Yogi Raj

Entrepreneur

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

Common for every commercial establishment in Hyderabad. Landowners/Businesses build, authorities approve, people are left to suffer.

Look at Sarath City Mall.

Every commercial license should be granted only if there is a proper vehicle movement and parking plan, tested with certain volume of cars.

But who cares.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@realhyderabad86 Just a step away from water pipeline burst and the residents won't have water like existing residential societies who are dependent on tankers now.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

It is the Rodeo Drive in many sense, minus the unkept roads, bit of mess (lot better than other areas) and broken pavements. Yet it's charming.

I think Hyderabad in late 90s had real visionaries. They built the exclusivity, not for today to convert the margin on real estate, but they built for future.

Unlike the leaders today, who run under pressure to make quick bucks, selling garbage in fancy packages. Perhaps the ecosystem also has turned against patient investments and sustainability.

Banjara/Jubilee is still my favourite. Infact I take out my bike for a ride during Sankranti, when there is absolutely no traffic, like good old days.

Everytime I visit these areas, I really wonder, wow, what an amazing thing the old folks made and the opportunities missed.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@BlueDartCares Received the courier today, thank you.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@BlueDart_ @BlueDartCares your delivery guys have marked my shipment delivered but it has been not delivered yet. Is it some SCAM that your delivery guys are running?

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@x_rahulraj @EnergyInverted All good sir :)

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@realhyderabad86 @paresh_pisipati This hurts most :( goal post changed so quickly.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@BlueDartCares Sent

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

The rise of rampant office buildings have thrown the dreams of middle class to buy a house out of the window.

Traffic, chaos, pollution adds on top of it. Everything becomes expensive not because of their value BUT the underlying rent businesses pay.

WFH, metro must be the future.

There won't be an impact on economy, just the players will change. People earn but spend on something else than UNREASONABLE real estate.

We are WFH since day 1. I rather pay higher salaries to employees than pay RENT to overpriced offices. Luckily, out customers don't just us by fancy facade or coffee machine.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@asadowaisi If so, why is that many islamic schools in Hyderabad have started using Saare Jahan Se Achha in morning assemblies instead of Jana Gana Mana earlier?

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@chiragbarjatya Mix flour with boric acid and place, make small lumps and place in the area at multiple spots. It works.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@HydREGuide Totally agree. HYDRAA is good for lakes, good for Hyderabad. Definitely operational process could be improved, and I am not aware of any underlying motives, but saving natural habitats should be priority for every individual not just government.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@HydREGuide As a teenager. I would visit Banjara/Jubilee to just watch the beautiful landscapes, fancy mansions built at a distance and luxury cars pass by in a leisurely fashion. It was indeed the Bel Air.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

@deefourkay @realhyderabad86 Skyven, tattva...keep getting ads/calls

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

A few months back, a friend was stopped by a traffic policeman because his pollution under control certificate had expired by two days. The car was barely a year old, so there was little chance it was actually breaching pollution norms. The policeman approached him asked the cost of the car and then remarked slyly, “Bas aap mehanga car kharidiye… hum log kaise kharidenge?” My friend understood the hint and paid the bribe that was being demanded.

Last week, while I was teaching my son to ride a bicycle on a service road, an e-rickshaw driver abruptly stopped right in front of him. It could easily have caused an accident. When I shouted at him, instead of apologizing, he replied arrogantly, “Sadak aapka kharida hua nahi hai… jahan mann karega wahan rokenge.”

A similar undertone became visible during the recent protests in Noida. Among the concerns raised, one was the price of gas cylinders touching ₹4000. But an even stronger emotional trigger was the anger directed at visible wealth. Many people mentioned that how factory owners could ride Mercedes and BMWs while workers earned ₹12,000 a month. The resentment was less about wages and more about the visible contrast between lifestyles.

The rich-poor divide is not new, and resentment around inequality has existed in every society. But in India, this divide has become sharper and more visible over the last two decades. Economic liberalization and the IT boom in the early 2000s created new opportunities and upward mobility for many. And after 2010, MNCs, banks, and trading firms accelerated income growth for many skilled professionals. But, after 2015, the startup wave and easier capital influx created sudden huge wealth for a younger generation. The fresh graduates began earning salaries that dramatically changed the lives of their families.

At the same time, social media was also picking up. It became an obvious platform where these life changes were constantly displayed. For the people experiencing this rise, these were moments of pride. People shared their “first flight,” “first sedan,” “first international trip,” “luxury hotel stay,” or "I am not an IIT/IIM, but today I can afford better lives then them". Even humblebrags about salary levels or lifestyle upgrades became common.

But for the larger section of society that saw little improvement in their own economic conditions, these posts became constant reminder of increasing inequality. The reasons of slower growth may vary from poor access to education, lack of opportunities, weak policy support, lack of skills, political conditions, location disadvantages, or even social conditioning, but it resulted in one segment rising rapidly while another watching from the sidelines.

The rise of social media influencers has only deepened this divide. Daily content about earning lakhs per month, luxury lifestyles, trading profits, startup success, or financial freedom creates the impression that wealth is unreachable for most people. That perception creates aspiration, but it also creates frustration, jealousy, and anger. When people repeatedly see others moving ahead while they feel stuck, that frustration often spills over into everyday interactions.

If this divide continues to widen, the consequences will go beyond economics. It will show up as rising corruption, lower trust, weakened civic behavior, and growing social resentment.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

And those who are not, the system will make them corrupt. Sharing this from personal experience of someone close. They will find one or other reason to hold the license and delay the reviews, can send wrong bills so you have choice either to keep fighting in court for decades or pay the bribe to get going.

The ecosystem here is designed in a way that needs greasing continuously.

Officers or businessmen grown in the ecosystem don't see this as problem, but the only way to do business.

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

Dear @noidapolice @myogiadityanath our factory in sector 63 Noida is attacked by protesters. Glasses are broken and they are vandalising the premises. This is happening across all factories. Employees are very scared. Please send police.

[Yogi Raj @dervishyogi]

Few scooterists tried to squeeze through a gap between barricades in a mall's parking. The barricades slid as they hit them while passing through and we had to get aside to avoid any injury to us. Earlier version of me would have stopped them and asked to follow right path, but a thought stopped me yesterday..."it's not my problem". I am following this thought more and more these days, for everything happening around. Societal / country issues don't feel personal anymore as they did before and therefore, no willingness to intervene or trying to solve anything. It seems now a futile effort to clean up the self-replicating, ever expanding ocean of things that were on the wrong side of what a society should be.