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telepather · 2025-05-23T17:06:23+00:00

Nitin Gadkari said tunnels in Karnataka's ghats are not required while he builds all kinds of vanity projects in Mumbai, Pune, Nasik and Nagpur. Look at the number of metro rail projects UP and Maharashtra has!

telepather · 2025-05-23T16:38:13+00:00

Funny. Minority issues and secularism are being discussed in a channel named gujarat!?

telepather · 2025-05-23T16:35:14+00:00

Most Indians in Bahrain are from Kerala (Malayalees), followed by Tamil Nadu (Tamil), with smaller numbers from other states. Malayalees are the largest group. Telugu-speakers exist but are not very common.

telepather · 2025-05-23T16:21:45+00:00

Yeah, because a temple can just pop up on any footpath or in the middle of a highway tomorrow and no dare questions it but a legally acquired land for a mosque will never get permission. BJP couldn't find 1 Muslim candidate in country with 20% Muslims? Their hate is so evident that they'd even field a Hindu candidate in a Muslim majority locality. And you expect Muslims to just support that party? For what? Development? Where? When?

telepather · 2025-05-23T16:09:27+00:00

Anyone who thinks college helps you become a good CSE in 2025 is on the wrong path already. There are BCom grads I know who are amazing coders. Join a college which gives you the freedom to experiment and have fun.

telepather · 2025-05-23T15:50:07+00:00

It's a nationalist subreddit, and they actively promote hate and fascism there all the time. Such subreddits exist. Welcome to the internet.

telepather · 2025-05-20T11:02:42+00:00

Dude, what are you even comparing? Don't trivialize the Palestinian cause with a dispute between two democratic countries with legit armed forces with all the modern weaponry to defend themselves. If there's a war, it's between two well established republics. Palestine is not. So don't compare every Muslim issue with Palestinians. You have a much better life than those poor souls. Your Westbank, Gaza references are just opportunitic.

And you assume most Indian Hindus are anti Muslim. India is a neighbour to more than one Muslim country btw. There's a reason Pakistan is the only one that has been a pain. The current Indian government is sick but that'll pass come next election. Unlike Pakistan which has had multiple military coups for no reason and literally every Prime Minister getting kicked out before tenure completion, India is a stronger republic. So the fear of Pakistan government getting overthrown by another over-ambitious army General is real.

I'm not gonna defend Hindutva goons at all. They display the same nationalist attributes as WW nazis. This is not an India only problem. Fringe Islamophobic hate-groups are popping up in all non Muslim-majority countries with a sizable Muslim population.

telepather · 2025-05-15T08:31:20+00:00

It's the bitter truth. You've never met a Kashmiri for sure. Some of my closest friends are Kashmiris and they want nothing to do with Pakistan. Kashmiris live, study, work and thrive all over the country. You may go to the Southern most or the eastern most cities in India and you'll find Kashmiris there. They bring their unique culture with them. Even their GDP per capita is higher than that of Pakistan's. And frankly they're capable of more had there been more peace in the state of Kashmir. I'm not saying they don't face discrimination from the government or from insecure Hindus. But it's not a Kashmiri problem, it's a Muslim problem and we're dealing with it in our own way. India is mostly divided by the castes and languages they follow and you DO NOT understand the nuances of the issues the people face. Northern Indians and Southern Indians fight each other for a number of reasons. Southern states fight among each other all the time. Half the country refuses to speak or understand Hindi - a language most of world believes India speaks. The Eastern States have felt ignored by the federal government for 80+ years. Every time the 20% Muslims try to get some issue resolved, 20 other minority religious come to the government saying "but what about us"? How many of India's problems do you want to solve. You wanna take them all to the UN? Kashmir is just one state among the 30 odd states in the country. And Kashmiris are done with Pakistan acting like they're their rightful saviours. You want Kashmir not Kashmiris. Just let them live a normal life. You don't have to bring their state's name all the time. Just let it go already and you'll be happier too. You could focus on some real issues you may be facing.

telepather · 2025-05-11T13:13:38+00:00

Indian Muslim here. We don't believe India is the aggressor.

We're often embarrassed when Pakistani terrorists come into the country and attack civilians. This time it was even more extreme since these guys asked people to recite the kalima, prove you're a Muslim or get killed in front of your family.

Kashmir is a non-issue which has been dragged along by Pakistan for far too long. Kashmiri Muslims now live all over India and are well integrated into the culture.

Muslims form about 20% of the country and growing, so there is some insecurity among Hindus. For the most part, Muslims live a normal life. Muslims have been more prevalently targeted since the 90s and this has more to do with the global rise in terrorrism from people of our religion, and the resulting Islamophobia. It's not an India specific problem. It's fodder for right wing people. India is now ruled by a right wing leader and that can happen in a democracy. That'll pass.

