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Seeker, learning rural development practice. (All views expressed here are strictly personal)

[Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66]

THE POWER OF FLOWERS
Love, peace & Flower Power will be put to test on 6th June...

#CockroachJantaParty #CJP #SonamWangchuk

[Citizenbin @binjuranchibuzz]

JOB OPPORTUNITY at School for Continuting Education-URC (Bengaluru/Ranchi campus)
https://t.co/48bDymiN7X

@ICAR_IIHR @icarindia @icar @Horti_GoI @ICAR_CISH @AgriGoI @icarindia @devnetjobs @sphindia @ishs_hort @AIPHGlobal

[The Forgotten ‘Man’ 👨‍⚖️ @SamSiff]

🔥 They called us Cockroaches.

I’m Proud Cockroach 🪳✊

We turned it into our badge of honour.

Not parasites. Not attackers.

Just young, awake Indians questioning injustice, demanding jobs, education & accountability.

Democracy runs on dissent.
Accountability is NOT an attack.

#ImProudCockroach #WeAreThePeople

[Tax The Top India @TaxTheTopIndia]

People's Economist #JeanDrèze on why it is important to #TaxtheTop

[Jeevan Kuruvilla @jeevankuruvilla]

@HemantSorenJMM @NHAI_Official @nitin_gadkari @MORTHIndia कृपया चियांकी टोल (NH39, पलामू) तत्काल के लिए रोका जाये जब तक दोनों दिशाओं में 30 किलोमीटर पूरी हो और प्रकाश व्यवस्था, पहुंच मार्ग आदि सुविधाएं भी मौजूद हों। फिलहाल एक तरफ केवल 5 किलोमीटर की अधूरी सड़क ही बनी हुई है।

[Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha @JharkhandJanad1]

राज्य में लगातार हो रहे मॉब लिंचिंग की एक और घटना। 2016 से अब तक 50 से भी अधिक लोग मारे जा चुके हैं। अधिकांश मुसलमान, आदिवासी और दलित थे। 2022 से मॉब लिंचिंग निवारण विधेयक ठंडे बस्ते में है। @HemantSorenJMM सरकार, वर्तमान सत्र में इसे पारित कर फिर से राज्यपाल के पास भेजें।

[Sanket Upadhyay @sanket]

YouTuber Bijay Anand, who filmed the Swiggy agent falling off a moving train claims he is being lured with money to delete the video. Says - he won’t.

Who is forcing him? Is image management so important that you would rather fix the problem highlighter than fixing the problem?

[Citizenbin @binjuranchibuzz]

Tribute to a great environmentalist of our times. Spoke for nature and protected all of us.

[Ameer Shahul @ameershahul]

A lonely goodbye to Madhav Gadgil, one of the tallest environmentalists of our times.

Under the banyan trees of Navi Peth in Pune, Madhav Gadgil was taken for cremation last evening. The gathering was small, some forty, perhaps fifty people.

No ministers. No senior officials. No tricolour to drape the body. No guard of honour salutes. No ceremonial rifle volleys.

One expects a crowd, the usual press cameras and public mourning. Instead, there was a pause, a quiet uncertainty, as if this farewell were happening somewhere it wasn’t meant to.

State honours had been promised, but never quite arrived. Even the police escort lost its way. For nearly half an hour, Gadgil’s body lay waiting, wrapped in simple white, while the city carried on around it, indifferent.

For me, this was not the death of a distant public figure.

In the 1990s, when I was starting out as a science correspondent with the Press Trust of India in Bengaluru, Madhav Gadgil was already a towering presence at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). At the IISc's Centre for Ecological Sciences, he stood out, not by volume or self-importance, but by intellectual rigour and moral clarity.

I walked into his office many a time in those years, notebooks open, deadlines close. He listened carefully, answered precisely, never spoke down. He believed knowledge carried responsibility, and that science without ethics was incomplete. Those conversations stayed with me, shaping how I understood both journalism and ecology.

This was also the man who later led the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, producing a report that treated the mountains not as real estate or mineral stock, but as living systems. The Gadgil Committee Report spoke of ecological limits, decentralised governance, community rights, and long-term survival.

A Padma Bhushan awardee. A UN Champion of the Earth. A lifelong defender of forests, rivers, biodiversity, and uncomfortable truths. In death, he was treated as someone easily forgotten.

The trees were not.

The old banyans stood quietly, their leaves stirring in the afternoon air. Gadgil had given his life to them. Trees remember. Animals remember. They show up when people don’t.

Had this been a politician or an industrialist, roads in Pune would have been sealed, helicopters circling, television studios filled with tributes and theatrical grief. Power is never allowed to pass quietly.

But a man who tried to protect the land that sustains us all was sent off almost unnoticed.

The trees stood witness.

