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[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@gotravelyourway Paro International, Bhutan. If you haven't landed in that airport, you haven't experienced real fear.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@imraghav__ If an officer is honest, he should be protected. That's the job of his boss.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@RohitP_liberty What a silly argument. We do NOT have a right to buy whatever we want. For example, guns, drugs, nukes. Government has the right and responsibility to look into security aspects of any product to be sold to citizens.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@Jasonphilip8 It doesn't seem to be a comment on individual persons. Most Indians are inclusive, irrespective of religious denomination.

This seems to be a comment on the texts themselves and from that perspective, the observation seems accurate to me.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@viraj_sheth My experience has been the opposite. Immigration in and out of India is so easy and quick. But US, Japan etc? God it is horrible!

Maybe the experience varies across airports.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@AkshatGVD @VarahaWarrior I don't know. Maybe he didn't accelerate it? Hard to prove something a guy didn't do!

I am not a fan, but it is not like he did everything wrong. That my only point.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@iMicrocap True. I have seen 8% HDFC Bank weightage in Small Cap funds!

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

Someone in the know please help me understand exactly why an engineering student ought to learn about “sexuality through a subaltern lens”? Or about “decolonizing intersexuality from city spaces”?

How does “nuptial hermeneutics” help a civil engineer’s engineering skills?

Pray tell why a computer engineer must “expand his worldview” to “faith-based humanitarianism” and “Rohingyas in Hyderabad.”

Does a gender-studies grad at DU feel the need to learn about rocket fuels? Do African Studies students at JNU need to go interdisciplinary with neural networks? Then why must this unproductive burden of “expanding your worldview” always fall on STEM folks?

No, am not saying humanities brings no value to the table. It helps to learn about the environmental impact of engineering decisions and how designs can be made more accessible to the disabled. It pays to learn how energy ties into geopolitics and how wars can be prevented with better resource planning. It absolutely helps to learn accounting as a chemical engineer or business management as a mechanical engineer.

But is that what’s happening at humanities departments at not only IITs but everywhere? In its current form, Humanities is the most counterproductive resource sink in academia and no amount of smug superiority is gonna change that.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

Used by humanities heads of states.

[Ketan @Ketanomy]

@Nigshey91 and STEM also created weapons of mass destruction, guns, pollution etc.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

And social science students should learn some engineering mechanics and quantum physics. Why is this kind of advice always one way?

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

I had the same experience at Farukhnagar tehsil office. As it is they are corrupt. Won't do anything without a bribe. While sucking people's blood, at least they should be a little polite.

[Abhishek Bhardwaj @Gurugrammer_]

Update : I put up this post about the sub-registrar counter yesterday, and today evening my phone rang from a number I did not know, and it was the Nayab Tehsildar of Kadipur tehsil, who had found my number off X himself and wanted to hear from me directly what had happened.

The post was sitting right there in front of him, he had already read it, but he still said: aap ek baar bata dete na. So I told him again. The 75-year-old buyer standing at the attendance counter, the boy asking his name with no sir and no uncle ji, and how a man that age just answered and walked back.

He did not defend anybody. He kept agreeing with every bit of it, and then he started asking me the practical questions, which floor, which counter, ground floor or upstairs, what did the man look like.

I told him I did not want to go into complaint mode, because that is a different thing altogether. He said he was not asking for a complaint, he only wanted to identify who it was and understand whether it was lack of knowledge or something in the man's background, and for that he needed to know who was sitting on that chair.

Then he asked me which tehsil the document was registered in, and I said Kadipur, because that is the office I walked into and that is what Google Maps shows also. He told me both Kadipur and Harsaru tehsil offices sit inside the same community centre in Kadipur village, and the property was in Sector 88, which falls under Harsaru. So the man I wrote about is Harsaru's staff, and I had named the wrong tehsil in my post.

Which means, by the time he called me, he had already pulled in his own staff over something none of them had done. His words when he saw the post: "Maine toh saare bulake hazir kar diye. Yeh kya nonsense hai bhai."

I started explaining to him that the people standing in that queue are buying anywhere between 1 and 10 crore, that there are elderly people there, ladies there. He stopped me on it. He said it does not matter what the man is worth, even if a poor man walks in he carries his own respect and dignity, and that is not something an office gets to hand out. Then he told me that when they offer someone a chair in their office, the person does not know what to do with it. They stand there half unsure whether a normal man is allowed to sit down inside a tehsildar's office.

I also told him why this one bothered me more than usual. I go to Badshahpur, I go to Wazirabad, I have been sitting in these offices for years and I know how they run. But my own village is Garhi gaon, right next to Kadipur, so this one was happening at my own doorstep, in front of people from my own area.

He said he will speak to that boy personally, and he will pass it on to the Nayab Tehsildar of Harsaru so it goes through the right channel. He was still in the office when he called me.

I do not know yet whether the man at that counter changes anything. But a post went up on Monday, and by Tuesday evening an officer whose own staff had nothing to do with it had already gathered them, pulled them up, tracked down my number and called to say it will be handled. And correcting my own record, it was Harsaru's counter sitting inside Kadipur's building. I got that part wrong yesterday.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@thethingygirl @emirates Pretty much the same everywhere. Emirates crew is mostly white. Flew Air France to USA and had an equally racist experience. The crew acted like we didn't exist. Not flying 'white' airlines again.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@CriminallyInc @welshmaan Pakistani and Bangladeshi.

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@takdiya @pokershash LOL, this sounds about right!

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@suritalreja @That_otaku_dude This is happening way too much already. High income folks moving to other tax jurisdictions. We need a balance. In the Puranas, it is written "Tax should be like the bee taking nectar from a flower. The bee is satisfied and the flower is not damaged."

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@FinIndianTwit @self_loather_ I think DDT is now gone. So corporations with tax residence in a foreign country pay no tax on dividend earned in India, while us local folks get it clubbed with our regular income and pay tax again. Someone help me make sense of this.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@FinIndianTwit @self_loather_ Not to mention if you still manage to save a little and invest in some stock, then the dividend is added to your regular income for tax calculation, when the company has already paid 25% tax on the profit.

[Random Guy 🇮🇳 @Desi_Irritant]

@GTAnimal @Iamemperor00 😂