Mango People with Mango Issues

Dear @PMOIndia A few days ago, you urged people not to spend Indian money abroad. So, kindly bring a law mandating that kids of ministers & bureaucrats study only in India. Their children should also experience the policies & infrastructure their parents create for our kids.

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.

Finally he was granted bail after 8 years of being in jail w/o trial in a totally cooked up case! It is a blot on the record of the Judiciary

Fully loaded #ERickshaw on #GreaterNoida #Expressway. #Noida @CP_Noida @dcptrafficnoida @Noidatraffic @dmgbnagar Education is needed with Enforcement. @Noida7x @UPGovt @uptrafficpolice

Indians should be thankful to these brave women, the adivasi communities are the first line of defence for nature. Whether you’re in Mumbai protesting against the felling of 45000 mangroves, or Delhi alarmed at the 120 acre Dwarka forest being cut or in Sijimali … you have more in common with these women than you think. 🫡 their bravery, that goes untold, undocumented by corporate media owned by mining barons and other crooks.

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++

This will blow your mind 🤯 Tribals in Madhya Pradesh are holding unique ‘Chitra Protest’ against BJP Govt for stealing their homes & forests They are covering themselves in mud, holding hunger strike & acting like dead bodies for past 11 days Their only demands — Land in return of land & proper rehabilitation They have been living on the same land for 2000 years and suddenly they lost all rights? Really?

मैंने जो Exit Poll किया था, उसे सभी Exit Poll वालों को दे दिया है, इसलिए जारी नहीं कर पा रहा हूँ। माफ़ी चाहूँगा। ये चार दिन गोदी ऐंकरों की सोचिए। ज़ीरो कंटेंट मगर टाइम काटने के नाम पर फ़र्ज़ी बहस करनी होती है। ये Exit Poll वाले न हो तो वो क्या करेंगे।

@IndiaToday @Aakar__Patel Burning water to move cars in a water-stressed country isn’t green policy, it’s distorted priorities. When fuel incentives drain aquifers and food systems, the winners are industrial lobbies, while the costs are pushed onto farmers, households, and the future.

One litre of ethanol needs 10,000 litres of water: Hidden cost of India’s fuel push indiatoday.in/science/story/…

जनता दबा के टैक्स भर रही है, लेकिन निकम्मे नेता और अधिकारी सही से खर्च नहीं कर पा रहे।

@manishsmooth @noida_authority @CeoNoida @myogioffice @myogiadityanath भाई लोगों को क्या फर्क पड़ता बताओ आम आदमी परेशान हो गए इनको कोई फर्क है ?71 के अंदर पास की सड़क टूटी पड़ी है पर वहां पर अभी भी पेंटिंग का काम हो रहा है 1 साल में दो बार पेंटिंग हुई है जनता के पैसे की बर्बादी क्योंकि लखनऊ से कोई पूछता नहीं @IasAlok @shafaquealamTOI

90% of mainstream media misrepresented the truth... A few like The Hindu showed courage.

जब ग़रीब मुसलमानों के घरों पर बुलडोजर चल रहा था तो ये हम व्यापारी नमो नमो कर रहा था। अब जब इसकी दुकान पर बुलडोजर चल गया तो ये रो रहा है!

At least once in my lifetime, I would like to see a leader who truly cares about the country. Not elections. Not opposition. Not vote banks. We can’t be this unlucky… we deserve that, at least once.

मध्यप्रदेश के छतरपुर में केन-बेतवा परियोजना के खिलाफ आदिवासियों का 11 दिन से बड़ा आंदोलन चल रहा है लेकिन नोएडा के मीडिया ने इसे अभी तक कवर नहीं किया !

Whoever this gentleman is. He is absolutely brilliant.

Have also seen these delivery boys skipping red lights, wrong turns on roundabouts and driving with single hand while carrying delivery bags in another hand ..@MORTHIndia @TOINoida @htTweets @AmarUjalaNews

@letsblinkit @Flipkart @amazonIN @bigbasket_com Serious concern is raised about your staff on bikes , who travel on wrong sides , without helmet and over speed in competition for fast delivery. What are steps taken ?

इन देशद्रोहियों को सबक़ सिखाया जाना चाहिये । इसके पीछे एक संगठित अंतर्राष्ट्रीय साज़िश है, भारत की सरकार को बदनाम करने की। देश विश्व-गुरू बन रहा है औऱ ये बेशर्म रोज़ी-रोटी और न्यूनतम मज़दूरी जैसी छोटी-छोटी चीज़ों के लिये लड़ रहे हैं। स्वार्थी लोग !