Aniket

MBA- IIM Calcutta'25
Seeking truth in fleeting moments. Life’s a puzzle, I’m finding the pieces.

[Aniket @EyeofAniket]

Wow! Impressive @palkisu as fabulous as ever. Great Content! Everyone Do Watch this. Sponsoring Fake News & Hate Speech should stop! We as a Society or as an Organisation ..... as a Viewer or as a Sponsor are equally responsible for promotion of Hate!

[WION @WIONews]

#GravitasPlus | As news channels hit rock bottom, @palkisu argues that brands should save themselves by pulling out of some networks. Why lose consumers by sponsoring fake news, when you can make a statement by supporting real journalism?

[Pranjal @Pranjal_one8]

Ambulance Blinkit se aa Rahi..
Nadi Nale Bittu Tabahi saaf kar Raha..
To govt kya kar rahi he?

[🎓 CA Pratik Bharda @pratik0227]

Stopped at a dhaba on the Jaipur highway yesterday. Hotel Jammu Himachal Dhaba,

Cheerwa, Udaipur. Bill came: ₹641.90 food + ₹32.10 GST. CGST 2.5%, SGST 2.5%.

Before I paid, I did what I always do. Opened https://t.co/o1skUj6JJH. Typed in the GSTIN from the bill. Hit Search.

Status: Regular Taxpayer.

I paid without a second thought.

But here is what most people don't know and what I have seen go wrong at dozens of small restaurants, dhabas, and shops across India:

A Composition taxpayer CANNOT collect GST from you. Ever.

Under the GST Composition Scheme, a dealer pays a flat tax to the government from their own pocket - 1% for traders, 6% for service providers. They cannot add GST to your invoice.

They cannot charge you CGST or SGST. The moment they do, that amount is being collected from you with zero legal basis.

It does not go to the government. It stays with the owner.

That is not a tax. That is a collection.

How to check in 30 seconds:

→ Open https://t.co/o1skUj6JJH
→ Search Taxpayer → Enter GSTIN from your bill
→ See: Regular / Composition / Suspended / Invalid

If it says Composition and they charged you GST you have the right to refuse payment of that amount and raise a complaint on the GST portal.

This dhaba was clean. Not every one is.

Check before you pay. 🧾

[Dhruv kumar @Dhruvkumar16797]

This guy literally explained why some people become successful while other stay average.

The reason is uncomfortable. Game Theory

Watch this:

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

A poisonous plant got a FSSAI licence number, got packed in a food-grade pouch, sat in a warehouse, and went up on three of the biggest grocery platforms in the country as something you could add to your cart.

The story here is just so crazy.

Datura grows wild across India. Most of us have walked past it. It has a place in Shiva worship, which is why it gets sold in the first place.

But the plant contains three tropane alkaloids, atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine.

If you eat it, symptoms start within about half an hour to an hour. Pupils blow open, mouth goes bone dry, heart races, and then confusion, agitation and hallucinations set in.

Severe cases go to seizures, coma and death. The effects last a day or two and sometimes longer.

The part that makes datura genuinely dangerous is that its strength swings wildly. Toxin levels can vary about five times from plant to plant depending on the age of the plant, the soil it grew in and that season's weather.

There is no safe dose because there is no consistent dose. Two identical looking fruits can behave completely differently.

Now, the Karnataka's food safety department found datura fruits and seeds listed as food on e-commerce platforms.

Packets in warehouses carrying FSSAI licence or registration numbers, being offered for sale online.

Representatives of the three companies appeared before the authority.

Amazon submitted no response. Instamart asked for more time to produce documents. BigBasket said it had stopped selling and would fix the labelling to say "Not for human consumption" in future.

The regulator called all three responses unsatisfactory and suspended the food licences until further orders. Compliance reports are required before anything gets restored.

We know how this plays out when datura reaches a food chain by accident. In Uganda in 2019, a batch of fortified corn-soy relief food got contaminated with jimsonweed, which is the same plant.

293 people fell ill and five died. Investigators later found atropine and scopolamine in the samples.

Now the bigger question this case actually opens.

For years, marketplaces have argued they are noticeboards. A seller lists, a buyer buys, the platform just connects them. Karnataka has gone at that argument from a different direction.

It did not chase the small seller. It pulled the platform's own food licence. If a listing sits on your platform under your FSSAI number, the food is yours.

It is also worth noting how food safety law got written everywhere else and why we must applaud what has happened here.

Bradford, England, 1858.

A sweet maker sent someone to buy plaster of Paris to bulk out peppermint humbugs, a normal practice then. The druggist's assistant handed over arsenic by mistake. About twenty people died and over two hundred fell ill.

