Avinash Bhat

@Malay4Product I beg to differ. Citizens are not the ones shying away from putting in place higher fines, neither are they the ones taking bribes and looking the other way at violations. While the blame is definitely to be laid at our door, the administration is equally if not more to blame.

This is going to be unpopular but the comparison is unfair and the blame is misplaced. Yes, our streets look worse. But the reason isn't just the municipality, MLA, or MP. The reason is us. Let me explain. Sri Lanka has a population of 2.2 crore. Thailand has 7 crore. Vietnam has 10 crore. Dubai has 35 lakh people. India has 145 crore. That's roughly 14 times Vietnam's entire population in just one of our metros. Now think about what that means for waste. Mumbai alone generates more garbage in a day than Sri Lanka's entire capital city does in a week. Delhi produces 12,000 tonnes of waste daily. Bangalore 5,000 tonnes. Even Indore, India's cleanest city for 7 years running, handles 1,200 tonnes a day. No municipality on earth can keep streets clean if its citizens treat the street as a dustbin. Think about where Indian garbage actually comes from. > The chai cup tossed on the road by the office-goer. > The biscuit wrapper thrown out of the moving car. > The paan masala spit on the wall by the well-dressed man. > The construction debris dumped on the empty plot by the contractor. > The household waste thrown out of the apartment window because "yahan toh sab karte hain." > The plastic bottle left at the picnic spot. > The diapers on the highway. > The flowers in the lake. > The wedding waste left for someone else to clean. Every single one of these is a citizen choice. Not a municipality choice. Not an MLA decision. Not a system failure. Compare with what happens in Singapore. Throwing a cigarette butt is a 1,000 SGD fine, roughly Rs 62,000. Throwing chewing gum is illegal entirely. Spitting in public is a 1,000 SGD fine. In Japan, school children are taught to clean their own classrooms. There are almost no public dustbins in Tokyo and yet the city is spotless because everyone carries their own trash home. In Switzerland, residents sort their garbage into 7 categories. Wrong sorting attracts fines that can hit 200 EUR. Compliance is nearly 100% because the citizens see it as their responsibility. In Dubai, a piece of trash on the floor is a 500 AED fine, roughly Rs 11,000. Spitting in public is 1,000 AED. Indians in Dubai don't litter Dubai. Same Indians in Delhi litter Delhi. Same person. Different behaviour. Why? Because the system catches them in Dubai. In India, it doesn't. But the deeper issue is that we don't even need the system to catch us. We just need to not litter in the first place. Indore became India's cleanest city not because their municipality is uniquely competent. It's because they spent 5 years building citizen behaviour. > Door-to-door garbage collection at fixed times. > Public shaming of litterers. > Heavy fines actually enforced. > Citizens trained to segregate. > Public ownership of the cleanliness mission. The municipality and citizens together transformed Indore. Other Indian cities that have shown similar progress when citizens engaged. Surat post-1994 plague (now a top 5 clean city). Mysuru. Visakhapatnam. Even Bhopal in patches. None of these are blessed with better politicians than Mumbai or Delhi. They just have a citizenry that decided to participate. The harder truth is that; > We blame the municipality for unswept streets while throwing our chai cup on them. > We blame MLAs for traffic chaos while refusing to follow lanes. > We blame the system for stray dogs while feeding them on the road without taking them home. > We blame politicians for unclean temples while throwing prasad wrappers at the entrance. You can change your MLA every 5 years. The garbage problem will still be there because the same citizens are still throwing the same trash on the same streets. Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam are clean because their citizens accept that public spaces are shared spaces. We treat their homes as sacred and the street as a landfill. The municipality can sweep 100 times a day. If we throw garbage 101 times, the street is dirty. It is 60% citizen behaviour. 30% civic infrastructure (dustbins, collection systems, sewage). Only 10% political leadership. Most of the "scam by municipality" rage is just our discomfort with looking in the mirror. Start with yourself. Carry your trash. Don't spit. Don't litter. Don't burn waste. Don't dump construction debris. Train your kids better than your parents trained you. Push your RWA to take cleanliness seriously. Support municipalities that fine and enforce. Pay the fine when you make a mistake. We are 145 crore people. No municipal sweeper can save us from ourselves. Less anger at politicians. More mirrors at home.

its 2026 and managers still think they can hold a resignation hostage 🤦‍♂️. Had to spend 30 min on call explaining to my sister that no manager can "reject" a resignation. Her immediate boss demanded she extend her lwd past 1 july just to get his "approval" lol. Your resignation is a formal notification and not an application that needs "approval." #ToxicManagement #WorkplaceRights

One nation. One leak.

