Sijo

Can identify cerulean and teal on sight. B)

[Sijo @MsJohnSijo]

@IndiGo6E Done. Awaiting your response.

[Sijo @MsJohnSijo]

Folks who got the
@IndiGo6E
vouchers to compensate for their #December fiasco, how are you using it? We got a voucher, but there is no place to redeem it. The only option on the payment screen is the Promo code, which doesn't accept vouchers. Marketing gimmick only?

[Syed Saad Ahmed @saadsye]

I loved @andaleebwajid's memoir 'Learning to Make Tea for One', published by @speakingtiger14. She writes so beautifully and simply about a topic as thorny as grief.

Here is my review in @htTweets

[Sijo @MsJohnSijo]

Good job! Now do this for every other part of Delhi that drowned today.

[Jan Ki Baat @jankibaat1]

🚨 Breaking:

No waterlogging at Delhi’s Minto Bridge despite heavy rain!

Once infamous for flooding with even a light drizzle, Minto Bridge saw smooth traffic movement today

[Bookworm Bookstore, Blr @bookworm_Kris]

For all book needs, please visit our store on Church Street. We offer flat 20% off on all the new titles. We also deliver pan India through India Post kindly just call or msg us on 9845076757 & we will do the needful. We thank you for supporting an independent bookstore 🙏🏽

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Nailed 🔥😅

[Sijo @MsJohnSijo]

@IRCTCofficial - your website is down during tatkal booking as the Captcha is not loading. Please fix.

[Sijo @MsJohnSijo]

@usermooseontwt The one about "get fewer packages" floated by Amazon.

[Sijo @MsJohnSijo]

Why have I seen these flowers bloom every year 😭

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu: Neelakurinji flowers, which bloom once in 12 years, are blooming near Utagai, the hills adjacent to the Toda tribal village called Pikkapathi Mandu.

[Sanket Upadhyay @sanket]

Sadly we in India have reduced languages many hundreds of years old to become ‘dialects of Hindi’.

The modern version of Hindi did not even exist a 100 yrs ago. The south complains of Hindi imposition. I would say there was a Hindi imposition in the North. This Hindi invariably attempts each day to kill local languages mentioned in the map below.

Hindi as we know today is like the Queen’s English. Language of a region. Language of a class. It is nice to have a grammar too. And rules and a system in place.

But it will be hard to kill other languages. Rural pockets and regions still practice their own language - despite no recognition. Despite robbing them of their base and scripts.

For eg, Awadhi used to be written in 3 different scripts many hundred years ago. Braj and Awadhi were the formal language of literature and communication in these parts.

And now, we expect everyone to follow Devanagari scripted Hindi?

No wonder people struggle pleasing the Hindi purists.

Expressions like ज नहीं ज़ होता है, स नहीं श होता है। Hindi purists attempt to alter and change the characters that came with many of these regional languages. These people are not wrong. The Hindi purists are.

Hindi was and never will be their mother tongue. For Awadh, it will be Awadhi. For Braj it will be Braj Bhasha.

And the same will go on. व will be pronounced ब in Awadhi & भ in Bhojpuri. And Hindi will have to deal with it.

If we want to respect the unity in diversity of regions and languages, Hindi must not be assumed as the official language of the North.

Hindi Diwas की दिली बधाई।

[Ashna Butani @ButaniAshna]

A PhD scholar writing her thesis on women's access to higher education, quits her course after her sexual harassment complaint against a prof goes unheard.

Like her, women across institutes, workplaces fear going to the ICC as it might “complicate things”.

Here's why:

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

Digi Yatra is a combination of everything wrong in India: elite gatekeeping of spaces, overreaching national security hysteria, and unavoidable sidelining of privacy principles.

[@TheCoreyRichardson on Threads. Follow Me There. @vexedinthecity]

I'm gonna tell y'all a story. In 2006, my brother passed away. I grieved for a couple of weeks, and then I walked that shit off. In 2009, out of nowhere, I suddenly lost my ability to drive on the highway. It was weird, but I just couldn't do it. The anxiety was overwhelming...

[Revathi @revathitweets]

YES CHINMAYEE WAS WRONG.

Because @Chinmayi is trying to teach US consent. A society which lives in perpetually denial 😊!
But let me share with you, a few things.

I taught my daughter about good touch- bad touch when she was 4yrs old. Told her that no matter who (family or friends or outsiders), irrespective of gender cannot touch her without permission. Even I cannot touch her, without her permission.

And if she is ever uncomfortable she should tell. I would ask her about this every week if there were any such occasions and we would discuss about it.

I always tell parents around me to teach their children about good touch & bad touch - both for boys and girls.

Yes - in our generation they didn’t speak about it and do you know how many have been abused? Speak to people around you. Irrespective of class, status, education, age, irrespective of gender - children have been abused and then in most cases, families have told them to shut up. The trauma & scars they had to carry all along their lives is horrific.

Again - if you think consent is a wrong concept…may be you should think again. This needs a little more thinking because we come from a brain-dense society where we have been conditioned to think a child is our property and we enjoy rape jokes!

If it helps, please check these stats. These are international studies and I am afraid these will be a lot higher in India. But since we don’t have so many stats available- let’s take this as a starting point.

- Nearly 70 percent of reported sexual abuse happens to children below 17yrs
- 85 percent of child abuse victims don’t talk about it
- About 30-40 percent of abuse happens from family
- MORE THAN 90 percent of child abusers are from the family of the child or someone the child loved & trusted

If you love your child - teach them.
If you are a responsible, educated, intelligent parent - learn about consent and teach your children the same.
Take care ❤️❤️❤️

PS: Do you know why there are more child abuse cases reported these days? Because some responsible parent taught their child to identify abuse.

Wishing you all nothing but love and hoping for a better society for our children 🤗

[immanuel kant dance sala @shivillex]

"If hard work makes you a billionaire, every woman in rural India would be one.”
P Sainath

[Susanta Nanda IFS (Retd) @susantananda3]

A herd of elephants crossing the Brahmaputra. Such a breathtaking sight😊

credit :Sachin Bharali

[Zeyad Masroor Khan @zeyadkhan]

Whatever happens by the evening, the INDIA alliance fought a very spirited election, with their leaders in jail, their bank account frozen and utterly partisan media. This is a moral defeat for BJP