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climate policy, climate finance @CSEIndia @CSE_Climate | previously: coal, environment & development research, Manthan Adhyayan Kendra

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@SehrRaheja
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niece is going to her school dressed as a tomato to recite a poem on Lal Tamatar except she can't say tamatar so she calls it matatar throughout 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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@SehrRaheja
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This women's day I'm manifesting basic : may all government bodies stop sending RTI replies to me addressed 'sir'
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3 years
I live in the Himalayas and accidentally make heart shaped rotis. No complaints today 🔆
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Sambhaji Park, Pune against CAA, NRC Now! #NRC_CAA_Protest #puneagainstcaa #NoNRC
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Sambhaji park, Pune. Now
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3 years
Mom came in w a brownie she made, told me to guess a new ingredient she used. Me, after one quick sniff "rum?". My mother, kind of laughingly, "tum log to kutto ki tarah ek second me pehchan jate ho daru ko" 😂😂😂🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️lol
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My dad updates his WhatsApp dp to something and then updates the 'about' i.e. Whatsapp status to match it ... Like rn it's a photo of his bike at one stop in the hills and the status is "Himachal!!" and this keeps changing in sync 😂😂😂😂❤️❤️
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3 years
The Environment Ministry published the draft Flyash Utilization Notification for public comments on 22 April 2021, at the peak of India’s second covid19 wave. Thread on Manthan’s submission to @MoEFCC (1/n) (link to submission at the end)
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shares feelings/thoughts on social media gf, profile looks like a bot account bf
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2 years
#ReportRelease : We at Manthan have been studying coal, water, and increasingly #flyash for some time now. Our latest report pertains to certain aspects of all three, in light of a @moefcc notification released recently. A short thread 🧵👇
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Sometimes you're just sitting around, drinking weak coffee, making faces and not realising it...
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4 years
Remember when fitting in was about buying new school bag/shoes to match ur frnds?? Now it's just like soo should I get married or get a master's or both ???? 🙄🙄😂🤷🏽‍♀️🧠💤
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In a world where survival of the richest has been true for so long, on some days it completely breaks my spirit to see people doing good, being kind and trying to live in harmony (w others, nature) constantly endure the worst of any crisis. Obviously this is made worse by the fac
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Walked into a cafe in Mcleodganj with Tibetan student I was helping with Eng practice & spotted Luke Dunphy from Modern Family with his mom and crew.Spoke to them for 5 whole minutes, took a photo, got called funny by his mom and promptly changed venue of the English session 🤣
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Tell me the strangest interaction you've had with a celebrity.
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Day 3 of protests against coal mining in Chhattisgarh' Hasdeo forest. #SaveHasdeo #savehasdevarany
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हसदेव अरण्य में खनन परियोजनाओं के खिलाफ धरना का आज तीसरा दिन। #savehasdevarany
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This friend in college once told me thigh gaps are for flamingoes and my life hasn't been the same since
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My three year old niece loves the stray puppies we've been feeding so much that she INSISTED her mother give her water in a bowl and then drank from it like the puppies do kejfjeowosekfe
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The draft environment impact assessment notification #EIA2020 has received a lot of attention in the last two months. A thread on #WorldEnvironmentDay about some reasons this draft needs to be talked about until it is revoked 👇🏽
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@SehrRaheja
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2 years
Boyfriend likes Urdu poetry etc I now call him my Jaan-e-liver and we're still together ... Miracles do happen ✨✨✨
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Another #flyash pond breach flooded an entire village in #Jharkhand this month. The Jharkhand Pollution Control Board visited the BPSCL ash pond just one week before the breach occurred, but the accident was not prevented.
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the thing is that grief doesn't wait for collective anguish to die down. people remembering loved ones no more don't get to "take a break" from the madness. I wish saying sending strength actually did something. Nothing is enough. Yet trying is all we have. UGH.
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4 years
"These pipes have been spewing effluents, salt water and #flyash (a hazardous mix of powdered coal and toxic gases) into a pond near Sepakkam for 20 years, said Sethuraman, the Kattupalli panchayat president." Who pays for ur electricity? #dirtyenergy
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"The enquiry committee has also found deficiencies in the structure of the ash pond and noted that timely action could have prevented this disaster." Indian #flyash ponds continuously demonstrate no struc integ., and reckless maintenance adds to the prob
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This one time, when I was interning in Manipur (I was 19), a journalist came to the org's office for research on a story. Was a festival day so I (the intern not reallyy celebrating) was resp. for helping him w some files. I realised only 3 years later he was raghu Karnad lolll
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Walks in himachal (anywhere with nature?) are inherently meditative #Throwback
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Horrifying video of discharge of #coalash on standing crops of farmers by Khaparkheda power plant in Maharashtra. @moefcc creating new #flyash mission and publishing flyash notifications not enough. @mpcb_official and other authorities need to act now
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Nandgaon ash pond: The khaparkheda TPPS started discharging fly ash on standing crops of villagers ! Who will stop this violation @AUThackeray @NitinRaut_INC @ShripadManthan @SunilKedar1111 @cfsdnagpur @Warriormomsin @PMOIndia @mankabTOI @anuchhabrani
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#JusticeRocks online concert Armed & Dangerous, Unsponsored by Police Departments around the world is live now!!!! Music, satire, poetry, rap - it's all here. Join us to witness art as resistance. @poromboke @thewire_in #PoliceBrutality #artasresistance
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Why am I alive at a time when dialogues like "engineers make the best husbands" are part of mainstream cinema chatter just whyyyyyy 😂😂😭😭😭
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Something about today reminding me of Murugan Lending Library in Adayar. I'd go on many sunny Sunday afternoons after troubling my dad to borrow books and start reading them right there as issuing formalities were slyly pushed onto father as well. The A-Z Mysteries series from
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To a solid fulfilling week after what felt like a long long time... #Jharkhand
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want to quit life and just learn singing and stare at some flowers and be happy. away from the constant battles the ego conjures up every day ...
