Rosa Barks

Honest LinkedIn cover pic I am too afraid to upload

Did she just mock western country for having proper road infrastructure? Wow

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I grew up reading Mrinal Pande’s columns in Hindi newspapers, and I have long admired her writing and intellect. Which is precisely why this needs to be called out. What she wrote about Aishwarya Rai is sexist, regressive, and deeply disappointing. It is body-shaming and in bad taste, plain and simple. At a time when we are trying to move beyond judging women by their appearance, comments about a woman’s weight, face, or “lost beauty” feel unnecessary and patriarchal. Who cares whether Aishwarya weighs 40 kilos or 60? The most admirable thing is that she appears completely comfortable in her own skin. In an age where there is immense pressure on women to conform to unrealistic beauty standards, that confidence should be celebrated, not mocked. And then there is the comparison with Rakhi Sawant. Calling either of them caricatures is neither insightful nor funny. If anything, Rakhi is one of the funniest people on the internet. She may say things that don’t always make sense, but she is an easy target who is often dismissed without being understood. Both Rakhi and Aishwarya are self-made women who have carved out their own space despite relentless scrutiny. When respected public intellectuals make remarks like these, they end up sounding no different from online trolls. Such sad observations diminish the conversation rather than enrich it. Aishwarya is aging, as all of us do. I am told she has also been dealing with health issues that are common among people in their late 40s and early 50s. Not everyone can, or should, be expected to look the way they did in their 20s or 30s. We need to accept and embrace that reality. The saddest part is that these comments are coming from a woman many young journalists, both women and men, look up to. @MrinalPande1 ji, this was insensitive and uninformed. It deserves an apology.

MELODY FORGOT TO ADD MODIJIS PHOTO IN A FULL PAGE AD 😂😂😂

Indian Giant Squirrel looks like it was painted by hand Native to the forests of India, the Indian giant squirrel can grow up to 3 feet long and is known for its striking multicolored fur, which ranges from deep red and purple to orange and cream.

Journalist Helly Lyng is so stupid, she wasted a historic opportunity to ask Modiji: “Saaar saar... how do you like to eat your mangoes?" Waste of a journalism degree.

@SwiggyCares @Swiggy It’s Delhi. But why do I need to share a PIN CODE? This is clearly a product failure. Shoving a banner non stop on all screens, baiting us to click on it and then an empty screen. Rehne do. I can deal with not clicking it. Just wanted to flag it.

@therosabarks @Swiggy @therosabarks Thank you for your time. Could you please confirm your PIN code? ^Dani twitter.com/messages/compo…

@Swiggy your bookstore banner has been live over a week on the app and it’s still not functional. When you click on it, it’s an empty Crossword banner. Lol. Is AI now your product manager?

@SwiggyCares @Swiggy Dani, are you an AI too?

@therosabarks @Swiggy @therosabarks Hi there, we did not mean to let you down. Kindly give us a little time to look into this. ^Dani

OMG! Someone, please cleanse my Insta feed from these try Cursor AI ads

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

The Carl Jungification of Twitter is nice and weird at the same time

Cockroach Janta Party is so under-national

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

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crazy how Jean Claude Van Damnnn invented Claude AI then just kept acting

Missing Female #Journalist Found in #Mirzapur #UttarPradesh; Attempt to Burn Her Alive A 40-year-old female Patrakar and YouTuber, Sarita Patel (Sarita Singh), who had been missing since April 30, 2026, was found in a critical condition near a culvert in the Rajgarh area. 1/4

Is Modiji going to demonetise gold? 😂

One of my favourite things I've ever read is about a woman who said that whenever she had a negative thought about herself, she would shout "GUARDS!" and imagine old knights entering and carrying the thought away.

@thevirdas Delhi show was pure artistry. We can tell you crafted every bit by observing the tiniest human details living in the Sounds of India. 👏👏👏