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[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Every day the world presents you with the wrong battles, designed to waste your energy so you don't fight the right ones.

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

I am a south Indian living in north India for the last 15+ yrs. I am not a central government or armed/police forces employee, just a plain private citizen. I have lived and travelled India north of the Vindhyas extensively. Never once in all these years have I heard anyone in the north ever say anything disrespectful about a person from south India or the region in general. On the contrary you often get a degree more respect and infinite curiosity to know about the south, it's culture, geography and languages.

(OK, there used to be a tendency in Delhi to call any South Indian a 'madarasi', but that is a minor irritation, not a slur)

Thus it's been a matter of great shame for me to hear what the MP from the DMK said on the floor of Parliament and general discourse on social media after the recent election results. (Just a few minutes ago I read a tweet from an educated Kannadiga software engineer in Bangalore saying persons from 'Bimaru' states must not drive autos in Bangalore. Disgusting.)

Honestly, I have felt more welcomed in North India than I ever felt as a Tamilian who grew up in Bangalore.

A humble dhaba owner in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, once refused to take money from me for food because I am from the south. He said, Punjab can feed south India, why I need money from you. That is sign of a big heart, not him being boastful.

A mechanic in Madhya Pradesh and a bunch of spare parts shops opened up their shops during Rang Panchami to help a stranded south Indian biker.

Almost everywhere in those days riding through Rajasthan, Haryana and UP... People used to initially try making conversation with me in halting English seeing my 'KA' registration bike, till I assured them I spoke Hindi well. No one has ever forced me to speak or learn Hindi. Even if I acted like I didn't know Hindi, there would be no chauvinism.

I have lived in Delhi and Dehradun, where I have got 'preferential' treatment when I have had to rent homes, because I am a South Indian!

I am unable to comprehend what is this general hatred towards Indians living in North India that is emanating from the south. Right now the chauvinism stems from the fact that the south is a better economic engine than the north, literally it's that. Mark my words, that ain't forever. North India is waking up to its potential very soon.

(Btw this bakwaas about the United States of South India - first demonstrate that any two south Indian states can share a river's water without intervention from a central 'north Indian' agency!)

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I am eternally grateful that I got to study and grow in Army Public School Bangalore. What I see in this bad discourse right now is a lack of exposure to other cultures and languages in India. My school provided me that 🙏

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My one and only grouse with North Indians: Parathas are not breakfast. Sorry. 🙏

[Vikas Khanna @TheVikasKhanna]

Spreading the flavors of India around the globe……One spice at a time. ❤️

Available all over United States.

https://t.co/Hz8QYcFtIe

[Regeneration International @regeneration_in]

#Soil is often viewed as nothing more than a medium for holding plants. But it is so much more than that.

Healthy soils provide nutritious food, support human health and keep our planet's precious ecosystems and climate in balance.

[Rao & Sapru @SapruAndRao]

Produced & Directed By Radhika Rao & Vinay Sapru..❤️

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

They will be gone forever just because people drive their cars with bio fuels from Palm Oil deforestation and eat food products like biscuits with Palm Oil ingredients
Why are we just letting this happen?
Demand proper food labeling - end to Palm Oil
Most people not aware

[Chetan Bhagat @chetan_bhagat]

