Maneesh Madambath
@maneeshm
(erstwhile) Startup Founder. Writer of the Bombay Daak newsletter
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I doubt if there's a support service in the Indian ecom space worse than @flipkartsupport these days
All you need to watch is this to know why the city is in a general mess
Mumbai: Tensions flared at the Dadar Kabutarkhana on Wednesday morning after several members of the Jain community attempted to forcibly remove a cover placed by the BMC to restrict pigeon feeding at the site. The civic body had installed the cover over the weekend following…
On June 4, I posted the first of four parts of a longish short story, ‘Ash and Smoke’, on Substack. Usually, I post fiction there long after it has been published in a litmag or an anthology, but I broke the general rule for ‘Ash and Smoke’…
Growing up in the 90s, if you told me the Dhoot's would be mired in one scandal after another in the future, I'd have laughed, but here we are - alphaideas.in/2025/06/04/bui…
Loved pocket, truly sad.
One startup figured out how to make the sun shine AT NIGHT. They're putting mirrors in space to direct sunlight toward the Earth at nighttime 😂 Here's a video of it, plus a thread on why the science is so interesting:
This should be taught across social science + architecture disciplines worldover as a case study of memoricide-through-renovation. The simplicity of the original setting was itself a historical artefact. It memorialised the pain. The makeover has disrupted that continuity.
Devanagari is an extremely elegant script. But this was never explained to us in school. A thread on the awesomeness that is devanagari. Let's start with the things that my teachers did *not* teach me in school:
roads are just as beautiful as mountains. nature and development needn’t be an either/or dichotomy
America was supposed to be Art Deco. Marvels of American Art Deco design - a thread 🧵 1. Union Terminal, Cincinnati, OH (1933)
I’m in China and found the Chinese translation of Infinite Jest. Cover text reads: You need physical strength, this book weighs 1500 grams; mental strength, 267 characters appear in this book; and a pair of sunglasses, be careful not to get burned by the author’s dazzling talent.
The company working on 1st AI powered Vedic city. Arahas Tech, run by none other than 'Lorem ipsum' 🙊
Rail adjacent land is some of the most prime real estate spaces in any city. Most sane cities build these places into walkable neighborhoods with lots of retail shops, food joints & markets which makes these areas vibrant, consequently incentivizing walking. More spaces to be…
Daak #062 Perpetually Receding Horizons bombaydaak.substack.com/p/062-the-hori…
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