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@ICICIBank_Care Still haven't heard back

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Hi I'm not getting support on my home loan account. I have been trying to get in touch with your team for the past week to no avail. Please have it looked into urgently or I'll move it to other bank. @ICICIBank_Care

First they warned citizens not to “spread panic.” Then a beam collapsed and someone died. When public authorities fear tweets more than structural cracks, the system is broken and corrupt to the core. A usual post announcing compensation will be made and all will be forgotten. Vishwaguru for a reason. @CMOMaharashtra @MumbaiPolice @MahaCyber1 @DrSanMukherjee

@rentomojo guys you are testing my patience here. Ordered a set of 3 sofa items. Paid fully. You guys delivered 2 of them and you haven’t been able to deliver the third item for past 2 weeks now. And now you are telling me I will have to pay early closure penalty because of your incompetence in not being able to deliver promised items after taking the money?

@WeekendInvestng This may not be true. Sequential IDs or UTR are difficult to implement in such large systems and essentially violates CAP theorem (or rather approves it). Happy to be proven wrong.

The UPI transactions have a serial number that is continuous for all UPI transactions PAN India ( I think) I just did 2 transactions with a gap of 100 seconds apart, and 165000 transactions were done in that period as per the transaction number. 1650 transactions per second The scale is unimaginable actually.

Does UPI support a sequential UTR? 1650 txn/sec (Linkedin mentions 10K) with systems agreeing on sequence would be difficult, and a global counter would bottleneck. Distributed ids fit better, but can't guarantee order. Can someone weigh in?

Reaching out to see if someone can help here. I had lodged an online complaint with Insurance Ombudsman on 14 sep. But the application has not moved a single step. What are the ways to connect with ombudsman office to follow up? The website isn't helpful @COmbudsmen @BeshakIN

@roshanasingh6 Can we have a further drill down on funds utilisation/spends project wise and have each project id available to public for feedback on quality of work done? Or is this project oss, happy to contribute

We have thousands of RTI replies revealing how MLA Local Area Development funds are actually spent and sometimes wasted. Soon, every project, every rupee, every claim will be open for all to see on EmpoweredIndian.in

@bigbasket_com Hi. Waiting

@Byte4ge_ @Byte4ge_ We apologise for the amount of trouble you have faced with the order. We would like to sort this out for you at the earliest.

@bigbasket_com order # EXN-1818332563-20251102 My account was debited twice and the order was converted to cash on delivery citing payment failure. Please help!

And Mumbai starts to feel justifiable/reasonable once you start living in Gurgaon

I was high on India’s growth story. But not anymore. For years, I thought we were on the right path, it’s only that we’re a poor country (thanks to colonisation) but as our income grows everything will change. And that’s going to happen soon. We’ll have great infrastructure, cleaner roads, efficient systems and whatnot. But lately I’ve been feeling it’s just a story being fed to us, the change isn’t actually coming. The slow growth that we see, that’s not going to change anytime soon- in fact, it might get worse. Simply because corruption is too ingrained in the system and scarcity mindset supersedes our desire to do better for each other. Every single time. It’s not our fault. Good behaviour starts at the top. When our politicians and their rallies leave roads dirty, I can’t expect an average Indian to take the ‘Clean India Mission’ seriously. It pinches me when I pay tax because I know it’s not just being used to build better infrastructure, it’s going to someone’s pocket too. I would love to pay more tax, but all I ask for is more transparency into where it’s being used. Every time I interact with a govt institution, I am left in awe of how inefficient and opaque the processes are. It’s a nightmare to get things done if you have good ethics. ‘Additional fee’ is almost always expected to move anything. And there's unnecessary focus on language that also sometimes dictates how you're treated. Just recently, my neighbour lost their only son (22 yrs old) to a pothole accident, within 6 hours that particular pothole was covered, while all others around it weren’t. And within weeks, that one pothole is also back to the same condition. Imagine how they must feel. We talk about taking care of our citizens- it’s almost a JOKE. My friends keep telling me govt is focussing on bigger problems right now, but I have never really understood what those are. If you know the answer- please educate me. With AI and humanoids taking over in the next decade or so, we’re pretty much doomed. We will end up with millions of jobless Indians and I don’t expect the govt to do anything about it. Maybe they’ll prevent humanoids from becoming a reality in India the same way they don’t want self-driving cars. The only way I see us doing better is if entrepreneurs take charge of building better systems, funding research, improving healthcare and driving more innovation against all odds. All around me, young ambitious Indians are driving real change, and I am so freakin proud of our entrepreneurs. We need to celebrate them more for trying, for failing. For privileged Indians like me, we live in a bubble of our mostly privatised world and that’s nice because 80% of our time is spent at home/office. So I am not complaining about my life, this is not a rant. I truly want my country to do better, and I don’t see it happening rn. I'd love to know where I'm wrong. Until then, I hope India is thriving in some other universe, because I really believe she can.

@Nithin0dha Curious, where and how are you guys using ffmpeg in your tech stack?

