Samip Supe

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

THIS IS BRUTAL 🔥

"All Indians have to stay in India, except one Indian" 😅

[Samip Supe @samip_supe]

Wow, #MainWapasAaunga has 1-2 shows per day only at screens in Chembur! Meanwhile the same screens have 4-5 Hindi shows of Hollywood movies. What's happening?! @FunCinemas I'm

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Strange country we live in.
Comedy causes outrage.
Corruption causes amusement.

[Mahesh 🇮🇳 @invest_mutual]

Super stuff. Do listen to him.
The points he makes are 👌👌👌

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

India has been consistently warming up. Decade after decade, temperatures have been rising, and this is a one-way journey unless humanity makes a dramatic course correction.

All the heatwave deaths that are in the news are the result of this relentless warming. You will see a lot of numbers floating around, especially the recent viral study that a single day of extreme heat causes roughly 3,400 excess deaths across India, and a five-day heatwave nearly 30,000. But the truth is, we still don’t have good statistics on how many Indians are losing their lives because of heatwaves.

What we do know is this: a vast majority of Indian employment is still informal. The number of people employed in agriculture, construction, gig work, and other outdoor work remains disproportionately high. We have come a long way, but this is still the reality for a very large number of Indians.

For many Indians, staying indoors when temperatures rise is simply not a luxury they can afford. There is also a deep inequality in access to cooling. Yes, the fact that almost all of India has been electrified is a genuine achievement. But access to air coolers, let alone air conditioners, is still low and mostly concentrated among people with higher incomes. Fans only do so much when the heat is this brutal.

This is the inequality of heat. People with good incomes can afford coolers and ACs. They can work from home and can avoid the worst hours of the day. But this is a small subset of India.

Remember, more than 40% of Indians are still employed in agriculture, even though agriculture’s share of India’s GDP has consistently declined. These are the real Indians who will be most affected by rising temperatures. Many of the regions most exposed to climatic shocks like El Niño and heatwaves are also among the poorer regions of northern India.

So the people who will be hit the hardest by rising temperatures are the poorest Indians, across regions that are yet to see real prosperity.

Sadly, this is a systemic crisis. Individual actions help, but they are not enough. We need collective action, not just at a country level, but at a global level. Climate change is not an Indian problem but a global problem.

That said, there are still some low-hanging fruits that can start making a difference.

There is a lot of debate and controversy over India’s forest cover and whether it has increased or decreased. But when it comes to cities, we can see the loss of green cover firsthand. Trees are cut to make way for roads, houses, flyovers, and buildings. Whatever few trees remain are often trapped under pavements and concrete. This weakens them. This is one reason why trees often fall even after moderate rains.

If you have space, you can plant native species like neem, moringa, jamun, amla, and curry leaves. These trees have deep roots and can survive better. People often avoid planting trees because they worry that the roots will damage the foundations of their homes. But in many cases, this fear is overstated.

These are small things which help.

But as depressing as it sounds, this problem ultimately needs systemic, collective action at a global level. And judging by the way the world is heading, it is very hard to have hope.

Rising temperatures are a serious challenge. They don’t have easy explanations, and they definitely don’t have easy solutions.

[Ekta Chauhan @ekta2993]

My parents mostly watch Hindi TV news and till I mentioned it today they really did NOT know about the CBSE fiasco.

That is the condition of our nation.

[Dhanesh Gianani @dhanesh500]

Step 1: Tell 2 lakh people to give up their cars
Step 2: Do nothing about the terrible last mile connectivity - metro stations far off from the offices, no metered rickshaws, etc
Step 3: Launch it right as the monsoon hits.
Step 4: Call it a "first-of-its-kind initiative" in the press

Genius.

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

The audacity to defend shoddy construction work with this essay! Do the citizens of Mumbai now have to become steamrollers because contractors couldn’t finish jobs on time?

Because that’s what the BMC is actually telling us when it says the surface will “even out as vehicles ply on it.” They opened the road unfinished and they’re using our cars to do the compaction the contractor was paid to do.

