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Has anyone on here had any experience with this situation or know what the protocol is. I have acquired both Indian and US passports for my child. While the constitution of India allows dual citizenship for minors until within 6 months of attaining majority, I understand in practice it depends on the immigration mama stamping the passport. Online I see people have no problems at all or only problems to the extent the parents had to surrender the passport. Does anyone have any actual experience of traveling in this situation ?

I'm considering buying a second laptop with i5/i7 processor and atleast 2gb grafic card. -So those who bought a second hand laptop how is your experience? -What you think of old MNC used laptops? -What factors should I consider while making purchase of secondhand laptop? Please do advice me. Thankyou

Hi, I have a question. Is there anyone else here who has given the IIFT exam? The reason I am asking is because in January this year when I gave the exam, the exam interface was horrible. IT WAS AS IF SOMEONE SET THE QUESTION FONT SIZE TO MAXIMUM AND THEN MADE THE WINDOW THROUGH WHICH YOU COULD VIEW THE QUESTION SMALLER. ANYONE FACED THE SAME PROBLEM? Had to constantly scroll both horizontally and vertically to attempt the questions and eventually gave up halfway through. Is it a feature of the exam or a centre specific situation? Thank you for your help in advance.

Hi, talking to my cousin a while back and he mentioned some our relatives were "swazey," he said this meant they were born dark skinned to white parents in India (Anglo-Indian). Don't really know the proper spelling here and cannot find anything about this anywhere. Doesn't anyone know? Thanks.

Does anybody know some way to know instantly that blood sugar level is dropping.my parents are diabetic and today my dad's sugar level Suddenly became 87,i was very scared as my friend's dad lost life due to low sugar level.Are there some gadgets or somethinng for it?i have seen a video of a dog on reddit for notifying but we cannot keep a pet and idk if it's even available in india.we check the levels by machine daily in morning and sometimes in evening,today it was between 190 so we don't know how it became that way,dad was having hiccups suddenly and weren't stopping,we took him to doctor who said his blood sugar level is low.i am very worried,please anyone if know how to know or do something regarding it.

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Tldr: should I date just any girl even if I have no interest in her but I want to be in an relationship with somebody cause I’m desperate and lonely 21M never been in an relationship and lately been thinking about dating almost anybody cause feeling so lonely for so long. I always thought that the right person will come by eventually but became painfully aware of the fact that these is not gonna happen. I’m painfully average, dark and introvert. Meaning that I get no attention at all from the opposite sex. Downloaded various dating apps but never had an single match and now that I think about it I feel like I’m not even an average but ugly af. Improving myself doesn’t help either cause idk what should I even work on to began with. Go to gym? Nah I’m already physically healthy as I play sport sometimes. Dress better? Done it but don’t like being looking to fancy. Work on social skills? I maybe an introvert but had no issues in communicating with others , have female friends, went on few dates(they were not interested in me but just wanted to pastime as they were bored), has asked out complete strangers (not even asking number or anything like that but just having simple conversation most of the time). Get rich? haha now we talking business but by the time I get rich I be a old man. Now I don’t mean that I’m an good guy either as I have acted like jerk sometimes so I’m working on that. I even had these rare occasions, once during a flight a stunningly beautiful girl was blatantly checking me out who was sitting next to me I made some small talks and then I went quiet as I was frustrated about other things and was not in an mood later she wanted to talk more and I just ignored her like an jerk. So by doing these I denied the only chance that I ever had by being idiot. I have talked about these problem to my friends and they told me to stfu and fuck uggos. Now I got standards which are mostly based on personality aspects but now I feel like I should just drop them completely. Beggars can’t be chooser they say Recently I have been taking to these girl she seem kinda interested in me but I got no interest in her. But now I have become so desperate and lonely that I feel like I should ask her out. I do understand it’s not the right choice but now it’s like rather have food poison or die of starvation. I feel so conflicted about it.

Hello Reddit, and people of r/India, Here's a question for you... _Suppose_ if India ever becomes a 50 Trillion, or perhaps, even a 100 Trillion Dollar economy ever in future, what would be your expectations from it? What would you like to see in future which you don't see now?

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Hello r/india, I recently made an EMI transaction and then it was cancelled on the same day. When I checked my Credit card statement I saw that the EMI processing fee and GST over it were not refunded along with the EMI transaction. I called customer support and they said they would refund the processing fee but they cannot refund the GST levied for it. I find this suspicious I explained them that this is not how it works and gave an example of flight tickets but they did not listen. What can I do in this case? The GST amount is not that much but I would still like to get it refunded.

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Hey guys, my sister wants to go on a trip with her college friends, a group of 10 people from Hyderabad to Delhi (transit only) and then Dehradun and Mussoorie for 3 nights and 4 days. It's a group of around 10-12 people with guys and girls in there. Obviously as a girl is going my family is worried and so am I, so what are some precautions and tips she should take with her group or even within her group? Like pepper spray, maybe an emergency app? Apparently COVID numbers are low in Dehradun and Mussoorie so that is also a positive for them. Edit - They actually will not tour Delhi, it's only a transit point from flight from Hyderabad to Delhi and then Dehradun via bus

My brother is coming to India from UK this Diwali and he has asked me if I want anything from there. Lucky me! But I am totally confused as to what to ask him. I certainly want something which is cheaper or exclusively available there as compared to India. So far I could only decide upon some good instant coffee which we import from UK and hence its costly there. Kindly suggest me few things, ranging from electronic gadgets or edible items or any other day to day useful stuff. Thanks.

Obnoxious Question but I have always been curious about it. I have only used private clinics so I really don't know how the experience is. You hear all the horror stories in the media but obviously that is not the full picture. Although some of the details that come out really put me off such as syringe reuse. I am a bit of an hypochondriac in general but I really worry about syringe reuse. I had to prepare myself for taking the vaccine. So if you have used it especially for consultations only, would love to know how was the experience and the location if you want to share.

It's not uncommon for payments to get stuck. And sometimes it will be deducted and not get transferred to them. So unless you have same amount of funds to try again using different payment method, go for NEFT etc. There are charges but is more reliable.

So I'm planning to buy a wireless headphone soon.I've sorted out Boat Rockerz 550 and Boat Rockerz 600. Have anyone here used any one of them? Or do you guys have any recommendations?

There seems to be an influx of negative posts on this sub lately. My heart goes out to all those people. But please remember, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The difficult times will eventually fade away and be forgotten. The hardship, pain and grief, it will never last forever.

Hi guys, I have started a Support Campaign for certain communities of Tribals living in parts of Maharashtra. We know how Covid had impacted the lives of the people, especially the poorer sections. We also think that despite the pandemic, food should not be a problem to get as the Government has rolled out several schemes for these sections of the society. But to avail these schemes, we need two things- AADHAR or Ration Card. These communities I am working for has neither of those documents and cannot avail the government schemes. So they are practically starving. We as a community, are helping them make these documents, but each document takes time- you know how Government Offices work. So, meanwhile, side by side, we are collecting funds for their food. (on Milaap.org, dont worry, your donations wont come directly to us, we will have to show bills to Milaap to claim the money) Donating 10-20 Rupees feeds a Tribal Kid for an entire day An amount between 50-100 Rupees feeds a Tribal Adult for AT LEAST 2-3 days. Go ahead guys, make a difference today :') [https://milaap.org/fundraisers/priti4donations4tribals](https://milaap.org/fundraisers/priti4donations4tribals)

Hello fellow redditors, I'd love to talk about a film club, which I'm a part of from the days they used to organize physical screenings, and discussions. Due to pandemic they had to shift it online. Every weekend they would have two movie discussions in the evening, each on Saturday, and on Sunday. And the selected movies are based upon a theme for a month. The movies are not our regular OTT or mainstream movies, almost all of them are off beat hidden gems! For current month the theme is Urbanism. The very last Sunday the discussion was on a documentary called The World Before Your Feet. It was about a guy named Matt Green, who has walked every street in New York City, which is about 8000 miles! To our surprise the moderators had invited him to join the conversation with us, where he spoke about his purpose and the reason he walked all over the city. Also one the Malayalam film industry's finest directors, Mr. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had joined us for the discussion on his film Anantaram. Even on this Sunday they have a discussion regarding the movie Ek Ghar, directed by the notable Kannada filmmaker Mr. Girish Kasaravalli, and he is joining us as the chief panelist! I personally, and the film club would love to have more movie freaks take notice of their film related activities, and join us on these wonderful movie discussions every weekend! The club's name is The Parallel Cinema Club, you can catch up with them on Insta, FB, Twitter with the name theparallelcinemaclub. They are mostly active on Telegram.

