Pitamber Deepa

Adventurer, Environmentalist

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

nothing is permanent.
Don’t regret move on.

[Kumar Krishan @KumarKrish17093]

@DelhiPolice @CPDelhi Hm ye pucha hain ye log kon hain agar police ke log to ya rss ke gunde

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

When a government allows violence against peaceful protesters, what does it say about the people in power?

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

One more thing. Our 10 minute delivery promise is enabled by the density of stores around your homes. It’s not enabled by asking delivery partners to drive fast. Delivery partners don’t even have a timer on their app to indicate what was the original time promised to the customer.

After you place your order on Blinkit, it is picked and packed within 2.5 minutes. And then the rider drives an average of under 2kms in about 8 minutes. That's an average of 15kmph.

I understand why everybody thinks why 10 minutes must be risking lives, because it is indeed hard to imagine the sheer complexity of the system design which enables quick deliveries.

Also, if you've ever wanted to know why millions of Indians voluntarily take up platform work and sometimes even prefer it to regular jobs, JUST ASK any rider partner when you get your next food or grocery order.

You will be humbled by how rational and honest they will be with you.

Having said that, no system is perfect, and we are all for making it better than today. However, it is far from what it is being portrayed on social media by people who don't understand how our system works and why.

If I were outside the system, I would also believe that gig workers are being exploited, but that's not true.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Agree. And literally everyone who has a job wants to get paid more. Everyone thinks they deserve better. At the end of the day, market forces decide how much does someone get paid.

Companies reliant on gig economy compete very brutally with each other. Demand is more than the supply, which results in gig incomes being more than what many formal entry level jobs in India pay.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Agree.

I repeat – gig workers is one of the largest organised job creation engines in India. And we provide insurance, fair, timely and predictable wages.

Gig doesn’t need more regulation, it needs less regulation. It will bring more people into the fold, who will be able to earn some money, upskill themselves and later join India’s organised workforce. Not to mention, consistently send their kids to school - which will fundamentally change the fabric of our nation one generation later.

[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.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

I am all for peaceful protests against anything and everything. But violent protests and stopping others who want to work from working is not okay (proof attached).

Here’s what we know – a number of these protestors were not even our delivery partners. They were agents of political interests, piggybacking on the narrative to gain political mileage.

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

During conversation on various days my calls got disconnected mid conversation. I totally feel cheated. I was being considered and hopefully that my connection will get fixed but it didn't happen.

Thank you for not cooperating.

@airtelindia @Airtel_Presence

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

I have been using various airtel services for a very long time but my recent experience with airtel wifi totally left me hopeless with service as poor as the telcom industry condition in India. left with no choice but to disconnect.

@airtelindia @Airtel_Presence

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

I have been using airtel wifi and other services for a long time. But my recent encounter with the shifting of my wifi to a new place totally ruined my experience.I submitted a request on 29th November and the team was unable to shift the network even after countless followups.

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

@EurekaForbes worst AMC service from you guys. No response, no solution. Just false promises. Worst product experience.

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

@PotterHeadNK For people living away from home, gheri baat kr di!

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

@Iamabhianand IKR!

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

@PotterHeadNK Pseudo motivation.

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

I took my friend to my home. My mom asked: beta chai piyoge. He replied yes but aunty make kadak chai. Being from nort east of India she asked me alag se: how to make kadak chai. My friend heard her and replyed aunty chini rok k Patti thok k banana.

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

Job Interview❌ Corporate Flirting✅

Your ability to make them like you at first sight.

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

@Aagam__ That's so true 😂😂

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

Remember the time when people used to say "bhai meri photo like kr de" with multiple reminders.

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

@PotterHeadNK Chintan na kren. Just stand in the centre of the crowd you'll automatically board the train.

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

@Paytmcare @Paytmcare no update from your end even after multiple reminders!! What is this

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

Got no update from you @Paytmcare it's been more than 12 days now.

[Pitamber Deepa @PitamberDipa]

@Paytmcare