The tale of every sidewalk (if it exists) in India. The Indian Roads Congress (IRC) Guidelines clearly specify that manhole covers should be "flush with the sidewalk surface", i.e., they've to be level with the surface, leaving no gaps to avoid tripping. It's terrible stepping on

A common misconception about Deep Funding is that human jurors hold the strings on funding to projects. Not directly. The jury's only job is to give a score (weights) to projects that reflects how much they feel it has contributed to an ecosystem's success. These scores don't

Bengaluru weather as promised!

What better song than this masterpiece from the movie Water to ring in World Water Day. I watched Water when I was in my first year of undergrad & wrote an assignment on how painfully the movie uses the Ganga, a symbol of purity & divinity, as a backdrop to highlight the plight

We walk by the most glaring sign of state government dominance over municipal bodies & centralized urban governance every day. Political branding centred on MLAs driven by their control over local development funds & accentuated by the lack of elected municipal councillors since

It really helps to have a market value on your time if you are a woman & more so, if you are a married woman in India.

Yup, woke up one morning in Austin and shook to life a slumbering Devansh to say "let's start our own political party that is run on the blockchain." Web3 has a good precedent for disruptive mechanisms from QF, smart contracts, identity/zk etc. & to newer experiments around AI

In so many talks in web3 conferences, the tech talk precedes what it's used for, for whom it is used for. I hope while building, the flow is reversed. Use should drive tech.

This has been in the works for sometime- so excited to announce applications to the Impact Evaluator Research Retreat are now LIVE! If web3 can offer one solid innovation to the world beyond DeFi it is impact evaluation & quantification. Researchers, data scientists,

why do all introverts/ambiverts get all the extroverty jobs on their hands? it's so tough 😭

Our tuktuk/ rickshaw drivers! 🛺 Help refill their fuel this GG 23 so they can keep driving the mission to reward on ground impact. (Link in comments 🔗)

"Don't give a sh*t about what others say. You do you." - 1970s Bollywood edition feat. some of the most badass lyrics in Hindi cinema penned by the legendary Anand Bakshi sahab.

First time taking part in a QF round & I'm getting legit Dadar Market, Gandhi Bazar energy. All bustling street markets in India where the loudest & persistent voices sell. There are those with permanent shops & loyal customers & smaller sellers with their makeshift stalls &

Imagine a Gitcoin round where we don't see project names at first glance. We only see the impact. We fund the impact we like or value, not the organisation we know. That's what VoiceDeck's impact certificates do. See impact. Add to cart. Fund impact.

We're so grateful for all the fuel that makes VoiceDeck run! We're in the final lap of the GG23 round, even a $1 donation can help us get more hands on Deck to get the Panama papers onchain & fund journalism with impact. Impact ahoy! explorer.gitcoin.co/?s=09#/round/4…

In Hindi, we have a saying "boond boond se banta hai samandar" It's the little drops that make an ocean Thank you to everyone who is supporting VoiceDeck, every drop you nourish us with counts. Every drop helps create the ocean we can set sail in. 3 days to go!

Keep hawking! 3 days to go before the GG23 round ends. May your trade cry be as loud & passionate as this sweet uncle from whom I bought bananas today Gitcoin rounds? Nope. It's street hawking frens, please buy what VoiceDeck is selling 🥹