Designer; Urbanist; Resilience Practitioner; Optimists and amateur Historian
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Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
1. German Cartoon = Perhaps nothing is wrong
2. Criticizing your country constructively = Certainly nothing is wrong.
3. Using this cartoon on a day like this for self flagellating criticism of your country to earn cheap brownie points = Pathetic + EVERYTHING is wrong with you
So what exactly was wrong with the German newspaper cartoon? The reality is in front of everyone.
You shit the very second someone criticizes you, but deep down, you know the truth. Pathetic.
#TrainAccident
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
Pune does not have
~an independent airport
~a ring road
~public transport
While this city pays income tax amounts more than certain states
While the city pays GST more than certain states put together.
City GDP would be more than half of the country’s cities.
We have envious factories and manufacturing units.
When you get an outsider to become MLA, when you make inexperienced ppl as mayor and when you have leadership which can’t win trust of the ppl and focus on some shit idea like building a 2km road for 250 crores then you will get this only.
Ppl on the ground are so angry. You tell this to local BJP guys and the arrogance is sky high.
As a well wishes and kattar supporter, I have done my bit of informing the pulse. Kasba was a start, this city is slipping away from BJP soon if corrective measures are not taken.
That’s the truth. Have ears to ground. Don’t attack me. Attack the situation.
An excellent point by @rajshah! cutting down emissions and consumption patterns in development world 🌎 is were we need to concentrate our efforts and not just lecturing low and middle-income countries on cutting down emissions.
The fight for whether or not the Earth stays at 1.5° Celsius will be won or lost in low -or middle-income countries. Listen to my interview on @CNN to learn how @energyalliance's Global Leadership Council is reducing the costs of renewable energy access in developing countries.
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
The killing of two mobsters, says @nytimes, "renews alarm about India’s slide toward extrajudicial violence." Police killings in the US, including in supposed encounters with unarmed motorists, easily rank the highest in the world, averaging more than 1,000 annually in recent years. But NYT has never reported about US's lurch toward "extrajudicial violence."
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
A pride moment for #Surat as mayor of Rotterdam ,Mayor Aboutelab mentioned about Surat in United Nations 🇺🇳 General assembly and Discussed about Surat’s approach towards Water Resillence with the World.
@c40cities
#MayorSuratinSingapore
#WorldCitiesSummit2022
#MayorSurat
A great initiative by Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad) Municipal Corporation! @CMOMaharashtra @SmartCities_HUA @ascdcl
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad) is taking action to protect its river ecosystems & integrate river-sensitive planning in any future development in the city. 𝐇𝐨𝐰? 👇🧵
#CitiesSolveCitiesDeliver
Indeed! Agree @Siddharth’s point of view! Implementation is important and so is Civility! @JM_Scindia
Dear #Pune, 200 m walk to the cab pickup, & then 500 m after the new terminal begins operation, is nothing to complain about. There is an elevator+ escalator + golf carts for those in need + travellators planned.
We need to get rid of the mindset of complaining all the time.
Issues are there at the airport & a lot needs to be done. Cab pick up point can get crowded & solution needs to be found. But the administration needs to be appreciated for the work they are doing. They are human after all with the right intent. Building trust between citizens & administration is crucial.
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
Dear #Pune, 200 m walk to the cab pickup, & then 500 m after the new terminal begins operation, is nothing to complain about. There is an elevator+ escalator + golf carts for those in need + travellators planned.
We need to get rid of the mindset of complaining all the time.
Issues are there at the airport & a lot needs to be done. Cab pick up point can get crowded & solution needs to be found. But the administration needs to be appreciated for the work they are doing. They are human after all with the right intent. Building trust between citizens & administration is crucial. – at Shivaji Nagar, Pune
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
Indians have more hunger and less happiness than Pakistan and Sri Lanka. We have less press freedom than Hong Kong and Namibia. We are less of a democracy than Cyprus and Lithuania. Does any sane Indian believe this nonsense? Anyone wondering what these index makers are smoking?
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
I bought canned coconut water from a vending machine in Delhi airport. It turns out imported coconut water. Coconut farmers have been hurting due to low prices in the South. Our farmers don't take part in the higher value markets like this example and we have to enable them to.
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
The Hindenburg firm is facing 3 criminal investigations in the US and its bank accounts were seized for a long time and it is now banned from publishing any reports about any company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the US.
- No media house reported.
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
Delight to meet and had Fruitful and extended discussion with US Consulates at @MySuratMySMC
#MayorSurat
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
Patayat Sahu, from Kalahandi, has spent his entire life making an astonishing garden of 3000 medicinal plants. He has catalogued his plants in two illustrated volumes but doesn’t have money to publish them. He treats everyone for free.
He is this year’s recipient of Padma Shri.
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
#VantageOnFirstpost: The BBC Documentary on PM #NarendraModi has been labelled as a propaganda piece by the Indian government.
@palkisu fact-checks the claims made in the #BBC documentary.
Happy to Support @NIUA_India @C3_NIUA for its U20 endeavors @U20India @RCitiesNetwork @HardeepSPuri @MoHUA_India #G20India #ResilientCities
Over 80 City Climate Alliance partners from @NIUA_India working in the climate action space congregated on 16 January 2023, for what was the first Alliance@U20 meeting, a year-long partners engagement on the #Urban20 @U20India platform. (1/5)
#U20Ahmedabad #G20India @IndiaG2O
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
The 100+ million tribal population in India remains at the extreme economic bottom. The Eklavya Schools (EMRS) is a set of 392 boarding schools in tribal districts. Great to see all that @DakshanaIndia is doing for India's tribes. Two tribal-only focused campuses coming soon!
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
One of our engineers, Ms. Shobana died tragically when her scooter skidded in the heavily potholed roads near Maduravoyal in Chennai. She was taking her younger brother to school.
Our bad roads have caused a
tragic loss to her family and Zoho.
youtu.be/P6_eUZsCmx0
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
From "mighty" West to "infallible" China, no country has been able to bear the onslaught of the pandemic without shortages of medicines/equipment/ICUs and overflowing morgues.
But only in India did we see media hyenas cackle with such glee at the misery of their countrymen.
Saurabh Gaidhani retweeted
And I hope to see a Times Global Democracy Index…. We need the confidence to turn our gaze on the world
At the Times Now summit, @sanjeevsanyal makes a million-dollar point, stating that why can’t Times Group, a media organisation bigger than Economist, have its indexes where it ranks countries on several parameters. Let’s have the confidence to go out and judge the world, he adds.