A personal post from me.. while no one in the Indian cricket team might get to the mark today in Chennai, Ms Savitri Krishnamoorthy,my paternal grandmother hit a 100 * today. She's good for another innings. A moment to celebrate in an otherwise grim year. #interpandemicbaby

#Opinion | How Delhi can clean its air substantially in three years "We must treat Delhi’s air like a patient in a multi-speciality hospital; it needs coordinated interventions across sectors such as transport, construction and clean cooking, and high-quality, year-round data to assess progress." Writing for the @htTweets, @GhoshArunabha, @KaygeeAtWork, and @Abhishek_Kar_AK outline a 3 year plan to bring Delhi's annual average PM2.5 levels from poor to moderate by 2028 👇 🔗 Read more at hindustantimes.com/opinion/h… #AirPollution #AirQuality #Delhi

Apparently the Nijjar Killing is being counted as an (India) assisted death as well #HumorMe. Jokes apart this is stunning statistic 5% deaths in Canada are of the assisted kind. bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1z1…

Time again for my annual thread of mine and my colleagues' work @SFC_India on air quality. As we descend yet again into nuance-free discourse, shouting matches, and "expert" analysis, here's some sober reading that's hopefully helpful (1/n)

Unfortunately this is a terrible terrible use of science and data, coupled with near complete absence of any ethical frame in which science is bring deployed (badly) for public policy recommendations. Which therefore results in an opinion, and not anything more evidentiary, that is devoid of policy merit, scientific rigour and moral justification. What it does, among other things, for example, is to recommend by implication that we should reduce focus on curbing toxic and other pollution from motor vehicles! Doing so two years in a row in the same manner, even if partly masked the second time over, makes it irresponsible, if not worse. Why I say it: Because the opinion, 2 yrs in a row, comes riddled with these absurdities: 1. Using biomass burning data from all over country (vast rural geography dense urban) to distract away from pollution issues of urbanised dense areas such as Delhi or dirt industrial belts. 2. Confusing actual exposure of people to pollutants with ambient levels of pollution. Ex: vehicular exhaust in your face vs biomass smoke dispersed in open vs biomass burn inhouse. 3. Equating luxury emissions of rich to the suvival essential of poor. 4. Confusing action priorities for indoor pollution and health with outdoor pollution. 5. Trying to suggest a strange one country one priority list solution replacement of airshed specific, pocket specific actions based on different pollution exposures and ambient profiles of cities and other contiguous areas. 6. The absolutely wrong anecdote to start with: the racist nomenclature of 'Asian Brown Cloud' for this black carbon aerosol phenomenon, sensationalist scare mongering publicity of interpreted impact was debunked by globally recognized scientists such as J Srinivasan and S Gadgil as exaggerated unproven raising the fact that substantive bits of the cloud was likely natural phenomenon and not human activity induced. Everyone including UNEP piped down on it after. Lots more to read for anyone online. I could go on and on... And I am only a student of environmental policy making, that the author and I studied at the same 'school': Centre for Science and Environment.

Convinced that nothing short of the involvement of the #IDF will be needed to strike at the heart of the NCR's air pollution @CAQM_Official @MCD_Delhi you could benefit from that kind of on ground intelligence and planning in addressing stationary, dispersed and concealed sources

The medal tally at the #ParisOlympics2024 is nicely poised. China's resurgence is complete. The US will just about retain their top spot, if their women's basketball team win's the final against hosts France (some match up). This is a rivalry that will continue in the years ahead

when Vinesh Phogat had won her SF, and India was ahead 1-0 against Germany in Field Hockey, I was living through this fantasy of atleast 2 Silver medals for India, that would take us above North Korea in the medal tally. The real world is cruel :(. #ParisOlympics2024

No pressure today #NeerajChopra - you're the reigning World and Olympic Champion and not a one 'throw' wonder. Throw your PB and if you can exceed it, that's all we can ask of you. If someone else finds the inspiration to exceed that, so be it.

I know what will solve the air pollution problem in India - if India values every life like #Israel seems to value the hostages that were taken. Right now, India is thinking more like #Hamas - civilian lives are expendable

I'd really like to see a lot of brilliant leaders at the @COP28_UAE , also happening in Dubai, to attempt this, but without the parachute, as penance for the shit show that is unfolding.