.

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

How are they letting this happen @pmmodiofficial you are the terrorist

[Priya Purohit @Priyaa_Purohit]

HEARTBREAKING : 💔

A young woman broke down in tears in front of police officer after the lathi charge during the CJP protest. 👇

[Priya Purohit @Priyaa_Purohit]

HEARTBREAKING : 💔

A young woman broke down in tears in front of police officer after the lathi charge during the CJP protest. 👇

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

@SauravDassss @DelhiPolice What in the actual fuck !

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

🚨#ALERT: GEETANJALI JI’S HAIR PULLED BY DELHI POLICE, ASSAULTED.

A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL’S HEAD HAS BEEN BROKEN. 40-50 OTHER HEADS BROKEN!

@DelhiPolice WHAT IS GOING ON!?

[The Cockroach India 🇮🇳 @TheCockroachIND]

Democracy is turning into a joke, and the system is laughing at our silence 💔

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

@dravishakatoch I am from a startup background infact from a vc background and a lot more people like me showed up for the Hyderabad protest . More than 600 people from all walks of life showed up . People are showing up . People are angry . #hyderabadprotest #cjp

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

@narendramodi @dpradhanbjp have some humanity ! Will you let there be more blood on your hands

[Cockroach Janta Party @CJP_for_India]

19 दिन का अनशन लगभग 9 किलो वज़न कम फिर भी सोनम वांगचुक अपने संकल्प पर डटे हुए हैं,

सवाल सिर्फ़ एक व्यक्ति का नहीं, बल्कि उन मुद्दों का है जिनके लिए वह आवाज़ उठा रहे हैं।

[Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66]

I’m Not in good shape but not so bad either...
Rather than asking me to break my fast please join me on 20th July... Peaceful March to the Parliament.

#cockroachjanataparty #jantarmantar #cjpprotest #chalosansad

[Mark Ajzenstadt @mardehaym]

Satya Nadella just published the most important essay in enterprise AI this year. Also the most self-serving.

He argues companies "pay for AI twice." Once with cash. Again with institutional knowledge: every prompt, every correction, every "no, we handle it THIS way" flowing to the model provider. He calls it the Reverse Information Paradox.

He's right. Now look at who profits most from this paradox.

GitHub Copilot sits inside your IDE. Every accepted suggestion, every rejected completion, every edit after accepting is institutional knowledge becoming training signal. Azure OpenAI Service runs your proprietary data through models Microsoft co-owns. Microsoft 365 Copilot reads your emails, documents, Teams messages.

Microsoft operates the single largest surface area for collecting enterprise AI "exhaust" on earth.

He calls it "ironic" that providers claim fair use for training but impose restrictive distillation terms and reserve the right to learn from customer data. He's describing his own partner's terms of service.

Re-read the essay with that context.

Nadella describes a problem his products helped create. Then positions his infrastructure as the fix. The "trust boundary"? Azure with customer-managed keys. "Distributed learning infrastructure"? Azure ML in your tenant. He quotes Palantir's Karp about "controlling the means of production." Palantir is an Azure partner.

The 5 C's (Control, Capability, Choice, Cost, Compound) aren't a framework. They're a product roadmap dressed in Hayek and Arrow.

The essay is correct about the problem. But the implied fix, build your trust boundary on Microsoft's stack, is the same trade with better language. You're renting the containment wall from the company your knowledge needs containing from.

A real trust boundary means infrastructure you own. Model gateway you control. Private evals your team defines. Immutable logs in your VPC. Open-source components you can fork if the vendor changes terms tomorrow. We built this. Runs inside the customer's perimeter. We can be fired and the infrastructure stays.

That's the difference between a trust boundary and one with an asterisk.

When you built yours, was the first vendor you excluded the one selling you the most tools?

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

ONE OF THE WILDEST WORLD CUP COMEBACKS WE'VE EVER SEEN!

Argentina to the quarterfinals 🇦🇷

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

Yesterday’s traffic collapse exposed a larger challenge facing Hyderabad
As employment, residential density & vehicle ownership continue to grow, transport and drainage infrastructure must expand as well.
The issue isn’t rain. It’s infrastructure planning in pace with growth

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

@adityapuranam8 @GHMCOnline @CommissionrGHMC Infrastructure failures become especially costly when they occur in high-traffic employment corridors.

Beyond repairs, it may be useful to publish root-cause analyses and preventive maintenance plans so similar failures can be avoided before the peak monsoon period.

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

@DonitaJose Absolutely agree

Flyovers often solve a local bottleneck but don’t necessarily reduce corridor-wide congestion. Without stronger public transport and better land-use planning, traffic is often redistributed rather than eliminated.

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

@PrasadPeketi The bigger question is whether infrastructure capacity is being planned alongside density.

Higher FSI and concentrated employment can work, but only if transport, drainage, water supply and public transit scale at the same pace. This rain exposed the gap

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

@Kilaruness The real test of a city’s infrastructure isn’t how it looks on a drone shot, it’s how it performs under stress.

A few centimetres of rain shouldn’t bring a major economic corridor to a standstill. Resilience needs to become as important a metric as growth.

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

Every year we discuss the same problem.

The goal should not be managing traffic after waterlogging occurs.

The goal should be preventing waterlogging in the first place.

Hyderabad deserves infrastructure that matches its economic importance.

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

Hyd is one of India’s premier tech hubs. Yet ~4 cm of rain led to the IT corridor to a standstill, with commuters spending up to 4 hrs travelling a few kilometres.
The issue isn’t the rain.
The issue is urban planning.
@TelanganaCMO @revanth_anumula
#Hyderabad #Infrastructure

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

Part 2. A city generating billions in economic output can’t rely on infrastructure that fails during routine monsoon. We need
• Modern stormwater drainage network
• Regular desilting of nalas
• Flood resilient road design
• Better coordination bw road, drainage & utility work

[Sajida @Its_me_Sajida]

🇮🇳 #RBI just made india’s rupee a global player.
the dollar won’t like this move… 👀

#BudgetRight #Rupee #India

[Aakanksha Bajpayee @ABonCities]

For all travelling to thailand, malaysia - don't ever travel #Airasia - broken bags , they won't reimburse even with insurance, dirty seats and extremely delayed flights . Not a good first experience.