Disappoint a society as early as you can so that you can be free.

महाराष्ट्र कभी नागवंशियों की भूमि हुआ करती थी। वहाँ के नागवंशियों के रक्त में शौर्य और वीरता का संचार हुआ करता था, लेकिन आज वही नागवंशी समाज इतना पंगु कैसे हो गया? साहिल वाकोड़े के न्याय की माँग करने वालों के साथ महाराष्ट्र पुलिस जिस तरह की बर्बरता कर रही है, उसके पीछे एक बड़ा कारण दलित समाज की बिखरी हुई ताकत और एकता का अभाव भी है। यदि समाज एकजुट होता, तो क्या पुलिस इस तरह की कार्रवाई करने का साहस कर पाती? मुंबई में BSP, VBA, कांग्रेस, RPI, BAMCEF, समता सैनिक दल, बुद्धिस्ट सोसाइटी ऑफ इंडिया और न जाने कितने सामाजिक एवं राजनीतिक संगठन मौजूद हैं। इसके बावजूद साहिल वाकोड़े की हत्या के मामले में न्याय की माँग को लेकर इतनी बड़ी एकजुटता दिखाई क्यों नहीं दे रही है? आज @AIISCA1957 @Sonpimplerahul @deepali_writes के कुछ वॉलंटियर्स पुलिस की मार खा रहे हैं, लेकिन वे न्याय की माँग के लिए संघर्ष तो कर रहे हैं। आखिर कब जागेगा हमारा समाज? कब तक हम जातियों, संगठनों और राजनीतिक विचारधाराओं में बँटे रहेंगे? याद रखिए, जब तक समाज एकजुट होकर अन्याय के विरुद्ध खड़ा नहीं होगा, तब तक न्याय की लड़ाई कमजोर ही रहेगी। समाज की असली ताकत उसकी एकता, उसका स्वाभिमान और अन्याय के विरुद्ध संघर्ष करने का साहस है। जय भीम!

Double standards couldn't be clearer: 1. Confidential exam CCTV leaks to the press to engineer a narrative against a student who isn't alive to defend himself. 2. Internal inquiry committee remains an unaccountable black box. 3. Students and @AIISCA1957 holding candles at Chaityabhoomi (our own space) are rounded up and detained by police. Look how an institution desperate to protect its brand leaks evidence with zero friction. But citizens asking for justice can’t even hold candles without the state treating them like a threat. No amount of intimidation will silence the truth. The voices on the ground fighting for accountability are only growing stronger. More strength to the teams leading this fight on the ground, @deepali_writes @Sonpimplerahul

Why is Mumbai police house-arresting General Secretary of AIISCA @deepali_writes from going to Chaityabhoomi for candle gathering at 6 PM. Chait yabhoomi is a sacred place for Ambedicarites, it is arrocously casterst, cowardly and unconstitutional of police to detain Deepali. Why is the state so afraid of Dalits demanding justice?

Indian parents are weird, they will say: "We don’t care what you do in life, as long as you are happy." Provided that your happiness falls strictly within the 4 sq. km radius of your job at IT company or cracking UPSC on your 4th attempt while surviving on generational guilt or marrying someone within same caste. Anything outside that is treated not as a career pivot, but as a direct attack on the family’s kuldev/devi.

Most people don’t actually want wealth or freedom. They just want their relatives to feel small. Half of what we call "middle class ambition" isn’t drive, but the panic of falling behind people you don't even like. When you finally realize that almost every goal you were chasing was just someone else’s insecurity planted in your head, half your ambition evaporates. And that’s the terrifying moment your actual life begins.

The internet is excellent at repeating something until it stops feeling like an advertisement and starts feeling like part of reality.

Everybody is busy building someone else’s future. Very few people ever build their own. Children become emotionally dependent while their parents become emotionally trapped and eventually both lose.

Growing up, every headline about hyperloops and bullet trains felt like the future was arriving tomorrow. A decade to build high speed rail in Vietnam sounds long until you look at India. Remember Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train foundation stone was laid in 2017 with an original target of 2022? It’s still under construction. Hyperloop was supposed to connect Pune to Mumbai in 25 minutes but the company literally went bankrupt before a single pillar was laid. Just like the $5 trillion economy deadline that keeps sliding into the future, government world class at launching slogans, but lazy brat when it comes to do the work.

The deeper you learn about technology, the more you see that the hardest questions are rarely only technical. We can ask whether a system can be built, how quickly it can run, or how widely it can scale. But the moment it enters human life, other questions appear. Questions like: What should it optimise for? Whose judgment does it carry? What kind of behaviour does it reward? What does it make easier to see and easier to ignore? Engineering can tell us how to build a powerful machine. It cannot, by itself, tell us what a good society should ask that machine to do.

On 25th October, Sunday, we are gathering to be against the institutional murder of Sahil and IIT-B's apathy towards the lives of students. As we demand the arrest of Suryanarayana Doolla and Shireesh Kedare, come with a resolution to end casteism and ensure no life of a student especially SC/ST students-is rendered disposable again. #JusticeForSahil

Music is the only thing that makes me feel like existence has a point and I don't need to explain it to anyone.

Optimists stay around the place which is destroyed while pessimists are the first ones to fly away the scene. They stay to see what unfolds next. Does that make pessimists better at survival?

In a world obsessed with leverage, there's wisdom in remembering that people are human beings. They are not opportunities to exploit.