Karthik KG Ganesan

A personal post from me.. while no one in the Indian cricket team might get to the mark today in Chennai, Ms Savitri Krishnamoorthy,my paternal grandmother hit a 100 * today. She's good for another innings. A moment to celebrate in an otherwise grim year. #interpandemicbaby

@sahilkukreja9 @sajithpai @deepakabbot not an appropriate comparison at all. it only tells you their GSDP is lower than it ought to be an spending power is concentrated !

@sajithpai @deepakabbot Due to >30% unclassified. Comparison might not be right. But see the value adjusted for GSDP. Surprised to see Bihar and UP in top seven and Gujarat at the end. @deepakabbot - Karnataka is above MH

🚨 New UPI State wise Data: I am quite surprised to see Maharashtra on top by a large margin. I always assumed Karanataka would be no1. This includes both p2p and p2m - all states data here state-data-sparkle.lovable.app

@WorldAthletics @WATokyo25 @Taarun_Mehtaa @_manu_j

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@sangram @pranaykotas @paraschopra until you've ripped off 1.4 billion.. we're a big market !

@pranaykotas @paraschopra How long can they keep doing this?

Honest question: why are the big, profit-generating, cash-rich companies in India NOT investing in R&D?

#Opinion | How Delhi can clean its air substantially in three years "We must treat Delhi’s air like a patient in a multi-speciality hospital; it needs coordinated interventions across sectors such as transport, construction and clean cooking, and high-quality, year-round data to assess progress." Writing for the @htTweets, @GhoshArunabha, @KaygeeAtWork, and @Abhishek_Kar_AK outline a 3 year plan to bring Delhi's annual average PM2.5 levels from poor to moderate by 2028 👇 🔗 Read more at hindustantimes.com/opinion/how-de… #AirPollution #AirQuality #Delhi

Apparently the Nijjar Killing is being counted as an (India) assisted death as well #HumorMe. Jokes apart this is stunning statistic 5% deaths in Canada are of the assisted kind. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Time again for my annual thread of mine and my colleagues' work @SFC_India on air quality. As we descend yet again into nuance-free discourse, shouting matches, and "expert" analysis, here's some sober reading that's hopefully helpful (1/n)

Unfortunately this is a terrible terrible use of science and data, coupled with near complete absence of any ethical frame in which science is bring deployed (badly) for public policy recommendations. Which therefore results in an opinion, and not anything more evidentiary, that is devoid of policy merit, scientific rigour and moral justification. What it does, among other things, for example, is to recommend by implication that we should reduce focus on curbing toxic and other pollution from motor vehicles! Doing so two years in a row in the same manner, even if partly masked the second time over, makes it irresponsible, if not worse. Why I say it: Because the opinion, 2 yrs in a row, comes riddled with these absurdities: 1. Using biomass burning data from all over country (vast rural geography +dense urban) to distract away from pollution issues of urbanised dense areas such as Delhi or dirt industrial belts. 2. Confusing actual exposure of people to pollutants with ambient levels of pollution. Ex: vehicular exhaust in your face vs biomass smoke dispersed in open vs biomass burn inhouse. 3. Equating luxury emissions of rich to the suvival essential of poor. 4. Confusing action priorities for indoor pollution and health with outdoor pollution. 5. Trying to suggest a strange one country one priority list solution replacement of airshed specific, pocket specific actions based on different pollution exposures and ambient profiles of cities and other contiguous areas. 6. The absolutely wrong anecdote to start with: the racist nomenclature of 'Asian Brown Cloud' for this black carbon aerosol phenomenon, sensationalist scare mongering publicity of interpreted impact was debunked by globally recognized scientists such as J Srinivasan and S Gadgil as exaggerated unproven raising the fact that substantive bits of the cloud was likely natural phenomenon and not human activity induced. Everyone including UNEP piped down on it after. Lots more to read for anyone online. I could go on and on... And I am only a student of environmental policy making, that the author and I studied at the same 'school': Centre for Science and Environment.

@Vidhi_India @NLIU_official were any of these recorded?

