Prem Parth

Work as Management Consultant for Banking sector.
Interested in series, movies, politics, sports n amazing facts

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Dei LinkedIn, if somebody is doing something with somebody else's post, why do you think it's important to send me a notification about this? Please tell.

[Anubhav Gupta @anubhavgupta_ji]

Criticizing bad infrastructure by these corrupt politicians have become offense now.

How come it is "Maharashtra ka Apman"??

"Nationalism" & "Regionalism" have destroyed this country instead of protecting.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

I will ALWAYS choose a longer drive with no traffic over a shorter drive with traffic

[Ravi Verma @raviverma1907]

Ok, got my first product (https://t.co/KP2gUWAUAs) out. It's in beta and free.

The story behind it and why I felt the need to built it:

My partner and our kids took a family trip to Darjeeling this year. 150+ photos. Spread across 3 phones.

My sister asked for the pictures three times. I kept saying I'd sort them and send them. I never did.

Few months later, that trip exists only as a camera roll nobody opens.
That bothered me. Because the trip was absolutely beautiful.
My daughter saw snow covered mountains for the first time. This was our first trip as blended family together. We had so much fun.

These were moments worth keeping in a better way. They deserved better than a WhatsApp dump.

So I built Wanderbuk. It's a digital travel scrapbook - where a trip becomes a book. You upload your photos, write the stories behind them, add where you were, invite the people you travelled with to add theirs. Then you finalize it into a beautiful, shareable scrapbook that actually feels like the trip felt.
Not a photo album. Not a slideshow. A scrapbook - with stories, notes, stickers, emojis - your heart poured out, and all the little details that make a memory real.

You can create for free, collaborate with fellow travelers, share the link with anyone and download a high-quality print-ready PDF. The link is in my profile.

If you've ever come back from a trip and felt like the memory was already slipping - this is for you. I'd love for you to try it. Make a scrapbook of your last trip. Share it with friends and family. And if it you find it useful - please tell someone - It doesn't cost anything, like Wanderbuk.

[Upamanyu Acharya @upamanyuacharya]

"India is overcrowded" is the most successful gaslighting campaign Indian babus ever ran on their own citizens. They underbuilt the country for forty years and convinced 1.4B Indians to blame themselves for it.

Every overcrowded space you've ever queued in is a supply failure the state engineered, not a demographic accident. Five lifts in a hospital, one working. Seven railway counters, one ticketer. Toll plazas, water boards, municipal offices: built once in 1972, patched once in 1996, abandoned ever since. The only exception is airports, and even those lounges are gigafried at peak.

Why did this happen? 4 reasons, none of them are "too many people."

1. Cost of capital. Rupee down 60% against the dollar in two decades. Inflation 5-7% on paper, 8-10% in reality. Risk-free rates above 7%. No rational allocator underwrites a hospital with a 30-year payback under those conditions. Capital flows into software and consumer brands; anything with a 3-5 year ROI window. Parks, ports, metros, dams, schools need multi-decade underwriting that India's macro structurally cannot support.

2. The regulatory stack is engineered to prevent construction. 50+ clearances across municipal, state, and central bodies for any large project, each with its IAS gatekeeper extracting rent. Real builders give up. The only construction happening at scale is therefore illegal, which is exactly why slums mushroom while sanctioned housing projects sit at 15% completion for a decade.

3. The corruption tax. Budget 15-20% of project cost in bakshish before pouring a single slab. Stacked on top of GST, stamp duty, capital gains, property tax, labour cess. Software shops escape it; they ship from a laptop. Anyone touching cement, steel, or land pays the surcharge in cash, off the books, with zero recourse and zero deductibility.

4. State capacity has collapsed into pure friction. GST portal crashes on filing deadlines. MCA21 is a relic. Every regulator (SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, FSSAI, BIS) optimises for CYA, never throughput. Babus paid 1990s salaries to administer 2026 complexity respond rationally by doing nothing.

