melron 🏖️

sweet sambar supremacist. product & growth. i obsess over food (a lil too much), music and movies.

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

@ni5arga @cbseindia29 good morning CBSE, you said you used scanners to scan these copies,

now since the copies are out to the public view, do you mind explaining

which copies when scanned through a scanner, have a drop shadow? and these 3 folds?

did you really use scanners?

[nisarga @ni5arga]

CBSE people didn't configure their AWS bucket properly and now we can paginate & enumerate all their media which has 2026 answersheets & question papers. ListObjectsV2 works without any auth and the bucket root is listable too — anyone on the internet can download any scanned booklet — across institutions. Multiple institutions are using the same bucket, insanely insecure.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

CBSE’s May 2025 tender required answer sheets to be scanned with automatic robotic scanners, spines preserved, at a minimum of 300 DPI.

The tender re-issued in August quietly removed all of it. “Scanners” became generic. Resolution dropped to 200 DPI.

Now we know what that meant in practice. It has been exposed that COEMPT scanned the answer sheets using mobile phones.

The blurred copies, the missing pages, the unscanned books - they are not “errors.” They are the predictable outcome of a contract written to fit a vendor.

This is fraud. And every child whose marks were wrongly evaluated is a victim of it.

This morning, the Prime Minister had time to speak about mangoes. He has not had time to speak about 18.5 lakh children whose answer sheets were scanned with phones.

Dharmendra Pradhan ji still sits in office.

Modi ji’s silence is no longer indifference. It is complicity.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Savarkar started receiving ₹60 a month stipend from the British government on 1 August 1929. He kept receiving it till 1937.

In this same period, Chandrashekhar Azad died fighting in February 1931.

Bhagat Singh was hanged in March 1931. The stipend kept coming.

Now here is the thing. Savarkar was not a Gandhian. He didn't believe in non-violence or quiet suffering. His entire claimed identity was built on armed, violent revolution.

He, as they Sanghis say, allegedly inspired a generation of young men to pick up guns against the British.

Those young men were killed by the British. And he kept on collecting his British paycheck.

And the title "Veer" that precedes his name in every BJP speech, every government textbook, every Hindutva WhatsApp forward.

Nobody gave him that title. No movement conferred it. No contemporary bestowed it, Like Bose called Gandhi ji Rashtrapita in 1944.

Savarkar gave it to himself.

Which is, honestly, the most honest summary of a Hindutva Icon.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

A Brahmin student being called a 'Pakistani' by Modi Bhakts shocked and rightfully hurt many people across ideological lines, including several from the Right Wing itself. Because suddenly, people realised how dehumanising that label is.
But for years now, countless Indian Muslims especially those who speak up or question the government or criticise the PM are casually branded 'Pakistanis' or 'Bangladeshis' or a 'Rohingya'.
Our loyalty is questioned, our identity is regularly mocked, our citizenship treated as conditional.
And the society has normalised it so much that most people don’t even react anymore.
An insult that rightfully outraged people when used against a Brahmin student is thrown at Muslims every single day without guilt or an outrage, or without any consequences. No Indian should have to constantly prove they belong to their own country.
All thanks to the Media and the Politicians for Normalising this Hate against Indian Muslims.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh (Dera Sacha Sauda chief) granted parole once again, this time for 30 days. It’s the 16th time he has been out on parole since his conviction in August 2017.
He is serving a 20-year sentence for rape. Meanwhile likes of Umar Khaled have stayed in jail for almost 6 years without even a trial commencing. Yeh hai JUSTICE system: Wonder what our Lordships would pontificate on next! 🙏

[ANI @ANI]

Thiruvananthapuram: Keralam CM Designate VD Satheesan says, "Pinarayi Vijayan is the most senior leader in Keralam politics. We may not be able to stand together on every issue, but we should be able to unite for matters that are important to the state. I hope that will be possible. The ongoing development projects will not be changed. They are a continuation of previous governments. If one government scraps what another government introduced, how can Keralam progress? Pinarayi Vijayan has been invited to the swearing-in ceremony."

[Nitya Sharma | SImpl @nsharma0813]

At Simpl, we spent years reducing checkout to one tap. No OTP. No redirect. No friction.

