This is both interesting and insightful.
Contractors are now quoting 25%-30% lower as no money needs to be paid to private pockets.
Tamil Nadu is moving in the right direction. We all need to ensure it sustains.
The DMK ecosystem is attacking me that the school issue I reported was a lie I concocted to help the TVK government. Let me state the facts.
We run two rural schools, both free NIOS schools under the Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam umbrella, one in rural Tenkasi and the other in rural Theni.
The Theni school was originally started and run by a retired IPS officer, a honest and upright man. He built very nice facilities but had to shut down his CBSE school because the state government demanded too much money to issue the NOC. He told me that as a honest retired officer he did not have the money to pay and they would not issue the NOC otherwise.
He urged us to take over his trust so we could run our free NIOS school in the premises. That is how we started our NIOS school in Theni.
Unlike in Tenkasi, where I live, the Theni school faced occasional harassment from the DMK government because we did not have a state government registration, so we tried getting state government approval again (this time for the state board) and that of course would also cost money. So it was in a limbo.
Meanwhile in Tenkasi we wanted to build new school facilities (we were operating in make-shift facilities, the ones that came in frequent photos) and we applied for DTCP approval to construct the new buildings. Everyone who knows DTCP in our state knows what kind of corruption happened there under the DMK.
We waited patiently for DTCP approval for the new school buildings but the approval never came as long as the DMK was in power. The approval came automatically once the government changed.
It is this DTCP approval that I posted about in X. I want to once again appreciate the refreshing change.
Not only did the approvals come, government people told us not to pay money to anyone for any approvals. I have to appreciate this in public, having endured what we had endured before.
This is the "lie" that DMK wants to attack me on.
I do not need their certificate on my character.
They can examine their conscience and ask why a technology nerd like me who is mostly immersed in code would post these.
If they think I would back down by their vile personal attacks because I am a Brahmin or TVK Stooge or Sanghi or whatever, I will tell them this: unlike you dynasts I grew up with nothing. I studied in Tamil medium schools. I know how to live on nothing. I have dedicated the remainder of my life to make Bharat self reliant in technology while reviving our rural areas, the soul of our eternal sanatana civilization.
I will not be intimidated by their attacks. I am unafraid of death, why would I be afraid of the mere DMK?
And if they had any conscience they can return the money they looted (they know there they keep it) and then they can attack my character.
I will now go back to optimizing the code of our compiler!
Our rural school Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam, which provides completely free education to rural children, faced delays getting approvals from the previous government. Of course, significant money was demanded and we were told that was the only way, even if it is a completely free school.
After @TVKVijayHQ came to power, approvals have happened quickly and automatically.
I am very happy to appreciate this positive development in our state. Thank you Thiru Vijay Avl for this refreshing change🙏
There are media reports that Tamil Nadu government has explicitly told public work contractors and real estate builders not to pay any money for their party and quote only actuals.
President of the Tamil Nadu PWD Engineering Contractors Association, has publicly confirmed that contractors are now being told they no longer need to pay any commissions or bribes.
Real estate builders sources also confirm the development.
If this is something which is implemented and maintained, huge progress in terms of probity in public life.
Let's wait and watch.
एक बार जरूर देखिए, दोबारा देखने का मन करेगा *12th Fail* movie का खास ये लास्ट सीन मैंने movie को rewind कर कर के बार बार, कई बार देखा है और हर बार आंखें नम हुई हैं।
मेरे विचार से, हमें बच्चों को भी देखने के लिए कहना चाहिए ।
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.
I strongly feel that the Government should only take:
- Income Tax
- GST
- Only STT (for equities)
- Only Stamp Duty & Regn (for Real Estate)
Let people enjoy their Short or Long Term Capital Gain or Loss FULLY. Dividends should not be taxed.
Take tax on every Transaction but not on the effort put to make a Profit or Loss 👍 Double Taxation is anyway not ok.
Something to think about FM Madam @nsitharaman ji ❤️
#FI
Expensive real estate destroys demographics. Any society that traps its young people in debt, because of expensive education or expensive housing or expensive health care (or all of the above in many cases) is a society that is destroying its own demographic future.
If you love children, enable lower cost of living for prospective parents.
The public car park under Salsette 27, Byculla (E) has been illegally turned into a car paint shop. Hazardous, noisy & against all BMC norms. Complaints made last week ignored. Request urgent action. @mybmc@mybmcWardE@MumbaiPolice@TOIMumbai@BycullaPS@Dev_Fadnavis
Meet Palam Kalyanasundaram the 'Man of the Millennium' who donated his entire salary and award winnings to uplift the needy.Motilal Oswal Foundation Starting a new video series sharing motivational stories about the Joy of giving .
Dear Respected Hardeep ji, Nitin Gadkari ji,
E20 Complaint Vehicles in India - 5% of Total Vehicles
But 100% of Vehicles are filling E20 Fuel 👍
Sorry to Say Nitin Gadkari ji @nitin_gadkari ji
But this is executed with Least Long Term Implications on Customer Pocket & Vehicle Condition 🙏🙏
Can you ensure that:
1. Car companies will pay for Engine Damage, if any, due to use of E20. Please ask them to.
2. All Insurance companies should have a clause saying that if Any Failure Happens due to E20 fuel, it will be Fully Covered.
Let both be Official from the Government. Printed.
@HardeepSPuri ji
It will help Lakhs and Lakhs of Tax Paying, Already Expensive Fuel Consuming Consumers 😀😀
On behalf of Millions,
An Indian Voice,
#FI
"QRs will be put up on all projects. They'll tell:
-> Which contractor built the road
-> Which Ministry is responsible
-> Which secretary approved it
~ Why should I take the blame for all roads? Let the Sec, & others bear the burden too"
: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari🎯
Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the USTR, to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to Trade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs, and that these Countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Donald Trump Truth Social 04/09/25 01:19 PM
Dear Piyush Goyal ji,
Can we have a Team exclusively to handle Bribe related cases when an Entrepreneur Wants to Start a Business Legally in India? Can you set an Example by having an App just to report Bribes and action to be taken subsequently? A Deep Tech App which can Solve this Deep Rooted Issue.
Can you publicly commit to ZERO corruption when an Entrepreneur goes to Begin a Business? Zero Red Tape...
If We Can Achieve Zero Corruption, our Entrepreneurs can Achieve Much Much More, just like you Suggested.
Request my audience & Entrepreneurs to share this with @PiyushGoyal ji & Team.
#FI
Piyush Goel: I am a semiconductor startup founder. Here is my rant in response to your rant during startup Mahakumbh! : r/StartUpIndia. @PiyushGoyal https://t.co/FRGDrieFqP
This idea "tokenization of land assets to unlock wealth" relies on the crucial assumption "making every asset liquid and tradeable is always a value creating activity". In other words "make every asset more money like".
I call that assumption the Fundamental Axiom of Financialization. It is very seductive - after all, what is wrong with every asset being liquid and tradeable, being more money like?
Yet when we financialize every asset and thereby increase their moneyness, it eventually would lead to extreme concentration. How so? As an example, a person with a gambling or drinking problem could now easily monetize a part of their home to fund their habit.
Is that far fetched? Not at all. Finance is seduction. Companies would arise to offer "instant cash out" of tokens on farm land, homes and so on. I am afraid where this path would lead.
Ancient wisdom born of experience tells us that finance should be carefully controlled. Left unchecked, finance can lead to ruin.