avipsha das

Biased- Disobedient- Sociologist.
Cinema. Labour. Carceral Studies.
Aspiring Class-Caste Traitor.
Chennai Only! PhD candidate at University of Madras.

[Avinash Chanchal @avinashchanchl]

This summer, some households in Delhi decided to record what heat actually does to their lives, loss of income, missed work, dehydration cases, reduced mobility, water access, and more. Not with just ambient temperature, but through their own lived experiences.

They recorded sleepless nights. They documented how rising temperatures increased stress, frustration, and conflict at home. They wrote about losing work and income because it became impossible to work outdoors. They described children struggling to study or complete homework in unbearably hot homes. They kept record of increasing electricity bills, medical expenses, and the many invisible impacts of heat that rarely appear in research papers or policy discussions.

These stories, testimonies, and records became Garmi Khata, a community led people’s registry that aims to translate lived experience into evidence. What makes it powerful is its ownership. It is not a survey conducted from outside. It is a community maintained record that turns everyday experience into documented climate evidence.

Yesterday, these households submitted their Garmi Khata to the NHRC, calling on it to acknowledge the human rights impacts of extreme heat and to recognise heat as a human rights issue that demands urgent action.
I feel this opens up a larger discourse on how climate impacts are measured, whose data counts, and how communities are already building their own systems of accountability when official frameworks fall short.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Similarly, it took the bourgeoisie some 500 years to defeat the monarchs, princes, and feudal lords. Communism remains our common future if we organize to win it.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: GRAND AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI’S FAREWELL CEREMONY IS OFFICIALLY THE LARGEST IN RECORDED HISTORY WITH OVER 12 MILLION PEOPLE ATTENDING SO FAR

[Daily Iran News @DailyIranNews]

They wanted the funeral to look like an ending.

Tehran turned it into a fist in the sky with a beautiful drone show.

Messages do not always need speeches.
Sometimes one symbol is enough
to say:

We did not and will not break.

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

Fidel Castro spotted at Sayyed Khamenei’s funeral procession in Tehran, Iran.

“I have met many world leaders. Ayatollah Khamenei is among those rare personalities whose memory remains in one’s mind.”

[Arya Yadegaar @AryJeayBackup]

Mehdi Rasooli (eulogist) at the Tehran prayer hall:

“We have not come to bury our leader, we have come to avenge him. Oh, avengers of the martyred leader."

Approximately 30 million people are expected to attend in total. Since they can’t fit all in one place, people come to pay their respects and leave while another stream of people flow in. This will continue till 6 AM tomorrow when the funeral prayers will start.

[Yes, We Exist 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @YesWeExistIndia]

In Rajkot, Piyush killed his wife, Nisha, a transgender woman. Godi media @IndiaToday @ndtv @News18India is falsely reporting that Nisha was a “man pretending to be a woman” and was therefore killed. Such reporting violated NBDSA Guidelines on reporting about LGBTQIA+ people.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

What the last 1000 days of genocide in Gaza (and in South Lebanon) has taught us, is that European political identity (Whiteness) conceived in colonialism, breastfed on slavery and christened by genocide, is as wedded to the elimination of othered people of colour now as it has been at any time since 1750.

[Para @ParacelsusII]

she might be the oldest living communist

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

You can’t fight fascism without disability justice. Fascism creates more disability, which then sees us as replaceable and our deaths as excusable. You can’t fight for humanity without fighting for disabled people.

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Archives | A joint investigation by the German publication Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Venezuelan media outlet Armando Info has revealed that Vantara, owned by Anant Ambani, the youngest son of the Reliance chairperson, Mukesh Ambani, has received at least thirty-nine thousand wild animals from over thirty countries since 2022. Several of the imported animals in Vantara actually belong to species that are subject to an international trade ban, under the CITES. The report notes that Vantara has been under international scrutiny for bypassing restrictions under the CITES, possibly with cover from the Indian government.