We thought we were building the future of payments.

We were actually building the last great optimization of human-in-the-loop commerce.

The agent doesn't need one tap. It doesn't tap at all.

[Nitya Sharma | SImpl @nsharma0813]

https://t.co/8iH09kUkv5

[Charvi Saraf @charvi_saraf]

@skydo_official is scaling! And we are expanding our Product team :

Two roles open:
1) Growth PM: Think Acquisition, activation, experiments

2) New Initiatives PM: Chance to build 0-1 as we expand in new product areas

If you've got 3-5 yoe in Product, high ownership, and genuine curiosity about fintech, apply here: https://t.co/xpQVWd4vs2

[melron 🏖️ @melronhm]

@sahilk @jootawaala where'd you get the suit stitched? very neat!

[super.money @getsupermoney]

Bhai said what's in a name.
And we listened.

Download https://t.co/NRwmnBhGUj now!

@BeingSalmanKhan
#supermoney #cashback #nodrama

[super.money @getsupermoney]

Bhai of few words.

Download @getsupermoney now!

#supermoney #cashback #nodrama #ipl2026

[Raj Kunkolienkar @kunksed]

In India, dignity doesn't come from income alone. It comes from caste associations around the nature of work.

Manual labor. Service work. Working with your hands. These have carried specific social markers for centuries.

The plumber who fixes your pipes earns less respect than the engineer who designs them, even when the plumber earns more. The perception’s the invisible ceiling, not income.

₹51,673/month is what the top 5% of service professionals in this index earn. That same number puts you in India's top 5% of income earners nationwide. Not top 5% of gig workers. Top 5% of all Indians. They're working 40 hours a week on average, earning what an IT fresher earns.

But they're beauticians, electricians, plumbers. Not software engineers. And we're engaging in comparing them now. That's what's changed.

Full disclosure: I'm a shareholder. This one’s a generational company. Regulars here know I've been vocal about supporting the gig economy despite its flaws. Urban Company is one of the more pro-worker platforms out there, especially given those unfortunate worker abuse posts we saw last week. But that's not why this matters.

Last year, this same data came out and people said: "Sure, but IT has a career ladder. Year 15, that fresher is a senior manager. The service worker's earnings stay flat." True enough. Career progression in platform work is still being figured out (trainer roles, credentials, pathways upward) and it's early days. But that misses the point.

I repeat, the benchmarking of a beautician's earnings against an IT professional's salary is itself an act of rebellion. Not against minimum wage. Not against what their parents earned doing similar work. Against software engineers.

When you do that, you're not just making a financial comparison. You're making a category argument about what counts as professional work.

This is how you rebrand labor. Slowly, through repeated comparisons that make the old hierarchies look ridiculous.

And yes, the critics will say these platforms aren't perfect. They're right. Push for better worker protections, demand transparency, insist on fair treatment and proper recourse. But don't pretend the alternative to imperfect formalization is some pristine, union-protected paradise.

The alternative is what we already have: 450 million people in the informal sector. What the critics are defending, often without realizing it, is the status quo where those workers remain invisible.

Most people who rail against gig work are sitting in positions of extreme privilege. They have the luxury of demanding perfection because they've never had to choose between an imperfect job and no job at all. Between platform work with its flaws and watching your family go hungry. Solutions don't start perfect. They start functional, then you make them better. Blocking that path because it's not ideal from day one is a position you can only hold when you've never worried about putting food on the table.

Digital platforms are the onramp out of invisibility. Not perfect, not complete, but functional. You get a formal relationship, a digital trail, insurance, pension access, government-certified credentials. You get seen. Your work gets valued not as "labor" but as "services." That repositioning breaks the old associations, slowly.

This won't happen overnight. A generation, maybe more.

In a country with an unemployment crisis, anyone providing a smooth onramp to dignified, formal work deserves credit more than it deserves criticism. Worth backing.

Now just waiting for them to launch in Goa, lol.

