I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
No amount of compensation offered during or after the redevelopment of my building in Mumbai can make up for the loss of the green cover.
For years, these trees have given us mangoes, coconuts, bananas... They are a living reminder of the Mumbai real estate's old wadi culture, where homes coexisted with abundant greenery.
Mumbai's redevelopment race has made it difficult to preserve this greenery..
#RealEstate #Mumbai #Redevelopment
what do you know about the matrix?
now pay solid attention;
the 7 days of creation
the 7 days of the week
the 7 musical notes
the 7 chakras
the 7 colours of the rainbow
the 7 temples of the body
the 7 rows of the periodic table
the 7 continents
the 7 seas
the 7 deadly sins
the 7 seals of the apocalypse
the 7 virtues
the 7 stages of grief
the 7 gifts of the holy spirit
the 7 liberal arts
the 7 holes in the human skull
the 7 wonders of the world
the 7 layers of the human skin
the 7 wandering stars of antiquity
the 7 stars, sisters of the pleiades
the 7 stages of cosmic myth
the 7 ancient wonders
the 7 metals of alchemy
the 7 major organs
the 7 cervical vertebrae
the 7 steps of the alchemical process
the 7 layers earths atmosphere
the 7 court tissues of ancient medicine
the 7 imperial dynasties
the 7 primary colours of art
the 7 basic crystal habits
the 7 symmetrical groups of geometry
the 7 sacraments
the 7 heavens
the 7 gifts of the holy spirit
the 7 trumpets of the apocalypse
the 7 churches of asia
the 7 last words of christ
the 7 petitions of the lord’s prayer
the 7 sages of greece
the 7 hills of rome
the 7 lucky gods
the 7 islands of lagos
the 7 base si units
the 7 crystal systems
the 7 branches of the menorah
the 7 classic planets of ancient astronomy
did i miss anything?
number 7 is the matrix, the walls, the absolute boundary where energy is forced to stop, try around and repeat.
Ten years from now, India may look back and ask: how did we lose an entire generation to screens?
Everywhere you look, people are scrolling. In buses, trains, cabs, offices, traffic signals, while eating, before sleeping, and the moment they wake up. Reels have become the background noise of our lives.
And the saddest part is our children.
Many kids today won’t eat without a phone in front of them. They cry for reels, laugh at shorts, and grow up staring at screens instead of people, books, nature, and real life. We are handing them addiction in the name of entertainment.
AI is making this even more dangerous. Algorithms know what we like, what we fear, what keeps us watching. AI-generated videos, fake influencers, deepfakes, and endless personalized content are slowly trapping people inside a world that never stops feeding them distraction.
This is not just entertainment anymore. This is stealing our attention, our peace, our thinking, and our future.
When a country’s children cannot focus, when its youth are lost in endless scrolling, and when adults are too tired and distracted to think deeply, how will that country grow?
Social media addiction is not a small issue. It is a silent epidemic. India must wake up before our minds become the price we pay for cheap data, endless reels, and uncontrolled AI.
Maharashtra goes digital for government publications.
The Maharashtra Government has approved the development of an "Online & Counter Book Store" to enable citizens to purchase official government publications online and have them delivered to their homes.
The initiative is part of the modernization of government libraries under the Directorate of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications.
What's changing?
📚 Citizens will no longer need to visit government libraries in person to purchase gazettes, reports, manuals, rules, acts and other official publications.
💻 A dedicated portal, https://t.co/IAuk3uVBQF, will be launched to facilitate online ordering and payment.
📦 Publications ordered online will be delivered across India through India Post, with postal charges calculated based on the weight of the books and delivery distance.
How will it work?
• Initially, the Mumbai Government Library will offer:
Online book sales (within India)
Counter sales
Exhibition sales
• Government libraries in Pune, Kolhapur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Nagpur will continue with counter and exhibition sales through the same platform in the first phase.
• The web application has been developed by MahaIT, which will also provide 24x7 operational support.
• Payments made by citizens will be credited online, while postage charges collected from buyers will be paid to India Post based on monthly billing.
Why this matters
For decades, access to official Maharashtra Government publications largely depended on physical visits to government libraries or book exhibitions. This initiative digitises the entire purchase process, making government documents significantly more accessible for:
• Lawyers
• Chartered Accountants
• Students and researchers
• Journalists
• RTI activists
• Civil service aspirants
• Urban planners
• Architects
• Businesses
• Ordinary citizens seeking government rules, notifications and publications
The move aligns Maharashtra's publication distribution system with modern e-commerce practices, improving transparency, accessibility and ease of access to official government literature.
If implemented effectively, it could become a one-stop digital repository and marketplace for official Maharashtra Government publications, reducing dependence on physical counters while expanding public access across the country.
#Maharashtra #DigitalGovernance #eGovernance #GovernmentPublications #MahaIT #IndiaPost #DigitalIndia #PublicPolicy #Government #Books #Gazette #Transparency
Mumbai still has 40 days of Water Left
All it takes is 2-3 days of Rainy Days to fill our Dams
However, Mumbai needs 2000 MLD Desalination Plants (simply because we have the Money + Tech)
₹11,666 crore 400 MLD Desalination Plant is Under Construction but that it not enough.
So, a HNI contacted me this morning. He had bought 10 lakh shares of JP at near 10 rupees, thinking that Jaiprakash Associates has a lot of assets, including cement plants, etc and he is pretty shocked to learn that his shares are going to zero in the restructuring of Jaiprakash Associates
This is a common theme where many investors are unaware about the workings of the insolvency proceedings.
Under the IBC framework in India, equity shareholders are considered the "owners" of the business and are last in line to get paid. The priority for distributing funds from the winning resolution applicant is strictly regulated
Secured Creditors: Banks and financial institutions.
Operational & Unsecured Creditors: Employees, vendors, government dues, and unsecured lenders.
Equity Shareholders: You are last. If the company's debts exceed the value of its assets, the resolution amount won't even cover the lenders. Therefore, the liquidation value for your shares is determined to be ₹0
There are 6 lac shareholders of JP in the same boat. Knowing what you are buying is very important, and exiting is even more .
One of the loneliest experiences in the world is trying to explain your feelings to someone who has already decided they're not interested in hearing them. You speak carefully. You try to be fair. You try not to accuse. But the whole time you can feel that the conversation ended before it even began
A complete framework to value REITs in the 5th Anniversary Edition of DSP Netra - Process Knowledge.
by @ParthShah_01 of DSP Mutual Fund.
"There are a lot of ‘If’s’ when we value a REIT, one small change and the NAV (intrinsic value) changes drastically, So, Beware!"
I learnt a long time ago that there is a big difference between making a living and making a life. In the times to come, AI will get increasingly better at the skills that we've used to make a living. Our imperative will be to instead make lives. Not artificial lives. Or artificial lives. But our own lives and of those we love. As machines get better at answering, and solving what they are asked, our work is to get better at asking, at making, creating, and deciding which questions are worth a life, and refusing to outsource that.