Among Vantara’s large and varied population of exotic, endangered animals are more than ninety African cheetahs, including over a dozen cubs. A 2024 investigation by Himal found that Vantara has been sourcing animals not only from private entities in India and abroad but also from state-owned zoos in Gujarat and Assam. Some state zoos have also sent to Jamnagar exotic species that were given to them after being seized from trafficking operations. In addition, state forest departments, especially in Maharashtra, have sent wildlife from mining-affected regions and sites of human–animal conflict—often related to a reduction in wildlife habitat—to the private compound, without taking into consideration the environmental and wildlife impacts from its proximity to one of the world’s largest oil refineries. The Himal investigation found that “Vantara has poached veterinary and animal-care staff from conservation NGOs across India.”

Read @akhileshhpandey's April 2025 report on how the Modi government's Project Cheetah is falling apart, proving disastrous for the cheetahs and the communities forced to live alongside them: https://t.co/0bbjfYM2ld

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

'Extreme Brutality': MP Court Gives Life Sentence To 7 Cow Vigilantes In 2022 Mob Lynching Case |@pahwa_jayanti

#MadhyaPradesh

https://t.co/cLSorLc05t

[Why U @vayunandini]

Correction. Blinkit didn't create 1,85,000 jobs. It created 1,85,000 people who own their own vehicles, pay for their own fuel, have no fixed salary, no PF, no ESI, no sick leave, no job security and are one algorithm update away from losing their entire income.

These men work 12-14 hours a day across three apps simultaneously just to clear twenty thousand a month. No company bears the cost of their health, their accident, their family. They are not employees but infrastructure. Invisible, replaceable and deliberately kept contractor coded so the balance sheet stays clean.

The 'jobs created' number is a marketing figure. It counts every delivery partner who ever downloaded the app. It does not count how many quit. How many were injured with zero compensation. How many are still waiting for their incentive payout.

And yes this entire ecosystem exists because people are too comfortable to walk to a market. That comfort is being subsidized by men who cannot afford the same comfort themselves.

And I don't give a shit about kunal kamra or raghav chaddha.

First learn the difference between a job and a gig before you make a PowerPoint about it.

[Pratichi @pratichi]

At the Government Health Centre in Faridabad today. Of course, the only reason a daughter is valued is for her to become a mother to a son.

[Satya Prakash Nayak @SatyaPrNayak]

Salute to this fearless woman standing alone against the mighty police force while explosions for coal mining continue in the background. This is the real face of resistance. This is real #NariShakti.

Women from more than 200 families are protesting against forceful land acquisition and eviction by Nalco and Mytri companies for coal mining projects in Odisha.

The govt-corporate nexus has turned the lives of tribals and local communities in mineral-rich regions into a nightmare. Yet, women are rising, resisting, and leading the struggle across Odisha’s mining belts.

Development cannot be built on displacement, fear, and destruction of livelihoods.

#Odisha #SaveTribalLand #StopForcedEviction #CoalMining #MiningResistance #AdivasiLivesMatter #LandRights #WomenLeadResistance #CorporateLoot #EnvironmentalJustice #HumanRights #NariShakti #India

[NETAFLIX @NetaFlixIndia]

who did this😂😂😂

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

The harassment never ends - and the trial hasn’t even started - 8 years and the authorities haven’t been able to put together any case worthy of taking before a judge.

[Tankie Feardrop ⚧︎ @xinlichuupreme]

The first arrests under the trans act have been made in Mumbai despite the law not even being notified yet
2 muslim trans women arrested for helping a minor trans girl who ran away from her home

[Keda @kedabakis]

İranlı kadınlar pembe jeepler ve silahlarla sokaklarda😍🎀🩷

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

In our interview Evan says “anarchism needs to be eradicated as an ideology” because it promotes an infantile “notion of an ethical solidarity of all peoples against all regimes,” equating “imperialist, Jewish supremacist, or white supremacist formations,” and “anti-imperialist state and national movements in the periphery.” Full conversation will be published on YouTube soon.