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“The lower a country’s GDP, the more mustard coloured it is.”
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3 in 10 Indians lied.
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7 in 10 Indians do not wear seat belt when seated in the rear
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10 years ago today I posted a silly and nerdy tweet on how diamonds are just carbon allotropes and then said marry me — to no one in particular. A random stranger responded to that saying it depends on the size of the carbon allotrope.
We’ve been married for five years now.
Real sentence said by someone living in a neighbourhood where each house is worth at least ₹6-7 crore:
“The woman who takes our garbage every day has now demanded ₹200 per month. We recently had a society meeting and decided we won’t increase it from the current ₹150.”
My friend Seby, all of 18, has started his first ever bakery. Today’s the first day. He makes some delicious muffins, croissants, brownies, breads and more.
Support him if you’re in Goa. His bakery, ‘The Rolling Pin’ is at The Mango Grove on Candolim Beach road.
Microsoft has had its share of sins, but can we take a moment to appreciate how it never sold our data for money, never bombarded us with advertisements in their core products, didn't try to sell us wheels for $700, and mostly didn't force obsolescence on its products?
This is Delhi NCR (Noida) today. It literally smells like burning leaves. AQI is over 900.
I did not know this.
In air conditioners, a "ton" refers to the heat needed to melt a ton of ice over one day. So a 1.5 ton AC removes heat that can melt 1.5 tons of ice in a day.
This is a still from a movie about Indian nurses who got abducted by ISIS in Iraq.
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Zoya's got her SWAG on 
#SwagSeSwagat Coming Soon! @TigerZindaHai | #KatrinaKaif | @yrfmusic
#SwagSeSwagat Coming Soon! @TigerZindaHai | #KatrinaKaif | @yrfmusic
Even after 4 months of having my debit card, I couldn’t remember the CVV/code. I could have sworn it kept changing, but even the idea of that is absurd. I thought I was losing it.
And then I took photos of the CVV a few hours apart.
This is some truly futuristic technology.
Sweden has provided one of the most epic burns in diplomatic history. It first formally recognised Palestine. Then:
It’s a hard time for the rest of us from other schools in Hyderabad. First the CEO of Adobe, then the CEO of Microsoft, and now the next World Bank president are all from HPS. And all they ever did was sit in the wall of the Begumpet airport and watch planes fly out.
Remember that story about NASA spending millions of dollars developing a pen that worked in space while the Soviets used pencils? About that…
Heartbreaking to see Jallianwala Bagh’s historic entrance permanently destroyed by way of renovation. Those walls told stories. Their plainness reminded Indian visitors of their own neighbourhoods, their own homes. twitter.com/KimAtiWagner/s
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Kochi Metro is being awesome. Not only did it thank migrant workers with dinner, they also had a dance party and message board.
Science isn’t decided by debate, where theatrics matter more than substance.
Do clinical trials with placebos and treatment groups, publish data on a reputed platform, show evidence, get double blind peer reviewed — do everything that all other proven medicines go through.
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Open invitation to @IndianMedAssn officials for a discussion on the science behind #Coronil, with the research team at #PRI
Let us discuss in front of nation OR #IMA apologize for the baseless non-scientific allegations.
We at #Patanjali are pro-science but anti-conspiracy!
I really wish you were an editor and had a primetime show on one of India's largest news TV channels. Could have made a huge difference.
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Really strange: #BiharFloods over 400 dead, #Assam floods similar figure, no coverage at all. #MumbaiRains non stop TV coverage? Jai Hind
A lot of people are bothered by CamScanner getting banned. Easy (and arguably better) replacements: DropBox and OneDrive. Both have excellent scanners built in and the scanned docs are immediately available on all your devices.
It doesn’t take much to be rude to the bank employee who calls you to sell you a card, even though they’re doing what they’ve been told to do.
But if you ever met the CEO of that same bank — the one who makes them call you — you’d probably be very polite. That’s how class works.
Trivia: Bangladesh's flag is slightly off centre (notice the red circle is just marginally to the left) so that when it is on a pole and fluttering about, the movement happens on the right, and then the red circle appears to be in the stable part of the flag. 🇧🇩
Hackers in India are quite amazing. After hacking, they don't defile the account. They just tweet the account holder's beliefs.
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Just gt access back to my account; some mischievous folks had hacked the account.
Please ignore any activity on my account of past few hours
Can there possibly be a simpler explanation?
I used to be a good atheist back in the day, but have lost practice lately.
This Pakistani journo entering grave of Abdul Sattar Edhi and this Indian journo entering a bathtub to illustrate Sridevi's death are great metaphors for the state of the media in the two countries.
Presenting the winner of Species of the Year 2022: the African giant pouched rat. 🏆
They're heroes. This gentle giant helps sniff out landmines and tuberculosis in humans.
(Please retweet and help spread the word). 🧵
Startup idea: a gym named Resolution that runs for the 1st month of the year, collects subscription fee, then converts to a bar named Regret
In that case, the sale of garlic and onion should also be banned and so should Licious, Meatigo and other home delivery companies. Unless the idea is only to harass small meat shop owners.
