Devi Lakshmikutty

A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory.

@Rankheresyagain What a lovely life, please continue to enjoy it.... ...travel in today's day and age is grossly overrated with over tourism spoiling most experiences also in many cases it's more FOMO than real curiosity

@Joydas @SheilaPrema Our judiciary has become the biggest blot and is bringing down our democracy

Tale of 2 Countries, 2 Supreme Courts. In Canada, SC nullified a closely fought election because 1 Postal Vote was not counted due to administrative error. SC ruled that every Vote should Count. In India, 91 Lakh Voters deleted, 27 Lakh in adjudication but SC allowed it to happen

While Anant passed away this month, he left behind a formidable legacy of setting up two global organisations – Amnesty and Greenpeace – in India that contributed to the shaping of the human rights and environmental justice action in the country. thewire.in/rights/anantha…

South India & content creators are the only opposition left now?

No one failed India like the Indian Judiciary did. No not, Modi, not Shah, Adani, Ambani, Gyanesh or Media. The reason why 80 lac voters couldn't exercise their franchise in the just concluded Bengal polls, who do you think allowed this to happen? The Supreme Court is taking the nation to HELLHOLE. This is the real truth behind India’s Greatest Fall. Shame. Senior SC Advocate - Dushyant Dave

A democracy needs a ruling party and an equally strong opposition , without the latter we will be merely an autocracy @KirenRijiju ....the opposition represents our safe guard against your excesses @RahulGandhi @mkstalin

@rameshsrivats No political will or respect to treat us as citizens and we citizens have no respect for ourselves or others and no civics sense...it all boils down to no respect !

I think India will get solved with just 2 things: 1. Cleanliness: Clean the streets. Punish the litterers. 2. Respect: Treat the citizen with respect. FIRs are lodged. Complaints are addressed. Every government official has a body cam. Just two things. Can be done in two years.

The cheap, dispensable Indian Life !

Anyone who calls Great Nicobar as India's Strait of Hormuz is the biggest clown 🤡

His name is Mohammad Aamir Khan. On the night of February 20, 1998, his mother asked him to buy medicines from a shop in Old Delhi. He was 18 years old. He never made it to the shop. Men in plain clothes stopped him on the street. He did not know they were police officers. They took him to an abandoned building. For seven days, he was held in illegal custody. He was tortured. He was forced to sign blank sheets of paper. Then the Delhi Police Special Cell produced him in court and charged him with 19 counts of bombing across Delhi, Ghaziabad, Rohtak and Sonepat between December 1996 and October 1997. He was presented to the media as a terrorist. His family was never informed. They spent days searching police stations before finding out what had happened. He spent 14 years in prison. Through torture. Through solitary confinement. He watched case after case fall apart in court as evidence was shown to be fabricated. In 2012, he was acquitted in 17 of 19 cases. Two cases remain pending. He had already served more time in jail than the maximum sentence he could have received even if convicted on all charges. He walked out of prison in January 2012. His father had died while he was inside. His mother had suffered a stroke so severe she no longer recognised him when he walked through the door. The National Human Rights Commission directed the Delhi government to pay him compensation. The amount was Rs 5 lakh. No officer from the Delhi Police Special Cell was charged. No one was suspended. No inquiry was ordered. He wrote a book about what was done to him. He called it Framed As A Terrorist. My 14 Year Struggle To Prove My Innocence. He now helps other wrongfully accused prisoners navigate the system that destroyed him. India gave him Rs 5 lakh and called it justice. Follow for real stories India never makes headlines about.

To all ecologists, conservationists, and environmentally conscious citizens who claim they “don’t care about Rahul Gandhi’s politics” but insist that the destruction of forests and displacement of people in Great Nicobar must stop. This is what politics is supposed to be about. This is the politics which raises issues that touch people’s lives, protect our forests, safeguard biodiversity, and secure our climate future. It doesn’t gloss over environmental devastation in the name of reckless development to benefit a few crony capitalists. If you truly care about these things, then support the politics that actually talks about them. And oppose the brand of politics which spreads communal poison, ignores the daily struggles of Indians, and pursues power by bending every institution and trampling people’s rights. Caring about Great Nicobar means caring about the politics that defends it. It’s time to stand with Rahul Gandhi and his politics.

The arrogance of humans to cut down trees and think air conditioners will cool us

You open your TL and watch the Indian heat map turn an ugly, blistering red. Then you scroll down a few tweets and see AI data centres in Andhra Pradesh... Over 10,000 trees will be butchered in Andaman and Nicobar islands... Despair is not the word.

Death by extreme heat is the kiss of death our politicians are preparing for us .. #heatwave

The decision of Kejriwal not to participate in the CBI appeal challenging his discharge,before Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma is a correct & justified decision. Undoubtedly,in the facts of this case, he has a reasonable apprehension of bias. I would say his apprehension is justified

This is our gift to the next generation, and sad part is that climate change isn’t a concern, not an issue, and not even a discussion, in India.

Let’s destroy all forests in the name of development & open them up for mining by corporates. Let’s kill & displace Adivasis in the name of fighting Maoism. Let’s destroy the Himalayan ecosystem in the name of pilgrimage & defense.

Sums up our plight ...whoever we elect , the highest bidder decides who rules ....

If only someone had warned you, right? For decades, environmentalists, forest/ grassland experts, citizens who mapped dying rivers, lakes and water bodies, climate journalists tried to tell us. But no. Kill mangroves, torch forests, mine the mountains. Now we're burning up.🔥