Puja Modi

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

— Albert Camus

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@aparanjape @PuneCityTraffic Was stuck in traffic due to processions for 4 hours yesterday! There was no management of the traffic. There was barely 1 policeman present at busy chowks trying to manage hundreds of vehicles and thousands of people in the procession. Don't even know how permissions are given

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@PuneCityTraffic stuck near laxminarayan chowk for the past hour and half. Request urgent help!

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@ChaloPmc @PMCPune @PuneCityTraffic

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@PuneCityPolice on what basis are permissions given to have processions where life of citizens have to come to a standstill and roads are completely cordoned off? Is this purely because there is political pressure or do you guys have a spine to fight for the things you claim to

[Bhooshan Shukla @docbhooshan]

Effective Parenting of 2 to 8 year olds

Want to make best of early growth years? Join this unique WhatsApp based workshop! A six weeks workshop conducted by Dr. Bhooshan Shukla. Workshop commencing on 21st June.

Join from anywhere in the world. Time zones do not affect your participation.

Link for details and registration in next tweet-

[Bhooshan Shukla @docbhooshan]

A thread on medicalisation of grief.

1. In last six months. Five of my friends lost a parent. It can get overwhelming. Being a local to their parent's city i was involved in the process medically / supportingly / logistically.
Here are some observations about wrong use of antidepressant medications for the grieving.

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@docbhooshan Far too common a story than we'd like to believe. Trust is often misplaced as we see again and again

[ameet singh @ameetgsingh]

Bureaucrats & Politicians

There are 7500 IAS officers.

Recently a few were shuffled about in Pune. I welcomed it. PMC has a budget of 11600 crore this year.

Some of their shenanigans in the past few years have been as follows.

They felled 1.16 lakh trees to reclaim almost 11 kilometres of riverbank on both sides of the river. They dumped crores of tons of debris & concrete into the river to landfill 38% of the riparian zone thus destroying hundreds of species and biodiversity. This, ensures the river can’t rejuvenate itself.

Pune dumps 78% of its sewage untreated into the river. That’s 163 crore litres per day. Nothings been done about this since 3 decades.

Bureaucrats

Pune has 1400 kms of road. 2750 including laning. The bureaucrats love to keep bungling it up. They love to break and build and re-break and re-build the same road again and again. Commissions. Not a single road gets built right first time, on time, every time. Lakhs of old growth trees have been lost to this process.

Pune today shorn of the green cover it once had has the highest land surface temperature in India. 49 degrees centigrade.

We saw 46 degrees last summer and might see even higher temperatures this year.

Bureaucrats

Of the population of Pune region or PMRDA 70% of the people travel less than 20 kms a day, public transportation is non accessible or not existent. That’s why the people have no choice but to spend their money on buying personal transportation, expensive vehicles and private cars. Pune has now 42 lakh vehicles. Almost a million cars rickshaws and taxis. It has one of the slowest moving traffic and most polluted air. It’s over 100 AQI for over 200 days in a year. The equivalent of smoking 10 to 20 cigarettes a day. Many people in Pune suffer from COPD.

If world class public transportation such as buses with comfortable seating, WiFi and charging points were to be given. We would need at best 16500 buses.

1650 buses ferry a million people everyday today.

But our public transportation sucks, So, we buy cars for expensive private transportation and breathe poison.

Bureaucrats

Pune generates 2200 to 2500 tons of waste everyday. 70% of this waste is wet waste. Solutions exist to compost it and use the mud for planting trees in the arid hills surrounding us. The non organic matter has be be recycled.

PMC instead spends 1100 crore on gathering this waste from people’s doorsteps and dumping it into landfills - technically, at other people’s doorsteps.

They have no roadmap to make Pune garbage free.

Bureaucrats.

