Abhishek Bansal

Senior Member Tech -Macro/ Agency MBS @DEShawGroup |

Past: @IIM_Calcutta, @ISIKolkata, @IITKgp | @IITKanpur, Ed-tech|

जरूरतें कम, हसरतें ज्यादा ।

[🐬 @triplexdshott]

until it happens to you, you will think you are very careful, very responsible, very smart, very religious, very mature, very private, very etc.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

can’t stop thinking about this

[Sachin Gogia @runthusiast]

A truck driver on his phone rear-ended our car (A Hyundai Tucson) on a NH44. My 4-year-old was in the car. We walked away. Barely!

This isn’t just our story. This is every Indian highway, every single day. And nobody in power seems to care enough to fix it.

Here’s what’s killing people on our national highways and what we demand changes:

[LLMs have been used to for better phrasing]

📵 CELLPHONE DISTRACTION
Phone use while driving = driving drunk. Same reaction time, same lane drift, same inability to brake. The fine is a joke — paid, forgotten, back on the phone. This needs criminal-level deterrence, not a challan.

🚛 TRUCKS IN THE FAST LANE
Every highway trip, a truck crawling in the rightmost lane, forcing everyone to overtake dangerously from the left. Keeping left is LAW under the Motor Vehicles Act. Not a suggestion. Where is the enforcement?

🔀 LANE CHANGES WITHOUT INDICATORS
No signal. No mirror check. Just a sudden swerve at speed. This causes side-impact crashes and pile-ups that nobody sees coming. Fine and suspend. No exceptions.

⛔ WRONG-SIDE DRIVING
Tractors. Autos. Trucks. Even cars — driving on the wrong side of a 4-lane highway because turning around is “too far.” This is not a traffic violation. This is attempted murder. Head-on collisions at highway speeds are almost always fatal.

🚶 JAYWALKING ON HIGHWAYS
Pedestrians crossing 6-lane highways on foot because there are no underpasses, no footbridges, no lighting. My anger isn’t at them. It’s at a system that collects toll at every plaza and still can’t build basic pedestrian infrastructure. Very common on ORR in Hyderabad.

🛠️ WORKERS ON LIVE LANES WITH ZERO PROTECTION
Road repair / landscaping with no cones, no barriers, no advance warning signs, no reflective gear. Workers crouching in a live lane with vehicles flying past at 100 kmph. This is institutional recklessness with human lives.

🚚 UNFIT TRUCKS ON HIGHWAYS
Overloaded. Bald tyres. Broken tail lights. No reflective tape. Invisible at night until it’s too late. Vehicle fitness certification is a rubber stamp. Bribes are cheaper than compliance. We need automated testing with zero human interface.

🌑 ZERO ENFORCEMENT AFTER DARK
Every highway driver knows the truth - after dark, the rules don’t exist. No patrol. No cameras. No consequences. Highway patrol must be 24x7. Non-negotiable.
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What can save you:
✅ 5-star safety rated car: crumple zones held, cabin stayed intact
✅ Toddler car seat: IsoFix is better.
✅ Seatbelts - every passenger including rear seats
✅ A good 2-channel dashcam — rear footage is now our key evidence. Front-only would have been of little help.

Before buying a car, check its safety ratings. Use a car seat. Belt up. Get a 2-channel dashcam.

Thanks to @HyundaiIndia @Hyundai_Global for making a car which saved us.
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A special thank you to @AnantapurPolice for filing the FIR promptly and treating this with the seriousness it deserved. This is what accountability looks like.

Also tagging @arun_bathula who has been doing some great work in #hyderabad to bring awareness and educate drivers in the city to thank him for his efforts in making the city roads safer.

@nitin_gadkari @ncbn @AndhraPradeshCM @revanth_anumula @TelanganaCMO @NHAI_Official @MORTHIndia @APTrafficPolice @APPOLICE100 @TelanganaCOPs enough talk. Fix this.

#RoadSafety #IndianHighways #DistractedDriving #PutThePhoneDown #HighwaySafety

[gaurav @gaxrav]

adulting is basically arriving at the same truths as your father, but from first principles.

[Satish Verma @satoverma]

If Modiji were in classical India, Sanskrit poets would have virtually exhausted all their metaphors and similes to describe his political glories in the inscriptions. The zenith of प्रशस्ति writing would have been defined by Modiji's deeds.

[Sensei Kraken Zero @YearOfTheKraken]

ANGA, VANGA, KALINGA

All of it belongs to us!

[constans @constans]

At war with Persia

[Chapin @Chapinc]

You want me to be physically present at a meeting in the office? Like the Ayatollah?

[microaggression @mutton2pyaza]

All the countries where Dhurandhar was banned are now under attack. Peak detailing by Aditya Dhar.

[Shravani @shrav_10]

Major cheat code in life: ask for the big. unreasonable thing. The universe meets you at your level of audacity

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Duniya jhukti hai, jhukaney wala chahiye …..

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

The two Indias would rarely interact earlier, now they talk via OTP.

That 6 digit number has given dignity to so many workers, who would be toiling at a farm otherwise. Now they come armed with tech, demanding a six digit number from you, for starting their services. This OTP shows that the efforts are metered, recorded and comes with a modicum of fairness. No stranger from the 2nd India be allowed in your house, the helpers, the drivers were granted entry, after gaining trust.

Now a stranger can come in, do your job, earn money, coz of the code of trust known as the OTP.

[Rishap Vats @VatsRishap]

“Hide through cope till it happens, bide with hope after it happens”

[Vikrant Gupta @vikrantgupta73]

Jemimah Rodrigues giving up on the remaining part of her WWBL contract to be in India with Smriti Mandhana to lend support in her hour of crisis is the bestest gesture you will see amongst top-level sporting celebs; me and you can still do this for our friends perhaps but at that level it’s very very good

[Syed Aleem @aleem_1690]

Literally everything associated with our home tests wins were shamed and taken for granted.

People even had the audacity to shame the 2018 BGT win.

[Gems @gemsofbabus_]

Each and everyday.

[PV Sindhu @Pvsindhu1]

🤫😂😭

[News Algebra @NewsAlgebraIND]

🚨 SHEHBAZ SHARIF : "If Pakistan hadn’t controlled its terrorists, they would have been roaming the streets of London and New York" 😳

[karthik gopinath @karthikgnath]

GST gift impact 🙏🏻
Thank you @narendramodi @nsitharaman