Talkin' Tree

Someone with an opinion on just about everything..
Unreserved most times, Regular..
Trying to figure where UN Starship Enterprise is hurtling?
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[Talkin' Tree @talkintree]

@PrakashKona1967 @mid_day Woh kehte hain na ki kharbuja ko dekhkar kharbuja rang badalta hai.
Oh..the invigorating company of fellow Indians is so stimulating that latent genetic behaviour imbibed over 1000s of yrs of evolution,Just has to express itself.Nothing like commotion,disorder,chaos,jumping lines

[Talkin' Tree @talkintree]

@mid_day Chutiyas will remain so,irrespective of time,locationcountry or continent. The genes await the right moment to come to germinate and fructify.

[Mid Day @mid_day]

An Indian grocery store's grand opening in New Jersey drew unexpectedly massive crowds after advertising parval (pointed gourd) for $1.99. The deeply discounted price attracted hundreds of shoppers, leading to overcrowding and chaotic scenes as customers rushed to grab the limited-stock vegetable.

[ameet singh @ameetgsingh]

The diabetes and malnourished stunting capital of the world is India

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

A yellowing newspaper clipping from @the_hindu from September 1979 recalls a landmark moment in the history of the Indian Foreign Service.

This report records the Supreme Court’s judgment in the case brought by Ambassador C.B. Muthamma after she was denied promotion to Grade I of the Indian Foreign Service despite an outstanding record of service.

While the immediate issue before the Court was her non-promotion and seniority, the judgment went much further. The Court expressed deep concern over service rules that discriminated against women, observing that “the stain of sex discrimination” should be removed without waiting for further litigation.

Some of its words remain strikingly relevant even today. The Court spoke of the “disturbing thought” that prejudice against women could still pervade government service decades after Independence, and reminded the Government that equality of opportunity is a constitutional guarantee, not a concession.

I joined the Indian Foreign Service only a few years before this judgment. For women officers of my generation, it marked a turning point. We owed a debt of gratitude to C.B. Muthamma, whose determination to contest the injustice done to her helped transform the professional landscape for those who followed.

Progress in institutions rarely comes by accident. It comes because individuals of courage insist that merit, not prejudice, must determine opportunity. Ambassador Muthamma’s case stands as one of those defining moments when constitutional values prevailed over entrenched convention.

Nearly half a century later, this fragile newspaper clipping reminds us that lasting institutional reform often begins with one person refusing to accept unfairness in silence.

[sushma date @sushmadate]

चौशिंगा or the 4 horned antelope has been recently documented on Pune's tekdis by @ArnavGandhe and his wildlife colleagues!
चौशिंगा and भेकर (barking deer) used to be seen commonly on #VetalTekdi before it got 'developed'. I have seen a भेकर here myself in 2006.

Meanwhile, according to our politicians and PMC, Vetal tekdi is neither a hill nor forest. As per the PMC affidavit in our legal case, the tekdi doesn't qualify as a forest because there are no monkeys or deer here.

( One of those moments when one doesn't whether to weep or laugh) 😔

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

So the government paraded senior executives of top automobile companies to do a press conference to counter the growing criticism against ethanol blending. Just zoom in and look at their faces; it's as if they are held captive.

- Bajaj Auto Circle Head Manpreet Singh,
- TVS Senior Vice President (Corporate Affairs) Prashad Krishnan,
- Toyota Kirloskar Motor Country Head and Executive Vice President (Corporate Affairs and Governance) Vikram Gulati,
- Maruti Suzuki Senior Executive Officer Rahul Bharti,
- Hyundai India representative Puneet Anand,
- Hero Moto representative Ashutosh Verma.

[Govind Pratap Singh | GPS @govindprataps12]

हरियाणा के महेंद्रगढ़ के संतलाल को गर्मी में सर्दी लगती है और सर्दी में गर्मी लगती है.

संतलाल को कोई बीमारी नहीं है.

संतलाल का केस ऐसा अजूबा हैं, जो सर्दी में सुबह 5 बजे से ही नहाने लगते हैं, जबकि गर्मी में उन्हें कंबल ओढ़ते हैं.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In 1901, divers pulled a lump of corroded bronze out of a two thousand year old shipwreck. It took the next century to understand what it was, and the answer broke the timeline of human history.

It's called the Antikythera Mechanism, and it is the oldest known computer on earth.

It was built by the ancient Greeks, around 100 BC, and it should not exist. Nothing else of its sophistication would appear anywhere in the world for more than a thousand years after it...

It was found by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera, in the wreck of a trading ship that had sunk in the first century BC, surrounded by bronze statues and pottery.

The corroded fragments looked like nothing at first, and sat largely ignored in a museum in Athens. Only over the following decades, and especially with modern X-ray and CT scanning in our own century, did researchers finally see inside it.

What they found was a machine. Behind its bronze face was a system of at least thirty interlocking precision gears, cut and arranged with a sophistication that would not be matched until the geared astronomical clocks of medieval Europe, well over a thousand years later.

