We live in a highly patriarchal society. I hv done around 200 kidney transplants. My findings in my series:
1. Around 80-90 % of Kidney Transplant Recipients are men. When a woman develops ESRD( Kidney Failure), it is very hard to find a Kidney donor, among the relatives.
2. In my entire career, not even a single husband came forward to donate his Kidney to his sick wife, & save her life.
3. When a woman is a Kidney recipient, the person who donates is usually a sister or daughter, or mother.
4. Most women r ready to offer their kidneys to their ailing husbands to save his life. The converse never happens.
5. There was once an extreme case, when a 19 yr old legal wife, donated her Kidney to her 45 yr old husband. After the Tx, I was casually talking to her. Her story was bizarre. This was her elder sister's husband. Just for Tx, the entire family had planned it carefully. The husband divorced his wife, & the 19 yr old girl was beaten fr days to marry the 45 yr old man, since her Kidney was a perfect match.
So, a simple survey of Kidney Tx recipients & donors exposes how deeply patriarchal, misogynistic, our rotten society is.
Scratch the veneer of democracy, modernity in India, & u find that underneath, we are still a feudal, casteist, misogynistic, patriarchal community.
This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat.
99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.
A mind-blowing paper has come out today in @Nature
In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (https://t.co/Rk8oZJ0bUj).
Today, a group of scientists from Indiana University reports how that minimal genome evolved over 2000 generations in comparison to the non-minimal genome.
The authors found that even when you reduce a bacterial genome to its absolute minimum where every nucleotide matters, the genome undergoes mutational events generation after generation as much as the non-minimal genome. One simply cannot stop the evolution.
Just over 300 days of evolution (equivalent to 40,000 years in humans) the minimal cell has gained everything it lacked in fitness on day one in comparison to the non-minimal cell.
When comparing the evolved traits between the minimal and non-minimal cells, the scientists found something striking. The evolutionary process increased the cell size of non-minimal cells but not that of the minimal cell. But that is not the striking part.
The scientists were able to identify the key mutation that resulted in cell size evolution. And it turned out that the mutation that helped the non-minimal cells to grow bigger is the same that helped the minimal cells to stay smaller. Growing bigger had a survival advantage for non-minimal cells and not growing bigger had a survival advantage for minimal cells. So, the mutation had a context-dependent effect. This just demonstrates that the evolutionary effects on traits have no absolute direction. All that matter is what is beneficial for the organism's survival.
The conclusion of the paper is metaphorically a quote from the Jurassic Park movie:
“Listen, if there’s one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but . . . life finds a way". (https://t.co/UlxRlb86CT)
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@rajchinna89 But the team selection was problematic. That bowling lineup was in no way good enough to win the game. Need another specialist bowler. Batting collapsed as well
Nupur Sharma is the first employee in post liberalisation India who is terminated by her employer for following exact rules and policies of her company. Those who believe in workers’ right should stand by her.
India collects all kinds of data on its citizens— except the one thing that defines its society: caste.
Caste data was part of Indian census till 1951. What's so scary about this data that so many Indian leaders—from Nehru to Modi—want to cover it up? https://t.co/qEBZUOjWmM
It's really important to stand with our peoples. BAMCEF have done a tremendous job by supporting our brother @ChetanAhimsa, we all should unite in the fight against #Brahminism. Thank you @WamanCMeshram ji. Jai Bhim - Jai Periyar
This cancellation of the scholarship to SC ST girls is the real problem. Raise your voice against the Brahmin Savarnas caste pandemic. It is dangerous equal to Coronavirus.
जाति ने अपना एड्रेस बदल लिया है। अब वह मंदिर के लंगड़े पंडित की टूटी साइकिल से लटके झोले में नहीं है। अब आप उसे ज़्यादातर सुप्रीम कोर्ट, यूपीएससी, IIT, Cisco, Google, डायस्पोरा, यूनिवर्सिटी के टीचर्स रूम आदि में पाएंगे। #End_Casteism_In_IIT