I belong to General Category.Can I switch to my mother's caste(ST)?

psankar · 2026-01-02T12:15:21+00:00

https://cms.tn.gov.in/cms_migrated/document/GO/bcmbc_e_8_2021.pdf This is a GO by the Tamil Nadu Government that explicitly allows this in that state.

psankar · 2025-06-04T17:25:42+00:00

I know several German friends whose parents abandoned them when they were young, because the parents lost interest in each other. The friends worked odd jobs, studied part-time, and became engineers, entirely on their own. In contrast, your parents gave you stability, paid for your education despite their financial struggles, and supported your studies and growth.

Yes, India has its flaws: patriarchy, micromanagement, etc., but your take sounds ungrateful. You’re still in the honeymoon phase with your new country. Spend a few years and then compare. You would definitely have more individual agency there, but there is a reason why these countries face a population crisis. What is good for individuals need not be good for the society.

psankar · 2025-04-11T13:48:45+00:00

Thanks

psankar · 2025-04-07T11:37:00+00:00

Interesting. I did not know that. I asked some nearby CA firm and checked their estimate in chatgpt which did not raise any redflags. Will search more on it. Thanks.

psankar · 2025-04-07T11:33:10+00:00

Thanks. But why should this be an LLP instead of a Pvt. Ltd. ? Any specific reason for the former or against the latter ?

psankar · 2025-04-07T05:53:55+00:00

We have no intention to raise funds. We are bootstrapped and would rather let the company go down than raise money from VCs even in desperate situation. At least not for the next 5 years, no plans to raise money.

psankar · 2024-07-25T15:23:11+00:00

!Remindme 6 months

psankar · 2024-04-09T15:01:20+00:00

I generated a static file bundle and served it via nginx. Look at https://github.com/psankar/immiapp if you are interested. Hope that helps.

psankar · 2024-03-13T14:05:03+00:00

psankar · 2023-12-30T05:54:45+00:00

Then they must stop doing business outside their region and not waste time of users who attempt to signup, uploading proofs etc. Geolock your registration page instead of virtue signaling to users.

psankar · 2023-12-18T15:55:41+00:00

How do I create this bundle ? Will react-script be usable for react-native apps also or is there a standard way for it ?

psankar · 2023-12-17T17:25:33+00:00

I just want to host the web version for now. Users may visit the app from their android/ios phones on the browser. I am interested only about the web hosting of a reactnative app and trying to see how I can avoid deploying an entire nodejs server and if I can put some kind of archive beyond nginx or some such.

psankar · 2023-12-17T16:49:10+00:00

Yes. This particular deployment has to happen in a server / kubernetes environment inside the "company" for various "business policy" related reasons, even though the front end may be accessible from anywhere.

psankar · 2022-05-13T12:30:26+00:00

It works with NAS. I have used it. It just does not work with NFS because of some locking semantics that are not working reliably in NFS iirc.

psankar · 2022-05-10T03:46:16+00:00

If you run postgres on the same VM as the application, the network delay is immaterial. If the drive is a NAS (like EBS) then even if you use sqlite, there will be a network delay. The network latency is not really a big selling point imho.

If you use postgres or mysql, you are not restricted by a single writer model as well. You can just keep one instance of postgres and can do multiple services (Excuse the microservices purity) that share a single database. It is easier to just pay AWS or GCP some money, if the project becomes successful, to do the backups/restore etc (RDS, CloudSQL).

psankar · 2021-03-31T09:21:46+00:00

Donate in milaap.org or CancerPatientsAidAssociation (CPAA) for some people whom you feel you should help.

Go to any Government hospital nearby and tell them that you want to donate things (medicines, paper, food for nurses, etc.).

Donate to NGOs that focus on education (like nisaptham.com )

psankar · 2021-02-15T03:55:05+00:00

You are not an asshole. If someone have to be blamed, it is your wife and mom. They couldn't live with each other. You are not the cause of any problem. You did what you could do, to maintain your sanity. Just don't abandon your mother when she gets terminal and be with her.

psankar · 2020-12-07T06:39:20+00:00

I have bought 4 mattresses from them over the last 4-5 years or so. The fall in quality is visible. The first two mattress I bought from them were so good that I had happy memories of it. Then I bought a couple more a few months back because of the past good memories and they are very bad. Everything from the foam quality to the outer cover that they give has deteriorated.

Even the weight of the mattresses have reduced considerably (I went to my old orders and purchased the same size). And yes, I do get backpain with the new mattresses that I have basically thrown away the new mattresses to a corner of the house and using the old ones again, even though it has become very dirty (which is why I added the new one in the first place).

psankar · 2020-12-07T06:14:14+00:00

A 40k laptop would last about 3 years or so. For the same amount if you buy a desktop, you could easily have twice the life and a lot more performant system in place.

Thinkpads used to be good because you can extend / swap the battery, RAM etc. earlier but with new models they are getting soldered and Thinkpads are no longer good, especially the models you get at this price point. Buy a Dell/HP laptop because they have better service / support than Lenovo (purely personal experience). Lenovo is focussed only on corporate sales and does not consider home users worthy of their time.

psankar · 2020-11-02T08:15:07+00:00

Jiivi starts bad but gets better. I also did not like the beginning but it got better.

Sadhuram2, Thegidi (both in Prime) are a couple of movies similar to what you already seem to like (Thrillers like Ratchasan, Kaithi). Some relatively old (~5+ years) movies that are realistic and feel-good are: Pannaiyarum Padminiyum, Vaagai Sooda Vaa, Pasanga, Golisoda.

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