Last week, one of the finest, gentlest humans I've ever known—Suresh Puttaswamy—lost his fight to Covid-19. His loss is devastating, not only to his family, but literally to tens of thousands of people with whom—and for whom—he toiled tirelessly, but quietly, his entire life …1

A story about Danish Siddiqui. In Feb 2020, I was rehearsing my TEDx talk in India when he, a fellow speaker, sat down next to me to ask about my work. I had no idea who he was. He said simply he was also a journalist. Only later did I realize the humility in that description.

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What does the Constitution have to do with Olympic Hockey? Jaipal Singh Munda, the fiery Constituent Assembly Member and force behind the Jharkhand movement, captained the Indian Hockey team and led India to an Olympic Gold in the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympics

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Justice UU Lalit, Supreme Court Judge & Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority will be shortly releasing a Kannada legal awareness comic book authored by @avarekad published by KSLSA, in Kalburgi today. I am one of the characters in the book😀

BREAKING: APPEAL DISMISSED #SudhaBharadwaj #SupremeCourt

Thanks a lot Prakash Raj ! Congratulations to Srichandana!

Remember, your new tool/research/technique doesn't "democratize cartography" and "allow anyone to make maps now." It only makes it easier for a set of privileged people (who have time/electricity/computer skills) to make maps the way you think they should be made.

Here you go: Wordle 221 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 224 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Daily Octordle #508 4️⃣9️⃣ 🔟5️⃣ 6️⃣🕚 🕛7️⃣ Score: 64

Effing piece of shits.

Only weather, not public transport.

With the old website gone, I'm down to this now

शिक्षित बेरोज़गार The Sherpa Trail: Stories from Darjeeling and Beyond: rolibooks.com/product/the-sh…

[Thread] 2-3 days back a Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan refused to direct a DNA test to determine paternity in a case where the wife had an affair with another man. This judgment has caused heartburn, especially to so-called men's rights activists.

What a story!!

Beautiful piece by Meera Srinivasan: thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…