Sparsh Agarwal
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Reviving Darjeeling | @dorjeteas | Creating Abundance | @altcarbonindia
Selim Hill, Darjeeling
Joined July 2017
Today @AltCarbonIndia launches @AlterMagIndia-- a monthly publication bringing to the world new literary writing on science, technology, & progress from South Asia. A quarter of humanity live in the Indian subcontinent, undergoing one of the fastest economic & technological
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picture this— you get a party invite. guest list: 1. Percy B. Shelley 2. Mary Shelley (lover of 1, author of Frankenstein) 3. Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of 2) 4. Lord Byron (lover of 2’s step-sister) Thomas Moore gate crashes to write about it.
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We just issued our first Carbon Credits from the Darjeeling Revival Project. Five years ago, @SparshAgarwall & I decided to move back to Selim Hill— our family’s heritage tea estate in Darjeeling. The existential threat of the pandemic & climate change was forcing our family to
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Big Update from @AltCarbonIndia! We're hiring across all roles to scale our Darjeeling Revival Project (and others coming up!) We will be undertake gigaton scale Carbon Dioxide Removal, adapt Indian agriculture to climate impact, & reach Planetary Intelligence.
altcarbon.notion.site
You can find our operating principles here
We just issued our first Carbon Credits from the Darjeeling Revival Project. Five years ago, @SparshAgarwall & I decided to move back to Selim Hill— our family’s heritage tea estate in Darjeeling. The existential threat of the pandemic & climate change was forcing our family to
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The website of Alter Magazine - a space for “new literary writing on science, technology, and progress from South Asia,” has just gone live.👇🏼 The first long-form piece - my essay on the secret history of Indian science fiction - will be published on 22 Nov. Watch this space!
The future beckons to us. Alter Magazine's website is live - a home for stories that explore the dreams, dilemmas, and discoveries shaping the Subcontinent’s imagination and progress.
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very important as a founder to find a partner who is willing to support the mission and focus on the bigger picture
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this is exactly why we started @AlterMagIndia!
The team @AlterMagIndia is creating a desi technoptimism magazine and I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve always held a certain reverence for scifi as a medium. I consider it a fundamentally important pursuit. Let me explain: As humans, we’ve crafted stories about every bit of the
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e-commerce should have this level of delight
When you toggle the lights, the entire page dims to create a more immersive sense of the lighting Such a great design detail 💡
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Launch party for the first issue of Alter Magazine (Luma link below) 🗓️22nd November 🕔5pm 📍IISc iHub, Bangalore (Quiz time: guess which book the below image is from - respond in the comments) #AlterMagazine
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Thinking of that famous quote today: “Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.” - Chico Mendes
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anyone else think Rama and Mira Nair don’t seem to get along?
Zohran Mamdani closes victory speech as mayor of New York to Dhoom Machale. This is like a Bollywood movie in real life 😭🔥
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we actively do not accept Indri bottles as gifts at our house!
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Science. Technology. Progress. Bringing to you @AlterMagIndia. Incubated by the Climate Studio at @AltCarbonIndia. DM me if you want to see a sneak peak of our first article. Or if you're a writer looking for a space to publish long-form, non-fiction. Launching Soon!
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We really cooked with @AlterMagIndia. 😳 So bloody excited to launch this. Who wants to see an early preview of our work? DM me!
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Zohran Mamdani
you can just tweet “Zohran Mamdani” and immediately get 1000 likes
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In one of the most unexpected proposals ever— infra creation meets CO2 removal!
If you have an excavation budget of a trillion tonnes of basalt (enhanced weathering for CO2 capture) you get to build All The Canals.
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wild stat-- we have more satellites in space than automatic weather stations deployed on the ground in india! why does this matter? - sparse data collection infra affects agri productivity, weather modelling, & climate resillience - without dense on-ground data collection,
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