Subramanya GT

During the East India Company era, India exported raw materials and imported finished textiles. Today, the same trap can repeat with talent, data, chips and AI. Export labour. Export data. Import models. Import platforms. Real value sits in IP, ownership and control of the full stack. #aatmaNirbharBharat

@ManeeManjunath Mitra Academy, off Bannerghatta Road. Decent one with ICSE

Growing up in Bangalore, most good schools were ICSE. Other than NPS and the KVs, CBSE schools weren’t so popular. Cut to now and CBSE schools seem to rule the roost. What happened to the ICSE schools? Are there still any good ones around?

How @GBA_office has deprived us of basic infrastructure: Roads dug up for piping work, 3 months of dust and now tar patchwork 📍Vidyapeeta, Srinivasnagar Ward: 97 and 98 @GBAChiefComm @ICCCBengaluru @DKShivakumar @Tejasvi_Surya @ChristinMP_ @TOIBengaluru @tv9kannada

🇮🇳 Factory workers in India are wearing head-mounted cameras so AI can watch exactly how humans do physical work. Every hand movement, every adjustment, every shortcut. The workers are training their own replacements in real time, on the job, getting paid to do it. The most honest description of this is also the most uncomfortable one. Source: longliveai on IG

Bengaluru package: Study at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, survive Bannerghatta Road, and heal at Jayadeva Hospital People regularly pass through this stretch of road, which begins near Jayadeva Hospital and continues up to the main road entrance. Unfortunately, the entire stretch is riddled with multiple potholes, making daily commuting extremely difficult and unsafe.Because of this poor road condition, bike riders are the worst affected. Their vehicle suspensions are getting severely damaged, and constant jerks are taking a toll on their backs and overall health. It genuinely feels like citizens are risking both their vehicles and their physical well-being just to travel a short distance. Is this what we call infrastructure development? A road that looks like it is competing with moon craters? It raises serious concerns about accountability and governance. What exactly are the authorities doing? Where is the government when such basic civic issues remain unresolved for so long? This particular stretch near IIMB Metro Station has become a daily struggle for commuters. Immediate attention and proper road maintenance are not just necessary they are long overdue. #bangalore #bengaluru #iimb #bangaloreroad @GBA_office @GBAChiefComm @bbmpcommr @BlrCityPolice @blrcitytraffic @CPBlr @Jointcptraffic @alokkumar6994 @DgpKarnataka @KarnatakaCops @Lolita_TNIE @ChristinMP_

Have no words about the road in front of India's most prestigious institute - The IIM-Bengaluru. You will never find such things around Vidhan Soudha, and Sadashivnagara (carefully guarded) because their wives and kids are healthier enough to go watch IPL with free tickets.

@bhatnaturally 13-15 lakhs appr in Blore

What’s a practical budget for interiors and furnishings for 3BHK of 2000 sq ft? Premium but not luxe.

@Rahul_J_Mathur Congratulations 🎉

On this auspicious day of Holi - I am starting a new chapter by moving into a new home in Indiranagar. I had my eyes on the property since moving to BLR in April 2024 - God is kind - came across the vacancy in December 2025 during an evening walk & closed paperwork in a few hours. Did a Ghar Pravesh puja per request from my grandmother (streamed it for her) 🪔 Happy Holi 🙏

What use is tech talent without civic sense? Can’t we use technology to keep our city clean, to discipline our traffic and improve infrastructure? If China can use robots to collect garbage, clean sewers n control traffic offenders, why can’t we? Come on techies rise to the challenge - waste to wealth n to a clean and green city

@Pradeepkannanj Where is it in Blore

Here's how much it costed us to open our first Falooda Shop outlet in Bengaluru: - Rental deposit: ₹ 2,40,000/- - Licenses & registrations: ₹ 60,000/- - Equipment (basic / used): ₹ 2,00,000/- - Furniture & interiors: ₹ 10,00,000/- - Initial raw material + Packaging : ₹ 3,20,000/- - Staff (4 people, first month): ₹ 80,000/- - Branding & launch: ₹ 1,00,000/- - Working capital buffer: ₹ 3 L (Planned) but maintained only 2 L Total = ₹22,00,000 You don't need fancy interiors. You need repeat customers.

