Aniruddha Maheshwari

Payments SME, Software Engineer, Portrait Photographer, Wanderer

भ्रमण से भ्रम टूटे 🙏🏼
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[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

@ngp_pradeep Papa would be happy to see this acknowledgment. Thank you Shri Gadkariji🙏🏼

[Nitin Gadkari @nitin_gadkari]

विदर्भ के विकास के लिए निरंतर कार्यरत प्रदीप माहेश्वरी जी के निधन का समाचार अत्यंत दुःखद है। उन्हें मेरी भावभीनी श्रद्धांजलि। नागपुर में पेट्रोकैमिकल्स कॉम्प्लेक्स और रिफाइनरी परियोजना के लिए प्रदीप जी के प्रयास हमेशा याद रहेंगे। विदर्भ में औद्योगिक विकास के लिए वीआईए के माध्यम से उनका महत्वपूर्ण योगदान रहा। ईश्वर दिवंगत आत्मा को शांति प्रदान करें और परिजनों को संबल दे। ॐ शांति

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

Definitely one of the things that worries me about India. Easy and cheap imports from China coupled with high margin services export sector has deprived India from developing its manufacturing sector at all. Entire generation wanted to avoid mechanical engineering for this reason

[camilo @AscendedYield]

India bypassing industrialisation to become the world's back office, precisely as LLMs learn to do back office work at marginal cost approaching zero, is the kind of tragic irony development economists will write about for decades.

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

Gone too soon.
Rest in peace Siddharth Mamaji 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[Aequitas Investments @AequitasL]

We mourn the loss of a great man, a brilliant mind – and for all of us, a beloved boss. The grief we feel today is extremely heavy, and we look to Siddhartha’s timeless perspectives, and your prayers as we navigate this dark time.

We have learnt so much from him, and we stay dedicated as ever, to his guiding principles and to the organization he built. May his soul rest in eternal peace.

Boss, you are deeply missed.

For those who wish to share their condolences or a message in remembrance, please use the link below:
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[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

Sadly this is common in tier 2 Indian cities as well. Nagpur for example is a city of just old people now. Most kids are in either tier 1 cities or abroad.

[Sunita Sayammagaru 🇮🇳🇬🇧 @drsunita02]

Children are abroad. Parents are in India.

Parents in their late 50s and 60s are enthusiastic to visit kids abroad. They do trips once a year or perhaps once in two years.

Everyone is happy - both parents and kids.

Enter parents into their early 70s, they don't have that much patience to travel for so long. Also, now grandkids are older and busy with their studies. Their son/daughter and their spouses are busy with jobs. They feel lonely abroad. But they still make trips, a bit grudgingly now......

Enter parents into their late 70s, they refuse to leave India. By then they have some health issues and they don't want to burden their children by becoming unwell abroad. Add to this health costs above. Travel becomes like a big task. They are happy to be in India and ask kids to visit them.

Some kids visit, some don't. Perhaps visa issues, perhaps job issues, perhaps other problems....

Kids' life abroad continues as usual.

Parents in India quite lonely.

This is the common scenario nowadays in Telugu speaking states.

#elderlycare

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

This is exactly how we do our holidays too. We don’t rush and choose to enjoy things that we like rather than use a checklist to boast in front of friends and family later.

Holiday is about winding down and resetting our priorities.

[Sunita Sayammagaru 🇮🇳🇬🇧 @drsunita02]

People now-a-days go on a holiday and come back tired!!!

We go on a holiday and come back relaxed.

I observed the difference.

We go on a holiday, and just visit that one place or perhaps a neighboring place. We visit places in a leisure manner.

We know we can't visit ALL the places. But whatever we are visiting we enjoy. If we can't visit all the places, we are fine with it.

But we see others - they are in a rush, they want to visit everything, like ticking off items in their list. In this process, they are stressed. They aren't even enjoying the places that they are visiting currently, they are in a rush to move to the next place.

When holidays which are meant to be relaxing become stressful, what is the point in even going on a holiday???

#holiday

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

Fully agree with this assessment. India’s software industry is purely export oriented and there is barely any domestic consumption. Those dollar invoices are the reason behind success of Bangalore and Hyderabad.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Our software industry is too dependent on US. With AI and automation, the US is becoming less dependent on India. The ground reality is India needs US more than US needs India. It is not difficult for Trump to put tariff on our software exports. This would make American companies look for alternative. Though nothing may happen overnight, in the medium term it can be death knell for our software industry.

The fact is it is our software industry which created consumption class in India.

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

Absolutely right. Companies are getting rid of managers and only require a handful of leaders to maintain healthy output and manage cost.

[Rajiv Talreja @rajivtalreja]

The retirement age in large corporates is not 60… it is between 42 to 45… Companies are laying off people in this age bracket because they are what the Finance team calls Payroll cholesterol… so if you are in a Corporate job and you don’t have a portfolio of investments or a commercial property giving you a decent rental income or the idea & skills to start your own business, your family is at a massive risk my friend…

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

Spatial Scene is one of the best features of #iOS26 by #Apple
Instantly ignites those old memories, even for old models of #iPhone

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

Sadly, some of my friends and family have personally experienced quite a lot of these 🫣

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

If you are wondering why India is not able to compete with China / Vietnam in Manufacturing, here is a gist.

