Nirmal Ghosh
@karmanomad
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Author, Poet, Podcaster, Wildlife Conservationist, Film maker. Former foreign correspondent (India, SE Asia, USA). RTs not endorsements.
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foreign ministers will meet virtually tomorrow (US, India, Australia, Japan) -
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FINAL THOUGHT FOR TONIGHT: "The military junta’s violence against the people of Burma is immoral and indefensible." -
@StateDeputySpox
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Most damning quote heard on NPR in report on
#India
#COVIDEmergencyIndia
:
Twitter is now India's health care system.
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30 years of Shah Rukh Khan, and the age of innocence
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Yesterday in Jhirna zone, Corbett Tiger Reserve,
#India
. A reminder that one should always keep a very healthy distance from
#elephants
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More than 30 children ranging in age from 5 to 17 were among at least 510 people killed by the military regime’s forces across
#Myanmar
since Feb. 1.
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If they could see what a state Myanmar is in...
“Every Mu$|!m is a threat to peace & has become a mad Jihadi. I'm not afraid of court cases, I'll repeat what I said in Haridwar (Myanmar like Ethnic cleansing). We've to wipe out the J!hadis. We have to work 4 this.”
Prabodanand's speech on 10th April
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1/2 How linear infrastructure slices through & cuts off
#wildlife
habitat. One of the starkest examples is much-abused, torn & tattered Rajaji National Park in
#Uttarakhand
#India
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"For several hours." Delhi Police not showing up in force within an hour was a choice, not an accident. "For several hours, Reuters witnesses saw outnumbered policemen mostly stand... and do little to quell the violence.
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In 1971, as a 12 year old schoolboy in Calcutta, a city flooded with refugees, I learned that Richard Nixon &
#HenryKissinger
had sent the USS Enterprise to the Bay of Bengal to intimidate Indira Gandhi.
52 years later, I wrote Kissinger's obituary.
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Back to the '60s, when radio was the only news and tenuous link to the outside world...
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"I came late to Rangoon
Everything was already there:
a city of blood,
dreams and gold..."
- Pablo Neruda
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Bannon, Patel say Trump ‘dead serious’ about revenge on media: ‘We're going to come after you’
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Pilibhit, UP : A tiger roaming in the fields while a farmer plows his field in the background ... filmed by a Khalsa farmer
#India
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Reckless people only fuel more human-
#elephant
conflict.
#Elephants
in the Corbett area are becoming more aggressive.
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@ParveenKaswan
For starters the person revving the bike, blaring the horn, clearly escalating, and the youth in front provoking.
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"Royal editor"
Robert Jobson, royal editor at the London Evening Standard, said that he was confident Prince William’s statement was “taken out of context.” Jobson described William as “an educated man,” adding: “I am sure he didn’t mean it to be racist.” 😏
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@TamaraLush
I would also say it is quite unnecessary for cable news reporters / crews to be right out there in the middle of it staggering around in 100mph winds and horizontal rain yelling to make themselves heard
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"A narrow focus on political change will mean only the continued military domination of this country of 54 million people" writes
@thantmyintu
#Myanmar
Needs a New Kind of Democracy
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The army’s power grab is not only destroying democracy, it may also lead to another onslaught against the
#Rohingya
writes
@tunkhin80
#Myanmar
via
@AJEnglish
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Listen to Barack Obama’s chilling description of U.S. involvement in the gigantic 1965
#Indonesia
massacre by
@Schwarz
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Chilling. The warning signs are there.
'US Congress Must Pass Resolution Warning
#India
On
#Genocide
' - Gregory Stanton via
@thewire_in
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#Myanmar
military & police are ensuring that they will be hated and despised by the people for another generation.
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The Ticket Examiner Who Paints Beautiful Images Of The Indian Railways
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'a management-side attorney who in 2006 argued on behalf of Wal-Mart against Maryland law that would have required the retail giant to spend more health care money on its employees. Trump likely to tap Scalia’s son for Labor chief
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Wonderful news, Congratulations - and thank you - Dr Hotez!!
Deeply honored to receive the
@AmerMedicalAssn
Scientific Achievement Award this morning at the virtual
@texmed
meeting, I appreciate all your stalwart and unwavering support this year!
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Hindutva behind growing discord in Indian diaspora in US - and colouring politics too
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One from an old family album, location unknown but certainly either Bengal or Bihar.
#India
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This is a different
#Myanmar
, it is no longer 2011. Significant freedoms were given, now taken away.
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1/2 I would be lying if I said it hasn’t affected me, that I’ve been able to simply brave on. In fact, the threats, the harassment, have made me want to give up journalism. I’ve felt humiliated; I was made a free-for-all for a virtual lynch mob that sexualized my existence.
I write in the Washington Post on an investigation that sheds light on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's machinery of hate and manipulation to target critics and journalists. A critical piece to understand how Modi is using technology to manufacture hate
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Young tiger killed by
#wildlife
snare in Kanha Tiger Reserve buffer forests. RIP...
Snares are the silent killers across the forests of Asia. Huge damage.
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Some 50 Demoiselle Cranes dead near Jodhpur
#Rajasthan
#India
reportedly from
#Pesticides
in seeds.
#birds
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Exquisite essay by
@brainpicker
“How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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Penetrating piece by
@MaxBoot
: Do Europeans act worse than Americans because only 27% of them believe in the God described in the Bible, compared with 56% of Americans? By many measures, such as crime rates and social welfare, Europe is actually a more moral place.
