Siddhesh Wagle

A poet meditating on Systems Thinking; Training the brain to be free of biases;
Concerned about climate crisis;

[Siddhesh Wagle @SystemsSid]

Being one of the leading poets of the imagist movement that encouraged the use of clear and direct language in poetry, William Carlos Williams used to write exceptional poems. (1/3)

[Nidhi Jamwal @JamwalNidhi]

My latest piece is on the state sponsored disability & slow poisoning of kids in village of Dhanbad, Jharkhand.

For years the govt knew their water had high fluoride. It failed to provide them safe water. An entire generation of kids affected.

Read: https://t.co/hmY8cmsGwg

[Gautam S. Mengle @NotMengele]

On my Substack today: The Unbearable Weight Of Being A Man.
https://t.co/4j0eiukjfp

[Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate]

ONE DAY OF EXTREME HEAT IN INDIA CAUSES 3,400 DEATHS
Published science estimate, Narang May 2026. Poorer regions suffered the most deaths. https://t.co/aunV1zHG3S
#heatwave #globalwarming #climatechange

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

Three teenagers. Three investigations. One question that shook India’s biggest school board.

When millions of students were busy checking their marks, these students started examining the system itself.

What began as individual questions soon turned into a national conversation about transparency, accountability, and trust in CBSE’s new digital evaluation process.

Scroll down to see how teenagers put India's exam evaluation system under the spotlight.

And tell us: Should students play a bigger role in holding educational institutions accountable?

#EducationMatters #StudentVoices #CBSE #YouthPower #PositiveChange

[CBSE Evaluation System, Student Accountability, Education Transparency, Digital Exam Evaluation, Indian Education Reform]

[Pervin Sanghvi 🌏 @pervinsanghvi]

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh—account for nearly 75% of India's 278 data centres. And they are the regions having high or extremely high water stress, where the demand significantly exceeds available renewable supplies.
https://t.co/FFonNJ0W4O

[Richa Pinto @richapintoi]

Water scarcity has long been one of India’s greatest vulnerabilities, and the warning signs are flashing again.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has cautioned about the possibility of drought-like conditions this year, with seasonal rainfall projected at just 90% of the long-period average. More worrying is the 60% probability of deficient rainfall — less than 90% of normal — raising concerns over crop losses, shrinking reservoir levels and potential water shortages in several regions.

As we await the monsoon, this is a reminder that every drop counts. Use water responsibly, avoid wastage, and make conservation a daily habit. What seems abundant today could become scarce tomorrow.

[Ashish @KP_Aashish]

Tech Fail! In the Mahabubabad dist, a labourer’s face was not recognised by the NMMS attendance app after he tonsured his head at a temple. Reportedly attendance worked only after he used a woman labourer’s hair cover for face authentication. Workers say app errors and network issues are delaying wages but the bizarre hack has got all thumbs-up. #Telangana

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

843 women in Beed, India had their uterus surgically removed in 2024, right before they went to cut sugarcane. 477 of them were aged 30 to 35. The Maharashtra government's own health survey, published in June 2025, said so.

The surgeries are about money. In Beed, a man and his wife sign up as a working pair, locally called a koyta (the sickle they use). A middleman called a mukadam gives them an upfront payment of Rs 50,000 to 60,000 (about $520 to $625) for a six-month sugarcane season. To work that off, the couple has to cut and load two tonnes of cane every single day, for 12 to 14 hours, with no day off all week. The mukadam keeps 15 to 25 percent of the hiring amount plus another 30 percent of what the couple earns. The fine for missing a day is Rs 250 to 500. A woman who takes one day off when her period is bad can lose almost a week of take-home pay.

The mill that buys the cane is legally separate from all of it. The mill just sells the sugar. Maharashtra has 210 sugar mills and is finishing the 2025-26 season near 10 million tonnes of sugar produced. The buyers include Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mondelez (which owns Cadbury), and Unilever. A 2024 New York Times and Fuller Project investigation traced the chain through two big sugar companies, Dalmia Bharat Sugar and NSL Sugars. Both fed into mills carrying the industry's main ethical stamp, called Bonsucro. Its audits caught none of it. The Times found everything those audits missed, in months.

Back in 2019, a government investigation surveyed 82,309 women cane cutters in Beed. 13,861 of them, 17 percent, had had their uterus removed. A 2024 study by the IIED, an international research group, looked harder at 423 households in Beed. In households where the women had migrated for cane work, 55.73 percent had had a hysterectomy. Where the women had stayed home, the figure was 17.06 percent. Across all of India, the national rate for women aged 15 to 49 is 3.2 percent.

After the 2024 reporting: Mondelez quietly cut ties with Dalmia. Coca-Cola launched a worker-training program in 4 mills. PepsiCo blocked a shareholder vote in February 2025, using a US rule that lets companies skip votes on parts of their business worth less than 5 percent of revenue. The US Department of Labor added Beed sugar to its list of products made using forced labour. Maharashtra set up another committee on February 25, 2026, seven years after its first one.

