Harshit Agrawal

Interest in Politics and Economy | CA

[Jo Kar @i_am_gustakh]

Our Superheroes....😍♥️

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Took oath as Prime Minister at the ceremony earlier this evening. I look forward to serving 140 crore Indians and working with the Council of Ministers to take India to new heights of progress.

[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

[Wasim Jaffer @WasimJaffer14]

Eng: Indian total won't be that high.
Meanwhile Indian total: #ENGvIND

[Bhawana @cricbhawana]

Watching a cricket match on any app other than hotstar seems like a torture to me.

[Harshit Agrawal @harshitagrawal_]

@NayantaraRai @unacademy Education & healthcare, primarily meant for welfare, got super commercialised across the world.

But sadly, coaching centres in Kota get a lot more hate these days than the appreciation they deserve!

[Harshit Agrawal @harshitagrawal_]

@NayantaraRai @unacademy Since when a ‘no return’ policy of a pvt org became a threat? May be he was very direct with his words but nothing wrong with the intent.

[Harshit Agrawal @harshitagrawal_]

.. the covid report of Raj govt doesn’t have a QR code on it. The tall claims made by them during booking falls flat in reality. This is nothing but cheating. I want my money back anyhow because you “committed” it while booking. cc: @MoHFW_INDIA @MoCA_GoI

[Harshit Agrawal @harshitagrawal_]

I booked a flight ticket with @AirAsiaIndia / @goibibo. But I couldn’t travel because I got tested covid positive before departure. As per policy of airlines/goibibo, I was supposed to get a full refund. But now both of them are denying to process (1/n)

[Harshit Agrawal @harshitagrawal_]

..citing “unavailability of QR code” on RT-PCR report. The test was taken at govt lab of @nhm_rajasthan . The report doesn’t have a QR code on it. Both Airasia and Goibibo as treating it as invalid (have written communication from them). Is it my mistake if (2/n)

[Harshit Agrawal @harshitagrawal_]

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[Urvashi Gormat @takeiteasyUrvy]

Unpopular opinion:

Uncle chips >>>> Lays

[Harshit Agrawal @harshitagrawal_]

@SejalSud Infra & defence

[Harshit Agrawal @harshitagrawal_]

@VaibhavSisinty Poll / Vote like twitter!

[Vani Kola @VaniKola]

Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Mukesh Ambani, Ratan Tata - besides being incredibly successful, these are all individuals who have one thing in common. A deep personal brand. In fact, their company's #brand is almost synonymous with their own brand.

[Manish Pandey (मनीष पाण्डेय) @join2manish]

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

[Harshit Agrawal @harshitagrawal_]

@SejalSud I am part of a earlier-bootstrapped, now funded/acquired startup. Other than product, what matters most is the attitude of founders and their prudence… we hv been doing amazing!! Also Acquihire is very underrated !!!

[jani @abhayjani4]

i've visited 1000+ LinkedIn profiles of top executives at companies who do not have any pedigree education (to understand journey)

one common thing I've always observed is during 20s these folks do some non linear things for 3-5 years that you can never understand on paper.

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