Amit

Indian companies will never cease to amaze me with their open grift in difficult times. Kent has raised the price of their Emerald brand induction cooktop from 2100 to 2800 to 3600 in the span of two days on Amazon. Just because demand is so high. Aapda mein avsar.

The Ghosts We Inherit: India's 'New Money' Story My mother reuses tea leaves until the water runs clear. My friend's father keeps a wooden box in his closet, with carefully folded bills arranged by denomination. Another's maintains a small diary tracking every household expense down to the last rupee. These aren't quirks – they're battle scars from a generation that survived on less. We are their children. We carry their financial trauma in our wallets, even as we tap them against sleek payment terminals at craft coffee shops.

Indian youth will greatly benefit if the number of UPSC IAS attempts are limited to just 2. It's counterintuitive, but a larger # of attempts is a national waste.

Ek toh for this UPSC exam half the country's youth in it's prime age spends time mugging up random facts. Then the outcome of the process is 1. most people going back to their old career paths, losing few years 2. tiny fraction getting through only to turn into corrupt bureaucrats 3. even tinier fraction of that trying to remain honest and being transferred every year 4. steady stream of suicides from that pool of students Then some media company comes and "nostalgia-fies" this and mints money turning this into a template and churning out 5 different TV series out of it, which mostly is being watched by the same people who should probably not be watching TV but studying for the said exams 🤡