my mom started volunteering with autistic children and annoyed one nonverbal student so bad that he literally spoke for the very first time in his life to tell her to shut up
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
No one is talking about it but I will. The Tiger deaths near Satpura in Madhya Pradesh are because of illegal opium farming. They are killing tigers so that their field workers don’t get scared. While this is happening the reasons given by forest department for not tracking even collared tigers is that US has jammed the signals caz of US- IRAN war. You read that right.
I travelled through Great Nicobar today.
These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow.
The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs.
The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away.
This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language.
So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime.
It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
Every Indian passenger car — Tata, Mahindra, Maruti, every one — has its electronic brain designed by a foreign company.
We checked the scorecards. Across passenger cars and commercial vehicles, the number of major ECUs designed in India is zero. @mchellap
i love earnest people so much, i love people who reach out, who check in, who text first and then text again, who ask to hang out, i love people who actively pursue connection and make this world a little less lonely for themselves and for others too.
I am tired of having to download an app, create an account, confirm my email, set up a password that has at least 1 letter and 1 special character, enter the code sent to my email, for every single thing on God’s green earth, FUCK EVERY SINGLE COMPANY, AND YOUR STUPID CRAP!!!!!!!
Doom scrolling or phone addiction should be labelled as a low status activity.
While this will be labelled classist but the fact that as a third world country where everyone has access to cell phones with cheap internet the lowest rungs of the society are way more addicted to their phone, cheap dopamine, porn addicted kids and adults alike.
Look around you, your helps, auto drivers, guards, etc. all of them are addicted to phones so much so that they will never have any intrinsic desire to do better in their lives, their kids will follow the same path and will lurk in dark internet alleys without even developing an understanding of what’s wrong and what’s not.