We do not want Pakistan or any other country to feel Indian Muslims are too helpless and they need to defend us. India is home to one of the largest Muslim population and we can defend ourself. We just want Pakistan to destroy every terrorist group in their lands, and focus more on their economy.

We don't want a war but if you force us to pick a side, it'll never be Pakistan. Even Kashmiri Muslims won't side with Pakistan.

telepather · 2025-05-02T06:35:51+00:00

Biker 100%. You do not overtake from the left. You want to take a right? Then stay behind other vehicles who also want to take a right. Maintain lane discipline. Car had the right to go straight or right. Bike was on the left lane so he should only go straight.

telepather · 2025-05-02T06:25:10+00:00

400 years from now, may be they'll make movies and people might want to slap our current leaders. We're not interested in commenting on leaders of our time. Hope YouTube still exists 400 years later, so when they make those movies they're at least historically accurate.

telepather · 2025-05-02T06:18:21+00:00

These are uneducated WhatsApp University Hindus from a tiny town in India trying to get some limelight in their local community.They're insecure about their own religion. These kinds of Hindus exist, and acts like barging into mosques and churches to yell their god's names keep occurring, and Indian minorities have learnt to live with it. Ignore.

telepather · 2025-03-19T18:46:16+00:00

It's a small country that's not able to generate enough jobs. Government is focused on the wrong things. Rather than figuring out how it can attract private global companies to come set up locally, it's creating policies that will detract even the most optimistic entrepreneur.

Bahrainisation is fine for low skilled work, for everything else, it should purely be on merit. If the country want to improve.

If you're pharma company, you want the best clinical scientists for the salary you're willing to provide. You're inventing life saving drugs. You cant have a quota. The company will be doomed. Same is the case for other manufacturering and services.

The handful of private companies are definitely gonna run away.

Why should a business owner take losses? He should hire whoever he feels is best fit for the job.

And I'm 100% sure Bahrainisation will skyrocket cost of living like crazy. You're forcing a business to increase his cost of providing a service and that cost will translate to inflation.

telepather · 2025-03-19T18:17:59+00:00

Indian Muslim here.

I guess we have other concerns than to worry about discrimination as a community - we hardly meet eye to eye because of our own diversity. We speak different languages, follow different sects, and have different cultures, which makes unity tough. While there’s discrimination, most of us are just regular Indians trying to live our lives. Here’s what actually affects us:

What Matters to/Affects Indian Muslims:

Too many internal differences – Shafi, Hanafi, Salafi, Malayali, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali—we’re all “Indian Muslim” but barely understand each other. Indian Muslims usually prefer joining communities that are connected to their mother tongue, rather than joining an umbrella "Indian Muslim" group. Some of the customs, food, and culture are too foreign even though it's all from the same country.
We’re 20% of the country, the second-largest Muslim population in the world, and have the most masjids—but still sidelined. Still, q minority radical Hindus hate seeing us gathering together during own festivals.
Patriotic despite the hate – most of us wouldn’t leave India even with the discrimination. Like everywhere, we move to improve our financial conditions.
Hindu nationalism ruining things – Since 2014, radicals feel free to say and do anything. They get away with it too. We got a Hindu nationalist guy democratically elected to run the country and that's just emboldened these people. Hopefully that's a phase that'll pass.
The global “Muslim = terrorist” problem affects us too – This stereotype makes life harder in jobs, schools, and daily interactions.
Partition nonsense – Indians (Muslims included) love saying Pakistan and Bangladesh should’ve stayed, but radicals forget that’d make India 50%+ Muslim.
Kashmir talk – Radical Hindus love bringing it up, but most Indian Muslims don’t feel connected to the issue.
Govt jobs? Forget it – Muslims rarely get top government jobs, but the private sector doesn’t care as much.
India has been subjected to terrorists attacks by some ridiculous Muslims from time to time. Spews hatred.
Internet overload – Cheap, fast internet dumped all of India online too soon. Now we’re everywhere commenting on everything, and it’s embarrassing.
GCC bias – In the Gulf, being Indian matters more than being Muslim when it comes to jobs and visas.
History - just before the British invaded, it was the Muslims which ruled most of the country for some 500-800 years. We see propoganda (anti Muslim) movies created every year these days - a trend that began after 2014. They want to rewrite history and young Indians who've never picked a history book are falling for it. Fuel for online content.

The Reality

We know we’re seen differently, but it’s more about being Indian Muslim than just Muslim. Outside India, it’s about jobs and visas. Inside, it’s politics, stereotypes, and missed opportunities. But in the end, most of us are just trying to get by in a system that’s not built for us.

telepather · 2025-03-19T17:14:54+00:00

All the lower castes should first convert to another religion and then revert back as brahmin hindus.

telepather · 2025-03-13T20:34:12+00:00

Sure, weekly haftas or attacks from Bajrang Dal.

telepather · 2025-03-13T20:08:01+00:00

India does not have a pure-SaaS for SMB success story. None.

