Vinod Loha

Experience Technologist @PublicisSapient, Web Architect, Rationalist, Design Systems Advocate, Hobby Gardener and cool Dad.

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A lot of people ask why so many Indians run abroad the first chance they get? Why some states have temples dedicated to foreign country visas? Why some people are so desperate to get away that they even risk death by drowning or freezing to illegally enter other countries?

Why are Indians so desperate to immigrate?

Because in the countries these people usually move to, they value life. They value people. They value you.

Unfortunately, that particular concept is virtually unheard of in India.

Here, lives are as important as money is to a sacrificial lamb.

Because In India:

The government doesn’t give a damn about you.
The judiciary thinks you don’t even exist.
People, in general, treat others like a piece of crap.
And if you treat someone nicely, chances are they’ll backstab you at the first opportunity.

Most of us have our souls and self-confidence destroyed, respawned, and then destroyed again on a daily basis. We get treated worse than a car in a Rohit Shetty movie.

So why would anyone stay?

In India

A two-bit clerk in an obscure municipal department can make your life miserable.
Any random ticket giver or clerk can abuse you.
A part-time watchman outside a private building treats you like a criminal.
Store workers treat you like a thief.
Everyone treats you like a shirker.

Your life is essentially a never-ending hurdles race that lasts for 70 years, if you make it that far that is.

So why would anyone stay?

In India

You risk your life every single time you step out of the house.
You can die when an illegal concrete slab, which was permitted by a corrupt babu, falls on you.
You can drown in a sewage tunnel because some random bozo has stolen the manhole cover.
You can burn to death in an illegally modified bus that the corrupt RTO has permitted to operate.
You can be run over by a drunken idiot who’s been given a license by that same RTO.
You can be crushed to death in a stampede caused by the incompetence of the police, who can’t handle a crowd.
You can die after consuming poison labelled as medicine because the babu who was supposed to prevent it took a bribe and looked the other way.
You can fall to death from a train because the railway authorities, after taking lakhs of crores in the name of safety, have blown it all away on "other things".

At any point in time, you can get impaled, burned to death, crushed, fall off a cliff, or be killed by a guy with a sword, sometimes all of the above.

Here, life is like the game Prince of Persia, except, unlike in the game, you don’t get three lives, nor can you restart. Once you are dead, you are dead.

So why would anyone stay?

And then comes the worst part.

In India,

Nobody is held accountable.
Nobody faces consequences.
Nobody gets punished.
There’s nobody you can complain to — and where you miraculously can, nobody listens.
People whose incompetence caused your death get promoted.
Some even run important departments that enable them to kill more people.

Every second of your life here is a herculean effort against the system, the process and the people.

However, Hercules had 12 labours in total.

In India, you face 12 labours everyday

So why would anyone stay?

Therefore, when someone actually gets a chance to get out, it shouldn’t be a surprise that they take it with both hands.

P.S.: In the last six months, 22 children died because of fake medicine, 40 people were burned to death in illegally modified buses and 51 people died in stampedes.

Those were 113 easily preventable deaths. Deaths mind you. DEATHS

113 innocent Indian citizens lost their lives.

What happened after that?

How many government officials were arrested? How many were punished? How many were sacked? What were the actions taken? How quickly we forgot everyone?

The answers to these questions will tell you why many people don’t want to stay in India anymore.

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@kaegie @DotPe_India We had experienced this situations of ordering food without auth with just a table no and found it weird, Asked staff and they off course didn't understood how this could be a problem.

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Pull your shit together @_groww wallet is not working 😕

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Shouldn't @BCCI stop busting firecrackers after every cricket game? We are grappling with #AirPollution across country. Already there are too many things in India which has celebration & firecrackers deep rooted. Why add one more to it?
@JayShah @RogerBinnyBCCI #indvsaust20

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@markdalgleish @agilecoder No its not quite same as tailwind; tailwind have classes being repeated not CSS properties and values.

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@DearthOfSid Drinking beer in supposedly dry state.

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@_RavinderM_ 😱

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What a sorry state of #AirQualityIndex despite this being a recurring problem in north india nothing is being done about it. 420-480 levels how does one breathe outside? #DelhiAirPollution #AirPollution

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What a sorry state of #AQI. This happens year after year and unsurprisingly nothing gets done to stop it. Its impossible to breathe outside. #DelhiAirPollution #AirPollution #AirQualityIndex

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@Jasmeet68658983 Its always combination of both ;)

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👏👏👏👏👏 Never in my dreams I imagined Indian bowlers to be this dominating!! This #TeamIndia is straight from heaven!!

#INDvsSL #CWC2023 #CWC23INDIA

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@kaegie Both are impossible probabilities atm!! Amul isn't listed ;)

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🙌 The React India 2023 audience deserves a standing ovation! 🚀👏

Huge shoutout to everyone who made it in person and joined us online - you rocked the tech world! 🌐🇮🇳 Your enthusiasm and passion lit up the event.

Let's keep the React fire burning.

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@Apoorvas007 from @eXperienceEngg @PubSapientIndia presenting edge side rendering with #WebAssembly to improve Server side rendering to meeting performance goals at #ReactIndia2023. Amazing storytelling, futuristic talk on #WASMEdge

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We’re at #ReactIndia2023 leading the conversation on how front-end engineering is evolving in the age of GENAI! Come meet the team for next 2 days for a conversation on how you can leverage what we call 10X engineering behaviours to navigate #DBT #ThriveAtPS #LifeAtPS

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@rravuri from @PubSapientIndia at #ReactIndia2023 delivering keynote on using #GenAI with #React for polyglot developers.

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@rauchg @nextjs @sveltejs @vercel @PublicisSapient has tons of experience doing enterprise scale implementation across business verticals using Nextjs

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Performance Optimisation workshop a #ReactIndia now live by @vikash21 and @designerlokesh from @PubSapientIndia

https://t.co/EG8qvEfZZO

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One of the best distinguished polyglot technologists @vikash21 at @PubSapientIndia talking about his invention AI Code Companion of VS Code at #EngineeringSummit2023. @eXperienceEngg