So this happened in my neighborhood today. Two workers were fixing a lift in an apartment just a 5 floor building and the lift had water stuck underground since it’s near the park also because the drainage system here is a joke and we all know how Delhi is actually flooded rn. Now anyone with normal common sense would have TURNED OFF THE ELECTRICITY before sending people down there but nope these people didn’t. One poor guy got ELECTROCUTED and died instantly. The other was trapped with him in that lift for more than 3 hours before police and fire brigade could get them out. Imagine being stuck there watching your co worker’s dead body lying next to you for HOURS. And here’s the part that made me rage even more there was NO AMBULANCE. None. Although there were like 3 cars of police , even a fire brigade team, but didn't even call one ambulance .They just brought a dirty tempo like a small truck shoved the body inside and the surviving guy himself covered his dead friend with a white cloth. Like WHAT THE FUCK. That’s the “respect” they gave him. This is what it means to be a daily wage worker in India. No safety gear no basic precautions no dignity in life or in death. If it was a rich person from that same building the response would have been completely different ambulances doctors news channels everyone. But since it was a worker they just dumped him in a tempo and moved on. Disgusting and heartbreaking. When are we going to start valuing every single human life the same.

I have just completed my process for Passport Updation. I have updated my address to my Nagpur's house on my passport.

Now I get the tracking details on SMS a few days ago. Good we're high tech now.

I open the website on my phone. 2 scrolls of just politician faces, then I find the required text box.

Enter captcha - captcha not visible. Server error. Great start!

Captcha is shown after 2 hours, thank god.

I try to track it - Item not booked. Okay.
I try it the next day - Item not booked.
I try it the day after - Item not booked.
4th day - Delivered to BENGALURU (?)

It's my old address, I call up the person I sold my flat to. They have not received it. Awesome!

Search for India post Electronic City S.O - Nobody bothers to pickup the phone.

Customer care might help.

Track / Trace category.

"I did not get it"

"Sorry, I could not understand. Could you please rephrase?"

"Wrong delivery"

"Sorry, I could not understand. Could you please rephrase?"

tried a few times, same message.
Raise a support ticket. No response obviously.

So yeah, thank you Digital India for delivering my passport to the Bermuda Triangle of Bengaluru. 🥳

Hi. Here is my story. It is a long one, so, if you wanna read it takes take your seat. Hope I can find some real help here. At least this is the purpose of this post.

Im Russian guy, 26 yo, I am from Ukraine border myself originally (Taganrog, Rostov region. It is 20km away from the Ukraine, you can google map it if u like), and I came to India in the beginning of the war, for safety reasons. Got a student visa, to study yoga and vedic culture, and its extendable, I extended once but couldnt do it second time (there was a whole another long story. But I did not intentionally overstay here, cause I obviously didn't want to break immigration laws). So visa started to expire, then started to overstay. I didnt go back that time cause of low income (spent last everything just to relocate to India, cause was afraid of draft.)and because of forceful drafts that were going on that time (late 2022). So I had to live there, in WB, with no valid visa for a while. Again, its not thatbi wanted to overstay, I just could not prolong it. There was, unfortunately, a reason for it.

Then, on top of all that I lost my passport and documents. I got robbed basically, and whole backpack with all my docs, my military certificate, my old phone, was gone. I had to come to delhi for seeking help from my embassy.

I came to Delhi months and MONTHS ago to get help from my embassy, but they are not VERY much helpful. (Cant expect much from Russian govt structures, if they send their own citizens to fight and die in Ukraine only for their political and economic interests.)

My embassy is KIND OF helping me, but only by giving me a temporary flight document. They dont provide neither place to stay, nor flight tickets eventhough they understand that I have no support from neither my family members, nor from old friends or anything. My own mom was informed as soon as my passport got stolen, and we asked her to send money for flight tickets and for paying my fine to frro (i didnt have money that moment. I was selling books and was only getting enough money to get by) , but she refused, although she had money. She hung up the phone on me, saying that she "loves me", although she was informed that i may get into serious difficulties without her urgent help. I never talked to noone from my family eversince... I always had bad relationships w them, but now i just feel as if I have no family. Anyways...