I came across [an article](https://www.mathrubhumi.com/social/specials/live-with-the-virus/how-effective-is-our-vaccination-process-do-we-need-a-rethink-1.6025206) which raises valid technical concerns on our claims about vaccinations(number of vaccinations administered/day, reduction of spillage). Although the article is mainly based on the model we have in Kerala, I believe we can extend these concerns across our country. ​ The author bases the questions raised in this article on 3 major headlines. ​ P1. On September 17th, we vaccinated 2 crore citizens. This was a world record. P2. About 3 weeks back, health minister of Kerala applauded a nurse for administering 800 vaccines in 8 hours. P3. About 2 weeks back, we had to discard few batches of vaccines because they froze in cold storage. ​ The author feels the need to conduct a social audit on our vaccination drive. Also, we need to understand the problems faced by workers on ground and take necessary corrective measures than going for headlines. ​ Reasoning P1 - P2 : During a normal immunization drive, a Junior Public Health Nurse(JPHN) in a Primary Healthcare Center administers 30-60 vaccinations on a daily basis. In a Taluk Hospital, it can range from 100-120. At present, a JPHN vaccinates 3x-4x times the normal numbers. For achieving these numbers(P2), the nurse must vaccinate about 2 people/minute without much rest for 8 hours. So for vaccinating a single person, the nurse has approximately 30 seconds. This leads to following possibilities: ​ 1. The nurse fills the syringes beforehand with vaccines, so that only job later is to administer it. 2. There are 2-3 people, who continuously fill new syringes with vaccines and the nurse just picks it up and administers. 3. The nurse must finish everything by herself/himself in 30 seconds. ​ The author rules out the first case, as the chances of cross contamination is much higher and we would have known about it. The second case is close to optimal. The third is problematic. ​ Why is the third case problematic? The author claims that if not checked from proper viewing angle, the parallax affect may kick in and even lesser volumes may seem as 0.5ml, which is the quantity of vaccine that need to be administered. ​ Why is this relevant? There were headlines praising how we were able to vaccinate more people, my utilizing the extra quantity in the vial. Normally to administer 0.5ml of a vaccine using a normal syringe, the nurse must take 0.56-0.58ml out of the vial to account for the minute portion which is left behind in the needle and the syringe(referred as dead spaces). Vaccine manufacturer does pack each vial with a bit more quantity to compensate for these losses. In practice, vaccinating 8-9 people out of a vial meant for 10 itself is considered as successful. A skilled nurse may even be able to vaccinate all 10 people under optimal condition. There are also claims that since we are using auto-disable syringes(the ones having less dead space compared to the normal ones) for the covid vaccines, hence the efficient utilization. Technically, this claim should work. What one forgets is the amount of stress the nurse is in due to the increased workload and maintaining this efficiency for such longer periods is practically impossible. ​ This raises a few valid questions. Where do these extra quantities come from? Is it from the extra quantity packed by the manufacturer? Is it the skill of the nurse? Or might it be due to the lesser quantities being administered in a hurry? ​ Reasoning P3 : Our government is actually planning to redeem the cost of frozen vaccines from those officials on grounds, who were involved. But the bigger questions to be asked is, why did those vaccines freeze in the first place? Kerala has one of the best cold storages in the country. The temperature of these cold storages need to be checked and regulated twice a day, and special staffs are appointed for these tasks. Since every available medical staff is deployed to vaccination drives and covid related duties, are we even monitoring whether basic protocols in a cold storage are being carried out? ​ DISCLAIMER : The author does not mean to belittle the efforts put in by our health care workers, neither do I. But this article does resonate with my thoughts. We need to carry out and make sure that more and more citizens get vaccinated in the proper way, while also considering the amount of stress these health care workers have to deal with. If we do not make any headlines/record, then be it.

I'm looking for resources who can do Indian language to help with an Audio evaluation project. I need 5 people for each language. You will be required to evaluate the voice samples generated by automatic text-to-speech conversion. If available contact me asap here on reddit,Telegram(@Tpickinc)

I have been following farmers protest from 26 Jan. What do you think can resolve the current situation. Here is what I think. India is basically agricultural economy so we don't just need farm laws or capital but infrastructure. So right now we should focus on what we do best ie, agriculture. Food crops are already surplus as per official records. So by implementing modern techniques machines etc it can be made basic and very cheap or free. The extra can be exported. But with corporate intervention this can be done effectively. Big farm owners can sell food crops to government or corporate. Block chains can be implemented to decentralize it. Small farm owners can do other crops of their specialization like Nagpur Oranges, Allahbad(Prayagraj) guavas etc and take extra price. Now for environment or monsoon that affect production I think there is an internal environment also. If that is in control external remains in control. See this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbhI1qVj0c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbhI1qVj0c) It explains that block chains is a chain of ledgers. It is similar but not exactly like internet which is not owned by anyone. But it solves the trust problem and the intermediary problem of the internet. The trust here is distributed in the block of ledgers owned by different organization like banks etc use. Every time a transaction or event happens it triggers other event like updating their ledgers. Crypto currency like bit coin is an incentive that was invented to give to the people who own these ledgers. 23 is the number of farmer who kill themselves everyday. Block chains can be a risk free rent option for them. For ex 11 farmers can own one tractor. In land ownership which government is trying to digitize. Block chain can help see all the previous ownership and also hacker safe. They can also use it to consolidate small farms into larger area. Then use bigger machines like tractors harvesters etc owned in groups. These smart contract can move money, land input output in a transforming way. In small scale it is like exchanging money and lucky draw in kitty parties. On large scale it is like chit funds which is a parallel banking system in our country. 10 % of India's saving goes to chit fund. But the amount of fraud in chit funds is about 10 billion dollars because of absence of any such technology. There are many other application like Power, NPA, loans, health care, managing subsidies, education, prevent voter fraud. All the issues with Adhar. Block chain is the right way to do it. Power distribution problem in India can also be handled same way. We produce power in big centralized plants and then distribute it in cities. But there is power shortage in villages or the very area it is produced which really doesn't make any economic sense. I know because I have worked 8 years in NTPC power plant. There are methods to produce energy there like solar, wind etc on a micro grid. But to properly distribute it and manage usage block chain can be used. Actually you can use crypto currency to maintain the ledgers or buy and sell such power to donate it. [Source](http://letusgetridof.com/)

Hi, not sure if this is the right place for a query of this kind. But any help would come in handy right now. I've been looking for freelance writing work (not as a side gig but full time, primary source of income, I've some experience as well). I've a list of few agencies that hires writers. If anyone here has any experience of working with them, could you give me a quick review? How's the work? What are the rates they offer? Payment cycles? I've tried upwork/freelancer and other similar platforms but that requires time in profile building if you want genuine mid/high paying gigs. I might get back to it but currently I'm in dire need of some regular income. this is the list - inksplore pepper content apnawriter italics textuar content whale coffeegraphy just words wittypen lexiconn write-right

Today, I saw a vlog on Switzerland and it is such a beautiful country.. I feel bad why can't we in India could dream of a place to live like that? Why are we always comparing ourselves with tragedies happening around us like Pakistan, Afghanistan and selectively bad things about China? Our country has abundance of natural resources and people, who if educated properly, could do miracles.. Why are we treated like flies in web to be juiced as required? Edit 1: Dear good people of Reddit India, I didn't expect this post to get such overwhelming response. Thanks to everyone. Please also suggest some ways in which we can improve the situation alongwith the reason that we are sharing... Edit 2 : https://youtu.be/xLTCivIB4kU Link to video by Brett Conti

Hi, ​ This is very personal to me but I want to share this because it is now increasingly affecting me. Me and mom live alone (I work from home since covid), Dad is in the gulf, and my sisters are married. Last month was shravana so she fasted every Monday and made me a vegetarian for the whole month. I did not want to confront her so I went ahead with it. Within shravan there were certain other days like Saatam, Athama, Janmastmi, teej, etc so apart from fasting on every Monday, she also fasted on these days. Everytime she fast, she wants to go to a temple a few km away from our house, to see a pandit who sits there and perform some pujas, yagnas. Before covid, I was in a different city, so she would either go with her friend or alone, using ola or auto rickshaws. now, since I am here, I have become her ferry for any where she wants to go. Apart from that from last few months she has started another routing of visiting another temple, about 600 m from our house, and she has trouble in her knees so she insists I take her there every evening. now, from last few days, the new month is called "Shradha" where we are supposed to please our ancestors. She is now forcing me to go and feed cows every morning so that the food reaches our ancestors. ​ Over and above, she gets easily irritated and feels over burdened with all responsibilities. When I tell her half of the things she does (all the religious activities) she can let them go and have more free time on her hands. She does not even keep maid for household chores, because she is a clean freak and is never satisfied with maid's work. Everytime I request any maid in neighbourhood to help my mom, the maid stays for at most one month and then runs away because my mom keeps pestering them to do things better. ​ My mother is increasingly becoming sensitive and hostile to any criticism, and she stubbornly is sticking to her religious duties as well as works to the bone to keep the house clean. I am a freelancer with my own client base and mostly stick in my room working on it, which pisses her off as well. She tells me I never help her with anything and always stay confined in my room which couldn't be further from truth. I don't know how to deal with her anymore and I cannot leave as well because there is marked decline in her physical and mental capacity that I have noticed for over past few months. ​ Please suggest what I should do, or how I can convince her to be less religious so she can relax and try to enjoy a good life.

So I have been following a lot of non desi vloggers and personally find them interesting, so I thought I should touch home front and check out indian vloggers too, surprisingly found many and only north indian vloggers,( some good and interesting, some were just downright loud and unbashful,), could be my youtube algorithm, I don't know. Recommend some good South indian vloggers, I would really like to see their lifestyle, food, etc. Get to know more about their culture. TIA

