Poorani Balendra

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[Poorani Balendra @Poorani_26]

So grateful for this opportunity to remember this great historian on her birth anniversary. Thanks a ton to Mrs. Mahalakshmi for sharing the scrapbook and @ChithraMadhavan for introducing me to C. Minakshi's works. Hope to keep writing about her :)

[Vaijayanthi @vaiju7]

A nice way of recollecting her work @Poorani_26 - C Minakshi: Trailblazing historian who unearthed the Pallavas, and much more https://t.co/4IYHptS4mz

[Shyam Sunder @shyampsunder]

India has officially overtaken the US in EV car sales as a percentage of new car sales.

As fuel prices are being increased in India, we are already at 6%+ in May!

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Ancient Greek ballots used to kick politicians out of Athens!

Broken pieces of pot, known as ‘ostraca’, were used in a democratic process known as an ‘ostracism’. If a candidate received 6,000 votes, they were exiled for 10 years!

Ostraca inscribed with the name of the famous Athenian general and politician ‘Themistocles’, 482 BC.

Museum of the ancient Agora, Athens. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

[Poorani Balendra @Poorani_26]

I sure hope the new Chief Minister cracks down on this with an iron fist. We cannot afford to lose young boys and girls to addiction. It's a huge mental and financial burden on families...and the state

[Poorani Balendra @Poorani_26]

A tea shop on my street, which has long been selling so-called "hans", a banned tobacco-based drug, has been shut and the owner arrested... Folks told me that the owner bribed his way into selling the drug all these years.

[Poorani Balendra @Poorani_26]

Neighbours said that in the last two years, boys as young as 15 started buying ganja from dealers who sell at a spot near our street at a fixed time. Access got wayyy wayyy easier ... This was apparently not the case before.

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

Decorum and dignity....

[Ashwin 🇮🇳 @ashwinravi99]

Have said it once, i will say it again!

Who i was born to wasn’t my choice, thankfully I was born to parents that are beyond great.

Leadership is feeling empathetic towards another person’s struggles and enabling growth beyond barriers & that’s what my parents & teachers have taught me.

I want to live till the day, we stop talking about lineage or caste 🙏

[Bike prasath @bikeprasath]

சவுக்கு மீடியாவில் ஒளிப்பதிவாளராக வேலை செய்கிறேன் என்ற ஒற்றை காரணத்தினால் திமுக ஆட்சி காலங்களில் அதிகார துஷ்பிரயோகத்தாலும், அடக்குமுறையாலும் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு சாதாரண குடிமகனாக, இன்று தமிழகத்தில் ஏற்பட்டுள்ள இந்��� மாற்றத்தை நான் மனதார வரவேற்கிறேன்.

[Reality Check India @realitycheckind]

Chronological list of speech related arrests : only a small fraction. The underground network, the social media anon goons , the abusers, doxxers followed by jails, the police power, confiscations of devices

DMK Stalin Govt 2021-26

https://t.co/MReuwcMFaR

[Vaijayanthi @vaiju7]

We regularly see "tell me a crazy fact about your city" tweets. Here is one from my city on Buddha Purnima. One of the earliest, and the earliest in western India, image of Buddha in iconic form is seen at the Kanheri Caves, cave no. 3.

[Rangarathnam Gopu @WriterGopu]

Tomorrow

[Swaroop @arseinho]

@BloodDonorsIn

Required group: A+ (Donor can be from any group as of now)
Patient name: Susmita
Hospital: Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet
Contact: 9962047980/ Indraneel

[Srikkanth @Srikkanth_07]

Happy to have won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism #RNGaward for my story tracing the journey of #TamilNadu and India Footballer, Indumathi of Coach Mariappan's Tsunami batch.

Thanks to my family, friends and colleagues. Grateful for all the blessings.

[vj @ poetryinstone 🇮🇳 @poetryinstone]

Again 6th year @acm_sg refusing the return the Hanuman

[gopu mohan @gm_madras]

Many of you may know Srikkanth Dhasarathy @Srikkanth_07 as the crime reporter at @dt_next. And as those who know him well will know, he refuses to be contained in such pigeon holes. (1/n)

[Dr JS Rajkumar @DrJSROfficial]

Today is a special day for me🙂
In #Mylapore, at the Kapaleeshwarar Temple, the festival of the 64 Syte Saints (Nayan Mars), begins with great flourish.
One of the first English translations of the Periya Puranam, which chronicles their lives, was written by an ancestor of mine called J.N.Nalla Swami Pillai, a contemporary of G.U. Pope.
(The book is available even today in #Googlebooks and in #Amazon, thanks to great work of an uncle and aunt (Dr. Shanmughanathan of Ganga Hospitals, Dr. Neela Govindaraj, Dr. Vasuki Kannappan)
Feeling: Truly blessed & humbled to be a part of this lineage
#periyapuranam #chronicles #nayanmars #drjsr

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

“If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait.” https://t.co/PLDj7ZmuIX

[“paula” @paularambles]

le creuset can’t keep getting away with this

did i know pie vents existed before today? no.

do i now need one? yes, in fact i need two.

[Prof. Shamika Ravi @ShamikaRavi]

Happy Women’s Day from the stunning campus of @nalanda_univ in Rajgir, Bihar 🥰

[vj @ poetryinstone 🇮🇳 @poetryinstone]

The crack in the torso which i observed in the museum sent me searching from 2016 . N finally exposed the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2020
https://t.co/jNH32lvtbz

N happy she is finally back home

#BringOurGodsHome

@MinOfCultureGoI @sanjeevsanyal @PMOIndia