Pride of India — Bomman and Bellie
#TheElephantWhisperers

Jacinda Ardern, PM of New Zealand has left the Beehive for the final time. She was greeted on the Parliamentary forecourt by a huge crowd. Hundreds of Kiwis lined up the pavements to catch one last glimpse of Ardern as she made her final public appearance as PM.
nzherald

'Madras', introduced by the Portuguese to Nigeria is the name of an ancient light cotton fabric with a distinctive grid pattern named after the place of origin - Madras (Chennai) The Kalabari tribe referred to it as 'Injiri', the indigenous pronunciation of the word India.

A spine poem for the 90th anniversary of the OED’s first completed edition.

WALKING WORD BY WORD
Caught in the web of words,
The loom of language,
The stuff of thought,
The story of writing –
a line made by
walking word by
word through the
language glass.
~Stan Carey

New word suggestion for the Oxford English Dictionary:

CHOCHI
Meaning: A place where Dosa is 'baked' in 'Egg Water'
#Chochi

Obedience should be freely given. If the object of your obedience abuses your obedience, do you have the right to revoke it?

Watched #BroDaddy , Malayalam film by Prithviraj Sukumaran. The best antidote for Covid depression. Must watch, comic, lighthearted movie. You'd laugh your head off! Loved it.
Mohanlal
Prithviraj Sukumaran
Kalyani Priyadarshan

Large waves are washing ashore in Tonga after another violent volcanic eruption hit the island nation. The tsunami alert follows yesterday's eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai, an underwater volcano, sending ash, steam and gas up to 17km into the air.
@KtonyjoseMM
Sunil Menon

Devonport maths teacher Jamie Smith has invented a cricket-training device that he believes will be a literal gamechanger.

The Indian superhero film from the Malayalam industry #MinnalMurali is No:1 on Netflix India. A must see film by director basil joseph, starring Tovino Thomas, Malayalam cinema's brightest young actors.

The famous South Indian dish, Idli and Sambar was given a creative twist by a restaurant in Bengaluru-- idli on an ice cream stick dipped in Sambar and Chutney.

A spotted owlet was pictured peering down from under a tree branch and giving a watching photographer a curious glare. The unusual image was captured along the banks of the Rancharda lake near Ahmedabad, India by marketing and sales manager Laukik Bajpai. 
Susanta Nanda

The aircraft was not intending to take on such a large load, but 640 Afghans who had been cleared to evacuate pulled themselves onto the C-17’s half-open ramp. Instead of trying to force those refugees off the aircraft, “the crew made the decision to go.'

#IndiaAt75
#IndependenceDay2021

The world’s biggest tyre graveyard in Kuwait on fire. This could've transformed into a global environmental disaster if not extinguished quickly. The fire was so widespread that it was visible by satellite.
Amitav Ghosh
Courtesy:Julia Bradbury I HAVEN'T BOUGHT BLUE TICK💙

Captivating cover design.
Congratulations! Amitav Ghosh
Penguin India

The clock is now ticking in the backyards of ECI for the Lok Sabha 2024 elections.
Kushal Pathak

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/next-gen-…

Aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla on Sunday became the third Indian-American woman to fly into space when she joined British billionaire Richard Branson on Virgin Galactic's first fully-crewed successful suborbital test flight from the US state of New Mexico.
Sirisha Bandla

Amazing art work by @fatemehamami

Writer Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 on surviving Covid--(extract).

'I am not who I was.
I am who I was.
This is not me.
This is me.

I am now the person
who had Covid:
the thing that came in March

I am now the person
who disappeared
in April and May...

This is not me
This is me.'