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ever seen a delivery agent ride with a giant, unstable bag that looks like a moving billboard more than anything else? i couldn't unsee it. so i started digging. and designing. here's a 🧵 on why india’s gig workers deserve a better delivery bag and how i thought one from

Someone asked me recently if Indian schools ask kids to clean their classrooms as part of civic training. I said, no, but if we did, we'd be striking at the heart of the caste system. It should be done. We all need to take (& need to be seen taking) responsibility for cleaning up

#ChikkuBukkuFailYe Southern Railway DRM Chennai Whatever token work was done under conveniently vague 'disabled-friendly' banner is not of a decent standard. 2 years letters & meets on how to ensure Amrit Bharat stations INCLUDE and comply = #ABSSoluteWaste bit.ly/on-access-track

How not to become a knowledge superpower. Lock up your public funded scientific data from the public.

Today, I had gone to the ATM. After withdrawing my money, an elderly lady in a BBMP sweeper's uniform, gave me her card and requested me to withdraw 10,000 rupees from her account. I was initially hesitant, but then I realised she was genuine, and truly helpless. So I agreed

Chasing Govt for retrofits has to be the most frustrating task. All fancy project management tools available yet a simple tracking of fixes seems to be beyond Chennai Metro Rail . Surely this is not the lackadaisical attitude being taken in building a metro network, so please buck up!

Silence is not an option.

Found this really nice framework to design better junctions step by step 👇 projectintersect.framer.website NHAI Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

India has a strange issue. If you go by pure numbers, we have serious undersupply of doctors. But a layered society of 1.4B people doesn't work that way. Almost 85-90% population can not buy healthcare privately beyond first contact consultation. They relay on govt

a few years ago i was travelling alone by train when i got a phone from my son & i told him abruptly i am busy & can't talk. I didn't want to draw attention to myself. My conversations with him though mainly in English are peppered with InshaAllah and MashaAllah. We with so

I saw someone saying that they thought scrolling was affecting their memory formation, because it teaches the brain to immediately discard what it just saw to situate itself in a new context, over and over again. Something to this I think

NDTV I recently had a patient in Emergency, a known case of schizophrenia and epilepsy; guess what, he returned with his symptoms only because the government supply of his specific medications was not available, and he couldn't purchase them from private This is extremely sad

Your experience of a 36°C day may not be the same as everyone's. The Hindu Data Team (Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Ramani, VM, Areena Arora and I) handed out Arduino Nano devices to 4 individuals to quanitify the difference in these experiences thehindu.com/infographics/2…

.Aadhaar why have you shut down Aadhaar Help Centre ? Your main handle doesn't seem to be responding to help requests. Currently OTPs are not being received to verify mobile number / download eAadhaar. Also Aadhaar site can't be used by blind citizens because of inaccessible CAPTCHA.

Started running at 89, signed by Adidas at 93, ran marathons till 100, led anti-drug campaigns till 114, was still going strong, until some imbecile ran him over in Jalandhar. What a shame for us as a country, where it’s all about tashan, rage, and reckless driving. Pic - ESPN.

Meet Meena—18 years as an Anganwadi worker. Her new job? Begging the #PoshanTracker app to recognise an already enrolled beneficiary. Dark skin? Fail. Weight gain? Fail. Poor lighting? Fail. "It’s just a food packet," she says, "but without a face match, they go hungry." (3/n)

The ludicrousness of trusting highly fallible and badly implemented tech over human beings.

Reading Rom Whitaker’s book and filled with envy/sadness for places that were once clean enough to swim in, green and teeming with wild life. There should be a term for this sadness- a longing for places you’ve lived in but never known when they were pristine and beautiful.