Sumit Rao

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@WhiteHouse The stock market must be tanking. All of Trump's hot air won't lift up the index as long as the admin doesn't address the fundamentals.

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@rameshsrivats I am going to forward to all my Whatsapp groups 😀

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@cwebbonline @MuellerSheWrote All this because he wants more for his Act II of the same play in the near future. Be prepared...

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@imacuriosguy It is not about trust in India's documents. It is distrust in Indians that cheat and lie to get a visa and overstay. The % of fraud in visas is an indicator of trust, and the passport is where they are coming from. Now, change the behavior of your fellow Indians starting with you

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@OfficialBMRCL - what are these things wrapped up in nets? Do they serve any purpose?

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@Nammametrotalks - what are these trapped in your snare?

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@nikhilnarayanan But, ask yourself and the citizens around you what you are doing to change it? Can you influence the ward councillor to work for your community or run for office?

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@nikhilnarayanan Don't seek permission. Just speak up.

[ಸನಾತನ (सनातन) @sanatan_kannada]

Vrishabhavathi River Born at the feet of Doddabasavana Gudi, now Bengaluru’s Poison River.

Once a sacred, life-giving stream, the 69-km-long Vrishabhavathi River has been turned into a toxic sewer by decades of criminal neglect. It drains nearly half of Bengaluru and carries around 500 Million Litres per Day (500 MLD) of untreated or poorly treated sewage, industrial effluents, and solid waste. For 6–9 months a year, raw sewage dominates its flow.
BOD levels routinely exceed 100 mg/L (permissible limit: 3–5 mg/L). COD has hit shocking highs one intercepted industrial tanker showed 69,000 mg/L, thousands of times above safe limits. Heavy metals, plastics, and deadly contaminants have earned it the name “Visha-bhavathi” (Poison River).
Just days ago, a 40-year-old mother elephant died an agonising death after drinking this contaminated water in the Maggur forest area of the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary. Post-mortem revealed around 35 litres of toxic mix in her stomach. Countless other mute creatures are dying silently. Their cries go unheard by those in power.
This tragedy is not inevitable. Experts have repeatedly shown that with proper sewage diversion, functional STPs, desilting, and strict enforcement, the Vrishabhavathi could supply treated water to nearly half of Bengaluru. Instead, the river flows wasted while the city gasps for water lakes disappearing, groundwater crashing, and tanker mafias thriving.

Shame on the successive Governments of Karnataka Congress, BJP, JD(S), or any coalition. No party has shown real political will. They pour thousands of crores into vanity projects, flyovers, metro extensions, and photo-op schemes, but treat river revival with contempt.
• The much-hyped ₹391-crore “reboot” plan for Byramangala reservoir has been slammed by independent reports for ignoring root causes and simply pushing pollution downstream onto Kanakapura farmers, who then grow vegetables with toxic water.
• The Karnataka High Court has repeatedly slammed BBMP, KSPCB, and other agencies, imposing costs for inaction on encroachments, sewage dumping, and delays. Yet files keep moving in circles.
• Decades of PILs, expert committee reports, and KSPCB data gather dust on shelves.
To the politicians and respected officers (IAS, KAS, engineers, and pollution control officials): You are equally responsible. You draft reports, sanction funds, conduct “raids,” and then look the other way. You protect industries and real-estate lobbies instead of enforcing laws. You attend seminars on “Smart City” and “Green Bengaluru” while this river dies in front of your eyes. Your silence and selective blindness are enabling this environmental crime.
Bengaluru’s future is literally flowing away as poison. Reviving the Vrishabhavathi is not rocket science it is basic governance and moral duty. What we lack is not money or technology, but integrity and accountability from those who occupy chairs of power.
History will not forgive you. Future generations of Bengaluru and the silent wildlife will curse the politicians who prioritised power and contracts, and the officers who failed to do their duty.
Stop the criminal neglect. Treat Vrishabhavathi as a priority, not an inconvenience. Build and maintain real treatment systems. Enforce laws without fear or favour. Or step aside for those who will.
Save Vrishabhavathi. Save Bengaluru. Save our wildlife.

@CMofKarnataka @PMOIndia @HMOIndia

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#VrishabhavathiRiver #SaveBengaluru #RiverRevival #BengaluruWaterCrisis #PoliticalFailure #SaveWildlife

[Sumit Rao @SumitNRao]

@Panks_Arora It's 32 C in Bangalore today. Are we better than those foreign cities by your logic?

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Heard about Stratosphere Geo Engineering on @Marketplace today. A team is releasing SO2 into the atmosphere to cool down the earth. I want to read more about it as my first thought was how do we undo it if it is not the right idea?

The person doing it felt it was ok to do it.

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@AyanPatranabis Don't ligitate your case with a jury of X users as all of us have our opinions.

Indigo found it good business to bump you and your family and showing up 5 minutes beyond their cutoff gives them cover to do it.

What is missing is equally punitive measures when Indigo is late.

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@pavankatariya @ManeeManjunath Calibrate fees with the student to teacher ratio and what it means for your child.

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@ManeeManjunath @pavankatariya Heard of Valley School? But, they are moving from ICSE to IGCSE.

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@Alonso13761376 @essenviews Our pockets? You mean their pockets.

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@tom_peters @krassenstein It is rare for me to defend Trump's actions but I think he helped in this situation.
1. Charles is exasperated after a few handshakes and gestures to express "do I have to do this?" and "can we go?" only to find out Camilla started.
2. Trump on King's cue and rescues the queen.

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@CNN I am good. My passport is valid for 9+ years and hopefully we will be in saner times by then. If not, my loss.

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@WhiteHouse An irrelevant king and the quixotic clown.

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@KumbalgoduAir @CPCB_OFFICIAL @DHFWKA @karnatakakspcb @moefcc @PPAPIndia Day or night, illegal burning in this area is a sign of lack of governance. Is it time to vote the bums out?

It may be a panchayat but with Bengaluru expanding beyond GBA, it may be time to come up with an alternate slate of candidates to bring change to this area.

[Sumit Rao @SumitNRao]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present my president, Donald Dumb.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump: “I took a lot of heat for saying drugs were going down 500%, 600%, 700%. But we also say sometimes 50%, 60%, it’s a different kind of calculation, and people understand it better.”

The dumbest president ever.