Maneesh Madambath @maneeshm
(erstwhile) Startup Founder. Writer of the Bombay Daak newsletter maneesh.net India Joined December 2008-
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Ramayana trailer's much better than I expected it to be. Hope the film holds up
@manuscrypts I see it as an natural shift with the cost to start up crashing
Fast-Commerce - build, deploy, ditch
Gen Z entrepreneurship increasingly looks like running a portfolio of asymmetric coups rather than betting everything on one serious, long-term project. One month it’s an AI wrapper. Then a TikTok Shop product, a viral food trend, or buying scarce inventory during a shortage and
Wouldn't have pegged a blog post to stir the pot of corruption in 2026 sarthaksidhant.com/coempt/
V D Satheesan was never the obvious choice for Kerala’s next chief minister, except to the voters. There is a photograph in my head from the Kerala Literature Festival in 2024, of Satheesan standing in the corner of a tent at Kozhikode beach, asking me about a Bulgarian novelist. Read more: indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
Guess we are officially in the era of GenZ discovering something old and outraged that it isn't news
Superpower without sidewalks. Not exactly a compliment.
"I've called India a superpower without sidewalks. The paradox is that India can do things that many countries can't do. But it's also unable to do things that other countries can do like having sidewalks on its roads," says scholar Sadanand Dhume
'I can explain it only by a weakness of the scholarly mind that I have often observed in myself. I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.'- Daniel Kahneman
Through our interactions with BMC engineers over the past 2–3 years, we discovered a fairly intuitive road space distribution formula that was followed by BMC planners during the British era. On roads designed during that period, at least 1/3 of the street space was allocated to footpaths. We have verified this across multiple locations in South Mumbai neighbourhoods. This rule was diluted when suburban Mumbai was developed, reducing the footpath allocation to just 1/10 of the total road width. As a result, on most streets in suburban Mumbai today, footpaths make up only about 10% of the road space — a standard that BMC continues to follow. Even though the overall roads are wider in Suburban Mumbai, the footpaths on them are so narrow that even two people walking side by side often struggle to move comfortably. Now you know why walking in suburban Mumbai sucks. Support us to ensure our newly built areas dont follow the same pattern. #WalkingProject
Fun fact. The original Phantom stories were based in Java, then in Bengal, which is why the location was named Bangalla from Bengal, and the Singh pirates were among the main enemies, and Rama Singh killed the 20th Phantom. Falk wanted British and Indian readers and moved the location to Africa. When Indrajal comics published them in India Bengalla became Denkali and Rama became Ramulu
The Phantom turns ninety today. Time passes and generations change, but the Ghost Who Walks remains eternal. Celebrating his ninety years feels like celebrating a part of my own journey, the dreams, the inspiration, and the quiet strength he planted within me long ago.
While the political directions to Gen Naravane - “Jo uchit samjho, woh karo” (do whatever you deem appropriate) - have garnered much attention, there are many other equally significant bits in the @thecaravanindia February cover story about Naravane's unpublished memoir. 1/N
Wasn't there a black mirror episode based on this?
The Shopify Tech Flexes team explores the intersection of Culture and Commerce. This time we designed a treadmill that literally would give you a run for your money! BTS from @_LindsayCraig beta testing. Yes - this is a strange work place, and no -- there's no place quite like it
@flipkartsupport I have already conveyed my concerns on your help/chat everyday for the last 3 days. A very frustrating experience and the support ineffectual, practically a joke. I don't see how a DM here is going to sort it, and even if it did, the whole show has been scarring
I doubt if there's a support service in the Indian ecom space worse than @flipkartsupport these days
I suspect I am too polite when prompting with these GPTs
All you need to watch is this to know why the city is in a general mess
Mumbai: Tensions flared at the Dadar Kabutarkhana on Wednesday morning after several members of the Jain community attempted to forcibly remove a cover placed by the BMC to restrict pigeon feeding at the site. The civic body had installed the cover over the weekend following
On June 4, I posted the first of four parts of a longish short story, ‘Ash and Smoke’, on Substack. Usually, I post fiction there long after it has been published in a litmag or an anthology, but I broke the general rule for ‘Ash and Smoke’…
Growing up in the 90s, if you told me the Dhoot's would be mired in one scandal after another in the future, I'd have laughed, but here we are - alphaideas.in/2025/06/04/bui…
Somebody get a restraining order on Chikara
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Ragdale @Ragdale
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Ahsaas -e- Alfaaz @EAhsaas
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Alter Magazine @AlterMagIndia
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Asimov Press @AsimovPress
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Kriti Gupta @kriti_kg
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Mhatre Sheetal Ashok @Mhatre_Sheetal
5K Followers 531 Following Spokesperson @inncmumbai, alumnus @statedept, Committed to an open, accessible, accountable, proactive citizen-centric governance model that delivers.
Meeta Malhotra @meetamalhotra
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Richa Pinto @richapintoi
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Eames Institute @EamesInstitute
940 Followers 0 Following We aim to equip everyone with the lessons of Ray and Charles Eames, so that anyone can use design to solve problems.
A24 @A24
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The Odin Project @TheOdinProject
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Citizen Matters @citizenmatters
21K Followers 456 Following Civic media with insightful reports, ideas & solutions for better cities | Empowering citizens & enabling change | Programme of @Oorvani Data @opencity_in
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150K Followers 2K Following helping the creative world make ideas happen. partner @a24 / founder A24Labs; founder @Behance, bod @atlassian & MoMA, author, seed investor, product obsessive.
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88K Followers 1K Following Building the web you build on @GoogleChrome ✨🎨 Web Experience DevRel Lead 🦄 @csswg + @openuicg. #CSSPodcast host 🎬 https://t.co/J9Y8U6Bz4f
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48K Followers 3K Following The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟You might like
