Sneha Divakaran > Recent Status Updates

North Indian centric, underlines some of the motives of the Indian voter. Also is a little simplistic in its explanation for difference in behaviour of men and women. Hopefully will pick up soon.

“I think nowadays dowry is a show off thing, and honestly, that makes the couple’s lives very easy” - no miss, no. Just no. See it for what it is: greed, dehumanisation of the woman, base.

Lots of strange ideas are being normalised. The book is turning out to be something that should not just be ignored but thrown away with full force.

A China that the women who are employed in factories are discovering isn’t all that great for them as they hoped it would be. Dormitories, friend-circles, love lives, fashion, it’s all heady with its freedom from ritual and tradition. But it’s also disappointing because hope doesn’t change reality: men who are average, friendships that are fleeting, jobs that have thick glass ceilings.

Views rising population as a problem. Did he not get the memo?

Common thread: McKinsey consults with a company, and the corresponding regulatory govt agency, and it ends in a net negative for public welfare, though the organisations that hired the firm come out feeling they have done well. Tobacco is a case in point. It is insinuated that the firm played a part in consciously making cigarettes addictive with nicotine infused in them.

They advise regulators and market players, and it’s possible that there could be bias towards self propagation. This is problematic for many reasons.

I don’t agree with the writers, though, about their criticism against McKinsey for recommending downsizing and outsourcing. At the same time they criticise the size of payments made to the firm. If the firm’s advise isn’t expert, then the advise is common sense?

They advise regulators and market players, and it’s possible that there could be bias towards self propagation. This is problematic for many reasons.

I don’t agree with the writers, though, about their criticism against McKinsey for recommending downsizing and outsourcing. At the same time they criticise the size of payments made to the firm. If the firm’s advise isn’t expert, then the advise is common sense?

They all said they weren’t an Amsterdam to have bike friendly roads. But look at what they did: it only takes visionary leadership.

Our narrow roads are not appreciated enough for their safety and ability to push traffic forward. And our wide roads are not criticised enough for being unsafe, inaccessible by foot/bicycles and plain hot.

The chapters about the transforming roads into public spaces and bike lanes are page turners. It’s a thriller when a city transport commissioner decides to reach out to other departments for creating a public good. Sadik-Khan got her own department, and then some, and then communities to listen to her, and she managed to get protected bike lanes despite an ongoing heated debate over the need for their existence. <3

After the chapter on medication, he’s exploring plebeian problems like general anxiety; pleb because the cause could be anything, and why not: from the state of the world to genes, and more.

Exercise helps. Usually. Better food habits help too. Mediterranean diet is best it seems.

I’m totally rooting for him, to figure out this debilitating thing that is your life. Also, reading the first few pages quickly taught me that it’s not the simple anxiety that he’s figuring out (thank you, imposter syndrome and others). It’s a whole clinical condition. It’s scary.

Money and muscle, yes..
but under all this is a weak state that precipitates the involvement of money and muscle, and poor ideas of what political financing is evolving to be, is letting it propagate.