My 60 year old sister-in-law (lets call her RK) has a Facebook account that she views and updates infrequently. She called me a few days ago, complaining that some unknown person changed her profile pic. Here's a blow-by-blow account of what happened. tl;dr at the end. (1) I logged into RK's FB account, I changed the password to something strong. Then when enabling 2FA, I noticed that her mobile number was wrong. I asked her, and she said "oh yeah, that's my old number". So I updated that as well. (2) Then I went to the "Logins" page (I forget the exact name, but that's the place where it shows the various devices that you're logged in from). There were some half a dozen mobiles, ipads, laptops. Logged out from all of them, other than the laptop where I was working on. End of story, right? Wrong. The next day, the profile pic was changed again. (3) I went to the Logins page, and I see that my laptop was the only one listed there. Because her Gmail was the e-mail address used on her FB account, maybe her Gmail password was also compromised? So I changed the Gmail password to something strong, changed the FB credentials again. FB 2FA worked fine. Next morning, same story. Profile pic changed. This time the profile pic was a middle finger icon, which got everyone flustered and really worried. (4) So, maybe her phone or laptop has a keylogger? So I changed all passwords again on my computer, logged out of FB from all devices (there was only one, my own laptop), and asked her not to access either gmail or FB for a couple of days. Next morning, same story. Profile pic changed again. Now I am completely stumped. (5) At this point, RK gave me a clue. "You know, sometime back I got an email saying Instagram something something, I ignored it because I don't use Instagram. Few years back, SK (her son) tried to set up Instagram for me, it didn't work, so we gave up". (6) A-ha. Apparently there's a way for IG updates to get pushed to FB, and vice versa. This is news to me because I don't use any social media (other than Reddit). So I quickly read up, then logged into IG. I used RK's Gmail address as the username, and clicked "Forgot Password". Sure enough, I got the password reset link on RK's Gmail, logged into IG successfully. And there. I see the "hacker's" entire IG page with the profile pic, the same one that appeared on RK's FB page. Turns out my "hacker" was just a teenage kid with normal interests: bikes doing wheelies, fancy cars, hairstyles, memes, girls. Really harmless looking kid. I'm starting to feel bad now for getting into his IG account and locking him out. I'm the hacker now. (7) In the IG settings page, there's an "Accounts Center" section where you can set up sync to FB. Sure enough, I see it set up to sync to/from RK's FB page. Apparently, RK's son, when he was trying to set up IG for her, set this up as well for her. So what was happening was, every time RK made a profile pic change on FB, it would show up on this kid's IG page, and he would change it back. Apparently he thought that someone was hacking _him_. (8) So how did this hacker manage to get into an IG account that was set up in RK's name, and which was set up to sync to RK's FB account? Remember in Step (1), RK had told me that she had an old mobile number that was associated with her FB. Turns out that this mobile number was reissued to this "hacker" kid. I am guessing that this kid got his mobile, inserted a SIM, installed IG, entered his number (which is RK's old number associated with FB, and by extension to her IG account). At this point IG would have helpfully informed him that he already had an account with this phone number and sent him an OTP to login. He should have noticed that the name of the account was in RK's name and smelt that something was amiss. But he was just a kid, and not very tech. Now, all the time that he was using the IG account, he never bothered to change the name on the account (it was showing RK's name all the while) the password, or the email address. Another proof that he was just a clueless kid, not an evil hacker. (9) So finally here I am. Logged into the "hacker's" IG account, locked him out, so no more profile pic changes on RK's FB account. Poor kid made another IG account and started messaging me, asking me to give him his account back, first with "namaste" emoticons, and then BC/MC abuses. I am feeling really bad now, and I really want to give him "his" account back, but I am worried that if I do that there's some random (as yet undiscovered) link through which he'll start bothering my sister-in-law again. tl;dr Facebook page got updated with someone else's profile pic. Traced it to an Instagram account belonging to someone else that was pushing updates to the victim's page. Root cause: a mobile number that used to belong to the victim, now reissued to another guy. Hacker was not a hacker, just an idiot.

Lately, on this sub, I've been noticing that we've been discussing almost only negative news and topics. I get that a lot of shit has been going down in India and I understand that talking about it online with others feels good. But with all due respect, this subreddit isn't just for ranting about stuff. I get that our govt and some part of the population are not the best so let's leave them out of this. Hence, to keep things light, how bout everyone shares their favorite childhood or even any recent memory with which most Indians can relate? P.s. I know I'm walking on thin ice here but just thought it may be something different. EDIT: HOLY SHIT!! I wasn't expecting this many wonderful responses! I'm feeling so happy to see them and remember my own days! Thanks guys!

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I have a Lg smart led 55 inch. Which one do you use and recommend? I had my TV's backlight replaced. Apparently the electricity fluctuations caused it. Edit : Thanks everyone for your suggestions :)

I was bullied heavily from grade 1 to grade 10th, the same school, the same people. You never know what they are going through. 8 years since my grade 10th, i cannot get those memories out of my head. I cried so much that I couldn't sleep and now woke up with a fever. My health has never supported me, I was almost always suffering from something or the other, my family situation wasn't good, neither finantially nor emotionally and going to school made it all worse. I tried gagging myself from my toothbrush to vomit and prove that i am sick and avoid school. All i want to say is, please dont bully or act anything but kindly towards anyone else. I am at the peak of my depression and dont think that ill be able to survive the year. But i do remember some people who were kind to me when i was getting bullied, people who just gave me a smile when i was at my lowest. even teachers after reportedly being told about me getting bullied, they did nothing, most of the teachers, well just say, were worse than the bullies. I couldnt change school because i was not very academically good and failed several school entrace exams. I am just 24 and already suffering from anxiety and depression. Last week for no reason, my BP was 150/80. I have taken so many meds that most of the paracetamols dont work now, lmao. ps: i was never physically bullied. Edit: thank you all for the support. I genuinely feel good. Edit 2: I wanted to add 1 more instance as to why this problem exacerbated. Context: we were 3 friends (let's call them x and y) who used to go to gaming cafe and play cs. I didn't particularly like x but we got along pretty well. I always thought of them as my friends and they never actually bullied me and we're better than most of the other people. I wanted to buy a new gaming mouse and got to know from y that x set him up from a customer support agent who sold him a mouse worth 8k for around 5k. So I approached the customer support agent and said that I want to purchase a mouse and if he can arrange it for the same price. He asked for who have me his reference and I told him that y bought from you after x recommended him. I didn't realise that he was actually doing some shady shit and selling us the products that he got from the company to issue replacement for faulty products. The moment I found out about this, I cancelled this deal and walked out. After a few weeks I got call from x and he started abusing me and said "how dare you give my reference and try to get a product for a discount" I told him that y told me and hence I didn't know it would cause any problem. I asked him what happened and why he was so angry and abusing me and even said, I thought you were my friend. He said "because you cancelled your deal with him, he isn't giving me the replacement for the mouse I bought from him as it is not working anymore". He went on to say "we were never friends, I would never be a friend with a loser like you who always got bullied by everyone. You are nothing better than getting bullied" threatened to beat me up if I tried contacting that guy or him. Couple of things: 1) I should've asked x directly if I could use his reference. 2) I didn't know beforehand that he was doing some shady shit like this. I was naaive enough to believe that he was getting some deal from the company which gave him some massive discounts. 3) what hurt me the most was his statement "I would never be friends with a loser like you" Damn I genuinely thought that the best memory of my school life was looking forward for the weekend every fortnightly when we used to go to gaming cafes and play cs. I realise my mistake that I shouldn't have given his reference without his permission. This is the incident which is bothering me from the last 1 year and has made me look back more and more at my shitty school days and brings back all the unpleasant memories.

Why do married and newly wed women in some Indian communities wear their sarees so far below the navel as their daily attire. Is this a cultural thing? I see most of them just being uncomfortable when even walking, makes me wonder if it’s part of an archaic thought process?

Hello r/india! If you need any suggestions/help regarding your career, ask here. If your company is hiring or if you are looking for a job, then post here. **If You or Your Company is Hiring:** 1. Name of the company 2. Location 3. Requirements 4. Preferred way of contacting you **If You are looking to get hired** 1. Your skillset/experience 2. Portfolio (if any/applicable) 3. Location 4. Preferred way of contacting you Please do not mention your emails. You can/should prefer to take conversation forward in PMs instead to avoid any privacy mishaps. Do follow up here with your experience. Did you get a job or hire someone successfully via these threads? Your feedback helps! **Career Thread is posted every two weeks on Thursday mornings |** [**Old Threads**](https://reddit.com/r/india/search?q=Career+and+Hiring+thread&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) https://preview.redd.it/osdztmrfx8n61.png?width=1487&format=png&auto=webp&s=dab56a83877ffe7dc6fd93767a8f63e9c366e592

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I have one profile left with UHD Plan, looking for someone to take the profille for long time, 4-5 months more or less. Anyone interested? 200 per month.

My sister has fallen in love with a boy that she met a few months back and wants to marry. The boy is from a good family, educated, smart, earns well and also loves her. My sister is also equally educated and financially stable. My parents who are in late sixties have firm faith in astrology and they spoke to 12 astrologers and they all have said this is a bad match, will die young, no children etc which has scared the shit out of my parents. They absolutely don’t want to listen anything about the boy. My parents have also been looking for boys in matrimonial websites and they prefer she chose someone from that list. My sister wants to get married to the boy only with the wishes of our parents and not in a registered marriage setting. Tensions in the family are high and they are constantly fighting. How can I help convince my parents to not believe in astrology?

Where should I start from? The very start? It all started in 2002 when I was born- no. It all started with Big Bang billions of years ago. On a second thought, nevermind. So, 2018, I passed class 10th with a percentage of 86%. My family hated it. Specifically, my grand parents. They are like, how should I put it, the root of all toxicity in the entire house. They controlled my parents and by extensions, our lives- my sister's and mine. She somehow went through it but I am somewhat of a guy who has astronomical standards, to the point where I am a perfectionist who wants the results but at the same time a guy who never put efforts. Ever saw the meme of a 'gifted child' who turned out to be a burnt out disappointment? Thats me and my teen years in a nutshell. Where was I? Yes, it was after my 10th boards I had to choose a stream. Now now, this is where my loop of idiocy started. You're gonna die face palming here. I always had interest in Biology. But, at that moment, I felt like I should have taken something else since competition is a shitshow in bio and other science streams and I might start hating those. So, I ran after money, literally. I ended up choosing Commerce+Info Practices and this is where fuck up#2 happened. I was demoralised at the time and I lacked spine and I went to have a discussion with my grand parents. Bad idea. They said commerce plus maths is difficult and I will only mess it up worse. Oh boy. My maths was above average, now that I look back and what I sucked at, was 'not getting influenced by people who lack the experience I have in this era' ( I mean, they're stuck at late 20th century, so are my parents. They think taking your subject+doing good at college will get you a job. Basically, padhai, job, marriage, bacha, waiting for sweet death was their perspective of life; although my mom is different, she couldn't stand up for herself and was completely reduced to a mouth piece of my gramps) Now, I ended up in Commerce + I P with no idea of how commerce and colleges of commerce works. And I like a sheep, decided to aim for DU. Now now, remember how I didn't take mathematics? Yes, keep facepalming. I cleared 11th and I decided to get serious and look up colleges, specifically DU. And yk what happened. Yes, DU and almost all good colleges require ComMaths. Another fuck up :) I was in denial, and I wanted to repeat 11th so I can take ComMaths. (By this time, I had the realisation that my grandparents were not the best people; yes that's an understatement) I decided to repeat. Fyi, my mother was teaching in the same school as I am. I was gonna repeat but my mother and President of the school were acquainted. And he got the news of what I was up to. He called my mom and asked her "What is wrong with your son?" I came to know and this is where I broke and decided to continue with class 12, depressed more than ever. I was depressed, I was a skirt chaser and I did absolutely nothing that year because I felt like nothing had point. Ended up with 90.8% surprisingly. (Ig you should blame pandemic for that since the last two exams were suspended) I then decided to go on to this -Known college who dont compulsorily require maths- and I took a program. A special program. BCom integrated with liberal arts. The prospectus showed that there will be subjects like psychology and all and I got hyped up. Well guess, what it was? Drum rolls please, fuck up #3. It was a relatively new programme and I got in. Now, what happened was I kinda got subjects that were wayyyyy different and the fees was above a lakh of regular bcom. In short: Paid a lakh of fees to study sanskrit with bcom. First year was torturous, I spent the entire year doing absolutely nothing and cheating through tests. And yes, I regret that a lot. I made it through the first year. Yay? I decided to drop out because, at this point, my dad was unemployed and we cannot muster a lakh for fees for another year. Even if we could, I personally wont pay over a lakh. (At this point in second year though, they had better subs like anthropology but too soon :) ) Now here I am, reapplied to a college and hoping for the seventh cut off list. The cutoffs this year were inflated and thats where Ig I made fuckup#4. Ill probably not get admission in any good colleges, I feel like I should use this year in a better way. And a part of me just wants to redo the entire thing and not fuck it up. ( Oh and at this point, my mom and I moved out of the house since those asshats of people she called her parents, were abusive and kept harassing her after her second suicide attempt. ) So if I retake admission, take ComMaths, and study my arse off to get admission in DU, Will it be worth it? Or is it just gonna be another fuck up. It just feels like a series of bad decisions. Feel free to judge. At this point I think I cannot be more miserable.