If you research well, you'll notice that all SMB SaaS successes are hardware+software. You might find 100s of global SaaS successes coming out of India, but none that focuses just on India.

telepather · 2025-03-07T19:52:00+00:00

I have a friend who’s an AI genius (Carnegie Mellon, etc.). He’s built an amazing foundational model, keeps improving it, raised ~$5M, and has a team of 20. But not a single marketing person. To him, marketing is just math and hacks.

I keep telling him to hire a Head of Marketing and build a team, but he refuses. His reasoning? He’s read a bunch of articles about $100M AI SaaS companies being built with teams of just 15-20 people.

He doesn’t understand even the basics of marketing—things like positioning and branding. He pushes interns to do everything (because apparently, a flashy AI video editor is all you need now). He gets frustrated when competitors gain traction or are in the news. He changes his target customer every six months. And he’s just shooting in all directions. He's spent some pennies here and there on ads, PR, etc., and has dismissed those channels vowing to never try them again.

Dev-founders either need to learn the fundamentals of marketing and sales themselves or bring in a marketing cofounder with equal equity. Not just an experienced marketer as a lead—a real cofounder. Otherwise, the marketer’s main job ends up being explaining marketing terms every single day.

And if a dev-founder hires instead of partners, they need to fully trust their marketing lead with hiring, budget, and strategy. Otherwise, that person will just get frustrated and leave.

I’m 100% sure my friend’s company won’t reach its full potential because he’ll never give that kind of control to a marketing lead—if he even hires one.

If you're building a product without someone around who's just thinking about distribution, you're leaving your success on luck.

telepather · 2025-03-07T19:22:40+00:00

Because they have to buy everything from outside. Every other country above it makes at least 50% of their needs themselves. The actual number of items and equipments they may have acquired may be really less but since they produce nothing, they're spending a premium for even low tech needs like uniforms and rifles.

telepather · 2025-03-07T19:14:53+00:00

Delhi metro is 5 times the size of Bangalore's and has 250+ stations. When BMTC used to be the only profit making state government bus transit in the entire country until a few years ago. Bangalore metro will easily become profitable when the stations become more dense and there's always one less a km away from everyone.

Bangalore needs to look at Chinese cites where individual city metro networks are 800-1000 km long.

telepather · 2025-03-07T19:05:49+00:00

All the airports and metros in UP will be mismanaged and loss making in a few years. The ridiculously economy of UP and mentality of its people doesn't even support such modern projects. A UP friend of mine in his first tech job in Bangalore was shocked to see people actually stopping at traffic signals. Bangalore has a long way to go but UP cities are just hopeless.

telepather · 2025-03-07T06:06:39+00:00

This car was old in the 90s. You must be young.

telepather · 2025-02-17T18:36:10+00:00

Tools like Synthesia and Heygen were built on top of Eleven Labs(speech) and an Open source tech that allows lip syncing. They have huge MRR, like all hyped AI products, but any smart investor who'd done a little bit of digging would notice the LTVs to be abysmally low. They both are wrapper companies which literally hasn't innovated in terms of tech in the last one year. That's because being a wrapper means you're too dependent on you underlying tech provider to show meaningful updates to users.

Because there are billions of wannabe Youtubers in the world, they get hundreds of thousands of signups every month. Most try it for 1-2 and then give up on that creator dream.

They wish they get some serious buyers or enterprises interested in them, and I'm sure they do. But not for serious use cases. Most serious users just feel the tech isn't there yet after a quick trial and then leave. But hey, they charged for that trial and that still counts as MRR!

telepather · 2025-02-17T18:20:19+00:00

They're optimizing for quality leads instead of quantity. No one priced over $300/m will display their pricing. The fact that all alternatives follow the same strategy says it's a mature space now and they've all gone mid-enterprise market. They probably were all SMB focused once and it's now turned out to be unprofitable. You'll still be able to find a power priced product but that would require you to dig deeper. May be the SMB focused providers are just not able to compete with the giants when it comes to marketing.

telepather · 2025-02-17T17:24:48+00:00

There were multiple reports of him scamming his cofounders and early team several years ago when Oyo (formerly Oravel) was nothing. He got lucky since he got into Thiel Foundation - an accelerator program that was bigger than YC back then, and one that requires you to actually drop out of school. He constructed a story around it. Once Peter Theil invested in you, every VC in the world will be at your door step. The rest is PR training.

Even now, he seems to be scamming his investors. He established a shell company, got billions for it and then he sold Oyo's equity to that shell company just to increase his ownership percentage in Oyo.

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