Lucky are those who found their sweetheart in high school/college
Oblivious are those who never did
Miserable are those who experienced teenage love and lost them
All crime is caused by culture whether localized (to specific individuals or homes or areas) or institutional.
Challenging crime requires an all-of-society approach using the hardest & softest powers available.
"India is overcrowded" is the most successful gaslighting campaign Indian babus ever ran on their own citizens. They underbuilt the country for forty years and convinced 1.4B Indians to blame themselves for it.
Every overcrowded space you've ever queued in is a supply failure the state engineered, not a demographic accident. Five lifts in a hospital, one working. Seven railway counters, one ticketer. Toll plazas, water boards, municipal offices: built once in 1972, patched once in 1996, abandoned ever since. The only exception is airports, and even those lounges are gigafried at peak.
Why did this happen? 4 reasons, none of them are "too many people."
1. Cost of capital. Rupee down 60% against the dollar in two decades. Inflation 5-7% on paper, 8-10% in reality. Risk-free rates above 7%. No rational allocator underwrites a hospital with a 30-year payback under those conditions. Capital flows into software and consumer brands; anything with a 3-5 year ROI window. Parks, ports, metros, dams, schools need multi-decade underwriting that India's macro structurally cannot support.
2. The regulatory stack is engineered to prevent construction. 50+ clearances across municipal, state, and central bodies for any large project, each with its IAS gatekeeper extracting rent. Real builders give up. The only construction happening at scale is therefore illegal, which is exactly why slums mushroom while sanctioned housing projects sit at 15% completion for a decade.
3. The corruption tax. Budget 15-20% of project cost in bakshish before pouring a single slab. Stacked on top of GST, stamp duty, capital gains, property tax, labour cess. Software shops escape it; they ship from a laptop. Anyone touching cement, steel, or land pays the surcharge in cash, off the books, with zero recourse and zero deductibility.
4. State capacity has collapsed into pure friction. GST portal crashes on filing deadlines. MCA21 is a relic. Every regulator (SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, FSSAI, BIS) optimises for CYA, never throughput. Babus paid 1990s salaries to administer 2026 complexity respond rationally by doing nothing.
India's perpetual undercapacity is a capital allocation story the political class would rather you never learn. The 1.4B is a feature. The people running the country are the bug. Until cost of capital drops, the regulatory fat gets gutted, and the corruption surcharge gets squeezed out, the lifts and the counters and the hospitals will stay exactly as broken as they were when your grandfather first complained about them in 1987.
Had a wealthy friend tell me that the ability to decrease time to any outcome is the one skill behind every successful person he knows.
A few I apply constantly:
- Decreasing the time it takes you to get out of a bad state will make you emotionally resilient
- Decreasing the time it takes you to go from idea to executive will make you wealthy
- Decreasing the time it takes you to turn a failure into a lesson will thicken your skin faster than anything else
The male experience, at its core, is to be a disposable tool for a species that does not love him back. And the pain of that realization has no witness, no comfort, no resolution.
@amitmalviya Anything else? Bengal is the last place where such a level of casteism happens. SC, ST communities come under the Hindu manifold. Any attempt to divide using casteism and Bhajipao will be thrown out of Bengal. Jai Shree Ram
Remember that your Liberal friend supports this. Your Leftist friend wishes for the same thing to happen to you or your family. Your charismatic instagram influencer and your leftist public intellectual will spread conspiracy theories about these women and act as informants to their foreign friends writing about how "the election was stolen by fascists".
Everything that happened in TMC's Bengal, everything that happened in RJD's Bihar, is what they—the people whom you think are "still my friends/family at the end of the day"—do when in power.
Left-liberals are not "silly libtards" and their ideology isn't "just woke nonense". They are evil people, and no torture, no hell of human creation will ever be enough punishment for them.