Sathya Sankaran

8/ Read it here, works on your phone: canitlast.surge.sh Built entirely on open Indian data. Every measure, and its limits, is laid out in the piece. Would love your thoughts, especially if you work in agriculture, water or rural livelihoods.

7/ The best part: you don't have to trust my weighting. The piece is interactive. Move the dials, re-weight land against local economy, and watch a different India appear on the map.

1/ India has a report card for its villages. It measures how each one is doing today. It never asks the harder question: can the place keep going? So I re-scored 612 rural districts to find out. 🧵

7/ I found this at The Linger Farm run by @zenx . Its tagline is "Do Nothing," meant as an invitation to slow down and idle with nature. Turns out it's also how nature works. The moss, the lichen, the spider: all of it exists because the land was left alone.

6/ None of it survives our obsession with control. It survives leaving things alone. Restraint isn't the absence of a decision. It's the decision. Sometimes the smartest move is to let a slower, older intelligence work.

1/ We scrape it off walls and call it ugly. But lichen isn't even a plant. It's a fungus and an alga living as one body. And we still can't grow one from scratch in a lab. One of Earth's commonest life forms, and we can't recreate it. 🧵

6/ If you sing, play, teach, or just love to listen, come be part of it. Try it, then leave your first raaga behind for the next person 👇 twelveswaras.com #CarnaticMusic #Raga

5/ Honest about where it is: 40 raagas today, the common concert raagas a good share of popular kritis are set in, so it covers more than the number suggests. Carnatic first, Hindustani to follow.

1/ Ever been at a Carnatic concert, moved by a raaga you couldn't name? I built twelveswaras: a free "Shazam for raagas." Play it a few seconds of the music and it names the raaga, and shows you how to hear it yourself. 🧵