Software Engineer @Microsoft · Learning options trading the hard way · Thinking in public about tech, life & leverage · Here to stay curious
New Delhi, India 🇮🇳
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If you could visit only one country in your life, make it Switzerland. It's absolute perfection! 🇨🇭 – at Lucerne, Switzerland
Following people would accept it according to me..
- Already planning to leave
- Can't do Work from Office
- Who know they are not going to be able to fulfil the performance criteria in next review cycle
- People with 15+ years in MS – at Delhi, India
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
Ashu Gupta retweeted
As much as I admire you guys, I think expecting this government to respond democratically or lawfully to dissent is naive. Umar Khalid has spent six years in prison without trial. Sonam Wangchuk was detained under the NSA. Bhima Koregaon activists have spent years in detention under UAPA. A sitting CM, Arvind Kejriwal, spent months in jail before being discharged in the excise policy case, with the court finding insufficient evidence against him.
Repeatedly walking into their machinery and expecting them to play fair cannot be the whole strategy. We need other innovative, non-violent forms of resistance that make it harder for the state to dictate terms.
The freedom struggle didn’t rely on one tactic. Gandhi broke the salt law. The Swadeshi movement made economic boycott a weapon. The Non-Cooperation Movement withdrew people from colonial institutions. The Quit India Movement built underground networks when its leaders were jailed.
India needs that kind of strategic imagination now. ✊
@abhijeet_dipke @SauravDassss @AshutoshRanka
Ashu Gupta retweeted
#India: We are concerned by reports of mass detentions of demonstrators, protest leaders, members of civil society organisations, lawyers and journalists, before and during today’s large-scale demonstrations in Delhi.
We call on the authorities to ensure that the right to peaceful assembly is fully respected and fulfilled.
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
ALT India: All those arbitrarily detained must be immediately and unconditionally released
Is this brutal downfall in the Nifty correlated with the protests against the BJP? Is the market pricing in a regime change? – at Delhi, India
Ashu Gupta retweeted
Unfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people. You can guess who they are …
This is a crime against the people of India!
India needs @Starlink 🇮🇳
• 11,256 of India’s listed villages still lacked 4G coverage as of May 2026.
• India had 1.093 billion internet subscriptions in March 2026, but only 440.87 million were rural. Rural subscription density was 48.31 per 100 people, compared with 126.80 in urban India.
• BharatNet had laid over 850,000 route-km of fibre and made about 221,000 Gram Panchayats service-ready. However, its Points of Presence were reported operational at only 80,472 Gram Panchayats in June 2026.
• Only 4.26% of India’s internet subscriptions were wired connections in March 2026. Starlink could give underserved communities another route to high-speed broadband.
• Starlink has already built 20 gateway sites in India, according to SpaceX Vice President of Starlink Business Operations Lauren Dreyer, speaking at India Mobile Congress today.
• Starlink says it has developed India-specific security controls designed to keep Indian user data within India.
• Its satellite network could bring high-speed internet to remote villages, mountains and islands where extending fibre or mobile networks is difficult.
• Better connectivity could help rural schools access online learning, clinics offer remote consultations and small businesses reach more customers. Starlink already supports education and healthcare in remote communities internationally.
• Portable Starlink terminals have supported disaster response around the world. They could give Indian emergency teams backup connectivity when floods, earthquakes or storms damage ground networks.
• Direct to Cell could also help ordinary 4G phones connect beyond tower coverage, subject to Indian approvals and mobile operator partnerships.
• The government itself identifies difficult terrain, low commercial viability and infrastructure constraints as reasons for remaining coverage gaps. This is exactly where Starlink could help India reach more people.
• India should complete the remaining clearances and spectrum allocation so Starlink can begin commercial service.
• SpaceX’s Vice President of Starlink Business Operations, Lauren Dreyer, said that Starlink is ready to help achieve Prime Minister Modi’s vision of 100% connectivity across India. She highlighted its potential to connect remote classrooms, support telemedicine and restore connectivity after disasters, adding, “With Starlink, people can get connected within minutes, not years.”
India’s hardest-to-reach communities deserve reliable internet too.
I have got more returns in the US Markets in a month than I got in the Indian markets in last 1 year. But India growth rate is 7% and US growth rate is 2%. The math is not mathing here. – at Delhi, India
Ashu Gupta retweeted
After years of building and trading systematic strategies, I finally sat down for my first podcast to talk about the journey.
