Economist @icfi_indicus Alum @Cambridge_Uni @gipe_official @FergussonPune @dpsrkpnet Co-founder DGPS, Pune-4
Pune, India
Joined January 2009
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What will it take to acknowledge our own? Can we read earlier work, without prejudice, and apply it as relevant today? What have we lost out on by only citing the West? #IndianEconomists #development #RethinkingEconomics
rethinkingdevelopment.blogsp…
Sumita Kale retweeted
The reality of tree transplantation by @PMCPune 🌳💀
45 of 109 transplanted trees in KP are dead. Residents dispute even this count!
Cut their canopies, damage their roots move them & call it saving trees or disguising tree destruction as #transplantation ?
Who is accountable?
Sumita Kale retweeted
Register for #Pune's biggest birding event! This is the fourth year of the Vetal Tekdi Birding Marathon.
It's free of course, just record all the birds seen during पक्षी सप्ताह
@moefcc @MahaForest @PuneForest
Ready for the biggest celebration of year?
It's that time of the year when we clean the dust off our gears, wake up early, suit up in new clothes and spend time doing what we love the most!
#VetalTedki #BirdingMarathon starts Nov 5th
Register here - vtbm.in
Just another early morning in पुणे-४ 😍
@IDreamRain @AshishPonders @godbole_shilpa
@OldWonk @HarshadOak
Sumita Kale retweeted
Pune's birding community has been at the forefront of creating awareness about the incredible biodiversity of our hills.
Wrote about some on-going initiatives and those lined up in the coming months.
Have moved to @walkwithwonk on Instagram for updates on upcoming trails.
Sumita Kale retweeted
Ready for the biggest celebration of year?
It's that time of the year when we clean the dust off our gears, wake up early, suit up in new clothes and spend time doing what we love the most!
#VetalTedki #BirdingMarathon starts Nov 5th
Register here - vtbm.in
Absolutely 💯
Pune’s roads: Fit for a race, but what about everyday commuters?
@PMCPune plans to improve 84 km of newly added stretches along the race route, while maintaining roads developed for the inaugural edition in January 2026
hindustantimes.com/cities/pu… @navalMH
Sumita Kale retweeted
#पुणे 7 loves चौकापासून पुणे स्टेशन पर्यंत प्रचंड प्रमाणात वाहतूक कोंडी. आता
कोजागरी पौर्णिमा निमित्ताने ही डीजे लावून मिरवणुका काढल्या जात आहेत.
आज परत
#नितानंदबापट चा आठवण आली.
#Pune #Punenews
Unbelievable!!! Or not??
हालिया विधान परिषद के चुनाव की मतदाता सूची में एक अजीबोगरीब नाम “राम ने शर्मा को मारा” भी है। कंप्यूटर/सॉफ्टवेयर जातिवादी नहीं है। हमारे द्वारा गलती किया जाना स्वीकार है लेकिन हमारे सौभाग्य से गलती होते समय भी जाति का भेदभाव नहीं हुआ है। भगवान का यह भी शुक्र है की राम ने किसी अल्पसंख्यक को नहीं मारा है। नहीं तो जातिवादी होने के साथ-साथ सांप्रदायिक होने का इल्ज़ाम भी लगता।
Sumita Kale retweeted
Very true we at @ppcr_pune meet almost all authority and shown our interest to work under their leadership on these points but nothing moving.
To reclaim its lost glory, Pune needs 3 essentials:
1. A clean, dust-free city.
2. Uncompromising law and order.
3. Robust civic infrastructure and disciplined traffic management, with enforcement on every road
A city’s glory is built on cleanliness, safety, infrastructure and connectivity.
@aparanjape @Manojpochat @ppcr_pune
Sumita Kale retweeted
PUNE, LOOK DOWN. THIS IS YOUR CITY TOO.
While we celebrate #Pune’s growth, look at what’s happening beneath its flyovers.
📍 Police Chowk, near Rahul Theatre makeshift shelters, garbage, mud and utter neglect.
Development above. Despair below. Is this the Pune we’re building?
A flyover is not an excuse to turn the space beneath it into a blind spot.
@navalMH @PMCPune These spaces deserve urgent action.@ppcr_pune
#Pune #PuneMunicipalCorporation
“The meeting was earlier postponed due to the model code of conduct…”
This Is worrisome- surely water planning during a drought is critical- timely decisions are key.
Also why aren’t there automatic rules that kick in for cuts??
#Pune city stares at deeper water cuts as dam reserves shrink, crucial quota meeting soon
Additional 20% cut likely
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
This year's monsoon ended early. The Khadakwasla cluster storage is already down to 24.6 TMC (84%), and we are still in October.
Sumita Kale retweeted
Remember, the real intention behind projects like road widening, flyovers, and tunnels is not to solve traffic congestion, but to mint money through tenders and contracts.
If the real goal were to solve traffic congestion, they would invest in #public #transport instead.
