Chhavi
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Chhavi
@chhavi.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Podcast maker and coach + radio journalist; cat slave, sojourner, swimmer & baarish fan in India

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Flood impact: Suicide prevention helplines start buzzing in Marathwada
Maharashtra has seen ravaging floods in the last few weeks. Marathwada has been the worst affected region #farmersprotest […]
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c.im
October 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Any resemblance to persons living ...

"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race, or his holy cause. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not […]
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c.im
July 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My review: 🎙️for @T3dotcom
Solid Performance with a Monitoring Catch – UltraProlink On-Air Mic
https://t3india.com/solid-performance-with-a-monitoring-catch-ultraprolink-on-air-mic/
Solid Performance with a Monitoring Catch – UltraProlink On-Air Mic
t3india.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/filth-piles-up-in-kanwar-waste-trip-up-as-3-5-crore-pilgrims-flood-uttarakhand-prnt/cid/2114715
As Uttarakhand continues to be overrun by Kanwar Yatra devotees, with numbers rising exponentially year on year, environmentalists and locals have noted with alarm […]
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c.im
July 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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c.im
July 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/business/plastic-bag-policies-pollution-wellness
Unfortunately India's plastic bag ban is an eyewash. They vanish from sight for a week when the Gov shakes a stick and everyone goes back to using them after that. They're widely, cheaply available and still used […]
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c.im
June 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope
DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6ssh
#CrowdScience listener Sid is running late, and he’s turning to science to find an excuse. He and his partner Steffi in Singapore have very different attitudes to timekeeping. They wonder if this is down to their different cultural upbringings, or if […]
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c.im
April 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
https://www.financialexpress.com/business/investing-abroad-us-visa-crackdown-50-of-revocations-involved-indian-students-3813984/
My heart goes out to the kids dealing with this heartbreaking situation. I can't imagine how devastated and frightened I would have been had this happened to me at 19 […]
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c.im
April 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
April 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/yemeni-tradition-bees-tazeeb/

How an Ancient Yemeni Tradition Is Reviving Bee Populations
To make the most of brief blooming seasons, beekeepers in one of the world’s most water-scarce countries have turned their apiaries mobile.
How an Ancient Yemeni Tradition Is Reviving Bee Populations
As beekeeper Mosad Al-Humairi watched the truck carrying 48 of his beehives lurch to one side, its right wheels sinking dangerously in the muddy road and its top tilting towards a drop fewer than two meters away, his world came to a sharp halt. The 288-kilometer journey from Ibb in... The post How an Ancient Yemeni Tradition Is Reviving Bee Populations appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.
reasonstobecheerful.world
April 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
April 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190523-does-reading-fiction-make-us-better-people

"It sounds as though it’s time to lose the stereotype of the shy bookworm whose nose is always in a book because they find it difficult to deal with real people. In fact, these bookworms might be better than […]
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c.im
April 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
From 2018
March 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-ha
I learned something new today!
Ha-ha - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
February 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/more-than-1100-dead-olive-ridley-sea-turtles-washed-up-along-southern-india-coastline-aoe
The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boats
February 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/stampede-delhi-railway-station-general-tickets-unreserved-system-9839718/

The stampede broke out at the station between 9 pm and 9.20 pm, killing 18 people and injuring several others.

The Indian Express has learnt that, on an average, 7,000 […]
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c.im
February 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I just had a radiation-free, non invasive, thermal breast scan from @niramaianalytix (I covered their groundbreaking tech for the BBC in 2022) at home!
The tech is robust + cheap & INFINITELY less painful/dehumanising than a mammogram. Iykyk #breastcancer #screeningsaveslives #psa
February 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM