Avinash

Founder. Documentary maker. Quizzer. Author. Designer. 66th National Film Awardee.

[Shinjinee Majumder @shinjineemjmdr]

THREAD w @onkeyta_ & @Holytripper
In WB's Rajarhat New Town, the result in Booth 164 has shocked voters. Several of them told @AltNews they voted for CPI(M), votes which have simply vanished. CPI(M) got only 1 vote in the booth. 88% of voters are Muslims. BJP got 97% of the votes

[Avinash @avinash_maurya]

@CalmInvestor What starts with parenting (often) transforms into domestication. Love turns into attachment. 'Letting go' (unit elasticity of 'the gap') is low, both ways. Insecurity & sophistication creeps in. The real intent is forgotten in (busy-ness of) the process. Feedback dries out.

[Avinash @avinash_maurya]

I took to read @manujosephsan at the studio of the ‘poor’ craftsman, whose ancestral skills I use to build my brand that earns me much more than he ever can. Wasn’t expecting a sudden wave of enlightenment but it def’ly increased the reflection on the WHY he won’t kill me. https://t.co/6z7Y90Enjj

[Avinash @avinash_maurya]

Dosa?

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

the Milky Way is not only flying at 600 km/s, but also “flapping its wings” like a butterfly🦋

[sushma date @sushmadate]

Thousands of Punekars came together on Sunday to stand up and speak up for their natural heritage - rivers, trees and hills.

Dumping of debris has started on the river bed and flood banks of Ramnadi for construction of concrete embankments for the Riverfront Development project (RFD) - and this is going on despite red flags by the NGT, State Environment Impact Assessment Board and the CWRPS.

Remember that this is the same area where, in the 2019 monsoons, Jupiter hospital was flooded up to its first floor and ICU patients had to be evacuated by boats. Now imagine what will happen when there's a similar monsoon pattern in future after the river's natural width has been narrowed by concrete embankments? The fact that some consultant has been paid 50 crores to come up with a plan that takes zero account of hydraulics or of climate change is just mind boggling!

A beautiful देवराई here will be destroyed - already more than 3000 trees have been marked for cutting and probably twice that number will be cut on the opposite bank and surrounding areas. What is the sense of cutting old growth trees and replacing them with saplings grown on a layer of rock and soil over plastic sheets, as has been done for the same project at the Bund Garden end? A pristine devrai and a riparian ecology will be converted into pretty lawns with stunted trees - which will provide no benefits whatsoever to the health and air quality of citizens.
There is just one word for this project - भयानक !

Rivers are our lifelines. If your mother is ill, would you take her to a hospital or to a fancy beauty parlor? Think about it.

[The Olympic Games @Olympics]

Who do you do it for? 🥹🇮🇳

[. @bengalielonmusk]

[THREAD]: WHAT IS HAPPENING IN BANGLADESH RIGHT NOW ? 🇧🇩

[Avinash @avinash_maurya]

School of rock!

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

A rock band is performing and the singer sees a kid with a banner asking to play guitar with them. The singer asks him:

- Do you really know how to play guitar?
- Yeah!
- What's your favorite band?
- Guns N' Roses

What happens next is incredible.

[Mahavir Chopra / Beshak.org @themahavir]

🚨🚨 Important changes in Health Insurance.

IRDAI released a master circular today.

Most of the changes are applicable from immediate effect - unless there is a specific target date mentioned for the change.

Thread time 👇🏻

[Avinash @avinash_maurya]

One of the few really well written OTT series. About when lived how life irons out awkward differences.

[CinemaRare @CinemaRareIN]

#Gullak S4 premieres June 7th on @SonyLIV.

@actorjameel @getkul #VaibhavRajGupta @haanjiharsh @sunita_rajwar #ShivankitParihar @BilgramiSaad #ManujSharma

@TheViralFever @ArunabhKumar @uncle_sherry @vijaykoshy @vidittrips29

[Manimugdha Sharma @quizzicalguy]

Holi Mubarak, doston! I'm sharing a song attributed to Amir Khusro, which isn't a Holi song but comes from the Indo-Islamic tradition of celebrating colours (and Holi too). This is from the 1978 film Junoon, and my favourite version of 'Aaj rang hai'. I also love the entry of Shashi Kapoor as Javed Khan towards the end. He looked absolutely dashing in this!

