Prashant Ervamanatil

Permaculture enthusiast, minimalist, zero waste lifestyle

[Prashant Ervamanatil @prashante]

@sss26888 Should such services exist? Emergency fine and you pay for emergencies. But for convenience, should we exploit? Services continue because they are always someone who needs a job. So what can they do other than mass mobilization and see if people can live without them

[Indian Tennis Daily (ITD) @IndTennisDaily]

India will not be without singles representation at Roland-Garros afterall as Karman Kaur Thandi has interestingly sneaked into the Women’s Singles Qualifying draw with her injury protected WTA Ranking of 238 💪🏽

This will be Thandi’s 4th Grand Slam Qualifying appearance (Australian Open: 2019, 2021; US Open: 2023)

We have an Indian in Grand Slam singles for the first time since 2025 Wimbledon (Sumit Nagal)

It may be recalled that Karman had cracked the WTA Singles Top 200 as a 20 year old before injuries affected her career. Let’s go Karman 💪🏽

[Indian Urbanism @IndianUrbanist]

Nobody needs to pretend the elephant in the room is invisible. Bike taxis are banned precisely because they are affordable, because of how well they solve the problem, and because the political cost of vanishing lakhs of jobs overnight is negligible.

[Prashant Ervamanatil @prashante]

@SwiggyCares CTF4337620974

[Prashant Ervamanatil @prashante]

Total process breakdown with @confirmtkt & @SwiggyCares (Order CTF4337620974). Paid 24hrs early, but restaurant changed food last min without notice. Zero customer support channels available on the app. Family had to compromise out of hunger. Fix this operational gap!

[Margin of Safety🇮🇳 @InvestorOfJAMMU]

Bike taxis are very economical for middle class people. It can bring down their cost by more than 75%. I have seen many young unemployed boys earning upto Rs 1500 per day from Bike Taxi business.

@grok Why Government is banning bike taxi services??

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

A government that cannot create jobs for millions of young men is now going after the private sector platforms that let any guy with a bike earn an honest living with a flexible schedule.

Rapido has more than 3 million active captains across bikes, autos, cabs, and deliveries, with bike captains typically earning Rs 15,000 to 30,000 a month working hours they choose themselves. Uber provides earning opportunities to over 1 million driver-partners in India and Ola has a comparable number. In total these ride hailing apps are providing well paying part time jobs to more than 5 million Indians.

This shows that these apps have created more actual livelihoods than any Indian politician has managed to deliver outside the imaginary promises of an election manifesto. Yet they are being hounded at a time when the Indian economy is already struggling, the rupee is rapidly collapsing in value, and AI is devastating the formal job market.

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

The government's first instinct when it cannot license, tax, or capture a sector as a vote bank is to ban it.

Rapido and bike taxis solve two genuinely hard Indian problems at once: abysmal last-mile connectivity that sarkari babus never fixed, and the shortage of flexible income for someone who owns a bike and needs to top up his monthly income. That is a rare double win.

Naturally, this makes it more threatening to the gormint, not less. "How dare this 20 year old boy with a bike from a tier 3 town make 25K in extra income from a part time gig! This sounds like anti-national activity funded by George Soros!"

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The longest road in the world that a person can walk...

The longest theoretically walkable road on Earth stretches from Cape Town to Magadan, spanning roughly 22,387 km (13,910 miles) without the need for any boat or air travel. The route passes through about 17 countries, crossing Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and into Siberia via connected roads and bridges.

Even at an ambitious pace of 12 hours of walking per day, the journey would take around a year to complete. At a more moderate schedule of 8 hours per day, it would extend to roughly a year and a half of continuous travel.

[Ajay Mittal @ajaymittal033]

Delhi: ~5 AM to 11:30 PM
Chennai & Bengaluru: ~5 AM to 11 PM
Kolkata: ~6:50 AM to 9:40 PM

Lakhs of Kolkata commuters still remain deprived of safe, affordable and reliable late-night public transport. 🚇

My appeal to Hon’ble CM Shri @SuvenduWB ji 🙏

[Gautham R Shenoy @gautshen]

My new office is just 900m from the Bommanahalli Metro Station. But that 900m route goes through a garbage dump, a couple of dusty narrow streets with no footpaths. IOW not very walkable.