A 1 crore earning techie's life has no value in Bengaluru. And if you're not earning that much? Your life has even less. My sister and her friend were driving home in my car. They stopped at a red light - the logical thing anyone does. A drunk driver in a mini-truck didn't feel the need to stop. He slammed into them instead. I know he was drunk. She knows it. The highway police knows it. The truck owner knows it. No arrest was made. The truck driver never showed up at the station. The owner never showed up. Nobody cared. My sister and her friend - both injured, both terrified - kept going back to the station, back to the accident site, explaining what happened over and over, just trying to get a report filed. I was in the US. All I could do was talk to them on calls, helpless. Here's what the police told them: "If nobody died, an FIR doesn't make sense." "Just claim first party insurance." "Third party insurance doesn't pay much anyway." And then, quietly, one officer pulled them aside and told the truth: "These truck mafia bribe us. Nothing will happen." Nothing happened. The truck was KA04 AE6550. The police themselves said if they'd been on a two-wheeler, both would be dead. We had 100% insurance from Reliance. Claim rejected. Reason? "Misrepresentation of facts." These two, even while injured, kept showing up to represent the facts. Reliance still found a way to deny them. The law says if someone hits you from behind, the person behind is at fault. It was a red light. How does a truck driver not see that? Trust me, this isn't about money. I'll manage the repairs and the medical bills. I have savings. And I have a decent credit score; I'll take a personal loan if I have to. That's not the point. The point is this: my sister is afraid now. Afraid that anything can happen to her at any moment and there's no one - no system, no law, no institution - that will protect her. But how do I tell her the world is supposed to be fair? How do I tell her to trust the system? How do I explain that the drunk driver walks free, the truck owner was never questioned, and the police pocketed their bribe and closed the file? I can't say to any official, "What if this was your daughter? Your sister?" Because their daughters travel in cars with security escorts. They will never know what it feels like to be ordinary and unprotected. So I'm saying it to you, an ordinary reader. You're on the road. You stop at a red light. A drunk driver in a truck rear-ends your car. Your loved one is inside, terrified. And then you learn: there is no recourse. None. The truck owner pays off the cops. The insurance company rejects your claim. The system shrugs. This is Bengaluru in 2025. This is India in 2025. This is what your life is worth here. One more thing. The friend in the car? He's one of the smartest people I know. close to top 100 rank in IIT-JEE. AI engineer and one of the biggest data companies. At 23, he is valuable to be paid more annually than the cost of five such trucks, that too, in India. He's patriotic. He pays his taxes. He stays in India even though he constantly gets offers to move to the US. This is the confidence our system gives to someone who is clearly an asset to this country. All this unfairness - for a drunk truck driver. @blrcitytraffic @BlrCityPolice - tell me. I've always avoided raising fingers publicly. But what else can I do?

100% agree with India's Economic Survey that we need age limits on social media now. It's frying kids' brains, decreasing productivity and focus, and will result in a generation of children that are chronically online and incapable of real-world hard work. This is not how we build Viksit Bharat. In fact, we should ban it outright in schools and colleges.

