“How unhelpful is this clinging to the past... A tree that wants to hold its withered leaves.” ~ Andre Gide 📷 Sally Mann thanks to cs

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Why not make sure that there is no littering? What is the use of public spaces and greenery if the public can’t use it for recreation ? Why do other Asian cities not ban food or bags? What is this about bags? Whose greenery is it anyway ? For whom ?

One of India’s fiercest Supreme Court lawyers just hung up his robes. Here’s the story of Dushyant Dave, a man who made law a tool for justice, not power. A thread on his extraordinary legal journey and why he walked away. 👇

Surf girls of Bangladesh. The girls had been working as street vendors, but began taking surfing and lifeguarding lessons. Despite criticism from the community, they quickly proved they had great talent #WomensArt

The last of the offices in MHA moved out of North Block today. This building has been administrative seat of power since the British days, now to be turned into a museum.

Every mall and airport should have a book vending machine like this

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Just returned from a long shoot in Colombo. A country grappling with economic crisis and fairly recent political turmoil, and yet its capital is cleaner, more organised, and more dignified than the so-called financial capital of a rising superpower. Every time I come back to

No news channel will tell you that the devastation video from Uttarakhand is of cloudburst induced silt flow in the river. 20 million tonnes of excavated soil has been dumped in rivers of Uttarakhand, 56000 trees chopped, blasts all around, all for 12 meter highway of 889 kms.

WHITE SPACE | If #Srinagar has become less green & sadder over the years, I say some of the melancholy may also have to do with our war against trees & flowers. No one forced us to do it. Mirza Waheed writes. frontline.thehindu.com/society/where-…

The legendary historian Richard Eaton's article in Scroll.in is your #mustread this Sunday.

As usual, when ⁦Laura Cumming⁩ describes a great painting, she makes you want to run to see it.

The Memorial of the India's First Ambassador to London In the Bristol suburb of Arnos Vale in Bristol, past rows of weathered gravestones and a winged Victorian angel, stands an Indian chattri to the Mughal Emperor's Ambassador in England.

The wait is over… Nubra’s little cub has a name! 🎉 She’s been given the beautiful name Bheri - named after a river in Nepal, which flows through the mountains that snow leopards call home 🏔️🐆  How gorgeous are they together?! 😍

Imagine paying GST on walking! That is exactly what I am forced to do, when I pay GST for my wheelchair without which I cannot move. It was encouraging to hear the Hon’ble Prime Minister talk about GST reforms by Diwali in his Independence Day speech. I hope in this wave of

Blood moon over Arizona ✨

Rahul Shivshankar This is what an American whose house was burned down during Diwali thinks Indians abroad Celebrate Diwali but understand that houses in US are made out of wood not bricks and mortar