Anaesthesiologist

Send people to sleep and wake them up again; love Geeta Dutt.
The surgeon is the captain of the ship
The Anaesthetist is the captain of the sinking ship.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

As Eggs are a hot topic in Bengal, here goes :

https://t.co/OWybftmxtk

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@ouchmytoe Lovely read ! But ditch that kitchen towel please ! 😀😀

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@KantInEastt What's on the menu ? Couldn't make out what the food is exactly.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@sandipanthedeb Nutritious is probably not the correct word. Tasty and hygienic could be which are also important. An egg costs Rs 8. So a family of 3 has to spend 720/mth on only eggs. Many can't. Don't the children deserve an egg at least thrice a week ? That's their only source of Vit B12.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@DivaJain2 And rice, soya डाल can be eaten raw, unwashed uncooked, I presume.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@2000_vina @abhijit_MLab That's why the govt was changed, wasn't it ? To improve things.

[Historywali @historywali]

Aao dikhau tumhe ande ka funda!

Okay consider this: The rich child's egg and the poor child's egg are the same egg. Everything else can be diluted. Watery dal, thin rajma, rice of more-patthar-less-chawal grade. The soya chunks y'all are waving around, who exactly is doing a quality check on the fillers? 10 rupees per child per meal (the improved budget) and you are telling me the paneer will not be ‘analogue’?

In a country where the school mid-day meal has been adulterated and diverted in the scummiest of ways, and where some deplorable scavenging person-in-power is always taking a cut of what a poor child is meant to eat, the egg is the one thing that is (till now) incorruptible.
A whole boiled egg.

I would like to take this point, and pin it next to the vegetarianism and caste argument (valid), for one to consider, also.

1/4

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@2000_vina @abhijit_MLab 6 gms once a week is too little. The mid day meal was started to provide at least 1 balanced meal to school going children. Akshay Patra meal may be hygienic but is it balanced ?

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@2000_vina @abhijit_MLab Where is the protein in their diet ? Daal has only 40% protein, rest is carbs.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@LOLrakshak It wasn't 36° then. I remember in the mid 60s Ranchi in Oct was so cold that during Durga Puja we had to wear a cardigan over our new dresses. Global warming has raised temperatures alarmingly.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@Aunindyo2023 The TMC govt had started Maa Canteen where rice, dal, veg and 1 egg was given for ₹5 each day. BJP pre vote said we'll give fish instead. This is for adults. So why can't school kids have 1 egg/day ? If AP won't give, some other company or even the govt can give.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@volklub @Joydas Wife not on twitter, ji ? 😀

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@ChrissieEvert Chris, wishing you all the strength to come back stronger. You have been my favourite.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@DeepikaBhardwaj 2 aspects to this : I've known very senior lech male drs. CCTV is imperative but what abt gynaecological/breast examns. Can't have cctv there. A female attendant and a female relative of the pt have to be present all the time during examination.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

@Aunindyo2023 What about Science ? In this case at least.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

In my opinion, the fittest person in a football match has to be the Referee. He has to practically run from one end of the field to the other throughout the match.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This statement came out yesterday on Passport Seva Divas, and the internet has been burning since.

Let me walk through what happened.

Yesterday was the 14th Passport Seva Divas. June 24 marks the anniversary of the Passports Act of 1967, so every year the Ministry of External Affairs holds a press event to talk about passport services.

This year they had a lot to celebrate. India issued 1.39 crore passports in 2025. They have 545 Passport Kendras across the country, up from 77 a decade ago.

They launched chip-based e-passports with biometric data stored on a microchip. Dr. S. Jaishankar put out a warm message talking about Surakshit Passport, Sugam Seva, Sashakt Nagrik.

Good news all around.

And then an MEA official said this: a passport is a travel document, not a document of citizenship.

Now here is the thing. Legally, the official is correct.

The Passports Act of 1967 defines a passport as a document issued by the government to enable its citizens to travel internationally.

Citizenship is governed by a completely different law, the Citizenship Act of 1955. The passport has always technically been a travel document in the eyes of the law.

But practically for most Indians, the passport is the single most trusted piece of identity they carry. It has their name, their photo, their date of birth, and the "Republic of India" on the cover.

When they go abroad, immigration officers at foreign airports look at it and decide whether to let them in or not.

Every country in the world treats an Indian passport as proof that you are an Indian citizen.

So when the MEA says it is not proof of citizenship, people have a very simple and very valid question.

If not the passport, then what?

The government has no answer to this question.

Aadhaar is held by over 135 crore Indians.

It is built into almost every government service. You need it for LPG subsidies, bank accounts, mobile connections, income tax returns, school admissions.

