Finally, I can proudly say that one of my products has been Acquire’d!!
Thanks @acquiredotcom and team for facilitating this!
Also, a shoutout to @_buildspace, it was N&W S3 where i started building this!
My 2 cents, keep making small bets because they lead the path to big wins
@shantanugoel@Narayani07 To the point!! If you have a said budget for the role, you are also expected to have a bar for the same. If one can cross thay bar, it means they should be entitled to a salary in that budget; expecting that is common sense
@ascorpn@theliverdoc Shame on you @ascorpn, trying to claim goodwill points by passing off an AI generated image of payment is the lowest level of morality one can have
In India, corruption isn’t just a problem, it is the biggest business. From the smallest gutter-cleaning contract to billion-dollar highway projects, from garbage tenders to GST refunds, nothing moves without greasing the system.
This is not random chaos, it is a perfectly choreographed game of chess. The board is the nation, and the players are businessmen, accountants, bureaucrats, police, politicians, ministers, religious ashrams, judges, media barons, chief ministers, and above them all, the king. Every move is calculated, every sacrifice deliberate, to ensure that the most powerful piece never loses.
Corruption in India even runs on targets. From the traffic police department to the tax department, from land revenue to forests, from health to energy, from home ministry to defence, from mining to social welfare, every branch has a “collection goal.” The more an official collects, the more secure his position. The most corrupt are not punished, they are protected and promoted.
What shields this rot is not just money or power, but also mindset. A regressive society, blinded by orthodoxy and tradition, is easily manipulated into defending the corrupt. Religious dogma and blind loyalty often serve as a shield, turning corruption into virtue and accountability into blasphemy. This mindset ensures that the corrupt are not only safe but celebrated.
Once, at least, the corrupt feared exposure. Today, they are emboldened. The rule of the game is no longer about governance, it is about shielding the corrupt at all costs. To call the government corrupt is too simplistic. The reality is harsher, professional corruption has captured the throne. In India today, corruption has been institutionalized, legalized in practice if not in law.
Corrupt officers and leaders behave like gangsters in suits, threatening, intimidating, blackmailing, extorting, and even eliminating obstacles without hesitation. The money flows upward with clinical precision, from the lowest clerk to the highest office. And the illusion is carefully maintained, that it’s just a few officers or a flawed system. No, it is corruption itself that rules. Citizens have not merely elected leaders, they have elected corruption.
And who pays the price? The common man, crushed under bribes and broken promises. The honest entrepreneur who dares to dream is punished for his honesty. In this regime, integrity is weakness and corruption is power.
Unless this cycle is broken, India will remain a nation where the most profitable business is not technology, not manufacturing, not agriculture, but corruption itself
@volklub@PetroleumMin We should be very careful of adjusting to this, as it will soon become the new normal. They want to push it just so far so that the baseline (petrol without ethanol) at price X becomes premium at price X++ and the adulterated one becomes the regular at price X
Hello @BlrCityPolice
There has been an incident of two police officers extorting an innocent (Kannadiga) person for a bribe of Rs. 37,000/- in Indiranagar when he had done NOTHING wrong
No FIR done by police; only departmental enquiry has started. Threat calls being made (1/9)
@Jupiter_Cares I am a developer and have no reason to believe that the permission requested is “essential for ensuring the smooth functioning of the app and delivering an enhanced user experience”
Also, since this wasn’t needed earlier, you admit that you weren’t following RBI guidelines then?
It’s been more than a week of placing my order at @WakefitCo and it’s still not shipped, apparently they are still sourcing top quality wood from the Amazons for my sofa!
@Ankit_AGarg didn’t know customer was such a king for Wakefit!!