It was, in the words of the team that studied it, a mechanical computer that worked by turning astronomical theory into bronze...

And it did extraordinary things. You turned a hand crank on the side, and the mechanism calculated the positions of the sun, the moon, and the five planets the Greeks knew. It tracked the phases of the moon. It predicted solar and lunar eclipses years in advance. It even displayed the four-year cycle of the ancient Olympic Games. A person standing in the ancient world could set this device to a date and watch the heavens be calculated in front of them, by gears, by hand.

Roughly a third of the original survives, in 82 corroded fragments. We still do not know who designed it, or how a civilization without anything resembling industrial machinery achieved this level of precision engineering. What is certain is that it was not a one-off accident. A device this refined implies a tradition behind it, generations of knowledge and earlier attempts that have been lost completely.

The Antikythera Mechanism is proof of how much the ancient world knew, and how much of what human beings have achieved has simply vanished without a trace, leaving us to stumble on a single piece of it at the bottom of the sea...

[Priyanka Bharti @priyanka2bharti]

पिताजी को ये नहीं पता कि भारत के बाहर रुपया नहीं चलता। हर बार पूछते हैं, “बेटा, पैसा है न? कुछ पैसा भेज दें?” मैं उनसे कहती हूँ, “पापा, स्कॉलरशिप मिली है। यहाँ यूरो चलता है, रुपया नहीं। दूसरी करेंसी है।” फिर वह पूछते हैं, “वो क्या होता है?” यह सुनकर मैं सोच में पड़ गई कि उन्हें “यूरो” नहीं पता। फिर ध्यान आया कि पिताजी ने पढ़ाया, लेकिन वे अभाव के कारण स्वयं पढ़ नहीं पाए। माँ ने भी पढ़ाया, लेकिन वे भी पढ़ नहीं पाईं, लेकिन उन्होंने अपनी बेटी को इस लायक बना दिया कि उनकी बेटी दूसरी करेंसी समझती है, दूसरे देश अकेले जाती है, पेपर प्रस्तुत करती है, अपना काम दुनिया को दिखाती है, दूसरे देशों में भी आत्मविश्वास के साथ पढ़ाई करती है और आत्मसम्मान के साथ सर उठा कर जीती है।

एक ग़रीब किसान परिवार, जिसके दादा-परदादा ने खेती की, पिता ने टेम्पो चलाया, और माँ भी पढ़ी-लिखी नहीं थीं; जिसके पूरे खानदान में दूर-दूर तक अपने राज्य से दूसरे राज्य जाना भी लगभग असंभव-सा रहा हो, उस परिवार के लिए उस परिवार की बेटी का दूसरे देश जाकर पढ़ना एक सुनहरे सपने जैसा ही है।

सावित्रीबाई और महात्मा फुले का आभार, जिन्होंने हम महिलाओं के लिए स्कूल खोले; वरना जड़ सामाजिक व्यवस्था शायद हमें घर के किचन से बाहर भी न निकलने देती। बाबा साहेब का आभार, जिन्होंने संविधान के माध्यम से समानता के अवसर सुनिश्चित किए। कर्पूरी जी, जगदेव बाबू, लालू जी,बी. पी. मंडल, वी. पी. सिंह और अर्जुन सिंह, राम मनोहर लोहिया सभी का आभार, जिन्होंने पिछड़ों के लिए विश्वविद्यालयों के रास्ते खोले। हर महानायक और महानायिका को मेरा प्रणाम, क्योंकि यदि वे न होते, तो शायद हर साल नई भाषा सीखना, नई संस्कृति को समझना , अलग अलग कोर्स करना या अपने शोध-कार्य को अकादमिक दुनिया के सामने प्रस्तुत करना संभव न हो पाता।

शिक्षा सिर्फ़ आपके लिए हज़ारों रास्ते नहीं खोलती, वह आपके और आपके पूरे समाज के लिए लाखों अवसर भी तैयार करती है। शिक्षा भेदभाव नहीं करती, इसलिए शिक्षित होना हर वंचित की पहली ज़िम्मेदारी है, क्योंकि यही शिक्षा से आप साबित करते हैं कि “मेरिट” खोखला है। समान अवसर सभी को मिले, तो हर इंसान बेहतर कर सकता है, बेहतर बन सकता है और दुनिया को कुछ बेहतर दे सकता है। शिक्षा आपके भीतर conscience का निर्माण करती है और obedience को ख़त्म करती है। इसलिए शिक्षा हमेशा से वर्चस्ववादी ताकतों के लिए ख़तरा रही है। शिक्षा के हथियार से ख़ुद को लैस करिए, हर प्रकार का वर्चस्व अपने आप धराशायी हो जाएगा।

बाबा साहेब के शब्दों में “शिक्षित बनें, संगठित रहें, संघर्ष करें।”

तस्वीर लिथुआनिया के राष्ट्रपति ऑफ़िस की है।

[Mohini Maheshwari @MohiniWealth]

Bhutan said No thank you to India's E20 petrol! 😂

They told India, Our small tanks and pipes not ready for this strong ethanol mix. Need big big upgrades first!