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If you haven't watched the sex education series on Netflix, well, you should. I watched it and it got me thinking about what sex education is given in India. I personally haven't received a single dedicated class on sex during my schooling except for the chapter on human reproductive system. What do you think About this issue. A Google search on sex education in India led me to this site [sex education in India ](https://borgenproject.org/5-facts-about-sex-education-in-india/) 1. Is there a direct link between sex ed and rape 2. Is it a lack of education in general or specific lack of sex education. 3. Why is this issue not raised while talking about rape 4. What are the steps the government could possibly take regarding this.

Hi everyone, I've been in my relationship over 2 years now (22&23). I'm Hindu and he is Protestant-Christian, we are both South Indian. Neither of our families are aware just yet. Whilst I am Hindu as per my family, I think I'm leaning towards agnostics by faith - but wouldn't convert. He isn't very religious but his parents are. As the relationship gets more serious, I am worried about our religious differences. Hinduism is pretty open, so it isn't the issue. This question is more so for the Christians in an interfaith relationship in this group. 1. How did you get around the Christian view of marriage, the union between her, him & god? The bible says when we marry someone we become one flesh with them and that we shouldn't unite with someone who rejects Jesus. 2. How did you get around being reunited with loved ones in the afterlife? The bible states only believers will be reunited in the afterlife and I think I've read not marrying the same faith means you will not be together in eternity. Somewhere I read that this could even lead to other family members not being reunited. He isn't happy to get involved with hindu religious activities, as he thinks it's either praying on Christian terms or none. But we would be able to celebrate both festivities. I'm just worried his parents would be hung up on these points and was wondering how you got around it :)

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Before we start, its just my opinion its not reliable, i may be overthinking but i wanna know what fellow redditors think about my opinion. India has been performing good in almost every aspect (almost), and education is good too. Indian students are getting higher marks than ever before, which means that they are gonna be adults within 10 years and get a good job with a good salary which will increase Indias income per capita (correct me if im wrong)

* I am socially anxious. I am a law intern. There was hearing going on( which wasn't mine) and I wanted to submit a document to clerk. I went inside without thinking, the action happened spontaneously. I gave the document and everyone was stunned, even the judge. I came out and then realised, what the hell I have done!* I started obsessing, crying and thinking of how to jump from a tall building* Sorry for such a mind fuck title! Here are some few examples 1. During my exams, we were told to bubble the Roll NO of OMR Sheet. I didn't ask and bubbled the wrong roll no. I was forgiven, when I emailed the university. *I don't know how, but I did the same thing for next 3 papers. After I do some stupid action, I come back to my senses and the regret a lot* Ofcourse suicide is the only thought that makes me calm and sleep. 2. I roam with my seniors as a law intern in court premises, but don't know where I am and where to go. *I went to building A and then B with them. They told me being documents from building which is 3 floor building and despite noticing building B has only one floor, I went to B. They mocked me that it's not the right building* After that, I realised my mistake. I regretted, I should have done something different. I don't notice small things and don't know what I am doing. 3. I was told to get a submit documents. I went to office to submit, but they rejected due to no stamp and asked me to go to record room to get it stamped. Instead of going there, I called my senior and told him about this. Why would I do that? Why not just go there and take a stamp. I don't know why I even called? *Something about me* 1. I talk to myself a lot, 24/7. I abuse myself and absent minded 24/7. 2. I am harsh on myself and think of suicide over simplest things. *For example, today I messed up because I wasn't able to fill a stapler with pins. I told my senior to do it. I felt like crying and jumping from the window*

I am tired of all these people who post and whine about reservations but don't take the time to google the basic history or socio-economic context. Maybe if we required them to acknowledge that the population of reserved classes in this country approx. 70 crore people (SC+ST+OBC), they will stop providing examples of individual cases. If someone is bitching about merit, the least they should do is know not to generalize anecdotal stories to 70% of the population.

its must have been a no brainer for most in India but my parents, especially my mother has a lot of anxiety issues and phobia of medicines and doctors and I am in a different city, I have been very frustrated with my failed attempts to convince them. They are scared of side effects of covishield and think covaxin is a shitty vaccine. Can't convince them for either of the shots, please if you have any ideas let me know I am desperate right now.

I have recently bought a new laptop. I want to know whether the mobile internet is sufficient for the laptop or should I buy a new broadband connection. As I have never used a laptop or personal computer before. I am a CSE engineering student in second year and college is starting in a week.

Need to print like 5 pages per day max. What would be a low maintenance and economical option.

I am new to the field, and I can't figure out how to ask for payment. Do I ask for it before beginning to write the code (don't think this is right, but just putting it there for arguement's sake), after every "x" lines of code, or after I'm done with the code? Or should I just go for an hourly/weekly rate? Also, any tips? Such as, how do you people make sure that the guy who hired is gonna pay you, and won't scam you? Also, as an Indian, do you have to pay the taxes for money earned while freelancing, and can you freelance while having a job in a company, like how doctors have their own clinics/consultancies despite working in hospitals?

I've been slapped by one on the train, one grabbed my dick and balls in the public bus in Delhi. Another one tried to remove my shirt thumping on my chest touching me. I used to travel in bus as I was a college student at that time. The next time I was on the bus and they entered and quickly I exited from the back door, booked a cab paying almost 5x the price lol. I think it's normal for some people and there's nothing to worry about but I still remember it sometimes even after 4-5 years of that incident. Since then never visited Delhi or want to visit again in my entire life. So how many of you have faced this situation? I'm from other state btw.

This is a personal opinion and if you hate controversial topics, I suggest not reading. Also a note, I don't have any hate or love towards anyone based on their caste, everyone is a human. I don't know much history regarding this system and the reservations made to counter the discrimination, but what's happening around me is just clearly unfair. I live in a city and most people around me doesn't discriminate by caste in general, as much as I've seen. But although the school teaches you that discrimination is wrong, It still asks you your caste during your admission. So, I have two friends, let's say A and B. Both belong to quite equal middle class families who own a normal house and lead a normal life. But these JEE Mains exams were conducted few months ago and A got lesser percentile than B. But A was the one who got qualified for JEE Advanced and not B. Why? Cause he has a caste based reservation. Is this fair? I don't think so. Knowing them both personally and knowing how much someone has to work to get some good score, it seems just too unfair for me. I understand the reasoning of the "caste based selection" for the better representation from lower castes, but still, it doesn't seem right to deny someone a qualification and qualify someone who worked less than them, even though they've the same standard of life, just cause they belong to different castes. And removing this system doesn't seem ideal too, cause there are still a lot of people who judge people by the family they are born in. There are still a lot of people who believe what their parents and ancestors believed and divide society. This shit's been here for many lifetimes and although reservation proves better for minorities, it's just as unfair. Reservation was just a short term solution and investment in education was way better, but that didn't happen I think. The education system is trash, that's another topic, but to get a higher percentile in JEE Mains, you certainly have to work harder. And that's a dream for many injected into their heads under a lot of pressure by their parents and it's too unfair that you have to work your ass off to get qualified if you are in general category and work a lot less if you belong to any other. It's not anyone's fault they were born into any caste and the sins of your ancestors have nothing to do with you. Reservation, sure helps candidates from lower castes, but it also increases the gap between castes, cause people will generally look down on you if you qualify with less marks and in a way, it makes the situation worse. The fault is of parents and elders; they pass on what they know to their children and the children, being new to the world just get it into their head unknowingly. The only solution I can think of, simply put is more emphasis on education and awareness.

We've had an employee leave and my manager has basically dumped all the work he does on me. I've let him know that I am not in the right frame of mind to pick it up and that the work is of an additional resource which is being dumped on me. He completely dismissed my mental state and mentioned they're not hiring and that there's no other option than to leverage me to the other team. I told him what my stance is on this whole situation and if they still want to dump the work on me, there's nothing I can do. We had a call today where he mentioned I'll be taking the new work and part of my existing work will be distributed. Tbh, I'm not really interested in their work since it's not my expertise and not something that interests me. I don't see myself putting in my best to get tasks completed and this is demotivating me af! My training is to begin shortly and I want to know if there's anything I can do to get out of this situation right now. It probably is too late though.

Hi. i want to know which is the best place between Darjeeling and Kurseong. Which are the best hostels to stay and what are the do's and don'ts when visiting the above places? Is it possible to visit both the places?Please provide your valuable suggestions Thank you.

