Zomato and Blinkit delivered at a record pace yesterday, unaffected by calls for strikes that many of us heard over the past few days.
Support from local law enforcement helped keep the small number of miscreants in check, enabling 4.5 lakh+ delivery partners across both platforms to deliver more than 75 lakh orders (all-time high) to over 63 lakh customers during the day. This happened without any additional incentives for delivery partners - NYE does see higher incentives than usual days and yesterday was no different than the past NYE days.
I am grateful to local authorities across the country and to our teams on the ground for clear enforcement and swift coordination.
Most importantly, thank you to our delivery partners who showed up despite intimidation, stood their ground, and chose honest work and progress.
One thought for everyone: if a system were fundamentally unfair, it would not consistently attract and retain so many people who choose to work within it. Please don’t get swept up by narratives pushed by vested interests.
The gig economy is one of India’s largest organised job creation engines, and its real impact will compound over time, when delivery partners’ children, supported by stable incomes and education, enter the workforce and help transform our country at scale.
Absurd. When I had interviewed Prof. Upendra Baxi in 2022, he had warned about the "inevitability" of centralising of private capital in legal education. Greatly concerning, especially when higher judiciary takes so little initiative in public legal education, including NLUs.
It’s quite common to erase/dismiss a survivor’s experience by pointing out their continued cordial interaction w/ the perpetrator. Often, it’s a perpetrator’s first line of defence, meant to dilute seriousness of allegations w/o understanding the insidiousness of power dynamics.
John Barnett, who worked as a quality control manager for 30 years at boeing, died of a "self inflicted wound" in a parking lot after he said that 787 dreamliners were made with sub-standard parts and had a 25% failure rate in real life scenarios.
these last three months have collectively held so much trauma from an almost war to a stampede that was supposed to be a happy moment that people waited for 18 years to a plane crash in a medical college. no time to process. just one after the other.
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and just btw the name operation sindoor is so sickening and horrifying if you think about the implication for a second. the hindutva ideology is obsessed with claiming for itself this imagined ownership of the “subcontinent” and the naming is not a coincidence. sick to my stomach