Pune: Heavy traffic congestion was reported on the Sinhagad Road flyover in Pune during the morning rush hour, with long queues of vehicles bringing traffic to a crawl. The congestion caused considerable inconvenience to commuters.
Vehicles lined up along the flyover as traffic movement slowed significantly, leaving several motorists stuck in long queues.
The rush of office-goers and other commuters travelling during the morning peak hours added to the traffic pressure. As a result, the Sinhagad Road flyover witnessed severe congestion, causing delays and frustration among motorists.
No time to stop for signal But all the time in the world to assault someone who did 😔
@aparanjape
@Manojpochatji you were talking about road rage- this is an incident thats caught on camera
Shocking Road Rage in Pune: Scooter Rider Brutally Assaulted for Stopping at Traffic Signal
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In a shocking incident of road rage, a two-wheeler rider was brutally thrashed for merely following traffic rules at Pune's Jahangir Hospital Chowk. At around 3:08 PM today, a man riding a Jupiter scooter rightly stopped his vehicle as the traffic signal turned red. However, a four-wheeler approaching from behind rammed into him. Instead of apologizing for the collision, two men stepped out of the four-wheeler and violently assaulted the scooter rider, angrily questioning him on why he had stopped at the red light. This brazen display of hooliganism has raised serious concerns among citizens regarding road safety and law and order in the city.
#PuneTraffic #RoadRage #JahangirHospitalChowk #PunePolice #PuneNews
Sumita Kale retweeted
दिल छू लेते हैं कुछ बहुत प्यारे इंसान
Ramesh already carries 30–40 kg to earn a living. He chose to add 6 kg of mountain waste to every trip.
He creates none of it, but he helps carry it home
#CarrymeBack #Kedardham
🎯
विकसित स्वप्नाचे आभासी वास्तव...
हवेतील स्वप्ने पाहण्याआधी जमिनीवरील समस्या सोडवायला हव्या.
#पुणे #पायाभूतसुविधा
#Pune #Infrastructure
@ParagKMT @ShreedharLoniMT @shree_brahmeMT @Matapune @aparanjape
Sumita Kale retweeted
I wanted to check if this was for real....like all other "real life driving satire out of business" - it is 🤦🏽😂
punemirror.com/city/pune/pun…
As they say in Marathi "येड्यांची जत्रा आहे"
Sumita Kale retweeted
Seeing many P1/P2 violations again this evening, at the same spots on Bhandarkar Road... as always.
@PuneCityTraffic
Big traffic jam on Bhandarkar Road this evening. Some vehicles stuck for nearly an hour for covering a distance of a few hundred meters. An ambulance also had a hard time going through.
Primary cause (as often) was wrongly parked vehicles (P1/P2 and no parking violations) narrowing the already narrow road.
Not seeing any regular @PuneCityTraffic enforcement activity. No traffic warden presence either. Some volunteers were trying to manage the traffic.
Many have raised this issue multiple times (parking violations in the Deccan area - Bhandarkar/Prabhat Roads and the connecting lanes).
cc @MDNagpure @SidShirole @CPPuneCity
Sumita Kale retweeted
"10,266 people died in accidents in Maharashtra between January and August 2026. That's about 42 lives lost every day.
The death toll is alarming. Our indifference to it is even more alarming."
- @ParagKMT
जीव स्वस्त, प्रवास महान..
#महाराष्ट्रटाइम्स संपादक @ParagKMT यांचा आजचा #साक्षेप
जरूर वाचा...
#पुणे #महाराष्ट्र #रस्ते #अपघात
#Pune #Maharashtra #Road #Accident
@ShreedharLoniMT @shree_brahmeMT @Matapune
Sumita Kale retweeted
Kahihi honar nahi. Yesterday our senior citizen guests had to get out of their car & walk through the traffic gridlock on BI road because their vehicle couldn’t move an inch.
Yesterday’s scene included 4wheelers (shamelessly) parked on both sides of Bhandarkar rd, drivers sitting inside as though their physical presence makes the vehicle invisible. 2 wheelers casually riding on the footpath.
The roads are a mess. Traffic enforcement is non existent. Citizens are inconvenienced, endangered & left to figure things out for themselves.
Meanwhile, our elected reps are hard at work; getting their names splashed across illegal festival flex hoardings & filming themselves walking in slow motion to music that suggests they are about to save the world.
Basically no one cares.
Big traffic jam on Bhandarkar Road this evening. Some vehicles stuck for nearly an hour for covering a distance of a few hundred meters. An ambulance also had a hard time going through.
Primary cause (as often) was wrongly parked vehicles (P1/P2 and no parking violations) narrowing the already narrow road.
Not seeing any regular @PuneCityTraffic enforcement activity. No traffic warden presence either. Some volunteers were trying to manage the traffic.
Many have raised this issue multiple times (parking violations in the Deccan area - Bhandarkar/Prabhat Roads and the connecting lanes).
cc @MDNagpure @SidShirole @CPPuneCity