The #Climate and #Ecosystems Team of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and the NLIU Centre for Parliamentary Studies at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal (@NLIU_official ) organised a discussion on “Parliamentary Procedures in Environmental Matters” on 25th September at NLIU campus. The event featured two technical sessions. The first session, led by Debadityo Sinha delved into the understanding of "#Forest" and its and its regulatory evolution in India. The session emphasised that understanding of ecosystems is critical for any environmental matter. The second technical session, led by Shashank Pandey, explored intricacies of the parliamentary process and its application in advancing environmental issues. This was further supported by sharing insights from the team's periodic publication- “The Green Hour”. Following the sessions, the students participated in a parliamentary debate exercise on the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023, allowing them to simulate how parliamentary tools can influence legislative debates on critical environmental issues. The event aimed to emphasise the significance of legislative accountability in environmental governance and to empower students with the knowledge of various parliamentary interventions that can safeguard environmental and other social issues. #Environment #Climate #EnvironmentalAwareness #Conservation #ClimateLaw #Event #Legal #Ecosystems #India #SocialIssues

Convinced that nothing short of the involvement of the #IDF will be needed to strike at the heart of the NCR's air pollution @CAQM_Official @MCD_Delhi you could benefit from that kind of on ground intelligence and planning in addressing stationary, dispersed and concealed sources

The medal tally at the #ParisOlympics2024 is nicely poised. China's resurgence is complete. The US will just about retain their top spot, if their women's basketball team win's the final against hosts France (some match up). This is a rivalry that will continue in the years ahead

when Vinesh Phogat had won her SF, and India was ahead 1-0 against Germany in Field Hockey, I was living through this fantasy of atleast 2 Silver medals for India, that would take us above North Korea in the medal tally. The real world is cruel :(. #ParisOlympics2024

@michaelxpettis what I dont entirely get is, what is the 'incentive' beyond party posts and growth that is on offer to the local officials? surely there has to be some kind of financial devolution that comes their way. Shouldn't that help off-set the debt trap these entities get into ?

13/13 decide which industrial policies it will absorb and which it won't. With that reservation, however, I think Liu's explanation of the structural sources of China's deep imbalances between production and consumption is extremely good and should be widely discussed.

1/13 Very good Foreign Affairs piece by Zongyuan Zoe Liu on the deep structural roots of China's economic imbalances and its consequent reliance on trade surpluses to resolve an excess focus on production relative to consumption. foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-r… via @ForeignAffairs

No pressure today #NeerajChopra - you're the reigning World and Olympic Champion and not a one 'throw' wonder. Throw your PB and if you can exceed it, that's all we can ask of you. If someone else finds the inspiration to exceed that, so be it.

@JioCinema you have to get a set of dedicated neutral commentators for sports and not use syndicated ones. The hockey ones are obnoxious and definitely providing a Britain favouring commentary. The calls on Amit Rohidas were in very poor taste too.

@IWTKQuiz am guessing the Aryamaan: Brahmand ka Yoda joke is an old one ?

Mukesh Khanna has portrayed many iconic roles - he was Bhishma Pitamah in BR Chopra’s Mahabharat. He also portrayed Shaktimaan. But for a short period of time, his production house held the record for the most expensive TV show in India. Aryamaan: Brahmand ka Yoddha was an ambitious Indian version of Star Wars that Bheeshma International, Mukesh Khanna’s production house, tried to create post-Shaktimaan. Each episode was costing the production house upwards of Rs 20 lakhs. It couldn’t sustain the huge production costs and the show had to be scrapped after 52 episodes.

@ITDPIndia really cool stuff.. am curious to know more about the details of how parking limitations will come in place in my hometown... the vehicular traffic increase in ashok nagar and west mambalam, an area which was earlier so nice to walk in, is just insane.

We are excited to work together with CUMTA and other stakeholders in #Chennai towards creating urban #transportation systems that prioritise the needs of the people, with a focus on creating a liveable and inclusive community 🤝🏽

ITDP is proud to have supported @CumtaOfficial in creating the 'Parking Policy' for the #Chennai Metropolitan Area. It has been a valuable learning experience for our team and we look forward to working on the next steps towards implementing the parking management strategies.

@Compostwali - the summer is so hot, I am having to water my daily dump matkas because its drying out before the composting can happen. i suppose it is standard practice?

I know what will solve the air pollution problem in India - if India values every life like #Israel seems to value the hostages that were taken. Right now, India is thinking more like #Hamas - civilian lives are expendable

@chessvaishali and @humpy_koneru deserve a big shout out.. Joint second in the women's tournament. Vaishali specifically - what a champ 5 straight wins and finishing with more outright victories than any of the other players in the fray. As solid a come back as I have seen.

@viditchess has to be mentioned here. He beat @GMHikaru twice in the tourney and those victories were crucial in shaping the leader board at the end. While chess is an individual game, having three guys from your team, almost feels like one is playing for the 'team'. /3

@DGukesh made some phenomenal plays and in the early stages, choosing the queen exchange suggested he was nudging towards a draw even when the engine suggested he had better options but what a call and fortune favoured the brave ultimately @rpraggnachess your time will come /2

Every morning in the last two weeks was waking to the #candidates2024 results and seeing where the prodigious Indian talent was in the rankings and how their games fared. Finally decided to burn the midnight oil and watch the final round. Totally worth every bit /1