Brinda

Pharmacist, Mother, Blogger, Optimist and constantly in search of all things that enliven my bliss quotient.

[Brinda @brindarana]

A person who stays satisfied with whatever he gets through providence becomes increasingly enlightened with spiritual power. Whereas, the spiritual potency of a person who is dissatisfied with his lot in life gradually decreases like a fire sprinkled with water. (Niti Shastra)

[Rohit Pawar @RRPSpeaks]

वरून पाऊस पडत असताना टॅंकरने झाडांना पाणी देणारी पुणे महानगरपालिका ही जगातली पहिली मनपा असेल..!
अरे काय धंदे लावलेत.. ओरबाडायलाही काही मर्यादा असावी की नाही? थोडी जनाची नाही तर मनाची तरी बाळगा!

[𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐚 ζ(1/2 + i σₙ )=0 @SrinivasR1729]

Ten years from now, India may look back and ask: how did we lose an entire generation to screens?
Everywhere you look, people are scrolling. In buses, trains, cabs, offices, traffic signals, while eating, before sleeping, and the moment they wake up. Reels have become the background noise of our lives.
And the saddest part is our children.
Many kids today won’t eat without a phone in front of them. They cry for reels, laugh at shorts, and grow up staring at screens instead of people, books, nature, and real life. We are handing them addiction in the name of entertainment.
AI is making this even more dangerous. Algorithms know what we like, what we fear, what keeps us watching. AI-generated videos, fake influencers, deepfakes, and endless personalized content are slowly trapping people inside a world that never stops feeding them distraction.
This is not just entertainment anymore. This is stealing our attention, our peace, our thinking, and our future.
When a country’s children cannot focus, when its youth are lost in endless scrolling, and when adults are too tired and distracted to think deeply, how will that country grow?
Social media addiction is not a small issue. It is a silent epidemic. India must wake up before our minds become the price we pay for cheap data, endless reels, and uncontrolled AI.

[Indrajit @Lotus_indrajit]

🚨 Ironically, Indian Media Didn’t Cover This

Three Indian teenagers created Plas-stick, a biodegradable powder from tamarind seeds that removes microplastics from water without electricity or complex machinery

They won the 2026 Earth Prize, making India proud 🇮🇳

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone should read this...

The High Shoulders Theory

(a visual thread)

[Brinda @brindarana]

@YearOfRat Yoga with shoes on...first time

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Days shut in a year:

Hospital: 0
Border post: 0
Police station: 0
High court: 155
Supreme court: 159

[MS @ManPropGroup]

@MURWDFoundation @navalMH @Dev_Fadnavis Why hasn't Maharashtra government ever had a plan like this? Richest state in India unable to give piped water in the 2nd largest city is nothing short of apathy whereas one of the poorest state in India is doing a much better job. Think...

[Adv.Vineet Jindal @vineetJindal19]

यदि कोई नेगी जी के परिवार से मेरा संपर्क करवा पाए तो कृपया करवाए।

शेफ केशव नेगी को मालवीय नगर मामले में गिरफ्तार कर लिया गया, पर क्यो? एक आदमी जो होटल में नौकरी कर रहा है उसकी क्या गलती है? एक आदमी नौकरी कर अपनी रोटी कमा रहा था और उसको पुलिस पकड़ ले सोचो उसके परिवार का क्या हाल होगा।

सवाल ये भी है क्यो नहीं अभी तक उन अधिकारियों की गिरफ्तारी की गई जिनके नाक के नीचे ये होटल अवैध रूप से संचालित हो रहा था? क्या कोई है जो जवाब दे।

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Police have arrested this cook who was preparing food in the kitchen of Hotel Flourish Stays, where the fire reportedly started.

Next, they should arrest the vegetable, grocery, and dairy suppliers. Had they not supplied ingredients that day, there would have been no cooking and no fire.

After that, they should arrest the farmers who grew the vegetables, the factory owners who produced the grocery items, and the cows that gave the milk.

Sabko pakad lena. Kisi ko mat chhodna. Except, of course, the officials whose job it was to inspect such establishments and flag safety violations before a tragedy occurred.

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

My appeal to PM Modi-

In order to save petrol & diesel, please make it mandatory for bureaucrats, MLAs & MPs to use public buses and metro instead of large convoys.

