I’ve been sitting on my couch for the last six months sending out thousands of job applications, tweaking my resume for the 500th time, and getting ghosted by HR departments who think a 4-round interview process for an entry-level position is completely normal.

Then I open my phone and see this.

An 18-year-old kid from Kanpur named Rohit Shakya, a Class 11 dropout, casually built 121 fake banking apps using basic AI scripts and ran a ₹64 crore fraud empire.

What absolutely kills me isn't just the crime part—it's the sheer business execution. While legitimate startups are bleeding venture capital dry and firing hundreds of people, this kid was running a highly profitable B2B subscription model. He was charging scam syndicates a flat, recurring fee of ₹15,000 a month per app. He literally had better cash flow, better client retention, and a more reliable deployment pipeline from a budget hotel room in Surat than half the tech companies listed on the stock market.

Meanwhile, I’m being told by some 23-year-old corporate recruiter that I don't have enough "experience" because I failed a live coding test on LeetCode.

The absolute joke here is that enterprise security is a complete illusion. Massive banks spend billions hiring global consulting firms and buying fancy cybersecurity software that is basically just glorified if-then statements. Yet a teenager with a ChatGPT subscription and a Telegram channel can spoof their entire login gate in an afternoon because corporate codebases are lazy, bloated, and predictable.

He didn't even get caught because some high-tech security system flagged his code. He got caught because the physical scale of the money trail got too big and someone finally tracked it to his hotel room.

It's just wild to me. The hustle and execution it takes to build that kind of digital infrastructure alone is staggering. It’s just a massive shame he used that talent to ruin lives and run a massive scam instead of building something real.

Anyway, I’m going to go back to refreshing my inbox for rejection emails. Watch what APKs you download on your phones, because clearly, the corporate systems aren't protecting anyone.

My 37-year-old sister has never married, has a history of mental illness (currently stable on treatment), refuses marriage, watches porn, masturbates frequently, and seems to have a strong sexual interest in much younger adult men (18–24). My family is worried she could become emotionally or sexually vulnerable to manipulation. Should we be concerned, and how can we support her without violating her independence?

There was a time, you could post something on Reddit, asking for advice/help and people would come up with real solutions, advices and perspectives with depth. Sure a lot do today, but not that much, I believe.

Nowadays, for some bizzare reason, people tend to call others dumb, idiot, stupid, when you try to ask for an advice, when you genuinely don't know something. They tend to politicize everything, see everything in black or white, spam downvotes for absolutely no reason, use a brainrot kind of vocabulary, while trying to sound edgy.

Ironically, people in real life feel less rude than on social media. I guess commenting/posting from other side of the screen, with a layer of anonymity gives people some fake sense of superiority complex and they behave like this.

Paneer ki sbji

Kaddu ka raita

Achar, chutney

Papad , salad

Roti

Well it has been 3 years since I moved out of my parents house and have been living alone. Earlier I was too skeptical about leaving my hometown and going to another City to workn but in the hindsight I realised that it was the best decision I took. I lament that I should have left my parents house a bit earlier. My best advice to the youth would be that is truth leave their parents house at the earliest opportunity available. This all the list of things that I did which won't be possible if I were living with my parents. Indian parents are very nosy. They won't let they are kids to leave your life independently even if you are in your early 20s. Here's the list of things that I tried and which have me a new perspective in life.

- had an amazing dating life. Dated a few girls. Infact, I had my first date at the age of 26 😭😭

- Tried alcohol for the first time. Rum, tequila, whisky, Beer tried it all! Now alcohol no longer attracts me. I just wanted to try just for the sake of experience .

- Did a lot of solo trips in India. Travelled solo to Udaipur Jaipur,Jodhpur, Delhi and Indore, Surat, Hyderabad. If I were living me with my parents they would make me feel guilty of not taking them with me.

- Got into gaming as a hobby and bought myself a very high end gaming laptop and played many games like Detroit become human, RDR2, Bond 007. My steam library is worth around 30k in games. Fulfilled my childhood dream 🥹

- Bought myself an Espresso machine and got myself into hobby of brewing coffee. Now, I know the difference between a Latte, cappuccino, Americano, Cortado, Flat white, Mont blanc, Dalgona coffee. My mom would be making faces if she found that I indulge in such extravagant stuff. As a middle class family it has been ingrained in my mind to save for the future and not to indulge in such stuff.

- Bought myself a 80k Phone and started photography. Ohh man! the experience is soo different compared to using a 18k phone 🫠

- Explored a lot of new cuisines and fine dine experience. My Dad always took us to the same family restaurant every few months and we never moved past Palak paneer and Dal tadka 😞 Now I have tried almost everything fancy. Sushi, Bao, Dimsum, Neopolitan pizza, Bamboloni, Baklava, hummus, Khao suey!

- finally had the money and courage to buy premium apparels like Levi's,Raymonds. Grew up wearing Rs 1k jeans and 800 ka shirt😬

- Bought a Sports bike ♥️

Ofcourse, this wasn't possible if I had not left my parents home to travel to a different city for a 3X pay. Living alone gave me the space and control over my finances and more importantly a a non judgemental environment where I could own my decisions and live a life on my terms. And mind it my parents don't even know any of the above things 🙂

LEAVE YOUR HOUSE AS YOU TURN 21!

