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Delighted to have NDTV cover our Community Building & #wastemanagement efforts. We continue helping other Delhi colonies turn Sustainable too. @SwachhBharatGov @RoopaMishra77 @LtGovDelhi @OberoiShelly @GyaneshBharti1 m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyfOzR…

My heart breaks over what PMC and its political backers have done to Pune's river. Yes, people should be connected to rivers - but like this?! A better version of a riverside recreational space would have been something like this. This is a riverside park in Taipei where 1. Natural materials have been used (not concrete), 2. Flood plains have been preserved 3. Habitats created for birds, insects and small fauna This would have come at a fraction of the cost of Pune's RFD, is aesthetically more appealing, and could have been designed to suit our native ecosystem with the help of riverine ecologists. 🧵

MP Govt has cleared 396 hectrs of Pachmarhi Sanctuary land for"town development."This move threatens the fragile Satpura foothills and ignores the ecological cost.I will challenge this decision in court to protect our forests🌳 #SavePachmarhi #Satpura #Wildlife @CMMadhyaPradesh

My ground report on how punes citizens are fighting to save the river from real estate sharks .in the name of development we are making #Pune susceptible to #floods @SVYadwadkar @AUThackeray @sushmadate @Indian_Rivers @Jeevitnadi @CMOMaharashtra

@deepigoyal Methinks the billionaire doth protest too much.

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while. For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt. The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale. Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general. This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less. We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal. Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”). And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility. Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income. And then what happens? The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated. The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door. Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

Inspite of bio-mining, dumping of 3,000-3,500 MT continues daily at Ghazipur/Bhalswa landfill, over & above the incineration, adding to emissions. Big question is, will 2026 be about real systemic SWM reform or quick fixes? @MCD_Delhi needs to move beyond Navjivan Vihar PR.

This is the so called ‘waste to energy’ plant in Okhla, this morning. No matter GRAP or not, these WtE plants continue to add emissions & toxicity in a city thats already choking. WtE is a result of failure of non implementation of solid waste management rules 2016. @PMOIndia

@MasalaBai Stress & anxiety may likely physically aggravate your condition. Change. Immediately. Dr. Dinesh Talwar is a great option for retina. Doesn't suffer fools, but is gruffly patient with genuine cases.

@iamdatemike Unconditionally muting blue-tickers after two click-baiting tweets.

tired of big change stories and overnight cold turkey inspirational things tell me 1 small tiny thing that you started doing that changed your lifestyle and health for the better

@sanjayuvacha @Airbnb Ironic, given that locals don't want Airbnb anymore because it has created a system of absentee owners that have led to buildings full of short-term rentals and destroyed the communities by pushing prices higher.

To know a city and live like a local, I recommend taking an @Airbnb in a typical neighbourhood, with easy access to public transport. I have had great weeks in Istanbul and New York, by staying in not so posh neighbourhoods like Findikzade and Jackson Heights. Please tell me about similar neighbourhoods in the great cities of the world. bbc.com/travel/article…

The #Mumbai - #Delhi rivalry is eternal. "Life-harming smog? #AQI of 750+? Most Polluted City title? Not so quick buddy. We're going to burst #fireworks for 5 hours straight, no festival, no celebration, aise hi just. How do you like THEM apples?"

@iamdatemike Anna just wants to sell more filters. Excess hydration = water intoxication. Body needs enough 'fluids', not water. If the mouth ain't dry at any point in the day, you're doing fine.

today I fitted water purifier at home and I asked the guy when I should change filter and he asked how much water I drink per day, and I said 2 L and he lectured me to drink more water for 20 mins and then looked sad and told for 2L per day, no need to change filter for 1 year

It seems like Mumbaikars and @MumbaiPolice have just given up on combating noise pollution. Dhol-taashas and fireworks going on late into the night, at way-above-legal decibels, near hospitals. No enforcement. Regular occurrence. Truly, the tragedy of the commons.

A new Indo-Italian study shows Delhi’s Red Fort is being eaten away by air pollution, its red sandstone walls now coated in toxic black crusts from sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides & fine particulates. @CPCB_OFFICIAL @CAQM_Official @MoHFW_INDIA @UNESCO @ASIGoI Delhi’s air isn’t just scarring the Red Fort with black crusts, it’s doing the same to us. The difference? We can’t see the damage to our lungs the way we see it on sandstone. From 2021–23, PM2.5 was 2.5× above safe limits. The fort is crumbling in stone, we are crumbling inside😢 @SophiyaMathew1 @IndianExpress

While our children battle air pollution every second of their life, @DPCC_Pollution has slashed dust control compliances on its portal from 27 ➡️12, removing checks on DG sets, paved roads, enclosed mixing, worker masks & on-site medical help. In Delhi, where construction dust drives PM10/PM2.5/ this “rationalisation” risks worsening asthma, lung disease & worker health😢 What’s happening? @CPCB_OFFICIAL @CAQM_Official @PrinSciAdvGoI @gupta_rekha @mssirsa

Minimum governance bhi chalega.

A tale of #Mumbai (aka, Life always finds a way)

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My little effort at conservation 5 years of Cosmos uprooting drives every June/July by @VTBKS_Pune volunteers, CSR and hired labor in the area around the parking at #VetalTekdi 💚 Happy to say that very little of the exotic, invasive species has grown this year. From next yr, I will tackle another spot

Delhi’s pollution crisis now includes microplastics in the air. Adults inhale nearly 2x more microplastics in summer (21.1/day) than winter (10.7/day). Most common➡️ PET (41%), found in bottles & packaging. Risks: bronchitis, pneumonia, even cancer. Yet, availability and consumption goes unchecked! @CPCB_OFFICIAL @PrinSciAdvGoI