MRPL in Mangaluru generates a revenue of ₹1.25 lakh crore and employs around 2,200 people. Its annual salary bill is estimated at roughly ₹700 crore. In comparison, the IT industry in the Mangaluru region has a turnover of about ₹4,500 crore, with an estimated salary bill of ₹1,800 crore. Now imagine this. Through the Silicon Beach of India program, the Mangaluru region aspires to employ 200,000 IT professionals and generate nearly $5 billion in revenue over the next 10 years. When this vision is realized, the region will create at least ₹18,000 crore of annual disposable income, triggering a massive economic stimulus. It gave me goosebumps hearing the vision behind the Silicon Beach Program from @rohithbhat when we spoke to him on @mundhebanni. This is the story of a man who not only built something big from a small town, but is now working to build an entire ecosystem for the region. A truly noble way of giving back to the society that shaped him. Hear the full story here. youtu.be/p_MucJvDy3Q?si…

People spending the night in their cars in Manali this is Manali as of this morning. What’s going on? Earlier, people would stay home or avoid travelling during such extreme weather. Now, everyone wants to be “part of it,” completely ignoring the risks and even potential damage to their cars. This is pure FOMO syndrome in India. All because of reels and social media nothing else. The “fear of missing out” or “we were there” mindset is pushing people to take unnecessary risks, forgetting basic safety and common sense. Honestly, if India bans instagram reels, at least 50% of this crowd will vanish!

@Arun_vish And medical expenses too have skyrocketed

School fees and expensive real estate is stopping millennials from having more than one kid. The government can easily solve this problem by bringing in regulations to cap school fees & capping real estate prices by curbing black money. But instead, the govt finds ways to tax you more.

@Wegiveyouhealt1 💯

After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal. What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don’t correct them harshly. Don’t rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment, quietly wrapped as love.

A big area of concern for NDA govt is inability to stop Tax terrorism.Taxes dispute has gone up to Rs 28l cr.Promise to stop tax terrorism in 2014 not kept fully.Need direct intervention of PM ⁦@narendramodi⁩ ⁦⁦@PMOIndia⁩ ⁦@nsitharaman⁩ ⁦@FinMinIndia⁩

