Vinay Kesari @vinaykesari Twitter profile

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Vinay Kesari

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5 years

Modern day horror story: "Let's create a WhatsApp group for that."

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6 years

This may just be the greatest machine translation in history. 🤯

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4 years

Dosa like you've never seen before

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5 years

The judiciary is still the most feudal of our democracy's pillars. Want proof?

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3 years

Hey @livemint please know that I will NEVER become a subscriber as long as Manu Joseph is a contributor. If I have to explain why, then you don't deserve my money or time. I'm just one person and don't really matter, but consider that I might not be alone in thinking this.

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4 years

Regardless of other events and outcomes, it's going to be crushing for my belief in democracy if Atishi loses. 🙁

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1 year

What was your college car?

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3 years

"My agenda is very clear." Indeed it is.

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3 years

Proud of my colleagues in Bengaluru.

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5 years

Possibly the worst infographic ever.

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2 years

Bangalore folks, what's the best place you've ordered a meal from in the recent past? Something that really blew you away. Agnostic to cuisine.

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4 months

This is devastating not just for Paytm Payments Bank, but Paytm. If my understanding is correct, para 3(iv) will result in Paytm having to suspend its offline merchant business as well (merchant QRs, PoS machines, etc.)

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These are some very major restrictions on Paytm payments bank

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3 years

What a different time

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Vinay Kesari

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5 years

Just got judged for being married to a woman taller than me... by the very chatty health insurance tele-verification person 😂 "lekin kaise" "are you sure ki she's 5'9""?? I would pay for this recording.

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3 years

My kinda soup

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2 years

The crime The criminal

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3 years

VC/ startup folk need to stop with their 'we must rise above politics' takes. Your n00bness is showing. What we need is more people being actively political, not the opposite.

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1 year

Life update

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2 years

Being Elon's lawyer is basically an adventure sport.

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3 years

Say hello to Bruno :)

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6 years

It's SO reassuring that India's premier IT industry conference prominently features a baba doling out fortune cookie wisdom. 🙄

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4 years

Hard to overstate the importance of this development! Facebook is now officially a fintech company in India.

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7 years

Peak Delhi fuckboi.

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3 years

Who needs PR agencies when you can have entire independent pillar of our democracy step in to manage your image?

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4 months

10 years ❤️ @sowmyarao_

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4 years

First day of school for this little munchkin! 😍😭

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3 years

It's someone's first 🚃 journey today!

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5 years

I've been living a lie.

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2 years

TIL that Parag Parikh, founder of PPFAS, died in a car crash at Omaha where he'd gone to attend the annual Berkshire shareholders' meeting. 😢

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Vinay Kesari

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3 years

No transit remand. No access to her counsel. Remanded to police custody in violation of law and procedure. This is state-sanctioned kidnapping, not an arrest.

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@RadhaKhn

3 years

With her permission I’m sharing the FB post by Senior Advocate Rebecca John. She raises some very serious points regarding the arrest of the young climate change activist Disha Ravi.

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4 years

If anyone tells you that credible sexual harassment allegations will derail a privileged man's career, please ask them to go suck an egg. This world sucks.

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3 years

Never. Buy. Your. Kids. Glitter.

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2 months

Bangalore people about to get insufferable 😅

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4 years

The parenting equivalent of a Tasty video. Lies, all lies!!

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

5 years

College should be free. Sounds radical? It already is in many countries. And many of the best public/state universities used be free in the US until as recently as the '80s!

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4 years

Why don't all restaurants have pictorial menus? So much better than just text.

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

2 years

Don't own a two wheeler, but if I bought one it would likely be an Ather. 👏 Exactly the kind of reassuring, detailed comms you expect from a mature company.

Ather Energy

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2 years

Here’s an update on yesterday’s incident in Chennai

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4 years

Nothing is certain but death, taxes, and a new Google chat app every year.

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@vinaykesari

3 years

Perfect time to dust off this evergreen tweet.

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6 years

Henlo I am respected macho journalist shiv aroor

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

5 years

A dating app for cricket fans - Kumble.

sumaira shaikh

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5 years

A Dating App only for introverts where they talk awkwardly, it's called Mumble!!!

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5 years

I haz finally arrived

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5 years

Happy Dussehra everyone!

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@vinaykesari

4 years

Non-metro airports are such a pleasure to use. No crowds or queues, no long walks to the gate, and everyone is so relaxed. Makes you realise how much of the stress and pain of air travel is solely because airports are overcrowded.

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

6 years

What a misleading tweet - clearly the car committed jauhar.

IndiaToday

@IndiaToday

6 years

Karni Sena activists accidentally torch own member's car during protest against release of movie Padmaavat

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3 years

Still creepy even after all these years 😅

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5 years

After many iterations, think I've found the perfect work setup.

