Roohi Dixit

@NatMetabolism @VishwaDeepDixi1 A big huge congrats to the entire #dixitlabatyale! Seen how hard you all work! Kudos! So proud! @VishwaDeepDixi1! Onwards!

Cysteine depletion triggers adipose tissue thermogenesis and weight loss go.nature.com/43uySjS

A new study published in @NatMetabolism shows that consuming less of the amino acid cysteine can burn fat to induce weight loss. Authors include @VishwaDeepDixi1 & other members of the Yale Center for Research on Aging at @YaleMed. bit.ly/45Kxo6e

@Outlookindia Pleasently surprised to see this republished. Thanks @Outlookindia @chinkis

#FromTheArchive | A woman #shopkeeper in a busy #city uses #loneliness as a #metaphor to deliver a message full of #wisdom: even those who are not lonely are lonely, writes @RoohiD ow.ly/vXOG50UYhYh

How amazing to see a full house of enthusiastic listeners for my sibling @VishwaDeepDixi1’s fabulous talk at #Immunocon2024 @iiscbangalore especially when the proud sister gets acknowledged! Shine on brother! @YaleAge

Do you and your kids deserve better ? In the last 5 years, India 668,400 ha of forest in the world, 2nd highest deforestation rate in the world. For detractors who will now say, ‘economic growth’ etc, we lost $69 Billion due to climate related catastrophes in 2019 alone. We CANNOT AFFORD to cut more trees. This year temperatures touched 52 degrees, next year, it’ll rise up, rendering our land uninhabitable eventually. Your ACs will fail, your kids will faint or worse from heatstroke. Please wake up, hold the regime accountable. -Please connect the dots. It has to do with the large scale deforestation of #HasdeoAranya, #Mollem Forest and the plunder of Aravali’s by an illegal “pharmaceutical” cyclop. - Last year, there was a big summit of international leaders in Mumbai. All of them flew in their charter planes; result : the air quality became worse than Delhi for the next few months. One of things on the agenda was CLIMATE. Irony died a thousand deaths. -There’s only so much difference individual action will make. My paper straw and cloth jhola will not mitigate the impact of greedy billionaire world leaders and their carbon emissions from buzzing around in charter planes. -If your response to this tweet is whataboutery, save it. You and I will both feel heat the same. The trees don’t pay me to speak up and the politicians you defend, they’ve sent their progeny to US and Switzerland. - Forests belong to every citizen, they’re not the private property of any individual that occupies a seat for 5 years. -Don’t ask “which car do you drive”, because electric cars will use electricity mostly generated by burning coal, in India. Check how thermal power is produced in our land. -Read up on Sundarlal Bahuguna. -Greenpeace, India was one of the first to be handled by the regime in 2015. Why ? - The climate crisis is connected to farmer’s suicide, water shortage in Delhi and Bengaluru, to cyclones, floods and even to the power cuts in UP. We’re out of time, we no longer can discuss what’s viable, our survival is at stake. Wake up ! @TribalArmy @SHasdeo @disharavii @varungrover @ClimateBen

@Shayonnita15 All I can say is that 3 years since my father left. Every word you say rings true. That is why internet heals. Sometimes. When you hear your own voice echoed in someone else’s pain. I send you a hug.

Ma would have been 56 today. 7th May, a birthday etched into my mind from 25 years of wishing her happy birthday. Three years have passed, and while neither of us have aged in this photo, my grief has. Unlike in its infancy, my grief is quieter now. More at peace, less given to well-ups in the middle of the day—Truly I rarely even cry now! My humour has healed as well—no more dark jokes, no more bringing up "the dead mother" for comedic awkwardness. I barely react to everyone mentioning their mothers all the time as well, these days. And can you believe it, the last time I went on a date, I didn't even mention her absence for the whole duration! Ha! I haven't opened her WhatsApp chat in months, and I've studiously avoided looking at photos of us. Interestingly, nearly all those that I shared her death with are no longer in my life. Which makes it easier to not think, to... forget. * How long do you mourn your dead, is a question I have often asked myself. People lose patience with you after a year, and get openly irritated after two. Play act the "okay routine" well enough, and suddenly everyone forgets that grief ever even lived inside you. And so you drink from the soma of forgetting. You push them to the edge of your mind, into the cracks of your consciousness; you file them under "memories and rememberances" instead of "today's thoughts and occurences". Slowly you think of them only occassionally. Once a day, once a week, only when prompted by a stimuli or a thing. And then, swiftly, follows the guilt. The guilt of failing the dead in the worst way one can—by failing to remember them. The guilt of having allowed yourself to forget, of having lost a piece of their last day, or last month, or forgotten exactly what their voice sounded like. The guilt of "healing" as if they were something awful to be cured from. The guilt of realising that if you don't remember her and recollect her, no one will. The guilt of being a daughter who has forgot to be one every day. The guilt of being mortal, while they no longer are. * Grief doesn't shrink, you grow around it—something that I read years ago to which I disagree. Grief stays as is. You just get so very good at distracting yourself. :) And learn to forgive life, them, cancer, love, and sometimes yourself as well. Happy Birthday, Memo. Here is another year, another depressing post. But then, you were the happy one among us, weren't you? ♥️ Thank you for existing when you did.

Wow.

@shividungarpur Fantastic!

Unbelievable Third year in a row at Cannes Film Festival …Film Heritage Foundation is proud to bring the Restoration of Shyam Benegal’s milestone film “Manthan”produced by 500,000 farmers who gave rupees 2 to produce this film…I wish Smita Patil was here to see this…

@Vikrchan At the rate it is raining, only one or two boondi at best!

Anyone can estimate the amount of besan that will be consumed in Bengaluru this evening ??

Education is not about knowing everything, it’s about understanding that there is always more to learn and discover.

James Baldwin (If Beale Street Could Talk):

@barnalirays @YaleFilmArchive @Yale @VishwaDeepDixi1 What a treat really!

@RoohiD @YaleFilmArchive @Yale @VishwaDeepDixi1 Wonderful! Sooooo happy to know this :)

Still reeling after yesterday’s screening of #shakespearewallah @YaleFilmArchive @Yale meeting #jamesivory #merchantivoryproductions Thank you for this amazing ongoing 50th bday gift my brother @VishwaDeepDixi1 you know how to spoil and indulge your little sister. Grateful!

Our film #Spirallingintodesire continues its wild travels. This time to Mexico at the beautiful Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival. @HeliosFestival thank you gracias. @zrfilmhouse @Smartmove2011 @sarah_brinda @howbza @GI_Bangalore

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.” ― Margaret Atwood

"Tarkovsky is for me the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream." --- Ingmar Bergman

@OberoiHotels thank you so much for this sweet gesture as we get together to celebrate my sibling @VishwaDeepDixi1’s Birthday after many years in India! Happy Birthday Brother, always rooting for you! And always so proud of you!

Life is very short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.

@dhunji Thank you!

@RoohiD Happy birthday Roohi. Best wishes!