World's only carbon-negative country is like: We love clean air more than fast fuel!

Baby Bhutan just wants to stay super green, no rush! 🌲🇧🇹

What a cute eco king! 😂

[Talkin' Tree @talkintree]

@DietDrsayajirao This pose will take anyone places in India if luck also favors you. Yeh hee toh chahte hain sab.. Boss ho ya spouse, neta ho ya babu, gunda ya thulla..

[Dr.Sayajirao Gaikwad @DietDrsayajirao]

If you can comfortably hold a deep squat (Malasana) for 2 minutes, your hips, ankles, spine and future self will thank you. One of the most underrated mobility exercises for healthy aging.
Here are 7 reasons why
1) Restores hip mobility

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

On July 1, the World Bank reclassified Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and the Philippines from lower-middle-income to upper-middle-income economies.

​Their latest GDP per capita stands as follows:

​Vietnam: $4,970
​Philippines: $4,850
​Sri Lanka: $4,670

​India transitioned into a lower-middle-income country in 2009 and has remained in that category for nearly two decades. Our current national GDP per capita is approximately $2,800.

​Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu has consistently focused on balancing economic growth with social welfare. By the end of this year, the state is projected to reach a GDP per capita of around $6,500- the highest among India’s large states.

​As a state in India, Tamil Nadu has already surpassed the average income levels of these newly elevated upper-middle-income countries.

​India’s national average of $2,800 masks more than it reveals. On one side, you have states like Tamil Nadu at $6,500; on the other, states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar hover around $1400 and $950, respectively. Consequently, India remains a country with stark regional inequality while still being relatively poor overall.

​Furthermore, as noted recently, Tamil Nadu and Kerala maintain some of the lowest internal inequality rates in the nation.

​That is why I keep repeating this point: the next 15 years represent a critical, "make-or-break" economic window for India.

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

If someone told you a mosquito-filled, open drain in Bengaluru has now become a clean green public space where children play and sparrows chirp… would you believe it?

This is not just a makeover, it’s a transformation rooted in 500 years of forgotten history, engineering, community effort and political will.

Watch this video to see how an entire waterway went from foul smell to fresh air and why this could change every Indian city next.

Credits: modfoundation.blr on IG

#Bengaluru #UrbanTransformation #SustainableCities #GreenCities #PublicSpaces #UrbanPlanning #CaseStudiesofChange

[Bengaluru, K100 project, Rajakaluve revival, urban transformation, sustainable infrastructure]

[Prof. Varsha Eknath Gaikwad @VarshaEGaikwad]

दोन महिन्यांत महामार्गावर खड्डे... आणि मुख्यमंत्री म्हणतात, ही तर टेस्टिंग!

कोट्यवधी रुपये खर्चून बांधलेल्या मिसिंग लिंकवर अवघ्या दोन महिन्यांत खड्डे पडतात... पण त्याची जबाबदारी स्वीकारण्याऐवजी मुख्यमंत्री म्हणतात पहिल्या पावसानंतर रस्त्याची टेस्ट होते.
म्हणजे आता प्रवाश्यांचा जीव आणि प्रवास हा टेस्टिंग लॅब झाला आहे का? आणि पहिल्या पावसात महामार्गावर टेस्टिंग होते तर या काळात टोल वसुली थांबली का?

खड्डे पडले तर ती टीका नाही, तर वास्तव आहे. करदात्यांच्या पैशातून उभारलेल्या महामार्गावर दोन महिन्यांत खड्डे पडत असतील, तर प्रश्न विचारणे हा नागरिकांचा अधिकार आहे.
दुर्दैव म्हणजे, अपयश मान्य करण्याऐवजी सरकार टीका करणाऱ्यांनाच दोष देत आहे.
असो..रस्ते मजबूत नाहीत, पण सरकारचे स्पष्टीकरण मात्र मजबूत आहे!

[Talkin' Tree @talkintree]

@bsdhanoa Oh taan theek siga Janaab, par ohdhey vastey jedi haddi hondhi ae, woh madaja prolapsed state vich siga..

[Abhishek Bhatnagar @abhishek]

My honest opinion on Ethanol E20 policy implementation which has make citizens of our country a joke 🤡😡

[ABP News @ABPNews]

"Small fry है" : सायोनी घोष पर डोला सेन का ये बयान चौंका देगा!

'Inside Out with Megha Prasad' में TMC सांसद डोला सेन EXCLUSIVE

यहां देखें पूरी बातचीत : https://t.co/Ofi0zFQ4Bt

#InsideOutWithMeghaPrasad #TMC #WestBengal #MamataBanerjee #ABPNews | @MeghaSPrasad

[Gaurav Kaushal @gaurav7kaushal]

IAS vs BJP Leader: The Ultimate Power Clash