{"id":984695,"date":"2026-01-12T08:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984695"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:34:44","slug":"pick-drop-repeat-growing-crisis-of-indias-gig-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/pick-drop-repeat-growing-crisis-of-indias-gig-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick. Drop. Repeat: Growing crisis of India\u2019s gig partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, while the debate around gig worker rights raged on social media, Atharv Singh, a 4th-year design student, sent a direct message on LinkedIn to Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal, describing his four months as a picker on Blinkit, managing his own college fees after his father had refused to support his education. Now he was joining Zomato\u2019s design team. \u201cLife really comes in full circle,\u201d he wrote. Goyal replied with a heart emoji. Shared the screenshot on X. By morning, the post had thousands of reactions. It was a beautiful story. But also an anomaly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, while the debate around gig worker rights raged on social media, Atharv Singh, a 4th-year design student, sent a direct message on LinkedIn to Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal, describing his four months as a picker on Blinkit, managing his own college fees after his father had refused to support his education. Now he was joining Zomato\u2019s design team. \u201cLife really comes in full circle,\u201d he wrote. Goyal replied with a heart emoji. Shared the screenshot on X. By morning, the post had thousands of reactions. It was a beautiful story. But also an anomaly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}