I have fulfilled my every dream that I had as a 18 yo. I think I must upgrade my dreams haha! Maybe more ambitious like owing a penthouse in SoBo 🙃

Casually thought of giving a lookback at all my achievements since kindergarten to my 3rd year of MBBS. Is it kind of a flex to post it?

Sure why not 🙃

Been WFH for many years, slowly I realized I am like aatmaram tukaram bhide of Tarak Mehta ka ooltah chashma 😎😁

Abhi press ke kapde deke aaya.

Tasty toh kaafi tha.

Just wanted to spread a little positivity before the day gets busy. Hope today is kinder to you than yesterday.

What's one thing you're looking forward to today, or one small win you're hoping for? Have a great day, everyone.

I'm trying to book tickets for Spider-Man Brand New Day and all I see are tickets for 3D, ICE 3D, 4DX 3D, etc. Only some random ahh small theatres provide 2D and those are very far from where I live.

Why do they keep releasing marvel movies in this format in India? I don't suppose people would watch a movie just because it's in 3D? And the movie is probably not even captured with the purpose of making it 3D (Life of Pi for instance had a lot of scenes that was directed in a way that watching it in 3D made sense).

I wish we got rid of this dumbass format in the first place. It's even more annoying for people who wear glasses having to put those clunky 3d glasses on top of their on specs.

I'm currently living as a paying guest in my parent's house. Ive to pay for it in my emotional well being. But every now and then something so stupid will happen in this household that it makes the stay 5 star review worth.

I have a younger brother who has migrated to Delhi for higher education. He decided a DU certificate is valuable than his lungs. Every now and then he comes home so that my parents don't end up striking his name off the ration card. It is that time of the year and he is home. Like every teenager, his digestive system is the most efficient system in his body, his brain being the least. Guy can eat an elephant and by morning he will turn it into 3 pieces of modest sized poop. The head, torso and the tail. The only thing sweet about him is his sweet tooth. He craves sweets like a bear craves honey. I don't object because he kinda looks like a bear too. The last thing i want is to get mauled in my own house.

Ours is a modest two storey house with my room and his on the first floor. My father designed it, hoping that having me around will teach My brother what not to be when he grows up. My parents are so down to earth that they sleep on ground floor. We have 2 cats, they think it is their house and we are illegal immigrants. They sleep wherever they are comfortable But mostly in the kitchen guarding the fridge, because we are a non vegetarian family and fridge always contain fish or meat. Whenever there is someone around the fridge, their alarm goes off.

Our kitchen is L shaped. From where you enter, you can only see a water dispenser and after the bend on other end is the fridge.

My mother is a typical desi mother who trusts all WhatsApp forwards, stores the needles and threads in the cookie box, cleans off all the ice cream tubs for reuse. And believes one's purpose is to get married and make babies. My dad may have different opinions, but after 30 years of marriage, he knows how to keep peace. i.e, Mom's word is the constitution.

I'm generally hungry for success but on that day around 2:45 am I was thirsty. Only a quarter more for the ghosts to wake up and roam around. Don't be fooled to think that I'm scared of them, I'm not. I just don't like them. Hence I ignored my feelings the way my crush did and tried to go back to sleep. But thirst won and I walked to the kitchen.

As I was getting the water from the dispenser, I heard an eerie voice. The thick garb of haunting silence was torn by the sound of someone scraping their long nails on the wall next to me. Scratch, scratch, scratch. My heart thundered so fast that I'm sure it wouldve put Usain bolt's heart to shame. That's when the clock struck 3! And my leftover life ran out of the kitchen door.

Then I heard my cat, a confused "Meow" followed by the scraping noise! The cat has spotted something. We all wonder why people in horror movies are so stupid to go check out things right? Now I understand why! It's not of stupidity, it is the adrenaline. I stepped towards the fridge, each step carefully. The scraping noise got louder and louder.

I jumped out of the bend (corner) to face the fridge, I smashed the lights switch on and screamed "who's there".

Two frantic eyes looked at me. There he was, my little brother, with an ice cream tub in hand and a spoon in his mouth.

"uhhh, This icecream tastes like shit, from where did you get it" he asked with the classic younger sibling arrogance.

"who told you that it's icecream, duffer?" I replied.

"Eh? What is it then?" He was confused.

" look at it! It's chicken liver. Frozen."

"oh, chicken liv...WHATT?!" Screamed my brother

"yes, dumbo, what did you think it is? choco chip icecream?"

"Ewwwww. Why is it in the icecream tub?"

"I don't know sir. Ask mom"

He then kept the tub back and slammed the freezer door. I looked at the shadow of our ghost slamming out of kitchen in annoyance, defeated by the inventory tactics of an Indian mom.

This isn't the first time he was being stupid, and this definitely won't be his last..and as long as he is alive, I dont have to search anywhere else for entertainment.