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seems he is in India?

It says he will be in the USA starting August 2013. Also it is extremely common in India to use celebrity pictures as profile pictures.

Yes, he is. His name is Navin Kabra, lives in India and graduated from IIT Bombay.

https://www.quora.com/Navin-Kabra


Something is off if you think he’s an asshole and his users in India don’t.

I know who he is and he's not from India but London.

He has something in common with Indian housewives and temples: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/07/14/indias-600-bil...

ankitoberoi is from India. Since he is not a US resident, he may not have a state preference.

Yes it’s faceless, just like Sony etc. Also, he clearly doesn’t hate India (although his geography is bad). He will lose, so he is just having some fun. BTW, I don’t really like the guy but I respect him. I also don’t hate T Seris itself, just how prevalent in many communities

He does look like a troll, always getting top comments on India centric pieces.

He's not from Bhilai, he IS Bhilai!!! :P

No One on HackerNews knows him, that means it is only the few Indians who were fooled...

and I am an Indian who was not fooled..


He’s a nobody especially to the western neighbor. Nobody knows or cares about him there. I assure you, India doesn’t come in a conversation unless it’s cricket season :)

He brings shame to the Indian tech community.

Balaji is is a double standard prick. He speaks about democratizing banking in the US while he supports totally backward culture and interference of religion in his home town India. He is such a prick he tweets them in the Indian language so he can keep misleading. I don't know what else he is up with the pseudonym.

And the dude in question peddles ceramic tiles made with “desh ki mitti” aka “soil of this country”. The hypocrisy rankles.

Still, it is clearly working because he’s ubiquitous while the erstwhile big 3 of Indian cinema have all but disappeared from ads.

FWIW, I hear he’s applying to become an Indian citizen again.


Why is this here? I knew he was an annoyance to people in India, but can't see how its relevant to HN?

Please educate me if I am missing something.


Thanks for mentioning this fraudster. That dude legit conned everybody at the time because Internet was fairly new to India. Here's one of my favorite pages on the internet exposing the charlatan that he is:

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ankit_fadia/


He was from a Tamil-speaking state of India and not so commonly known in other regions. But Tamil Wikipedia page also has just 30K views compared to English’s 350K.

He's from India, they probably thought 15k would set him up for life.
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