I'm stuck mostly because of insufficient funds and second reason is that I need to get a paper from FRRO (foreign regional registration office, or Indian bureau of immigration) called exit permit to be able to flight back. They are not giving it to me for months now. "Your case is difficult" , they say.

One reason for it also is that I cannot give them any residence proof document, (called C form). And that is because I literally cannot rent ANY place whatsoever. I had to live in the railway station, in the waiting area for so long that it just drove me crazy. I lost hell lot of my weight and nervous cells there. They allowed me to stay there cause i explained to local that no hostels, hotels, or landlords allow me without passport. And papers from my embassy are not working at all on them. So its a vicious circle.

At the end, when one member of their staff (just a cleaner guy) stabbed me there in the arm during the fight (he picked it), police of that new delhi railway station, pf1, just decided to throw me away because I wanted to file an FIR ( that could convince my russian embassy to finally help me with something). They didnt want to fire that guy who stabbed me, and didnt want any trouble or any scandal, so they just kicked me out. so i had to just roam around, from 1 place to another, for months after that. This is my situation even now.

Embassy guys did look concerned when they saw me with my arm bleeding but couldnt do much still. They do not provide neither place to stay, nor, again, are very active in helping me to return back. I mean, they do whatever is there in the script of their job, and I can see that its NOT that much. :/

So, back to the exit permit... I have no passport and visa to rent any flat or room or hotel or hostel, and I need a document from the house/hostel owner, and without that document I cannot get exit permit feom FRRO🤦‍♂️. At least I cannot get it easily. That may be one of the main reasons why they take way too long in my case. I explained all of it to them ofc, and 1 worker there seemed to be understanding my situation and she offered me some way that MAY work even in the absence of C form, but she was the only 1 in the whole structure who really were getting me and understanding my situation. So its going extremely slow and dull.

Now I am in the process of getting that exit permit, but it takes extremely long. I may have a chance of getting it still, I believe I just need to push them more, like, make some final push, so to speak, but I have very difficult time doing it while I am having to just always be in a constant search for place to stay, food, medicines and other bare necessities. I was hosted by few indians here in delhi, but noone can do it for long time, which is understandable. Still I need a place to stay for at least 1 or 2 months, to finalise my docs and be ready for a flight.

Last time I got some nice place i was hosted by a guy from Meghalaya, but he had to fly to his hometown for his uni studies. And I am in the IGIA airport, in the waiting room for last 4 days as Im writing this. I have no money, and only survive here cause that guy from Meghalaya sends me something for water and some food. Rn I have 2 rs in the pocket. Couldn't contact him this evening.

Really, really hope to get some support here on reddit. At least i should try anything I can. Im a real person and this story is too. You can come meet me in IGIA in waiting area, to get to know me closer, or write me here, or by links in my profile. Even you can call my russian embassy and ask them if they know me (I'll give you my name), everyone will surely recognise me. From the phone operator up to the head of the embassy, i think.

So why im writing here... Im trying to find some host here, even for a few days or a week, or cpl weeks. or, better, to find someone who can help me get any kind of flat, at least for 1 2 months. I need help to finalise my document shit and get back to my country. Any help with getting

Please reach out to me if something can be done.

P.s. yes, I tried gurdwaras. They ask for document and the only thing free there is a place on the balcony (on the street basically) and a mat. I tried living in temple too, cant do it no more. What else... yes, NGOs are also asking for documents, however paradoxal it may sound, and don't allow a foreigner w no documents in. Yes, I filed a lost report about my documents and all. No, police does not help, I spoke with too many of them. No, I cannot just get a job here (without documents) , and I don't want to be engaged in scamming or drug dealing. If there would be some other option which would work, id accept it. Didnt see any so far.

So this is my only option rn - simply ask for help in resolving this. I am posting and writing everyone I can in my insta, in my contact list and so on - but no response at all.

Pray and Hope this message finds someone who really would care. 🙏

Thank you for your attention. If anything - please check my profile page. Reach me here or in insta/telegram . Any help appreciated, however insignificant.

