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Looking for Staff engineers. 60 lpa+ and benefits. Onsite hyd.
✅ Full ownership
✅ Fast prototyping and shipping to prod.
✅ Product mindset.
✅ AI maximalism.
✅ Industry first product.
Already hired multiple folks from X. DM
Adding more lanes looks like the obvious way to fix traffic, but a faster road also draws more cars onto it, so the relief doesn't last long.
Good public transit and neighborhoods where shops, schools and offices are within walking distance takes cars off the street.
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Every single major metropolis in the world relies 100% on surface water. Hyderabad should be no exception.
In fact the government bans builders from accessing groundwater and supplies them surface water instead.
Em logic ra babu. If you don't build highrises, people still need houses, won't those have this same problem ?
Are you asking to stop building housing ?
Political career ladders are so broken in india. The only way someone can rise to the top is not by adding value to society, but by shouting, gimmickery and sycophancy.
There must be a better way to promote merit.
Hope phoenix centaurus has space, because all this office space and jobs are coming here now.
The US and Hyderabad are sitting at roughly the same mortgage rate.
A 7% rate costs the same in both places. In the US, that budget often gets you a smaller home. In Hyderabad, it can get you more space, and better amenities.
The bigger difference is where each market is heading. Some US suburbs are seeing prices come down. Hyderabad is going the other way, mostly because global companies keep setting up large centers here. More jobs means more families looking for homes nearby, and that keeps demand up.
So the rate is only the starting point. What your home is worth depends on what happens around it.
Neopolis has a lot of promise, but execution is becoming the bigger question.
• Only two builders appear to be roughly on schedule.
• Their final specs may still fall short of true luxury standards.
• One developer couldn't honor its auction bid.
• Most other projects are progressing slowly and could miss timelines.
At this stage, "Neopolis" alone isn't enough of an investment thesis. Builder execution matters just as much.
Govt officials should be paid more. The current system has two problems
1. Loss of tax income to the treasury (BM is not taxed)
2. Officials not accountable nor performance checked.
Govt or citizens should be able to pay govt officials for performance.
✅ Everything taxed
✅ performance checked
✅ Living wage for govt employees
BREAKING: Many officials have been caught in ACB raids over the past 2 years. Among them, the top 24 most corrupt officials alone amassed 4,230 Cr in disproportionate assets, with each having over 100 Cr, mostly in real estate.
BREAKING 2: Hyderabad is the only major Indian city where home sales are rising. Real estate analysts call it “resilience.”
Lessons learnt while building a voice agent
1. Latency is everything
2. Voice realism matters more than you think
The best agents will need to have speech-to-text, llm and text-to-speech colocated in the same datacenter, otherwise latency is out the door.
@SarvamAI is the only shop that has realistic indian voices.
Very cool. Hyderabad has two distinct story arcs on the world stage:
Arc 1: The Opulent Empire (ended 1948 with annexation).
Arc 2: The Tech & Pharma Titan (being written right now).
First built on diamonds, gems and gold. The other on silicon, bio-tech, and global scale.
Same city, different empires. – at Rajendra Nagar, India
City+police need to give out orders. And run sustained campaigns, even harder than drunk driving campaigns.
1st priority always PEDESTRIANS. Pedestrians are kings/queens.
2nd priority public transit
3rd priority cars/bikes. – at Rajendra Nagar, India
Hyderabad makes it quite dangerous to cross roads and intersections, and seems to do everything possible to discourage pedestrians from doing so.
I have seen several people risking their lives to cross busy roads.
I needed to get to a grocery store on the other side, but ended up using Blinkit instead.
For the past three days, I have wanted to walk around the city but haven’t been able to because of the risk of accidents and the lack of continuous footpaths.
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1. BSNL doesn't provide any critical services to the public and is an inefficient, bureaucratic, loss making company. Just liquidate all its assets.
2. This particular lot is perfect for a "park and ride" shuttle service to all the office parks. You park your car here for a fee and you get frequent shuttle service to all the office parks. Shuttles get special lanes. – at Rajendra Nagar, India
Btw, 1st one is Gatotkacha attacking Karna, forcing him to use the vasavi shakti, which he planned on using on Arjuna.
2nd is Vishnu and garuda. – at Kuta, Indonesia
Bali takes public art to the next level. Even though telangana gdp ppp is higher than bali, we have higher poverty rate. So the state can't spend on public art as it'll be perceived as extravagant.
Once poverty falls below 5%, we should start seeing more extravagant public art. – at Kuta, Indonesia
Thar, while a beautiful peace of engineering, awakens the worst of people and is a blight on public roads. – at Rajendra Nagar, India
Fan in the humidifier burnt out. Surprisingly this exact part is available in many stores.
Good times for tinkerers. – at Rajendra Nagar, India
Founding principles for a great city.
> Unlimited FSI
> 10%+ open spaces
> Stellar public transit.
FSI limits drive up pricing for everyone, vastly increase urban sprawl and introduces a "commute tax" for everyone. – at Rajendra Nagar, India
This one rule is deciding which Indian cities stay affordable and which don't.
FSI (Floor Space Index) is a rule that decides how much construction can happen on a piece of land. In most cities, this number is kept low because roads, water lines, and sewage systems were originally designed for a much smaller population. Many of these limits were set decades ago, and while cities have grown and infrastructure has improved over time, the rules have often remained unchanged.
The result? The cost of the land gets divided among fewer homes, making every flat more expensive.
Imagine a builder buys 1 acre of land for ₹100 crore.
With FSI 2, that land can produce about 87,000 sq.ft of homes.
With FSI 5, the same land can produce about 2.18 lakh sq.ft of homes.
The land still costs ₹100 crore in both cases. But when that cost is divided across a much larger number of homes, each home becomes significantly cheaper. Nothing changed except the FSI rule, yet the land cost per sq.ft becomes significantly nearly lower.
While other cities were restricting FSI and watching home prices climb, Hyderabad took a different path. Through GO Ms. 168 in 2012 and the HMDA Master Plan 2031, the city removed the FSI ceiling altogether. Builders can construct based on road width and infrastructure capacity rather than an arbitrary cap.
This doesn't just improve affordability. It also helps create better cities.
Higher FSI allows more homes and amenities to be built closer together, so people don't have to travel long distances for work, shopping, education, or daily needs. That's the idea behind the 15-minute city concept, where most essentials are available within a short walk, cycle ride, or commute. When supported by the right infrastructure, higher density can improve walkability, reduce traffic, and make public transport more useful.
It also makes life easier for city planners. When more people live in the same area, roads, water supply, sewage systems, and public transport can serve more residents without the city having to keep expanding outward. This makes infrastructure easier and more cost-effective to build, maintain, and upgrade over time.
Cities like Tokyo, Singapore, and Manhattan figured this out long ago. Higher density development is one of the reasons they can accommodate large populations while continuing to grow. And yet, the conversation around housing affordability in India almost never mentions FSI. People debate loan rates, stamp duty waivers, and subsidy schemes, while one of the biggest drivers of home prices remains largely invisible.
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