Anju Maskeri

Journalist| The crazy cat lady everyone warned you about| In a committed relationship with food| All things Bombay

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

Israeli soldiers post themselves "conquering" a hospital in Gaza where 43 intensive care patients just died because of a lack of oxygen, according to ABC News.

As a Jew and human rights attorney, I find this photo repulsive. Get out.

[The Dodo @dodo]

Woman raises a baby flamingo who does the sweetest thing years later when she comes back from the wild to visit 🦩

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Vijay Thottathil @vijaythottathil]

Ujjain Mahakal Lok Corridor was built using around 856 crore & it was inaugurated by PM Modi with all fanfare!
Current situation after rain & wind, definitely this was a low cost work which couldn’t stand even a small wind ? A case of clear corruption and looting tax payers money ! Something for next congress government to investigate.

[Simon Ateba @simonateba]

In case you have not been paying attention, the US is said to have bombed a 56-year-old shepherd with 10 kids in #Syria weeks ago and @JoeBiden admin told Americans they were terrorists.

[The Dodo @dodo]

Baby elephant cries for his mom while people give her CPR — watch what happens when she wakes up 😭💕

[TOI Mumbai @TOIMumbai]

5 cats of Goregaon suicide victim urgently need to be adopted in Mumbai https://t.co/o6uN4iba2B

[khalid mohamed @Jhajhajha]

LALITA LAJMI, gentle hearted, wonderful artist has passed away. A sad sad day. Her art lives forever.🌹🙏

[The Dodo @dodo]

Watch this tiny puppy who couldn’t stand on her own learn how to run 💗👏

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Meet Rishi Sunak, Britain's new PM who is only 42, meaning he'll probably serve well into his 42-and-a-halves

[Faridoon Shahryar @iFaridoon]

"Azaadi, ladkiyon ko bhi azaadi? ..."

@nituchandra 's brilliant monologue from #UmraoJaan

https://t.co/KF49dWA9jl

#ConnectDilSe
#StayConnected

@yogitabhayana @rohini_sgh @BDUTT @ReallySwara @j_garima_j @mahrukhinayet @iamRashmika @vintananda @bainjal @reshma_alamD

[Bipin Kumar Singh @bksinghips]

This cute Rambo is our new Explosive sniffer to help the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad of Navi Mumbai Police.👌👌👌👍👍👍

[Anju Maskeri @AnjuMaskeri]

Let's save @PhoebesFarm not just because we can, but because we should.

[Phoebe's Farm @PhoebesFarm]

Dear @hbuffett,
Greetings from India!
I am reaching out to you hoping you could help us connect with Mr. Warren Buffett. I keep hearing of Mr. Buffett's philanthropic gestures for different causes.

We are a small little animal farm based in the outskirts of Mumbai - India..

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

This is the Japanese Puffer Fish - one of #nature's greatest artists. To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief.

Nature is more amazing than we will ever know. Protect it.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #rewilding #oceans #GreenNewDeal

[Anju Maskeri @AnjuMaskeri]

This really cracked me up.

[Kapil Wasnik @kapildwasnik]

So I ordered a cake from a renowned bakery in Nagpur, through #Swiggy. In the order details I mentioned “Please mention if the cake contains egg”. I am speechless after receiving the order 👇🏼

[Mugilan Chandrakumar @Mugilan__C]

A State Minister says this

"Mr Jain did not speak clearly or show his Aadhar card to prove that he was NOT a Muslim."

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

Why Trads, India’s Alt Right, remain untouched online despite hate crimes

There have been arrests in the ‘Bulli Bai’ and ‘Sulli Deals’ cases. But the police shy away from cracking down on the networks that supported the accused.

https://t.co/33tXVY6FTi

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

There have only been 43 days this year where there wasn’t a mass shooting in America.

43 days.

[Raheel Khursheed @Raheelk]

Read these words again.

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

This is why India 🇮🇳 doesn't need robotic automation.….