This Cubbon Park thing is just a symptom of how India treats public spaces. We treat public spaces as government spaces, not people spaces. So, any bureaucrat can make any random rule. Which fundamentally screws poorer people who don't have private spaces.

Being content is the only way to true freedom. A person who embodies this is my father-in-law, Shivaji Patil He was in the Indian Army & voluntarily retired as a Havaldar after losing his fingers to frostbite during the Kargil War. He started a grocery shop in Belgaum after. 1/5

I took two hours to get home today, so I'm going to celebrate with a thread on how a design choice made in the 90s at point A is leading to traffic pileups at point B, 6 kilometers away, in 2023. Brace yourselves.

With the ReserveBankOfIndia unhappy with the c-KYC database, fintechs and tech majors are looking to push for a blockchain powered decentralised solution. Today I write about how this could solve many problems but at the same time be challenging to implement. economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/…

Deepak Shenoy I find the NPA numbers very surprising. Compare this to say Amex who one would argue only lends to a very low risk market has a net NPA of 1.43% and these guys are doing P2P at 0%?

SHOCKING: There has been a MAJOR data breach of Modi Govt where personal details of ALL vaccinated Indians including their mobile nos., Aadhaar numbers, Passport numbers, Voter ID, Details of family members etc. have been leaked & are freely available. Some examples 👇 (1/7)

Been observing how founders and investors tend to confuse token price action for potential customer demand in nascent categories. Picking where to build on, can be tricky if you are too early and have a limited runway. Wrote a bit about this last day. decentralised.co/p/the-narrativ…

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🇮🇳 India continues to make significant progress on VDA regulations, and its influence on the global stage on the subject is greater than ever before with the G20 Presidency. Reading through the Parliamentary discussions on the subject is crucial to understanding how our

Something seem super fishy Krutrim AI says it was created by OpenAI

At CoinSwitch: India's Simplest Crypto App 🚀 we collaborated with Hashed Emergent for the latest edition of 'India's Web3 Landscape Report' along with Devfolio, KGeN 🟩, and KPMG India. Here is a brief thread on some key facts and findings from the report. Stay with me, it's the good stuff. 🚀 In 2023,

New story out — Women from a fishing community, were subjected to decades of physical and sexual abuse by dominant castes. But they fought back and wrested back the ponds they had lost. thewire.in/special/how-ma…

#BreakingTheNets | Kumia Devi remembers the time when no one from her fishing caste owned any land in her village in #Bihar. They lived and worked on land owned by dominant caste landlords, and endured abuse from them. How did she and other women transform their community?👇

#BreakingTheNets | Shanti Devi recounts the backlash Mallah (fishing caste) women faced from dominant caste landlords for wresting control of village ponds. Earlier, an exploitative system crafted by the landlords in Bihar had kept village ponds out of the hands of the Mallahs.

#BreakingTheNets | Mocked for wearing slippers. Couldn’t afford a blouse. Not allowed to come out of the veil or step outside her house. Not permitted to work. Subjected to caste abuse, and physical and sexual exploitation. This was the story of many Mallah women in #Bihar.

#OUTNOW | Quiet Rebellions: the second story in the series #BreakingTheNets In the fishing hamlets of Karaikal (India), caste panchayats control every aspect of women’s lives. An oral history of women’s quiet rebellion against the panchayat. Full story: thewire.in/special/quiet-…

RBI has increased its balance sheet size enormously, to 72 lakh crores. Let's look at it in a 🧵, because this has an impact on inflation going forward.

Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would

Breaking News: EPFO to Finally Let You Access Your Own Money! Revolutionary, Right? In a groundbreaking leap for modern financial freedom, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has announced that, starting 2025, its 7 crore members will finally be able to withdraw

Our series #BreakingtheNets in The Wire wins two The Society of Publishers in Asia awards. The first one in the Excellence in Reporting on Women's issues category. Many thanks to Pulitzer Center and Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies for their support.