What an awful saga this has become. Some day, culpability for dicking around with these poor animals will be established. Prison sentences should follow. All this for vanity and sycophancy! indianexpress.com/article/india/…

Re-upping. Deep sea mining makes questionable claims; and comes with hard ecological impacts. This time around, will the world heed scientists' warnings or will it be deja vu all over again -- a la global warming?

On point from Aakar Patel. Take what happened to MP's once-illustrious culture department under the BJP and the RSS -- high budget for events, most tenders to one company, and low salaries (Rs 30,000 a month) for artists. 1. thewire.in/political-econ… 2. thewire.in/political-econ…

Update: 3 goons who were arrested and released on bail by court because of weaker sections by the police. Thanks to Dr.Jitendra Awhad for asking the police to add more sections to the FIR. The police later approached the court adding two more sections (BNS 302 and BNS 311 sections)

Riding the bus and overhearing a hijabi woman talking with another woman wearing shorts. They're talking about gases on Mars and the function of temperature and other astrophysics things I don't understand. For ten minutes, the world has shown me what it could be. Should be.

no one works harder -- or more ingeniously -- in this country than the scammers. i am almost filled with respect.

This is not a detainment camp in World War II, nor a prison in the Holocaust, this is Gaza in 2024. A chilling reminder that history repeats. A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.

After a long, long time, took a print subscription to a newsmagazine. And so, this is an appreciation tweet for Vaishna Roy under whom Frontline has become mandatory reading.

“I asked Kaushik, ‘Why would you kill a Muslim? Only because of a cow?’” said Mishra, sitting in a chair on the rooftop of his two-room apartment in Faridabad. “‘You could have shot at the car wheel or called the police. Why take the law in your own hands?’"

Physicist MV Ramana on why nuclear power is not the solution to world’s energy needs theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Astonishing how little we know about our planet. This gorgeously produced @reuters report on the costs/benefits of deep sea mining was published last November. Less than a year later, comes a huge new discovery. The nodules eyed by miners produce oxygen (carboncopy.info/deep-sea-minin…).

THEY FUCKING BOMBED THE POLIO VACCINATION CENTRE.

Ooof! Rahul Bhatia's "The Identity Project" has made it to the The Economist. economist.com/culture/2024/0…

“Europe has a China problem.” Don't take it from me. But from the EU's budding new trade Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra. In a new speech in Eindhoven, he raises alarm about restoring a level playing field w. China. And points to another specific area of concern: electrolysers. 1/

Maron E. Greenleaf's new book "Forest Lost" is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Read the intro for free on our website now! ow.ly/U11l50Thj6c

From Gaurav Saini, fresh reporting on how #Vantara is going from strength to strength. The latest? "After sudden cheetah deaths in Kuno, Centre turned to Reliance’s wildlife facility for help". theprint.in/india/after-su…