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3 years

VPNs should start running India-specific promotions. Market's gonna explode.

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5 years

What's better than meeting an old college buddy at the airport? Discovering you're wearing the exact same socks!

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@vinaykesari

3 years

My YouTube Premium subscription ended abruptly because of an expired card, and I just remembered how many ads YouTube has😳. If you use YouTube a fair bit and you can afford it, the Rs. 139 a month it costs is a superb investment.

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5 years

Before Drogo there was

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1 year

that escalated quickly

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@vinaykesari

3 years

How the fuck has the oxygen supply situation in Delhi still not been fixed?? This is nothing short of a crime, and from the facts emerging from the hearings in the Delhi HC and the SC, the Centre is responsible.

Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin

@ArvinderSoin

3 years

At least 5 Delhi hospitals that I know of will run out of OXYGEN by midnight. From what I'm told, the authorities are well aware which ones. Avert further unbearable tragedy. SOS x 5: @drharshvardhan @LtGovDelhi @ArvindKejriwal

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5 years

That's one mean building. 🤣

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9 months

Slowly getting back to normal after 2 terrible weeks. ♥️

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4 years

When I was in law school, 'KKV' was one of those names that was whispered with awe. 😑 This country clearly needs new heroes.

Bar and Bench

@barandbench

4 years

BREAKING: AG KK Venugopal grants consent to a law student to initiate contempt proceedings against comic artist Rachita Taneja for tweets which were an "audacious assault and insult to the institution." @sanitarypanels #SupremeCourt #contemptofcourt @republic #ArnabGoswami

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3 years

Unreasonably excited about the little things on this first work trip in 18 months.

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3 years

Sure your kindle has a touchscreen and backlight, but can it play sideloaded mp3s over a 3.5mm jack? 😎

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@vinaykesari

4 years

I suspect this article is not going to age well.

How India has largely remained immune to coronavirus

Monitoring and restricting the mobility of passengers travelling from highly affected areas has also helped.According to WHO, the coronavirus outbreak has reached a 'decisive point' and has "pandemic...

www.livemint.com

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

6 years

RIL's legendary ability to 'anticipate' and leverage regulation continues: 21 June: DoT amends telco licenses to make WiFi calling (aka VoWiFi) possible 5 July: JioPhone 2 launched during RIL AGM, specifically advertising VoWiFi support

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@vinaykesari

5 years

Happy birthday to my favourite adult in the world @sowmyarao_ ! (and happy birthday month to my favourite non-adult!) No more appropriate way to ring this in than to spend it at a beautiful beach. ♥️

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@vinaykesari

5 years

What the hell

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

2 years

Hey @IndiGo6E I received an email last night that I had cancelled one leg of a return flight. Except I didn't do it! Your customer care claims I logged into the website and followed a 3-4 step process to opt for cancellation, which is impossible. Please fix this now!

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@vinaykesari

5 years

Fuck anti-vaxxers, especially those who say 'some vaccines are good, but...' and plant the seed of doubt in pliable minds. Really hope the health ministry and health reporters in the media counter this narrative effectively.

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

3 years

New age companies: Practice self care. Take time to focus on yourself. Normalise mental health discourse. HR portal:

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

4 years

My brain is exploding, just learnt that there was a desi Friends remake in the 90s and it was called HELLO FRIENDS!!!

misscongeniality

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experts are saying coronavirus is the worst pandemic of our time? thats cute. i think ur forgetting about summer of 1999 when the entire executive board of did acid and decided to make desi Friends

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3 years

First flipkrat, now slapdeel, it's raining job offers!

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@vinaykesari

4 years

Hearing credible reports that mobile internet has been suspended in some parts of New Delhi. Utter madness - this normalising of blanket internet bans to stifle dissent needs to stop.

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5 years

Any vegetarian-friendly restaurant recommendations in Singapore?

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4 years

All of us have complex feelings about WhatsApp now, but it's worth remembering that it's an engineering and design marvel. Extreme reliability in challenging environments, and stark simplicity. That's why it succeeded in a crowded field, and revolutionised mobile communications.

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WhatsApp started with the goal of creating a service that is simple, reliable, and private for people to use. 9/10

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7 years

New strategy: click multiple times on promoted tweets that annoy you, so they get charged more money for the campaign without actual impact.

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

6 years

Sick of this 'judiciary is the last hope of the common citizen' narrative. It isn't. It's highly flawed and for every judgment that seems progressive and well reasoned, there are many more that are regressive or just plain wrong on the law.

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

4 years

So true, those corner bookshops are totally crushing Amazon.

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4 years

The internet makes small organizations far stronger and large organizations far weaker. Instagram shows how much you can get done with a few aligned people. And the government shows how little you can get done with millions of disaligned people.

