I genuinely think one of the highest forms of alienation is watching your people’s suffering become an intellectual exercise for people who will never bear any consequences from being wrong.
Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic.
Joy is a biological necessity.
Very sad news that David Hockney has died.
A year ago, I asked him to write an article about smoking bans, and he provided one of the most charming answers I’ve ever received
The penthouses aka. Death houses that Gwyneth Paltrow is promoting are built on Palestinian Arab village of Al-Haram also known as Sayyidna Ali. Palestinian blood paid for them. 🇵🇸
An oil tanker heading towards Iran was struck by a US missile.
24 Indian workers were rescued.
Had it not been for Al Jazeera, we would never have known about it.
Iran football captain, Alireza Jahanbakhsh, said in interview: “We love camping in Mexico, the ppl are the best. And I’ve been told that the cartels adore us.”
A Life That Served a Purpose
In a world chasing fleeting applause, some souls choose the long, quiet road of service. Today, welfare economist Jean Drèze has been honoured with a global award for his profound research on poverty and inequality in India.
Born in Belgium, he made India his home and its people his purpose. With a scholar’s rigour and a revolutionary’s heart, he stood beside the forgotten—documenting their struggles, amplifying their voices, and shaping policies that reached millions.
His tireless advocacy helped birth two landmark legislations that still stand as lifelines: the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which offered dignity through work to the rural poor, and the National Food Security Act, which sought to ensure no one sleeps hungry in a land of plenty.
This is not just an award. It is recognition of a life lived in radical empathy. Of choosing dusty villages over ivory towers. Of measuring success not in citations or comfort, but in the quiet lifting of human suffering.
Jean Drèze reminds us that the highest calling is to use one’s intellect, privilege, and time in the service of those who have the least.
In an age of cynicism, his journey is a living ode:
To knowledge that heals. To scholarship that serves. To a life that mattered.
Congratulations and Thank You Professor Drèze.
India is better because you walked among us.
May your example inspire a new generation to stop performing compassion and start practising it—with depth, persistence, and love.
🧡 🙏
#JeanDreze #ServiceAboveSelf #India #SocialJustice
in india, workers could die by having tonnes of molten steel fall on their body and yet there is no outrage from privileged ppl but the same section of society will call workers anti-national if they protest for safer working conditions.
the only reason for this is caste system.
The Wire Hindi report by Shruti Sharma: "नोएडा श्रमिक आंदोलन: एक और छात्र गिरफ़्तार, साथी बोले- मज़दूरों, कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ खड़े होने की सज़ा"
Link to the full report: https://t.co/MxKgfRUNaq
#UttarPradesh#WorkersRights
Israel has claimed responsibility for bombing a wedding celebration in Gaza City yesterday that killed 7 people from two families, including a 4-month-old baby. Israel offered no explanation for violating the ceasefire, but acknowledged that “uninvolved civilians” were killed.
Reading suicide notes of kids who killed themselves due to Neet paper leaks broke my heart many times. The teenage children with dreams in their eyes deserved the world, this world wasn't fair to them.