Yep. I do this and route my email through mailgun that allows me to setup rules for forwarding emails. Their free tier is pretty generous and works great for my needs. Also solves the problem of shoddy websites selling my email because I gave them an unique email address and can block all emails coming to that address easily, if needed.
Ola seems to be doing fine and I think they've some sort of partnership with lyft where at some point in time you'll be able to use the lyft app and hail ola rides. This hasn't happened yet, though.
I'm in Bangalore for a few days right now and I am interested in talking about it. Contact me through my website listed on the profile. FYI, I live in the US.
Maybe they learnt their lesson from the whole Free Basics debacle and are trying to bring low cost internet to developing areas. But that's just me being optimistic. Realistic me feels like they might just use this as another trojan horse to bring Facebook rather than the internet to more people.
A blanket ban to protect a few defense installations seems like an overreaction. They do mention that monitoring it after launch would be impossible, but mistakes can discouraged by imposing large fines or something similar to that.