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2 years

@Full_Meals @SunOfGan They are the closest you can get to grandchildren at our age 😅

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I used to think I was a calm person. Then I had kids.

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3 years

Was half expecting the alien ship from Independence Day to make an appearance.

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Lost a D and Y to manufacturing defects, and now trying to rationalise if this pretty much conveys the sentiment we're going for. @sowmyarao_

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3 years

Parents got their first Covishield shot today 🥳

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By this point, if you look for insights about southern politics from 'New Delhi' publications and accounts, you're the fool. Just read @thenewsminute instead.

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4 years

Customer delight is @DunzoIt and their delivery partner managing to deliver yogurt in under 11 mins at 1.30 am, and thereby rescuing a birthday cake meant for tomorrow morning. 😻😻

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

3 years

Smart of Poonawala to leave India - this govt will try to blame him in the coming weeks instead of owning up responsibility. Better to be a comfortable scapegoat abroad than one under direct physical threat.

Teena Thacker

@Teensthack

3 years

India May face vaccine shortage for the next few months. Capacity will increase to 100 MN doses only by July. “There were no orders we didn’t think we needed to make more than 1 billion doses a year,” said @adarpoonawalla @SerumInstIndia 👇

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😂😂😂 Haven't laughed this hard in months (need to understand at least a bit of Kannada)

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Yamaraja and Queen of England :)

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5 years

A couple of good friends are starting up, and looking for kickass engineers. It's a fintech startup building for blue collar workers, and they're attempting something that hasn't been tried before. Please DM if interested and I'll put you in touch! RTs also appreciated.

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Tell me there are great margins in alcohol retail without making it obvious

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@vinaykesari

5 years

Any women engineers in my TL looking out for new opportunities in the fintech space? Please get in touch. (and please RT)

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3 years

2021 continues to surprise. Did not expect the government to be better than startups at plugging vanity metrics. 🙏🙏

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@vinaykesari

3 years

Got an 18+ vaccination slot for 9am at a PHC thanks to @sowmyarao_ 's lightning fingers. We've been waiting since 8am, but they've just told us that they won't be doing 18+ vaccinations because 'the govt hasn't sent them supply for 18+'.

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3 years

Which law? 🤔

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@vinaykesari

6 years

Just received the most incredible early birthday present ever from partner-of-the-decade @sowmyarao_ (yes, my love can be bought with the right stuff) 💖💖💖😻😻😻 #OculusRift #MuchExcite

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

1 year

@Saranyagop @MalaSivaprasad omg... irresistible... urge.... must... buy... now!! my man brain has been hacked by ad geniuses again.

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

4 years

or moot court problem

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@DattaAmeet

4 years

The multi-airline ban on Kamra looks like a good legal case.

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Sowmya has been a star forever, but this particular phase in her journey has been the most incredible. Trust me - this thread only highlights a fraction of the crazy difficult things she's done in the last 3 years. Stop inviting bros on your pods and panels, invite her instead!

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Ahead of women's day, here to drop some W: 🌟🌟 In the last year: 1) Sold my startup, acquired by a fantastic company in our vertical, made some money (FINALLY) and now have the AMAZING TITLE OF "Director of Payments". 2) Gave birth a few weeks ago - BABY SMILED AT ME TODAY.

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2 years

Creeping encroachment

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4 years

If I were FB, I'd use #tiktokbanindia as an opportunity to build my first app focused on India. Insta is not going to attract stranded TikTokers - you need a dedicated short video app built from the ground up for markets like India. Do what G did with GPay - build for India.

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7 years

TIL Kapil Sibal's father was lawyer to both Manto and Ismat Chugtai.

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3 years

My kinda selfie

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

3 years

@Ravisutanjani People's credit scores can also be low for other reasons. For eg. lawyers find it hard to get credit cards and loans because they're usually not employees, and lenders hate giving money to lawyers. Makes it hard to build credit history and score remains low.

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@vinaykesari

6 years

I have goosebumps. We've all been forced to become so cynical that it takes extreme acts of courage like this for us to even feel something.

Bar and Bench

@barandbench

6 years

Justice Gogoi - Its discharge of a debt to the nation is what have got us here.

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3 years

K getting introduced to the cultural treasure that is neighbourhood hot chips ❤️❤️

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Vinay Kesari

@vinaykesari

6 years

War brings jobs boom for arms industry. Ebola outbreak brings jobs boom for epidemiologists. Impending doom brings jobs boom for soothsayers. New joke format brings jobs boom for armchair comedians.

Smriti Z Irani (Modi Ka Parivar)

@smritiirani

6 years

GST brings jobs boom for Indian CAs via NMApp

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Using a product where an excel dump of data is 5x more user friendly than sorting through the data inside the product's UI. 🙁

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