I'm starting a campaign to bring South Bangalore's parks to their glory and I need your support. For the uninitiated, until a month ago all BBMP parks were officially* supposed to be open from 5 am to 10 pm. Then, the newly formed Bengaluru South City Corporation changed the timings for parks under its jurisdiction to 5 am to 11 am and 4 pm to 8 pm. This is a disaster. Literally one step forward and two steps backwards. I am sick and tired of living in this city without having any say in how it functions. We cannot constantly be taken for granted. Why should you care even if you don't live in South Bangalore? If people don't speak out against this, it is only a matter of time that all corporations make moves to limit the timings again. This is what I'm going to do - Begin a letter campaign. Write a letter to two people: the GBA commissioner (@GBAChiefComm) and, the Bengaluru South commissioner. Let them know that there is demand. Until now, it is only the uncles who are a noisy minority and get the rules changed to their whims. But not anymore. We need people to speak up. 100s of letters to them is bound to get attention. I am sharing the letter that I'm sending below, along with guidance at the bottom of how you can join this letter campaign. -- To, SRI MAHESHWAR RAO, CHIEF COMMISSIONER - GBA Shri Ramesh K.N, IAS, Bengaluru South City Corporation Commissioner Subject - Park timings in South Bengaluru and the rest of the city Dear commissioners, Last month in December, the newly formed Bengaluru South Corporation reverted something that most residents loved. Public parks being open during the day until late evening. The timings, which were 5 am to 10 pm, were revised to 5 am to 11 am in the morning and 4 pm to 8 pm in the evenings. I have some questions for you, and some requests. In each of these situations, please tell me what must a citizen do. - Software engineer, works from 9 am to 6 pm. Gets back home at 7 pm. Gets done with housework at 8 pm. Needs a quiet stroll in the park. - Couple with young kids. Want to enjoy the amazing Bengaluru weather on a weekend with kids. It’s 11 am on a Sunday morning. Parks are closed. - Househelp. Works a morning shift till 11 am and afternoon shift from 2 pm. Stays 10 km away from work. Needs to wait 2 hours somewhere. Empty park opposite the apartments she works at is closed. - Office employee. Likes a post-lunch walk to help with thinking. 2 pm on a Wednesday, empty park opp. office. Can’t visit because it's closed. - Uber driver. Works an 8 am to 8 pm shift. Takes 30 minutes off during the afternoon. Wants some quiet time after lunch. Parks his car opposite a beautiful park and sits in the car. Can’t sit in the park. It’s closed. - College students. Going on a first date. Don’t have money. Beautiful park 100m from where they stay. But it’s 8 pm and they will have to meet at a cafe and spend ₹500 at a cafe instead. The examples above are real examples of real tax-paying citizens who face the brunt of not having open access to their open spaces, everyday. With the new park timings, the parks in South Bengaluru are open for a mere 6 hours during the morning and 4 hours in the evening. These are timings suited to just one section of society — uncles who like their morning walk at 6 am, and evening walks before 8 pm (which is their bed time). However, I want to bring to your notice that Bengaluru does not just comprise this bland set of people. Bengaluru comprises colourful people who have different aspirations, different work timings, different preferences, different things they want to do at the park. Some want to walk, others want to sit and talk. Some want to use the open gyms, others want their children to play on the slides. ALL of these are valid reasons to go to the park, and it is the city corporations’ duty to support each of these in public parks. With this in mind, here are my (our) requests to both GBA and the Bengaluru South Corporation. They’re quite simple. Go back to the previous park timings of 5 am to 10 pm. Change the timings on the boards of the parks, otherwise guards are enforcing incorrect timings. Make sure these timings apply to all GBA parks, including lake parks. (IMAGINE shutting access to a pathway at a lake at 10 am. Who is making these rules?) Please remember, that public spaces have to be public. Otherwise they are mere showpieces. In closing, I want to share perspectives that people have shared online. These reflect the pain of the public not being allowed into their own spaces. Thank you, -- What can you do to help? 1. This is the doc link to the letter above, you can use print and use the same docs.google.com/document/d/1sm… 2. Send two letters by Speed Post (will cost max ₹100-150 Addresses: SRI MAHESHWAR RAO, CHIEF COMMISSIONER - GBA Hudson Circle, N.R.Square, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560002, Shri Ramesh K.N, IAS, Bengaluru South City Corporation Commissioner SOUTH CITY CORPORATION 9th Main Road, 9th Cross Road, 2nd Stage, Jayanagar, Bengaluru – 560011 3. Ask your friends to do this, RT, spread the word. I'm also creating a WA group where we can post pics of the letters and ensure we have enough strength. Link in the reply. * implementation was lax, and until people complained the guards did not comply. But that's a different problem.

SHE WAS 35, LEAN, AND "HEALTHY." TODAY, SHE’S GONE. I am looking at the lab results of a woman who should have had 50 more years of life. Instead, I am looking at the reason her heart gave out this morning. She was the "success" story of our generation. 35 years old, BMI of 20 (thin by any standard), working a high-paying remote job for a US-based company. But behind the laptop screen, her body was screaming for help: The Routine: Working through the night, sleeping through the day. A completely shattered circadian rhythm. The Fuel: Living alone meant no home-cooked meals. She relied on food delivery apps 3x a day. Convenience was the priority. The Silence: She felt "fine" until the sudden, crushing chest pain 12 hours ago. Her blood was essentially turned into a thick, fatty sludge. Triglycerides: 561.10 (Dangerous level is > 500) Total Cholesterol: 300.50 VLDL: 112 (Over double the limit) LDL: 143 (very high) If you are: ❌ Living on delivery apps ❌ Flipping your sleep cycle for work ❌ Ignoring your labs because you "look fit" Please. This is your sign. Her life ended today because her internal health didn't match her external appearance. Your job won't miss you. Your family will.

A founder from Hubballi is building a very interesting B2B marketplace product for hospitality industry. It has good scope for becoming a scaled product. He is from a non-tech background and is looking for a CTO to join him as a co-founder. He is open to offer generous equity for the CTO role. If anyone is interested to talk to him, let me know.