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[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

"The world is very, very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don't look very much, do they? Scan the ground in front of them so they can walk, but they don't really look at things incredibly well, with an intensity. I do, and I've always known that."

~ David Hockney

[Vipra @vipra65]

@meditatingmuse @CMODelhi @LtGovDelhi @delhitrees Oh no

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

Delhi Gymkhana takeover didn't start now but during Covid: Chronology of how the govt came to ‘clean up’ but left a bigger mess
https://t.co/P9KMKs12Wp #

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

After almost every tragedy comes a report of a staff crunch. And this is during a time of rising joblessness.

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

The blithe disregard for trees never fails to shock and disappoint, especially in a sweltering metropolis like Mumbai.

[Vipra @vipra65]

Why give up the em dash, or anything else, just because AI uses or overuses it?
After all, AI learnt to use it from the masters.

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I owe my love for the em dash at least partly to my first reading of “Moby-Dick” in my 20s.

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

Vauhini Vara on why the em dash isn’t just functional — it’s profound.
https://t.co/Giq8Vso4Pz

[Vipra @vipra65]

Because ...
trees need land that Gurgaon won't spare,
planting trees isn't a big project for a big contractor,
tunnels and underground parking mean big trees can't be planted anyway,
and probably more reasons too

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

One word is missing from this plan to tackle urban warming: trees.

[www.sidin.co @sidin]

I am fascinated by why people believe in the things they do. And it is remarkable how many times you find people who either inherited their views from their parents, or picked a side because someone slighted them somewhere.

Some of the strongest positions have the weakest priors.

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

@sanjay0864 Imagine being offended by Biryani and not by Asaram visiting Ram Mandir.

[Vipra @vipra65]

@tavleen_singh Coaching classes may not become irrelevant. Coaching and private tutoring is the norm even for students from expensive private schools.

UNESCO describes it as "an increasingly global phenomenon".
https://t.co/QeO0rPoiiz

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

BKC's last-mile problem has stumped Mumbai for years. MMRDA thinks pod taxis (small automated cabins gliding above traffic) are the answer.

But the math gives experts pause: at full capacity, the system moves 48K people a day. BKC sees up to 6 lakh.

Is this a genuine transit solution or an expensive experiment that solves too little? @sabahvir asked experts:
https://t.co/wLOnX6hcZr via @IndianExpress

[Vipra @vipra65]

@RitikaChopra__ It's a masterstroke: imagine the building cost, the job creation, the wealth creation, the operating cost, the ticket cost,...

[Siddharth Singh @siddharth3]

Everywhere in the world: here are some nice clean unobstructed footpaths from the metro station to your home and office.

Our city planners: this is too complicated a problem to solve. This simply cannot be solved. I’m stumped. How about pod taxis? Maybe flying drone taxis?

[Joy @Joydas]

Nothing against CJP protest. Everyone has right to protest. But they are lucky to get kid treatment. This is Haryana. All over India, NSUI and IYC is protesting for same issues and getting lathi charged. You can support anyone but don’t say why is Opposition parties not on ground

[Aaditya Thackeray @AUThackeray]

Forget everything else, but the fact that this company can submit old certificates and get a tender!!!

I’ve always said, the BJP is great at social media, media, advertisements… but ZERO in running governments!

Why shouldn’t Dharmendra Pradhan be sacked?
Why shouldn’t the officers in charge of this dept be suspended?

Apart from the scam, this is peak inability to run the government.

Which foreign investor or company would want to come into such an environment created by the bjp regime?

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Hey @airtelindia please do not pester customers if they browse your app. I barely looked at a section or two, when your call centre calls up to hardsell the product. Customers appreciate being left alone and free to browse.

[Bhaumik Gowande @bhaumikgowande]

The hostility and opposition towards BRT has always been about power politics.
BRT reallocates scarce road space from a minority travelling in private cars to a majority travelling by public transport. For some, the idea that a bus full of workers should move faster than a luxury SUV is simply unacceptable.

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

Modi government forced a 69-year old Assamese Muslim woman with failing memory into Bangladesh.

A kind family found her lost and confused on the streets of Dhaka. She does not even speak Bangla.

Read about the incredible cruelty of Modi's India in @ZamanRokibuz_'s report.

https://t.co/w8W7ie2HKB

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

This recalls Arendt on Eichmann.

Perfectly normal, regular bureaucrats and soldiers must have carried this incredibly cruelty to an old woman.

[Vipra @vipra65]

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I wish, as educators, we could look you in the eye and say what the government will not, that we are sorry for all the exam-related stress India causes you. Exams are stressful, and the latest NEET and CBSE scandals will add to the stress by diminishing trust in the system

[Pratap Bhanu Mehta @pbmehta]

For "Exam Warriors." Here is how the Prime Minister will help you