Priyanka Bapna

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[Chinmay A. Singh @chinmay]

How babus harm Indian Engineers:
I ran a US based startup. My engineering team was in India. Not in Bangalore or Delhi, but scattered across small towns and villages around UP/Bihar/Assam.
They were some of the best engineers I have worked with anywhere. The only thing they lacked was the ability to speak English like someone who went to a Delhi private school. That one accident of birth kept them off the rosters of every shiny startup.
I turned that into an advantage. I go find them. And I pay them exactly what an English-speaking engineer in Bangalore would get, without making them move. Same code, same salary. English fluency was never the skill I was hiring for.
Now I wanted to give them what my US team members had: ownership. A real piece of what they were building. For a young dude from a village in Gonda or Chapra, that can be generational, life-changing money when we exit.
But I could’t.
The moment an Indian employee exercise their options (convert them to shares), without selling anything they get taxed on the paper gain as salary (I have heard it could be as high as 42%). For a private company, no buyer, no liquidity, no cash. But they get slapped with a tax bill, sometimes larger than their salary, on money they haven't earned.
So, if I gave them equity, the choice I wd have forced on those engineers was: pay lakhs out of pocket for shares they can't sell, or give up the equity.
In the US employees pay nothing until they sell, and if they hold long enough, they may pay almost nothing at all (federal).
I have heard that in India , there is a "deferral" now. But if my info is correct, it covers ~2% of startups. Like most other startups, mine wont qualify.
The fix is one line: tax the shares when they are sold, not when they are bought. Every developed country does it. India could do it tomorrow but it does not.
Why?
Due to babus (not Nirmala S).

[Priyanka Bapna @Pree_Bee1]

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BREAKING NEWS 🚨 MHA has issued a notification to play the Full version of India’s National Song, Vande Mataram.

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Whenever the official version of the National Song is sung or played, the audience shall stand to attention.

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Even though I knew his death was coming, as he told us it would, I still can’t believe he has died.

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[Zeba Zoariah @ZZoariah]

When a man stands at the Red Fort, records his last video, and calls a suicide attack “martyrdom as per Islam”, we need to stop pretending this has “nothing to do with religion”.

It does.

Not the faith billions practice but the interpretation that radical networks have normalised for decades.

There is a problem inside the community.
There are clerics who glorify jihad.
There are WhatsApp groups, madrasas, preachers and YouTube “scholars” who sell death as devotion.

And our silence has allowed them to grow.

If we don’t name the ideological roots, how will we ever uproot the violence it produces?

This isn’t Islamophobia.

This is accountability spoken by someone from within.

India cannot fight terror alone if Muslims won’t confront the radicalisation happening in our own backyard. How much more proof do you need?

Red Fort wasn’t just a blast. It was a warning. Yet again are we finally ready to listen?

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[Priyanka Bapna @Pree_Bee1]

@DeepKalraMMT @deepkalra Shame on MMT for not cancelling trips to Turkey. MMT is arm twisting their clients to travel to Turkey by withholding free cancellations. For @makemytrip, business comes before the country!

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