[–] 1 point 1 month ago

I'm not sure it's all of them really. Electricity, water, waste disposal and intra state roads are usually state/city owned utilities in India, with Highway, Railway and most of the Oil and Gas ones under the central government. Some are taken up by both, like public education. Even for the ones that Tata and Reliance are fairly nestled in, there's government owned competitors (ex. Steel manufacture and Telcom)

I'm necessarily summarising here, but there's a non-negligible level of public sector competition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Sector_Undertakings_in_India

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's genuinely impressive how many domains they've conglomerated into, I'd compare them to Samsung. Kinda helps that the family is more of the industrialist kind rather than the pure corpo kind, though I really wouldn't be surprised if they had controversies of their own

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I mean, personally it's because I don't get a lot of messages in the first place, and most of the time I'm just lost in my thoughts and not actively busy so it's a nice change of pace. Now, even I'll admit 2 seconds is a little short, but I'm often ready with a response within 10

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