Namisha Parthasarathy

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This is legitimately insane. Banning cell phones in schools might turn out to be the best thing we’ve done for our kids in a generation.

how has @DanishSait not made a video about this? @NammaBengaluroo

6. Saying things like “go outside if you want to jog” pointing at the crumbling pavement filled with trash and construction cement outside the park’s perimeter. 🫠

Why are Bengaluru uncles even😪 Got told off by 3 separate uncles at an Indiranagar park "illi jogging strictly not allowed". My light jog may have even qualified as a brisk walk for most. Meanwhile things that are allowed (eye-witness to all just today): A 🧵

@saybwala @saybwala dude 10000% We deal with irate customers not getting calls and saying 'I was at home, no one called. love your service, hate the logistics' -- not always our fault, brosef :/

Has made last mile delivery for D2C a nightmare. Almost all iPhone users have activated this. Delivery person calls. Customer doesn't pickup - customer not available marked. Us, merchants, get angry customer support tickets that customer was at home and delivery wasn't done.

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@Nithin0dha @Nithin0dha What is your best bet for good food sources? Recently saw this and was wondering what your thoughts on Indian produce + organic labels on rice/pulses etc are? With the deluge of information, how does a consumer make the "right choice"? youtube.com/shorts/Kyk3eLQ…

Yesterday was World Obesity Day. I hate to be the guy who complains, but the numbers are scary. Here are some stats from the recent Economic Survey: 23-24% of Indians are already overweight or obese (in 2019); this number was ~10% twenty years back. I am guessing it must have gotten a lot worse in the last 6 years. 3.3 crore children were obese in 2020 → projected 8.3 crore by 2035. Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are one of the leading causes. Their sales went from $0.9 billion (₹7,500 crore) to $38 billion (₹316,000 crore) between 2006 and 2019. Obesity nearly doubled in the same period. UPF sales grew over 150% just between 2009 and 2023. The acceleration is getting faster, not slower. Even children under 5 aren't spared. Excess weight prevalence jumped from 2.1% to 3.4% in just 5 years (2015-2021). I don't know what else to say apart from restating the obvious: Try to eat homemade food and get quality ingredients. The more meals you eat outside, the more garbage that goes into your body. Question the source of food, be it your milk, pulses, or anything else. The quality matters. If nothing else, at least walk 30 minutes every day. Build a fitness habit first, then start with strength training and so on. Sleep 7-8 hours. Bad sleep makes you hungrier and lazier the next day. Keep your kids away from packaged snacks as much as possible. Habits formed at 8 will follow them at 40. Less screen time, more movement. Touch some grass, stare at the sky, and move! On a different note, I just read that major Indian pharma companies are preparing to launch GLP-1 drugs in India after the patent expires this month. These are the same drugs behind the Ozempic craze globally. I'm wondering about what the first and second-order effects will be.

What excellent, excellent news - thank you sir! @siddaramaiah Been reading @JonHaidt's research for the past 10 years, and so glad its impact is being felt all over the world. hindustantimes.com/india-news/soc…

@saybwala Horrific! Saying this as a dog lover/owner too. I have seen German shepherds + pinschers off leashes (a doberman ran out of a house and chased my dog) or on very loose leashes and people laugh and say they "won't do anything" not knowing at all how alpha dogs need to be trained.

Saying this as a dog lover - untrained people should not be allowed to keep large breed dogs as pets. You must pass a course in handling large breed dogs. This is a very distressing incident from Bangalore.

@SushrutShitoot Thanks so much @SushrutShitoot

@coffeehooman Found you guys a few days ago. Kudos, wonderful concept. Subscribing soon! Also encouraging friends to tag along and discover new coffees! :)

