MSaraswathy

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[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

Come and walk with me — not at your fancy home- not even in the slums- just ordinary streets or prabhadevi- and just 20 minutes at 6 pm. Let’s check your spirit after! Spend a few minutes as an ordinary Mumbaikar before speaking about the ‘spirit’ of Mumbai @ParthJindal11 !! Wanna walk today??

[Mohammed Futurewala @MFuturewala]

Goverment pe question karo toh travel agent aajate hai….

[Dr Jason Philip. M.S., MCh @Jasonphilip8]

I write this with extreme sadness for my country. When young Indian PM Indira Gandhi landed in the US on 27.3.1966, she had just one mission- secure US wheat for starving Indians. She met Prez Lyndon Johnson, the next day. Johnson promised to give India all the wheat it needed- But on one condition- India shd unconditionally support The US in the Vietnam War. The IRON LADY of India flatly refused. The US punished India by delaying,& reducing wheat shipments to India. Remember, this was the time India was critically on US wheat. India lived from (US) ship to mouth. Yet, Indira was unmoved.
On 26 July 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Egyptian Suez Canal after the U.S. and Britain withdrew funding for the Aswan High Dam. In November 1956, at the UN, Indian PM Nehru thundered against the Anglo-French-Israeli military intervention in Egypt. Even adversaries listened to Nehru at the UN in complete silence. Such was his stature. India was punished for this by Europe. He didn't bother. India stood for what was right.

A grateful Egypt, closed the Suez Canal in Dec 1961, to deny the (then) powerful Portuguese Navy, despatched by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar passage to reach Goa, when India integrated the Indian territory of Goa from Portuguese control. Those were the times. Dirt poor, no military or Industries to speak of, yet India stood up for what was correct.

Today, India is a strong economy & military. Attends G7. Yet, we act as a client state of the US. Following US threats, India will be represented at the Khamenei funeral by, hold ur breath- The Governor of Bihar. PM Modi shd hv been there to grieve with our Iranian friends, for an elderly Shia Muslim Cleric revered by the entire Muslim World.

Even President Zia attended Indira Gandhi's funeral, & both sitting Pak PM Nawaz Sheriff & Benazir Bhutto attended the funeral of Rajiv Gandhi, when he was not even PM. Such diplomatic niceties are common even btw enemies. But, the Supreme Leader of Shia Muslims of the world is given a burial, & the Indian PM will not be there.
Woe betide our India!

[Newton Bank Kumar @idesibanda]

@IndianTechGuide Coz milage dropped by 20% using E20 petrol, so people fueling more for same distance....

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

UP says it got Rs 33.5 lakh crore in investments. We checked some companies behind those claims

One guy signed a Rs 18,000 cr MoU from a rented flat in Ghaziabad. He's also named in an FIR by ITC Maurya for not paying bills. Don't miss this by @Basantrajsonu
https://t.co/QifQy4pYqs

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

Honestly? Eggs, but not for the reason this infographic wants you to pick.

That “52g protein” is dry soya chunks. Once you soak them they triple in weight and you’re chewing through a wet sponge to hit that protein count. Eggs are weighed as eaten. You’re comparing a dehydrated food to a ready to eat one.

Also egg protein is the gold standard for absorption. Soy is good, but antinutrients eat into that 52g before your muscles ever see it. Grams on paper is usually never grams that count unless you are dealing with animal protein.

And “0.5g fat = win” is just circa 1980s anti-fat panic. The yolk’s fat is where the vitamin D, B12 (not available from plant sources) and choline are present.

Soy chunks are great source of cheap protein, and it’s also perfect for those that choose not to eat eggs for religious or vegan reasons. But for anyone that eats both, the choice is obvious

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

Possibly even sadder than Yogi's rude reply is that a parent of a dead child needs to first communicate she supports the BJP when talking to the CM.

Every day in India is darkly surreal.

[MSaraswathy @Maamitalks]

@krishashok @amazonIN This tends to happen when someone in the supply chain leaks your personal info to scammers and they then place fake orders.

