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Won the Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize (silver) given by @UNCANews on Dec 15 2023 in NYC for the #climatechange stories done for @PARInetwork & an essay on missing cities' voices in @COP27P done for @CitiesQuestion Honoured to pose with @antonioguterres Sharon Stone & @Atayeshe
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
As fatal to mistake gentleness for kindness as to mistake kindness for friendliness.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
Contemplation means placing a larger frame around everything, so the small falls into place and we’re reminded of all that doesn’t change. It’s like walking out of a tiny cell into a vast sunlit meadow. No magic or amazement, but just a change of perspective--and proportion.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
The Japanese character for “busy,” my wise friend tells me, means “losing one’s heart.”
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
“Don’t be afraid that your life will end,” wrote Thoreau, “be afraid that it will never begin!”
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
Home, she said simply, is where the art is. Perhaps suggesting that art is the best home that we can fashion, not inherit. But Bono had said that home is where "the hurt is." Which could mean that art and hurst are all but interchangeable, one giving rise to the other.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
I'd never guessed that the gap between generations could be greater than the one between cultures. History today separates us more than geography.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
“A book,’ said W.H. Auden, “is any piece of writing that one does not read but is read by.” Which may be why more and more avoid books, as if to avoid the sensation of being seen too deeply.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
We keep things for a rainy day, never thinking that the rain might be a torrential storm that washes everything away.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
Maybe the mind itself is a kind of artificial intelligence—a very fast and sophisticated computer but one without heart or soul, which thus keeps us away from the deepest truths and all that lies beyond the reach of reason.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
UnPOLLUTE hosted a powerful conversation in From Headlines to Ground Truth – How the Written Word Shapes Climate Accountability. The panel explored how headlines and truth can often diverge—and how the real crisis is the lack of accountability at individual,
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
2 Sep 2025
The familiar and long-heralded joy of growing older: contentment trumps achievement.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
27 Aug 2025
You own only what you can’t lose in a shipwreck, the Sufis say; I would add that you know only what can’t be disproved by calamity.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
23 Aug 2025
Maybe, as we come to believe in our own importance less, we come to believe in everything else much more?
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
22 Aug 2025
“We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and subjects we thrust on their attention," wrote Thoreau, reminding us that what comes out of us will reflect nothing but what goes into us.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
10 Aug 2025
“In proportion as our inner life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office." Thoreau's observation of 150 years ago seems more relevant than ever now that the post-office has come to our screens.
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Shalini Singh 🇮🇳 / ਸ਼ਾਲਿਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ / शालिनी सिंह retweeted
6 Aug 2025
Might saying “I wonder,” rather than “I believe” (or “I know"), be the best way to step beyond the world's mounting dividedness?
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"Visible Work, Invisible Women" by @PSainath_org on @PARInetwork showed how hugely undervalued women's work in agriculture has been.
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Replying to @FicciCSR
Discussion underway on #Women at the Heart of Nation Building, exploring how #leadership and #livelihoods drive impact. @Shalininess @PARInetwork
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Congratulations @NamitaWaikar ! Glad to have made my debut as a 'book conversationalist' with yours!
This evening with @Shalininess & @PSainath_org and @arpitayodapress & @readingisha of #YodaPress Heartfelt thanks to everyone who came over for the book launch and made it my day!
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Thrilled to share my book: FARMERS PROTEST! A Movement for Our Times #YodaPress Do come for the Book Launch on Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 6:00PM at IIC Annexe Lecture Room 2, New Delhi. I will be in conversation with @Shalininess Concluding talk by @PSainath_org
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