While Metro is great, the last mile connectivity leaves a lot to be desired. I don't understand what problem BBMP has against making streets walkable. It helps every class, not just the rich.

[Prashant Ervamanatil @prashante]

@Ravisutanjani It generates employment for gig workers. Helps with transport. Advantages are more than disadvantages. Regulate and not ban. To please auto workers don't kill lakhs of other workers

[Karan Datta 🇮🇳 @Datta_karan]

While the world was busy watching other geopolitical fires burn, PM Modi quietly made five of the most important stops on the planet in five days.

UAE. Netherlands. Sweden. Norway. Italy.

Read that list again slowly. Because each one of those countries holds a key to something India desperately needs right now and cannot afford to get wrong.

Here is the context most people are missing.

Hormuz just got choked. Energy routes that the world treated like guaranteed infrastructure for decades suddenly looked fragile. Supply chains that took forty years to build started wobbling in weeks. Every government that was paying attention started asking the same uncomfortable questions at the same time. Where does our energy actually come from. Who really controls our access to technology. And which trade corridors are still going to exist in five years.

PM Modi clearly got the memo before most.

The UAE is the first stop and energy is the entire reason. The Gulf has been disrupted. Hormuz is under pressure. And the UAE just made a decision that changes everything about how it operates. It stepped outside the OPEC framework. It can now pump freely without anyone's permission. And it has a pipeline that moves oil completely around the Strait. For India that is not just useful. That is survival infrastructure. This meeting is about securing that relationship before the rest of the world wakes up and starts competing for the same thing.

Then comes the stop that will look most important in hindsight.

The Netherlands. Specifically a small city in the south of the country that most people have never heard of. The semiconductor war between America and China is not slowing down. It is accelerating. And India knows that if it is not inside that ecosystem now, it will be buying chips on someone else's terms for the next thirty years. The conversations happening there are not about trade statistics. They are about whether India gets to be part of the supply chain that decides who wins the technology race of this decade.

Sweden is quieter but the signal is loud.

When three leaders stand together in front of Europe's top industrial decision makers, that is not a photo opportunity. That is India saying directly to European capital, you have been talking about reducing China dependency for years and we are the answer you have been looking for. Sweden's industrial companies represent exactly the manufacturing sophistication India needs as it tries to move beyond being a cheap labour destination and become a genuine industrial power.

Most people will skip over Norway entirely. That would be a mistake.

No Indian Prime Minister has made this trip in 43 years. Norway runs the largest sovereign wealth fund on earth. It is patient, long-term, and looking for exactly the kind of growth story India represents. The numbers being discussed are not small. And beyond the capital, Arctic shipping routes and green energy corridors open up a completely different geography for Indian trade. The quiet stops are usually the most deliberate ones.

Italy lands the plane on something much bigger than it appears.

The corridor connecting India to Europe through the Middle East needs a European endpoint and Italy is it. When that corridor is fully operational, Indian goods reach European consumers faster and cheaper than they ever have before. Without passing through the chokepoints that everyone just watched become weapons. Add the India-EU free trade negotiations running in parallel and you are looking at a structural shift in how India plugs into the global economy.

Here is the honest truth about what this week actually means.

The world is being reorganised right now. Not gradually over decades the way it usually happens. Rapidly. In months. And the positions countries lock in during this window will determine where they sit in whatever order emerges on the other side.

India is not sitting still waiting to see how things shake out.

Five countries. Five days. Energy security, chip access, European industrial integration, sovereign capital, and a trade corridor that rewires the map.

PM Modi is not touring the world.

He is building a different India for what comes next.

[Technical Charts @Technicalchart1]

Manoj Madhusudhanan took a ₹1.86 crore home loan from ICICI Bank.

As collateral, he handed over his original property documents. Every homebuyer does this. You have no choice.

ICICI Bank sent those documents to their storage facility in Hyderabad via courier. Somewhere on that journey — Bangalore to Hyderabad — the documents vanished.

Gone. Originals. Irreplaceable.

