Aakanksha Gaur @sia_steel Twitter profile

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

4 months

Loneliness is the price to pay for absolute freedom.

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2 years

Bangalore folks, are you getting static shocks on touching metal since a few days? A crazy number of my friends are experiencing this. I saw a real little spark while opening the door knob.

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3 years

Moving this universe :) Indiranagar is getting a mini library now!

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2 years

A corner has been discovered ✨

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3 years

Bangalore sunsets 🌞 deserve a Twitter account of their own!

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3 years

Fairly convinced that for millions of households in India, a heart disease/serious accident is all it would take for them to be driven deep down into poverty. Our health insurance needs to deliver on a lot of fronts.

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3 years

Good 🧠 brains: It’s a sunday, so lets sleep in till 10 AM and start the day late. My 🌞 brain: Wake up at 4 AM and draw to save your life.

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5 months

The most secure people I’ve met in life are the ones who praise people publicly. Coincidently, they are also some of the best leaders at their work.

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3 years

Midnight in Indiranagar 🌗🌓

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3 years

You never know who is having an existential breakdown in my house.

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

2 years

People whose parents are above 60 and aren’t actively in workforce, how do they keep themselves mentally stimulated?

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@sia_steel

3 years

🚀Launch announcement If you're under 25 and Rs 50,000 can change your life, apply for Gaur & Chopra Escape Velocity Grant: I and @paraschopra will be awarding this no-strings-attached grant each month to a boy and a girl with high potential.

Gaur & Chopra Escape Velocity Grant

Note: we have halted the program (as of January 2023). We wish to expand our efforts and expect to come up with something else in the future. We’re Aakanksha Gaur and Paras Chopra, a couple living in...

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Aakanksha Gaur

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3 years

The second wave might be behind us, but the destruction has been staggering, specially for young people dealing with loss of a parent. Happy to put aside 10k/mo to sponsor trauma therapy for girls in the age group 15-25 who lost a parent to Covid. Please dm or tell someone.

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2 years

Happieee birthday @ch_akanksha ♥️♥️♥️♥️ @tanaypratap what a cute happy family!!

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2 years

Made ice cubes of edible flowers and don’t they look drop dead (no pun intended) gorgeous 🌼

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@sia_steel

2 years

Thinking of making a small (20 people) whatsapp group of folks who can exchange books after reading. Based in Bangalore only. Read a book, exchange it with someone for a new one. Need to pair with people who read ~2 books/mo. Any takers?

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3 years

Waking up to Bangalore :)

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2 years

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2 years

Happy birthday ⁦ @paraschopra ⁩ We are so glad you were born and we found each other. ♥️ Orbit and Aakanksha

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5 months

Wish that this year, you see amazing bookstores, eat chowmein to your hearts content, taste hundreds of new beers and make that damn techno set you’ve been promising your friends for years. So much love! Happy birthday, precious 🎀✨

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3 years

Taking the existentialist out for a drink.

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3 years

Fangirl dinner last night with @tanaypratap and @ch_akanksha *Still giggling at the jokes* *Still inspired by the energy*

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2 years

This happiness has no comparison.

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2 years

Are you even in Bangalore if you dont have a board game night?

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2 years

⚡️ Some reminders for the new year ⚡️

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3 years

No drumrolls here, just quiet, sincere work done by individuals under the age of 25 towards building theirs and their community's lives. These are the winners of February no-strings-attached grant of 50,000 Rupees as part of the Gaur and Chopra Escape Velocity Grant.

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2 years

This is how it must feel to a gardener when they see it growing.

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2 years

Happy 9 @paraschopra ♥️🫠

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2 years

A library in ancient India. Made with #midjourney

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4 years

Most adult conversations are trying to impress one’s smartness of decisions to each other.

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3 years

Never thought I’ll say this but this is sun bathing weather in Bangalore.

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8 months

Open day at @iiscbangalore

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2 years

Sharing this to celebrate how far I’ve come from battling endometriosis, a constant low state of mind and dropping dead everyday at 9 pm because of energy crashes. The struggle with the mind can be helped with physical fitness and all physicality is in the mind.

