Pulkit Agarwal

As a child, loved browsing using slow internet on a BSNL landline: with weird noises on each connection. This WFH on fast internet is not that fun to be honest.

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

Glad to see that there is an ever increasing number of active VCs in the ecosystem. Have tried to create a list of major VCs here: https://t.co/3YSyCCwiHw
Adds a lot of confidence to startup in India, given how the ecosystem is evolving.
#startup #India

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@mukund @Muse @alexandr_wang Tried to fix this problem as part of a hackathon: https://t.co/7uTF77gmYY

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@SarvamAI I have been trying to reachout to the sales team through different channels for a large usecase around implementing voice agents (potentially millions of minutes of calls per week.) but am yet to get a revert anywhere. What do i need to do to get a response?

[Yuntian Deng @yuntiandeng]

I gave GPT-6 Astra the only benchmark I care about.

The helicopter mission in GTA Vice City.

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

Hit like if you're also just waiting out the next six months for the Chinese to launch Astra and Fable 5.1-level open-weight models.
#chatgpt #anthropic #astra #fable

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

China is putting scientists on giant screens in public places.
In India, our hoardings are dominated by politicians and film stars.
What we celebrate shapes what our children aspire to become. Why not put our scientists, teachers, doctors, innovators and nation-builders up there?

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@sbikh True! The next step is making sure workers have better information, better support and lesser information asymmetry.
Rahii is a platform for gig workers to share experiences, compare earnings, get help with issues and learn from others doing the same work

https://t.co/TkMboqe980

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@prasannavishy True! The next step is making sure workers have better information, better support and lesser information asymmetry.
Rahii is a platform for gig workers to share experiences, compare earnings, get help with issues and learn from others doing the same work

https://t.co/TkMboqe980

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@znshuaib Thank you! Where all do i need to track them 😔

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

Couldn’t submit my #BuildWhatMovesIndia project in time because I never received the submission link — but had a lot of fun building this.

Built KARYA: an AI-native layer that helps navigate and complete complex government journeys using voice, documents and guided actions.

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@ProbablyShahid What did you make?

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@ProbablyShahid The mail in my promotions does not have a link to submit..

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@ashubhgupta What did you make?

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

Prototype: https://t.co/7uTF77gmYY

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

Loom: https://t.co/IoFWarUNEG

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@waitin4agi_

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@ProbablyShahid https://t.co/TkMboqe980

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@aravind Right way of looking at this should be neighbourhoods, not cities

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Having Starlink on a long flight is a gamechanger in productivity

[Pulkit Agarwal @impulkit_]

@E20Party @chirag_911

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian.

New Delhi, 24 July 2026

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat.

The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored.

Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked.

BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off.

The order is illegal on at least four grounds.

1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts.

2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed.

3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code.

4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637.

The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code.

IFF demands that the Government of India:

1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub.
2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each.
3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers.

We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.