And look at the timeline. The stretch was cleared in 2018. Work started in March 2019, with an original deadline of 24 months. It opened this week, seven years later, at the cost of ₹248 crores for 750 metres of road.

The BMC was so exasperated by the delay that it began fining the contractor ₹25,000 a day from 1 May, then pushed it to ₹1 lakh a day from 12 May. But now they have accepted this half-done road as “the nature of the material.”

This can be settled in an afternoon, because the standards aren’t vague. MoRTH and IRC do not allow a wearing course to deviate more than 5 mm under a 3-metre straightedge, and there’s a roughness index built to measure exactly the rideability the BMC is now defending with adjectives.

If the inspection they keep referring to really found nothing wrong, publish those readings, span by span.

The same mastic asphalt was used to make the Severn and the Forth Road bridges in the UK decades ago. They opened smooth and it has held for thirty years. They managed it there. What stops us managing it here?

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

BJP Supporters Will Defend This As Well. They Are Completely Shameless Fellows.

[Ajay Kamath @ajay43]

The most impressive thing about Sarthak- besides his amazing investigative skills- is how lucid and calm he is. Excellent communicator!

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Maharashtra Govt today is on course to reach the cronyism level of Iraq. Notice almost every demand to Mumbai clubs is about memberships for govt officers or their recommendations.
They hate the “exclusivity” not because it blocks public. But because it blocks them.

[Abhishek Baxi @baxiabhishek]

It took 45 minutes for fire trucks to reach the site in Malviya Nagar today.

But glad we live in Delhi/India... we could order and get Burnol in ten minutes. And, of course, the mortuary van driver took payment via UPI.

[Siddharth's Echelon @SiddharthKG7]

6 astronauts of China are in space right now.

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Absolutely true!

[Kaushik Raj @kaushikrj6]

Umar Khalid returned to Tihar today after 3 days of interim bail for his mother's surgery. Look at the message on his t-shirt! His ideas can never be caged.

[Sanjeev @geniusparadox]

Reminds me of an incident from nearly 20 years ago in Germany. I was on a short project for 6 weeks in a company there. I had made friends at the company and one of the sundays a colleague invited me to his home for lunch. We finished lunch, went for a stroll to the nearby woods and it was time for me to leave at 5 pm.

The earliest available train from the nearest train station back to the village where my hotel was, was at 5:30 pm and we felt we can make it with a commute of 15-20 min to the train station. It was all countryside and single road. Traffic was normal. On course we got behind one mini van which was driving really slow. I was getting anxious as i could miss the train connection.

I asked my colleague “why dont you honk once? Following the van at this pace, i will definitely miss the train”. He said “oh no no! Dont worry we will make the connection. If we dont, then I will drive you to your hotel. But honking would mean i am putting pressure on the driver. And we dont have an emergency. So we shouldn’t do it!”

I was like “you know from where i come from, the only purpose of honking is to put pressure on the driver, and to the extent he gets a heart attack!” 😅😁

We both had a good laugh and I did make my connection. I learnt a valuable lesson that day which has stayed with me.

[Sabeer Bhatia @sabeer]

Newspaper pages are large because newspapers were once taxed by the number of pages they printed. Publishers responded by making pages bigger, and the printing infrastructure outlived the tax.

India faces a similar challenge: legacy laws built for another era. The 1857 Telegraph Act, for example, would likely have prevented me from starting Hotmail in India. If India wants to lead in innovation, it needs a comprehensive overhaul of its legal and regulatory framework.

[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

Just read this story. The rigging is so brazen to favour Adani. This is just the teeny tiny sliver of the tip of the iceberg. The whole economy of the country now runs on patronage to the cronies. Even lower level cronies like Vedanta are getting shafted in the process.

[Mohammed Futurewala @MFuturewala]

Only in Mumbai Metro you will find three bin tops for the waste segregation with a single bin at the bottom..😂😂😂

[Anupam Gupta @b50]

That's that then. IPL over, Vaibhav Wave done. Mandi in market. No major state election, CBSE news cycle almost over. Bigg Boss is still 3-4 months away, how are we going to stay distracted? #MumbaiRains outrage? Even that's become boring.