I am not sure how this will work in heavily crowded local buses. It will only increase txn times. 1. Conductor informs pax about charge 2. Pax makes payment 3. Conductor verifies payment 4. Conductor issues ticket.
NFC-enabled prepaid travel cards would be a better method.
Transit cards are a simple and proven technology that is faster and simpler than QR code UPI. It's the most preferred payment method worldwide.
UPI could be leveraged to recharge the cards. Put a QR code on every card that will recharge that particular card's wallet via UPI.
Dec 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Argentina's wait of 36 long years for a World Cup trophy ends. A generation-long wait! That is really something, isn't it. To see something you have been waiting all your life being fulfilled? To see that sense of happiness on the faces on your players and your fellow fans? +
That agony of the decades-old long wait evaporating into the thin, cold air of the night, drowned out by the roar of the fans, that sense of lightness, of closure, of a sense of a weight being lifted from your heart. The long wait that you thought would never end. Redemption. +
Dec 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Syrian Christians have long since ditched humility and austerity for no holds barred materialism. For two generations now they've been the vainest, flashiest and most pretentiously ostentatious community in Kerala, pioneering the culture of profligate high-life.
The general hedonism of the Syrian Christian community in the form of infamously massive mansions and gaudy churches, insatiable epicureanism and frenzy to acquire multiple cars and other consumables, etc have made them the original torchbearers of consumer culture in Kerala.
Dec 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is terrible! Instead of expanding the Metro and railways, they are building more and more roads and flyovers and highways in Kerala!
Accounts like these believe these are "exciting" developments. They are only actively trying to kill any mass transit options in the state :(
When it comes to building massive highways and flyovers that will only increase pollution and temperatures there is no environmental destruction for these hypocrites. For them railways that require only much less resources and will solve pollution and congestion are destructive!
Nov 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Kerala government has money for all kinds of free handouts and welfare schemes except for buying new buses for KSRTC.
They are still flogging these poor horses even after they're long dead now.
These buses were supposed to be downgraded to ordinary after 5 years of service. But Kerala govt recently extended their service age to 10 years (!) because "no money to buy new buses".
ഡിപ്രഷൻ, മാനസിക ആരോഗ്യം തുടങ്ങിയവയെ കുറിച്ച് ഉള്ള കുറെ കാര്യങ്ങൾ ഈ ദിവസങ്ങളിൽ കേൾക്കാൻ ഇടയായി. ഇങ്ങനെ ആരോഗ്യ പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ സഹായം തേടണം എന്നൊക്കെ. പക്ഷേ നമ്മുടെ സമൂഹത്തിൽ ഈ വിഷയം എങ്ങനെ കാണപ്പെടുന്നു എന്ന് കൂടി നോക്കണം. ഞാൻ ഈ വിഷയത്തിൽ അധികാരി ഒന്നുമല്ല. എങ്കിലും പറയട്ടെ
മലയാളി സമൂഹം മറ്റ് പലതിനെയുംകാൾ exclusionist ആണ്. അതായത്, സമൂഹത്തിൻ്റെ established ചിന്താഗതിക്ക് അനുസരിച്ച് പെരുമാറാത്തവരെ അതിൻ്റെ അതിരുകളിലേക്ക് മാറ്റി നിർത്തുന്ന പ്രവണത. ആളുകൾക്ക് സ്വയം ഉന്നതി ചമയാനും തങ്ങൾ ആണ് നാട് നശിക്കാതെ കാത്ത് സൂക്ഷിക്കുന്നത് എന്ന് ചമയാനും മറ്റും.