When Manoj found out, ICICI Bank had one answer: it was the courier company's fault. Not ours.

He went to the Banking Ombudsman. They told ICICI to publish a public notice about the loss and pay him ₹25,000 for the trouble.

Twenty-five thousand rupees. For losing the original documents to a ₹1.86 crore property.

Manoj sent a legal notice. ICICI denied any mistake.

He went to the NCDRC.

The apex consumer court looked at the facts. The bank had taken custody of the documents. The bank had chosen the courier. The bank could not hand that liability to a third party and walk away.

ICICI Bank — India's second-largest private bank, ₹9 lakh crore in assets — was held liable. Ordered to obtain reconstructed certified copies, issue an indemnity bond, and pay ₹25 lakh in compensation.

One loan. One lost file. One bank that blamed the courier.

Save this — if your bank loses your original property documents, they cannot blame their courier agent. The documents were in their custody. The liability is theirs. File at your district consumer forum. The law is on your side.

(Source: Manoj Madhusudhanan vs. ICICI Bank Ltd. | NCDRC | LiveLaw, September 2023)

[All India Radio News @airnewsalerts]

#SandaWorldCup

Indian wushu player Aparna Dahiya clinched the gold medal in the women’s 52kg category at the 11th Sanda World Cup in Macau yesterday. Aparna defeated reigning world champion Thi Phuong Nga Ngo of Vietnam in straight sets in the final, securing India’s first gold medal of the tournament that began on May 12.

#AparnaDahiya #Wushu #GoldMedal

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[Gutta Jwala 💙 @Guttajwala]

I donated around 60 litres of breast milk to the government hospital in Hyderabad and Chennai during my first year of post partum!!

Why does it matter? Just 100ml of donor milk can feed a tiny 1kg baby for several days. This donation could potentially support dozens of infants in the NICU. Donating is safe, screened, and desperately needed. Many NICU babies don't have immediate access to their mother's own milk due to medical complications. Donor milk acts as a vital bridge, providing immunity and nutrition during those critical first days.

It serves as a bridge for mothers whose milk may be delayed due to stress, illness,malnutrition or premature birth. 

Donor human milk is proven to significantly reduce the incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis (a life-threatening gut condition) in premature infants!!!

Check your local govt hospital to see how you can help! #MilkBank #SavingLives #MaternalHealth

[Prashant Ervamanatil @prashante]

@RajivKumar1 @ShekharGupta Correct. For the world organic farming was disastrous for Srilanka. Such simplistic headline shows influence of lobbying on journalism

[Bhargavi @bhargavizaveri]

India is desperate for stable foreign capital. INR is in a virtual free fall. Yet, there is an *absurd* bottleneck nobody talks about: the RBI’s FIRMS portal — mandatory for FC-GPR filings and therefore for receiving FDI share capital — has been down for weeks.

As a result, inward remittances for legitimate equity investments into Indian companies are getting stuck because founders literally cannot complete regulatory filings.

At a moment when the country needs every dollar of productive FDI it can attract, this is exactly the kind of invisible bureaucratic friction India should not be imposing on itself.

@RBI @RBIsays @NITIAyog @nsitharaman

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Indians want Chinese level of govt efficiency & European levels of freedom while being in an Indian democracy.

[lordmicky™ @0xlordmicky]

When Allyson Felix became pregnant, Nike threatened to cut her sponsorship contract by almost 70% because of her pregnancy.

They told her:

“You should know your place… and just run.”

Amid all this, at seven months pregnant, Allyson had to undergo an emergency C-section due to a serious complication.

Her baby girl spent over a month in the neonatal intensive care unit.

But two years later, Allyson qualified for her fifth Olympic Games, with her daughter in the stands cheering her on.

Allyson left Nike.

And she founded her own shoe brand: Saysh One.

At the Tokyo Olympics, she ran wearing her own sneakers, carrying the motto:

“I know exactly where my place is.”

With 11 medals, she surpassed Carl Lewis and became the most decorated American track and field athlete in history.

And to all women, she gave this message:

“I raised my voice and built this company for you, so that you’ll never have to train at 4:30 in the morning, five months pregnant, just to hide it from your sponsor.” ❤️