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700 police cadets pass out today from APTS Chunar after a magnificent display of passing out parade held around the ramparts of chunar fort…

Honorary starter Gary Player (90) played in his first Masters in 1957. Back then: - The winner got $8,750 - Tom Watson was seven years old - Fred Ridley was four - Queen Elizabeth II was five years into her reign - Dwight D. Eisenhower was the US president - Harold Macmillan was the PM - Elvis Presley was at No.1 with "All Shook Up"

Only kids from the 1990s will understand this

This is the reason why I like being alone…

Veteran news anchor Sarla Maheshwari ji has passed away at 71.

MTV officially shut down its 24-hour music channels yesterday. They ended their final broadcast with 'Video killed the radio star' by The Buggles, the very first video broadcasted by MTV on August 1st, 1981.

From Mutiny to Revolt by William R. Pinch 📘 The first history to demonstrate the crucial importance of women, gender, honour, and humiliation in the Mutiny-Revolt of 1857. cup.org/3L9G0LR

Veeru, you will always be iconic. 🤍 Dharmendra (1935 - 2025)

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings. He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why? Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself… 🧵

1966 :: Asrani During Student Days In FTII #OmShanti

@thinkingwest Battle of Tours, 732 AD

What battle was most consequential for Western civilization?

#PahalgamTerrorAttack Justice is Served. Jai Hind!

#RIP Manoj Kumar passed away aged 87 है प्रीत जहाँ की रीत सदा मैं गीत वहाँ के गाता हूँ भारत का रहने वाला हूँ भारत की बात सुनाता हूँ

Remembering Val Kilmer, whose indelible cinematic mark spanned genres and generations. RIP Iceman.

“दर्द से तेरे कोई ना तड़पा, आँख किसी की ना रोई ..वहां कौन है तेरा मुसाफिर जाएगा कहाँ"

"He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because "Reading is backward immortality." Umberto Eco

So, finally the 'India State of Forest Report 2023' by @ForestSurvey is out today in 2 volumes consisting of 796 pages. Some quick observations: 1. India's forest cover stands at 7,15,342.61 km²,ie 21.76% of the geo area. Including tree cover outside recorded forests, this rises to 25.17% (1,12,014.34 km²). While a slight increase is observed since 2021, regional variations are important. 2. India's forests play a vital role in climate change mitigation, storing approximately 7,285.5 Mt of carbon. Soil is the largest reservoir (4,012 Mt), followed by above-ground biomass (2,374.4 Mt), remaining in below-ground mass, deadwood, and litter. This highlights the importance of natural forests over our fantasy of plantations with no focus on undergrowth. 3. Significant declines were seen in M.P. (-612.41 km²), Karnataka (-459.36 km²), & Ladakh (-159.26 km²). Over the last decade (2013-2023), Arunachal (-1,085 km²), Mizoram (-987.7 km²), & Nagaland (-794 km²) have faced the largest losses. 3. Mangrove forests declined by 7.43 km², with Gujarat (-36.39 km², esp Kutch alone -61.14 km²) and Andaman (-4.65 km²) reporting the highest losses. Andhra (+13.01 km²) & Maharashtra (+12.39 km²) showed gains. 4. Forest Fires: Between November '23 and June '24, 34,562.33 km² of forests were affected by fires. Andhra Pradesh (5,287 km²), Maharashtra (4,095 km²), and Telangana (3,983 km²) reported the highest areas. Increases in fire incidents were alarming, especially in Himachal Pradesh (14-fold) and Uttarakhand (4-fold). Districts like Nainital, Garhwal, and Shimla entered the top 20 for forest fires. The significant rise in incidents in these regions raises compelling questions about the underlying causes. Could this be attributed to climate change, monitoring, or something else? 5. B/w 2011-2021, India lost 30,808 km² of open & scrub forests alongside 14,073 km² of moderately dense forests and 1,816 km² of dense forests to "non-forest" uses. The report mentions carbon sequestration potential of 406.05 MT of carbon from these degraded lands but is silent on non-forest uses. . In my understanding, these areas are already home to some of the country’s most significant engineering projects—mines, highways, and strategic developments of national importance—and many are being planned or approved following the latest amendments to the Forest Conservation Act. Yet, despite this acknowledgment, FSI holds up a mirror to our collective failures. Carbon Sequestration Potential or Carbon Sink lost—ultimately, it amounts to the same. The recent amendments to the Forest Conservation Act in 2023 are a disaster and the number is only going to increase significantly in coming years. 6. The Western Ghats lost 58 km² of forest over the last decade. Nilgiris district lost 123 km², while Uttara Kannada gained 160km². The ESA notification is pending since 2013. 7. Agroforestry-related tree cover in urban regions has declined over the last decade. Lakshadweep (-66.56 km²), D&N/Daman and Diu (-36.2 km²), & Delhi (-33.48 km²) are the most affected. While the report indicates a net gain in national forest cover, this marginal increase masks concerning regional forest losses, particularly in biodiversity-rich areas such as the Western Ghats, North-East, Open Natural Ecosystems, Islands and other natural ecosystems. These findings raise urgent concerns about the effectiveness of current conservation efforts, policies and the government's priorities. #forest #FSI #environment

