SIFF - Save Indian Family Foundation

23 yo Priyanshu Srivastava committed suicide after getting fed up with his father’s constant taunts. >At the age of 5, his father stripped him naked and threw him out of the house for drinking juice from the fridge. >throughout his life, his father kept mentally torturing him with taunts, while he always tried his best to support them. >After 12th grade, he started giving tuition to help support the family, as they belonged to a middle class background. >He neither had any addictions nor was he in bad company, yet his father would insult him daily, morning and evening, and threaten to throw him out of the house. >He felt ashamed to go out in the neighborhood because he believed he had lost all respect due to his father’s behavior. >In the end, after writing a two page suicide note describing the mental torture he had faced since childhood, he took his own life in a court premises Last sentence of his suicide note - Please make sure my father does not touch my body, though I don’t want him to face any legal action. Such cruel, tyrannical fathers still exist in many Indian households today, who mentally torture their sons in the name of their well being. Yet society often sees them as the ones to be pitied

Well, since about 300 of you guys have followed me in the last couple days, allow me to re-introduce myself. I am a firmware engineer by profession, who works at an Industrial IoT company in Pune, India. I finished my college degree in 2025, and contrary to what some motherfuckers on this app might say, I am indeed 22 years of age. The TLDR - I am an electronics enthusiast who loves writing long-ass essays about whatever that goes on in my life. My tryst with electronics began when I was a kid who accidentally broke a TV remote. I got yelled at, of course - but I was fascinated by the small green rectangular component inside that kept blinking whenever I pressed the membrane keypad. I didn’t know it then, but I was staring at an IR LED stubbornly transmitting signals through a half-broken circuit. The second moment that stayed with me was during Diwali, when my father bought a series of LEDs with a speed controller. Setting it up introduced me, albeit unknowingly, to what I now understand was a PIC16-based controller with a potentiometer adjusting the PWM signal driving the LEDs. I didn’t have the vocabulary for it then. But I knew I was hooked. When it came time to fill in my college preferences, I didn’t enter a single option that didn’t say “Electronics.” That’s how certain I was about getting a degree that gets me a path into electronics for the rest of my life. In my first year, I joined the college robotics team. For the next three years, I didn’t go home during semester breaks. My days were chaotic yet strangely routine - I would unlock the lab at 8:30 AM and lock it close to midnight, get back to the hostel room, finish up with assignments near 2-3 AM, and get back up to do it all again the next morning. I researched everything under that roof: every IC, motor, chassis configuration, MCU, sensor, driver circuit - anything I could get my hands on. I was assigned the embedded software domain, though I initially wanted to move into hardware design. I stayed because I wanted to challenge myself. I still remember writing my first 8051 assembly program - a simple number addition routine - and getting it right on the first attempt. For 19-year-old me, it felt the same way fixing those Diwali LEDs did. That was the moment I knew I wanted to do this for life. Over the years, I worked with the 8051 (Assembly), PIC16, LPC2148, and eventually became the first person in the team in about five years to bring up an STM32 platform. I developed a bare-metal programmer’s model and peripheral drivers for the STM32F407 Discovery board - including RCC, GPIO, NVIC, EXTI, SPI, I2C, and USART. Later, I designed and implemented a PID-integrated navigation control system for a four-wheeled robotic chassis, which became my Major project. In my final year, I also began exploring embedded Linux using the BeagleBone Black - diving into Linux device drivers and understanding what it means to work with a constrained kernel space. Trying to implement every single thing that I have done with an STM-32 on a Linux based SoC has unlocked a whole new world for me - one that I am loving more every day. Professionally, I completed a year-long internship at a German automotive MNC during my final year, briefly worked as a Linux Kernel Developer at a startup in Surat, and currently work as a Firmware Developer at an Industrial IoT company in Pune. I also teach Embedded Systems and Microcontrollers to second- and third-year students at Pune Institute of Computer Technology over the weekends. I’ve worked with the Linux kernel, STM32 (Cortex-M7), TI C2000 DSPs, Qualcomm’s QCM2290 platform, and other embedded systems, and I share any insights that I pick up over my day to day life on this app.