Anu

Mother, ex-copywriter, law school drop out, gender equity activist, pacifist; Be one of a KIND

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Oh no, no, no….

It’s true. Our species has irreversibly mutated..

It’s now PHONE, and only AFTER that Roti, Kapda aur Makaan…!

[Compounding Quality @QCompounding]

Jeff Bezos once said:

"You can be grinding for 4 years with no results, and in the 5th year, become the biggest thing on the planet. The power of not giving up is real"

Here are 10 things I learned from him:

[Anu @PieceStatement]

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[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Should you buy the SBI stock? I’m bullish

[Prakash Gowda @prakashgowda]

So true! I watch almost all the Hindi and regional movies on big screen and there are rarely 10 people to watch 'meaningful cinema', while the 100 crore club zero brainers garner full-house response. So, don't complain if the animal of mediocrity is unleashed.@anuragkashyap72

[Anu @PieceStatement]

For all the fatigue people have about the conversations around gender equity, they barely understand how much work there still needs to be done. The life and dignity of a woman is disposable in this world. Be it India or the US, the story is the same.

[Dr Jason Philip. M.S., MCh @Jasonphilip8]

We live in a highly patriarchal society. I hv done around 200 kidney transplants. My findings in my series:
1. Around 80-90 % of Kidney Transplant Recipients are men. When a woman develops ESRD( Kidney Failure), it is very hard to find a Kidney donor, among the relatives.
2. In my entire career, not even a single husband came forward to donate his Kidney to his sick wife, & save her life.
3. When a woman is a Kidney recipient, the person who donates is usually a sister or daughter, or mother.
4. Most women r ready to offer their kidneys to their ailing husbands to save his life. The converse never happens.
5. There was once an extreme case, when a 19 yr old legal wife, donated her Kidney to her 45 yr old husband. After the Tx, I was casually talking to her. Her story was bizarre. This was her elder sister's husband. Just for Tx, the entire family had planned it carefully. The husband divorced his wife, & the 19 yr old girl was beaten fr days to marry the 45 yr old man, since her Kidney was a perfect match.
So, a simple survey of Kidney Tx recipients & donors exposes how deeply patriarchal, misogynistic, our rotten society is.
Scratch the veneer of democracy, modernity in India, & u find that underneath, we are still a feudal, casteist, misogynistic, patriarchal community.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Stupidity is knowing the truth, seeing the truth but still believing the lies. And that is more infectious than any other disease.

[Anu @PieceStatement]

@thevirdas Only a fool will come see you on Diwali 🙂!

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

@elonmusk “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

—Ayn Rand

[Sarah Sizzle @sizzle_sarah]

@elonmusk

[Gangaraju S S @GangarajuSS]

This cannot be repeated enough: 'We are not born with Hate, we are taught Hate.'

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Robert De Niro’s statement on Donald is perfect. Please read it:

“I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men. I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump.

When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.”

Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong. Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.”

He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego. We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.

We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination. Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world. We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.

The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior. That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.

So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:

This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it? I know I’m preaching to the choir here. What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.

We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House. They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice. Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.

Let’s not talk about “democracy.” “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it.

Let’s talk about right and wrong. Let’s talk about humanity.

Let’s talk about kindness. Security for our world. Safety for our families. Decency.

Let’s welcome them back.

We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.””

[Khaled Hosseini @khaledhosseini]

Today marks 20 years since the publication of The Kite Runner. I am so proud to announce the publication of this special edition to commemorate its anniversary.

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

I’m still trying to work out the answer…🤔

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

Didn't know Humans of Bombay was a heavily monetized, ad revenue driven page.

[Simon Ateba @simonateba]

SEE IT: TSA agents at Miami International Airport caught stealing $600 from a passenger's wallet. I don't even know how to explain this. What could have gone wrong in their lives? WATCH

https://t.co/PQizKHDlRy

[Deedy @deedydas]

Parents getting old when most kids in their late 20s/30s live far away from them grinding at work is such a social tragedy that we don’t talk about enough

It’s truly depressing

[Anu @PieceStatement]

I see a foreseeable future, not that far away when we will have to forcibly shut down social media in order to control disinformation.

[Anu @PieceStatement]

@ElonMuskAOC What will tweet, the verb renamed to?

[Shantanu @shaandelhite]

When protests were happening after the Nirbhaya case,

Dr Manmohan Singh Ji addressed the nation keeping his eyes down and said that people's anger is justified.

He didn't mention BJP-ruled states in comparison and didn't try to normalize that crime.

But we saw Modi equating Manipur with Rajasthan, Chhatisgarh, and West Bengal.

This is what changed after 2014.