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Cinephile and the Silk Route Specialist.

[The Big Three @Big3Tennis]

Djokovic has won a five hour match in three different decades. Unmatched longevity.

[David de Gea @D_DeGea]

For life ❤️

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Did a little more research on this singularly ill timed decision by the AIFF to change the name to Football Federation of Bharat and mandate a 4 minute song(which FIFA will never allow for internationals) before each AIFF match.
And it turned out that neither of these items were actually on the agenda before the meeting, and came as a surprise to most in the meeting. And these items were never put on vote or passed.
But according to the AIFF's own press release the same day, it seemed to be a done deal.
"It was further resolved that a proposal be submitted to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) for renaming the All India Football Federation (AIFF) as the Football Federation of Bharat (FFB).
It was also decided that the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana' and the National Song 'Vande Mataram' shall be played before the commencement of all football matches conducted under the aegis of AIFF."
The fact is that the AIFF elections are in a few months, and this is an excellent way to make sure that this election will be fought on name changes and national songs, when what it should really be decided on is how well or badly the current lot is running the sport and whether they should or should be replaced.
It is also a terrible disservice to many sincere AIFF state representatives who would have been just as surprised by this sudden development, and who would needlessly be the object of ire and ridicule among their own constituents.
There is a way of changing all of this. But it starts with at the state level with each sport and a collective will to end this nonsense and lack of accountability.
I plan to give it a proper shot

[Pervin Sanghvi 🌏 @pervinsanghvi]

"Once ecological systems are fragmented, their functions are often lost long before people realise it. By the time the consequences become visible, the ecological relationships that sustained both nature and livelihoods may already be gone.”
🙌 @MumbaiMangroves 👏

[Rocky Singh 🇮🇳 @RockyEatsX]

India prefers street dogs over Wildlife and jungle preservation. India is not smart enough to recognise the significant damage being done to India’s forests and wildlife by dogs entering, hunting and sustaining in forests … neither do most people care.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Statistically, life exists on at least one of these dots.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Thirteen years ago today ❤️

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Important story

Brazil police seize devices from a famous bird expert.

He is suspected of coordinating the illegal purchase of endangered animals for Vantara, a private zoo in Gujarat, India.

https://t.co/XCAl1p1pZI

[Abhishek ✨ @ImAbhishek7_]

Above 40 degree is the temperature at 9:30 am already.
All credit to our illiterate politicians for cutting down trees for their crony friends, running smear campaigns against climate change activists and constantly living in denial

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Vulture populations in India collapsed. 500,000 people died as a result.

In the 1990s, Indian farmers started using a cheap painkiller called diclofenac on their cattle. When vultures ate the carcasses, the drug destroyed their kidneys.

Without vultures, cattle carcasses rotted in fields instead of being stripped clean in 45 minutes. Feral dog populations exploded by five million. Rabies cases surged. Pathogens spread through water supplies.

University of Chicago economists compared death rates in districts that used to have vultures to districts that never did. Human mortality rose more than 4% after the collapse. Over 100,000 extra deaths a year. Half a million in five years.

India banned the drug in 2006. The vultures still haven't recovered.

This is what a keystone species is to us. This is why we protect the animals nobody finds cute.

[Kavish aziz @azizkavish]

When Ambani's son keeps animals as pets, even Bollywood celebrities turn up to promote him.

But when a poor y man Arif cares for a crane, the bird is caged and separated from him.

[Roundglass Sustain @RGSustain1]

Wildlife photographer and researcher Saurabh Sawant shares what he’s witnessing across India—from wetlands to Ladakh.

Free-ranging dogs are hunting in packs, chasing and exhausting wildlife like nilgai, cranes, and kiangs—disrupting ecosystems and putting native species under stress.
A growing, human-driven crisis playing out across landscapes.

Stay with us this week as we trace the rise of free-ranging dogs and the ecological consequences that follow.

Photos by Saurabh Sawant

#WildlifePhotography #IndiaWildlife #FreeRangingDogs #EcologicalImpact #ConservationEfforts

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Same timeline. Same planet. Totally different realities. 🤯

Both exist simultaneously, and your brain almost can’t process it...

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

the loss of #fireflies I remember the shimmering , magical glow that lit up our nights, and witnessed its erosion from our lives. #LightPollution #NoisePollution is rarely a thing, not factored in but many animals' very survival depends on the cyclical rhythm of dark n' light.
I wrote about this in my #book #theVanishing: #India's #Wildlife Crisis

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

@ParveenKaswan That there's a zoo of exotic animals from the world in Gujarat and not a single IFS officer has ever questioned it.

[HP @NomadicTyrant]

@surajmalhotra22 They are a scammy company. Got a call right after my booking saying there is an issue and hold on for few hours and later cancelling it so you can’t book on any other website. Avoid this company at all costs - pay a few hundred bucks more on a reputed website.

@HappyFaresindia

[RichaChadha @RichaChadha]

I don’t think it’s a good idea to welcome water-guzzling data centres, GMO bananas or forever polluting chemical factories in Taloja & Ratnagiri into India, simply because they’ve been BANNED, PROTESTED AGAINST AND REJECTED BY COUNTRIES OF THE GLOBAL NORTH.

They’re outsourcing pollution to us. We have to say no vociferously!

Otherwise our beloved India, our rivers, mountains, soil will be destroyed by techno-necro-capitalists…who want to usher in an era of neocolonialism.

( These necro-capitalists are afraid of transmitting STDs to their own wives because they’re paedophilic island goers.
Get my drift ? )

[HP @NomadicTyrant]

@pavyg Made her millions 🤑

[HP @NomadicTyrant]

@jonatha9609918 @RorshachJournal @timesofindia It’s hilarious and sad at the same time how gullible people are! It’s a billionaires zoo ffs, miles away from anything related to conservation.