India's perpetual undercapacity is a capital allocation story the political class would rather you never learn. The 1.4B is a feature. The people running the country are the bug. Until cost of capital drops, the regulatory fat gets gutted, and the corruption surcharge gets squeezed out, the lifts and the counters and the hospitals will stay exactly as broken as they were when your grandfather first complained about them in 1987.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

The government has taken down our iconic website - https://t.co/ELmb4ZlEed.

10 Lakh cockroaches had signed up on our website has members.

6 Lakh cockroaches had signed a petition to demand the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.

Why is the government so scared of cockroaches? But this dictatorial behaviour is opening the eyes of India's youth. Our only crime is we were demanding a better future for ourselves.

But you can't get rid of us that easily. We’re working on a new home right now. Cockroaches never die. 🪳

[Prem Parth @peacebanda]

@raviverma1907 @Keval_IM Nicely written. For me, besides the corporate orientation, the critical gap is the medical infrastructure. In last 15 years, i always had to get my parents to a tier 1 / 2 city for treatment as neither doctors nor infra is available in Bokaro.

[Prem Parth @peacebanda]

@sanahashmi1 @nilagr Not democracy.. But electoral democracy is in full bloom

[Prem Parth @peacebanda]

We might have lost count of the number of bridges collapsed in Bihar in last few years.

Bihar's Vikramshila Bridge splits in 2 after midnight collapse over the Ganga https://t.co/5YVD6mDqVB

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

I think India will get solved with just 2 things:
1. Cleanliness: Clean the streets. Punish the litterers.
2. Respect: Treat the citizen with respect. FIRs are lodged. Complaints are addressed. Every government official has a body cam.
Just two things. Can be done in two years.

[खुरपेंची ढांचे @Khurpenchinfra]

Stop blaming the system for what your habits create. 🤡

[Prem Parth @peacebanda]

@pratyushitis @rpobengaluru When had you taken the slot.
Last year in April, i was not getting an immediate slot in Bangalore so i had to go to Hubli to get it done. Still got passport in 24 hours.

[Prem Parth @peacebanda]

@sumoberoi @Benarasiyaa Please let the people know why should we pay over and above the high income taxes for infra development. Isn't infra being built by our tax money?

[Prem Parth @peacebanda]

If there is food adulteration, the adulterers should have the max punishment by law. BNS should have that provision. It is a heinous crime as these people very well know the consequence of adulteration.

[NDTV @ndtv]

Biryani, Watermelon, Then Death: What Killed 4 Of Mumbai Family?
https://t.co/XrAZSRP4ym

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name was Shehla Masood.

She was 38 years old, lived in Bhopal, and ran an event management company.

Then in 2009, she discovered the RTI Act.

She filed over 200 RTI applications in two years. She exposed illegal construction happening in plain sight. She fought to save tigers being poached by the very forest officers meant to protect them. She took on Rio Tinto, a global mining giant sitting on 27.4 million carats of diamonds inside a protected forest in Chhattarpur. Two district collectors were transferred to make that mining happen. She filed RTIs, went to parliament, and stopped it.

A month before she died, she gave an interview. She said she feared for her life but would not stop, because the nexus between politicians and babus was slowly poisoning this country.

On August 16, 2011, she sat in her car outside her home, about to leave for an Anna Hazare rally.

A hired gunman shot her once through the throat.

The CBI said the motive was a love triangle. Four people were convicted and sentenced to life. The mining angle was never investigated.

Her father told investigators that high profile people had conspired to kill his daughter.

Nobody listened.

She was posthumously given the SR Jindal Crusade Against Corruption Award, an honour shared with APJ Abdul Kalam.

India rewarded her with a bullet, then gave her an award, then forgot her name.

Follow for real stories India never makes headlines about.

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

Frustrated with tourists ruining her village with garbage, she decided to act.

When Agonda’s streets were choking with plastic, cows were eating waste, and dumps were catching fire, 28-year-old sarpanch Prettal Fernandes didn’t wait for change—she created it.