If you are a brave Indian who decides to start an MSME or a Manufacturing company or a factory

1. A Municipal clerk / officer can reject your land registration file because of a missing annexure on the 16th page of the 17th form
2. A clerk from the GST office could misplace your online GST Certificate application.
3. Your GST Application could be marked for physical verification despite digital Aadhar verification, because your Insta photo and Aadhar card photo, doesn’t match
4. A GST officer can reject your application and force you to start over, because you committed the cardinal offence of not being in office at 7:30 PM when the Good God McLord GST Officer visited without any warning.
5. The Tehsildar can reject your application for using your own land for your own company, citing some obscure provision which was written in annexure 578 of the Factories Act 1948
6. Their superior district officer can send you a stop work notice, under some random act which was passed in 1869
7. The Salt Commissioner's office (There actually is such a department) can send you a notice for misuse of salt pan land, despite your land being 600 kms from the nearest sea.
8. The Environment ministry can send you a notice for cutting a tree that wasn’t there.
9. The Agricultural department can send you a notice for illegal conversion of Farmland to industrial use, despite the land being barren since 1857.
10. Customs can withhold your manufacturing machinery citing wrongful declaration and impose a 600% penalty for its release.
11. Power department can refuse you a connection citing a missing signature on Pg 301 of your commercial power application form.
12. The Water Department can stall your water connection because they have run out of smart meters - This is Digital India you see.
13. State Pollution control board can impose a penalty for toxic effluence, despite your factory being idle and having no effluents
14. A no name, random, Local Political Party can stop work at your factory because they want 120% reservation for local people
15. A different no name, random Local political party can destroy your factory because you didn't give prominence to local language on the name board. We cannot tolerate Language imposition, you see.
16. The Factory opening can be indefinitely delayed, because the local councilor / MLA / MP is too busy for inauguration
17. The Import Export department can block your export license and classify you as an international smuggler because you put a wrong comma in Page 354, Annexure 45, para 6. This, while the real international smugglers, happily smuggle.
18. RBI can Freeze your bank account, for some FERA / TERA / MERA violation of $1.08
19. You can receive a random Penalty, and a stop-work notice from a department, that you didn’t know existed
20. The Legal Metrology Department can block your production, because your 1 Kg is not equal to their 1KG
21. The GST department can send you a Notice for wrongful GST interpretation, an interpretation that you ironically fixed with consultation from the same GST Department.
22. They can impose additional GST retrospectively and just for kicks, put a 1200% penalty on top of it. And freeze your bank account if you don’t pay in 7 days.
23. A random disgruntled local guy, probably paid off by someone, can shut you down by filing a petition in district court for "health hazards”
24. CBDT can freeze your bank account due to non-payment of taxes, despite the factory not earning a single rupee of revenue.
25. The local municipality can suddenly decide to re-dig and re-concretize the already dug up concrete road, which is in front of your factory.

That’s why most aspiring entrepreneurs quit and go back home wondering if they should have simply stuck to a normal salaried job.

And few of the great souls who persevere, they spend most of their time and energy fighting the Indian govt machinery on compliance.

Not China / Vietnam on cost and quality.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Meet Machli the queen of Ranthambore from India, the world’s most famous tigress and a Guinness World Record holder as the most photographed tiger. She became a global sensation after taking down a massive 14-foot crocodile, cementing her legendary status.

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

What an amazing accomplishment 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Congrats!

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

If you are in your late 30s and are not on a career track to be a general manager in a blue chip company, and still hopping jobs, it’s going to be progressively difficult.

You are unaffordable, your core skills can be matched by someone 8 yrs younger to you, the only thing you can bring to the table is people management & experience of handling crisis. You will have to work with younger people, who will change their minds very quickly about stuff, and as per them you bring inertia.

By this time, society & parents would have forced you to be tied up with Home loan EMIs. Which often makes you swallow your pride on rough days at work. Followed by winning fake arguments on the drive back home or in the shower. LinkedIn a minefield, algorithm designed to make you feel like a loser, by showing every outlier in your peer group, who’s congratulating himself under the banner of “We” (We did it)

The belt feels a bit tighter, all the good health earned by diet & exercise is marred by the job related stress. As per parents, and society, you have made it, but when you try to sleep at night, you know, you haven’t.

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

@0xgaut Th Alchemist
The Godfather

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

What a talent🫡

[Austen Allred @Austen]

This is one of the craziest videos I’ve ever seen.

Harry Mack is incredible.

[Abhishek Maheshwari @abmaheshwari91]

Finished reading unabridged translation of Valmiki’s Ramayana today by Bibek Debroy.

It’s a beautifully translated masterpiece.

It amazes me that so many principles mentioned in Ramayana which is an ancient story are still followed today, not just in India, but globally.

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

Men are simple creatures 😝

[Gavur Dağlı @1gawur]

Şu akım çok iyi la, bize ne zaman gelir 😂

[Aniruddha Maheshwari @jojoani]

This one hit hard 🥺

[Jenni @hashjenni]

It's depressing to see our parents getting old while we are still struggling to be stable in life. The guilt feel is strong when we still can't afford the things our parents want or when we are unable to spend time with them since we are so busy with this thing called life.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Father and daughter are on a camping adventure. 😂

https://t.co/yjqXG3uWde

[Aman Goel @amangoeliitb]

In every family tree, there is 1 person who breaks out the middle-class chain and works hard to become a millionaire and changes the lives of everyone forever.

May that be you in 2024.

Happy New Year!

[Bihar_se_hai @Bihar_se_hai]

ये कविता ❤️