Alex Paul Menon

@alexpaulmenon
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Change Agent and IAS officer .
Satyamev Jayate .Opinions are strictly personal.RTs are not endorsements.
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● Resistance is to be the proverbial thorn in your family’s back, the rebellious black sheep, the unsubmissive voice of reason and confrontation.

● It’s in actively disparaging age-old traditions to create newer, more equitable ones.

● Only by deconstructing and rewriting the Indian family, can we imagine a just state.

https://www.firstpost.com/india/the-resistance-must-begin-at-home-anti-caa-protests-india-family-sana-ganguly-sourav-ganguly-7829261.html

#india #Resistance #CAAProtests #CAA_NRC #family

Domestic silence amid nationwide protests an act of extreme privilege: Idea of the Indian family needs rewriting - Firstpost

Resistance is to be the proverbial thorn in your family’s back, the rebellious black sheep, the unsubmissive voice of reason and confrontation. It’s in actively disparaging age-old traditions to create newer, more equitable ones.

“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

A close-up of a Sarus Crane shot at Bharatpur. The blog is interesting http://samyukth.com/2019/01/31/folklore-and-conservation/

#photo #photography #wildlife #nikon #birds #birdphotography

Folklore and conservation

Of birds, birdies and biryanis
We can debate about protests but please guys help fellow Muslims in arranging documents.
We will need many volunteers. Let's be prepared.
@Iwalkalone All of us have our own ways of engaging with public discourse. I did not expect so many people to follow on to the Mastodon platform. But now that there is a community of settlers out here, the question is of consolidating the settlement and making it a better outpost of free speech. I suspect, we ought to have an India specific instance with a specific identity that can be grown organically
About Jaipal Singh, about time his enormous contribution to the cause was recognised.
https://www.ndtv.com/people/a-jungli-in-the-constituent-assembly-jaipal-singh-munda-1652949
A 'Jungli' In The Constituent Assembly: Jaipal Singh Munda

December 1946. The Constituent Assembly was starting the debate on a new Constitution. The icons of the national movement: Nehru, Patel, Prasad, Ambedkar, Sarojini Naidu had spoken on democracy, on fundamental rights, on liberty. And then on December 16th 1946, the voice of Jaipal Singh was heard for the first time.

Hundred of thousands of people
just like you have been
flattered and then swallowed
.... by this world.

- Shaykh Abd Al Qadir Al Jilani

Mohua Moitra sure can put across a point that packs a mean punch, quite eloquently. If there are more folks like her in positions of power and influence we could be starting down the road to recovery in our public discourse sooner than later.

"dance until the dancer disappears..."

~rumi

#life #rumi

If you think a single person is just too small to make a difference, you should read up on Jadav Payeng, the "Forest Man of India".

When he was 16 he started planting trees on a deforested sandbar. He made it a habit of planting at least one tree every single day - over the course of the last four decades.

His forest now encompasses an area of about 1,360 acres / 550 hectares and is home to not only over one hundred elephants, but also monkeys, tigers and deer.

Be the change you desire!