The rest of us moved on.

Goodbye, Madhav Gadgil.

Forgive us.

We did not know how to honour you.

(Photo Courtesy: R S Gopan)

[j.a.h.n.a.v.i._.i.y.e.r @JahnaviIyer]

I am struggling to wrap my head around this. How did a factory that poisoned 350,000 people in Italy and sent its executives to prison for 141 years get a second life in India?
This is the story of a “toxic hand-me-down" thats unfolding right now in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
In 2018, the Miteni plant in Italy was shut down. It had leaked "Forever Chemicals" (PFAS) into the groundwater for decades. The result? Kidney cancer, heart disease, and thousands of excess deaths. It was an environmental crime so bad that the Italian courts actually held the bosses accountable.
But instead of being scrapped, the plant was bought, dismantled, and shipped in containers to Mumbai.
By early 2025, it became fully operational in the Lote Parshuram industrial area.
Here’s why this is terrifying:
1. No Rules: India doesn't even have PFAS regulations yet. We are basically a "wild west" for chemicals that stay in your blood and soil forever.
2. Infrastructure Gaps: In rural Maharashtra, power cuts are frequent. When the power goes out, the treatment plants stop, and toxic waste gets dumped directly into the streams that feed the Vashishti and Jagbudi rivers.
3. The Western Ghats: We are doing this in the heart of one of the world's most sensitive ecosystems.
It feels like we’re being used as a dumping ground for a business model that was literally ruled a crime in Europe.

Why are we importing equipment that was deemed too poisonous for Italians? Who is looking out for the 25,000 workers and the families living in Ratnagiri?
We need to talk about this before "Forever Chemicals" become a forever problem for our children.
#Ratnagiri #Maharashtra #Environment #PublicHealth #PFAS #India #WesternGhats #CleanWater

https://t.co/98JZaIypZX

@ananya_sharma_ @IndiaSpend @CSIR_IITR @IVLSecurities @aerf_india @toxicslink

[Jayati Ghosh @Jayati1609]

A great explainer on what has actually happened to the rural employment guarantee because of the new bill hastily passed by the Modi government, by @rajendran_naray

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

आज झारखंड कैबिनेट ने #PESA नियमों को मंज़ूरी देकर एक महत्वपूर्ण फैसला लिया है, जिससे पारंपरिक ग्राम सभाओं को अपने जल-जंगल-जमीन के प्रबंधन का पूरा अधिकार मिलेगा, जैसा कि पंचायत उपबंध (अनुसूचित क्षेत्रों तक विस्तार) अधिनियम (PESA), 1996 में परिकल्पित है। इस निर्णय के लिए माननीय मुख्यमंत्री श्री @HemantSorenJMM और ग्रामीण विकास मंत्री श्रीमती @DipikaPS को हार्दिक बधाई।

@INCIndia @INCJharkhand_ @KRajuINC

[Citizenbin @binjuranchibuzz]

@satishacharya She has a great heart

[Citizenbin @binjuranchibuzz]

@RailMadad , @RailwaySeva
PNR-6760082715
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Dt:05-11-25
Frm CPH to HTE
Cls:1A
There is NO WATER in the washroom!

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

A poor Punjabi carpenter built his daughter’s first bat with his own hands. They mocked him for letting her play cricket.

Years later, Amanjot Kaur became a World Cup winner with Team India, one of the most consistent performers of the tournament.

This is Father's faith & love for his daughter and true feminism.

[Revathi @revathitweets]

FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH???

Varshita, a 10th class student at Government Gurukul School Vangara died by suicide recently!

Varshitha was school topper, school captain and an excellent student. She even recently received an award from the district collector.

She came back home from Diwali vacation and immediately called her parents to come take her because the principal and vice principal were harassing her. She reported them for pilfering school supplies.

Varshitha died by suicide in the hostel barely an hour after calling her parents.

Don’t know what is worse! Varshitha’s death or her body was transported in a tractor instead of ambulance!!!!

Meanwhile, her harassers are all fine!

Happened in #Telangana

#ValueOfTruth

[D @Deb_livnletliv]

The Burden Of Poverty So Heavy, that even in Sleep, Responsibility Doesn't let go!

At the age of holding Books ,he is holding Wedding Lights.

And yes, he isn't alone. There will be countless like him hoping for the ones holding Power to do their Duty.
#IncredibleIndia

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

'The Real kerala Story'

A north indian girl sharing his experience of living in Kerala ❤️

Share this and burst the propaganda 🔥

[Angry young man @anil0420]

@Nidhi Institutional polluters get away. Sensors not maintained, no monitoring at hotspots. Assessment is a farce.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Dark Reality of Banking System in India

This should go viral.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

This video is from Amrit Bharat Express. Used containers are being washed in the train sink for next round of servings.