Gaurav Sarup

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Gaurav Sarup

Gaurav Sarup

@gsarup

Sustainability, Social Justice, Media, Politics.

Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Mr PitBull
Mr PitBull@MrPitbull07·
They called him too weak to lead. Then he asked one simple question that ended a thirty-year war. Jimmy Carter never matched America's idea of a strong president. He carried his own bags. Wore cardigan sweaters in the Oval Office. Asked people to turn down their thermostats. He taught Sunday school and spoke, in a quiet Georgia drawl, about humility, love, and sacrifice. Washington called him weak. Opponents called him naïve. Late-night hosts turned his decency into a joke. But in September 1978, that same quiet man did what every powerful leader before him had failed to do. He helped end a war that had defined a region for three decades. Since 1948, Egypt and Israel had fought four brutal wars. Thousands were dead. Entire generations grew up knowing nothing but fear and hatred across a shared border. Every attempt at peace collapsed under the weight of history, grief, and pride. The conflict felt permanent. Jimmy Carter refused to believe that. By then, his presidency was already unraveling. Inflation crushed families. Gas lines snaked around city blocks. His approval ratings had fallen through the floor. Advisors begged him not to gamble what little political capital he had left on an impossible dream. Carter ignored them. He invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Camp David, the secluded presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains. No press. No speeches. No escape. Thirteen days. One mission. He told them plainly: We stay until peace is found—or until every path has truly been exhausted. The talks nearly collapsed immediately. Begin was a Holocaust survivor who had lost most of his family. He believed Israel could never afford weakness again. Sadat had led Egypt through devastating wars. He believed his people deserved an end to endless funerals. They wouldn't sit together. They shouted through messengers. They stormed out of meetings. Carter's own team urged him to end the summit quietly before it destroyed what remained of his presidency. Carter refused. Each night, he walked alone through the woods. He prayed. He wrote letters by hand. He stopped thinking like a politician trying to survive and started thinking like a human being trying to heal something broken. On the eleventh day, Begin announced he was leaving. The talks were over. Carter went to Begin's cabin with a small request: Would he sign a few photographs for Carter's grandchildren? As Begin carefully wrote each child's name, Carter spoke softly. Not about politics. Not about pressure. About legacy. About what remains when power fades. About the stories we tell the children who come after us. Then Carter asked one quiet question: "What will you tell your grandchildren about this moment?" Begin stayed. Two days later, on September 17, 1978, Sadat and Begin signed the Camp David Accords. The Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt. Diplomatic relations were established. A framework for peace replaced decades of bloodshed. The border violence stopped. Sadat and Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize. Jimmy Carter did not. Within months, his presidency collapsed under the weight of the Iran hostage crisis. Fifty-two Americans were held for 444 days. Carter refused to sacrifice their lives for political theater or reckless force. History would later honor that restraint—but voters did not. In November 1980, he lost the presidency in a landslide. The hostages were released minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in. The story seemed settled: Jimmy Carter, the failed president. But Carter wasn't finished. He returned to Plains, Georgia. To the same modest home. To teaching Sunday school. Then he picked up a hammer and joined Habitat for Humanity—not symbolically, but physically. For decades, he built houses with his own hands, sweating under the sun, climbing ladders into his eighties and nineties. He founded the Carter Center. Fought neglected diseases.Monitored fragile elections. Mediated conflicts others wouldn't touch.
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Aravalli Bachao
Aravalli Bachao@AravalliBachao·
@IndiaToday @ramanmalik @PreetiChoudhry Will @ramanmalik /MoEF next define -Himalayas -Vindhyas -Ganges -Yamuna???? And,before U CRY "NO fresh mining licenses", wil u tel us y illegal mining has NOT stopped in HARYANA despite 2 NGT cases (OA 295/2021 & OA362/2022) & NGT categorically stating ILLEGAL MINING IS RAMPANT
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Gaurav Sarup
Gaurav Sarup@gsarup·
@rishibagree Show the whole video. Seems like you have just learned how to edit videos
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Rishi Bagree
Rishi Bagree@rishibagree·
“If China invades India through Ladakh, we will not stop China but will show path to China getting inside” - Sonam Wangchuk
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Aravalli Bachao
Aravalli Bachao@AravalliBachao·
A failed model being imposed on the ctzens of Gurgaon-Faridabad.WTE will generate toxic fumes, affect humans & wildlife & eat into already shrinking Aravallis, the last remainng lungs of NCR.V condemn this ill-fated plan by the Govt @NayabSainiBJP @raonarbi
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Gaurav Sarup
Gaurav Sarup@gsarup·
What kind of madness is this? You are destroying a forest to create a forest park???? No mother is going to bless you for this. Your #matrivan can’t be built by destroying the forest!!! @cmohry @NayabSainiBJP @RaoNarbir @ForestHaryana #SayNoToMatriVan #AravalliBachao
Hindustan Times@htTweets

