Daktar Vinay

forms.gle/gJAhEB8SgLH2av… Presenting before you a ten question set on Arunachal Pradesh, this being Episode 1 of the series titled विनयेन सह भारत: (India with Vinay). Free to play. Scores private. No personal details captured. Other episodes to follow in this thread.

Indian society has become amoral and apathetic After a boat capsized and people died due to criminal negligence - people are sharing MAA KI MAMTA caricatures instead of Holding the authorities ACCOUNTABLE

@godoolally The Phantom?

Q4. Guess which comic book hero traces his origin to the Singh Brotherhood from Bengal, who killed his father in the 16th century leading him to take the Oath of the Skull and fight them for 400 years. #doolallyq

@godoolally Prada

Q1. Guess which luxury fashion house faced backlash in India after showcasing ₹1.2 lakh leather sandals at its Milan runway that closely resembled GI-tagged Kolhapuri chappals. #doolallyq

@godoolally Tulip

Q2. Guess which flower shares its name with the word 'turban,' both derived from the Persian 'dulband,' after Europeans thought its bloom resembled one. #doolallyq

@godoolally Sniper

Q3. Guess which word for an specialist military marksman originated from hunting a marsh bird notorious for camouflage and erratic flight that made it extremely hard to shoot. #doolallyq

Look at this map. Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine. And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet. The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers. What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades. But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions. A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest. A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is. You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one. In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said. It chose the numbers. The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi. All forests, on paper. The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped.  The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion.  It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning. The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency.  I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to. This is not a technicality. This is the con. It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement. For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant. They did nothing. Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it. The BJP is different. When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it. The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real.  Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated.  The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally. CONT++

@RaghavNC Mahua

Q. 1017: In March–April, villagers wake up at dawn to gather sweet, fleshy flowers that quietly drop overnight from this tree, so rich in sugars & alcoholic properties that even elephants, monkeys, and sloth bears are known to be fond of this tree and are intoxicated by it. Considered the “Tree of Life”, as all the parts of the tree are put to use, it sustains tribal economies, and shares its name with a fiery Indian Member of Parliament. What tree? #QuizOfTheDay

@knowrk Lantern rouge in Tour de France?

It's time for #RKKaSawaal (#59) Let's see who cracks this. #sports #trains #lanterns

@RaghavNC @CornershopHQ @FatboySlim Asha Bhosle

Q. 1008: This 1997 track by @CornershopHQ from their album "When I Was Born for the 7th Time" saw modest success on release, before a remix by @FatboySlim turned it into a chart-topping Britpop hit in the UK. The lyrics of this song are a tribute to which Guinness World Records holder? #QuizOfTheDay

Questions from previous editions can be found in this compilation. Order link: forms.gle/Rjd8JmmBcewt7m…

Teaser for Quriozzity Open 2026.

@RaghavNC Artemis

Q.1003: How do we know this (in the news) Olympian goddess, daughter of Zeus and Leto, is the twin sister of Apollo and the Greek goddess of the Moon, often portrayed as a fiercely independent huntress? #QuizOfTheDay

"With a fellow athlete?" 🤦‍♀️ Captain of the Indian men's hockey team

@RaghavNC Ballot

Q. 991: In ancient Athens, citizens used small clay spheres, dropping them into containers to perform a certain function. Which modern term, derived from the Italian word for “little ball,” traces its origins to this practice? #QuizOfTheDay

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@godoolally Chi chi for Govinda

Q8. Guess the Bollywood actor whose affectionate nickname meaning “little finger” in Punjabi, was given by his mother Nirmala Devi as he was the youngest of six siblings, also invoking the legend of Lord Krishna lifting Govardhan on his little finger. #doolallyq

@godoolally Bumble?

Q2. This 2025 biographical drama stars Lily James as Whitney Wolfe Herd and traces her journey from the toxic culture at Tinder to building a women-first dating platform that reshaped the industry. Name the app she founded. #doolallyq

@godoolally Serendipity

Q4. What word was coined in a 1754 letter to Horace Mann by English writer Horace Walpole after reading the Persian tale The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes kept making clever accidental discoveries of things they were not looking for? #doolallyq

@godoolally Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Q2. Speaking of Japan, the 16th-century Renkō-ji Temple is said to house the alleged ashes of an Indian since September 18, 1945, an issue that continues to spark debate and mystery. Who is he? #doolallyq

@godoolally Dosa

Q5. Economist Raghuram Rajan once used the term “X-economics” to explain how low inflation and moderate interest rates protect purchasing power, indicating that under better economic conditions, people could afford more of a popular South Indian staple, X. ID X. #doolallyq