Yogesh Bhide

Mumbai meri jaan

[JJ @JosephJacks_]

There’s an Indian VC (based there, invests there) who I won’t name. Every term sheet he writes — even $1M checks — includes this: founders must return 5x, he keeps full anti-dilution AND his equity on top, and if they don’t hit it in 3 years, he gets to fire them. 😂😭

I told him, “dude, I can’t invest into this structure, it’s insane.” His response: “JJ! No no, you don’t understand — this is totally normal in India, man! We want you to invest!!”

LESSON: Any founder in India who’s been handed this — email me. I’ll personally make sure you get introduced to VCs who aren’t actively trying to fuck you over.

[Dhawal @dsp911]

URGENT: My brother lost his passport on today's flight from Mumbai to Male. He is currently detained at Maldives Airport with 2 young kids and elderly parents. Please check the aircraft urgently!
Flight: 63E 1131
Date: 09-Jun-2026
@IndiGo6E 🙏 Please help!

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

There is a fake dubbed clip of me and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi doing the rounds on social media. It depicts Vaibhav as being rude and cocky. Neither was that question asked nor was there an answer like that. It is cruel and mischievous especially towards a young kid who has been very respectful in his few interactions. @rajasthanroyals @bcci

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

The Reality of Make in India

[Akshay 🆇 @akshayji10]

@_kumbhkaran So, what is the point? He might not have an opening in Adobe, and hence asking for referrals from his network.

Also, being director at Adobe doesn’t mean he can get his son easily in Adobe. This is not some govt department where you can pull the strings.

[Madhur @ThePlacardGuy]

India’s internet has been officially split into two classes, and the announcement came from .@airtelindia itself.

Postpaid users now get “priority 5G.” Prepaid users get whatever is left on the same towers, the same spectrum, the same network. The deciding factor is not technology, not infrastructure, not even fairness. It is the size of your monthly bill.

The most dangerous part is not the policy itself, it is the precedent. Once a tiered internet gets normalised in India, every telecom in the market will follow the playbook. First speed will be sold, then app access, then connectivity itself. The open internet that built digital India will disappear quietly, one corporate announcement at a time.

Public spectrum is being sliced by wallet size, and the regulator has not said a word. .@Dot_India @JM_Scindia silence is not neutrality, it is complicity.

[Honeybadger @9honeybadger9]

Making divorces quick, easy and fair will save a lot of lives

[Ayush Tiwari @sighyush]

An American firm is recording Indian workers inside factories and selling their videos to Big Tech to train robots.

@raghavKakkar30 and I report for @scroll_in:

https://t.co/AEmbcFOADD

[Rohan @proxy_vector]

@pmddomingos The scary part is less "can not publish transformers" and more "can not publish the weird paper that looks wrong until 3 years later." Once institutions optimize for reputational safety, frontier work shifts to whoever can tolerate being early.

[Mad Milton @PhilipPanass]

Absolutely flabbergasted that Ruchika Sharma (@tishasaroyan), in a @DeccanHerald interview, presents Michael Willis's research as her own! Almost EVERY single claim in the interview had been argued by Willis, a pre-eminent Indologist, in his 2012 JRAS article. (1/n)

[Gutta Jwala 💙 @Guttajwala]

I donated around 60 litres of breast milk to the government hospital in Hyderabad and Chennai during my first year of post partum!!

Why does it matter? Just 100ml of donor milk can feed a tiny 1kg baby for several days. This donation could potentially support dozens of infants in the NICU. Donating is safe, screened, and desperately needed. Many NICU babies don't have immediate access to their mother's own milk due to medical complications. Donor milk acts as a vital bridge, providing immunity and nutrition during those critical first days.

It serves as a bridge for mothers whose milk may be delayed due to stress, illness,malnutrition or premature birth. 

Donor human milk is proven to significantly reduce the incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis (a life-threatening gut condition) in premature infants!!!

Check your local govt hospital to see how you can help! #MilkBank #SavingLives #MaternalHealth

[Tarun Raju @btarunr]

Chinese figured out something Indians haven't: first build fighters with whatever unreliable engines, manufacture engines and its components at a larger scale, and keep replacing the engines/components as needed, incorporate improvements along the lifecycle. Indians sought a turnkey reliable engine and set themselves unreal standards, only to end up with an unreliable supplier for a reliable engine.

Unreliable engines from reliable suppliers beat reliable engines from unreliable suppliers.

[realhyderabad @realhyderabad86]

Before buying a home read this!

Very surprised how many people don’t get these basics right.

Heart attacks, strokes and early deaths are becoming far too common.

Modern job stress is only increasing.

Easy days are over.

Before buying a flat, do this first:
Get a large term insurance.
Your family should not suffer financially if you are gone.

Get a large medical cover beyond your office insurance.
A family is just a few hospital visits away from financial collapse.

Imagine this:
Layoff happens.
Office medical cover is gone.
Then a family member needs hospitalization.

That is when people realise the real meaning of risk.

Before taking a 20–30 year home loan, protect your family first.

Term insurance.
Health insurance.
Emergency fund.
Then real estate.

Share this with every colleague, friend, relative, well-wisher, and even your enemies.

Some truths can save families.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

So, NetNeutrality issues are gonna blow up again in India in 4-5 months (or less). Jio's up to something, TRAI seems turned. Very 2014 vibe.

Consider this an early warning.

Someone else will have to pick up the gauntlet. Am tired of having to push back on shit all the time.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

This time it's "Network Slicing" and sector specific data speeds and pricing. The buildup:

Nov 2025: https://t.co/6PJr7BOa3d

Feb 2026: https://t.co/360uyli6UW

April 2026: https://t.co/tw3i3OYHb2

[Deepak Singh @smarket]

Having lived in the US and India, let me tell you there is no perfect country in the world. We, as adults, make a choice to live somewhere and be at peace with it.

Happiness is quite an internal thing.

Once I left UP after my childhood, I felt like an immigrant even in different parts of India. Once you leave a place where you grew up as a child, every other place looks like an alien land.

People make choices, and one should live with the consequences of the choices.

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

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.

[Kishor Bhat @IamKishorBhat]

Don't know about state but for sure the auto driver is Hindu

[sy oppington @indofunctor]

being indian and into urbanism is like repeatedly hitting yourself in the head with a metal rod

[Akshay Shinde @ConsciousRide]

Yes this is bloom filter.

It is a probabilistic data structure that checks membership in a big set very fast with low memory. For gmail with billions of usernames it gives instant result without hitting full database every time.

If bloom filter says username not present then it is definitely available. If it says present then it might be false positive so system does actual check in database after that.

This way most checks stay quick. Many big services use it for similar things.