If a classmate or colleague(guys asks a woman) such as ▪︎Asks where to find office room etc ▪︎Complementing dress or hair style ▪︎asks about weekend plans ▪︎movie's & food etc I want to overcome this nervousness but have to talk to women because it affects my work My problem: In my school i had co education but talking with opposite sex was criticized by teachers, we cannot ask a pen, even talking about academics. We were warned,slandered & labeled as bad characterless morally loose people.They say why can't you talk about same thing with a guy,Why are you asking her. i didn't care about this problem but as i did internship while still was in college. Did a internship in a company during where i had female colleague's as team close to my age group. Due to my nervousness with women my team performance got affected by it I hate being marked as bad guy so i avoid eye contact, try to minimize & summarize the conversation as possible with a girl, even avoid eye contact idc if they think I'm rude its much better than that tag as characterless bad guy. If i had guys in my team i would have asked them to for lunch together/ atleast asked them do you know any good restaurant for lunch. I just avoided personal questions other than stuff related to internship (i felt same teachers logic why couldn't i ask a guy working at that company or use internet. I did use internet for finding restaurant near-by) i completed my internship.

This has been a personal curiosity for a while now. I have people in my extended family who watch these hateful TV news channels. Channels that just get worse and worse every day, serving up more and more hatred to the audiences. And I have seen a drastic change in some of the personalities of my relatives over the years. Especially this irritating habit of whataboutery which has sprung up. They have become angrier and political arguments always end up becoming heated (like a TV news debate). Wanted to know your experience and if you have seen a personality change in the people who regularly consume hateful TV debate content. And if you have, do you let it be or do you actively try to stop them from watching hateful content? Have to add: I know there are other sources of hateful information that people might be consuming (whatsapp forwards, YouTube vids, online articles and posts etc). But I'm specifically curious about what effect TV news "debates" are having on people. TL;DR -- Have seen people who watch TV news debates getting angrier over the years, have you seen it too? Have you actively tried to stop them from consuming hateful content? What was the result?

So, we had a construction dispute with our neighbours, who were doing illegal construction (constructing more than sanctioned map). They also damaged our house in the construction process, caused a lot of trouble (dirt, debris, noise), and also covered our open area thereby blocking sunlight and air. We filed a complaint against them in high court and plead to demolish the illegal part. Now our neighbour has good political reach and she has filed a false harrasment complaint against us (me and my father). She has some relatives in police who filed an FIR against us and we have been summoned in the SDM office tomorrow for IPC 107, 116. Can someone suggest how should we proceed? We want to punish her for filing false complaint, how to go about this? Update 23/09: They took 50k in FD for 10 months from each of us and made us sign a peace surety. In the event if surety is breached, they will keep the 50k, otherwise it will be returned to us after 10 months. On top of this, the police officer took 2000 rs bribe and said not to worry and he will take care of everything. Motherfuckers lodged an FIR that we are the ones throwing garbage in their house and abusing them, and the police bought it without any evidence. Police wrote the FIR because they are going to get a part of those 2000rs.

I'm not really much of a fitness freak so I won't be needing any high accuracy measurements. Instead, i want a smartwatch with the maximum number of features with a good quality. It would be of great help if you people can recommend smartwatches like the one I have described. Also it shouldn't be a band. Thanks in advance!

Hey! I am based in the UK and I am looking to set up a bank account to receive and send rupees in India. I already have a Indian Ltd company. Does anyone know of any online only type accounts? We have tried ICICI etc and are experiencing some difficulties so are looking for a modern online based service.

Going by my experience, both times - I went to the reception counter, got the certificate SMS, and was then asked to go get my vaccine. Wondering how many people out there who don't want the vaccine for whatever reason got the certificate for legal purposes and then walked off.

So, I booked my 2nd dose of Covieshield yesterday at a government vaccination centre in gurgaon through cowin portal. Something came up and I couldn't go to the vaccination center. Got this message on my phone today.... **Dear \*\*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\*, You have successfully been vaccinated with your 2nd Dose with COVISHIELD on 22-09-2021 at 12:02 PM. You may download your vaccination Certificate from -** [**https://cowin.gov.in**](https://cowin.gov.in) **- CoWIN**

When I asked bank manager, he said that loan restructuring is not available. I have asked him to accept some prepayment and reduce my monthly EMI for which the staff there out rightly said no. The only possibility he said is that I can pay limited prepayments once a year. Any Bank/Loan experts?

Source: [https://www.covid19india.org/state/UP](https://www.covid19india.org/state/UP) I mean testing is good but at what time does this become wasteful? The tests weren't even close to being proportionate during the second wave. Found this article [https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/uttar-pradesh-covid-19-testing-cases-yogi-adityanath-1845437-2021-08-26](https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/uttar-pradesh-covid-19-testing-cases-yogi-adityanath-1845437-2021-08-26) >The testing protocol by the WHO for Uttar Pradesh is 32,000 tests per day, whereas the Covid testing in the state has hovered between 150,000 and 200,000 of late, the statement read.

Hi there! I am one of the moderators of [r/IGCSE](https://www.reddit.com/r/IGCSE/), and have made this post today courtesy of the moderators of r/india (thanks for the permission!) **WHO WE ARE:** [r/IGCSE](https://www.reddit.com/r/IGCSE/) is a subreddit primarily aimed at IGCSE students, and we have noticed that there are a lot of new IGCSE and A Level students who have joined the subreddit recently. As such, we wish to spread the word and allow all CIE students to enjoy all the resources, tips and help offered on our subreddit! We started this subreddit two years ago, in 2019, and currently have over 8600 students (8627 at the time of this post, if you wish to be more specific!) Read on to know more about what we do on our subreddit! **WHAT WE DO:** * In [r/IGCSE](https://www.reddit.com/r/IGCSE/), we have something known as a **Wiki page** [**(link here)**](https://www.reddit.com/r/igcse/wiki/index) where we have a repository filled with resources for the IGCSE exams. All of the resources and notes in our Wiki are user-donated, so anyone can reach out to us via the Modmail feature and we will credit you when we add your resources as well. * We also do something known as **Paper Discussions**, which consists of students discussing the paper they just did in the exam, denoted by an yellow-orange coloured post. We do monitor all posts and comments through our moderation team to check if they had done anything which breaks our rules (for example malpractice, which is basically leaking or cheating in exam papers) and we take strict action where necessary. * When results day rolls around, we also have a **Results-day Megathread post** pinned on our subreddit, where students discuss about the results and their expectations, as well as sharing the results they received if they wanted to. * The subreddit also is a great place to ask for advice, tips, help, and just about anything to do about the IGCSE exams. **HOW WILL IT HELP YOU:** We understand that due to the current situation, we have had a tough time in general adapting to the different learning methods and preparing for your IGCSE exams. For the exams happening next month and next year we hope that you will be able to enjoy the wealth of resources, tips, help and advice on offer on our subreddit! Links to our subreddit and Discord-partnered server where you can find more resources, help and advice, are below: # [r/IGCSE](https://www.reddit.com/r/IGCSE/) Subreddit ​

Don't know if this is the correct place to ask but I was wondering if I could carry my old 27 inch monitor from gulf to India? Would I need to pay custom taxes or I might get exempt from it due to the size of the screen.

Why recommendations on which website will be the best to get tshirts customised online, like getting the pictures that i want on it. I have bad experience with swagshirts and I'm really doubtful about vistaprint. Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated, thank you.

All these CoinKuber ads makes me want to jump in. Want to tread the waters with a low budget obviously. So would love to hear your suggestions.

