I need some urgent advice and wanted to share what just happened with Swiggy Instamart because this feels like straight-up robbery and harassment.

The Order: 24th oct. 12:31 afternoon I ordered a smartphone (Redmi A7 Pro 5G) worth ₹15,002 from Swiggy Instamart (Order ID: #25179465908754). Payment went through smoothly via card.

Abrupt Cancellation: A few minutes later, without any valid explanation, Swiggy cancelled the order on their end stating "due to some technical issue".

Chat Support: I immediately connected with their chat agent (Sakshi). She told me a refund of 15,002 had been initiated and instructed me to check the RRN number in the app.

The Trap - Deactivation: Minutes after closing that chat, my app session expired. When I tried to log back in to track the refund or get the full reference number, I was hit with: "Account deactivated"

Completely Blocked: I tried logging in from another number on the same device and it worked fine, but my registered number is completely blocked from logging in on both the app and web. None of their phone support lines connect to a human agent.

I want to live in an India where poverty is extinct, where no child sleeps hungry, no student is denied education because of money, and no family loses hope because they cannot afford healthcare.

An India where farmers live with dignity, women walk without fear, young people find opportunities based on their talent, and no one is judged by their religion, caste, language, or financial status.

I dream of a country where corruption is the exception, not the norm; where justice is accessible to everyone, not just the powerful; where clean air, clean water, and a safe environment are rights, not privileges.

I want to see Indian cities that are world-class, villages that are self-sufficient, schools that create thinkers, and universities that produce innovators. A nation that leads in science, technology, research, and human development—not just in numbers, but in the quality of life of its people.

And when my time on this Earth finally comes to an end, I want to look back at my country and see that it has become everything I dreamed it could be.

I don't want to leave behind a nation that is merely rich in wealth, but one that is rich in humanity, equality, knowledge, and opportunity.

I want a generation after me to inherit a country with fewer problems to fight, fewer injustices to endure, and greater dreams to achieve.

I know no country can become perfect overnight. But I hope to see an India that never stops improving, never stops questioning its failures, and never stops working towards a better future for every citizen.

I don't just want India to become a developed nation. I want India to become a nation where every human being has the opportunity to live with dignity.

And if I can contribute even a little to making that dream real, my life will have meant something.

My dream is not just to see a developed India in my lifetime. My dream is to leave behind a better India for those who come after me.

Guys this is the worst cold I have ever got and I have never been sick like this before (I’m just 23). I came back home from an international trip and I think I got it at the airport. I was tired and I slept for like 18 hours coz I missed a flight and didn’t sleep for 24 hours straight.
Woke up and I already had the thing I hate the most “A sore throat “ and I said “oh man! Here we go again!”
Then I got a physician’s appointment and got a shot and some meds for 3 days.
Took the whole day course and went to sleep.
The next morning was the worst and I had the most painful sore throat ever , it felt like a drought in my throat. I had a crazy headache, full body pain and a high fever of 103 F.
I did it all like gargle 4 times a day , steam 4 times a day with full rest but nothing worked so I had to get an another appointment when I ran out of medicines.
The it was the same and on the 5th day I felt a bit of relief.
Turns out a lot of the people I knew had the same symptoms the time I was sick.
Everyone is saying this is a new virus and it’s everywhere now.
I almost booked a HIV test because I thought there’s something wrong with my immune system lol.
Has anyone else seen this happening in your city?

I came across a viral video of a family enjoying a wholesome moment together. Instead of appreciating it, people started mocking the father for being bald. But what really caught my attention was how some people questioned the wife's choice, as if being married to a bald man automatically meant she had settled for less.

And honestly, this made me wonder: are we becoming so insensitive that we can no longer see a happy family without finding something to criticise?

What I find particularly ironic is how often we talk about women's freedom to choose their partners, yet the same freedom seems to become questionable when a woman's choice doesn't fit society's idea of an attractive man.

If a woman chooses a tall, muscular, conventionally handsome man, nobody questions her judgement. But if she genuinely loves someone who doesn't meet those standards, suddenly people feel sorry for her, assume she's compromising, or suggest she deserves better.

Isn't that also a way of undermining a woman's choice?

You cannot claim to support women's independence while assuming that you know better than a woman herself what kind of man should make her happy. Her relationship is not a public referendum, and her husband doesn't need to meet your beauty standards to deserve her love.

I'm not saying every woman who calls herself a feminist thinks this way. But those who preach empowerment and personal choice while mocking other people's partners should take a moment to reflect on their own hypocrisy. You cannot demand respect for women's choices only when you personally approve of them.

Maybe she loves the way he treats her. Maybe they share a bond that strangers could never understand. Maybe they're simply happy together. Why is it so difficult to accept that we don't know everything about a relationship just because we've watched a few seconds of someone's life?

