Sandhya

Harry Clarke, Sleeping Beauty, 1922.

I'd be more than happy is someone worked out all the moving pieces, evolving stories, and shifting goalposts of my day and just gave me an inviolable list of things i need to do before they snowball. Doing the dishes while dreaming and letting my mind wander is a cake walk compared to keeping track of every little thing and person and ensuring no one dies and bills are paid on time, i use chores as a way of thinking through a personal struggle or a work challenge. Except when i fold the laundry; i hate this task so i watch s tv show. I know we were talking about men having no clue but i just wanted to wildly digress and say mundane chores are the fuel for ideas.

We should all be getting hazard pay for surviving whatever the fuck this timeline is.

Dainik Bhaskar journalist went undercover as a laborer in a flour mill in UP and exposed a rotten system that's playing with people's health. Operators in mills across Agra, Firozabad are mixing stone powder from Rajasthan into atta, increasing their earnings by 70–80 paise per kg i.e. 7k-8k extra per day. These adulterated flour, sold under brands like Maharaja Bhog Atta, is even reaching school mid-day meals. These calcium carbonate can clog intestines and damage the liver and kidneys. Being in the D2C industry, I'm aware of many brands who do these kinds of things just to save margins and make more money. We keep calling them out, but this looks much bigger. Government and FSSAI need to act and take control. Consumer health should never be compromised for profit.

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@roteIndischer @localteaparty Change dot org? 😀

@TheRestlessQuil @localteaparty There was (still is?) a site that collected our email ids to submit petitions, what was that?

I keep thinking if this protest was led by millennials we would have said utterly incorrigible stuff like 'Protest is a privilege ' or 'Check your privilege before you put up English slogans' or something like that.

@sandygrains Uff sorry to hear this Sandhya. Wishing you strength and hope you'll get all the support and care you need! Take care.

First in my bloodline to get treated for cancer before turning 40 👍

@Subhash_ati9 I would. Only to give it ten minutes waiting and getting the hell out of there instead of being a donkey and waiting for over an hour and then heading to a PCO to check where the hell he was 😭

@TheRestlessQuil I guess if there was a time machine you wouldn't be keen on going back to when you were 19.

When I was 19 I had a boyfriend like this. I'd bunk college, make excuses to friends, miss important stuff just so we could spend time on special days like birthdays, V day etc. 50 percent of the time fucker didn't turn up only. And we didn't have a mobile phones.

凄い、設計通りの壊れ方をしてる… 我が国の橋梁は、壊れないように設計するのではなく、致命的な被害を減らす方針で『壊れ方』の設計をします。 今回の例では、阪神淡路の教訓で道路示方書に導入された『落橋防止装置』によって、桁が地面に落ちるような崩落を防いでます。

Sachin Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police, #NewDelhi gave authorization to #RAF to use gas, lathi charge and also the fire arms against protestors at #JantarMantar “I, Sachin Sharma, Executive Magistrate of the highest rank present at New Delhi District, Jantar Mantar, acting under Section 149 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Section 130 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973),... require No. 104... Rank Assistant Commandant Dilwar Singh of Unit D/103 to disperse the unlawful assembly using Gas/Lathi charge/Fire arms and/or to arrest and confine the persons forming part thereof (with the help of the armed forces under his command) at 5 o'clock (approximately) on 20/07/26 at 1700 hours in New Delhi district, #Delhi.” Read this report newslaundry.com/2026/07/28/jul…

First major win by Gen-Alpha In UP's Fatehpur, students protesting for basic amenities school have been given written assurances for the following: - Four fans will be installed in every classroom by tomorrow - Electrical wiring will be repaired - Desks and benches will be provided within one month -An RO water cooler will be installed

Bengaluru water board: Water supply will be disrupted in several parts of Bengaluru on July 31 as Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board shuts down Cauvery Stage V pumping stations from 6am to 9pm (15 hours) for emergency repairs to a leak in a 3,000-mm diameter pipeline scour valve. Areas across north, east & south Bengaluru, including Thanisandra, Horamavu, Varthur, Panathur, Bellandur, Begur, Gottigere & Uttarahalli, will be affected. Residents have been advised to store water in advance @chairmanbwssb

@gauravsabnis Same.

Scottish & Irish are my two favorite accents. Irish in particular has such a nice rhythm to it.

@VishhalSJain I didn't find him resentful at all. I find him optimistic despite the unfairness of our social infrastructure. He chooses to believe that a better tomorrow is possible and that the promises made in 1947 can come true if we are sincere.

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (@kyleorl / Ars Technica) (Visit Mediagazer dot com for the link and full context!)

Same, I'm also accepting orders for my new game at reduced prices xotoxo.com/chettinad-duet

Remember the truck full of stones that appeared near the CJP protest site in Jantar Mantar? @ImAvdheshkumar traced the vehicle with its registration number. It was not a stray truck: the Delhi Police had seized it four days earlier newslaundry.com/2026/07/28/fro…