By the way, the credit for the support goes to K (Kailash) and our tech team. I am just the guy who posts about all the FOSS stuff they do 😬 I'm only good at Excel, and that is an overstatement. 😬

A lot of people ask why so many Indians run abroad the first chance they get? Why some states have temples dedicated to foreign country visas? Why some people are so desperate to get away that they even risk death by drowning or freezing to illegally enter other countries? Why are Indians so desperate to immigrate? Because in the countries these people usually move to, they value life. They value people. They value you. Unfortunately, that particular concept is virtually unheard of in India. Here, lives are as important as money is to a sacrificial lamb. Because In India: The government doesn’t give a damn about you. The judiciary thinks you don’t even exist. People, in general, treat others like a piece of crap. And if you treat someone nicely, chances are they’ll backstab you at the first opportunity. Most of us have our souls and self-confidence destroyed, respawned, and then destroyed again on a daily basis. We get treated worse than a car in a Rohit Shetty movie. So why would anyone stay? In India A two-bit clerk in an obscure municipal department can make your life miserable. Any random ticket giver or clerk can abuse you. A part-time watchman outside a private building treats you like a criminal. Store workers treat you like a thief. Everyone treats you like a shirker. Your life is essentially a never-ending hurdles race that lasts for 70 years, if you make it that far that is. So why would anyone stay? In India You risk your life every single time you step out of the house. You can die when an illegal concrete slab, which was permitted by a corrupt babu, falls on you. You can drown in a sewage tunnel because some random bozo has stolen the manhole cover. You can burn to death in an illegally modified bus that the corrupt RTO has permitted to operate. You can be run over by a drunken idiot who’s been given a license by that same RTO. You can be crushed to death in a stampede caused by the incompetence of the police, who can’t handle a crowd. You can die after consuming poison labelled as medicine because the babu who was supposed to prevent it took a bribe and looked the other way. You can fall to death from a train because the railway authorities, after taking lakhs of crores in the name of safety, have blown it all away on "other things". At any point in time, you can get impaled, burned to death, crushed, fall off a cliff, or be killed by a guy with a sword, sometimes all of the above. Here, life is like the game Prince of Persia, except, unlike in the game, you don’t get three lives, nor can you restart. Once you are dead, you are dead. So why would anyone stay? And then comes the worst part. In India, Nobody is held accountable. Nobody faces consequences. Nobody gets punished. There’s nobody you can complain to — and where you miraculously can, nobody listens. People whose incompetence caused your death get promoted. Some even run important departments that enable them to kill more people. Every second of your life here is a herculean effort against the system, the process and the people. However, Hercules had 12 labours in total. In India, you face 12 labours everyday So why would anyone stay? Therefore, when someone actually gets a chance to get out, it shouldn’t be a surprise that they take it with both hands. P.S.: In the last six months, 22 children died because of fake medicine, 40 people were burned to death in illegally modified buses and 51 people died in stampedes. Those were 113 easily preventable deaths. Deaths mind you. DEATHS 113 innocent Indian citizens lost their lives. What happened after that? How many government officials were arrested? How many were punished? How many were sacked? What were the actions taken? How quickly we forgot everyone? The answers to these questions will tell you why many people don’t want to stay in India anymore.

@harshlapsia @ndtv @virsanghvi So you’re telling me Superintendents work in vaccum and they are not in control of the customs department? This is like saying a petty hawaldar at a checkpoint works independently and his seniors are not aware of his actions.

Hello @ndtv , @virsanghvi ji While talking about Indian Customs, it is important if NDTV and you can make the differentiation between the Superintendents Posted at International Arrivals, and the officers who are involved in EXIM support across Air, Sea and Land Customs Stations. The experiences by citizens who face harassment is truly unfortunate and should never be the case, however - in order to address the issue appropriately, and for the message to reach correctly - it is important to specify the issue in the manner that it is - specific to the “Superintendent of Customs at International Arrivals” - at least as enumerated by Vir ji. Further, references may be carefully drawn - considering the most recent case of the gentleman from Suprans arriving at Delhi - seems questionable in totality. Even in the case of #Wintrackinc - while @FinMinIndia has taken cognisance, it must not be untold - that the fault began with the Importer who was involved in misdeclaration, along with other violations. As a population, we must all focus on compliance, better awareness and avoid trying to game the system. That will hold us in better stead, even in the face of a potentially challenging situation during International Arrivals. Considering the upward path NDTV is on, this is my request that a balanced view is taken on this topic - without the typical “collective bashing” which has seem to become the norm on Social Media. Hoping @ShivAroor @rahulkanwal and team will look into this ! Best Wishes to all at NDTV and Good Day! @cbic_india

Opinion | Indians Are Growing Absolutely Sick Of Customs Harassment - But Who Cares? @virsanghvi decodes

Value of an ordinary citizen in India. I hope to see an uprising, something similar to Cuban Revolution, in my lifetime to throw away these leeches, politicians and babus, down the drain. Until then, enjoy being the 4th largest economy!

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I have two phone numbers. One of them is only for friends, relatives while the other is for any online service that needs a phone number, and the contrast between their whatsapp is day and night. My personal number has chats and groups that I need, while the other is only filled with spams and chats from businesses.

WhatApp is full of spam now! I wish they let me pay a premium subscription but never allow another marketing message. It seems we've begun to see the slow decay of what once was beautiful minimal messaging platform.

Lol. This is the state of Indian bureaucracy, this guy was responsible for policy making for quite some time. He thinks everyone lives in enclaved residences with manicured gardens. People who have experienced quality of life outside of India would never ever return to India for "innovations"

@flipkartsupport @Flipkart What's this dark pattern where you want the exact location when the complete address including the zip and phone number is already available on the order?