Himanshu Jain

India lover, Politics / Economy observer : Business Professional. Passionate about developing people...

Views are my own.

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

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[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@toi are you sleeping when it comes to your own performance and accountability? @jaagograhakjago

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

Hey @toi @TOIIndiaNews why is it so difficult to get a copy of your publications in Gurgaon?? Every vendor charges 100% delivery charge on top of the published price. Are you aware of doing anything about it? @jagograhakjago @consaff

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

Hey @toi @TOIIndiaNews why is it so difficult to get a copy of your publications in Gurgaon?? Every vendor charges 100% delivery charge on top of the published price. Are you aware of doing anything about it? @jagograhakjago @consaff

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@jasveer10 A little more prevalent in the north of India. Here everyone is a VIP and is brazen enough to violate any law at will. If you point out, you are the target.. high time we as a society do something about it

[Jasveer Singh @jasveer10]

One thing India seriously lacks is dignity of labour. Watched something at my office gate today that stayed with me.

A security guard asked a man in a car for his ID. Standard procedure. The man ignored him and kept moving.

The guard stopped the car anyway. Did his job.

The man rolled down his window and spent the next two minutes announcing who he was, his name and that he owns property here. etc..

He wasn’t explaining. He was trying to establish hierarchy.

Because a man doing a 15,000/month job had the audacity to do it properly.

What struck me wasn’t the shouting. It was the choice of target.

People rarely intimidate those with more power. They save that energy for waiters, drivers, security guards, anyone who can’t answer back.

We’ve built a society where the same person touches the feet of someone powerful, then speaks rudely to the one serving them food five minutes later.

If your ego only works on people who can’t push back, it’s not confidence. It’s insecurity disguised as status.

Every honest job deserves dignity. A person’s profession shouldn’t determine the respect they receive.

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@Chellaney With your experience, you should know that what is shared in public is not the entire truth. What is said in public is not the entire understanding of the government. What else can Modi say in public ? Expected better wisdom from you

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@jasveer10 So true that it is impossible to not agree yet agreeing upsets your friends when they read it. Deep down we know that this is bang on. Hats off for your boldness @jasveer10

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@LicypriyaK Absolutely on the spot... We are with you

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@Rahulshrivstv Not only this, local villagers climb and are there strolling, cars come in wrong direction and worst the trucks found taking a U turn through emergency tracks

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

Are these lights permitted on this Audi with Maharashtra no in Delhi on Sardar Patel Marg ? @dtptraffic @CMODelhi @aajtak @IndianExpress

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

Purana kila road is main connector to east delhi thru Pragati Maidan tunnel and still double lane parking on the road by lawyers it thoroughly causing jam and pollution. Are lawyers above law ? @DelhiTrafficPol @CMODelhi @LtGovDelhi @935redfm

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@_skris Plenty of such women. Look for Jains

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while.

For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt.

The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale.

Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general.

This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less.

We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal.

Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”).

And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility.

Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income.

And then what happens?

The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated.

The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door.

Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@airindia I am waiting for action and promise made is kept

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@airindia sloppiness. Paid for 9th row as reclining emergency row. Aircraft change and you get non reclining emergency. The plane change from one emergency row to two but the ones who paid, get a raw deal. Staff says make a complaint. We cannot help on AI 1795. ??

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@devinamehra Agree. Indigo is the rudest airline I have known and I avoid to the hilt

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@airindia What happened to my refund for the seats I had paid for. I was promised by the ground staff incharge of the flight

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@airindia what a crazy setup you have. Bought seats in the emergency row. AI2677 Changing within the same row needs to be paid for again. Spoke to Harsha and she is unable to help - untrained. Supervisor unwilling to take the call. What kind of resolution is this ???

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@airindia How are you compensating the discomfort. There is whole premium economy row vacant with legroom. That could have been given when there no other privilege of premium economy in any case. Last minute change

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@airindia Understand but seat nos change with no consideration for what is paid for and what is not

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

Calling them is such a pain. Makes the loss even worse

[CA Prem Kumar Y @capremkumary]

@Himaannshu @DGCAIndia @cnnbrk @PMOIndia Need to call them and ask for full refund. Unless you specifically quote the details, they are not processing full refunds. Call waiting time is approximately 45 mins!

You'll receive an oral confirmation regarding the refund amount. E mail/SMS will still indicate partial refund.

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

@IndiGo6E @MoCA_GoI how and where should I apply for refund of this amount ? Your phone calls are on endless wait...

[Himanshu Jain @Himaannshu]

How does this help. I cancelled a flight on 15th looking at the chaos and the fact that I did not have an option of taking a risk with Indigo. For 4 of us, they deducted 16000 on 32000 ticket... Should they not refund it ? @DGCAIndia @cnnbrk @PMOIndia