Over 20% of the population of Pune depends upon Tankers for water. Almost 15 lakh people across 18 neighbourhoods need 22 crore litres of water delivered to them by over 22,000 tanker trips daily. It’s a 2-3 crore per day economy. Over 1000 crores is spent by Pune’s citizens on Tankers every year. Some neighbourhoods such as Vimannagar, Baner, Wanowrie are over 3 decades old. Yet, PMC hasn’t been able to reach water to them.

I could go on… But, X has its limitations. As do you;

Bureaucrats & Politicians

Patel called them the steel frame of India. Chaiwalla absolutely loves them. He prefers them to the political capital he can bank upon as ministers.

Nehru said. They’re neither Indian nor civil nor a service. They’re best disbanded & sent home.

He made the mistake of not taking the most important call of his life.

Bureaucrats and Politicians

A large number of us nationwide suffer them, their decisions and mostly indecisions on many matters. Academics are ignored, all of us pay taxes, business people are expropriated from and the nation they tell me is growing while we breathe poison, drink sewage and eat plastic..

अबकी बार जल वायु सुधार

@sumitakale @prajpanshikar @jbaphna @sushmadate @SVYadwadkar @VinitaDeshmukh @AreaPashan @KhswaPune @AngholichiGoli @MhalungeSpeaks @punecitywatch @punekar @PuneCivic @VetalTekdi @rjtarunofficial @RJSangram @SalimAli_Bird @mhemachari @vandymini

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

Meaningful psychotherapy is often a process of mourning

To invest fully in life, we must mourn the past that never was and the futures that can never be

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@Benevolantly @PMCPune The complaints are not closed but it remains unresolved and no action gets taken beyond you getting a token number

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

1) @PMCPune do you plan to do anything about the innumerable illegal hoardings cropping up all over the city? This is a problem not specific to a particular area but all over the city. In spite of numerous complaints on your pmccare app, all I get is a token number and a

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@j_deshmukh @PMCPune Exactly. That's why they need to resolve this at a policy level and not individual complaints

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@PMCPune PC294, PC 489, PC623. The previous hoardings have come down and instead there are different ones. So kindly resolve the issue at the implementation of policies level rather than individual complaints.

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

2) status message saying in progress but nothing gets done. Instead there are more illegal hoardings everywhere, on lampposts, trees, in front of sign posts. These hoardings are illegal, an eye sore and a distraction to commuters
@ChaloPmc @ameetgsingh @SUBHASHJAGTAP1 @SidShirole

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@ChaloPmc I've just joined. I'm only listening in today. Will pitch in next time

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

“Mine! Mine!”

As your toddler develops independence and an increasingly sophisticated sense of self, so too do they develop a new concept: possession.

Toddlers aren’t legendary for their their interest in sharing - and their growing vocabulary shows it, with the words “my” and “mine” taking newfound prominence.

This can lead to conflict, particularly with other toddlers, who may claim equally strong interest in a toy or other object.

Meltdowns and biting may occur, so keep a watchful eye.

While this hyper-possessive phase can be frustrating at times, it’s important to recognize it for what it is: an important conceptual breakthrough.

Not only does your child now recognize him/herself as an independent person, but understands that there are items that can belong solely to them.

With time this understanding grows in sophistication, allowing for the understanding that something can simultaneously be “theirs” and still be shared with others.

This video, for which I sadly could not identify the original source, is one of my all time favorites. For me it’s not just the “mine, mine” but the disapproving head shake at the end. Classic toddler behavior.

[Puja Modi @meetpujamodi]

@bhogleharsha Absolutely brilliant - both the story and the narration. You've been my driving companion for a few weeks now

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

Flexibility and versatility with theory matter. This is why we must not make any theoretical model/school into a professional identity

Ideas & concepts should be exactly that—ideas & concepts, not an identity to defend

Be a psychotherapist not an ______ian

[Bhooshan Shukla @docbhooshan]

Social media guidelines for practitioners of medicine in India are most welcome.

When will these apply to all other pathies, hospitals, healthcare product companies and ofcourse Babas, Buvas and Matadevis ?

https://t.co/8L3Bttc53U