Abhiroop Bhattasali

One hour and ten minutes under the stars with the M20 Trifid Nebula. This target is a personal favorite because it showcases three different types of nebulae in a single frame: emission (red), reflection (blue), and absorption (the dark dust lanes).

Just 14 hours after planting this news, they have now increased the import duty on gold to 10%. Now tell me, how is anyone supposed to trust this government?

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Remember Mukesh Chandrakar, exposed 150cr Road scam, found dead a week later. Now journalist Sarita Patel pays the price. Went missing, found a week later Hands, legs tied, assailants were attempting to BURN her alive but locals saved her. New India's reward for Journalists!

The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) issued a show cause notice to Vinesh Phogat accusing her of causing damage to Indian wrestling’s reputation etc. She is the first Indian woman wrestler who reached Olympic final by defeating world's no one wrestler in 50kg Yui Susaki. She achieved it after spending almost a year on road when those world wrestlers were preparing in the best environment for years. The WFI has issued this notice, in time when she tried to comeback in time for major international events, including the Asian Games which will lead to 2028 Olympics. She didn’t just fight opponents in the ring. Outside she fought the neo-fascist army of the 21st century, shielding a sexual predator of their own clan. Her fight was always against the system that wanted to silence her before, and even today. That’s what makes her bigger than just a wrestler. Vinesh is a winner in my eyes. Screw the rest!

🚨Narendra Modi >Avoid foreign tourism >Avoid gold purchases >Prefer work from home >Use public transport & EVs >Avoid destination weddings >Stop importing foreign goods >Reduce petrol/diesel consumption >Farmers should reduce use of chemical fertilisers In short, We are cooked

Trinamool supporter caught in Bengal faking an injury? No, Times of India, Republic, Pune Mirror, ABP News and others misreported an incident from Bihar's Muzaffarpur as from Bengal. Find out more in this #FactCheck by @prantik_ali altnews.in/tmc-supporter-…

Cosmic lightsaber. The Hubble Space Telescope once captured a photo of a newborn star shooting out two bright jets out into space. Much more energetic than a sci-fi lightsaber, these narrow beams are blasting across space at over 100,000 miles per hour. This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away but rather inside our own Milky Way. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4nb7L5B

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Western countries acquired land, cut trees & industrialised before the climate activists were born. Now when it’s India’s turn to build infrastructure, these guys have woken up. LOL

Hello @PetroleumMin, @IndiaToday is claiming, Petrol and diesel prices are likely to be hiked by ₹4–5 per litre and Domestic LPG rates may go up by ₹50 per cylinder according to Govt Sources. Please Fact Check your Fact Check. 🫪

The price of a 19 kg commercial LPG cylinder has been hiked by ₹993, effective today. In Delhi, the new cost stands at ₹3,071.50 per cylinder.

To Understand #TheGreatNicobarProject, watch Kunal Kamra's 22-minute video, "GoodBye Nicobar." The Great Nicobar Project will destroy not just 850,000 trees, but approximately 10 million. The government's sole aim is to benefit Adani.

Almost 500km/h for a production car! This is INSANE engineering🔥 A pure electric car company… beating a marquee brand like @Bugatti - a company that’s 100 years older to @BYDGlobal

The 2001 change inflated the numbers. The 2023 change cleared the ground. Together they form a complete project. First make the destruction invisible, then make it legal. India today is one of the hottest regions on earth. Heatwaves that once struck the arid northwest now reach coastal cities, places that had never known this kind of heat. In 2024, India recorded its hottest year since 1901. This is not a mystery. Forests cool land. They hold moisture in the soil and release it back into the air as coolness. A living forest is not just a carbon sink. It is a cooling system, a water system, a climate system embedded in the ground beneath your feet. When you destroy forests, land heats up. When you destroy forests and pretend you haven't, no corrective action is ever taken.  The data says everything is fine. The policy says everything is fine. Meanwhile the temperature rises. Deforestation is not the only reason India is burning. Global warming, reckless urbanisation, failing monsoons. These are all real and all compounding. But forests were India's partial buffer against all of them. And that buffer was first faked on paper, then stripped away in law. It is worth noting that Kerala, Karnataka, parts of the northeast, have seen genuine recovery of forest cover. But that recovery reflects the will of state governments, not central policy. It happened despite Delhi, not because of it. There is a particular kind of governance that does not solve problems. It solves the appearance of problems. It changes the definition of drought instead of finding water. It changes the definition of poverty instead of reducing it. It changes the definition of a forest instead of saving one. In 2001, the Forest Survey of India changed what a forest means. In 2023, the BJP changed what a forest deserves. Between these two acts lies two decades of rising heat, disappearing biodiversity, and a population told that its natural inheritance was intact while it was being steadily consumed. A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest. And a government that cannot tell the difference, or worse, one that can and doesn't care, is not a government that will save you from the heat it helped create.

Look at this map. Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine. And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet. The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers. What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades. But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions. A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest. A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is. You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one. In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said. It chose the numbers. The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi. All forests, on paper. The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped.  The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion.  It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning. The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency.  I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to. This is not a technicality. This is the con. It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement. For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant. They did nothing. Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it. The BJP is different. When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it. The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real.  Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated.  The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally. CONT++

A boy named Mohammad, single handedly cleaned an entire stretch near the river in Gujarat using his own hands. It's a matter of shame for our municipality 😭

The woman in Mumbai objected to power parade by BJP on road, Shaheen Bagh & Farmer protests were against the people in power for unjust laws, Political Illiterates don't understand the basic difference between power parade & protesting for fundamental rights.

The first time I looked out through the Cupola, it unfolded just like this. The MMOD (Micro Meteoroid Orbital Debris) covers were still closed, and as they slowly lifted, they revealed the paradise we call Earth, quietly, almost reverently. It’s hard to put that moment into words, but this song comes closest to capturing what it felt like. #shux #space #shubhanshushukla #india #axiom4

#BREAKING Donald Trump just posted content calling India a "hellhole" In a clear racial attack, trump describes Indian and Chinese immigrants as "gangsters with laptops" who have "stepped on our flag" Trump in his lengthy note was reacting to arguments in the US Supreme Court on birthright citizenship He attacks the idea of automatic citizenship for children born in the US to non-citizens, calling for a national referendum instead of leaving it to the courts In the post, he claims the current system is being exploited through “birth tourism” and welfare abuse, and argues that the Constitution is outdated in the context of modern migration