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2 years

Kindness is not a trait, it is a choice. When people say, you are very kind, what they should know that someone chose to be kind. A big difference between the two.

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2 years

Last working day at @wingify (2015-2022) today. A seven year journey comes to an end. So grateful to everyone whose paths crossed with mine and to the ones who gave me the opportunity to be of service to this incredible set of humans over the years. @paraschopra @sparshgupta

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2 years

⁦ @paraschopra ⁩ I love my collection of your reading photos ☺️

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@sia_steel

3 years

Siddarth, hope you know that your team @wingify_engg will never be the same without you. You have left us too soon. This is unfair buddy. Very very unfair. 😰😰

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2 years

⏳60 days of meditation drawings today ⏳

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7 months

Day 7097, year 10897 on Earth. The starship is still being assembled.

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3 years

Wrapping up six years of Pune goodness with this Diwali.

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@sia_steel

4 years

Fun fact: Kartik is talking about me :)

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@kar2905

4 years

Fun fact: The founder of the company where I interned in my second year of engineering yesterday became a client of Springworks! Life is a full circle. And this was my application 🤦‍♂️

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4 years

New podcaster in town!

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4 years

✨✨ Love the evening light on this bookshelf ✨✨

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1 year

A decade of having the greatest fortune of seeing you evolve!

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@sia_steel

2 years

Champaca is a gift to Bangalore. No other way of putting it across. #indiebookstore #champaca

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@sia_steel

2 years

Do you ever wonder in a bookstore, who you would be if you ever got around to reading all these books?

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@sia_steel

1 year

Two boys in the kitchen tonight and in the last 10 mins I have heard atleast 15 variations of "Khana banana vaise therapeutic hota hai" 😆 cc: @paraschopra @avinashpdy

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Aakanksha Gaur

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2 years

📆 September winners of the Escape Velocity Grants are here. Every month, I + @paraschopra invite applications from young people in India under 25, to share if a Rs. 50k no-strings-attached grant can change their lives and give them the escape velocity they need.

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2 years

Everything that happens. Happens here.

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2 years

For the next 6 months of the year, @paraschopra and I are swapping our books. He is reading the books I have read and recommend and I am reading the ones he has read and recommends. Will we last? Stay tuned in! These are the first swaps.

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2 years

Amazed at the emotional logistics of Indian weddings and how we still manage to pull them off 😋

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2 years

⚡️⚡️ This email is pure happiness ⚡️⚡️ #EscapeVelocityGrants

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2 years

Mom saved all my ID cards from school ✨

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2 years

[Books Giveaway Alert] Reading books written by female authors have always energised me. Right from the time I was a young reader. I’ve felt a sense of being understood and have felt inspired by the writing. I want to spread this joy forward.

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3 years

Sunday to-do: look cute and read

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8 months

A meeting between @paraschopra and his lab after 20 years

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3 years

Just in! Live footage of Orbit whispering the next tweet for @paraschopra to chirp away.

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2 years

@thatmanas Thanks :) but I dont want to be discovered by static electricity so much 😋

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3 years

Treating sore eyes today.

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3 months

No points for guessing the favourite parent!

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1 year

No matter what I do, I’ve realised I’m happiest spending time with a book.

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Aakanksha Gaur

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2 years

Folks who buy and read a lot of books, what do you do with the books you’ve read? I am increasingly getting agitated at the idea of keeping books that I’ve read again in the pile (though its comforting to look at them) (this library ain’t mine)

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

3 years

We have 70+ open roles at @wingify to be filled in the coming months. I’m wishing everyone who refers folks, to be blessed with 4 cups of chai everyday. #remotework #remotejobs

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

6 months

:)

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@paraschopra

6 months

It's a wrap at @nintee_official

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3 years

A dessert.

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2 years

Afternoon light on the studio wall. 25.10.22

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6 months

This is looking to be a happy Sunday :)

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1 year

Some saturday organising is happening.

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5 months

Bhutan is contemplative by design.

