thank you to @TheObserverPost for covering this. I love their work. My account was suspended at nearly 100k followers. Right before the suspension, I made a video on Eitan Gilboa, the Israeli war criminal vacationing in India, against whom the Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a complaint to the Indian authorities. I also wrote a reported piece on it, after speaking to the lawyer who filed the complaint.
Soon after, my stories were taken down one after another. My collaboration feature went away. I couldn’t pin posts/reels. There was a hate campaign against me. Then my account was suspended on Instagram. Coincidence? I know better. I will continue finding ways to speak.
@poonamjourno Logic, rationality and science die in India every day. You feel like banging your head on the wall when you speak with low-IQ, religion-laced, uneducated, & arrogant masses.
The @MMRDAOfficial wants 2 lakh BKC corporates to leave their cars at home every Friday starting June 12 for Public Transport Day.
Spoiler: It’s going to crash and burn. Here is why:
The last-mile nightmare: BKC is heavily car-centric. Getting off at Bandra/Kurla stations or the Metro is easy; getting from there to your office means surviving chaotic auto-rickshaw lines or waiting 25 mins for an already packed BEST bus.
Monsoon madness: Launching a walking/bus initiative in mid-June? Good luck navigating BKC’s concrete desert with zero shade or rain cover during a Mumbai downpour.
Rules for thee: Let’s be real. The CXOs and senior bosses aren't jumping into overcrowded locals. They'll just move their Friday meetings to Lower Parel or work from home.
Great intent, but unless they flood the streets with hundreds of seamless, high-frequency feeder buses overnight, Fridays in BKC are just going to be an absolute mess.
2. Radical Fall Prevention (Home & Physical Conditioning)
▶️Strength Training: Focus on progressive resistance training and balance exercises (like Tai Chi or targeted physical therapy) to preserve lower-limb power and postural stability.
▶️Home Audits: Eliminate hazards where elders live. Remove loose rugs, install bright night-lights in hallways, and place non-slip mats and grab-bars in bathrooms.
▶️Medication Reviews: Periodically audit prescriptions to eliminate or adjust drugs that cause orthostatic hypotension (sudden blood pressure drops) or dizziness.
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Dr Sudhir Kumar @hyderabaddoctor
The alternative medicine industry and its practitioners in India have been given immunity against criticims from the medical science community by the Government of India and AYUSH Ministry, through the recently amended Information Technology rules via the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India, that include gagging, silencing and automated deletion of content which they feel will make the Govt "look bad". The rules were extended to include independent content creators, podcasters, and influencers, bringing news-related online posts under the same "code of ethics" used for traditional media.
They have now started using this against medical science communicators and doctors online. My post on Instagram went into automated removal (those in India cannot see it) after they found it was critical of Homeopathy practice.
This essentially means that science communicators are not allowed to call out unscientific practices and practitioners for their pseudoscientific, fradulent and quackery filled practices, but they are allowed to post images and videos of such practices online without any accountability or repurcussions.
This has come after my work and interviews in the last few weeks have throughly dismantled the Homeopathy community in India followed by large body of written and video content that supported the fact that Homeopathy is not medical care, but a pre-scientific era artefact that survives because of State support, legal protection and stakes in business of medical care.
The Homeopathy community sees this as a win. All the others, see them as cowards. Banning people from talking about unscientific practices, does not make unscientific practices, scientific. It just makes it more evident that "criminals need paid policmen and protected ghettos to hide from the real police".
Sources say that at least 20 out of Trinamool's 41 MPs from both Houses had been in touch with the BJP and may be planning to switch sides.
Besides the 20, at least 60 out of the party's 80-odd MLAs had also been backing a rebel side after the election debacle last month.
#TMC
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The rats turning against the leadership as soon as she lost power.
The true nature of politicians. This has not ended. TMC is in deep trouble - if they haven't learnt anything from Maharashtra or Goa or....
https://t.co/RfHq8cTyIX
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
@AUThackeray Did any politician, babu come for the opening?
Which Chief Engineer or Babu inspected the project before giving the 'ready to use' clearance?