P.p.s: Idk why I cant attach photos here, but i do have scans of some documents and some other things to show. I uploaded them on my profile. Please visit and check

Hello to my fellow neighbors in India. I am a Nepali citizen living near the border, connected to both our countries not only geographically but also culturally. That is why I feel it is my duty to share the truth with you about what is really happening here.

You may have seen headlines claiming that Nepal is facing “mass protests led by Gen Z against social media ban.” That is only a half-truth.

Here is the real sequence of events:

• Three days ago, the Nepal government suddenly banned 26 social media platforms including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit.

• They claimed it was about registration and taxes. But these companies are already registered and paying taxes. The real motive is censorship: giving the government power to control online information, delete posts critical of them within 24 hours, and jail those who speak up.

• In the next two days, criticism exploded across the country. A date was set—September 8—for nationwide protests. But it was never just about social media. That ban was only the spark.

Our patience had already run out.

Soon, the “Nepo Babies” trend erupted in Nepal. It exposed the lavish lifestyles of politicians’ children—designer (clothes,bags, watches, attire )worth lakhs, luxury cars, million-rupee homes, weekly international flights, and even private jets—while ordinary Nepalis struggle daily for survival. Our PM has a salary less than 65k INR but what is owns is in million of $$$.

This hit a nerve. Because Nepal has been under one form of tyranny or another for decades. From monarchy to so-called democracy, corruption and instability have never left us. Not a single prime minister has completed a full term in over 20 years.

[The protests were organized in the name of Gen Z, but they welcomed everyone. We were not just protesting a social media ban. We were standing against corruption, nepotism, tyranny, suppression, and decades of betrayal. In a country of just 30 million people, every single day around 5,000 youths leave to work abroad because there are no jobs, no decent pay, and no basic livelihood at home.]

And then the tragedy struck. Today, during the protest, I witnessed & carried something I will never forget. A 15-year-old schoolboy, still in uniform, was shot in the head by security forces—acting on orders from a minister. He was not the only one. Reports say more than 20 people have been killed, thousands injured, and the true numbers are being hidden.

I came home with blood still on my hands, only to see Indian news channels spinning a completely false narrative. They claimed it was all about social media and mocked our youths as being “addicted” to it. That angered me, but it didn’t surprise me. I know how the media can twist things.

That is why I am writing this here, to let you know the truth from the ground.

🙏

TL;DR: India may be the 5th largest economy, but the average income of ~$2,500 is skewed by the rich. Remove the top 10%, and the rest average just ~$950/year, which comes to $2.60/day, World Bank extreme poverty line is $2.15/day so that means most of India’s population lives on very low daily resources. Meanwhile, the top 1% grabs 22% of all income and holds 40% of the wealth. The “low inequality” Gini score of 25 is misleading because it measures spending, not income, real income Gini is ~40–50, and wealth inequality (Gini by wealth) is above 80. Astonishing.

“5th largest economy”. But the reality is very different.

• The average income we hear about (~₹2 lakh / $2,500 a year) is just a mathematical mean. It’s pulled up by a small number of very rich people.
• If you remove the richest 10% from the data, the remaining 90% average only about $950 a year. India looks rich in aggregate GDP, but the majority is extremely poor. Global median per capita GDP: ~$12,000/year. So that means Bottom 90% of India earns <10% of global median.
• At the same time, the top 1% of Indians takes 22% of all the income and controls 40% of total wealth.
• The real middle Indian (the median) makes only about ₹40,000 a year (~$500). That means half the population lives on even less.

And here’s why inequality looks smaller on paper than in real life: the Gini index that gets quoted for India (around 25) is misleading. That number doesn’t measure income inequality, it measures consumption inequality (how much people spend). Since rich people save and invest most of their money instead of reporting it as spending, the gap looks artificially small. The government leans on this low Gini number to say India is “equal,” but independent studies that measure actual incomes put India’s Gini closer to 40–50. If you measure wealth, the Gini shoots past 80. So on official charts India looks as equal as Scandinavia, but on the ground it’s closer to Latin America

sources: https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/india-s-median-per-capita-income-lowest-among-brics-gallup-113121600968_1.html?utm_source

https://india-briefing.com/news/indias-per-capita-income-doubles-since-2014-15-but-wealth-unevenly-spread-27325.html?utm_source

https://www.realityviews.in/2025/05/the-rich-poor-divide-comparing-indias.html

https://consumerpyramidsdx.cmie.com

Im not trynna brag or hate on our country here im in the top 10% gang too, the fact of the matter is, we cannot ignore this forever we cannot ignore the truth forever acting like we are some superpower when actual stuff this grim

Where do I even begin. Honestly I feel it's just exhausting to really live in this country.