In those seven years, the sugar kept coming. The system that produces the hysterectomies is the same system that produces the sugar in the soda cans on the shelf. Both are still working exactly as they were built.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Artificial intelligence is creating a ‘desperate base of workers who then have no full-time employment’ and they are going from ‘well-compensated positions to piecemeal gig work' in 'horrific condition’, author and journalist Karen Hao says.

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

We went from 100,000 new eBooks a month to 300,000.

Basically 2 out of 3 new books are now AI slop.

[Punekar News @punekarnews]

Pune Metro vs Nature? Citizens Raise Alarm

Pune’s metro expansion is now at the centre of a growing environmental debate. Citizens and activists allege large-scale tree cutting, lack of transparency, and limited public consultation in project approvals.

Experts warn that such infrastructure projects could lead to massive carbon emissions, requiring millions of trees to offset the damage. Concerns are also rising over the potential impact on Pune’s climate, with fears of worsening urban heat and long-term weather changes.

Citizen groups are demanding a review of the project, eco-friendly alternatives, and greater public participation before further approvals.
Is development coming at the cost of Pune’s environment?

@PMCPune @Dev_Fadnavis @mohol_murlidhar @AnneAnish @ameetgsingh

#Pune #PuneMetro #Environment #ClimateChange #UrbanDevelopment #SaveTrees #PuneNews #PMC #Sustainability #IndiaNews #GreenPune #MetroProject #BreakingNews

[Siddhesh Wagle @SystemsSid]

Where is all the water going to come from?

[Mohammed Futurewala @MFuturewala]

Data centres and its impact on already existing water scarcity in India…

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Today is World Liver Day 2026.
Here are 8 things your liver actually wants you to know.

1
There is no such thing as a "liver detox."
Your liver runs phase I and II detoxification 24/7 on its own.
No juice cleanse, no milk thistle, no herbal detox speeds this up.

In fact several have caused liver injury - the opposite of the claim.

2
Alcohol has no safe dose.
Liver harm begins from the first drink.
The old "moderate drinking is protective" myth came from flawed studies contaminated by abstainer bias - now debunked by Mendelian randomization.

Zero ml is best.

3
"Natural" supplements are now a leading cause of acute liver failure.
Ashwagandha. Green tea extract. Garcinia. Kratom. High-dose turmeric. Giloy/Tinospora.
They dominate drug-induced liver injury registries across India, the US, and Europe.

Natural ≠ safe.

4
Coffee is genuinely liver-protective.
2–3 cups/day (caffeinated or decaf) lowers the risk of fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.

One of the very few dietary interventions with real, replicated evidence.

5
Fatty liver (MASLD) now affects ~1 in 3 adults worldwide.
A 7–10% body-weight loss:
• clears Liver fat
• reduces inflammation
• can regress early fibrosis

No approved drug currently beats this. Your plate and feet are the first-line therapy.

6
Sugar-sweetened drinks independently cause fatty liver.
Fructose is metabolized almost entirely by the liver - straight into fat.
One daily soda raises MASLD risk even after adjusting for total calories.
Lesser is better.

7
Get vaccinated against hepatitis B. Get screened for HBV and HCV at least once in your lifetime.
HBV vaccine prevents >95% of chronic infection, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.
Hepatitis C is curable in 8-12 weeks with >95% success - but most carriers don't know they have it.

8
Exercise protects the liver independent of weight loss.
150 min/week moderate OR 75 min vigorous activity reduces liver fat and stiffness - even when the scale doesn't move.

Movement is "medicine".

🫂

PS: we also need a liver emoji

[Ruchi Gupta @guptar]

The lopsided balance of power between capital and labour: the workers have no ability to refuse to wear the cameras which are training systems which will eventually replace the workers themselves

[Pune Pulse @pulse_pune]

Pune: Dead Fish Cover Pashan Lake, Residents Demand Immediate Action

Pune, April 9, 2026: Pashan Lake is witnessing an environmental crisis as dead fish continue to float on its surface, raising serious concerns about aquatic life. The situation has been attributed to alleged negligence by the Pune Municipal Corporation.

Already covered extensively with water hyacinth, the lake has become increasingly uninhabitable for aquatic species. Over the past five days, large numbers of dead fish have been seen floating throughout the lake, creating a foul stench that poses health risks to nearby residents.

@PMCPune @navalMH @AreaPashan

[Siddhesh Wagle @SystemsSid]

Hello @theliverdoc. In the TV series The Pitt, there is a patient who consumes 500 milligram turmeric capsules, 5 a day. I think the script writers are following you 😃

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The frustration I feel that the idiots in the media are not acting like this is the emergency it is, is often overwhelming.
Our society says it is all about children and their futures - but it ignores the biggest threat they face. Behaves like it’s not happening. Madness.

[Francisco Taveira @jftaveira1993]

“Key impacts are exceeding what models predicted when it comes to extreme weather, the intensification of hurricanes, ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise,” said @MichaelEMann. https://t.co/V8Rherk61R

[Fastbreak Hoops @FastbreakHoops5]

When a 74-year-old man got called out in a New York courtroom for using an AI lawyer without telling the judge 😭