So is India's average purchasing power. What a stupid thing to write.

🇮🇳 India’s Data Centers to Consume 358 Billion Liters of Water Just for Cooling by 2030.

'Decade of disasters', cockroaches, toffees, stray dogs, possible economic crash, Norwegian reporters, Italian melodies, fuel prices, green cards, Neet papers...looks like it's been a slow and positive news week. Good times.

The theatre of the privileged: can’t cook, can’t clean, can’t manage kids, can’t drive, can’t walk the dog… and now apparently can’t carry shopping bags either. The availability of cheap labor in India has created an entire class of adults without basic life skills.

Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!

One corporation became five, yet on the ground, the reality still looks exactly the same. Location: ORR in Kalyan Nagar @HennurBlr

My friend in US tells me in his Indian Group on WhatsApp, people are worried and asking each other what the new Policy about Green Card Holders mean. Most of them are Bhakts and they were very Vocal about CAA in India and wanted people to be deported to Pakistan and Bangladesh

When you say “gift” , does it mean citizens can travel free of cost ? Also, when you thank Modi for this gift, was the train built & deployed with his personal funds ? Define “gift” for us please.

Anil Karlekar booked a flat with Godrej Properties. When he cancelled — during a market recession — Godrej moved to forfeit 20% of the basic sale price as cancellation charges. That's what the contract said. That's what Godrej enforced. Karlekar went to the NCDRC. The National Commission said: forfeiting 20% of the BSP is unreasonable. It reduced the forfeiture to 10%. Godrej appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court partly allowed Godrej's appeal but upheld the core principle: a builder cannot forfeit more than 10% of the BSP as cancellation charges, regardless of what the contract says. The contract clause was unreasonable. Godrej's lawyers had drafted it. Godrej's sales team had gotten buyers to sign it. The Supreme Court said it didn't matter. One flat booking. One recession. One clause Godrej couldn't enforce. Save this — if your builder is forfeiting more than 10% of the basic sale price when you cancel a flat booking, that clause is unenforceable under Indian consumer law. The Supreme Court has said so. Godrej found out. So will others.

This is why data centers are coming to India because they are facing this push back back home. Here the people and the government don't care if the water is that color or poisonous as long as they can hate and discriminate against minorities.

Booked a Rapido. Driver called: “Bhaiya, extra dena hoga.” Booked an Uber: “Bhaiya, fare bahut kam hai.” Then why did you accept the ride? Booked an Ola: Driver confirmed, then cancelled after 5 minutes. The entire taxi aggregator system in India is a mess. There is not a single app that feels customer-centric. Half the cars are poorly maintained, drivers keep negotiating outside the app, and cancellations are normalised. Once someone travels to places like Dubai or parts of Southeast Asia, they realise how far behind our basic service standards are.

I find it so disappointing that even the most educated people see a politician being questioned by the member of the press as disrespectful and humiliating and then speak of democracy. He doesn't automatically deserve respect everywhere he goes. Just like Trump doesn't. Your actions decide whether people respect you or not. The PM's chair and office has been disrespected by the man himself on several ocassions. The office has been diminished by him internationally now that we, a country of 1.4 billion people take instructions from Trump and the man refuses to be accountable or empathetic one diaster after another. We are not a functioning democracy anymore, in case you missed that part.

New Guinness World Record for number of times the word ‘Sources’ is mentioned in a tweet.

In congress era, after massive scams, netas & babus would at least have shame to shut the fuck up & hide like rats. Now? After every scam, shameless scums come out to rub fresh salt into bleeding wounds & openly mock your intellect.

Kya se kya ho gaya....

The BJP government has been in power in Gujarat for over 30 years, and yet they will still find an excuse and blame someone else.