I'm right now in Himachal Pradesh in a smallish village called Cheog.
Yesterday I went for a a hike up a nearby mountain, a bit difficult for a city-person like me.
1.5 hours of huffing and puffing later, I reached this pretty forest patch. What I found stunning is that in the middle of the forest -- off this trekking path -- there are beer cans, wrappers & chips packets just littered around.
a) how the hell did so much trash get up here.
b) why do people dump their shit in the forests like this?
c) Why don't tourists just CARRY their trash and dump it back in the hotels/homestays they stay in?
d) how the hell do we fix this chomu habit of Indians littering LITERALLY EVERYWHERE?!
I'm so triggered and sad.
Please. Someone tell me if this is actually a fixable problem or are we just supposed to live with this garbage behavior now?
Sonali Bendre is not a quack.
The Naturopath she is taking advice from is a quack.
Sonali Bendre, like many others before her and many more after her, are victims of "big claims, zero evidence" pseudoscientific practices such as Naturopathy.
The whole point is not to victimize Ms. Sonali, but to focus on the aspect that education does not equate to intelligence and intelligence does not equate to rationality.
We need to be rational humans so that we can make logical conclusions based on evidence, not experience or anecdotes.
Critical thinking skills must be taught in schools instead of prayers and poems so that no Naturopath and such scammers take our children for a ride in the future, like majority of our adult population is going through now.
The other problem when fascists take over a country is that they drag the discourse down to an excruciatingly unintelligent level, and soon everyone is forced to engage at that level. Living in such a society means constantly having to deal with that unintelligence.
Drop everything and watch this. The New York Times has released a powerful investigation tracing the story of the girl in the viral image fleeing a burning building in Gaza and the aftermath of the attack. The world will watch and move on as if nothing happened