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While they remain in force, social media platforms are obligated to comply with its provisions. One such provision of the 2021 IT Rules - (Rule 4(1)(d)) - requires social media platforms to publish monthly compliance reports. In these reports, they are required to: 1. mention the details of complaints received and actions taken thereon, and 2. the number of specific communication links or parts of information that the social media platform has removed or disabled access to by proactive monitoring. Some of the big social media companies have released their second compliance reports recently. To understand the impact of the 2021 IT Rules on users and functioning of intermediaries, we examine their reports to capture some of the most important information for you. 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This report excludes all grievances relating to intellectual property. *Complaints from users in India* Facebook has reported to have received 1504 complaints which relate to fake profiles (143),  content showing a user in nudity/partial nudity or in a sexual act (80), hacked  accounts (474), lost access to a page or group (110), bullying or harassment (146), access to personal data (46), inappropriate or abusive content (128), issues with how Facebook is processing data (62), content where users do not want to be displayed (39), and others (276).  Facebook claims to have responded to 100% of the reports and to have provided users with tools to resolve their issues in 1326 cases. Instagram, similarly, received 265 reports complaints which related to fake profiles (61), content showing a user in nudity/partial nudity or in a sexual act (42), hacked  accounts (77), bullying or harassment (44), access to personal data (17), inappropriate or abusive content (10), and content where users do not want to be displayed (14). Facebook claims to have responded to 100% of the reports and to have provided users with tools to resolve their issues in 181 cases. *Proactive Monitoring* Facebook actioned content (which includes removal of content with a warning) relating to 10 issues, viz., adult nudity and sexual activity (26 lakh), bullying and harassment (123.4K), organised hate (94.5K), terrorist propaganda (121.2K), hate speech (324.3K), drugs (30.7K), firearms (4.6K), suicide and self-injury (945.6K), spam (2.56 crore) and violent and graphic content (35 lakh). These figures include proactive action. In each of these categories (except for hate speech, bullying and harassment, and firearms) more than 99% of the content was removed as a result of proactive action by Facebook by using its machine learning technology to detect such content. Instagram, similarly, took action against content relating to all the issues mentioned above except for spam, viz., adult nudity and sexual activity (676.1K), bullying and harassment (195.1K), organised hate (5.5K), terrorist propaganda (9.1K), hate speech (56.2K), drugs (11.5K), firearms (0.2K), suicide and self-injury (811.0K), and violent and graphic content (11 lakh). In each of these categories (except for bullying and harassment) more than 85% of the content was removed as a result of proactive action. All complaints in the above categories containing legal processes i.e. court orders, court decisions, statutory declarations, cease & desist letters, etc. were escalated for legal review. ## Twitter has now appointed a Resident Grievance Officer As an improvement from the last time, Twitter has now appointed a [**Resident Grievance Office** ](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/report-twitter-abuse-india)as required under the 2021 IT Rules. Twitter has also claimed to launch two new initiatives/updates - expansion of its policy against hateful content to include both targeted and non-targeted content, and launching a first of its kind self-regulation model called the Digital Trust and Safety Partnership (DTSP) along with a coalition consisting of Discord, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Pinterest, Reddit, Shopify and Vimeo. The data corresponding to legal requests made for content removal has still not been updated to include any period after December 2020. *Complaints received and actions taken* [**Twitter’s report**](https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/transparency-twitter/country-reports/india/India-ITR-Aug-2021.pdf) relates to the period between June 26 to July 25, 2021. It includes data received by the Grievance Officer in the form of complaints from individual users and court orders. It does not contain complaints relating to account verification, account access, or seeking assistance or information regarding a Twitter account or its enforcement policies - which Twitter claims formed the majority of complaints. Maximum numbers of grievances were received for abuse/harassment (36), followed by misinformation/synthetic media manipulation (28), IP-related infringement (13), defamation (13), and hateful conduct (12). No complaints were received with respect to child sexual exploitation, promotion of suicide/self-harm and illegal activities. Most URLs against which action was taken corresponded to abuse/harassment, IP related infringement, and privacy infringement. Additionally, 67 account suspension requests were received out of which only 24 were overturned. *Proactive Monitoring* 26,250 accounts are reported to have been suspended due to issues of child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and similar content. 5,387 accounts were suspended on account of promotion of terrorism. ## WhatsApp bans over 30 lakh accounts [**WhatsApp’s report**](https://scontent.whatsapp.net/v/t39.8562-34/240969276_545106493362951_1206124069291941768_n.pdf/India-Monthly-Report-WhatsApp-August_2021.pdf?ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=41cc27&_nc_ohc=550ha-_gl5AAX9aJ58r&_nc_ht=scontent.whatsapp.net&oh=184a843dbf313f36c4cc7363ed2cc77e&oe=614F3AE1), for the period ranging June 16 to July 31, 2021, has captured information on the grievances received from its users in India, and the proactive action taken by WhatsApp through its prevention and detection methods against accounts violating the laws of India or WhatsApp’s terms of service. *Complaints from users in India* WhatsApp received a total of 594 reports on various issues, viz., account support (137), ban appeal (316), other support (45), product support (64), and safety (32). Actions were taken in 74 of these reports - action denoting either banning of an account or restoring an earlier banned account as a result of a complaint. *Proactive monitoring* WhatsApp states that abuse detection operates at three stages of an account’s lifestyle - *at registration, during messaging, and in response to negative feedback, which WhatsApp receives in the form of user reports and blocks.* ‘Edge cases’ are analysed by a team of analysts which helps improve the effectiveness of the system over time. Indian accounts are identified by a ‘+91’ phone number.  Using this abuse detection approach,  30,27,000 accounts were banned by WhatsApp in the relevant period. ## Google’s mandatory compliance report reveals most of its user-related takedowns are again for copyright [**Google’s report**](https://storage.googleapis.com/transparencyreport/report-downloads/india-intermediary-guidelines_2021-7-1_2021-7-31_en_v1.pdf) provides information for the period ranging from July 1 to July 31, 2021 on the number of complaints received, the number of removal actions taken on those complaints and the removal actions taken as a result of automated detection mechanisms. While the report is hallmarked with both Google and Youtube logos, separate information is not provided. The data corresponding to government requests made for content removal has still not been updated to include any period after December 2020. *Complaints received and actions taken* Google received a total of 36,934 complaints from users on various issues, viz., copyright (35,678), trademark (471), defamation (259), counterfeit (67), circumvention (20), impersonation (11), pursuant to court order (4), graphic sexual content (2), and other legal issues (422). A single complaint specifies multiple items and URLs that relate to the same or different pieces of content. Accordingly, 95,680 content removal actions arising out of 36,934 complaints were taken by Google. Out of these, 94,862 removals were removed owing to copyright issues. *Proactive Monitoring* Google claims to use automated detection processes for some of its products to prevent the dissemination of harmful content such as child sexual abuse material and violent extremist content. 576,982 removal actions have been taken as a result of automated detection as per the report. ## What can SSMIs include in the report to truly advance transparency? The SSMIs should  keep in mind the [**Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation**](https://santaclaraprinciples.org/). These principles outline minimum levels of transparency and accountability and state: 1. Companies should publish the numbers of posts removed and accounts permanently or temporarily suspended due to violations of their content guidelines. 2. Companies should provide notice to each user whose content is taken down or account is suspended about the reason for the removal or suspension. 3. Companies should provide a meaningful opportunity for timely appeal of any content removal or account suspension. Principles 1 and 2 have been incorporated in the 2021 IT Rules under Rules 4(8)(a), 4(d) and 18(3). However, principle 3 has not been incorporated, as the grievance redressal mechanism specified under the 2021 IT Rules provides for a limited timeline for responding. This makes it difficult for the SSMIs to provide for an effective appeal mechanism. Further, principle 1 has been elaborated upon to include how the numbers should be broken down which SSMIs must follow in their compliance reports. Compliance with the 2021 IT Rules does not mandate disclosure of how many content removals were ordered by the government. However, in order to truly advance transparency in the digital life of Indians, it is imperative that SSMIs disclose government requests for content removal on their platforms. [**Facebook**](https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests/country/IN), [**Google**](https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/overview?hl=en) and [**Twitter**](https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/removal-requests.html#2020-jul-dec) have attempted to capture this data, but they have done so only till December 2020. All SSMIs must publicly disclose the government orders for takedown/information to truly champion transparency for the Indian users of the internet. ## Important Documents 1. Google’s IT Rules compliance report published in July 2021 ([**link**](https://storage.googleapis.com/transparencyreport/report-downloads/india-intermediary-guidelines_2021-7-1_2021-7-31_en_v1.pdf)) 2. Facebook’s and Instagram’s IT Rules compliance report dated August 31, 2021 ([**link**](https://transparency.fb.com/sr/india-monthly-report-august-2021/)) 3. WhatsApp’s compliance report dated August 31, 2021 ([**link**](https://scontent.whatsapp.net/v/t39.8562-34/240969276_545106493362951_1206124069291941768_n.pdf/India-Monthly-Report-WhatsApp-August_2021.pdf?ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=41cc27&_nc_ohc=550ha-_gl5AAX9aJ58r&_nc_ht=scontent.whatsapp.net&oh=184a843dbf313f36c4cc7363ed2cc77e&oe=614F3AE1)) 4. Twitter’s transparency report published in August 2021 ([**link**](https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/transparency-twitter/country-reports/india/India-ITR-Aug-2021.pdf)) Help us watch the watchmen. Become an [IFF member](https://internetfreedom.in/donate/), join our [growing community on Telegram](https://t.me/joinchat/iZMK2oalbt8xMGI1), or talk to us on the [IFF Forum](https://forum.internetfreedom.in/)!

Hello everyone, I hope you're doing fine. I know we get these kind of posts everyday and it gets dull and repetitive but I just need to get some things off my chest as I don't have anyone to talk to. Where do I even begin? I half-heartedly attempted various bachelors degree but I never finished any of them because I was simply not motivated to study anything properly nor had much interest in studying too much either (BBA, Hotel Management, BA History, Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics, didn't complete any of the courses). At 23 I started working as a Technician in a Chemical Lab (Civil Engineering consultancy firm) because my school friend's dad is owns the company, helps everyone in need (I didn't even ask for the job, he realized I fucked up my education, my mental health, knew that my father passed away when I was in 10th grade so he just said join my office. He offered 25k-30k initially but I said just pay me like you'd treat any other unskilled employee, so I started with 12k and now I'm 21k. However, I'm so tired of my job that I haven't gone to work to work without even telling my HoD. I've just been sitting at home, doing nothing. I want to learn something like AutoCAD or Revit, but I'm not sure if I have the basic common sense or the competency learn it. I've always been a complete fucking idiot when it comes studying. It'd be helpful if you can can suggest if its worth doing, as I might consider some diploma abroad or something, I'm completely miserable in my current environment, I've always lived here and I just feel like moving out. And that was just work related troubles. I've been depressed for as long as I can remember, have no self-esteem, very anxious in social settings, never had friends (they only talk/meet me out of obligation), never had a girlfriend. Since last 2 years or so I no longer go out to meet anyone, and when I go its not enjoyable, it just makes me feel worse about myself seeing my friends have relationships, studying more, progressing and in general being fairly enthusiastic about life. Feeling very, very lonely since quite some time now. I've always had a shitty and dull personality, no ambitions and just about the most boring, sad person who'd you ever meet. I'm just not motivated about anything, not even taking care of my health, I've had like 4 meals in the last 4 days. Every now and then I forget my epilepsy medication. I get seizures like 10/30 days a month because I just don't bother with the medicine. I had a mal-grand seizure at an Egg Laari when I was out eating with my friend, he had to drop me off in a rickshaw. And that's not all. I've been smoking weed regularly for 8 years. At first it was just recreational use but soon it became my go-to escape routine. I really want to quit, but its so difficult. I'm seeing a gradual decline in my mental and physical health and there's nothing I feel like doing. I no longer enjoy any activities like watching Netflix/TV Shows/Movies, hanging out with friends, reading books, playing sports. Although I'd like to end on a better note. It was a lot worse two years before. I'd smoke weed and play Mobile Legends all day. If you'd looked at me you'd think I eat drugs instead of food. I was 55 kgs and 6"2 so my physique was always unhealthy. I know this person is hated because of his political stances, but Jordan Peterson's lectures really helped me. Instead of being high all the time and playing Mobile Legends, I got a job, ate well (now 77 kgs), started helping with the household stuff. After this I got interested in a bunch of other philosophies like Stoicism, Bhagvatgita etc. I'd recommend it to anyone who's not doing well in life. So that'll be it. Even though I haven't posted this yet it feels like a relief to get this off my chest, I have no one to talk to and at this point I'm too ashamed to talk to anyone I know. I hope you fellas have a nice day.

