For f*ck sake. Be optimistic. Be extreme. Be relentless. The world is waiting for you to raise the bar and finally go all in. Execute. Inspire. Show us what’s possible.
It is disheartening to see Aishwarya Rai, who is a brand herself, being scrutinized by the public and being mocked for her appearance despite still looking extremely gorgeous and successful! Those who are questioning her should question what they themselves have achieved in life!
I went to Mundathicode, where a firecracker manufacturing unit for Thrissur Pooram killed 16 people nearly two weeks ago. Came back with a story published in today's Indian Express that's as much about fireworks as it is about two Keralams, watching each other. 🧵
Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:
Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.
Some takeaways from my interview with Dr. R Venugopal, ex-top PESO official & Puttingal inquiry commission member. Puttingal is Kerala's worst fireworks tragedy: 108 dead, 271 injured. He was part of the team that investigated it. He has been in this field for over 35 years.🧵
I went to Mundathicode yesterday. A volunteer and I were walking across the field and he spotted something lying on the ground. He crouched, picked it up, turned it over. It looked like a tree branch.
He told me it was a human bone, stripped of flesh, charred along one edge. He put it in the sack he was carrying and kept walking. Across the field, dozens of other volunteers were doing the same, moving slowly through the burnt ground, picking up whatever fragments they could find.
When you walk through a field choking with the stench of explosives, burnt flesh, scorched wood and acrid smoke, your whole perspective about Pooram changes.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
"We aren't going to the Moon, but rather meeting it at an exact point in space.
And it isn't necessary to spend fuel, either; the calculations are made so that everything works through pure physics and gravity.
It is flawless."
While you slept last night, completely still in your bed, our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before.
The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the universe. It is racing through space at around 600 kilometers per second, carrying billions of stars, planets, and everything on them along for the ride.
It is a good reminder that even when life feels motionless, you are always in motion.