But Section 9 of the Aadhaar Act of 2016 explicitly says Aadhaar is not proof of citizenship or domicile. The Supreme Court confirmed this again as recently as 2025 in a case involving Bihar's electoral rolls.

The Election Commission went to court and said Aadhaar cannot be treated as conclusive proof of citizenship. The Supreme Court agreed.

Voter ID is issued by the Election Commission of India.

It is the document you use to vote in a democracy. Surely that proves you are a citizen?

No. The Bombay High Court has ruled that Voter ID is not proof of citizenship. Foreign nationals have obtained Voter IDs through fraudulent enrolment.

The document proves you are on the electoral rolls, not that you are legally a citizen.

PAN card?

Even foreign nationals on valid visas can get a PAN card. It is a tax identification document, not a citizenship document.

Driving licence? It is issued based on residency, not citizenship.

Ration card is a welfare card for subsidized food. It proves nothing about nationality.

The Bombay High Court has ruled that owning an Aadhaar card, PAN card, voter ID, or even a passport are not proof of Indian citizenship, which is determined solely under the Citizenship Act, 1955.

So what actually proves you are Indian?

The legally correct answer is a birth certificate showing you were born in India, or a citizenship certificate issued under the Citizenship Act, or documentary evidence of descent from Indian citizens.

These are the documents that hold up in court.

But the problem is that about 38 percent of children under 5 in India do not have birth certificates.

For large sections of the country, especially in rural areas, these documents simply do not exist. Births were never registered. Land records are incomplete or disputed.

School leaving certificates have name spelling variations across documents because nobody was paying attention to consistency 40 years ago.

This is exactly what happened in Assam.

In August 2019, the final NRC list was published and 19.06 lakh people were left out of 3.30 crore applicants.

These people, many of whose families had lived in Assam for generations, found themselves in legal limbo with no clear path to prove citizenship.

Cases included a 108-year-old woman whose name had been in the very first NRC of 1951 and who had voted in India's first election, but was still declared a doubtful voter.

Documents were rejected for spelling mismatches between two government papers. Family members were split, with some included and others excluded based on the same underlying documentation.

A Kargil war veteran was detained and had to go to court to prove he was Indian.

The MEA did not make a controversial political claim. They stated a legal fact.

But that legal fact has now reminded 140 crore people that the document they trust most does not actually do what they think it does.

And it opened a question that the government, courts, and Parliament have been quietly avoiding for years.

If the passport is not a document of citizenship, does the government give it to non-Indians as well? And wouldn't this announcement create doubts in the minds of other countries?

The government verifies that before issuing one. But once issued, the government is now saying that same document cannot be used to prove what was verified to get it.

The fact of the matter is that India does not have a clean, universally accessible answer to this question.

The courts have carved out what does not count.

Parliament has not legislated what definitively does.

And millions of people, especially those without clean documentation histories, live with that uncertainty every day.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The World Cup is proof that, if it weren't for our leaders, the vast majority of people around the world would get along just fine.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

Also get hold of the touts who traffic these poor people.

[Narendra Pratap @hindipatrakar]

UP- मुजफ्फरनगर के SSP संजय वर्मा के हाथ में जो हथियार है उससे जानवरों की तरह बंधक बनाये गये मजदूरों को टार्चर किया जाता था.

अंकित बालियान नाम के गुंडे ने अपनी दोना फैक्ट्री में एक दर्जन मजदूर कई साल से बंधक बनाये हुए थे. उनको कुछ घंटे पहले मुक्त कराया गया तो उनकी हालत जानवरों से बदतर थी.

किसी के शरीर पर बेतहाशा चोटों के निशान थे तो किसी को मार-मारकर हाथ-पांव सुजा दिये गये थे. फैक्ट्री में काम के बाद लॉकअप में मजदूरों को बंद रखा जाता था. 24 घंटे में एक बार खाना मिलता था और खाने में होती थी चोकर की रोटी, नमक और हरी मिर्च. यूपी के अलग-अलग इलाकों से इन मजदूरों को 12 हजार रूपये वेतन का लालच देकर लाया गया था.

पुलिस जांच में यह भी पाया गया कि अंकित बालियान की थर्ड डिग्री से टार्चर करके 3 मजदूरों को मार डाला. मारे गये एक मजदूर की शनाख्त कर ली गयी है.

[Anaesthesiologist @DocR_B]

I saw the video of the terribly tragic incident. Why was he carrying a knife in the first place ? It was quite a big one ! I've felt that of late people have become more angry, restless,impatient, rude and aggressive.