Cartoons & illustrations! Since only cows are safe in India, Cow Aunty is the safest. Don't dare mess with her or she'll moo you down! Against Bigotry.
🗣️🚨There is a very serious and urgent crisis that we urge Mumbaikars to speak up about. Tag your local MLA, write to the BMC Bridges Department, email the relevant officials do whatever you ca. This cannot be ignored🚨
Several under-construction bridges in Mumbai either do not include footpaths in their design, or have footpaths that are too narrow for safe, comfortable movement.
In many cases, these are replacements of old British-era bridges that had wide, functional footpaths—but the new ones have none. We cannot emphasise enough how alarming this is.
Even if it means sacrificing a vehicle lane, pedestrian infrastructure must not be compromised. Cities across the world are reclaiming road space for pedestrians and cyclists, recognising the environmental, social, and economic value of walkable urban design.
Mumbai cannot afford to move in the opposite direction. Narrowing or eliminating footpaths is not acceptable. We need to act now.
#FootpathCrisis #Escalation #WarOnPedestrians
25 years ago today #GATTACA released. Everything prophesied in the film has come true: CRISPR, electric cars, smart watches, assembly line of spaceships. It's also perhaps the greatest anti-caste film ever. Sacriledge? Hear me out.. a thread. #AndrewNiccol#EthanHawke#UmaThurman
Warren Buffett calls him the smartest man he knows:
Charlie Munger.
And his speech "The Psychology of Human Misjudgement" is a masterclass on the mind.
Here are the 25 cognitive biases you need to know to understand human behaviour:
This is the price you pay for being decent and graceful - for refusing to be zealous, hateful, jingoistic, communal. And whoever becomes CM of Maharashtra now, the legacy of #UddhavThackarey will always remain as someone who cared about his citizens. Thank you for your work, sir.
Detention of prominent human rights activist @TeestaSetalvad by the Indian authorities is a direct reprisal against those who dare to question their human rights record. It sends a chilling message to the civil society & further shrinks the space for dissent in the country
"With sorrow — for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection — we dissent." -Justices Breyer, Sotomayor & Kagan
1 Two #police ‘incidents’ involving @TajinderBagga & @jigneshmevani80 have dangerous portents for India. But they are just the tip of a very dangerous iceberg. A thread about the present and past of policing in India..
Rohith Vemula was murdered by discrimination & indignities against his Dalit identity.
Even as years go by, he remains a symbol of resistance and his brave mother a symbol of hope.
For fighting till the very end, Rohith is my hero, my brother who was wronged.
Disclaimer: This thread is about my journey, one which has not been easy to go through. I have written it and sharing here because I am proud of it, not ashamed.
Trolls can sit down, read, and probably learn something from this.
Criticized this before and will do it again - the issue isn’t only that this photo was misattributed when in fact was a European ad, but the messaging. Those saying “you’re missing the point” and “the problem is in forcing” - that’s not the message of this photo.