Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️

metal, rock, qawwali, sitar 🎶 || eat, coffee, travel, swim 🍽️☕🛣️🏊|| management consultant - ehs, esg, sustainability 🧑‍💻🌱

[Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️ @chintanvarma]

@VooDoo8998 @priteshlakhani Does it still showcase commerical movies?

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

This is the right pavement for Bengaluru. Minister @krishnabgowda there is racket in small paved blocks. Please investigate. Used, low grade blocks are purchased and passed off as Grade A, the bed is not properly laid, compacted etc and the surface become uneven and unwalkable . Please change specs @rk_misra @GBA_office @GBAChiefComm

[Sunderdeep - Volklub @volklub]

Hi! Yes, everything is e20 now (20% ethanol)

XP100 and Power99 have lesser blend but they aren't available. Only 1-2 pumps per state.

E20 existed for months now which was imposed on everyone even if your car is e5 or e10 compliant which itself was unfair but lately, it looks like blend is silently increased and getting tested. Is it e27 or e30 we don't know.

This has caused fuel economy to go down further and causing severe issues in cars.

Brand service advisors say, this is happening due to adulteration of fuel. Silently they say that ever since e20 is enforced problems have shoot up in Petrol cars.

Brands say their cars are material compatible and they will repair everything till warranty lasts but even if you have warranty for 6 years, you will always be at risk after that.

Things doesn't stop here. For Petrol cars which are 70% e10 right now, how can you enforce e30 as standard? No country does that! This is clearly done to have repeated sales and make people change cars like Phones. This is basically a knee jerk reaction to with fat bills of oil we are getting with our weak currency.

All customers basically want are e10, e20 and e85 as separate dispensers and no adulteration at any level.

This non clarity has ruined car market for informed buyers because now each tech, Petrol, Diesel and EVs have diff issues. So basically, even after paying 40% GST on car, crazy amount of registration fee, you still can't be sure to own your car trouble free for 10 years.

Absolute clown show this.

We are talking about this issue from 2024 itself in our Youtube videos when it wasn't even an issue.

[Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️ @chintanvarma]

@clark1375 @ThePreserverofU Legs - Just stand up on your feet.

[Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️ @chintanvarma]

@aakashgupta @grok key insights & action plan for pessimists?

[Snehil Saluja @mrsnhl]

A 1 crore earning techie's life has no value in Bengaluru.

And if you're not earning that much? Your life has even less.

My sister and her friend were driving home in my car. They stopped at a red light - the logical thing anyone does. A drunk driver in a mini-truck didn't feel the need to stop. He slammed into them instead.

I know he was drunk. She knows it. The highway police knows it. The truck owner knows it.

No arrest was made.

The truck driver never showed up at the station. The owner never showed up. Nobody cared. My sister and her friend - both injured, both terrified - kept going back to the station, back to the accident site, explaining what happened over and over, just trying to get a report filed.

I was in the US. All I could do was talk to them on calls, helpless.

Here's what the police told them:
"If nobody died, an FIR doesn't make sense."
"Just claim first party insurance."
"Third party insurance doesn't pay much anyway."

And then, quietly, one officer pulled them aside and told the truth: "These truck mafia bribe us. Nothing will happen."

Nothing happened.

The truck was KA04 AE6550. The police themselves said if they'd been on a two-wheeler, both would be dead.

We had 100% insurance from Reliance. Claim rejected. Reason? "Misrepresentation of facts." These two, even while injured, kept showing up to represent the facts. Reliance still found a way to deny them.

The law says if someone hits you from behind, the person behind is at fault. It was a red light. How does a truck driver not see that?

Trust me, this isn't about money. I'll manage the repairs and the medical bills. I have savings. And I have a decent credit score; I'll take a personal loan if I have to. That's not the point.

The point is this: my sister is afraid now. Afraid that anything can happen to her at any moment and there's no one - no system, no law, no institution - that will protect her.

But how do I tell her the world is supposed to be fair? How do I tell her to trust the system? How do I explain that the drunk driver walks free, the truck owner was never questioned, and the police pocketed their bribe and closed the file?

I can't say to any official, "What if this was your daughter? Your sister?" Because their daughters travel in cars with security escorts. They will never know what it feels like to be ordinary and unprotected.

So I'm saying it to you, an ordinary reader.