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i guess you know it's a safe space when at least one person cringes at the use of "sustainable development" 🤪
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#NewRelease : Manthan's latest note presents data about the loss of 17.6 billion Units of power generation due to #flyash related shut downs in Indian thermal power plants between April 2019 and March 2022. For the full (brief) note: #CoalTwitter #coalash
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#feministRumi or something Me to every man that's pissed me off ~ Beyond the world of anger and sorrow, Full of ice cold rage and murderous kindness There is a field I'll stab you there 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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honestly nothing gives more joy than a long pdf that has inside-the-document-hyperlinked table of contents
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You know how ppl r always taking about just how bad the environment scene in India is? Well, this map mrked out by @avli_verma shows just how bad things genuinely are. Varegaon village, a case in point : life surrounded by thermal power plants and ash ponds is abysmal.
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3 years
If u say Eros just right it kind of sounds like ghee roast
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today I miss egg puffs. At one point in life they were part of daily routine (Chennai days). I don't remember the last time I had an egg puff. That's all. 🙃
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A story from our visit to Varegaon village in Maharashtra. While life surrounded by thermal power plants is already difficult, to say the least, proposed expansion of one of them only stands to make matters worse. I write for @HuffPostIndia .
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Remember when Reliance's Sasan ash pond breached on Apr 10th mid lockdown despite repeated warnings nd left 6 people dead and 1000 acres of land flooded with ash slurry? We're exactly two months from that day and state of accountability is far from ideal.
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4 years
#energytransition is not just about advocating renewables. It's as much about reviewing 'desire' as being a direct result of fossil fuel powered industrial capitalism. It's about imagining far lesser & very different consumption of energy. #fridaythoughts
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4 years
increasingly feeling the need to start a 'weep in togetherness' circle where you can just show up to a nature-y place sit in a circle and cry to releaaaaase #2020 mood has carried over to some days this year. Sigh.
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4 years
Things my mother is up to these days
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Over two years after #Essar Mahan TPPs #flyash pond breach, affected farmers continue waiting for complete monetary compensation and adequate remediation of affected farmlands. See story in tweet below for details 👇🏽 #singrauli #coalash #coal
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#GroundUpStories | Farmers in Singrauli can’t tell if they're working on their own plot or someone else’s. Read to find out the reason behind this unusual problem. @Sunil_S_Dahiya @jhamunna @ChatterjeeBadri @SehrRaheja @MedhaKapoor4 @ShripadManthan
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listening to @PorcupineTree today for a nostalgia trip and lolll I was an emo kid
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TW toxic relationships: PSA for anyone in a toxic relationship : if ur partner yells, manipulates and abuses u in *any* way even just once and then you feel guilty and then they apologise and make it seem like they only acted out bcuz xyz reasons, remember - GET THE FUCK OUT. NOW
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I didn't know how consuming being positively distracted by someone can be 😶
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Had exactly *one* drink after a couple of months and I woke up feeling sick. Is this it? Has 2020 also taken away my ability to wreck my body completely???
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3 years
t that the ones hoarding wealth purely because of overt exploitation of people and the planet remain shielded. Hospital bills? No problem. Private getaway to escape madness? No problem. No conscience needed to carry on living the way they do? Never a fucking problem. Idk man. Idk
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thinking about that one time i cried in a cafe (while having coffee alone) and this waitress finishing her shift stopped to ask me if I'm okay before leaving, i mouthed a 'yes' so she said "that's good", smiled and left. i hope she's happy and stuff 🐒
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Named him Sky
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Over two weeks of a total social media detox and only one thing to tweet about upon my return ~ all boys are idiots 😭😭
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Sometimes when I sit in the balcony at night in Dharamshala, I hope there is a sudden powercut, just for a few minutes ... This weird urge to 'see' the night, as night, uninterrupted by orange lamps.
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People who haven't lived in Pune be like
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what happened here?