[ritwik 🤿 @ragnarsmoon]

Hey everyone, my cat escaped while we were taking her to the vet yesterday afternoon (Indira Pet Clinic, 7th Main Road, Indiranagar)

She was last seen in those 2 spots, please retweet and help me find her, or if you know anyone who can! She’s a 3 month old baby and very scared

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

Users will not be allowed to uninstall Sanchar Saathi

The mandate comes just days after another sweeping compliance order that will force platforms such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram to link user accounts to the SIM card used during registration. Under those rules, replacing a SIM could lead to losing access to the app, and companion features like WhatsApp Web will automatically log users out every six hours.

By @DanishKh4n

https://t.co/Kh8CXeqRgL

[melron 🏖️ @melronhm]

@sahilk @handbidexterous hey Sahil, where are the tassel loafers from?

[pj @BeingPractical]

Here is wishing Groww @_groww - founders and all team members, best wishes for their IPO and the new journey as a public market company. 📈📉🚀

Yes when we run @DhanHQ, they are our peers and competitors. While that remains true, what the team at Groww has built in less than a decade - great product, market leadership and insanely profitable business. It deserves a massive respect from every entrepreneur and everyone in the startup ecosystem.. 🫡👍

Their win is very special to me. Back in 2017 I started Paytm Money and then we were way ahead of Groww by a large margin. We focussed on building for new investors in stock markets who started with as little as 100 bucks, a set of users no one wanted to serve while everyone else focussed on high value investors and traders. We simplified the journey, made the investment products way simpler and as easy as a payment experience, something that could be done in under a minute. Starting with direct mutual funds, payment + kyc + tech + infra + people costs were real, and there was no clear way to monetise until getting into stock investing and distribution of financial products.

Whatever happened with Paytm Money is a story for some other day. What matters today is that @_groww executed that product & strategy so well and flawlessly - that earned the #1 spot in a fiercely competitive industry, and also reached a position where 1 out of every 4 Indians are investing via Groww.

Kudos to everyone at @_groww who has been part of that incredible journey. 🙏🚀

Best wishes from all of us at @DhanHQ. May you continue to Groww and generate Dhan for your users, and as well as your public investors. ☺️😇

[Aniket Chaudhary 🧃 @unfunnyket]

Hello ji 👋
I’m Aniket, and I am building https://t.co/rdTeZWG4An to fix a simple problem: buying and reselling tickets shouldn’t require blind trust. Here’s how it works and how it keeps both the parties safe.

How do we know the tickets are real?
> every ticket gets verified. sellers must prove they actually own their tickets before listing. We connect directly to platforms like BookMyShow and Skillbox, no screenshots, no fake PDFs. Only real tickets from real bookings. we've a lot of checks in place to take care of smartasses.

> For physical tickets like bands, there’s an extra step. Sellers authorize a UPI mandate for 50% of the ticket price, it’s a security deposit that stays blocked, not charged. Once they ship on time and the event happens, it’s terminated. If they don’t ship, you get your full refund plus 70% of that deposit as compensation.

What stops someone from listing the same ticket twice?
> Each ticket can only be listed once. When you upload your ticket, we check its unique details against all existing listings without storing your personal booking data. If it’s already listed, it’s rejected instantly.

But what if someone sells their ticket somewhere else after listing it here?
> we hold seller payouts until 3 days after the event. If a ticket turns out invalid or sold elsewhere, the buyer stays protected.

> for physical tickets, sellers must authorize a security deposit before listing (funds are blocked, not charged). If they don’t initiate shipping at least 2 days before the event, buyers get a full refund plus 70% of that deposit automatically, no disputes, no waiting.

How do I ship physical tickets like bands?
> once your ticket sells, you’ll see a pickup option in your dashboard. Click it, and we’ll arrange a courier within a day or two. You can download the shipping label right from the platform, just print, stick, and hand it over when the courier arrives.

> you need to initiate pickup at least 2 days before the event. Miss that, and your deposit goes toward compensating the buyer.

Can sellers charge whatever they want?
> nopers. Tickets can't be sold for more than 30% above their original price. We enforce this cap to prevent scalping and keep things fair for genuine folks who just want to go to the event.

The bottom line
> Every layer of ReTicket (verification, duplicate checks, delayed payouts, 30% cap, security deposits) exists to make sure you don't have to trust a random stranger on the internet. The system does the trusting for you.

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

My worst debates are on questions that can clearly be proven true or false with some basic internet research. I’m both wasting my time and making the people around me dumber.