Shivam Vij
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Shivam Vij
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Good morning from the world’s most polluted city.
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.
Name a single politician who you think has shown genuine concern about air pollution in Delhi and north India. Name one.
Post a photo you took (no description) to bring some Zen to the timeline
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
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How to listen to politicians. (And others.)

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

#LetMeBreathe #AirPollution #AirPollutionDelhi #Delhi
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“No way to prevent this,” says only roadway where this regularly happens
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
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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)
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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 📷 🪶
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it appears a lot of people are enjoying the experience of microblogging without getting angry replies from a racist robot
Unfortunately there is a broad consensus among most political parties, bureaucrats, technocrats and even economists that infrastructure only means highways, airports, ports, and some more airports. Education and health are seen as wasteful expenditure, not investment.
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.
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Look who showed up to party at Mar-a-Lago.