sayantani chatterjee

Trying to celebrate life every single day! Interests - Art, museum, politics, policy, wildlife ecology, anthropology, architecture, history, and handloom

[sayantani chatterjee @brinda_c]

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way."

[Somya Lakhani @somyalakhani]

#Delhi traffic police has abandoned this city it appears. Traffic jam after jam and not a cop in sight. Traffic lights don’t work. Encroachments galore. Ring Road, ORR, Modi Mill flyover, Savitri, inside GK 2, Pragati Maidan, ITO, Preet Vihar — the whole city is a choke point.

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

The answer is a definitive NO. You aren't having a seizure. You are actually experiencing a fascinating glitch in human evolution called a Hypnic Jerk and it happens because your brain is actually trying to save your life.

Here is the exact mechanism. I have explained it under 3 subheadings:

1. The Paralysis Switch: To safely enter deep sleep, your brain must flip a chemical switch to temporarily paralyze your muscles (this stops you from physically acting out your dreams). Your body goes entirely limp and your breathing slows down.

2. The Evolutionary Glitch: When you are highly stressed or sleep-deprived, your brain's survival center stays hyper-alert. As your muscles suddenly drop into that limp, paralyzed state, your over-stressed brain misreads the data. It doesn't think you are falling asleep; it literally thinks your bodily systems are failing or that you are physically in free-fall.

3. The Emergency Override: Panicking, your brain hits the emergency override button. It fires a massive electrical shock down your spinal cord to snap your muscles tight, forcing you to "brace for impact" and wake up.

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[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

To the people of Tenerife,

My name is Tedros, and I serve as the Director-General of the @WHO, the @UN agency responsible for global public health. It is not common for me to write directly to the people of a single community, but today I feel it is not only appropriate, it is necessary.

I want to speak to you directly, not through press releases or technical briefings, but as one human being to another, because you deserve that.

I know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word “outbreak” and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment.

But I need you to hear me clearly: this is not another COVID-19. the current public health risk from #hantavirus remains low. My colleagues and I have said this unequivocally, and I will say it again to you now.
The virus aboard the MV Hondius is the Andes strain of hantavirus. It is serious. Three people have lost their lives, and our hearts go out to their families. The risk to you, living your daily life in Tenerife, is low. This is the WHO’s assessment, and we do not make it lightly.

Right now, there are no symptomatic passengers on board. A WHO expert is on that ship. Medical supplies are in place. Spain’s authorities have prepared a careful, step-by-step plan: passengers will be ferried ashore at the industrial port of Granadilla, far from residential areas, in sealed, guarded vehicles, through a completely cordoned-off corridor, and repatriated directly to their home countries. You will not encounter them. Your families will not encounter them.

I also want to say something else, something that goes beyond the science.

I personally thanked Prime Minister @sanchezcastejon for #Spain’s decision to receive this ship. I called it an act of solidarity and moral duty. Because that is what it is. I want you to know that the WHO’s request to Spain was not made arbitrarily. It was made in full accordance with the International Health Regulations, the legally binding framework that defines the rights and obligations of countries and the WHO when responding to public health events of international concern. Under those rules, the nearest port with sufficient medical capacity must be identified to ensure the safety and dignity of those on board. Tenerife met that standard. Spain honoured it. Nearly 150 people from 23 countries have been at sea for weeks, some of them grieving, all of them frightened, all of them longing for home. Tenerife has been chosen because it has the medical capacity, the infrastructure, and the humanity to help them reach safety.

And because I believe that so deeply, I will be there myself. I intend to travel to Tenerife to observe this operation firsthand, to stand alongside the health workers, port staff, and officials who are making it happen, and to personally pay my respects to an island that has responded to a difficult situation with grace, solidarity, and compassion. Your humanity deserves to be witnessed, not just acknowledged from a distance.
As I have said many times: viruses do not care about politics, and they do not respect borders. The best immunity any of us has is solidarity.

Tenerife is demonstrating that solidarity today. The ship’s captain, Jan Dobrogowski, crew and the company operating the vessel have shown exemplary collaboration at this challenging time. On behalf of the World Health Organization, and on behalf of those passengers and their families around the world, I thank the people of Tenerife and everyone else involved.

Please take care of yourselves and of each other. Trust in the preparations that have been made. And know that the WHO stands with you, and with every person on that ship, every step of the way.

With respect, care, and gratitude,
Tedros

[Election Commission of India @ECISVEEP]

West Bengal records highest-ever poll-participation since Independence

91.66% poll-participation recorded in Phase-II

Read more : https://t.co/6m7cpqnqGU

[sayantani chatterjee @brinda_c]

Many a time, contrarians confuse noise for insight. There’s a difference between questioning and posturing.

[Travel Oriental Hub @sangsang2737]

a nostalgic Christmas atmosphere🎄

[Annalise Keating @Ariannnyy_]

Emotionally avoidant people are some of the most insufferable people you will encounter. They lack conflict-resolution skills, struggle with accountability, and default to silence, deflection, or distance when clarity is required.

[Shivam Bahuguna @JanusBlinked]

The last time so many people were pissed off about indigo was during the Champaran satyagraha

[sayantani chatterjee @brinda_c]

@IndiGo6E Yes, done that. However the issue is much broader, its with the way airlines do things on whims and fancies

[sayantani chatterjee @brinda_c]

@IndiGo6E No auto seat is being assigned. Only paid seat is being available. Only after raising a complain, i am getting frantic calls from the customer support offering a free seat. However the issue is not with this Particular flight but how indigo is treating customers @MoCA_GoI

[Sudarshan Shaw @Sudarshanshaw93]

9 tigers from 9 different Indian folk art forms preserving 9 age-old ways of looking at and living with the tigers.
#InternationalTigerDay #InternationalTigerDay2025

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

hiring the ex wife of the lead Coldplay singer is nasty work😭

[sayantani chatterjee @brinda_c]

@airindia excellent customer service by Sajila at Bangalore airport . Good service is always welcome. Thank you!

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

The time is now

[𝒻. @300moods]

cosmos pool

[Helen Sol @HelenSol1824713]

Yellow

[PMO India @PMOIndia]

IKEA to amplify sourcing from India for global operations, to increase local sourcing to 50%
https://t.co/xrzoobifUx

via NaMo App

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

Vintage Map of Paris

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