It will also be a good opportunity for them to experience world-class infrastructure they are building for us.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

An angry lady’s image shouting at a political leader and his party for having stopped the road has gone viral.
That one woman has said what millions of us feel. Stop blocking roads for your political agendas. Stop blocking roads, temples, for VIPs.
People have work, emergencies, lives. This entitlement has gone too far.

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

Total seats - 29
General category - Only 5 seats

This is more than 80% Reservation

We are talking about specialties like oncology - dealing with life & death.

How can anyone in their right mind justify this?

[Brinda @brindarana]

@MURWDFoundation @PMCPune @NIBMFORUM @navalMH @aniruddhap52303 @Dev_Fadnavis @supriya_sule @kolhe_amol @PMCPune if u can supply tanker water to the voter banks 24/7 why not societies? My maid 500m from my society gets 24x7 pmc water and us nothing.

[Mohammadwadi-Undri Residents Wel. Dev. Foundation @MURWDFoundation]

Hey @PMCPune

🎵 We don’t need no water tankers,🚚
We don’t need your hollow lies,
Empty taps in every building,🏭
While you watch with closed eyes.

Listen to the song 👇🙏
@NIBMFORUM
@navalMH @aniruddhap52303 @Dev_Fadnavis @supriya_sule @kolhe_amol

[Dr. Sudhir Mehta @sudhirmehtapune]

Pune isn’t “facing traffic”—it’s losing traffic sense. And that’s far more dangerous.

We’ve gone from a city known for discipline to one where:
• Signals are “suggestions”
• Wrong-side driving is normalised
• Footpaths are parking lots
• Honking replaces patience

This isn’t infrastructure failure alone. It’s a collapse of civic behaviour.

Every rider jumping a signal saves 30 seconds…
…and costs the city hours in chaos.

Every car on the wrong side says: “My time matters more than yours.”

And slowly, that becomes the culture.

No amount of flyovers will fix this.
No smart city tech will solve this.

Because this is not a road problem.
It’s a mindset problem.

Pune doesn’t need just better roads.
It needs better discipline.

👉 Enforce rules strictly
👉 Penalise consistently
👉 Educate relentlessly

But most importantly—
👉 नागरिकों को खुद बदलना होगा
👉 नागरिकांनी स्वतः बदलायला हवे

A great city isn’t built by projects alone.
It’s built by the behaviour of its people.

Right now, Pune is at a tipping point.

We either restore order…
Or accept chaos as our identity.

#PuneTraffic #CivicSense #UrbanIndia

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

Look at the ingredients of Cadbury Gems

It contains Titanium Dioxide (INS 171), a substance that may potentially damage DNA.

It is completely banned in European Union, but being fed to millions of children in India.

Care you clarify this @fssaiindia ?

[Sanjay Lazar @sjlazars]

🚨CRUSHED BY A TANKER 🚨

The shocking death of 19 yr old National footballer Aariz Shaikh, from Bishops school Pune, crushed to death by a drunken Water tanker driver in broad daylight, is crying for desperate attention.

In this week alone 3 innocent people have been killed by tankers & the Pune Tanker Mafia continues unabated.

Please sign this petition ✍️
This kid played with mine, it could have been your kids.

https://t.co/ocCSY3o4vD

It’s time the @CMOMaharashtra @Dev_Fadnavis @mohol_murlidhar @parthajitpawar @mieknathshinde take action & oppose & regulate the CRIMINAL TANKER MAFIA

@PMOIndia @narendramodi
@supriya_sule @PawarSpeaks @SidShirole @sudhirmehtapune @tehseenp @Shehzad_Ind @Mohansinha @VinitaDeshmukh @DealsDhamaka @kushal_mehra @VishalBhargava5 @Iyervval @smitadeshmukh @bainjal @RShivshankar @PCcityPolice @punekarnews @CPPuneCity @puneruralpolice @traffic_pune @rushikesh_agre_

[Divya Gandotra Tandon @divya_gandotra]

Hello @dpradhanbjp ji,

Please bring some regulation to school textbook pricing as well.

What exactly is being taught that a single book costs ₹1000?

This is not education anymore, it’s becoming a financial burden on families.

[Brinda @brindarana]

@RailwaySeva @drmpune Have sent a dm.

[Brinda @brindarana]

@RailMinIndia Vande Bharat 22226 which charges a premium fare is ALWAYS running late. Not once on time to Pune. This needs to be fixed. Not acceptable that its late by 30 min sometimes an hour.