"There are too many examples of evil committed in the name of God to assume that people act morally because they are afraid of divine punishment,"
@MaxBoot
writes
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Reportedly the last relative of Jim Corbett is gone. RIP
The killers blocked the road close to her home with tree branches to prevent her from driving through and was shot multiple times, and the body was seen in a pool of blood with the engine still running.
#Kenya
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"Angel" Kyal Sin, of Mandalay, killed March 3, 2021 in protest against the
#Myanmar
military's coup d'etat.
#LestWeForget
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Dibang FRH, Namdapha Tiger Reserve. Spent 2 weeks there in 1990. Chowkidar showed me how to staunch bleeding from leech bites with burnt cotton.
#Gibbons
would whoop unseen every morning. Great
#Hornbills
would flap across leaden skies. Pic: Debal Sen
#wildlife
#biodiversity
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📍RATIONING CARE has begun in Southern California w/ 0% ICU beds in many hospitals. This is from a Pasadena, CA hospital declaring to all patients that
#COVID19
emergency rationing of care has begun.
➡️ Care will be prioritized by survival likelihood. Sobering. We are now here.
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LET THIS SINK IN: So many people have died in Los Angeles that officials have suspended air-quality rules that limit cremations because current 2x deaths is “leading to hospitals, funeral homes & crematoriums exceeding capacity” unable to clear backlog of dead bodies.
#COVID19
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Intellectual honesty is a rare commodity. This book from
@MaxBoot
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A message from me about the disturbing silence on the right about my new book “The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right.” Conservatives are ducking a difficult debate about their complicity with Donald Trump.
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What is India Today smoking?
Did you know that Vladimir Putin's use of military intervention to create new states in eastern Ukraine bears uncanny similarities with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's 1971 tactics in the Indian subcontinent?
Watch this video to know more
#NewsMo
#ITVertical
#RE
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Suddenly my quiet NW Washington DC neighbourhood sounds like Delhi after India has won a cricket contest - cars honking, people whooping and laughing, chatter and noise all round..
#Election2020results
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@mrsinghCricUmp
@nivedita_Him
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They didn't even wait until
#DishaRavi
got a lawyer
"Shocking abdication of judicial duties"- Senior Adv Rebecca Mammen John comments on
#DishaRavi
remand.
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The U.S. needs to figure out how to deal with a nuclear-armed
#Pakistan
closely aligned w
#China
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#Afghanistan
&
#India
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@Aparna_Pande
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Re-upping this important and encouraging piece from
@saliltripathi
A message from the Khan Market gang
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Kosi river earlier today. Grave danger. 34 already killed in floods as
#Uttarakhand
rivers rise.
#Nainital
(District HQ) cut off.
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Carl Sagan in 1996
"We've arranged a society based on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is gonna blow up in our faces." —Carl Sagan, May 27th, 1996
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The ongoing tragedy of guns in the United States of America. Lives shattered. Virtually on a daily basis, somewhere or the other.
“The hysterical mother begs for an ambulance as a man in the background says repeatedly, ‘breathe, baby.’ ‘My husband made a mistake and shot her because he thought she was an intruder. She was in our garage … Oh my God.’”
No charges have been filed.
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Wonderful cam trap shot from Virachey National Park
#Cambodia
, by
@FaunaFloraInt
Neofelis nebulosa, the Clouded Leopard.
#wildlife
#biodiversity
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This is Puntung, male Sumatran
#rhino
in Tabin who died in 2017. Now there is only 1 female left in
#Malaysia
, & maybe around 80 left in
#Indonesia
. Very scattered, pretty much functionally extinct.
#extinction
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The United States is not just careening toward a significant risk of political violence around the 2024 presidential election. It’s also mostly oblivious to where it’s headed.
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@ElbridgeColby
I remember the kerfuffle when the late Lee Kuan Yew said Xi Jinping was like Nelson Mandela. The criticism missed the point, which he stated - that "He has iron in his soul"
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"A peaceful place, or so it looks from space,
A closer look reveals the human race."
- Grateful Dead : 'Throwing Stones' (1987)
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The richest 90 people have as much wealth as the bottom half of the population combined.
“It's unthinkable to me that it has been normalized in American culture that you can work full-time and still be poor,” says Ford Foundation president Darren Walker. Walker says he knows what it’s like to be in the bottom 1%, and now the top.
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That time a guy in
#Mongolia
gave me his Golden Eagle. I was trying to hold it at literal arm's length in case it bit my head off. It was so heavy that my arm was quivering & it tightened its grip & even in that leather glove my hand felt like it was being crushed in a vice.
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26 journalists have demanded
@VOANews
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@pwidakuswara
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Not only a victory for "greens &
#wildlife
activists." It is a victory for
#water
&
#biodiversity
& the country & the planet. Wildlife board rejects railway line plan through Melghat reserve - Times of
#India
cc
@BittuSahgal
via
@timesofindia
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The United States stands ready to work with
#ASEAN
and other partners in the region to bring about the return of stability and prosperity in
#Myanmar
-
@derekchollet
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‘Everyone is aghast.’ India’s move to weaken forest protections outrages conservationists | Science | AAAS
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Coca Cola, Pepsi, Danone, Nestle, Bimbo, and other bottling and junk food companies extract over 133 billion liters of water, and then dump at least 119 billion liters of contaminated water back into
#water
basins and aquifers.
#Mexico
Mega corporations like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Danone are making around 494 times what they spend by bottling water in Mexico and selling it back to locals who have no choice but to buy it.
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#PLOSBiology
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#COVID19
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@PeterHotez
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