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Ab se emails me "sorry for the delay" nahi "I was taking a break from capitalistic addiction to productivity" jayega
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My Instagram is really just part nature part me acting like I have 1 M followers
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Wind power aka 'change the source but continue living (increasing consumption) as is' will not work . someone's always paying very heavy costs for mindless energy consumption ... This is part of what really needs to change
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Protest by Bhil adivasis in Pratapgarh district, Rajasthan, against Wind Power projects that threaten their way of life. These ecological conflicts point to the symptomatic nature of climate interventions that are being paraded as solutions. @jasonhickel @g_kallis @degrowth_info
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Happens so often we should start calling it something other than news. Yet another #flyash pipeline breach in #Ennore -_-
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realising only now that almost every epic/myth/literary source from antiquity etc is poetry !!! Like. Most of our understanding of the world way back in the day is derived from decoding poetry over and over again. I don't read poetry atm lol but I am really hoping that changes !
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someone needs to tell indian filmmakers that when characters describe marriage in India as "not a union between two ppl, but between two families" it's a matter of shame not pride. Sad bgm only pls thx 🙄
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3 years
mentally somewhere else today
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Listening to Sufjan Stevens in the morning means you'll end up dreaming about falling in love only
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Accurate depiction of my current state of mind
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'You Blew Me Away' by sculptor Penny Hardy, sculpture made from #upcycled scrap metal #WomensArt
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i remember as a teenager I asked my mom if she thought I was prettier than aliya Bhatt and she just paused
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Some days I swat mosquitoes like a professional other days I'm gently lifting bugs off the floor w a newspaper don't understand this conflict smh
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snail's pace and that's alright 🔆
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You ever add a song to a playlist just for that one riff/ bassline/ outro that's so so good even if u don't really like the whole thing? Just to remember the bits you liked I guess ? Same
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I "ran into" someone in a webinar today. Someone I happened to "meet" in an online course... I. Don't know what to say any more. Wtf, life 😶
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Catch @avli_verma & @ShripadManthan talking about the government's National Inland Waterways program from a critical, research backed lens with @LetIndBreathe on 27th Sep - save the date!! #waterwhat #rivers #EIA2020 #inlandwaterways
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Shows that need new seasons rn (random order) 1. Crashing 2. Tuca & Bertie 3. Kim's Convenience 4. Easy (maybe) 5. Fleabag (maaayybe)
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Someone recently asked me 'So how has your week been?' and I could not remember beyond two days in the past. Literally could not remember. 😶😂😅🤷🏽‍♀️
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Yes I obvs remember thinking to myself 'he's cuuute' and that's about it 😂😂
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Hurts
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pain
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Third ash pond breach in less than 3 months that I'm reading about. We have a massive coal ash problem in India, and these breaches just reiterate that.
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I've been that person who's literally let people walk over me and realise much much later I was manipulated / my niceness was taken advantage of. Sucks to realise this. Pattern has been broken now though. Random post. That's all. 😅
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4 years
Omg I just saw some rich person's insta story showing a video of a place they visited for nye and the only text was "built on a lake" lolol i find this too funny someone help me
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wanted a badass undercut came back with cute bangs instead. Slow change is still change ... Yes?
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3 years
Ate shrooms in my dream last night... If no parties in my waking life 😂
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3 years
It's sunny for the first time in a week! 🔆😍
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A friend's village in Andhra is still reeling from heavy flooding earlier this month. Please consider donating and at least share. #floodrescue #flooding
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3 years
All I ask is for a pretty boy with long hair who isn't afraid of smiling
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4 years
How scared must the people in 'power'. Gees. In solidarity. @LetIndBreathe @FFFIndia @thereisnoearthb #WhatTheBlock #censorship in fake democracy !
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I know it sounds close to my name when u read it but not an excuse 🙊
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Pandemic standards: a bad draft is still a draft. Which is 10x better than no draft. That's all. 😤😤
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3 years
Uninstalled insta for a break and the only thing I miss is posting the music I'm listening to on my stories lol
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2 years
the post bath hair in towel, phone in hand sit 🤌🏽
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3 years
Imagine feeling excited to embark on your own version of the Into the Wild type journey only to pause and realize ... You're a woman... In India looool
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4 years
sorry I couldn't get back to you the year of the pandemic literally coincided with my discovery of how extremely dysfunctional my family is
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3 years
#PodcastAlert : Tune in to hear @MedhaKapoor4 @AvinashChanchal and me speak about #coalash accidents in India in light of our latest report 'Lest We Forget' a status report of coal ash accidents in India (Aug 2019- May 2021). #flyash #coal #climate
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3 years
At 8:10 he'll say 8:45 get ready means lesser reaction time but same level anger + anxiety. The classic modi combo UGH
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3 years
Law of diminishing marginal utility doesn't apply to bites of biriyani or dosai duh
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"But for all its glamour, the “final frontier” is at best an amusement and at worst a fatal distraction from the urgent task of rebuilding a society ravaged by social injustice, climate change and a loss of faith in the future." Good Sunday read.
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ya i'm glad i have zero family on twitter tho lolol
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