Britain passed the Adulteration of Food and Drink Act in 1860 and the Sale of Food and Drugs Act in 1875, which became the foundation of modern food law.

United States, 1906.

Upton Sinclair published The Jungle about the Chicago meatpacking yards. Within months Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.

United States again, 1937.

A company dissolved a sulfa drug in diethylene glycol, which is essentially antifreeze, because it tasted sweet. Over a hundred people died, many of them children.

There was no law at the time requiring a company to prove a product was safe before selling it. The 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act followed, and that is the law that built the modern FDA.

China, 2008.

Melamine was added to milk to fake higher protein readings in tests. Around 300,000 infants were affected and six died. China rewrote its entire Food Safety Law the following year.

India, 1998.

Mustard oil in Delhi was adulterated with argemone oil. Around sixty people died in the dropsy epidemic and thousands fell ill.

India, 2013.

Twenty three children died in Chhapra, Bihar, after a midday meal cooked in oil that had been stored in a used pesticide container.

Almost every food safety law in history is written in the past tense.

Somebody dies, the country gets angry, the rules change.

Karnataka has acted here with no body count.

No hospital ward, no funeral, no headline about children. Just an inspection, an order, and three licences pulled.

It is rare to see this kind of enforcement and it usually gets no credit precisely because nothing happened.

However, the real gap here is upstream. Somebody issued an FSSAI registration for this. Somebody's listing approval process let it through a food category.

Neither of those is fixed by suspending a licence for a few weeks.

The next step must be to find how this landed in food pouches, and catch hold.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨do you understand what Porsche just did..

they sold their entire IT division to India's TCS for €320 million.. then handed them €1.25 billion to do the thinking for them..

TCS is a Tata company.. the same Tata that bought Jaguar Land Rover from Ford in 2008 when Ford couldn't afford to keep it.. now they're buying Porsche's tech brain too..

the West spent decades sending IT work to India and calling it "outsourcing".. trained an entire country to do their thinking on the cheap.. now that country is buying the divisions.. not servicing them.. buying them..

you spent decades paying them to think for you.. now they own the brain and you're renting it back

[Aniket @EyeofAniket]

@naitahanasi But the soup 🍲 is tasty 😋🤤

[Aniket @EyeofAniket]

@BJP4India @grok fact check. It's e20

[Arfa Khanum Sherwani @khanumarfa]

मेरा भारत, प्यारा भारत …
Watching it on loop, teary eyed 🥹

[Mastering Life Path @Mastering_life_]

You’re bored because you don’t do side quests, bro.

Life is more than just work and bed rotting.

Here are 50 side quests to complete -

[aether @bluewdrift]

You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

यहाँ भी नज़र रखिए।

[Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66]

Message from Sonam :

20th JULY

आज़ादी का दूसरा आन्दोलन
भय मुक्त भारत, अन्याय मुक्त भारत

Freedom from injustice (Like paper leaks)
Freedom from Fear (my illegal detention)

India’s 2nd FREEDOM MOVEMENT
March to the Parliament
Please make it a big success

Sent through Gitanjali
from my illegal detention at Safdarjung

[Snehal 🍁 @Snehalsays_03]

I once read: "A pseudo-feminist will defame her father for validation, while a misogynistic man will fight the world for his mother."

It makes a lot more sense to me now.

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

Among beneficiaries of centre’s scheme: wife, son, mother of IAS officer https://t.co/IxfN5eGSVJ

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Ground reality of how one man and his son has pulled off the biggest scam in modern history

[𝐇𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧 @ImHydro45]

This is peak journalism. Indian express has started exposing all the corrupt BJP ministers.

This is what we need from the Indian media. If the media starts working properly, No politician would dare to cheat the public.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

🚨#𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 | Our investigation found that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav's family and their real estate firms acquired at least 137 plots spanning 168 acres in Ujjain for ₹45 crore in two years since December 2023 — mostly in areas benefiting from road projects and land-use changes his government announced. Here is a quick look at how much land each of his family members own

🔗 https://t.co/FEMW9VBzrO

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

#ExpressInvestigation | At the core of the Yadav family’s land holding structure are Mohan Yadav’s first cousins Govind and Nilesh Yadav.

Other land purchasers in the Yadav family — either directly or through family-owned realty companies — include Mohan Yadav himself, his wife Seema, son Vaibhav, daughter-in-law Shalini, brothers Narayan and Nandlal, sister Kalavati, Narayan’s wife Rekha, and their son Abhay.

https://t.co/Fl8EvdUsP5

[Aniket @EyeofAniket]

@IndianTechGuide @grok how does that affect a citizen?