Roycin

Music / Lifestyle / Portrait Photographer, Videographer from Bombay. I live to eat, drink, cook, shoot, ride and travel. @makinbaconstall | @bombaybbqclub

[Roycin @roycin]

I want to start a music festival in Goa called Sunscreen.

It's where people who are tired of EDM will come to take refuge.

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

Mumbai receives 8 months of sunshine and experiences a hot and humid climate.

It now has a 5.25 km sea-facing promenade without any tropical trees (yes they planted few after getting belt treatment)😭

Indian bureaucracy is perhaps the world's worst urban planners in the world

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

Read this exclusive, intimate portrait of eight ordinary young Indians caught in an extraordinary situation, told in their own words, before they scatter back to their villages and disappear from the news cycle forever.

By @purnima_sah_
(7/8)
https://t.co/vbg0n8wwId

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

Mumbai built its best public transport where people own the most cars.

Its worst? Where people have no other option.
New IIT Bombay study explains why your commute is the way it is.
🧵 @IndianExpress
(1/10)

[Roycin @roycin]

@atulkasbekar @CSMIA_Official I’ve started to hate traveling altogether. Even for necessary situations.

[Sahil Rajput @_sahilrajput]

2003 - Satyendra Dubey, IIT Kanpur grad, wrote to PM Vajpayee exposing corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project. Begged to keep his name secret. Shot dead on his 30th birthday.

2004 - Manjunath Shanmugam, IIM Lucknow grad, sealed a petrol pump selling adulterated fuel under PM Manmohan Singh’s govt. 6 bullets. Dead at 27.

2005 - Narendra Kumar, IPS officer, seized illegal mining trucks in MP under CM Shivraj Chouhan. Crushed under a tractor. Dead at 30. His IAS wife was pregnant.

After these deaths, Parliament passed the Whistleblower Protection Act in 2014.

It has NEVER been activated. 12 years. Not a single day.

PM Modi’s govt said it needs amendments. Then introduced amendments in 2015 that actually gutted the law, making it illegal to expose corruption if it touches the Official Secrets Act. That bill failed and lapsed. Govt said okay, original Act is fine then. Still didn’t activate it.

100+ RTI activists killed since 2014. No party is innocent.

Modi’s govt has sat on the protection law for a decade.

[Sahil Rajput @_sahilrajput]

From tomorrow, India becomes the ONLY country in the world to mandate SIM binding for WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.

Not the US. Not the UK. Not even China. Just India.

The government says “cybersecurity.” Let’s fact-check that with their own data.

They already blocked 9.42 lakh fraudulent SIM cards. Already saved INR 5,489 Crore through existing systems. Already froze 24 lakh mule accounts.

The existing tools ARE working. So why put 100 Crore+ Indians under surveillance?

Cyber fraud in 2024 was INR 22,845 Crore. Banking apps ALREADY have SIM binding. Did that stop it? No. Fraudsters use burner SIMs. They’ll keep using burner SIMs. This rule punishes ordinary citizens, not criminals.

The Supreme Court in Puttaswamy (2017) ruled Privacy is a fundamental right under Article 21. Any restriction must be legal, necessary, and proportionate. This fails all three.

Meta and Google have formally called it “unconstitutional” and “ultra vires.” Even former Qualcomm VP Parag Kar confirmed Apple’s iOS literally blocks apps from reading SIM identifiers. The tech doesn’t even support what the government is demanding.

No public consultation. No parliamentary debate. No judicial oversight for disconnecting your access. WhatsApp Web forcefully logged out every 6 hours.

Internet Freedom Foundation demanded a rollback. Industry challenged it legally. Government’s response? “No extension.”

Yesterday I wrote about how the Whistleblower Protection Act was never implemented. Today the same government wants your messaging identity without a court order.

Won’t protect those who expose corruption. But will track every message you send.

This isn’t cybersecurity. This is a pattern.

[Drishti Sharma Mulak @drishtisharma02]

Nagpur..

Is this development… or dangerous oversight?
Indora–Dighori flyover at Lal Imli Square raises serious safety concerns. Project worth 998 crores.

#Nagpur #NHAI #Maharashtra

[Shruti Dhore @ShrutiDhore]

5 days ago someone warned about visible cracks in that exact pillar. MMRDA called it fake & threatened cyber police action.

Today people are dead. This is what blind voting for religion over competence gets us.

📍Mumbai

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

🚨 Mumbai-Pune expressway from above, yesterday.

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. A society stalls when they build bridges that even a bus can't fit through.

