CA Ranjan Verma

Cricket|| Rajasthan Royals💓|| Stock Market Enthusiast||

[CA Ranjan Verma @iamah00t]

The One where he left us💔
@MatthewPerry

#ChandlerBing #matthewperry

[CA Ranjan Verma @iamah00t]

@miladreaamy 25kg

[Mufaddal Vohra @mufaddal_vohra]

Facing Jofra Archer from the helmet cam. 😄

[Indian Football Updates @IndianFootyBest]

• No proper financial support
• Lack of infra & training facilities
• Footballers living in slums/poverty

Yet, India's @minervapunjabfc have won the prestigious Gothia Cup, winning against Elite Academies from World-Cup qualified nations!

PROUD MOMENT #IndianFootball 🇮🇳 🔥

[Cricbuzz @cricbuzz]

6⃣6⃣6⃣6⃣ and 🏆!

Best of birthdays to @CRBrathwaite26 🥳🥳

Just another reason for us to revisit this iconic finish from 2016 🔥

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this news.

Of course, India is a global force in shooting, but most of our success has come in rifle & pistol events.

Trap and skeet have always been much tougher to crack, demanding a very different ecosystem of ranges, coaching and competition.

That’s what makes Neeru Dhanda’s victory so special.

To win an ISSF World Cup gold in trap is one thing. To do it at Lonato, which is one of the sport’s most iconic venues and a place every shotgun shooter reveres, is another.

Clay target shooting has long been a European stronghold and is a discipline many Americans proudly regard as their own. Which is why Neeru’s gold feels like such a breakthrough.

Congratulations, Neeru. May this be the first of many more podiums. 🇮🇳

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Winning against the Chinese. In China.

At the Asian Relay Championships.

Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha & Tamanna in the 4x100 relay.

Power. Speed. Grace. Commitment.

But above all, teamwork.

This clip has it all.

I’m watching it on loop.

More of this please. 🇮🇳

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

Crude Prices Hitting Fresh Lows.

Ethanol Blended Petrol Prices Hitting Highs 😭😭😭

The Math Is Not Mathing at all 🥺

#FI

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

🚨 World Athletics has released Qualification standards for World Athletics C'ship Beijing 2027

- Pretty High cut-off for World C'ship 👀

It's gonna be pretty hard for Indian Athletes to Qualify here, Lots of NR need to be broken!

[Aqsa Farooq @Aqsa_Farook]

One of Unluckiest Innings of All time in Cricket History 🥲
Carlos Brathwaite 🏏💔

[OldMonkofCricket @OldMonkOfCric]

This has to be the greatest debut ball in ODI history🥶 https://t.co/tprH21OHlS

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“HPCL, BPCL, IOC, Oil India are the biggest monopolists. Everyday these four come together and decide the oil prices.”

“Competition commission is sleeping, how is this possible?”

- Late Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. 2016

[CA Ranjan Verma @iamah00t]

@Simi_2210_ 3

[CA Ranjan Verma @iamah00t]

@Simi_2210_ 4

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

The upper body control of a horse archer while training. 🏹

[Arun Yadav @ArunKosli]

160 किलोमीटर का विकास सफर , किसी के जीवन को बचाने के लिए

अविस्मरणीय

[Patrick Bateman 🚬🍺 | Women’s Welfare Dept. ★★★★★ @ShadowOf_Gotham]

@IndianTechGuide

[Market Rebellion @RebellioMarket]

Bro I am quitting 9-5. I'll start Trading.
🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍
🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍

Trading is easy. Just buy low sell high.
🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍
🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍

No.., Its much harder than I expected.
🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍
🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍

I've lost too much, I'm giving up.
🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍

We believed it,
We made it
🧍🧍

Welcome to the 1%

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Look at this map.

Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.

And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.

The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.

What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.

But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.

A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.

A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.

You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.

In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.

It chose the numbers.

The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.

All forests, on paper.

The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped. 

The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion. 

It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.

The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency. 

I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.

This is not a technicality. This is the con.

It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.

For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.

They did nothing.

Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.

The BJP is different.

When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.

The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real. 

Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated. 

The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.

CONT++

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Apparently, this is one of the earliest known photographs of the sacred Kedarnath Dham, taken in 1882.

Couldn’t take my eyes off it.

No roads. No railheads. No helicopters.

Just the abode of Lord Shiva, cradled by the Himalayas

Back then, the yatra demanded time, endurance, & faith. The journey wasn’t incidental; it WAS the pilgrimage.

Today, access is easier. And that’s a good thing because it opens the experience to many more.

But perhaps something still needs preserving?

The ability to slow down & savour the experience of traveling.

Because journeys are about who we become along the way.

#SundayWanderer

(Photo courtesy @LostTemple7 )

[CA Ranjan Verma @iamah00t]

@Jennnyyyyyy 44