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In India, there's a tendency to look at in-laws with suspicion while victimizing the daughter-in-law. Twisha Sharma may have been in distress but her suicide doesn't automatically make the in-laws responsible and there's a lot more to the story. I heard the interview of the mother-in-law, sure she's no pot of honey but mostly everything she said seemed to be factual. Committing suicide is one's own choice, but everyone involved doesn't become a perpetuator or the cause of it by association. It's not the first time someone with mental health issues has taken their own life, without it being a case of abuse inflicted by others.

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Came across this heartwarming article about a couple's Pune house that has 18 rescue dogs! EIGHTEEN! And the apartment doesn't only house them but is designed and built keeping their needs in mind. (anti skid flooring, inbuilt kennels, feeding trays, etc.) To have a partner to build a life like this with <3 More power to this couple. Tag them if someone knows either of them. architecturaldigest.in/story/a-family…

#TIL that synthetic suede is called suedette. What a missed opportunity to call it Pseude

A month-long workation in Dharamkot with my dog - travel woes, homestay chaos, mountain yoga, ecstatic dances under a full moon, and the art of doing absolutely nothing at 2,000 metres. A long-form #Travelogue in the age of 30-sec reels and AI summaries > theboholiving.com/a-month-long-h…

Reminiscing a pre-AI world. (And no, this isn't written by AI. lol)

IDK how to share this without pissing some of my RW followers, but #Dhurandhar2 blew. The pro-govt shtick was way too on the nose, the jingoism and Pak bashing almost like the movie version of whatsapp fwds and too much unnecessary gore. Sorry but this wasn't good cinema.

Postcards from a regular day in life these days

Robodog who? This is a 100% desi, 100% made-in-India dog with 100% indigenous tech :p No Galgotias is claiming it as their own. #AdoptDontShop #ProudIndie

@AashaySachdeva @SarvamAI Are you there?

@desiboho @SarvamAI Let’s gooo!!!

Skipped the #AIImpactSummit despite registering weeks ago but major FOMO. Now watching @SarvamAI live launch what's essentially India's only LLM. Very impressive with the indic language voice responses and quick switching in real time

Ugh. Distance, traffic and weather. 90% of conversations in Bangalore revolve around those Either that or I'm hanging out with the wrong people

Watched Dhurandhar on Netflix finally, and after all the hype last 2 months, I can't exactly say it lived up to it Either I've seen too many movies or i don't get something that millions others do, but the movie wasn't unique to me in any sense.

I read through opinions of and @deepigoyal and @Sbikh on Gig workers. More interestingly, I read through @Nixxin view. It is very brave of him to express himself and take a stand on the matter. Zomato is a listed company. All its financials are out in the open. Despite paying ‘low salaries’, Quick commerce ‘Blinkit’ still lost 929 crores in 2025 and 156 crores in Q2 of 2026. It has a long journey ahead to become viable. They have to control costs while increasing margins. Else, the business model dies taking along with lacs of jobs. We are silent on the mature ITeS services companies like @Infosys, @Wipro , @TCS which earn billions in profits by employing IT coolies while freezing the pay at 30K a month (Source @Careers360) for about 20 years. And most of us have been partaking in this abuse. We should all know that most gig workers earn more than a fresher BTech earns even after spending 20 lacs and 4 years of their life. The ITeS companies multiplied their profits 10X, employee count 3X while salary bill stagnated. However, we rage and protest when a young loss making startup creates jobs and pays to market conditions. Because we see the gig workers every day. Transact every day. Engage every day. Face them yesterday. And we compare our privilege to their compulsions.That is possibly ‘guilt’ as Depinder says. We also forget how they responded during Covid. Restaurants expanded. Cloud kitchens were created. Millions of workers retained their jobs despite a lockdown as they saved the entire restaurant businesses from an imminent collapse. Companies like @Paytm by @vijayshekhar ensured that you don’t need to touch the currency physically while still transact buying your vegetables. Many studies have shown that when a demographically targeted group benefit raises the cost of an enterprise, employers respond by hiring less. When India expanded the maternity heave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks, research showed a 4.6% drop in newly married woman gaining employment. A similar thing happened when minimum wages were raised. The contractual employees is a direct consequence of regulating salaries. I always had a problem when those who got through the gate raise the cost so high that it closes the gates on others. Any forced increase will lead to reduced opportunities for others. We aren’t creating enough jobs. Government is failing the youth. The question before India is more jobs or more money for those who already have jobs? I have this pet peeve against all Entrepreneurs who were beneficiaries of public education system at low or no cost but deride it only wanting to kill it. The current EdTech companies offering STEM education thrive on deriding public education and created a business model on the vulnerability of India to find a decent office job. We are all a part of the charade. We all pass the buck when confronted with uneasy questions. Why don’t we voluntarily add a decent tip because our heart beats for gig workers? How many of us are willing to pay a higher delivery charge if it has to be real quick? How many pay the minimum wages to their domestic workers? How many pay overtime to their drivers? Personally, I am against 10 minute delivery. No one dies if an order is delivered in 20 minutes. The quick commerce that monetises the urge and urgency of fickle and shallow people must stop. Charge a premium. Increase delivery charges. Offer zero discounts if it is immediate. Make people pay. But at the same time, we need to look inward. Our urgency. We need to strike a balance between the companies, the business model, the gig workers and what we as consumers are willing to pay. Stop confusing the market cap of Zomato with its profits! If the business isn’t profitable, everything evaporates. Let the business models succeed, mature and we can have a better debate about job creation vs worker exploitation. For now, ask Infosys, TCS, Wipro etc, as to why the fresher salary is stuck at 3.5 lacs for 20 years..

Oil is to the US what spices were to the brits. #NeoNeoColoniasm #Venezuela

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while. For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt. The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale. Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general. This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less. We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal. Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”). And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility. Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income. And then what happens? The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated. The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door. Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

Adopt an Indie. Not because they are helpless… But because they are incredible. Indie dogs are intelligent, loyal, strong, low-maintenance, and beautifully adaptable to our climate. They don’t fall sick easily, they bond deeply, and they give you a kind of raw, pure love that money can’t buy. Yet, these very souls suffer the most. They spend their lives on the streets battling hunger, cruelty, heat, rain, infections, accidents, and neglect. They survive on scraps, sleep on cold ground, and still wag their tails at every bit of kindness. Their resilience is extraordinary… but their pain is real. There is no greater compassion than giving a home to a dog who has known nothing but struggle. When you adopt an Indie, you don’t just save a life you change their world forever. And in return, they change yours in ways you never imagined. Choose love. Choose compassion. Choose an Indie. #AdoptDontShop

But on the bright side, if you feel you've had a shit year, remember it could've been worse. You could've been dancing at Birch Goa or on the Ahmedabad Air India plane

So what's the big deal if her brother identifies as her husband