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Aakanksha Gaur

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3 years

Stacked some pebbles we collected from beaches today with @paraschopra

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Aakanksha Gaur

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4 years

“Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma in a people looks like culture.” — @ResmaaMenakem with @kristatippett

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2 years

Sigh.

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Aakanksha Gaur

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1 year

@paraschopra and I are married for ~10 yrs now. We realised when we started living away from parents what chores we love doing/what we don't like. These are some domestic decisions in my opinion that work for both of us to have similar schedules.

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What does your morning schedule look like? Here's mine.

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1 year

Fellow traveller, May you always be true to the path you’ve chosen, grateful for the path you’ve covered and always curious for the journey ahead. Happy birthday @paraschopra 🫶🏽

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

3 years

Received this on a family group on Whatsapp and couldn’t control breaking down 😭 Please universe, keep my country safe 🙏🏽

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

5 years

Diwali @wingify . 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2019!

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

4 years

*Writing a self review during appraisal*

Kangana Ranaut

@KanganaTeam

4 years

Massive transformation alert, The kind of range I display as a performer no other actress on this globe has that right now, I have raw talent like Meryl Streep for layered character depictions but I can also do skilled action and glamour like Gal Gadot #Thalaivi #Dhaakad

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3 years

[1/4] In the last ten days as I used to sit down to deliver on projects, make plans for the future and do performance conversations, there would be this uncanny nagging feeling. It seemed as if we were making plans for future while the world around is burning.

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Aakanksha Gaur

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7 months

One of the best books I read on healing from complex trauma. People who find ‘The Body Keeps The Score’ dense and impersonal, this is what you are looking for.

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

3 years

@paraschopra in his happy place :)

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

2 years

The last movie that made me cry taking in the nihilistic backbone of the universe was Interstellar and last night, it was Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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@sia_steel

3 months

Last night, it was heavenly painting this terracotta jug to the sound of pattering rain outside

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

7 months

No one asked but I am here thanking the coffee gods for this coffee! I love it soo much 🫶🏽

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@sia_steel

2 years

With this grant, @paraschopra and I complete a year of Escape Velocity Grants! We started with the aim to pick 24 high potential young people over a year and have been joined by fellow donors to make it 62 instead 🫶 We don't intend to stop

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Aakanksha Gaur

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4 years

With @wingify transitioning to a remote-first co, the first things we wanted to strike out were ways to help colleagues design home offices. We just released a one-time pre-tax allowance of Rs. 35k to Wingifighters to set up a productive workspace. Suggestions for products?

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Aakanksha Gaur

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2 years

Love is attention.

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3 years

:)

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@sia_steel

2 years

Note to self: read it daily. Discovered it on @kritimonga ’s IG stories :)

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@sia_steel

2 years

Morning

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

2 years

Lowest weight in a decade 🤘🏼 Thankyou @paraschopra for your incessant stares at my cookie eating binges. I usually stare back at you but I am grateful 😺

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

2 years

The second game night. Everybody on their toes and on each other’s throats also 😅

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2 years

Moon watching with @paraschopra

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

2 years

Morning workouts these days.

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

4 years

Really proud to be launching unlimited mental health counselling sessions for everyone at @wingify ✨ looking forward to mentally resilient colleagues and families 🌸 and hoping more organisations follow suit :)

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

5 years

Hello twitter! In an effort to save our favourite indie bookstores from the wrath of this pandemic, I, along with tons of volunteers have started this app that lets you support your city bookstores. We have 100+ bookstores and are adding more. [1/5]

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

2 years

What is this confusion on Holi? Half the country seems to be celebrating today and the other half is waiting for tomorrow :)

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

3 years

@tanaypratap Received this from a girl I am mentoring. I feel what you felt.

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Aakanksha Gaur

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4 years

Morning lounge.

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Aakanksha Gaur

@sia_steel

2 years

Announcing the last of the Escape Velocity grantees from 2022. This time, 4 winners, all girls have won a grant of 50,000 INR to pursue their dreams. 2022 has been phenomenal and both @paraschopra and I are blessed to be able to make a small difference. #escapevelocitygrants

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