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

333,333 followers! To celebrate, I’m giving 3 random people that repost this and follow me $3,333 each

I’ll pick the winners in 3 days

[Siddharth Agarwal @sidagarwal]

7 years after I concluded my 3000km walk at Gangtori, for @veditum's @moving_upstream project, the documentary - Moving Upstream: Ganga - is going to be made available openly via @YouTube on 3rd April 2024

The film will be available here: https://t.co/dN9TFPTCm6

[David Perell @david_perell]

What skills are compounding in your career?

Physics teaches us that sharp objects move faster.

The fastest trains have a pointy front car; the Concorde airplane needed an incredibly sharp tip to become the fastest commercial jetliner ever; narrowing your surface area is the best way to dive deep into a swimming pool; and even the blinding light of a laser comes from a concentration of energy.

You only need to be good at a few things to be immensely successful. The more focused you are, the easier it is to become world-class at whatever you commit to.

Early in your career, it's okay to scatter. Try things. Read a bunch of books. Take on a bunch of projects. But expend energy so that you can eventually find the few things you do exceptionally well. But the experimentation phase has to end eventually.

@FoundersPodcast has a good line on this: "A novice is easily spotted because they do too much."

They’re scattered, frantic, and unfocused because they’re afraid to slash the parts of their life that don’t align with the desires of their heart, how they can uniquely serve society, and how God wants them to live. And so, they reject the core of who they are for the mirage of short-term productivity.

Working intensely feels joyful and nearly effortless once you find the right thing. Even if there are moments of willpower, there’s almost none of the teeth-grinding you’re trained for in school, and you can cut down on how much coffee you’re slugging every morning.

The goal isn’t to retire on a beach somewhere. No, that's a recipe for lifelessness, purposelessness, and the haunting chills of misery. Rather, the purpose of a career is to find the skills you want to compound and never stop doing them.

Every smart person should have a good answer to the question: “What advantages are you compounding in your career?”

You get a maximum of three. Here are mine:

1) Written and spoken communication.

2) Domain expertise in online writing for smart, ambitious, and high-agency people.

3) A large and loyal online audience to amplify the first two.

Narrow your focus until your head, heart, and wallet are aligned. Doing less leads to exponential gains in how well you're able to do the things you commit to.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

This is one of the best social media edits I’ve ever seen in sports

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

what our solar sytem moving through space looks like.

📹starwalkapp
https://t.co/SRZ9E3Zifq

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

An insightful seminar on "Supreme Court Judicial Administration & Management- Issues & Concerns" is being organized by Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms.

Former judges of the Supreme Court High Courts and Senior Advocates will convene to discuss this topic.

Follow our thread to read the highlights of the session⬇️⬇️

#SupremeCourt #CJARSeminar

[पुलियाबाज़ी पॉडकास्ट | Puliyabaazi Hindi Podcast @puliyabaazi]

वैसे तो भारत में कई नदियाँ है पर ज़्यादातर भारतीय सदियों से भूजल पर निर्भर रहे हैं। यहाँ तक कि सिंधु घाटी सभ्यता के पुरातत्व-अवशेष में भी कई कुँवें पाए गए हैं. तो इस एपिसोड में हमने भारत की भूजल व्यवस्था के बारे में विस्तार से चर्चा की जल संरक्षक @zenrainman के साथ (Recorded in 2021)

[India Wants To Know: India's First Panel Quiz Show @IWTKQuiz]

Looks like Sonu Nigam really learned from SPB!

SPB and Sonu Nigam explaining Mohd. Rafi's Deewana Hua Badal, 20 years apart.

Bonus: SPB also sings Deewana Hua Badal 🙇