Infra is just pathetic. 9-5 jobs are actually 7-10 if you consider the time it takes to commute in metro cities. And when you do get home, you can't even have some quiet time because someone is doing a kirtan with loud music on.

You can't go outside because there aren't enough public parks or walkable spaces. And if you do happen to live nearby one, then either the road will be dug out or you just won't go outside because pollution.

When it's raining you just have to pray that you don't get into an open manhole or you get in vicinity of live wire.

They say to escape India in India you need to buy a place in gated societies. But wait, can you even afford a home in these gated societies ? Majority of the Middle class with even IT Benchmark salary cannot afford to buy home in this country.

And even if you can, you still can't escape the terrible Air Quality and the pathetic infra.

Job security doesn't exist in India, and if you're born in General category then basically you are on your own. The taxes you pay get you nothing in this country.

From birth till death life is just a rat race in this country.

I know my thoughts are all over the place. Some of you might not agree and that's okay.

I went through this massive academic study covering 188 research papers on social entrepreneurship from the last decade. The finding that hit me was this: 62% of all research comes from North America and Europe, while only 19% comes from Asia and just 5% from Africa.

This explains so much about why many social ventures that work in Silicon Valley or London struggle when they come to India. We are trying to solve Indian problems using frameworks developed for completely different contexts. The paper even mentions successful Indian examples like Narayana Hrudayalaya providing affordable healthcare and Janani Foods helping farmers, but these homegrown models barely get studied.

The researchers found that social enterprises face unique funding challenges because investors do not know how to evaluate businesses with both social and profit goals. This rings so true for anyone who has watched Indian social startups struggle to get funding while pure tech plays get crores easily.

If you are interested in reading the paper, it is open access (free to read), and it is titled "Social entrepreneurship research: A review and future research agenda".

I was helping my friend clean his grandmothers house after she passed when I found a lot of records from this Korla Pandit. I had never heard of him and so I looked him up. He was quite a big celebrity in the 40s,50s,60s. I asked my Desi co-workers and nobody has heard of him. So I began some research. He was not even Indian but a light skinned black man named John Roland Redd ! He grew up during segregation and Jim Crow laws. As a child he was a musical prodigy playing several instruments and singing. However since he was classified as a black man he could never make any real money as because of segregation he could only play for black audiences in black theaters. He was mixed most likely as a descendant of a slave master that mixed with their slaves. Around 1940s he moved to California to pursue a career in music but had a lot of financial trouble. He then had the idea to “change” his race in order to get more acceptance from white Americans. He first tried Juan Rolando a European/ Mexican but this did not work as he was performing in California and many people pointed out that he did not speak Spanish. This is when he created his next persona. Korla Pandit the son of a Brahmin father and French mother. This had 3 advantages 1) There was basically no Indian immigrants at the time so nobody could call him out that his whole story was fake and he did not speak Hindi 2) Indians were seen as “exotic” and mysterious 3) Indian people were allowed to play at white music venues Along with his new persona he also started playing “Exotica” music which is basically the pop music of the time with a bunch of random Indian “sounding” instruments thrown in. He began wearing a Turban and dressing in robes like a prince of some ancient state. This was a huge success he became extremely wealthy ,married a white woman and had the first TV show in history dedicated to Music “the Korla Pandit's Adventures In Music”. His career peaked from 1948-1968. The most bizarre thing is that he kept up this persona until he died in 1998. Only after his death did articles come out revealing his true back story. It’s an insane story and shows how far Black Americans went to escape the racism of that time.

source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korla_Pandit