Akira Kurosawa on how he dealt with his Assistant Directors who didn't understand the script of 'Rashōmon' (1950): "'Rashōmon' (1950) would be my testing ground, the place where I could apply the ideas and wishes growing out of my silent film research. To provide the symbolic background atmosphere, I decided to use the Akutagawa “In a Grove” story, which goes into the depths of the human heart as if with a surgeon’s scalpel, laying bare its dark complexities and bizarre twists. These strange impulses of the human heart would be expressed through the use of an elaborately fashioned play of light and shadow. In the film, people going astray in the thicket of their hearts would wander into a wider wilderness, so I moved the setting to a large forest. I selected the virgin forest of the mountains surrounding Nara, and the forest belonging to the Komyoji temple outside Kyoto. There were only eight characters, but the story was both complex and deep. The script was done as straightforwardly and briefly as possible, so I felt I should be able to create a rich and expansive visual image in turning it into a film. Fortunately, I had as cinematographer a man I had long wanted to work with, Miyagawa Kazuo; I had Hayasaka to compose the music and Matsuyama as art director. The cast was Mifune Toshiro, Mori Masayuki, Kyo Machiko, Shimura Takashi, Chiaki Minoru, Ueda Kichijiro, Kato Daisuke and Honma Fumiko; all were actors whose temperaments I knew, and I could not have wished for a better line-up. Moreover, the story was supposed to take place in summer, and we had, ready to hand, the scintillating midsummer heat of Kyoto and Nara. With all these conditions so neatly met, I could ask nothing more. All that was left was to begin the film. However, one day just before the shooting was to start, the three assistant directors Daiei had assigned me came to see me at the inn where I was staying. I wondered what the problem could be. It turned out that they found the script baffling and wanted me to explain it to them. “Please read it again more carefully,” I told them. “If you read it diligently, you should be able to understand it because it was written with the intention of being comprehensible.” But they wouldn’t leave. “We believe we have read it carefully, and we still don’t understand it at all; that’s why we want you to explain it to us.” For their persistence I gave them this simple explanation: Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings—the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave—even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego. You say that you can’t understand this script at all, but that is because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, I think you will grasp the point of it. After I finished, two of the three assistant directors nodded and said they would try reading the script again. They got up to leave, but the third, who was the chief, remained unconvinced. He left with an angry look on his face. (As it turned out, this chief assistant director and I never did get along. I still regret that in the end I had to ask for his resignation. But, aside from this, the work went well.)" ("Something Like an Autobiography", Akira Kurosawa)

I am deeply honored to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for 2024, together with my friends and colleagues Simon Johnson and James Robinson. pune.news/trending/nobel…