My laptop is the definition of potato PC so I've decided to change. My range is 40k to 55k. I use it for work, some casual gaming, blender and obviously numerous chrome tabs. Please suggest me a few options

So i recently visited *Chilli's Bar and Grill* in *Mall of India*, Noida. My bill was some 4200 including GST, VAT(on liquor) and some 350 service charge. I politely asked the waiter to waive off the service charge as it's optional, he started to argument that we have written it on some card on the table(i didn't actually noticed it as we scanned the menu from barcode on phone). He started to insist us that it's for our service and it's already written. I said but that's up to me if i like your service it would pay, you can not impose that on us and as per govt. it's only GST and VAT(on liquor) which i need to pay. Then i told him, your restaurant is in India, you have to follow what govt. rules are, and clearly told him to revise the bill. He then came back with revised bill of some 3900 and then he asked for something which was really weird to me. He asked for my name and my contact no. i asked him why do you want to know? It's against my right to privacy as i don't know where you are going to use it. He said no we need it, those who don't pay service tax we keep their record, i was literally like "what the fuck man!"(feeling inside, didn't express). At this moment i really didn't want to argu, so i told him some random no and paid the bill. It was a really weird experience for me, i know some restaurant add service charge but they waive off as you request them, but asking for name and no. wasn't really expected. Also, please do check your bills guys! Again, i am not against the tip, but it's up to us, if we feel happy with the service we pay, it shouldn't be imposed!

I would first like to know what your father talked to you about when you were edit: regular talks, like what did you talk about the whole day, a highlight 1. From like 1st grade to 5th 2. 5th to 8th 3. 9th to 10th 4. 10th to 12th 5. After 12th to job maybe ​ So my answers are ​ 1. “after 6th it’s extremely hard.” He barely talked to me except for studies. 2. “I want you to be in IIT”. Same case no talking to me except studies. 3. “I want you to be in IIT”. Still zero talking except asking this question 4) He understood I am not so capable because I got less than expected marks and therefore started saying I need to go to some local college at least. 4. I am in 12th currently but he mostly talked to my sister (engineer) about bank jobs only. Though now she is pursuing data science. ​ I don’t think that’s normal. He is friendlier to his friends which rarely visit. He is also nice to his seniors in his job. He is harsh on his juniors. He is really involved in his job and his job is likely to be his priority. I love him but why man. Why should all you think about is my studies? I know he is stressed about me, but this is not the way. I don’t like the life I am living. Wake up, procrastinate, study a bit, then procrastinate more, and I am more likely to have ADHD But I cannot just go to the psychiatrist. I just want to know what your father talked to you about. Like, Am I the Asshole? Majority of my life experiences I have gotten through my other family members, myself, Reddit, and youtube. I wrote this post because again an incident today. My twelfth boards are coming up. Just as context. Now, today morning I woke up at 5, and took my blanket, pillows to sleep with my parents, because I wanted to pee and the bathroom is in their room and I am too lazy to come back to my room. But it was 5 Am and my father was awake, watching youtube. But when he got to knew I was coming there to sleep he turned his phone off and turned off the lights. But when I came from the bathroom and fell on the bed to sleep, he started chanting his usual Beta NCERT saB karle aur tun top kargea, sab practice karle, tere oswaal books kal deliver ho jaenge (btw I have a plethora of books for me which Papa buys for me and from previous sisters, relatives) It went on for 5 minutes and then I slept, but then when I woke the first thing he said to me was that only. Then I got to my online school, then a break came and I was reading patchg notes of a game I play, and he came again and told me the same damn thing. In total he came in front of me like 10-11 times today from morning and has said me the Padhai chant 13-15 times, also no talk except you know, studies, nothing. He rarely smiles. When we were in the mall, I have told him ill fine him 50 Rs every time he removes his mask, but whenever I say that Ill fine he says first you complete NCERT. You might be wondering why I don’t start casual talking with him?? I do, and the next line, or maybe even when I haven’t stopped talking he will break my sentence and start his padhai chant. How why what AITA? What should I do?

Where do I get good winter clothes (Jackets, shoes ) suitable for Germany. Any online links or nation wide Retail chains are welcome. Anyone having experience with the the above ?

I think I missed the memo on this one? Does anyone know the source other than these RSS dimwits? The hatred is so visceral for Gandhi. Why would that be? This is like for some reason America hating Lincoln.

Hi, ​ I am facing some issues on how to calculate daily protein intake and calculate my daily macros in cutting, can anyone pls help?

Hello everyone, I'm a medical student who's doing a research project about vaccine hesitancy in India pertaining to COVID-19. I'm looking for a variety of opinions. I'm interested to understand what the average Indian feels about the COVID-19 vaccine. The quiz is completely anonymous and will take 2-6 minutes to complete. Please take some time off your day to answer it. Thank you so much! [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNOU4JI2J0pfOmz0YQkh-R47xMLvj3LY4xfyRhUEG1h1ax-Q/viewform?usp=sf\_link](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNOU4JI2J0pfOmz0YQkh-R47xMLvj3LY4xfyRhUEG1h1ax-Q/viewform?usp=sf_link)

Bare with me I am not good with my english. This morning I was travelling from Kota to Delhi via train one thing all us Indian train travellers know that is there are certain members of trans community who comes and asks for money and until now I have gave them the money everytime but things were different this morning I slept late this morning I was only one left in the whole bogie that person came and woke me up asked me for money so at first I gave 20 Rs but they was asking me for 100 Rs or else she threatened to take off their upper dress so I quickly reached my bag and gave him another 20 but they continue to ask for more at one point they lifted up their upper dress so I instantly closed my eyes thank god I could see anything much so then I had to show them my whole bag that I had no money in me (I had some money hidden under the hidden pocket of my bag) and that I was planning to travel via metro to my room, at that time the train attendant came and asked them to leave, I was relieved that someone came. I don't know whether this count as sexual assault but I was very much uncomfortable and how can I ask for help in these situations in future? Who can I call and report a complain?

A lot of people wish to leave and India and settle in other countries that they believe is far better and they aren't wrong. And USA is always the prime destination for obvious reasons. But COVID and Trump have made me think it is way more similar to India with the only difference being they have more money and resources to get things done and retain people to do things. And here on Reddit you see so much negative stuff about how messed up USA is. Yes it's an echo chamber but also they echo what is happening. Things like attacking doctors and nurses as part of a conspiracy is like attacking doctors here in India for "failing" to save their patients. The politicians also seem illiterate and fake like in India. Their sense of entitlement is also similar. But the thing is I expected them to handle COVID easily while I knew in my heart India will suffer. Not to mention how easy it is for their economy to suffer and how many complain about health costs and insurance and rent etc etc it feels like a lot of immigrants know how to live successfully in USA than the typical native American (native as in white)! I don't think anyone cared if the virus is fake or real here but since we are Nation of day to to day survivors anyone had the time to argue this while people were dying unlike in the USA who are still arguing over masks and vaccines and what not and that is nearly half of their population I think. So I wonder what do you guys think? Would you settle over there? If you do would you be middle class or the rich according to their standards? Is it worth it if they just fight over common sense things? They shout they are better than everyone but attack their own scientists and doctors and call them killers and traitors. They openly say those who die of the virus deserved it! And they don't care and would rather continue their jobs and lives instead of working together...the us response to covid is like this: you accidentally cut your finger in the kitchen so you let the wound and bleeding get bad and focus on calling the manufacturer a fraud/killers, you call the doctors frauds and in pocket of the knife company and complain when they have to amputate your fingers or worse your hand! And you do this all your life.

Please suggest some history books related to partition and West Bengal. Also some suggestions of books on kings of Rajasthan and Maharashtra.

So hi there, I need a little bit of advice here. I am from a shitty college didn't really study anything but after wasting around 2 years after graduation, I decided to get a job so started studying on udemy and I wasn't even sure which path I was on as I was so desperate for a job but things eventually got better and I ended up finding a job which pays me around 55k pm. I was initially very happy with it but recently I came to know that most of my colleague had their job title product engineer and most of them are from tier 1 college, even at a freshers level they are earning around 1.2 lpm in hand. Most of them code backend in golang. Well I happy with what I'm earning but it'd have been nice if I was earning something like that. I am wondering how can I get there. Shall I study ds algo and all associated backend stuff or there's no point as I'd never get an interview because of being from tier 3 college with 50% in graduation or shall I just focus on getting better at frontend. Thanks a lot. Please advise if you are from relevant background. So far what I've done is completely on my own, I had no idea where javascript path would lead me to until I got a job as FE1. Thanks once again

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Hi, I'm 24 and I've been in a LDR before- after 4 years of relationship he had to move abroad, tried to make it work but it didn't happen due to stress and family issues (total 5 yrs together). Hence, I decided never to get into LDR. But recently I've grown fond of this guy who lives 2,000 miles away (in india) and there is no issue with the guy, I'm just very sceptical if we can make it work (blame PTSD & depression from last relationship). We both can manage to see each other in every 2-3 months by visiting each other or going on trips together. The thing is, after such traumatic experience, I don't want another heartbreak, too scared About what if it ends up badly again. Also, what if this is it? Don't want to miss it either. So what and how was your experience? And where are you today? Also, if you know, where is your LDR partner today?

The Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir signed his accession to India in 1947, so why have China and Pakistan illegally occupied parts of it and why are they trying to claim it as there own land?

I carry two sim cards one Jio one Vodafone. Jio I use for call and Data and is annually recharged. Vodaphone I keep only because my Bank account and other important stuff is linked to it. I used to recharge the minimum amount on it but now the minimum recharge had omitted the option for SMS. I have balance talktime and service validity but I can't send a stupid SMS which sometimes required for UPI registration and other bank apps. This is so frustrating the cheapest option for SMS to work is Rs. 128. I still remember the days when SMS was the cheapest option and I would just send SMS to save on balance. Now I can have a GB of Data for less than Rs 20 but to send an SMS I need Rs 128. The telecom companies are struggling to survive and they are to blame for it. My Vodafone number used to be Postpaid but I would barely get any reception at any place I traveled, the service was so bad I had to switch to Jio. Jio was much cheaper and it works. I am willing to pay for a better service but paying more and getting worse service is just getting ripped off. The feeling of getting ripped off is only increasing when I recharge I have to recharge for talktime and recharge to get the service availability extended and its very confusing. I would assume if I get talktime I would get service validity but no they just keep complicating things. Vodafone is truly the worst network in India, I can't even remember how many times I have missed important OTPs. End Rant.

