Following the moment when Hamza kills Pinda, has anyone noticed the blood coming from Hamza's head? Yalina spots it and becomes even more suspicious, especially after she overhears SP Aslam.
Peak detailing by Dhar👏🏻
#SarvamMaya is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and heartfelt movies I've watched after #MeiyazhaganI I laughed, cried and completely fell in love with the delulu moments. The world really needs more films like this.
More power to you Akhil Sathyan!
@NivinOfficial#RiyaShibu
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.
Lol, Chinmayi should be the last person you should invite to your show. She's one of the most hypocritical and toxic people I've seen on X in recent times.
Are casual sexism & misogyny the Telugu film industry's most defining feature? Will actors like Shivaji, who lectures Nidhi Agarwal on her clothes after she was shamefully mobbed, face anything more than cursory condemnation?
Or is misogyny incentivised?
7pm, @NDTV
I just watched the Bihar election breakdown on @jist_news by Medha, Mukul & Sonal. It's refreshing to see a fresh perspective and in-depth analysis of Bihar's social fabric.
Very impressed with their Shudh Hindi.
@gemsofbabus_ If citizens have to do everything themselves, what’s the purpose of municipal corporations—and why are we even paying taxes?
@gadwalvijayainc
@Akshita_N The government takes all the money from temples but spends little to none on facilities for devotees. It's time to free temples from government control.