@awryaditi
It's such a terrible film, I can't understand what anyone likes about it.
Footnote: I think the context and the WHEN you watched it matters. I was 32. I was bored and baffled. It also features many of 🤮 the worst of all 90s tropes
For the folks who live on the margins of the society, for whom two square meals a day is a struggle, for them who comes to power and the politics of the country matter a lot. Only the elites can afford to be 'apolitical' because they never have to go to bed with an empty stomach.
"Patriarchy is not something that men did to women at some point in history, but a fragile system whose perpetuation we all participate in every day. “I’m not saying that it’s patriarchal to take your husband’s name,” she offers as an example. “But that is one of the mundane ways
@suhasinih
@pbmehta
100% on point
Women are not individuals with agency in patriarchal India. They are property, objects, symbols, and defined by their use/duties/value to men
I generally share my podcasting gyaan in workshops, one-on-one online or finally, recently, in person. But here you go, part 1 of a 5 part series for
@T3Indiamag
is out in case you want to "Kickstart Your Podcast"
#RuralIndiaOnline
via
@PARINetwork
The new farm laws disable the right to legal recourse of all citizens, not just farmers – to an extent unseen since the 1975-77 Emergency. The farmers at Delhi’s gates are fighting for the rights of us all
Also, PSA,
#Migraineurs
the
@MigraineSummit
is currently on. Day 2 recordings are out. Yesterday was fantastic, I'm so glad to learn about the gut-migraine link and about other presentations of migraine beyond head pain.
#notjustaheadache
It's so informative and validating
Deighted that my feature on
@barefootTILONIA
's Solar Mamas was long listed for the
@OneWorldMedia
WOMEN'S SOLUTIONS REPORTING AWARD.
"Jobs for girls" is the episode name
I was on a
@airvistara
flight recently where they did make a pre-take odd announcement asking passengers to use devices with headphones and I was so grateful.
Here's hoping they make it the norm and airlines like
@AkasaAir
follow suit
@doctorsaheba
Why don't airlines and hotels and restaurants in India ask clients to use earphones? It should be a request made publicly in the form of writing and announcements. It sets the expectations
Please read this excellent ground report on the Adivasis
@alokshuklacg
, winner of this year's Green Nobel, works with to steward & preserve their own ecology in the face of capitalism, cronyism and exploitation - by
@ByToutatis
#environment
#saveladakh
India Twitter,
I'm looking to talk to anyone who is left handed and has experienced some strange attitudes towards it -- or was pushed to being ambidextrous or even right handed.
#help
#forastory
Womaning in India - Stories of Women in The Workplace Plus bonus quiz at the end so you (yes, whatever your gender) can recognize and address your bias.
#everydaysexism
@getplumhq
"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live." -Sarah Kendzior
@awad
Chembur Cubic Mall
@TheBarStockExch
is actively flouting the smoking indoors ban. Friend took this photo last evening. Not only are people smoking in the AC, there are ashtrays at every table. (Zoom in: The guys in the back of this photo ARE smoking)
@mybmc
@mybmcWardMW
In April, I traveled to an enclave of India across the Ravi, on the side that shares a border with Pakistan thanks to the hastily drawn Radcliffe Line in 1947. Since then the residents have been asking for a bridge. This is their story.
#listen
Tl;Dr version
@alokshuklacg
blocked 21 *adani mines along with Adivasis whos land and forest are and have always been protected.
In retaliation, he and
@SHasdeo
we're slapped with an IT case, of course!
#theheroweneed
Alok Shukla (
@alokshuklacg
) and his coalition led a successful community campaign that saved 444,789 acres of biodiverse forests in central India from 21 planned coal mines.
#GoldmanPrize
🌎🏆
👉 Learn more:
If you've read
@radiomukhers
's "The Shadows of Men" you definitely want to read this article by
@yasheesingh
And if you haven't read Abir and his Sam Wyndham series, you MUST!
Over the past few days, I have been getting a number of voice and video calls on Whatsapp from unidentified international numbers. They cut the call immediately. Anyone else here who is facing this?
💯
The existing laws against begging in India do not ensure that ... government fulfil their welfare obligations. Instead, they invisibilise beggars without addressing the root cause of the issue that is poverty, a direct outcome of the state’s failure to provide for its citizens
I just backed Voices of Deoli on
@Kickstarter
A feature film about a community's forgotten history: The Chinese Indian internment
78% backed. Pitch in, Twitter.