Corruption is a tax on the poor, but incompetence is a tax on everyone.

[Zoru Bhathena @zoru75]

Mumbai’s Mithi River
If it gets cleaned...
The free-flow of money will stop.
Hence it will never get cleaned.

My Mithi River
All it drains is public money

[Adv. M @RURALINDIA]

Thank you Maharashtra Govt & Bombay High Court for the plan to cut down 45000 mangrove trees.

Mumbai doesn’t need living shields.

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

This isn’t a review but a must-read ideological critique on the propaganda film #Dhurandhar from today's @the_hindu.

Adding a fact with Proof - it wasn’t the Kandahar hijackers who called “Hindus cowards” but the RSS Sangh who labelled the pilot & the passengers as cowards.
Earlier I shared once, sharing again -

After The Kandahar IC 814 Hijack incident on 24th Dec,1999 where the Indian Govt had to release 3 terrorists in exchange for the lives of 155 passengers & 11 crew of the hijacked plane the deal draw a widespread criticism calling "national humiliation".

At this moment the then-RSS Chief Rajju Bhaiya (Rajendra Singh) wrote a column in Panchajanya that the incident exposed the deep rooted cowardice within the 'Hindu Samaj'.

He emphasised that Hindus should never fear death. He argued on the aircraft, even if 8-10 young men had stood up and confront the terrorists they could have made difference.

He noted that while concern from passengers' families was expected, the intensity of their protests was unbecoming of a decent and dignified society. This is why Dr. Hedgewar emphasized cultivating 'Veerta' (bravery) in the Hindu community."

This the way the Sanghi brain shifted all accountability from the then Vajpayee Govt to the common public, also a hidden advertising of RSS - 'Join RSS become Brave'.

However, the famous Sanghi of VHP working president Ashok Singhal extended this discussion. In one press conference, when he was asked if the Govt could show its courage during this Plane- Hijack, he replied it was not the Govt but the pilot who had to show courage.
"If the pilot had courage, he would have just refused to fly the hijacked plane."

HT reporters reached Captain Devi Saran for his bite. This time the Captain said in response "I don't know who this gentleman 'Ashok Singhal' is but he knows nothing of aviation or the value of innocent lives."

Captain Devi Saran also said
"If he speaks about being a 'Hindu' then at first I'm a Human. Even Sri Krishna in Mahabharata tried his best to prevent Bloodshed before Kurukshetra.
I would like to ask this Gentleman Did he meet the family members of the hijacked plane passengers or Crew during this crisis period?"

Many passengers came out after this & slammed Ashok Singhal's statement.

A few passengers wrote a letter Where It said
" When the conversation failed on 30th Dec & the hijackers started talking about bombing the plane in the sky it was Captain Saran who told us how to open the emergency door. It was planned that he will not let the plane fly but run till the end & crash it with the wall so that we passengers can jump off the plane & escape.

In such a situation, he was going to be killed certainly. And if Mr Singhal is so courageous then why didn't he come to Kandahar to fight those Hijackers & rescue us?"

Red faced Sangh Parivar further had no discussion on this subject.

It is noteworthy that after so-called nationalist RSS was founded at Dusshera Fest in 1925, it had 22yrs before Independence to make it's mark in the history of the freedom movement. And in it's entire History it worked as British stooge and after the Independence as agent of CIA for petty monetary benefits. And that too have ample evidence.

Right now only attaching the proof of the above mentioned incident below. Check that. 🙏🏾
@nmannathukkaren

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

🚨 Welcome to Mumbai, India 🇮🇳

Asia’s RICHEST Municipal Corporation @mybmc (₹52,619 CRORE budget) yet the streets look like an open dump.

Richest in Asia. POOREST in Governance.

BMC = Bharbadi Municipal Corruption 🙏

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

Unregulated generative AI is messing up the trustworthiness of scientific research, but what could go wrong

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 A foreigner is forcing riders to move out of footpath in Pune. 🙏

[Roycin @roycin]

Good lord. Delhi, what have you done to yourselves?

[Mohit Chauhan @mohitlaws]

🚨Delhi CM Rekha Gupta: AQI is a temperature that can be measured with any instrument. Watering at hotspots is the only solution to reduce pollution.

Journalist: Are you not sprinkling water on the AQI monitors then?

Delhi CM: laughs…

Unreal downfall of Delhi from Sheila Dixit to Rekha Gupta.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

DigiYatra promised your data stays on your phone..This court battle shows it never really did.