You’re warmly invited to the launch of my debut book Sheher Mein Gaon: Culture, Conflict and Change in the Urban Villages of Delhi at Khoj Studios, in the heart of an urban village that has deeply shaped this work — Khirki. Join us for a conversation with Sohail Hashmi,

I love stray dogs. Especially the ones who join me on my runs in Bangalore.

“You worked at Twitter, do you know why my reach has suddenly dipped?” I’ve been asked this quite often lately. The honest answer is, “I don’t know” - my own reach is a fraction of what it used to be. So while I don’t have a magic formula, I can take a guess at what’s currently

Left: 9:40 AM today Right: 9:40 PM today PM2.5: 160 To 249 µg/m³ GRAP II invoked:( This is what “green” looks like. Every burst called celebration is another breath lost. Rekha Gupta Manjinder Singh Sirsa Commission for Air Quality Management #RightToBreathe #IsGreyTheNewGreen #DelhiAirCrisis

First, government encourages to burst crackers to create emissions. Then, they incinerate the cracker waste to create more emissions. No wonder we live in the most polluted capital in the world. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/pos… via Vibha Sharma The Times Of India Commission for Air Quality Management

To folks asking me why I don't leave India, I won't because I believe in something, and am willing to go all the way. Sometimes that means dog bites, watching my parents grow old from afar, landing in a new country with only $300, sharing a bed with pigeon nests, I have built two

Now I'll trust Signal all the more

The #beagle enjoys snatching forbidden objects and luring humans into a game of chase. #beaglefacts 📷 PKR | প্রশান্ত | پرشانتو / Twitter

Did you know? 💥 Firecrackers were never part of the original Diwali. The festival of light began thousands of years ago - with diyas, music, food & gratitude, not gunpowder. 🪔

After changes upon changes we are more or less the same... after a half hour or air purification we are more or less at max AQI reading

Indigo doesn't have an Antonov.

Distressing and shocking. A world renowned scholar who has dedicated her life to the study of print and literary history of North India was unceremoniously deported.

Dhaka 2016 - which saw heavy rain during Bakr-Id - being passed off by IT cell lead bigot as India today

Hemant Mehta 🇮🇳 NIKHIL SATHE Deewanji Sabeer Bhatia Diggy Ankoti The data underscores Sabeer's concern: fireworks' CO2 footprint is trivial globally (under 0.001%), but their real harm lies in localized spikes of PM2.5, SO2, and heavy metals that exacerbate respiratory issues during Diwali. One night's bursts can push AQI to hazardous levels

Desi wind turbine up and working in balcony. Letting it run for a day before installing in final location on windier side of balcony and wiring it up. (Miss you, Robert Murray Smith. RIP. Wouldn't be possible without your videos and infectious enthusiasm for science.)

Unnamed GOI officials, on condition of “strict anonymity”, are suggesting Prof Francesca Orsini was blacklisted because she did ‘research’ which visiting India in a tourist visa. Think about this for a second. Orsini is a professor of Hindi, her most celebrated work is on the

#AQI The Times Of India

Article 19 vs Article 21? TheLiverDoc™

Present USA stands on land it occupied. It wasn’t built by ‘Christians’ alone (who kept slaves, btw). It was founded on secular principles. If you choose to refer to an immigrant who contributes to society as “an ungrateful little bitch”, you shouldn’t call yourself a democracy.

Nirav Modi: Guilty of bad optics? Vijay Mallya: Guilty of bad optics?