From going door-to-door on a rickshaw with a mic, to introducing QR-coded waste tracking, solar-powered CCTVs, and a full-fledged local waste workforce—she rebuilt Agonda’s broken system from the ground up.

Today, cleanliness here isn’t enforced. It’s a shared responsibility.

If a young sarpanch can transform an entire village, what’s stopping our cities?🌱

#Sustainability #CleanIndia #WasteManagement #EcoFriendly #CommunityAction

[Sustainable Living, Waste Management Systems, Clean India Initiative, Environmental Conservation, Community Leadership]

[Prem Parth @peacebanda]

@acorn @nilagr You are right partially. Yes we should build ahead of demand but issues raised in this article strong integrated public transports and last mile connectivity are serious issues, impacting the usage.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I’m fascinated by Dr. Shubha V. Iyengar because she literally helps planes land through fog while most of us are learning to move through metaphorical fog.

Topper in BSc & MSc, backed by parents who encouraged her interest in science when girls rarely were inspired to pursue it.

40+ years at CSIR–NAL & she led the team that developed Drishti, built for India’s fog, rain, dust, and uncertainty.

When the world feels unclear, remember: someone built systems so others could land safely.

She is my #MondayMotivation

[V. Ramgopal Rao, Ph.D. @ramgopal_rao]

This is the story of three deep tech founders from IIT Delhi.
𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗮𝗿. 𝗔𝗻𝘂𝗷 𝗞𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗻𝘄𝗮𝗹. 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮 𝗔𝗵𝗹𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘁.

About seven years ago, when they walked into my office at IIT Delhi, they had very little to show. No product. No revenues. Just an obsession with drones. They were playing, experimenting, breaking and rebuilding drones as part of their undergraduate projects. What they had was conviction.

In 2019, I called them before Dussehra. Could we recreate the entire Ravan Dahan using drones? The idea was simple. As an IIT, demonstrate technology at scale using Ravan Dahan as a showcase.

Their response was honest. They were not ready. It needed serious money. But they were confident that if resources were made available, they could deliver.

We subsequently evaluated them for funding at IIT Delhi. They came in for a pitch. It was one of those rare pitches that is not about slides, but about belief. We decided to take a leap of faith and fund them as an equity investment. About ₹2.5 crore. At that time, they didn't have much to show. It was a big risk.

After the pitch, I learnt that Tanmay’s father had passed away that very morning. Yet he stayed back to present. He was very close to his father. That moment told me everything about commitment, and it stays with me.

The journey after that was not easy. There were challenges at every step. As an institution, until I was there, we never said no to anything they asked.

Then came their defining moment. #Republic Day 2022. Beating Retreat. A thousand drones lighting up the sky. The Hon’ble Prime Minister tweeted about it as a world record. That night, their trajectory changed forever.

@BotLabDynamics became a sensation.

Today, they are major players in drone-based entertainment and defence manufacturing. They have gone global, with a Dubai office opened last year. They are on their way to becoming a unicorn, perhaps a soonicorn already.

Yesterday, they invited me, Dr. Anil Wali to inaugurate their new 50,000 sq ft facility in Noida. Many who helped them in their journey at IIT Delhi were also present. Watching thier manufacturing plant come alive in Noida, it struck me how far a conviction can travel when it is backed by trust.

They will be the Flipkart of deep-tech startups from IIT Delhi. More importantly, their success will spawn hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new deep tech founders.

That is the real multiplication.

Having played a small part in their journey, I feel deeply happy.

𝗜𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽-𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽

PS: When my term as Director ended at IIT Delhi, they did a drone show as a farewell and recreated my picture in the sky. It was deeply touching. They later told me my moustache was particularly difficult for the drones to recreate. I told them I could have temporarily removed it, if that made life easier for their algorithms. 🥸

@BotLabDynamics @narendramodi @PMOIndia

[Prem Parth @peacebanda]

@pbhushan1 Surprise to see univs from Iran. South Africa, brazil n Saudi even.. But not India