IS@30

I'd like to think this would make a difference in my life.

[Pathikrit @PathikritS_]

Again. The protestors DID NOT do this to ordinary citizens. The Delhi government did.

[IS@30 @ShuklaIewa]

@neilmukti Interesting. Please count me in. Thanks.

[IS@30 @ShuklaIewa]

@PathikritS_ Please to share recipe

[Myra⚢ @Desi1esbian]

Girls using vulgar language is culture shock and it's something to be addressed by the pm but girls getting molested and raped is not?????

[Chinmayi Sripaada @Chinmayi]

One of the premier colleges in India in the National Capital suspends classes due to gangrape.
Some classes shifted online.

This is enough to show how far we have come for women’s safety so much so that girls and their families think it is unsafe to send them to get educated.

Beti Padhao is going to the docks
Beti Bachao was anyway a warning.

[arooj @rooojayy]

every time a new AI trend starts i realise how little it takes for people to embarrass themselves publicly

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Corruption is not an issue anymore because everyone understands (and even respects) this basic human urge to hoard, to make more money. We even celebrate the top 15-20 billionaires of the nation as some sort of beacons of our culture and pride.

But what gets missed in this razzle-dazzle is that corruption is not just someone making extra money by bending rules - it also means those bent rules KILL people. In building fires, collapses, fake cancer medicines, adulterated foods, drunk driving, and a hundred other ways.

Corruption actually means someone making money by murdering people, murdering us.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

A 17-year old having more courage, skills, and love for the nation than many big news corporations and their multiple award winning journos combined.

[Kumaon Jagran @KumaonJagran]

People carrying torches on the streets for drinking water in Uttarakhand.

That alone says everything.

Massive protest erupts in Hinsariyakhal, Devprayag after months of severe water shortage, with angry villagers warning that if even basic necessities are not ensured, the agitation will intensify further.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

More than 1 lakh trees to be sacrificed for a railway project

Railways acquired land for Khajuraho-Panna rail line project and fell 54,578 trees in 2022-23. Now the route has been redesigned. Another 50k trees will be chopped.

Read this news with another headline: 97 of world’s 100 hottest cities in India

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

Shortage of gas didn't stop it. India is cooking. Literally.

Delhi hit 50°C. Rajasthan touched 52°C. Odisha went to 53°C. Banda went beyond. Labourers collapsed on roads. Farmers fainted. Old people died in homes with no fans. Children sat in tin-roofed classrooms with wet cloth on their heads.

Drink more water. Add ORS if you can afford. That was it. Oh, and one cooling center in Delhi with staff to wipe off your sweat with towels. That was the full might of the government machinery, its think tank and its policy makers.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister was on his 70-something foreign trip. Playing candy crush. And gifting leaders. Ministers were figuring out how to not offend Trump and his gang. And which vegetarian dishes to include in the menus for visiting dignatories.

Parliament debated about who stood where during some ceremony - not on what happens when India's goundwater runs dry, which at current rates, happens before 2035 in several states. As per some Soros-funded report.

We are used to all this. The heat is not new. It has been building for 30 years. Scientists have screamed. International reports have named Indian cities among the most climate-vulnerable on earth. Lucknow, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Pune - becoming increasingly unbearable to survive. While mass media kept promoting Melody.

You will not find a single coherent, funded, time-bound national heat action plan. You'll find press releases. Committees. Pilot projects. Newspaper ads. Hoardings. Posters. But zero action.

Forests are being cleared for highways, data centers, smart cities that exist mostly in muted videos. God only knows. The people making these decisions have SUVs, bungalows and ACs at 18°C. The people paying for these decisions carry water in used plastic bottles and sleep on pavements. Concrete pavements. With no shade.

In all the uncertainty around us, there are few things 100% certain. June comes and rivers will overflow again. The same cities that were on fire in May will go underwater in July. Mumbai. Chennai. Bangalore. Gurgaon. The footage is identical every year - cars submerged, families on rooftops, choppers rescuing some villagers, bloated carcasses, snakes in living rooms. Same ministers, same aerial surveys, same promises, same funds - like repeat prime time news. Zero action.

Then winter arrives and the air turns into something you can hold in your hands. AQI crosses 400-500. Same prime time debates - Punjab stubble versus Delhi firecrackers versus vehicular pollution. After 15 years we still haven't figured out even the problem. The solution seems a few centuries away. If we are lucky, then by 2047. Meanwhile, we can watch Arnab shouting from our TV screens. Sheer display of lung power when AQI crosses 500.

What's missing is not knowledge. India has world-class climate scientists. IITs publish excellent research. Down to Earth has data over the years. What's missing is political intention and competence. They do not exist. No, sir.

The citizen, exhausted and gaslit, has done what humans do when institutions fail them completely. Adapted. Resigned. Called it destiny. Blamed it on gods. The earlier ones. And that resignation is perhaps the most dangerous thing - it tells the political class there is no cost to inaction. They can and will continue taking everyone for granted. And keep fudging data to make it look unbelievably good.

In a country riding on heated religious fervour, the man-facilitated failures will be assigned to 'acts of God'. While fellow citizens will continue to master the art of sleeping with eyes wide open.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Gujarat: People of Valsad face severe water shortage. They are stepping down into wells which are more than 45 feet deep with the help of ropes to get water.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Just a quick reminder: On some planets, diamonds rain from the sky. Trees, however, don't exist anywhere else but on planet Earth. Trees are undoubtedly more rare than diamonds in the entirety of the universe.

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

📢 A digitally altered image purporting to be a front page of The Hindu from June 6, 1967, is currently circulating on social media. We wish to clarify that this is not an authentic page from our archives. The Hindu urges readers to exercise caution and verify before sharing.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Can we get AI to actually pick plastic out of the ocean, or do all the robots have to become screenwriters?

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centres in space. I don’t want humanoids or flying cars. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive. And a habitable planet.

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

India does not shut down for extreme heat because the Indian citizen has been trained to treat suffering as a national virtue.

Sit in a 45°C classroom. Commute in a metal box. Work outside till your brain starts cooking. Stand in election rallies, court corridors, factory floors, construction sites, coaching centres, government offices, traffic jams and railway platforms like this is normal human existence.

Then clap because some neta gave a revdi, invoked caste pride, promised vishwaguru status, or shouted about some civilisational issue that will not reduce the temperature of your skull by even 1 degree.

Human life has very little value in a poor country where people themselves have been conditioned not to demand basic dignity. The state treats citizens like serfs because citizens keep proving they are willing to live like serfs.

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"...your best men die in alleys
under a sheet of paper
while your worst men
get statues in parks
for pigeons to shit upon for
centuries."

— Bukowski

[AtnsMDX @AtnsXBT]

older generations had something we will never get back. time. bad news traveled slow. by the time fear reached you half the problems had already resolved themselves. the world was heavy but it moved at a human pace. they had places to disappear to. a corner of the world where nothing could reach them. we have wars updating in real time. ai reshaping everything faster than we can process it. notifications that make sure global anxiety lands in your pocket before your morning coffee. there is nowhere to go anymore. every corner of the world is connected to every problem in the world. and we are expected to just carry it all and function normally.