Algo trading, systematic trading, building strategies, automation, the realities behind it all, and a lot more.
Special thanks to @PRAFULKULKARN18
Ashu Gupta retweeted
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Ashu Gupta retweeted
It was such a peaceful movement, feel so sad that it had to take a violent turn. My heart goes out to the students and their families who were hurt. Paper leak is a very serious issue, and I am glad to know n see that the kids of our country have come together for a better educational system, and their parents supported them.
I truly appreciate the stand they have taken, showing dedication, sincerity, and keenness to study hard n make their future and a greater, educated India. This andolan, this protest, is the right way to go abt it, n the students have done this peacefully. So courageous and brave. Driven and motivated towards education, this generation will make India proud.
This issue is between the students and the educational system, it should not be hijacked politically, the credit should only go to the students of our country, and I am sure the government will also give them all the support n make it a stronger educational system. It’s a win-win situation. Hoping n praying for a positive decision. God bless all of you who wanna be educated.
Education should be the next trend and fashion, and should get trendier n more fashionable yr by yr, itna k bahar se log come to India to study and India becomes an educational hub.
Why does RRTS not come as a mode of public transport in google maps for route between Delhi to Meerut?
@googlemaps @officialncrtc @NamoBharatDelMT
My IDP issued at RTO Delhi got dispatched on 05/03/2026 and I have received the tracking no also. But haven't received the parcel yet tracking on your website says - Article not booked since 5 days. I have a flight and I need my IDP. Please help ASAP. 🙏
@IndiaPostOffice
@IndiaPostOffice
My IDP issued at RTO Delhi got dispatched on 05/03/2026 and I have received the tracking no. also. But haven't received the parcel yet tracking on your website says - Article not booked since 2 days. I have a flight and I need my IDP. Please help.
@TransportDelhi - The speedpost tracking number shared by you is showing as Article not booked since 3 days. I have my flight and I need those docs urgently. My IDP application number is 776080726. Please help in getting my IDP Urgently.
Why is your Traffic Prahari App so so bad @dtptraffic? It looks like an app built by a school kid. It's horrible. It's an embarrassment. I can build a much better app for you for FREE! Please please improve that app!
Went to Kwality restaurant in CP today for a casual dinner expecting it would be empty on a Tuesday night. Got shocked to hear a 2 HOUR WAITING LINE. Was full of foreigners inside and outside from the AI Summit. Even Daryaganj which was just beside it had 1 hour queue. Crazy!
@makemytripcare
Booked a flight 14hrs ago.Paymnt deducted,but tix still not issued. Status shows“Booking Confirmation Awaited.”Spoke to support 3 times and only heard “escalated to backend” with no update. If prices go up, who bears the cost?How long does it take to issue a tix?
Ashu Gupta retweeted
@makemytripcare
Booked a flight 14hrs ago.Paymnt deducted,but tix still not issued. Status shows“Booking Confirmation Awaited.”Spoke to support 3 times and only heard “escalated to backend” with no update. If prices go up, who bears the cost?How long does it take to issue a tix?
Ashu Gupta retweeted
This map shows the MOST and LEAST accessible areas of Delhi NCT with public transport. You'll see transit deserts in the middle of the city in some parts.
Read the publication on Situational analysis of bus-based public transport supply in Delhi by clicking on this link👉🔗 theicct.org/wp-content/uploa…
Had the most humiliating govt office experience at SDM Saraswati Vihar, Delhi.
Went for marriage registration with all required docs & appointment.
After 4 hours of harassment, humiliation & running around — came back EMPTY-HANDED.
Here’s how broken the system is 👇 (1/9)
Outcome of this circus?
❌ 4 hours wasted in 40°C heat
❌ 2 days salary cut (me & wife both took leave)
❌ Aged parents harassed
❌ Work not done
There were pregnant couples facing the same issues.
This is not governance. This is harassment.
(8/9)
My family paid ₹25L+ in income tax last year.
And this is the “service” citizens get.
A broken, arrogant system that exhausts, humiliates & breaks people down
@CMODelhi @LtGovDelhi @PMOIndia is this the “ease of living” we are promised?
Will anyone take responsibility?
(9/9)