I got married when I was nearing 30. Got separated and legally divorced 3.2 years down the line. Now 37. Pathetic marriage and ex-wife was terrible. Cheated on me with 4 different people (before and after marriage). I went through depression from 2014-2019. Been single since divorce. Don't have trust anymore on females, especially from metro cities. (ex was from a Metro and even I was working in a Metro). Family / friends are pressuring me for second marriage. Wondering if staying alone all life would be a good decision? Apart from support from children during old age illnesses and pangs of loneliness, is there any other reason to look forward to a marriage? I earn well myself. If you are single and in late 30s, 40s, or 50s, how did you manage loneliness ? (Irrespective of gender) PS: Created a new account to post this question as I don't want it to be linked to my original profile. It's a genuine question, if you don't have anything constructive, at least don't be trivial / mocking about my question. Tks.

There are so many songs copied from either old Hindi songs or international artist compositions.I never see any credits given to the artist in their youtube videos. It's concerning especially because some of these are black artists and in today's political climate you are not allowed to be that tone deaf. Few examples of copied songs from international artists Maxi Preist -Close to you Mark Morrison- Return of the mack Madonna - Secret Even songs copied from Indian artists that composed the songs in the 70s are rarely given any credit.

My massi and massad (my aunty and uncle) have been married for more than 15 years. And LITERALLY non even a single day they havnt fought. He lives with my aunty. That means my grandma (nani), my aunty, uncle and 3 children live under same roof. He LITERALLY has no job or work. He WAS doing a bakery business by taking loan from bank to buy equipments for business but slowly slowly he sold all this property to buy alcohol. My aunty works at university, children are in school. Boy 15, boy 12 ( handicap) and girl 10. He beats his children and wife alot. Almost broke the hands of my aunty and my elder cousin brother. My grandma is in her 80s and have hearing aids. He breaks the door of my grandma rooms and enter her room and break every thing. Although now she has notthing for him to break. He LITERALLY takes away food from his children, and beats them, yells at them. Once my brother was locked into bathroom by mistake and he started yelling at my grandma for locking him in bathroom. You see how clever game he plays? On the one side he tourtor his kids and on the other hand he blames my grandma by using his kids to yell at my grandma. I mean if you care so much about kids why do you hit them so much? He lies alot in front of someone else. He plays victim. He sold his parents property to buy alchohol. He has a loan of 20lakhs and demands my aunty to for money to pay but he uses that money for alchohol. He is very very very selfish person. I am guessing you got the idea what kind of person he is. Its been 15 years and we are still facing it. And we are at that point we had enough. I have some legal inquires because i am very naive. I am looking for some serious guidence to help with this problems legally. We want to divorce but he threaten to kill my grandma and my aunty. We want him to put him into jail because again he says he will come out and kill them. We want to be safe. What should we do ? How can my aunty give him divorce? What if he doesnt sign? What if he literally come to kill them? We are actually more scared about our grandma. Because he is actually very voilent. How can we TOTALLY get rid of him? Do we need an evidence for police to show them what kind of perosn he is? Because he is very clever and lies and play victim card alot. Whom should we contact. I was thinking of setting a hideen camera to capture his behaviour. Should i do it? Please please help me out here. Thank you. Edit : its better to talk to a legal advisor.

Hi, Anyone here who had joined collegepond admission consultancy for SOP, LOR, Resume drafting, Application assistance, University shortlisting etc ? or anyone planning to join? \*collegepond is based in Mumbai, India.

Hello Everyone, This is just a rant(and I don't know if this is the right place, so if the mods want they can remove this post) so you can skip this post if you want. I couldn't figure out how to start, so I'll start from whatever comes to my mind first. Background: I [21M] am pursuing my bachelor's degree in science from a college in Gorakhpur which is not a very top rated college and thinking about this keeps me thinking 'Did I make a bad decision by choosing this college?' Now as far back as I can remember, my father always used to say that you should study hard and try to become an IAS or an IPS officer. That they are topmost people in government job and they enjoy a lot of power and also get lots of money.Or you can even give PCS exam,or SSC exam, or all other exams. All in all, they've (my parents) always tried to convince me to study to get a gov job, and they have been successful in their motive to quiet an extent. At first I was attracted to the glory of a gov job but slowly and gradually I started to lose interest in it. Recently, while my father was away from home, I told my mother that I don't want to do gov job and she got very angry over it. She told all this to my father and when he returned home, he gave me a nice dose of scolding and said some very harsh things. The sentence that hurt me the most was: "अगर तुम्हारे भाग्य में लात और जूता खाना ही लिखा होगा तो मैं उसको बदल थोड़ी ना सकता हूं।" And believe me, it had hurted me a lot. I know that everyone's parents want their child's future to be safe and my parents are not any different and whatever they say is for my own betterment, but they're expecting a lot from me. I'm not a very bright student and I've never been and I don't think I have enough potential to crack these hard exams like upsc and ssc, but they are not ready to accept this fact. I don't know what my talents are, neither do I have any skills which can help me in future. I'm totally unsure of what will happen to me in future, will I be able to do something good in my life? I don't know. Thinking about this makes me scared. I've nothing else to say. You could give me some suggestions if you like. If you've reached till here then thank you for your patience and please excuse my English (as i've already told you that I don't have any skills). Thank you.

Kindly visit the campaign to know the full story. She was my childhood friend and a wonderful human being. https://www.impactguru.com/fundraiser/donate-to-purnima

this post is for discussion regarding the excessive dominance of reliance and Adani group in the Indian market. this post expects and accepts the different types of views regarding this topic. I would love to hear your opinion regarding this point.

my riend wants to apply for a passport, we are living in Bangalore in an apartment on rent, we wanted to know how much of a hassle is it. for e.g. for police verification what do you give as address prooof? will it be the rent agreement? if yes then does it have to be an updated rent agreement? we got one made with the landlord last year when we moved in which is going to expire next month, so do we have to renew the lease and show that as address proof? if you do get a passport from the city you work from and later on you want to get your address changed on your password to your hometown how tedious will the process be. and this last question is bangalore specific, can someone share their experience with bangalore police with regards to this? how cooperative are they?

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I am a 25 years old CA Currently having a full time job. I want to prepare for UPSC exams. Is there a way I can prepare without doing any online classes? And if I have to join any online class, which one would u suggest? Also is BYJUs any good for IAS preparation?

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16 year old here. Let's get to the story. In 2019, I came to know that this girl 1 year younger than me has a crush on me. She was creepy. The way she would stare at me. Everything. I told a teacher and it was solved. Or I thought so.I was told, For the next year she kept targetting every single girl-friend I've had. she went to the point of accusing me of something in front of my class teacher. Good thing she already knew. Lockdown happened. Fast forward. Today I got to know the aftermath of everything. The way she would stalk my friends. Now I want to know, if her crush still exists, how do I protect myself If she fake accuses me, my life, career expectations, academia I've established upto this point will all be down in a hole. I'll literally end my life if this happens. I'm way too afraid. I'll turn 18 soon, and then no law will protect me against fake accusitions. Any help as to how I can avoid this bullshit?

Some of you may know me. My 24 years of existence have been disappointing and the future seems hopeless. **Every single thing I have done in my life has gone wrong. Every single aspect of my life is wrong.I have never felt happy in my life.** My education was ruined. My career seems to be in a situation where it goes nowhere. I have no options to move ahead in life, to earn well in life. No friends to meet , no life experiences to remember. If my mind was different,if it was better maybe I might have had a chance. My brain says My life does not deserve to be prolonged. It needs to end.

We’ve been in a relationship for 6 years. We love each other and already went through all ups and downs in our relationship. I’m very confident that he’s the one. Both, well educated and currently working at reputed companies. Main issue that my parents have with him is that he’s from a “lower” caste and my bf parents aren’t together (some family issues). They want me to marry some random dude with a reputed/wealthy family which I think is soooo Indian and materialistic. I know time heals everything and I just need to stand my ground. But I’d like to ask if anyone is in this type of situation and how did you cope up with all the drama? EDIT: Some detail about the relationship to help understand my situation better: We’re classmates for a while, 2 years - long distance(believe me, it’s hard), 3 years - we’re in the same town, 1 year - live in ( after we both moved overseas for job). We are both Hindus but don’t follow the religion much. We always have discussions about most of the things that affect a relationship like religion, future, goals, career etc. We have similar views and goals. Of course a couple of small exceptions.(not big deal compromises to either of us) Our current obstacle is convincing parents for marriage. With my parents I initially tried to explain history(little-little) but the conversation is going in a way that I was lying to them all along (6 -year)& they’re soo hurt thinking that I betrayed them. That’s why I’m hiding the history from them for now. Although I’m not sure if hiding the history is the right way. Update: Thanks for all the advice, everyone. I’m already feeling better. I will try my best to convince them before taking any decisions that’d make my parents unhappy. I can do it !!!

I live in Lucknow so If anyone knows about local shops where I can find paintings then it would be great too.

I graduated second class in Engineering and somehow managed to get jobs in IT field for 3 years. I never had interest in CS or IT field tbh and have no hope in continuing in the field, unless there's no other avenues open for me. I've been unemployed since year and been contemplating about what to do in life. I came close to cracking a govt job exam, but couldn't do it. I will keep on trying for it, but also need a job, since being unemployed is frowned upon in society. I thought of teaching line, especially for High School students. I was wondering if there's any chance I could do that? Since I see many people are trying for teachers post. Also, is there any educational requirements like B.Ed or any entrance examinations that I should pass to become a qualified teacher?

I recently heard someone saying they were sent back when they went to get their 2nd covaxin dose because there were less than 10 people for covaxin at the vaccination center and they couldn't open the vial. is this true? can you not get covaxin if there aren't enough people coming for it on the same day as you? i was thinking about getting covaxin because I need to travel in December, will I be able to get the 2 doses in 1 months time. please also share the city while shraing your experience, I am in BLR

It is in the news that the direct flight ban from India-> Canada has been lifted for Air Canada on a condition that the RTPCR or rapid test must be conducted between 18 hours from a specific Delhi terminal airport or lounge. So have these questions. 1) Can't find these details on new Delhi airport website. 2) What will be the terminal and how one can book the timeslot for this? 3) Can one fly to Canada directly using only Air Canada with these conditions or any flight?