She was an employee at a Bengaluru daycare. She saw babies being tortured, loaded on to washing machines, stuffed down toilet bowls. She complained. She was sacked. She became a whistleblower and exposed the horrific crimes. She should have been rewarded.
She has been arrested.
It's been almost 20 years since I got my Airtel connection, and I've easily paid them more than Rs. 25 lakh in that time. I can't think of any other business that has made even close to this much money from me.
Now the reason why I am saying this is I was watching the latest episode of the Intermission by @TheKenWeb. In case you haven't checked it out, it's a wonderful show on the history of some of the biggest businesses in India. Their latest episode is about Airtel and Rohin, and Seetharaman traced the entire Airtel journey, and I didn't realize that Airtel has had many, many near-death experiences and yet always came out stronger to be the business that it is today.
Both are from Tamil Nadu.
Both have a B Tech from IIT Madras.
One went on to build a successful multibillion-dollar company, employing tens of thousands of people.
The other was successful only in winding up both the companies he started.
One continues to develop new ideas, build new products, create jobs, and give back to the community he came from.
The other appears to have dedicated himself to mocking his society and country online, as though that’s his greatest contribution.
I will give the benefit of the doubt to Ramesh ji here, because he is a satirist & we should treat his statement exactly like that, as a punchline. But beneath the joke lies a deeply rooted, systemic issue within our collective psychology.
Many look at a finished Western product (like a mature WhatsApp/X) & treat it as a static, perfect system, while looking at an Indian alternative as an isolated, flawed event.
In control systems engineering, no system can reach peak performance or stability w/o going through a continuous, iterative Closed-Loop Feedback loop. Silicon Valley products did not drop out of the sky perfectly formed. They spent a decade inside a massive, highly forgiving home market that acted as a positive validation loop.
When an Indian company tries to build a foundational alternative, parts of our own demographic act as an unfiltered noise vector rather than a correction filter. By trying to crash/ridicule/dismiss the product at version 1.0, they starve the engine of the operational data & evolutionary runway it needs to reach version 10.0. They demand a mature output while actively sabotaging the developmental cycle.
In ancient Indian logic (Nyaya), an argument must be rooted in valid validation (Pramana). The immediate tendency to look at a growing domestic product & declare "We can never build a global tech giant" is a textbook logical defect known as Asiddha (unproved premise), heavily driven by a colonial hangover.
Ancient logicians categorized this kind of lazy intellectualism as empty cynicism that confuses a temporary state of development with a permanent lack of capability.
We cannot mock a sapling for not yielding timber on day 1, while proudly importing wood from an older forest. If we want our own Google/X/WhatsApp, our mindset must shift from being cynical consumers to being active stakeholders in our own technological ecosystem. Sridhar Vembu disabling a feature to comply with regulatory changes is how a robust system adapts to changing real-world parameters.
इस देश का संविधान कहता है की अगर एक टेररिस्ट भी सरेंडर करना चाहेगा तो उसको सरेंडर करने दिया जाएगा,
देश के सबसे बड़े आतंकवादी कसाब को भी न्याय पालिका जाने का मौका दिया गया. ये क्लियर हत्या है, एनकाउंटर दिखाने का प्रयास है !
- लकी बिष्ट ( ex RAW एजेंट)
The most valuable wealth you have isn't money.
It's time.
35GB of data per person/month is the average internet consumption in India, this is the highest in the world. Still many of them waste time watching reels.
We all get the same 24 hours. What we do with it is the real wealth. I really loved this whole interview of @kunalb11 with @_groww
The most valuable wealth you have isn't money.
It's time.
35GB of data per person/month is the average internet consumption in India, this is the highest in the world. Still many of them waste time watching reels.
We all get the same 24 hours. What we do with it is the real wealth. I really loved this whole interview of @kunalb11 with @_groww