Based on the book by
@DeathEndsFun
I've wanted to do this for a long time. Does anyone know HOW and where to register this living will? As of now I've just emailed my DNR wishes to my family & close friends
Renowned gynaecologist registers ‘living will’
They won't even leave ONE kilometer untouched.
“Earlier the restrictions imposed were within 10 km as per the court notification in 2002, which served as a buffer for animals. However, the restrictions have been relaxed over the years,” and now they want to scrap all buffers!
Even as language and culture is lost, some scholars are trying to preserve and archive it. Here's ethnomusicologist
@ChristianPoske
work building on previous audio documentation in
#Nagaland
to add missing song lyrics and share, with native communities, their musical heritage
Got conned into Digityatra at security check. BE CAREFUL. even when there's is a sign saying "non digityatra passengers" a photo was taken without my consent.
If you see a screen, I guess, back up and find a human.
#digiyatra
#bigbrother
#consent
"The demonisation of Mughals is a core part of Hindutva, India’s ruling ideology that now stands on a nearly equal footing with Indian nationalism itself. As Hindutva’s chief ideologue Vinayak Savarkar laid out, Hindutva sees Muslims and Christians as perpetual outsiders in India
I talked a little about India's e-waste recycling on the upcoming episode of
@bbcworldservice
's
#UnexpectedElements
podcast
Read this for the details!
This is Seelampur: India’s digital underbelly where your phones go to die
by
@pankajontech
Work life balance ⚖️. Cork flowers (which honestly I couldn't initially smell at all because: soap and sanitizer) picked up during Bombay's drizzle yesterday at my desk with some of the tools of my trade
#shure
#tascam
#podcaster
#podcastinglife
#flower
…
So interesting!
These results suggest a causal effect of the abundance of certain bacteria on the risk of stroke subtypes. Plus 2 bacteria could potentially be probiotics capable of mitigating the risk of ischemic stroke through metabolic regulation...
Yesterday
@goIndigo
cancelled the flight I scheduled on 5 hours before take off with neither and apology nor a reason. Instead they acted like they were doing me a massive favour by allowing me to take the same flight any day this week without a fee. Or a full refund.
Unwilling to fly to Chennai with just 6 pax, IndiGo tricks the pax to get off the aircraft at BLR, with fraudulent phone call from airline staff "holding boarding passes for another flight" and makes them wait overnight. Clever trick,
@IndiGo6E
!
Delhi this week was hotter than anything I've ever experienced before. And i was in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, working in the mid-day heat at salt pans! I didn't think it got hotter than that. I was wrong
#climatecrisis
"From asking a Muslim panellist whether he wanted to marry four times to declaring that Muslims were not ‘civilisationally evolved’, Times Now’s dog-whistling had it all."
And I'm back on the Beeb with the science of LAZINESS this time. On
#Crowdscience
this week,
@thermoflynamics
turns to experts to find out whether or not so-called ‘laziness’ is a fundamental part of biology or psychology; why some people have more energy than...
Please sign and support the three demands
1. Publish the findings of the OC's investigations immediately.
2. Arrest Brij Bhushan Singh.
3. Form an Internal Committee as per the PoSH Act, 2013 at the WFI. [1][4]
"I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture. A picture that YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on YOUR page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures. Here’s mine."
I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture. A picture that YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on YOUR page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures. Here’s mine.
in which these systems stay alive. And there are thousands, if not millions, of them in cultures all over the world.” - Some more amazing quotes threaded below.
🏔️Join the ‘Friends of Ladakh' movement
@Wangchuk66
! The fragile ecosystem of Ladakh is threatened by unchecked industrialization and unsustainable tourism. Let's stand with the people of Ladakh. Take action now:
#Ladakh
#LadakhUnderThreat
#ClimateFast
Solar and wind energy outfits are steadily encroaching upon Rajasthan’s orans – sacred groves set in grasslands which are mis-categorised as ‘wastelands’ in government records, drastically changing the ecology and livelihoods
@PARInetwork
"Herrera had his jaw reconstructed after suffering from mouth cancer like other residents.
Universal Pictures did not respond to emails from Axios seeking comment."