Another Monday is here and it’s making us suffer not from Monday blues, but Monday reds as the temperatures in India soar to unbearable levels. And it’s just April! #PerkyTweets is here to cool you down and make you chuckle the sweat away. The kind of thoughts that the good people of Twitter can fit in 140 characters never ceases to amaze us. Ready to browse through some smart and unique Indian tweets?
#AddaTales – “Father was reading a book when…”
#AddaTales prompts are designed to make your Thursdays more interesting, more creative and more fun! Collaborating with people to make a Twitter story is a great way to get those story writing juices flowing! This week’s prompt was “Father was reading a book when the 3 year old jumped on him & said,” and we loved the winning tale that came out as a result of this prompt! Let’s take a look at the final story thread!
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Perky Tweets – April 11, 2016
Last week on Twitter was dedicated to the new edition of IPL, new political and social happenings, and the biggest of them all – Taher Shah breaking the Internet with his new musical offering ‘Angel’. If you’ve watched it, you know what we’re talking about. If you haven’t, let some of the below #PerkyTweets from the funniest Indian Twitter handles convince you about what a big deal it is!
Winner Announcement – #MyMowgliMemory activity
The Jungle Book series has been close to the hearts of many people who grew up watching the unshakable bond of Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera and Kaa, who banded against the cruel Shere Khan. That’s why, the release of The Jungle Book is like meeting an old friend for all Indians. Everyone has some childhood connection to Mowgli, which we asked bloggers to share through the #MyMowgliMemory activity in association with The Jungle Book. Your blog posts took us back to the deep jungles of India where the man-cub and his family lived, and we came out of your posts waiting to meet Mowgli again!
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Participate in the Shortcut Safaari weekend activity and win premiere passes!
‘We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.’
We call nature our ‘Mother’, but do you really think we’re treating her like in a way that a mother deserves? Today, we are behaving with Mother Nature with utmost disrespect – using up all her resources, killing off forests, rivers and entire ecosystems in our greed for more money and more products. We keep forgetting that we have only one Earth, and this is the planet that is going to sustain our future generations. The good news is that the power is still in our hands, more specifically in the hands of future generations. Blog about ‘How to teach our kids to press Ctrl+S for nature?’ for the Shortcut Safaari weekend activity and win movie tickets!
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Interview with Shweta Taneja
Shweta Taneja is a tantrist masquerading as an author, graphic novelist and journalist. She is known to hex people who annoy her, or order a hit on them through underworld hitmen. Just kidding. She’s just a very prolific writer, churning out books, blogs, graphic novels and articles at the speed of light. We suspect that she gets some supernatural help considering the speed and variety in her writing. We probed a little into Shweta Taneja’s life with our questions, and this is what we came out with.
