Excerpt. New poem. Moods:Geeks and Freaks: indiesunrise.blogspot.com/20… सिर्फ़ ढाई अक्षर पर कितना गूढ़ है ये शब्द प्रेम, प्यार, मोहब्बत मतलब 'स्व' को त्याग कर समो दो अपने अस्तित्व को अपने प्रेमी में ये दुनिया ये समाज, हमारी प्रथाएं - परम्पराएं यही तो उम्मीद करती हैं #Hindi

We need more such motivation groups

Hey @InstamartS @Flipkart @amazonIN @bigbasket_com @letsblinkit your paper delivery bags are sturdy and good to be reused. How about taking them back? Customers can save the unsoiled ones and your delivery agents can collect them next time. What say? #savetrees #saveenvironment

Illegal dyeing units running openly in Fauji Colony, a residential area. These Red Category industries operate without ETP, dumping toxic chemical effluents straight into the drain that flows into the Yamuna River. Residents are forced to breathe poisonous air while the river dies. Why is no action being taken? @DPCC_Pollution @MCD_Delhi @DelhiJalBoard @gupta_rekha @LtGovDelhi @p_sahibsingh

नए नए अध्यक्ष बने हैं, काफिले के बिना जलवा नहीं दिखेगा ना सर जी...

So true

Gandhi was frustrated that even while protesting the British, every time a freedom fighter signed a document, they were using Quink (Parker)/Stephens (British) ink. He saw it as a symbolic defeat. Gandhi personally asked Satish Chandra Dasgupta (a legendary chemist, I will write separately about him) to create an ink that would not betray Indian paper. Satish Chandra did not want to run a business, so he passed the formula (Krishna Dhara) to 2 brothers, Nanigopal & Sankaracharya Maitra in Rajshahi (now Bangladesh). They started Sulekha (named by Tagore) in a small room with a single stove. British inks of the 1930s were notorious for being Iron-Gall based. These were highly acidic. If you look at British-era documents today, many have holes where the ink was the acid literally ate through the paper over 50 yrs. The Maitra brothers realized that Indian paper (often handmade/low-quality) would disintegrate under British ink. They engineered Sulekha to be pH-neutral. They used a secret infusion of tannins from indigenous sources & refined them to ensure the ink was archival. The reason many 1940s Indian revolutionary pamphlets are still readable today, w/o the paper crumbling, is specifically due to the non-corrosive chemistry of Sulekha. Also, Satyajit Ray, who was a master calligrapher (he designed his own fonts like Ray Roman), preferred Sulekha because of its Matte-Finish density.

Hey @Swiggy your instamart delivery agent brings half the order, support executive refunds half the due amount, executive on phone call fails to provide any resolution. Chat window is closed. Do you really care?

The death of Yuvraj is not just a tragedy — it is an indictment of our governance. Experts are rightly pointing to the absence of signage, safety norms, and basic administrative responsibility. But the real scandal is not who was at fault in that moment. It is what happened after. That a full machinery of state, with all its resources and authority, could not save his life. Every panelist is calling the indifference shocking — and yet the silence from those in charge is louder still. This is where accountability begins, not with sympathy, but with consequences. Basic administration is not optional. It is the first duty of the state.

ऐसे ही तो बनेगा मेरा भारत महान

AQI today is a mere 513. AQI, tum aage badho, hum tumhare sath hain. #DemandCleanAir #delhiairpollution #DelhiAQI

Why have we stopped talking about pollution? Don't we need clean breathable air anymore? @Sonal_MK @newslaundry ##DemandCleanAir ##DelhiAQI #delhiairpollution

Absolutely true. I find walking in the USA a pleasure for the same reasons. Drivers stop 10 feet away if you're crossing the road even without the zebra crossing. Also, even 50 year old neighborhoods are so well planned and maintained that there's no waterlogging. No encroachment

Spot on!

A micro-forest in the heart of my city is about to chopped down to make a Metro Station, which was perhaps entirely avoidable. Have seen this micro-forest for decades, flourishing, with thousands of happy birds nesting here. All will be gone in a few days. Birds trees all gone. BTW please plant 1 tree - Ek ped maa ke naam - for sure. #MetroStation #MicroForest #EdPedMaKeNaam

बिल्कुल सही कहा।

NH-24 right now. Hardly any visibility. #DelhiPollution #delhiweather #DemandCleanAir

“When Students Don’t Come Home” I am writing this as a conscious journalist from the Northeast, carrying the weight of years of silence, loss and unanswered questions. Late Anjel Chakma was preparing to return to his hometown for the holidays, a routine moment of relief every student understands. But that journey never happened. Instead, Anjel’s life was violently altered and ultimately taken in Dehradun, far from home, far from safety and far from the comfort of those who raised him. His death is not an isolated tragedy. It is a painful and familiar reminder for every family in the Northeast that sends its children away in search of education and a better future. More than a decade has passed since Nido Taniam, a young student from Arunachal Pradesh, was killed in South Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar. That incident shook the nation’s conscience. Committees were formed, guidelines were drafted, helplines were launched, and special police units were introduced to protect people from the Northeast living outside their home states. Yet today, looking at Anjel Chakma’s death, we must ask: what truly changed? What we have not honestly acknowledged is that the Northeast continues to be seen as “different” in the national imagination. That difference has become dangerous. It manifests as casual slurs, suspicion, ridicule and at times, fatal violence. This mindset was not created overnight and it has not disappeared with laws or advisories. We often comfort ourselves by saying systems are in place. But systems do not control the minds of men. The prejudice that fuels such attacks has existed since the earliest days of our collective existence, passed on quietly, normalised, and tolerated. The question before us is uncomfortable: do we keep forgiving a rotten mindset until more innocent lives are lost? Enough is enough. Special helplines and designated police units are not enough to protect students who are targeted because of how they look, speak or belong. What is needed is institutional seriousness, not symbolic gestures. A dedicated national ministry or statutory body that focuses solely on the vulnerabilities, safety and dignity of Northeastern people across India, without distractions, without dilution, must be debated urgently. Will it work? That remains to be seen. But doing nothing has already failed too many times. In response to Anjel Chakma’s death, the Chakma Students’ Union proposed a protest at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, on December 28, 2025, demanding justice and stronger safeguards for students from the Northeast. This protest was not only for Anjel. It was for every student who left home with hope and returned in a coffin or never returned at all. However, the proposed protest by the Chakma Students’ Union Delhi was postponed after police permitted only 50 participants. Anjel Chakma’s death is not just news. It is memory. It is a warning. It is grief carried by an entire Northeast region. I write this not to provoke sympathy, but to demand recognition, that the Northeast is not an exception within the nation, and its children are not expendable. I write this because silence, at this point, is no longer an option. @pushkardhami @DrManikSaha2 @uttarakhandcops @HMOIndia @DelhiPolice @mygovtripura @tripura_cmo @PMOIndia @NodalofficerNE #JusticeForAnjelChakma #NortheastLivesMatter #EnoughIsEnough #ProtectNortheastStudents

Am left speechless.

Big reset 😀 Name change is the new master stroke. And who is the real 'pujya bapu' btw?