Starting tomorrow, Supreme court of India is on a six-week summer vacation and will be operating at just 19% of its capacity. There are 53 million cases pending in Indian courts - 93,143 of them are pending in the Supreme Court.
A judge can go on a vacation, a judiciary cannot.
क्षत्रिय जमीन का मुआवजा मांग लेगा तो 19 बार देश का खजाना खाली हो जाएगा , भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक (RBI) मैं जो 3000 टन सोना रखा हुआ है वो राजपूत रजवाडो का सोना रखा हुआ है...
“Indian society respects a man losing his health in a corporate cubicle more than a man trying to survive honestly in the markets.”
That sentence will offend a lot of people.
But every serious trader in this country knows it’s true. Because the moment you say you’re a trader in India, people look at you differently.
Like you’re irresponsible. Unstable.
Jobless. One step away from gambling your life away. Nobody sees the reality behind that screen. Nobody sees the boy who skipped vacations for years because he blew up an account and had to rebuild from zero silently. Nobody sees the man staring at charts till midnight, replaying expiry candles again and again, trying to understand whether it was his mistake… or just market chaos. Nobody sees the trader sitting quietly during family functions because his mind is still stuck on the one revenge trade that destroyed three months of hard earned consistency.
Trading in India is one of the few professions where you can work harder than everyone around you… and still end the month questioning yourself.
There are no promotions here. No fixed salary. No manager telling you “good job.”
No guarantee that tomorrow will pay you for today’s discipline.
Just you. Your mind. And a market that owes you absolutely nothing.
People think traders are addicted to money.
No.
Most traders are addicted to hope. Hope that one day the discipline will finally click.
Hope that one day they can look at their parents and say, “It worked.” Hope that one day they can live life without asking permission from anybody.
But what nobody talks about is the emotional cost of chasing that freedom. The isolation. The self doubt. The guilt after losses. The silent anxiety before every market open. The emotional numbness that slowly creeps into your personality after years of uncertainty.
A real trader doesn’t just learn price action.
He learns emotional survival. He learns how to stay calm after losing money. How to avoid revenge trading when frustration is boiling inside him. How to control greed when profits come easy. How to sit on his hands while the market moves without him.
How to protect capital when his own emotions are begging him to take one more trade.
And the worst part? Even after mastering all this… the battle still doesn’t end. Because a trader is not only fighting the market anymore.He is fighting an entire ecosystem.
Weekly expiry chaos. Violent gap openings.
Random policy announcements. Liquidity traps. Manipulative moves. Constant regulatory uncertainty. Rising turnover charges. Taxes at every possible layer.
Sometimes it genuinely feels like a trader in this country is surviving despite the system… not because of it. And yet… every morning at 9:15… lakhs of traders still sit in front of their screens quietly. Not because they are reckless. Not because they are lazy. Not because they are gamblers.
But because somewhere deep inside, they still believe discipline can defeat uncertainty. That belief comes at a cost. A very heavy cost. Missed memories. Sleepless nights. Broken confidence.
Mental exhaustion. Loneliness so deep that anonymous people from Twitter Spaces start feeling more emotionally relatable than people in your own house. And still… traders continue.
Because once you truly fall in love with markets, it stops being about money. It becomes a test of character. So maybe it’s time people stopped mocking traders as if they are doing something shameful.
And maybe it’s time policymakers too understood the difference between reckless speculation and serious market participation. A genuine trader already carries enough risk every single day.
He should not also feel punished by excessive charges, double taxation, and an ecosystem that keeps becoming harder for small participants to survive in. Behind every trading terminal in India…
there is a human being fighting one of the toughest psychological battles imaginable.