DVK (Divya Vashisht Kumar)

Mom. Wife. RE/STR Investor/op. Ex journo @timesofindia, STARNews, @bbcworldservice. DEL-LON-NYC-SF-ATX-NYC. Storyteller. 📚 Animal lover.

[DVK (Divya Vashisht Kumar) @divvashi]

We learned that @Airbnb law is above any other law. Been hosts for 8 years. 2day due to a cleaning issue they decided to cancel on our behalf without our permission, block our calendar and give us consequences by taking the revenue from the next booking. @Airbnb rep Seema was 👎

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

“Get a cat, they keep to themselves"

Dont think my cat got the memo

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Today I discovered not only that there is such a thing as a quokka but also that my whole life I've been missing a quokka.

[고양이 트윗 번역계猫ポスト翻訳垢🐱 @nihongowacaran]

길을 잃은 남자를 구한 건 구조대도, GPS도 아니었다. 고양이였다.

2016년 여름, 스위스 알프스 김멜발트. 헝가리인 등산객은 발목을 접질린 채 지도를 펴들고 있었다. 스키 시즌이 끝나 리프트는 멈췄고, 유일한 공식 하산로는 통제 구역이었다. 그때 흑백 털 고양이 한 마리가 다가왔다. 조용히, 아무 이유도 없다는 듯이.

남자가 일어서자 고양이는 앞으로 걷기 시작했다. 그리고 뒤를 돌아봤다. 따라오는지 확인하듯. 남자는 따라갔다. 달리 선택지가 없었다.

고양이는 한 번도 잘못된 방향으로 가지 않았다. 계곡으로 내려가는 길목까지 데려다준 뒤 그 자리에서 멈췄다. 여기까지라는 듯이. 지킬 구역이 있었으니까.

나중에 레���에 올라온 영상에 댓글이 쏟아졌다. 같은 고양이를 기억하는 여행자들이었다. 이름도 없고, 훈련도 받지 않은, 마을 어딘가에 사는 그 고양이를.

그저 고양이가 뒤돌아봤을 뿐이다. 한 사람들의 목숨을 건졌다.

[DVK (Divya Vashisht Kumar) @divvashi]

@ketanwrites @RockyEatsX Indian food in NYC right now is next level. If you know where to eat. The new-Indian food is highly innovative and elevated.
ACH, Musaafer, Bunglow, Adda and so many more! It’ll be a shame to not try these highly sought after places just because they serve Indian food.

[DVK (Divya Vashisht Kumar) @divvashi]

😻😻

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Three months ago, a patient died in our ER. What he did in the hours before reaching us still makes me shudder.

A 35-year-old shouldn’t die from a snake bite in 2026. He died because he followed myths instead of science.
Don’t let your "first aid" be the thing that kills you 🧵

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Big fan of whatever is going here

[We Assess and Draw Cats 🐾 @WeAssessCats]

The doctors had to attend to a sick gentleman and his cat was there watching everything worriedly as it happened.

[Vishakh Ranotra @VishakhRanotra]

We need to bring back courtyards.

It was such a stupid idea to follow western modern minimalist architecture inspite of us having these.

[DVK (Divya Vashisht Kumar) @divvashi]

💯

[☥ @rosiesrib]

bedrotting with ur cat is the closest to nirvana u will ever reach

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Bro pulled off the best video of his life

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

There is a version of this story that is easy to romanticize. A famous man stays loyal to his wife. People applaud. The end.
But the real version is much harder, much quieter, and far more honest than that.
Jay Leno, 75, spent more than two decades as one of the most recognized faces on American television, hosting The Tonight Show night after night for millions of viewers. His wife, Mavis, stood beside him throughout all of it — not as a background figure, but as a woman of genuine accomplishment in her own right. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for her advocacy work supporting women living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. She was fiercely independent, deeply curious, and someone who loved to travel and explore the world.
Then, in 2024, Jay filed for conservatorship over her estate. The reason was that Mavis had been diagnosed with advanced dementia and was progressively losing capacity and orientation.
Their life changed completely.
The restaurants they once visited together are now off the menu. The travel Mavis always loved is no longer possible. The conversations they used to have in the evenings have narrowed and shifted in ways that are hard to fully explain to someone who has not lived it. Dementia does not just take memory. It slowly changes the shape of every moment two people share.
Jay has spoken publicly about the hardest part of the journey, and it is not what most people would expect. For years, every single morning, Mavis would wake up believing she had just received news that her mother had died. She experienced that grief fresh, as if hearing it for the first time, every day. Her mother went through that process of dying over and over again, for about three years. Each time, Mavis cried. Each time, Jay held her through it. He described it as truly tricky, and genuinely hard.
But he did not leave.
He rearranged his life around her needs. He only takes work that allows him to be home the same day or at most one night away. He comes home every evening and cooks her dinner. They watch television together, animal shows and travel documentaries on YouTube since real travel is no longer an option. When he carries her to the bathroom, he has a name for it. He calls it Jay and Mavis at the prom, the two of them dancing back and forth down the hallway, and she thinks it is funny. She still laughs. He still makes her laugh on purpose, every single day.
She still knows who he is. She looks at him and smiles. She tells him she loves him.
When someone asked Jay if he was going to get a girlfriend now, he was genuinely surprised by the question. He told them he already had one. He was married. Forty-five years. That was not something he considered walking away from.
What he said next is the part that has stayed with people.
He said that when you get married, you take vows. You say for better or worse. And most people, he noted, never really expect to be called upon to actually act on those words. They say them and hope the worse never arrives.
For Jay, it arrived.
And he is passing the test.
He has said he hopes his situation draws attention not just to his own story, but to the 50 or 60 million people in America who are quietly doing the same thing for a parent, a spouse, a sibling, and doing it completely without recognition. Nobody sees them. Nobody is interviewing them. They are just showing up every single day for someone who needs them, because that is what love actually looks like when it is no longer a feeling but a choice you make again every morning.
Jay Leno still makes his wife laugh. She still has the fire, he says. She still growls at the television when something offends her. She still smiles when he walks into the room.
For better or worse is not a promise you make on a beautiful day in a beautiful place with everyone watching.
It is what you do on a Tuesday evening when you carry the person you love to the bathroom and call it the prom, just to make her smile.
That is the whole story.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

I don’t see any right wingers outraged at these people dancing by the WW2 memorial.

Hmmm, I wonder why….

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

I think those who live with cats can understand how special this moment is.

[Cats with Aura 😺 @catwithaura]

"Where do you see yourself in 40 years?"

me:

[DVK (Divya Vashisht Kumar) @divvashi]

@GeoRebekah Don’t stop him. I got a cat for my cat and found my soul-cat 😻🥰

[DVK (Divya Vashisht Kumar) @divvashi]

@AdvaitaKala Amazing! Many congrats 🎉