Miraj Baldha

[Argentina Ariano @ArgentinaAriano]

Please help @MumbaiPolice @CPMumbaiPolice #india @MTPHereToHelp #scam @TimesNow @tourismgoi @TOIIndiaNews @mybmc

[Miraj Baldha @bmiraj]

@carlvellotti Antigravity

[Miraj Baldha @bmiraj]

@ThatsEFM @GammaApp Gamma

[Bhavish Aggarwal @bhash]

On @Linkedin, @Microsoft and their wokeness.

As an Indian institution, Ola is for genuine actions on diversity. We run one of the largest women only automotive plants. Not 1 out of 10 lines, or a small section, but the whole plant! Almost 5000 women now and will grow to tens of thousands in the coming years. And regarding gender inclusivity, we don’t need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive. Our culture didn’t need pronouns to be inclusive for thousands of years. On a personal note, I had visited Ayodhya last year and learnt about how transgenders had been accorded special respect in our culture from ancient times! Here’s a short video from our national broadcaster DD on this - https://t.co/TGxfSjtM0F.

On the other hand, the pronouns issue I wrote about is a woke political ideology of entitlement which doesn’t belong in India. I wouldn’t have waded into this debate but clearly Linkedin has presumed Indians need to have pronouns in our life, and that we can’t criticise it. They will bully us into agreeing with them or cancel us out. And if they can do this to me, I’m sure the average user stands no chance. As a founder and CEO, this western DEI system has a major impact on my business as it grows an entitlement mindset in our professional lives and I will fight it.

This situation brings me to the need for us to build our own Indian tech platforms. I’m not against global tech companies. But as an Indian citizen, I feel concerned that my life will be governed by western Big Tech monopolies and we will be culturally subsumed as the above experience shows. This is not about Ola or any of my companies. Ola is too small to make any impact against this. I want to confront this forced ideology as a free thinking Indian and do what I can in my capacity. So here are the actions I’m taking. Putting my money where my mouth is.
⁃While we can’t do anything about Linkedin’s monopoly overnight, I’m making a commitment to work with the Indian developer community to build a DPI social media framework. DPIs like UPI, ONDC, Aadhaar etc are a uniquely Indian idea and is even more needed in the world of social media. The only “community guidelines” should be the Indian law. No corporate person should be able to decide what will be banned. Data should be owned by the creators instead of being owned by the corporates who make money using our data and then lecture us on “community guidelines”!
⁃Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own @Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this.
⁃Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that! Mail us on [email protected]. Offer is perpetually open!

Read more here: https://t.co/M27jpJHPWT

[Miraj Baldha @bmiraj]

@chiragbarjatya @chiragbarjatya - yes Ahmedabad is the one of the places in Gujarat where you can roam freely even past 12:00 am

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

Detailed Thread:

Congrats .@AshwiniVaishnaw Ji!

#Modi Sarkar's got Path-breaking Telecommunications Bill, 2023 passed in #Parliament to replace 138-yr-old Colonial Telegraph Act.

Bill for Modern Bharat!

As usual, Intellects're spreading FAKE NEWS about it.

NOW FACTS!

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[Ricky Kej @rickykej]

This version of our National Anthem is my gift to the nation. Everyone please feel free to use this recording and video for whatever purposes you want - events, TV, radio, schools, colleges, social media posts, youtube.. whatever. There will be no demand for royalties, money, fee, or even the need to ask permission for use. Just ensure to use it with the respect and dignity that our National Anthem deserves. This version of the National Anthem belongs to you, as much as it belongs to me :-)

[Aadil Bandukwala @aadil]

Hi @SonyLIV! You’re totally ruining the Shark Tank India viewing experience for us by inserting ads on your apps! 😠

And that too on a paid subscription! The ad free experience was such a treat to watch - these ads that encourage us to play online games instead - not cool! 👎

[Prashant Pitti @ppitti]

Someone pls solve this hiring issue

This is hugely prevelant & ends up wasting so much time & resource

Once a candidate accepts offer-letter, companies wait for months & rejects all other potential candidates

But candidate decides on very last day, that they won't be joining

[The Product Folks 🚀 @TheProductfolks]

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[Miraj Baldha @bmiraj]

@parthjani Horn ok please..

[Miraj Baldha @bmiraj]

Asking for reading all SMS, reading all apps. Bajaj housing has crossed all the limits for violating privacy. How come apple allowed to publish this application on AppStore? #privacy #apple

[Akhilesh Mishra @amishra77]

Shri @RahulGandhi has asked in a video -why has China acted the way it has recently?

Mr. Gandhi offers four pronged analysis - Foreign Relations, Neighborhood, Economy and Feeling of People!

Before answering the central question, let's examine each of the reasons he gives. 1/10

[Shah Valay @s_valay]

I am very much thank full to,
@svphospital
@AmdavadAMC
@vnehra
For providing 24*7 medical treatment and helping me in defeat the COVID 19.

Please find attached my experience at @svphospital

Thank you so much.. 😊😊

[Aarogya Setu @SetuAarogya]

#AarogyaSetu is a pivotal step towards strengthening our fight against #COVID19.

Download the #AarogyaSetuApp today to protect yourself and the community. #IndiaFightsCorona

🔗: https://t.co/siqZVqSIBC

[Karthik S @karthiks]

One class of people who have become loud of twitter of late is what I call the "testing mafia". Every time someone tweets some covid-19 related news that seems mildly positive, they instinctively react "but we aren't testing enough".

I want to take a small maths class here

[Neeraj Sharma @Neeraj_Sharma_]

@anandmahindra Received this request in WhatsApp. If anyone can contribute towards this, please get in touch with the IISC professor. #IndiaFightsCorona

[Miraj Baldha @bmiraj]

Buses are not on time at all - each time bus gets delayed by 1 hour or two hours.
Bus gets broken on route so Improve the bus quality
Train the staff about how to talk with people.

Question: If service is pathetic,... https://t.co/fygpKBK59k

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Do hear this lucid explanation of aspects relating to CAA and more by @SadhguruJV.

He provides historical context, brilliantly highlights our culture of brotherhood. He also calls out the misinformation by vested interest groups. #IndiaSupportsCAA

https://t.co/97CW4EQZ7Z

[Miraj Baldha @bmiraj]

River Interlinking Will Not Solve India’s Water Problems https://t.co/1CZZqEXBV2