A short update: 📢
While building Pludous (a low code iPaas), I've talked to countless founders & enterprises. One constant? The tech execution gap.
That's why I started https://t.co/vS7UU1yN1W
For founders: Turning ideas into MVPs at startup speed For enterprises: Moving at startup velocity
Because building production-ready software shouldn't be your biggest hurdle.
I know stories like these are celebrated.
They shouldn't be.
As an entrepreneur, your company is important but it should not come at the cost of your personal well being - be it your mental or physical or financial health.
Startup porn shows us the 0.01%.
Raised on X
Email came from their social team (as I was not ok to talk over the phone)
I asked for quote and payment link
Payment done
policy issued.
Thanks @heydigit this is how it was supposed to be at the first instance.
A feedback on
@heydigit car insurance. Currently insured by them, tried renewing via @CRED_club.
After payment it mentioned car needs to be inspected, since I dont trust tech (being a techy myself) I opted for physical verification.
Since then I received at least 10 calls
- sir kaha aana hai.
Got fed-up and cancelled that.
Opened policybazaar and them moment they asked for phone number started shivering and closed the incognito website.
And no this is not a rant, just an honest feedback.
A feedback on
@heydigit car insurance. Currently insured by them, tried renewing via @CRED_club.
After payment it mentioned car needs to be inspected, since I dont trust tech (being a techy myself) I opted for physical verification.
Since then I received at least 10 calls
- sir kaha aana hai.
Got fed-up and cancelled that.
Opened policybazaar and them moment they asked for phone number started shivering and closed the incognito website.
And no this is not a rant, just an honest feedback.
Education seems last priority for this up govt
Every ipl match day in lucknow schools (probably nearby ekana) are closed after 12 noon.
They can even manage traffic due to a match that too silly ipl.
@lkopolice#lucknow @lucknowtra
> Brought UGC Regulations
> Turned campuses into battlegrounds
> Minus 40 marks cutoff for NEET PG
> Caste conferences in IITs
> NEET Paper leaks
> Lakhs of students are suffering today
Still, he is never held Accountable !
In continuation of its press release dated 10 May 2026, the National Testing Agency wishes to inform candidates, parents, and members of the public of the following decisions taken in respect of NEET (UG) 2026. NTA had, on 8 May 2026, referred the matters then under consideration to the central agencies for independent verification and necessary action, consistent with its standing commitment to the fair, secure, and credible conduct of the national examinations entrusted to it.
1. On the basis of the inputs subsequently examined by NTA in coordination with the central agencies, and the investigative findings shared by the law enforcement agencies and in order to ensure that there is transparency in the system, the National Testing Agency, with the approval of the Government of India, has decided to cancel the NEET (UG) 2026 examination conducted on 3 May 2026, and to re-conduct the examination on dates that will be notified separately.
The inputs received by NTA, taken together with the findings shared by the law enforcement agencies, established that the present examination process could not be allowed to stand. The re-conducted examination dates, along with the re-issued admit-card schedule, will be communicated through the official channels of the Agency in the coming days.
2. The Government of India has further decided to refer the matter to the Central Bureau of Investigation for a comprehensive inquiry into the allegations therein. NTA will extend full cooperation to the Bureau and will provide all materials, records, and assistance the inquiry requires.
3. This decision has been taken in the interest of students and in recognition of the trust on which the national examination system rests. The Agency is conscious that re-conduct will cause real and significant inconvenience to candidates and their families. NTA does not take that consequence lightly. The decision has been taken because the alternative would have caused greater and more lasting damage to that trust.
4. The registration data, candidature, and examination centres opted for in the May 2026 cycle will be carried forward to the re-conducted examination. No fresh registration will be required, and no additional examination fee will be levied. In addition, fees already paid, will be refunded to the students and the exam will be re-conducted using NTA’s internal resources.
5. Further communications, including the re-conducted examination dates and the re-issued admit-card schedule, will be issued through the official channels of the Agency. Candidates and parents are requested to rely only on these official channels and to disregard unverified reports circulating on social media.
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Lucknow is India’s 3rd Cleanest City.
So our team went on ground to check the real condition of the City & Smart City Projects.
Before ground reality, understand the politics:
MP since 1991: BJP
Mayor since 2002: BJP
BJP holds 7/9 assembly seats in Lucknow district.
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@amuldotexe I have changed my interviewing style. We discuss on problem statement and let candidate develop the application/solution in given time frame.
Actually letting them vibe code.
Very similar to whiteboarding of DS/Algo. So far not too many complains.
I am on other side, was based and settled abroad.
- got subsidized edu by indian gov but i think have paid my dues before i moved abroad.
Also paying after coming back
- i did comeback only for personal reasons (no deshbhakti here)
- after coming back(it has been 6 yrs now) i missed my life abroad every single day.
I stayed in India for 8 years after graduating. In those 8 years I ran a mildly successful startup, creating 70+ jobs, and a lot of taxes since we were profitable. My Whatsapp inbox from my teaching time is full of thousands of messages of people getting prestigious high paying tech jobs. After that as an engineering leader at various orgs, hired at least 50+ more people. Paid multiple crores of personal income tax as well.
I did more than my fair share of creating employment, creating human capital and contributed enough to pay off my subsidised education (I’ll not deny I got more than good enough education both from school and university, both of which are partly paid for by the government)
In those 8 years, of my closest 10 friends, slowly slowly I found 8 of them now have moved outside India. More than half my college group is outside. And eventually on the balance of things, it really started feeling like I’m getting the short end of the bargain and those others who left were getting a better deal in life.
I had always assured myself that
a) I can always go out whenever I want, I am here by choice
b) I’ve consciously stuck to faster growth roles orgs but if I ever wanted to, I can go to big tech too
Finally a switch clicked in the head saying if you’re so sure of (a) and (b) why don’t you really just go and see. You can always come back.
In the long run I might be proven wrong (I’m aware of stories of one health scare or racism incident or ailing parents that pushes the pendulum back for many), but for now my lived experience only taught me exactly opposite of what Vembu has said below. In fact if 10 years ago I would have even slightly been convinced by the below tweet, today I’m convinced even less by it. From my perspective of the things I sought in life, the equation has only gotten worse not better.
If you have to smell old age, go visit an old couple living in a house, with their kids settled in other parts of the world.
The house is a museum, the dressing table is older than their kids age. No matter what time of the day, it’s always afternoon in the house. Quiet. Parents trying to trick their grandkids into talking to them on WhatsApp video, giving up, then covertly asking their offspring when will she pay a visit. No pressure. “Office is hectic” they understand. They keep the phone aside & sleep off. The Panchang calendar on the wall still shows last month, no urgency to turn it over. It’s the silence of an empty nest, broken only by the second hand of the wall clock. Almost ticking towards inevitability.
I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.
Thank you for getting us to this point.