Colvyn J Harris

Ex Managing Director LCatterton Asia Private Equity; Founder Harris-Mint; Ex Exec Dir Global Growth & Dev, CEO JWT adman

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

Yours truly at the Subhas Ghosal Memorial Lecture, hosted by AAAI with Aroon Purie, Chairman & Editor-In-Chief, India Today. October 07, 2022, ITC Grand Central. #journalism #india #mumbai #advertising

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@reliancejio @JioCare untrained staff, don’t know their jobs. How does one get a resolution if the person who calls back doesn’t understand head or tail of billing.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

Still no resolution @reliancejio @jiocare

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@AshwiniBhide @mybmc world’s best excuses, their logic beats me. Can understand why the @CMOMaharashtra does not S P E L L out expectations to his various departments. In Singapore or Dubai or China what technology is used - the same ? Shocking and will continue😱

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

The BMC sent Mumbai an unsigned note explaining that a ₹248 crore flyover is meant to open cracked, and will smooth out once we drive on it.

This is a blanket admission the road was opened unfinished, with the public’s vehicles left to do the final compaction the contractor was paid for. The same contractor who was already penalised ₹1 lakh a day for delay, and who hiked the project cost three times in 7 years.

I’ve written to BMC Commissioner @AshwiniBhide and Mayor @TawdeRitu. There are strict @MORTHIndia and IRC guidelines on evenness and riding quality of finished roads. They are not optional.

If the Bridges Department inspected this and found no deficiency, the readings exist. @mybmc must publish them and put a name to the clarification.

CC: @CMOMaharashtra

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@AshwiniBhide @mybmc world’s best excuses, their logic beats me. Can understand why the @CMOMaharashtra does not S P E L L out expectations to his various departments. In Singapore or Dubai or China what technology is used - the same ? Shocking and will continue😱

[Richa Pinto @richapintoi]

Today, June 9, three days since the Mrinaltai Gore Flyover Extension in Goregaon was opened up to motorists & and amid growing public outrage over its construction quality.

UBT Shiv Sena corporator & Leader of Opposition in the BMC, Kishori Pednekar, is scheduled to visit the flyover at 10.30 am, followed by Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde at 11.45 am,

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@AshwiniBhide @mybmc world’s best excuses, their logic beats me. Can understand why the @CMOMaharashtra does not S P E L L out expectations to his various departments. In Singapore or Dubai or China what technology is used - the same ? Shocking and will continue😱

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

BMC is right. That’s why every road that opens anywhere in the world - looks like rubbish on Day 1.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

Still no resolution @reliancejio @jiocare

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@JioCare you need to improve your services. 199 is an automated loop, impossible to get a response or resolution. Want to speak to someone to resolve my issue of double billing.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@JioCare you need to improve your services. 199 is an automated loop, impossible to get a response or resolution. Want to speak to someone to resolve my issue of double billing.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@JioCare you need to improve your services. 199 is an automated loop, impossible to get a response or resolution. Want to speak to someone to resolve my issue of double billing.

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Environmentalists are not anti-infrastructure. The Indian State is.

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

I’m making an early call on this one.
This flyover will have its first issue by Tomorrow evening.
Even by the low benchmarks of municipal roads - this is a new low.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@airindia Will not register my name.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@airindia sad that even after being a TATA company the Air India App DOES NOT WORK. @TCS ARE YOU RESPONSIBLE? Basically nothing seems to work like it should.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@airindia It will not register my name.

[Ram Subramanian @iramsubramanian]

I can’t think of a better visual representation of Nirmala Sitharaman trying to save the Indian economy.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

@MumbaiFootpaths @mybmc @mybmcWardGS @AshwiniBhide Nothing new. Can’t change, too ingrained in Mumbaikars. And we have a vision to be like Shanghai 😳

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

Such a shameless man.

[Mid Day @mid_day]

A viral video from Hyderabad Metro shows a man resting his bare foot on a seat during morning rush hour, triggering a heated argument with fellow passengers who called the act uncivilised and demanded he be banned.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

Shameless behaviour.

[Siddharth's Echelon @SiddharthKG7]

Imagine getting struck in a jam with your family due to random mob celebrating some victory or festival, they climb & jump on top of your car & you cannot do anything as any little spark can cause a life threatening situation.

This is pure dehatism. The fuckin entitlement of these zombies! They know nothing will happen to them & there will be no consequences of this hooliganism.

These videos now reach entire world and no! they do not see videos of Paris & justify your desi nuisance with them. You will get your visas rejected twice thrice or maybe forever. All thanks to a system which has no value of human lives and dignity of life.

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

We can’t get it right, so fake it.

[Public Pulse @public_pulseIN]

Didn't expect this from a ₹37,000 crore metro system

3 separate waste openings for the public

One common bin inside

That's not waste segregation

As someone working in waste mgmt, this is exactly the kind of gimmick that erodes public trust

@MumbaiMetro3

📹vrush.diaries

[Colvyn J Harris @ColvynHarrisPOV]

Well said.

[Binu Alex @badjourno]

Mumbai has a shiny new airport. The Navi Mumbai International Airport — code: NMI —modern, and fully committed to being as inconvenient as humanly possible.

Like a luxury hotel at the end of a dirt road with no address on Google Maps. Someone made the call to open an international airport, redirect flights to it, and then essentially say — figure it out, buddy. No cabs. No signal. No metro. But look, the interiors are nice.

Let's start with the most basic of problems: people are accidentally booking it. When you search "BOM" — Mumbai's original airport code — NMI helpfully appears in the dropdown too. A few friends of mine found this out the hard way. They booked what they thought was a flight into the city, and instead landed somewhere between the outskirts of Panvel and Pen.

To be fair, all airports are far from the city. You accept it. But Navi Mumbai's airport seems to have taken every inconvenience known to the aviation world and put them all in one place.

My brother flew out from there recently after visiting his in-laws in Panvel. Yes, just a few kilometers from airport. He said he would have happily gone back to Andheri — which, if you know my brother's feelings about Andheri traffic, is saying something. There was no Uber. There was no Ola. The local taxi drivers, fully aware of this, quoted double the fare — because, as they explained without a trace of embarrassment, they'd have to drive back empty. Fair logic.

And here is the part that truly do not belong to any airport terminal: there is no mobile connectivity inside the airport. So you cannot book a cab online. Before you land. Or after. The signal just does not exist. There are reports that this has been fixed, but passengers are still complaining.

If your final destination is Raigad and beyond, this airport is your dream come true. No long drive, no traffic snarl, no existential highway toll experience. For those people, NMI is an absolute gift. But here is the thing. No one is going to Raigad.

There's a metro coming. Great news. It will be ready in approximately five years.

[Surabhi Upadhyay @SurabhiUpadhyay]

Attention @mybmc @ShelarAshish Building coming up on Carter Road -all the cement slurry being shoved into drains. In a few weeks when the monsoon comes we will suffer the flooding on roads.
Pathetic criminal conduct by this builder. Please take action
@Dev_Fadnavis 🙏🏼
#Mumbai

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Starting tomorrow, Supreme court of India is on a six-week summer vacation and will be operating at just 19% of its capacity. There are 53 million cases pending in Indian courts - 93,143 of them are pending in the Supreme Court.

A judge can go on a vacation, a judiciary cannot.