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During Navratri, 99% of households in Delhi don't even use garlic & onion, so we've decided that no meat shops will be open in South MCD; the decision will be implemented from tomorrow. Fine will be imposed on violators: Mukkesh Suryaan, Mayor of South Delhi Municipal Corporation
He didn’t even name you 😂 You just confessed
A big thank you to everyone involved in transforming Chandni Chowk in Delhi into a pedestrian-only zone (between 9am and 9pm). More of this, please.
State of Dalits in my village in Rajasthan, 2020:
- Can’t get haircuts at the regular shops
- Separate cremation ground
- Can rent houses only if they’re teachers etc
- Dinners, functions are separate; only close friends across castes attend
- Kids now sit together in school
Turns out there is a way to clean up the internet if we really wanted that.
This is not a map of Covid positivity. This is a map of data availability and reliability.
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The fact that 44 per cent (323) of all the districts in the country now have test positivity rates below the WHO-mandated limit of 5 per cent is encouraging. The worry is that 56 per cent (411) of the districts still have TPR above 5 per cent. @IndiaToday Data Intel Unit (DIU).
I have a small file of scientific facts that make me go “wow”. And today, a friend started a thread asking for everyone’s favourite scientific facts, concepts, postulates and questions.
Here are a few of my favourites. #thread
Far too many people in India are just meeting each other with symptoms of cold and cough, saying things like, "I'm coughing because I had cold water 2 days ago" or "I got wet in the rain".
That's not how infections work. If you have symptoms of anything, stay away from others.
Journalists did not ask Donald Trump Jr any tough questions because they were warned not to do so.
And they complied.
No wonder Don Jr. thought Indian media is nice.
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@ Hi Annie, we were given just 10 minutes with him and constantly warned by his minders not to ask any politically-loaded questions.
Incredible story. Village boy quit school, studied law for 16 years with the sole purpose of suing a factory for polluting his village.
He just won the case.
independent.co.uk/news/world/asi
I will feel proud when they all have their number plates. twitter.com/MODIfiedVikas/
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Khan Market is named after Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (brother of Gaffar Khan). It is named after him because at the time of partition he safely brought immigrants from what is now Pakistan to the area that is now Khan Market. People who still live there will tell you their history.
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My friend keeps an album of all the good dosas he’s had. This is the kind of hobby I need.
Cheque didn’t get processed for a week so I went back to ICICI to find out why.
Teller: “Because you submitted it to HDFC.”
Me: “Why would I do that? I gave it to you.”
He: “I work at HDFC.”
Me: “Then why are you here?”
He: “Because this is HDFC. You’re at the wrong bank.”
Can we take a moment to appreciate the logo of Goa’s new airport? The sun, the mountain, the sea, and a coconut tree in this super simplistic swoosh and dot.
Easily one of the best logos I’ve seen.
Women getting out of toxic relationships where in the past they were forced not to. twitter.com/TabakaFinest/s
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How much cleaner are the clean energy technologies such as renewables, electric cars, heat pumps, and hydrogen compared to the dominant technologies?
Significantly. Here’s a neat summary graph from ’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2023.
iea.org/reports/energy
More airports should do this. The conveyor belt for the checked in luggage is at the floor level itself. No need to pick the luggage up. Useful especially for the elderly and others who may not be able to lift easily.
Next, let’s install a Kent water purifier on the ocean.
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Don't we already have a department for that... I think it's called "police".
Where are those people now who claimed this crime had nothing to do with caste?
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Thakur men, who have been staging the "Savarn Jago" protest outside the Victim's village, call out @BhimArmyChief who has reached Hathras to meet the victim's family.
2020 could get even worse.
There's a global locust swarm in existence right now -- the worst in many decades -- and India could suffer from a brutal wave in the coming months.
A 1 sq km swarm in 1 day can eat as much food as 35,000 people.
thehindu.com/news/national/
ठाकुर फ़ुट्वेर एक बड़ी कम्पनी है। वो अपना ब्रांड का नाम अपने जूतों पे छापते है, जैसे बजाज अपना नाम अपने स्कूटर पे छापता है। बेचारे दुकानदार को परेशान क्यूँ कर रहे है?
Mumbai Police: "Did you do a nude photoshoot?"
Ranveer: "Yes."
Mumbai Police whispering to each other: "Ok what do we do now?"
The rich don't care about the quality of water in the taps because they can afford water filters.
The rich don't care about police reforms because they can afford gated communities.
The rich won't care about air quality soon when all homes, offices, schools have air purifiers.
Judges have just ordered into existence a covid hospital exclusive to them. 🙏🏽
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.#Delhi: 100 rooms at Ashoka Hotel will be converted into a #COVID Health Care facility for the Hon’ble Justices, other judicial members of the Delhi High Court & their families at their request; hotel staff will be given PPE kits etc; non-compliance will attract penal action 
One year into the pandemic, we’re still focusing too much on touch and too little on enclosed spaces.
Fine if establishments insist on sanitising everyone’s hands on entry — but the focus should be on turning off the ACs and opening the windows (where possible).
This is a highly irresponsible statement from a man who has a habit of speaking about issues he knows nothing about.