The news of more student suicides in Kota should worry us greatly about the increasing numbers of such deaths countrywide. Kota gets disproportionate attention because at any point lakhs of students are grinding away in its coaching classes. They hope to crack the hyper-competitive medical and engineering entrance exams, which according to many Indian parents are the safest if not the only possible careers. The coaching classes are expensive, which places a heavy burden on many parents. The students are aware of what the parents are doing for them, creating stress right from Day One. Staying away from home is tough too. The coaching is intense. Cracking these exams with minuscule selection rates, reportedly 2% isn’t a cakewalk. The stress comes to a boil with the entrance exam results. A selection rate of 2% means 98% of students will not make it. Are you really surprised that some of the students just crumble in this journey? People have suggested solutions, from spring-loaded fans (to prevent death by hanging) to more counsellors. But to fully solve the problem we need to first have the courage to see the reality. We must realise this is not just a Kota phenomenon. In 2019, 7.4% of all deaths by suicides were of students. According to NCRB, over 12,500 teens died by suicide in India in 2020 alone; that made it 34 students taking their own lives each day across the country. Kota is estimated to have around two lakh students registered in various coaching institutes. Till August 28, 23 students in this coaching town died by suicide – six reported in August alone. This is an alarming statistic. However, student stress and suicides are a national issue. The question is, what can we really do to fix it? There’s a role for everyone – parents, teachers, policy makers, job recruiters and the students themselves. ● Indian parents, for heaven’s sake, please educate yourselves. Please stop imposing your dreams on your children. Being a doctor or engineer is not the be all and end all of life. There are literally hundreds of other professions. Most doctors in India don’t even make so much money. Many engineers are unemployed. Have you ever heard of industries like real estate and finance? People in these industries can become really wealthy. A shopkeeper, social media marketing executive, car dealer, hotelier, travel industry expert, online store owner – all these people DO NOT have to be doctors and engineers. Nobody who works in the newspaper publishing this article needs to be a doctor or engineer. They also live happy lives. They also get ‘rishtas’. ● Teachers, you must realise how dumb and pig-headed Indian parents can be. You have to re-educate the studentson how to approach these exams, not just on how to study for them. The exams are tough and they must work hard. But treat it like a challenging game. If it happens, great. If it doesn’t, move on. Life has something better in store. ● Policy makers, you need to see why even now only a few government colleges are considered aspirational. This when people in India otherwise prefer their products and services private. It’s because private colleges have got poor credibility and their motives are not trusted. Maybe let foreign universities come in? Maybe make big Indian corporate houses affiliate with colleges? We need to increase the supply of aspirational colleges and seats. ● Indian recruiters, if you only go to elite colleges to recruit only engineers, you are not helping. Why do you need a mechanical engineer for a sales job? Why not go to other, less elite colleges and pick good students from there? ● Students, learn this bitter truth about life that life is unfair, uphill and hard. People may dole out lip-service on how student stress should be lowered but nobody is coming to save you. However, the good thing is it is up to you to make your own life. Life will hit you with disasters, as it does everyone. A failure in an entrance exam may be a blow and a dream shattered but see this as practice for what’s to come. Failure, disappointment, and unfairness will come to you again and again. The answer to this is not to quit on life, but to change your goals, strategy and actions. Continue to hustle and work hard but in a different direction. Do not think that all those years of grinding for an exam went to waste as you didn’t clear it. The hard work you did will prepare you for life. Life may have taken away an opportunity from you today, but in the long life ahead, more opportunities will come. You may be at rock-bottom today but the only way is up. Do not take an extreme step. Just breathe. Take a break, rise up again and come to fight back stronger. Show the world that you don’t need to be another boring engineer or doctor to make your mark in it. This is what will make this doctor-engineer-entrance-exam tyranny end. Do it for you, and for the students who come after you. No student deserves to reach a point when they abandon hope. This isn’t about Kota, this is about us. This isn’t about a child failing at an entrance exam and quitting on life, it is about us failing as a society and quitting on our responsibility to show our children a better future.

From “Too few seats for the Kotas”, my column in TOI today. #kotasuicide

[Amitabh Bachchan @SrBachchan]

and India .. JAI HIND 🇮🇳.. !!!! congratulations from the entire WORLD .. and just hear the commentary .. not a word for the Indian Team .. all about the 3rd and the 4th .. when we have made to the qualifiers by coming a very very close 2nd ..

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

The elephant underpass built by Railways in Madukkarai region in Coimbatore is impressive. In a first of its kind excercise from #TNForest Department we are setting up AI enabled surveillance mechanism coupled with Machine learning to stop elephant train collissions on the railway track. The team is installing 12 towers with thermal cameras too to monitor movement of elephants on the railway track. A control room has been set up on the site. The system will generate multiple alerts. We are putting our best efforts to save precious wildlife

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Mother Nature will soon enough flush human Industrialization and humanity into the garbage dump of history as a failed species who failed to realize and live withing the limits of the only law that matters, the law of Nature and the laws of Physics https://t.co/67X9UqB5hv

[Priyal Gala @priyalgala]

We are looking for a family of 4
Dhiren Vira, Sunita, Shubham, Kirna

They were on a Road trip to Leh from Mumbai last contact was on Sunday evening 9:00 PM when they were about 4kms before ATAL Tunnel

Car details
VW TAIGUN YELLOW COLOR
MH 01 DT 8615

RT & help find them🙏

[Hema @HemaNemo]

@drvandanashiva

[Ronita @rons1212]

As we slowly moved into nuclear families and apartment lifestyle these went into storage boxes or just left behind like an old faded postcard.

Is it still used in your kitchen ?

I will be buying mine soon ❤️

[Lewis Pugh @LewisPugh]

We have to do better for animals. Earth isn’t just ours. #BeatPlasticPollution https://t.co/5tyDCpqi8s

[Twinkle Khanna @mrsfunnybones]

Our job is not to give our children perfect childhoods. It is to fill their heads with ideas, to honour their strengths and make them aware, but never underline their weaknesses.

It involves loving them madly and throwing a few vegetables down their throats. We need to permanently dedicate a large number of our neurons towards their mosquito bites, bad grades and hurt feelings.

And we must do all of this, day after day, without losing sight of everything we are and can be, along with being their mothers.

Agree? Disagree?

[NS Ramnath @rmnth]

It's around 4pm, but there's still a long day ahead for these two women in Madurai.

Today's doodle

[RK Misra @rk_misra]

Coconut Man with QR Code…😊 India Forward 👍

[DP SATISH @dp_satish]

90% get Idli right, only 1% get Chutney right. If you don’t know, how to crack Chutney technology, your product will always be a failure. #Bengaluru

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

“Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

[Organic Live Food @OrganicLiveFood]

Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it

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