Cherian Biju

@Sameer_vyapari Happy Birthday Sameer Bhai!!

It’s my Birthday today … Early morning I received this message from ISKON with a birthday wish and it made me feel happy :) Early 30s hit different. I will be working a whole day today and spending it like a normal day. Hare Krishna ✨

@TaylorHoliday Yeah but how do you test creative if you don't have a campaign named "testing"?????

If the @MyFrido team were in America they’d be worth $1B + by now. India eCom is just hard mode.

@saybwala and Tally still doesn't natively run on Macs.

Yes. There is a serious risk of Microsoft Windows losing the entire sub ₹1 lakh market for laptops now. And people who enter the Apple ecosystem - stay in it.

@saybwala You know it's a good thayirsadam when it makes you sleep like a log for 3 hours straight.

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@Pivot2Centre India is truly an enigma Every street has beggers scraping for even a single rupee but industries somehow can't find labour to work at ₹300 per day Either China is too poor or Indians are really rich x.com/i/status/20301…

They rebranded yogic meditation as metacognition

Why is there no Shopify-like ERP yet?

@saybwala Refrens? Have heard good things about them

India needs a modern alternative to Tally. Hope some VC funds that because they also need good MIS. And don't @ me that HOHO exists 🙄

europeans prepared to respond… on monday

Malayalam media will report on sensationalist gender war moth light incidents like these while completely ignoring the fact that the state had the 2nd lowest GSDP growth rate in the country over the last ten years.

Open Letter to Meta India: Technical Verification Glitch Freezing ₹2 Cr+ Annual Ad Spend I am a verified Meta advertiser currently contributing currently between ₹15-18 Lakhs [USD 18K+] every month [₹2 Cr+/ USD 220K annually] to the Meta ecosystem in India. My business, [Patch of Green Private Limited], is currently facing a critical, documented technical failure in Meta’s automated identity verification system. The Issue: During a routine manual ad refresh, Meta’s security AI flagged "suspicious activity." While I immediately complied with the requested video selfie, the automated system failed to match the selfie because my legacy profile lacked a profile picture and my personal FB account [61559129223590] was banned with a vague boilerplate announcement stating “violating community guidelines” and was informed that no further review would be possible. I cannot access my ads account, whose active campaigns are currently spending ₹65K/ day [Annually - ₹ 2.4 Cr/ USD 265K], duly being debited from my 4 listed/ active payment methods. I cannot modify/ monitor/ turn off/ these campaigns. Meta is currently in a state of unjust enrichment, as it continues to debit my accounts for automated ad delivery while simultaneously depriving me of the contractually-obligated tools to manage, pause, or mitigate that spend I set up the FB profile not as a social network account, but only to access Meta Business Services and if any of the 7,346 daily notifications I receive mentioned this as a critical requirement, I would’ve complied post-haste. I subsequently managed to reach a human after paying a monthly subscription of ₹4.2K towards Meta Verified. It’s been over 24 hours and case ID 9429628190359 remains in prolonged abeyance, with no feedback/ resolution. I managed to get connected with another local/ Indian team of Meta Support who informed me of a resolution “as soon as possible” at 1755 hrs yesterday [25th Feb] Case ID - 1603215654228205. I haven’t heard back from them either. Despite duly complying and submitting every document under the sun - Aadhar/ Passport/ GST/ PAN/ MCA/ CIN/ License/ Starbucks/ Maharaja Miles/ Ration Card/ Apartment RWA/ Car Parking Sticker et al, In addition to this, creatives with my face on it have been viewed over 20M times on your platforms. The ad account is only accessed from my personal devices on familiar networks. The automated support loop has "permanently" restricted my identity without a human ever matching my face to the provided ID. I refuse to wait hopelessly while I watch a string of debits hitting my accounts - I’m hopeful of a resolution and don’t want to hinder future ad delivery, so I haven’t asked my banks to stop the payments - yet. We are a legitimate Indian D2C brand. We are in fact the largest single-brand online pet store in the country and are now exclusively available only from our website - we’ve in fact unilaterally advocated to peers to decrease dependency on marketplaces & other channels and to focus more investments towards their own channels - of which Meta is the primary beneficiary. We are not bots or bad actors. We are partners in Meta’s India growth story, yet we are being locked out by a technical glitch that a 30-second human review would resolve. We hope this somehow gets your attention and we receive a fair hearing from a sentient carbon based life form. To others reading - I have emailed the Grievance redressal officer for Meta India - which promptly received a boilerplate auto-reply directing me to file another complaint - where the only option is to report a post/ account. I also filed a complaint with the Grievance Appellate Committee. In addition to these options, my lawyers have advised remedies under the following options - Consumer Protection Act, 2019: Unfair Trade Practices By continuing to debit ₹65,000 daily while simultaneously revoking the tools required to manage that spend, Meta is engaging in Unfair Trade Practices and Deficiency of Service. My lawyers are preparing a complaint to the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) to halt these unauthorized debits and seek compensation for "Unjust Enrichment”. Commercial Suit for Damages & Loss of Profit Under Section 73 of the Indian Contract Act, I am entitled to compensatory damages for the financial loss suffered due to this breach of contractual access. Given the documented daily spend and 20M+ creative views, we are quantifying the total "Loss of Profit" and "Goodwill Damage" for a formal suit in the Commercial Court. High Court Writ Petition (Article 226) If regulatory channels fail to provide a human audit within 48 hours, we will move the High Court via a Writ Petition. Precedents (e.g., Delhi High Court) have increasingly held that major platforms performing "public functions" cannot arbitrarily deprive a legitimate business of its primary infrastructure without due process. If you have anymore suggestions, I’m all ears. If you are an agency partner with direct Meta support access, please comment 'Connect' below. We are ready to migrate our ₹2Cr+ & growing annual spend immediately. If you’ve seen this, please don’t just scroll past - amplifying this with a reaction will have me most obliged - please do so for good karma :)

@HR_starryeyes Congrats Harini and Team Basil! Best bento boxes I have used :)

We raised to raise the bar on kids essentials :) Building out basil to be a truly loved kids-first design led brand!

you have no idea how expensive cheap employees and agencies are

This is how Indian spirituality and Yoga is relevant to the world. India is the only nation to have developed tools to transform how you experience life. The problem is these tools are experiential and subjective in nature, just like our inner atmosphere. Hard to prove with material sciences on how and why it works, but once you experience, it becomes your truth.

Hey Senthil, it's not the place people get addicted to, it's the practices. I have been an Isha Meditator for past 6 years. I have never visited the Ashram even once. Same for many people I know. Now, I think Yoga, breath work and meditation from any authentic source can do the same to people. Isha is not compulsory, although they are amazing at transmitting the same.

The first nd last time I went to Isha is on 2014. The atmosphere was good but it didn't feel natural and real. Everything is artificial. Once ppl go there, ppl get addicted to the place. I think they are using some kind of black magic / spell to hypnotize everyone who goes there.

Major offence taken. People with broken English and heavy accents run boardrooms across Europe. Nobody humiliates them for it. They make excellent points and do outstanding work. So maybe sit down and unpack why you think language elitism equals intelligence. Kya yaar Priya 🤦‍♀️

I have been 8 years into entrepreneurship and I have never attended any event cos they never add any value in India.