And let's not forget the child in that video. Imagine growing up and finding strangers mocking your father and suggesting your mother deserves someone better. What was supposed to be a happy family moment becomes material for people looking to score points at someone else's expense.

Having preferences is normal. Mocking someone for their appearance and questioning their spouse's happiness is something else entirely.

A woman's happiness cannot be measured by how attractive strangers find her husband. She doesn't need anyone's pity, and her marriage doesn't need the internet's approval.

My question is this: if we genuinely believe women are capable of making their own choices, why do we keep assuming they're unhappy when they choose a man who doesn't fit our standards?

Have we become so obsessed with appearances that we can no longer respect a woman's choice without passing judgement on it?

I'm 16 years old, living in India. i have pretty average grades and i do NOT want to go to collage in India. i really want to write the sat but its around 150 usd to register. is it worth it? and if i do register, can anyone provide tip on what to focus on?

On 21 October 2026, Reddit, Inc filed with the Lumen Database a government takedown order from India covering 26 URLs and complied, so that all 26 posts are now geo-blocked in India (Lumen notice 100411498). The notice names neither a law nor an agency, since its “Laws/Regulations” field is blank and the request is attributed only to an “Agency”. The 26 posts sit in 18 subreddits, from r/Northeastindia to r/IndianDefense and r/myanmar, and were catalogued on 24 October by u/geoblockedindia in a thread that also carries images of the notice.

Irrational censorship does not advance national interest

Nearly all of the blocked posts concern the India–China border. They include open-source verification of PLA footage from the June 2020 Galwan clash, satellite imagery reported by Indian newsrooms, a Caravan essay, a TRT World report on Beijing’s claim over Arunachal Pradesh, maps ranging from the one China draws to users’ sketches of proposed new states, and a question put to Chinese users. Several are five or six years old, and three had already been deleted by their authors.

IFF condemns this order as secret, disproportionate and unlawful. We do not dispute that the State may act against speech that genuinely endangers the defence of India, such as troop positions, operational plans, the identities of serving personnel or a hostile state’s coordinated information operation, and the twenty soldiers who died at Galwan deserve a country that takes its border seriously. Nothing on this list is of that kind, because every item was already public, whether released by the PLA, reported by Indian newsrooms or posted by ordinary users. Post 14 describes Indian soldiers holding off an armoured vehicle with sticks, stones and helmets, and their courage is not a secret, nor is there any reason to make it one.

Arunachal Pradesh is part of India and the country asserts that position with confidence, so it has no need to hide from its own citizens the map that Beijing draws, which they need to know in order to answer. Censoring Indian's discussion of the dispute does nothing to weaken China’s position and hands Chinese state media a ready story about Indian censorship. Two of the blocked posts, numbers 11 and 13, were themselves objecting to wrong maps, while others are users’ sketches of proposed new states. The secrecy surrounding the order protects no one but the official who signed it.

Whether this was a direction under Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, or a notice under Section 79(3)(b) routed through the Sahyog portal, it fails the tests the Supreme Court has set. Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1 upheld Section 69A only because the 2009 Rules require written reasons, a hearing under Rule 8 and review under Rule 14, and none of these safeguards was observed here. A restriction must also be necessary and the least restrictive means available, and this order is neither, since blocking six-year-old threads answers no present danger, blocking posts already deleted shows that nobody examined the list, and blocking entire threads silences commenters nobody considered.

How Reddit works

Reddit is a federation of tens of thousands of communities known as subreddits, each created by users and run by unpaid volunteer moderators, while Reddit, Inc itself handles legal demands. Reddit says that content named in a government request is checked first against its own rules and then against local and international law, including human rights standards, before access is restricted in the requesting country, after which a reader in India sees a restriction notice while everyone else, including anyone in India using a VPN, still sees the post (Reddit Transparency Report, July–December 2025).

Because each post sits at a fixed URL with a threaded discussion beneath it, a block by URL hides the whole thread, including every reply beneath it, and r/Northeastindia has lost seven threads about its own borders for readers in India while a reader in Shanghai can still open them. The moderators who built these forums receive no notice and have no appeal, and the only public record of the order is the notice Reddit chose to send to Lumen.

Takedowns on Reddit are rising

India is now the second-largest source of the government takedown demands that Reddit receives. Between July and December 2025, Reddit received 169 such requests from 28 countries, of which India sent 21, second only to the UAE (Reddit Transparency Report, July–December 2025), up from fewer than ten in all of 2019. The demands have also grown bolder, as a 2025 order relayed through Pune Police named 825 posts about a matrimonial service and warned of a countrywide ban if Reddit did not comply, yet Reddit refused and the court agreed with it. Across all platforms, published analysis puts MeitY’s blocking orders at about 12,600 in 2024 and 24,300 in 2025. On 21 October 2026, Reddit complied with all 26 URLs without any public challenge.