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The significance of vaccination against many debilitating diseases should not be played down. But at the same time, it is important it is not overdone, without taking into consideration the many side-effects or negative impacts of vaccinations.
isha.sadhguru.org/wisdom/article
In my primary school, girls did as well as the guys. In fact, did better.
A movie made by a man about a man who makes cheap sanitary napkins is made tax free... while sanitary napkins themselves are taxed in spite of demands by women who actually use yhem.
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Rajasthan CM @VasundharaBJP says @PadManTheFilm will be tax-free in state, thanks @akshaykumar for making the film. She announced this at a meeting of aganwadi workers who came to Jaipur to thank her for raising their honorarium @htTweets
The cultural impact of Black Panther will be felt for generations. It wasn’t merely any other superhero film. It showed a vision that had never before been seen on film. It proved a point at the box office that was being resisted by production houses for ages. twitter.com/Bklyn_Rock/sta
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This journalist has been detained by the police under non-bailable sections for *this* tweet.
bit.ly/2yRSW3r
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Can someone explain why families are placed under home quarantine for speaking over phone with Covid patients? @MediaRN_ANI @Andaman_Admin
Today I learned: Marlon Brando refused an Oscar for The Godfather and instead gave voice to a Native American woman.
She was initially booed but ultimately got an applause. But she was later boycotted by the Hollywood community in general.
If you have a few minutes, please go through this. Just a few minutes. Ideally seen on a desktop computer. This is what distances look like if the moon were a single pixel. #Chandrayaan2
joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace
Back in Vizag after 2 decades and I’m still in love with the city.
Vizag has it all: clean water, roads and air, open public spaces, beautiful beaches and hills, sailing, an ideal port.
With a little push on tourism and commerce, Vizag can easily be India’s Cape Town.
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Turns out it’s an e-ink display (similar to the Amazon Kindle), but so small that it just appears like regular text printed on plastic. The invisible battery inside the card lasts longer than the validity of the card.
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I also barely survived a motorcycle accident when someone tried to kick me. It was caught on video.👇🏽
Not a good year to be asking that question. 🦠
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Imagine losing 99% of $31 billion in about 10 years. I hope someone writes a biography of Anil Ambani and his companies — a blow by blow account of what went wrong. Would make for a very good read.
My favourite tweet of Dilip Kumar. Not sure why it touched me. I think about this on occasion. Rest in peace. twitter.com/DilipKumarFC/s
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Hi @TwitterSupport This tweet spreads dangerous misinformation about an ongoing pandemic. We have already seen the impact of such fake news: people came out into the open in crowds instead of social isolation. Please remove this tweet and restrict this account.
The library of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi. It’s now the private library of the Dutch Ambassador to India.
It is ’s world and we just happen to be living in it.
As seen on a random evening walk around town.
Yesterday, I went back to the parking lot after a day of work.
But my car was nowhere to be found. It was missing.
125 cars are stolen every day in Delhi. It was my turn, I suppose.
(There’s more...)
Why are there no women in this crowd?
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Withdrawing from the ICC World Cup is not nationalist enough. India should boycott cricket itself. The whole world will then miss us. But little do they know we’ll be busy with the Indian Gilli Danda League.
I stopped watching TV news in India many years ago. But the clips I randomly see on social media these days are very embarrassing, shocking and heartbreaking. How can a nation and society mature with such rhetoric being fed daily? How can this be fixed? I’m clueless.
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“This is an incredible moment in our country’s history”, he yelled.
This is amazing. I think science deserves to know how his heart rate, BP and other vitals remain normal despite such daily screaming.
People have been rating the Ghazipur garbage dump of Delhi. It has mixed reviews with a rating of 2.9 out of 5.
What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?
ourworldindata.org/safest-sources
Aishwarya Rai's vision for the country and belief in free markets changed India's economic trajectory. Respect.
This is some next level Peepli Live story. The bird was free to fly away, but still stayed around Arif. Then they filed a case against Arif under the wildlife protection act, and put the bird in a small, suffocating cage to secure its freedom.
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My best friend had a baby 3 weeks ago. They’ve kept him indoors with air purifiers for the most part. But he already has a stuffy nose and a cough.
If you’re having a baby in Delhi, please leave if you are able to do so. It’s not worth staying here.
Some personal news. I’ll be moving to Paris to work at the secretariat. My work will focus on energy investments and related issues.
If you live in the city and would like to meet, please send me a message. Would love to discuss life in the city and the future of energy.
The incredible story of how scientists tried to warn very early (in April 2020) that the coronavirus is airborne, but it was ignored and instead the world was sold the "wash your hands" line rather than "ventilate and avoid being indoors". Costly mistake.
wired.com/story/the-teen
Someone shared this meme with me in April 2020, just two weeks after the lockdown began. It was uncomfortably funny then, but here we are.
Marital rape is a crime in Zimbabwe, Turkey, Nepal, Ghana, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Norway, Canada, Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Thailand among many others.
What makes Indian men unique?
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Former CJI Dipak Misra says marital rape should not be a crime in India
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These CVVs have already expired. That’s the best part about this system. One can’t misuse the card as the numbers keep changing.