According to the Aravallis Bachao Citizens Movement, between eight and 10 earthmoving machines have been deployed since early Monday to flatten and clear an area equivalent to two football fields.

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Aravalli Bachao
Aravalli Bachao@AravalliBachao·
Every encroachment in the forest MUST GO! Illegal #construction must stop. One CANNOT build in the name of an imaginary "God" by killing the living God; Nature. @NayabSainiBJP @moefcc @DEFCCOfficial #aravallis #forest #wildlife #encroachment #WildlifeConservation
Dr. Leena Dhankhar@leenadhankhar

Green Alert from Gurugram’s Aravallis 🚨
The National Green Tribunal (#NGT) has issued notices to the Centre, Haryana Govt, #Pollution Control Board, and a local #temple trust over alleged illegal #construction and #environmental violations in the ecologically sensitive Haiderpur Viran forest zone in Sector 54, Gurugram. The petition, filed by environmentalist @Vaishali_Rana_C of the Aravallis Bachao movement, highlights shocking claims: cement roads, illegal #borewells, and a gaushala with 300 cattle have come up—all within protected #forest land. A natural creek crucial for stormwater #drainage has also been concretised. #SaveAravallis #GreenJustice #NGT #EnvironmentalViolation #GurugramNews #ClimateCrisis #ForestEncroachment #HaiderpurViran #AravallisBachao #EcologicalEmergency

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Gaurav Sarup
Gaurav Sarup@gsarup·
@MathildeRa77404 The only question is when will this become an election issue. Until then we can forget about any change.
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Vaishali Rana Chandŕ
Vaishali Rana Chandŕ@Vaishali_Rana__·
@sumedhasharma86 @ForestHaryana @RaoNarbir @cmohry @moefcc And this happens to b same area where DLF was cutting trees in t night (9pm to 4.30am on 9-10th June)!!Wonder y Water holes in this stretch of Aravallis aren't being filled up by Wildlife Dpt Gurgaon? Btw forest dpt does NOT find this area lk a forest ,irrespective of ownership!
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Vishnu Som
Vishnu Som@VishnuNDTV·
Can experts here help me identify this?
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Gaurav Sarup
Gaurav Sarup@gsarup·
@BluSmartIndia you were a breath of fresh air in a really crappy taxi marketplace. Sad to hear about your downfall. Hopefully you return someday. Loss for your customers.
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Gaurav Sarup
Gaurav Sarup@gsarup·
Online consumer grievance portal also not working. Officials sending consumer for a loop. How can electricity dept have no wire? Or how can they not know when wire will be available? This is incompetence! @ukcmo is this #ViksitUttarakhand?
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Gaurav Sarup
Gaurav Sarup@gsarup·
@ukcmo 2 months since payment to #UPCL for setting up temp connection. Temp poles, NO WIRE, NO METER & the dept says “Work Completion” See screenshot. > 3 weeks since the poles have been put up. Dept office in Almora say there is no wire to install!! No timeline also.
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Gaurav Sarup
Gaurav Sarup@gsarup·
@ICICIBank why is your home loan dept asking for caste category information?@ICICIFoundation doesn’t this go against your goal for inclusive growth? @RBI please take note.
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sanjoy ghose
sanjoy ghose@advsanjoy·
An Indo-Pak Match. Zakir’s tabla v/s Nusrat’s voice #zakirhussain
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