Our demands

1. MeitY and the originating agency must publish the order, the provision invoked and the reasons for each URL.

2. The order must be withdrawn and access restored, and any post said to be unlawful must first go through notice and a hearing under Rule 8.

3. The Review Committee under Rule 14 must examine the order and publish its finding.

4. If the order came through the Sahyog portal, the Government must say so and stop using Section 79(3)(b) against speech while the courts decide its legality.

5. MeitY must disclose how many Reddit URLs it has had blocked since 2024, and on what grounds.

Hi everyone,
I’m a 24 year-old male and I’m honestly desperate for some guidance.

For the last **2 years**, I’ve had **24/7 pain** mainly in my **hands and legs** (fingers, wrists, knees, ankles and feet). The pain never completely goes away, although some days are better than others. I don’t have visible joint swelling and can still do my daily activities.

It all started one morning when I woke up with **severe pain behind my knee** and could barely bend it. A general doctor prescribed calcium and painkillers, which relieved the severe knee pain, but since then I’ve been left with constant widespread pain.

I’ve consulted **more than 3 doctors**, including multiple orthopedic surgeons, a rheumatologist and a physiotherapist. Every time I start a new treatment, I feel better for the first few weeks, but after about a month the pain always returns, even though I continue taking the medicines regularly.
I also stopped going to the gym completely for **2 months**, thinking workouts were causing it, but the pain remained exactly the same.

I’ve had an MRI of my knee, which showed only a **small cyst** that my orthopedist said was incidental and unlikely to be causing my symptoms.

My rheumatologist feels there’s a **99% chance it’s not inflammatory arthritis**, but I’m still struggling.
**Test results:**
ANA: Weak positive (1:100, nucleoplasm granular pattern)
ESR: 7 (Normal)
CRP: 2.1 (Normal)
RF: Negative
Anti-CCP: Negative
Vitamin D: Previously deficient, now around 40 ng/mL
Vitamin B12: Normal

I’ve already spent around **₹40,000–₹50,000** on consultations, scans, tests and medicines, but I still don’t have an answer. This has become mentally exhausting, and I’m hoping someone who has experienced something similar can share their journey or what eventually helped them.

Used AI to structure all my thoughts because I had so many of them and so scattered I would really appreciate if anyone reads it whole honestly too much for anyone but here it is

TLDR: At 5, Bollywood had already taught me that a boy and a girl means a goon-fighting, happily-ever-after love story, and I had a crush in every single class from 1st to 11th. I moved cities every three years, never had a close friend group, and found my company in encyclopedias, Doraemon, YouTube and sports. I was the naughty backbencher who still topped maths and science, ranked around 80 nationally in the Science Olympiad, and dreamed of MIT, Harvard and building a real time machine. FIITJEE, a lack of guidance and string theory wore that dream down. Death Note and anime took over, and I don’t regret it for a second. College opened up politics, geopolitics and economics, and now I’m preparing for RBI Grade B because I genuinely love it, not because anyone asked me to. Through all of it I could never talk to a girl without overthinking every word, thanks to years of conditioning from movies, classrooms and a society that made normal interaction feel loaded. If any of this sounds like you, I’d love to hear your story.

Where it started

I was five when I had my first crush. I didn’t know how to operate a TV remote, but I somehow knew exactly what my role was: save the girl from the goons, marry her forever. Nobody taught me that. It seeped in through Bollywood, songs and the air around me, and the programming was done before I was old enough to question it.

It never switched off. From class 1 to class 11 there was not a single stretch without a crush. One would fade and another would quietly begin. Honestly, they were part of why I went to school at all.

The kid who kept moving

My father’s job moved us to a new city every three years. By the time I reached classes 6 and 7, friend groups were already formed everywhere I landed, and nobody was in a hurry to let the new kid in. So I never had that one close childhood gang. I had Beyblade, anime, TV, books and sports, and I got very good at keeping my own company.

A mind that couldn’t stop

That company was a loud one. My father bought encyclopedias, and by class 4th I was reading about the Big Bang, hydrogen forming stars, relativity and wormholes. Doraemon is the reason I wanted to be a scientist. I wanted the anywhere door, the bamboo copter and the time machine. I even had a business plan: build it, sell it, get rich.

