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Shivam Vij
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Hoping to persuade not polarise.
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Good morning from the world’s most polluted city.
November 18, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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We don’t hear much about air pollution in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh because these states don’t have enough air pollution meters and the ones that are there seem to present a rather optimistic picture.
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Name a single politician who you think has shown genuine concern about air pollution in Delhi and north India. Name one.
November 17, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Post a photo you took (no description) to bring some Zen to the timeline
November 17, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Dibakar Banerjee: ‘I'm an Indian; an Indian can be everything, I can be Hindu & Muslim, Bengali & Kashmiri'

www.moneycontrol.com/entertainmen...
www.moneycontrol.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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How to listen to politicians. (And others.)

From TS Eliot’s play, The Cocktail Party.
November 17, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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Did Elon Musk tweak the algorithm of X to help Donald Trump win the 2024 US Presidential election? Discuss.
November 17, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Shocking how many schools in Delhi don’t have air purifiers, both public and private schools.

#LetMeBreathe #AirPollution #AirPollutionDelhi #Delhi
November 17, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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The UN has now formally found Israel's genocide "consistent with genocide", including the use of weaponized starvation.

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UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war
NEW YORK (14 November 2024) – Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palest...
www.ohchr.org
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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“No way to prevent this,” says only roadway where this regularly happens
CAUTION High Crash Roadway
November 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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November 16, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Incredible how common this has become

Indian family froze to death crossing the Canada-U.S. border, a perilous trip becoming more common - www.thehindu.com/news/interna...
Indian family froze to death crossing the Canada-U.S. border
Tragic tale of Indian family's fatal journey across U.S.-Canada border exposes harsh realities of human smuggling.
www.thehindu.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Fat people are paid less for the same job as thin people. The least talked about form of discrimination. Fatphobia and fat shaming is considered part of for the course in India.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...
The obesity pay gap is worse than previously thought
It affects men as well as women, and is wider for the well-educated
www.economist.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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On Wednesday, I found a window of drier weather that would allow me to at least do a tiny bit of birding, but the rain came back unexpectedly. Defeated, I was leaving the reserve and almost missed this cold, wet Barred Owl. #originalcontent #birds #photography 📷 (more in alt-text)
Barred Owl poised on a low branch with back toward the camera and face turned over the shoulder to look at the photographer. When I first stopped the car, the owl was looking away from me, but I waited until I was rewarded with this quick glance. The round head of the owl looks a bit wet and unkempt and features large black eyes and a yellow beak. If you zoom in, you can see raindrops and beads of water on the feathers. The bird is called a barred owl because of the streaks on its front, but we can only see the back in this photo which features rich brown feathers with white tips. The background is dismal with gray skies and bare branches. The owl might not have felt miserable, but s/he looked it.
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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I hadn't seen any barn owls since summer, so I was very happy to spot this cutie the other day.

#birds #owls 📷 🪶
A barn owl resting in a tree with yellow leaves.
November 15, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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it appears a lot of people are enjoying the experience of microblogging without getting angry replies from a racist robot
November 15, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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What is common between the rape and murder of a woman doctor in a Kolkata hospital and a fire in a Jhansi hospital that killed ten new born babies? It’s the lack of investment in health infrastructure. Infra to create safe spaces for women doctors or check fire safety.
November 16, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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TMC councillor Sushanta Ghosh was sitting outside his house in Kolkata when a man walked up to him and tried to shoot him. The gun malfunctioned and the man was caught while trying to escape.

Something very Bengali about this :)

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Attempt to shoot him fails, TMC councillor says: ‘Will not spare anyone’
TMC councillor Sushanta Ghosh was sitting outside his house in Kolkata when a man walked up to him and tried to shoot him. The gun malfunctioned and the man was caught while trying to escape.
indianexpress.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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November 15, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Look who showed up to party at Mar-a-Lago.
November 15, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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My son’s school is not your church.
November 15, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Update: His health guy doesn't believe in medical science. His law guy is a sex trafficker. His intelligence gal is a Russian asset.

You're all caught up.
November 15, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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The end is nigh: readers prefer poems written by ChatGPT over those by Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and Emily Dickinson.

english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Readers prefer ChatGPT poems over Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath
In a new study, participants with no expert knowledge in poetry were also unable to distinguish whether the verses were created by a person or a machine
english.elpais.com
November 15, 2024 at 4:39 AM