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@advpyog Can criminal legal action be taken on jains discriminating on the basis of food choices and calling Marathi people 'Ghatis'??

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@NatashaASpeaks cannot control what the parents give their kids in the lunchbox. It is better you tell your child not to share tiffin with anyone."

Who do these Jains think they are, acting as if they're entitled to dictate other people's food choices?

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@NatashaASpeaks Not just that, today itself in Pune during the parents-teachers meeting in my daughter's school, one jain parent had the audacity to ask the school principal what they are doing to stop the kids from bringing non-veg food in their tiffin. She rightly answered that we...(1/2)

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

It should be Indian prime minister Modi who sparks controversy for refusing to answer media questions while abroad, not a journalist for simply asking. https://t.co/trFVTeEUZh

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@back2thevibe Jogwa

[Maharashtra Congress @INCMaharashtra]

राणेंचा निर्लज्ज मुलगा, दंगलखोर संग्राम, मंगळसूत्र चोरीचा आरोप असलेला पडळकर आणि भोसरीचा गुंड; यांसारख्या सर्व 'नवहिंदूरक्षकांनी' विकृत धीरेंद्र शास्त्रीने (बागेश्वर बाबा) छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराजांबद्दल ओकलेले वादग्रस्त वक्तव्य अजून ऐकले नाही का? आता हे सर्व नेमके कुठल्या बिळात लपून बसले आहेत? जोपर्यंत मालक ‘छू’ म्हणत नाही, तोपर्यंत यांच्यातला तथाकथित हिंदू जागाच होत नाही, असे वाटते. राजकीय फायद्यासाठी आणि स्वतःच्या मालकाच्या सांगण्यानुसार सोयीस्कर भूमिका घेणाऱ्या या सर्व 'नवहिंदूरक्षकांना' उघड करण्याची जबाबदारी आज छत्रपती शिवरायांचा वैचारिक वारसा जपणाऱ्यांची सर्वांची आहे.

#शिवद्रोही_भाजपा #शिवरायविरोधी_भाजप #MaharashtraPolitics

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Look at this map.

Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.

And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.

The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.

What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.

But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.

A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.

A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.

You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.

In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.

It chose the numbers.

The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.

All forests, on paper.

The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped. 

The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion. 

It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.

The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency. 

I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.

This is not a technicality. This is the con.

It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.

For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.

They did nothing.

Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.

The BJP is different.

When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.

The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real. 

Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated. 

The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.

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@ankitgtmlabs @DeepikaBhardwaj Legs? I would beat him dead

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@ThePuneMirror @TOIPune @punekarnews @WeArePunekar @punekar

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Putting two-wheeler riders and car passengers at serious risk.

How many more accidents and loss of lives are we waiting for before strict action is taken?

Requesting immediate intervention.
Spotted in Baner near Sattva hotel.

@PuneCityPolice @CPPuneCity @PuneCityTraffic

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Putting two-wheeler riders and car passengers at serious risk.

How many more accidents and loss of lives are we waiting for before strict action is taken?

Requesting immediate intervention.
Spotted in Baner near Sattva hotel.

@PuneCityPolice @CPPuneCity @PuneCityTraffic

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@nsinghal211 But why does he have to pay from your pocket and why does he want to work from your hometown? 🤔

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@vedikabaisa

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@UTDAlex8 Fabregas

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@ShivAroor निघ रे लवड्या

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@RajatMemes_ Chole bhature

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@FPLGOAT7 Wilson was my captain 😅

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@FPLGOAT7

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@DealsDhamaka Yes. Bought a LP T-shirt from Tiruppur for INR.600 which would cost around INR.3000 in the shop

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@FPLGOAT7 31

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@amalezishi @ManUtd I haven’t stayed awake or woken up at night for United in nine years. Turns out, dignity and sleep are underrated.