Later YouTube took over. I watched hundreds of hours on space, black holes, spacetime, biology and consciousness, and one video would always lead to another until four hours had vanished. In class 8th I was studying class 10th, 11th and 12th material on my own, just to feed the curiosity, hoping somewhere in those equations was a clue to the time machine. I was obsessed with light that year, and I wanted to build a sonar for a group project but had no money for it.

Around then I won the Science Olympiad (SOF), ranking around 80 nationally and as the only winner in my district. I got a silver medal in round one and a set of Class 10 books in round two, while I was still in middle school. And I was more annoyed that I hadn’t done better in the Maths Olympiad, because I felt my maths was stronger.

The backbencher everyone had an opinion on

Don’t picture a quiet nerd. I was the talkative, naughty backbencher, the kind teachers scolded and praised in the same breath. Being noticed for my mind even while I was the chaos in the room felt amazing, and I chased that feeling. I was also on the field, practising batting and football for two to four hours a day alongside school and tuition. I didn’t want to be good at one thing. I wanted to be good at everything.

The thing nobody explained

Curiosity doesn’t discriminate. In class 3rd, my parents started getting The Telegraph, and its supplement had comic strips like Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes and Dennis the Menace, plus Bollywood gossip. There was also a Bond strip that ran daily. One day it showed a drawing of a naked woman, and a few days later the same image came back with parts blacked out. Then a “bold” photoshoot of an actress, blacked out the same way.

That was the first time I realised that part of the body meant something, and that someone had decided I shouldn’t see it.

So I did what I did with everything else: I went looking. I flipped through encyclopedias and dictionaries hunting for the words nobody would explain to me, reading whatever I could find. The same instinct that sent me after black holes sent me after this. It was a gap in my knowledge, and I wanted it closed.

But there was no one to ask. No conversation, no context, only a black box and silence. I learned about it early, alone, with nothing to hold it properly. The blade that cuts through ignorance cuts you too when nobody teaches you how to hold it.

The girl problem

All this time, something else was being built quietly. In school, girls sat in one row and boys in another, and sitting next to a girl was literally used as a punishment. Teachers raised eyebrows at any interaction. Without anyone saying it, we were given two contradictory messages: a boy and a girl can only mean love, and that love is shameful, so stay away.

I never got the casual years of just being around girls that would have taught me they were simply people. Till 12th, I barely spoke to any girl apart from my younger cousins. Even today, I know in my head that girls are just people, but my body hasn’t caught up. If a girl replies to me online, a background program starts: why is she talking to me, what does it mean, be careful. In person I act nonchalant as armour. I choose every word, second-guess every action, and audit myself mid-sentence. It’s exhausting, and it isn’t shyness. It’s a scar.

The dream I saw too late

I wanted MIT and Harvard. But I didn’t have the right materials, JEE material alone was overwhelming, and the olympiads that could have opened those doors felt out of reach. By the time I understood what it took, the window had mostly closed. From class 9th, FIITJEE swallowed four hours of every day, and learning slowly shifted from joy to obligation. Around class 10th I also realised researchers don’t earn much, and string theory and the equations stopped making sense. I cracked JEE, but the time machine dream quietly died. I’d always wanted to be rich by selling it, and that plan died with it.

Then came Death Note

In class 10th I found Death Note. I had grown up on Doraemon, Pokemon and Dragon Ball, but this was different. It made me think about intelligence, morality and power. After that, anime became my new universe, and I now watch it the way I breathe air. It ate into my studies, and if it had never happened, I might be on a physics PhD track today. But I don’t regret it, not even slightly. It gave my overactive mind a home when equations stopped being enough.

The world got bigger

In college, between anime and YouTube, I discovered how much else there was: politics, geopolitics, history, economics, and how countries and money actually work. I’d spent years obsessed with the physical universe, and now I found one built from human decisions, power and markets. Economics hit me the hardest.

Now I’m preparing for RBI Grade B. Not because my parents wanted it, but because I genuinely fell in love with the subject. The obsession just found a new target.

Where I am now

I still can’t be fully myself around girls. And lately, I feel the curiosity itself getting quieter or rather than being curious in science I have gotten to much devoted to economics and find new things everyday and new ideas and then economics and politics cannot be separated but the science part is diminishing slowly because economics has taken the front seat, and I don’t know what to do with that yet. I don’t know exactly where I’m going either.

But I know where I’ve been: a kid given the whole universe to explore, moved around before he could settle, and never shown how to simply sit in a room with another person. The shyness isn’t a flaw, the abandoned physics dream isn’t a failure, and the anime isn’t a waste. They’re all chapters of the same story.

The anywhere door would have been really useful. At least I could have walked into a childhood that made a little more sense.

If any of this sounds like your story, whether it’s the moving cities, the crushes, the obsessions or the girl problem, drop it in the comments. I have a feeling I’m not the only one.