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I'm starting a campaign to bring South Bangalore's parks to their glory and I need your support. For the uninitiated, until a month ago all BBMP parks were officially* supposed to be open from 5 am to 10 pm. Then, the newly formed Bengaluru South City Corporation changed the timings for parks under its jurisdiction to 5 am to 11 am and 4 pm to 8 pm. This is a disaster. Literally one step forward and two steps backwards. I am sick and tired of living in this city without having any say in how it functions. We cannot constantly be taken for granted. Why should you care even if you don't live in South Bangalore? If people don't speak out against this, it is only a matter of time that all corporations make moves to limit the timings again. This is what I'm going to do - Begin a letter campaign. Write a letter to two people: the GBA commissioner (@GBAChiefComm) and, the Bengaluru South commissioner. Let them know that there is demand. Until now, it is only the uncles who are a noisy minority and get the rules changed to their whims. But not anymore. We need people to speak up. 100s of letters to them is bound to get attention. I am sharing the letter that I'm sending below, along with guidance at the bottom of how you can join this letter campaign. -- To, SRI MAHESHWAR RAO, CHIEF COMMISSIONER - GBA Shri Ramesh K.N, IAS, Bengaluru South City Corporation Commissioner Subject - Park timings in South Bengaluru and the rest of the city Dear commissioners, Last month in December, the newly formed Bengaluru South Corporation reverted something that most residents loved. Public parks being open during the day until late evening. The timings, which were 5 am to 10 pm, were revised to 5 am to 11 am in the morning and 4 pm to 8 pm in the evenings. I have some questions for you, and some requests. In each of these situations, please tell me what must a citizen do. - Software engineer, works from 9 am to 6 pm. Gets back home at 7 pm. Gets done with housework at 8 pm. Needs a quiet stroll in the park. - Couple with young kids. Want to enjoy the amazing Bengaluru weather on a weekend with kids. It’s 11 am on a Sunday morning. Parks are closed. - Househelp. Works a morning shift till 11 am and afternoon shift from 2 pm. Stays 10 km away from work. Needs to wait 2 hours somewhere. Empty park opposite the apartments she works at is closed. - Office employee. Likes a post-lunch walk to help with thinking. 2 pm on a Wednesday, empty park opp. office. Can’t visit because it's closed. - Uber driver. Works an 8 am to 8 pm shift. Takes 30 minutes off during the afternoon. Wants some quiet time after lunch. Parks his car opposite a beautiful park and sits in the car. Can’t sit in the park. It’s closed. - College students. Going on a first date. Don’t have money. Beautiful park 100m from where they stay. But it’s 8 pm and they will have to meet at a cafe and spend ₹500 at a cafe instead. The examples above are real examples of real tax-paying citizens who face the brunt of not having open access to their open spaces, everyday. With the new park timings, the parks in South Bengaluru are open for a mere 6 hours during the morning and 4 hours in the evening. These are timings suited to just one section of society — uncles who like their morning walk at 6 am, and evening walks before 8 pm (which is their bed time). However, I want to bring to your notice that Bengaluru does not just comprise this bland set of people. Bengaluru comprises colourful people who have different aspirations, different work timings, different preferences, different things they want to do at the park. Some want to walk, others want to sit and talk. Some want to use the open gyms, others want their children to play on the slides. ALL of these are valid reasons to go to the park, and it is the city corporations’ duty to support each of these in public parks. With this in mind, here are my (our) requests to both GBA and the Bengaluru South Corporation. They’re quite simple. Go back to the previous park timings of 5 am to 10 pm. Change the timings on the boards of the parks, otherwise guards are enforcing incorrect timings. Make sure these timings apply to all GBA parks, including lake parks. (IMAGINE shutting access to a pathway at a lake at 10 am. Who is making these rules?) Please remember, that public spaces have to be public. Otherwise they are mere showpieces. In closing, I want to share perspectives that people have shared online. These reflect the pain of the public not being allowed into their own spaces. Thank you, -- What can you do to help? 1. This is the doc link to the letter above, you can use print and use the same docs.google.com/document/d/1sm… 2. Send two letters by Speed Post (will cost max ₹100-150 Addresses: SRI MAHESHWAR RAO, CHIEF COMMISSIONER - GBA Hudson Circle, N.R.Square, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560002, Shri Ramesh K.N, IAS, Bengaluru South City Corporation Commissioner SOUTH CITY CORPORATION 9th Main Road, 9th Cross Road, 2nd Stage, Jayanagar, Bengaluru – 560011 3. Ask your friends to do this, RT, spread the word. I'm also creating a WA group where we can post pics of the letters and ensure we have enough strength. Link in the reply. * implementation was lax, and until people complained the guards did not comply. But that's a different problem.

@blueringtail Hey @blueringtail possible to include Indiranagar? Been contacting local authorities to get rusted and broken kids jungle jims fixed. They only care about turning on unnecessary fountains. Water stagnates & increases mosquitoes + it removes a large area for kids to run around.

@darthdevi @FirstClubIndia Thanks a lot! Responded on DM

@coffeehooman @FirstClubIndia Hi Namisha! Possible to open up your DMs? I can connect with you and get this sorted asap.

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