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🌸 Product designer ✨ // My rants & thoughts 🫶🏻
Bengaluru
Joined May 2013
I lived in Delhi for two years breathing 400- 500 AQI like it was flavored oxygen, no mask nothing. Every time I went to my hometown with much lesser AQI (around 100) it actually felt good, kinda terrifying how we’ve normalized things that shouldn’t be normal.
When in India, I did end this podcast early due to the bad air quality. @nikhilkamathcio was a gracious host and we were having a great time. The problem was that the room we were in circulated outside air which made the air purifier I'd brought with me ineffective. Inside, the AQI was 130 and PM2.5 was 75 µg/m³, which is equal to smoking 3.4 cigarettes for 24 hours of exposure. This was my third day in India and the air pollution had made my skin break out in rash and my eyes and throat burn. Air pollution has been so normalized in India that no one even notices anymore despite the science of its negative effects being well known. People would be outside running. Babies and small children exposed from birth. No one wore a mask which can significantly decrease exposure. It was so confusing. The evidence shows that India would improve the health of its population more by cleaning up air quality than by curing all cancers. I am unsure why India's leaders do not make air quality a national emergency. I don't know what interests, money and power keep things the way they are but it's really bad for the entire country. When I returned to the U.S., my eyes were fresh to see what is normalized to me. I saw obesity everywhere. 42.4% of American are obese and because I was around it all the time, I had been mostly oblivious to it. In many contexts, obesity is worse than air pollution in the long term. Why wouldn't American leaders declare a national emergency on obesity? What interests, money and power keep things the way they are but are really bad for the entire country.
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Not planning to open LinkedIn for the next few days. think I’ll stick to X, at least the opinions are bite-sized. #Budget2025
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Grateful for the valuable finance-related data that helped in my secondary research on rural women's financial habits. Big thanks to @dharmeshba, @d91labs and @1990labs for providing such insightful resources! 📊🙌
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Petition to re-release Rhythm just for that iconic BGM. You know the one, the moment it kicks in, you feel the entire vibe of the movie hit you again. I swear it still gives me chills. @arrahman 🥹
No matter when I watch this movie, I feel like I'm watching it for the first time ❤️ Repeat value for Rhythm is uncountable 🫠
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