Monson Varghese🇮🇳🌏

Independent views on indian politics.# Barcelona supporter

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@OrevaZSN The social order will change. The common man will be no more important for the rulers or ai business owners

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@malpani If it is coming to your throat and going out through your mouth, then it is acidity

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@IndianTechGuide Is it that women need not have to take tickets for night journey, say between 10 PM to 6 AM ?

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@Selvakumar_IN Don't you know that the centre denied permission for silverline owing to environmental & displacement issues?

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Most profitable Vande Bharats are in Kerala. Yet Kerala is left out of bullet train network

[Selva Kumar @Selvakumar_IN]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved seven new Bullet Train corridors across the country, taking India one step closer to a truly connected future.

One of the biggest announcements for South India is the approval of the Bengaluru–Chennai Bullet Train corridor.

📍 Bengaluru ➡️ Chennai
⏱️ Proposed travel time: Just 1 hour 13 minutes.

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@Abhishekkkk10 Gadkari 60%

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@UremO_24 Why don't they use desalination plants like Chennai?

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@RajeswariAiyer No,they are not imitating you.They're infact imitating the Kerala Syrian Christians who were using Nilavilakku,Koothuvilakku &Kalvilakku for more than a 1000 years. It was a privilege confered on them by the Chera ruler via copper plate inscription. Google 'Quilon copper plates'

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@Rahulk123d Both the station and the train are empty. Obviously it is giving huge loses to the taxpayers. These states do not deserve Metro railway

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@Vasudev53131981 @MahaRathii What made you to think so ? I mearly pointed out that his case was stayed by HC and an appeal by Dr Ganapathy rejected by SC. Are you suggesting that indian courts white washed him ?

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@mathayipoyi പോകാതിരിക്കുന്നതാണ് നല്ലത്

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@iamsoorej @bheeman123 തികച്ചും അനാവശ്യമാണ്

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@Vasudev53131981 @MahaRathii But he got the support of BJP and sangh pariwar?

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@Vasudev53131981 @MahaRathii The case filed by Dr Ganapathy was stayed by HC. Later SC too ruled in favour of Dr Augustine saying that it can't conclude that the protocol followed by him to assert the brain death is flawed. So as of today there is no case against Dr Phillip Augustine

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@sansbarrier That is true. However Kerala rivers are the best

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Dolo 650 is Rs 32 but Paracetamol 500 is only Rs 10. Huge price difference

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

One of the weirdest things I miss after my angioplasty and two stents is... Oxalgin!!

I'm on dual-antiplatelets and statins now, so anti-inflammatories like Oxalgin (Voveran, Brufen, Advil) are off the table since they interfere with blood thinners. Pre-angio, Oxalgin was my go-to for powering through fever or body pain when client work couldn't wait.

Yesterday, prepping for a Mumbai workshop flight, a two-day body ache turned into a 101+ fever. Pre-angio, an Oxalgin would've flattened it enough to travel. Instead, I cancelled at the last minute... only the second time in my career. The last was my first angiogram, back in 2011.

I posted about missing Oxalgin on X, and an interesting thread followed. A physician suggested 1000mg paracetamol variants (like Pyrigesic 1000; I had no clue about the existence of a 1000mg paracetamol!) for acute fever, noting 500mg and 1000mg are common global adult doses. That drew a quote-tweet from Dr. Aviral Vatsa, who called the 650mg dose a marketing trick dressed up as science.

That 'marketing' point sent me down a rabbit hole of reading more about it.

Micro Labs launched Dolo 650 in 1993, when paracetamol's 500mg format sat under the Drug Price Control Order's price cap, squeezing margins. A 650mg tablet sat outside that cap, unlocking a higher, unregulated price band.

(Side note: Micro Labs' own account of the 1993 launch frames it as differentiation in a crowded 500mg market, not a deliberate price-cap workaround. The pricing upside is real and well documented, but became central to the story mainly in hindsight, especially during COVID and Micro Labs' 2022 freebie/bribing controversy. Also, both 500 mg and 650 mg appear in the DPCO 2013 schedule today, with ceiling prices set accordingly)

Scientifically, 650mg isn't a breakthrough. It's a convenient single-tablet option at the higher end of the standard 500–1000 mg adult dose range. Dolo simply collapsed "take two" into one slightly stronger pill. Psychologically, a single "stronger" tablet reads as better compliance than popping two. And yes, the margins were better too.

When India's pandemic-era home-isolation guidelines explicitly recommended 650mg for fever management, doctors didn't write down "paracetamol" - they defaulted to Dolo 650, the category's highest-recall brand. That's how a dosage became a household name.

It's a brilliant strategy that navigated a regulatory loophole to create better margins and ultimately became a category default, even if it started, by the company's own telling, as something simpler.

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@sumanthraman Mad guy

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@mvmm12 @MahaRathii None of the major Christian churches here got any connection with American churches. Is not Modi and BJP were sponsoring some of these American evangelists till recently?

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@mvmm12 @MahaRathii Which church ? Jacobite, Orthodox, Marthomma ? I never seen any Christian church patronizing faith healing. Saying that Christians practice miracle healing is similar to accusing Hindus of practicing black magic or sorcery.

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@IndianTechGuide Kerala revenue surplus ? Who told you ?