Fehmi Mohammed
79 posts
Some people, jokingly perhaps, say, "Zerodha is a content company." But this isn't something we are doing now. We've been sharing everything we know about finance, markets, and investing since day 1 of Zerodha in text form—even before "content" was a thing. In fact, Z-Connect is one of the oldest finance blogs in India. It's just that now we are publishing a lot more video content across @ZerodhaVarsity, @zerodhamarkets, @zerodha, @Rainmatterin, Zero1 and there's @nikhilkamathcio's WTF and @kmr_dilip's The Other Side as well. @PrateekLearnapp, @HansiMehrotra, and many others have been instrumental in helping us create all this. Given that we are sharing all this, people think we just started creating content, but that isn't the case. It's just that we went from text to video. The North Star with all that we share has always been the same: share useful things without any expectation. Check the post in the comments for an update on all our educational content initiatives.
It just took one bad rainy season for Bengaluru to face a massive water shortage crisis. Given that extreme weather conditions will only become more common, this probably won't be the last time we face this crisis. I learned recently that wastewater could be part of the solution. Bengaluru's total freshwater demand is ~2632 (million litres a day) MLD, and it generates ~2000 MLD of wastewater. Of this, centralized sewage treatment plants treat ~1,300 MLD, and this water is used for agricultural purposes. About 3,500 apartments and commercial establishments have decentralized sewage treatment plants (STPs) and waste ~80% of their excess STP water. This STP water is low quality and mostly unusable beyond flushing and gardening. If this excess STP water can be converted to high-quality water, about 450–500 MLD of water demand could be met by decentralized treatment plans. @BosonWhitewater is one startup we met that is trying to solve the problem of converting STP water to potable water.
1/2 Pak HighCourt strikes down the same colonial-era sedition law that the BJP govt in India is so reluctant to amend: indianexpress.com/article/explai…
Sunita Sonawane, 48, from Nashik is the head of her family. When her husband died in 2015, she took charge of the family’s loss making 15-acre farm and turned it around. She now owns 20 acres, exports grapes to Europe, and two of her three children are pursuing PhDs. #WomensDay
Some news on the professional front! Thrilled to introduce The Plate @ThePlateIndia, a new digital media platform focussed on food and agriculture Aarthi Ramachandran @homernods, Fehmi Mohammed @fm2112 and I have co-founded. A🧵