You're on the road. You stop at a red light. A drunk driver in a truck rear-ends your car. Your loved one is inside, terrified.

And then you learn: there is no recourse. None.

The truck owner pays off the cops. The insurance company rejects your claim. The system shrugs.

This is Bengaluru in 2025. This is India in 2025. This is what your life is worth here.

One more thing. The friend in the car? He's one of the smartest people I know. close to top 100 rank in IIT-JEE. AI engineer and one of the biggest data companies. At 23, he is valuable to be paid more annually than the cost of five such trucks, that too, in India. He's patriotic. He pays his taxes. He stays in India even though he constantly gets offers to move to the US.

This is the confidence our system gives to someone who is clearly an asset to this country. All this unfairness - for a drunk truck driver.

@blrcitytraffic @BlrCityPolice - tell me. I've always avoided raising fingers publicly. But what else can I do?

[Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️ @chintanvarma]

@NammaBESCOM pls update me. No power since morning at HSR Sector 1.

[Anuradha Goyal @anuradhagoyal]

People in Rajasthan are fighting to save Aravallis.

People in Garhwal are fighting to save Deodars.

People in Delhi are fighting to get breathable air.

People in Bangalore are fighting to get walkable footpaths.

Finally, we are asking for our most basic needs. Lets see how much more time and effort till the bosses listen.

[MANJUL @MANJULtoons]

A friend got a message from @IndiGo6E saying their flight for tomorrow has been cancelled, even though they did a web check-in this evening.

Out of curiosity, I checked the IndiGo site and found that tickets are still open on the same route ... and just look at the fares.

So much for @PMOIndia “monitoring the situation.”

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

Everyone tells Indians to walk 10,000 steps, but no one tells us “Where should we walk?”

Try stepping out to walk in any Indian city.

Chances are:
-There are no footpaths.
-If there is one, it’s broken.
-If it’s not broken, it’s occupied by hawkers, scooters, garbage, or parked cars.

I’ve lived in countries where walking is therapy. In India, walking is a punishment. You dodge potholes, pray you don’t get hit by a car, and come home covered in dust.

We talk about building smart cities, but what’s the point of smart cities if we can’t even walk safely in them?

Our cities were never designed for people. They were designed for traffic. Somewhere along the way, we forgot that walking is not a privilege, it is a basic human right.

Let’s stop designing cities for cars.
Let’s start designing them for people.

Let’s Make India Walkable Again!

[Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️ @chintanvarma]

@ICCCBengaluru @caleb_friesen @GBA_office @comm_blr_south By when can we expect resolution?

[Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️ @chintanvarma]

Thank you for doing such effort to highlight issues 👍

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

I took a walk in HSR Layout recently.

Here's what I realised:

1. Footpaths are inaccessible due to encroachment

2. Inaccessible footpaths aren't maintained

3. Unmaintained footpaths become dumping spots

4. Dumping spots become toilets

It all starts with encroachment.

[Tony Klor @TonyCatoff]

Caleb said Bengaluru’s footpaths are grimey…I said I’m joining the heroes of BBMP as the White Pourakarmika 🧹🇮🇳

[Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️ @chintanvarma]

@CitizenKamran Wish HSR had such a civic body, not too happy with rapid and extreme commercialization of the layout since past 5-6 yrs or so

[Bhaumik Gowande @bhaumikgowande]

Mumbai in 2025 is still building flyovers without pedestrian footpaths.

Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883, has a pedestrian walkway and also cycling lane.

What’s BMC’s excuse 150 years later?

[Benedict @benedictgershom]

.@LEGO_Group dropping when?

[Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️ @chintanvarma]

@Tejasvi_Surya Instead of simply questioning the timing, better stop the inauguration practice altogether. Straightaway, launch it public. Like developed nations do.

[BlackSabbath @BlackSabbath]

Ozzy Forever!

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

A World War is the most natural outcome in a world ruled by men who equate looking at the mirror and going ‘wow’ as self-awareness, killing babies as justice, and the decibel levels of their voices as power.

Add to that a global shift towards anti-science (and hence anti-compassion) sentiment - probably aided by a denial mentality towards climate crisis - and we are doomed.

Only solace, these drunk drivers will put on a mega show that will be bizarrely, morbidly entertaining to watch till our bus goes up in flames.

[Chintan Varma 🇮🇳☮️ @chintanvarma]

@NammaBESCOM what is the status of 101150525525236?