[MSaraswathy @Maamitalks]

@krishashok @amazonIN It is a drop-shipping scam. Unfortunately, Amazon will wash its hands off the whole thing saying it merely provides logistics support.

[Venkatesh Alla @venkat_fin9]

Deccan Herald confirmed: 'Govt has NO PLAN to go back to E0.' Ethanol-free petrol is gone from India forever. Vintage bike owner. Carburetted two-stroke. Racing vehicle. Sensitive medical generator. There is no pure petrol for you, anywhere in this country. A fuel monopoly enforced without a single parliamentary vote.

[Pablo Chaterji @pablochaterji]

Right now, the best advice I can give you as an automotive journalist is to stop buying new cars and bikes, until this #ethanol mess is sorted out. OEMs are too scared to say anything to the government, so this will be one way of pressurising them as well.

[Abijit Ganguly @AbijitG]

This is a weird take, especially in the current scenario. All those you mention people are not in education related fields. An actor saying marks don't matter is pointless since yes, in their field it obviously doesn't. For majority of our population till today education is the only way to escape from clutches of generational poverty and oppression. Ask for help is a valid suggestion to a South Bombay or Bandra kid not to 95-98% others, whose marks are essentially their dreams.

[Kaushik Raj @kaushikrj6]

There is a world outside your WA groups. A world where Riyazuddin Mansoori doesn't think about his financial loss & rolls out carpets on roads to save people from fire. Your WA group would make you believe he does love jihad, thook jihad, etc. That world is full of lies. Get out!

[MSaraswathy @Maamitalks]

@chetanputhran @iimcomic Frequency is very poor after 7pm. Unreluable.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

probably because you bombed their country and stole their oil

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

1 in 2 vehicles suffering. 80% older vehicles losing mileage. 25% users reporting 20%+ efficiency drop. The ARAI warned of 6-7% loss; reality is far worse.

But here’s what they won’t tell you:

Nikhil Gadkari’s CIAN Agro Industries, ethanol supplier, revenue jumped from ₹18 Cr to ₹523 Cr in ONE year. Stock up 2100%. Brother Sarang’s Manas Agro went from ₹5,990 Cr to ₹9,591 Cr. Both family firms. Both ethanol. Both booming since Papa pushed the policy.

Nitin Gadkari has been aggressively lobbying for ethanol since 2014. Mandatory E20 rollout happened April 2025. Congress demanded a Lokpal probe. But Modi? Silence.

14 crore+ vehicle owners didn’t vote for higher fuel bills, broken engines, and a 20%+ mileage cut. They voted for “acche din.” Instead they’re subsidising one minister’s family empire.

One minister’s conflict of interest. The entire nation paying the bill.

Modi must answer: Why sugarcane based ethanol specifically? Why not flex fuels? Why no compensation for vehicle owners? Why no Lokpal inquiry?

This isn’t green energy policy. This is state-sponsored wealth transfer.

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

Yesterday, I posted about my sibling’s petrol car getting stranded on the road due to a fuel pump failure. The company itself confirmed it was linked to a fuel blending issue related to ethanol.

But unfortunately, I had to delete the post because of immense pressure from higher authorities. For the first time in my life, I was forced to take down something purely out of concern for family safety and precautions.

The unfortunate truth is that whenever someone speaks up about ethanol-related issues, attempts are made to silence them. This may continue, but these problems won’t disappear and tomorrow it could be my own car stranded the same way.

#ethanol @nitin_gadkari

[Arvind Gunasekar @arvindgunasekar]

After spending 32 months in jail, money laundering case registered by ED against Director and Promoter of M/s Coastal Energen Pvt Ltd, Ahmed AR Buhari has been quashed.

Buhari has finally walked out of prison but he has lost his company.

Any guesses who acquired his company ?

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet.

For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission.

Her health was treated as a background inconvenience.
When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her.

She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain.

It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops.

Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.

[Technical Charts @Technicalchart1]

Manoj Madhusudhanan took a ₹1.86 crore home loan from ICICI Bank.

As collateral, he handed over his original property documents. Every homebuyer does this. You have no choice.

ICICI Bank sent those documents to their storage facility in Hyderabad via courier. Somewhere on that journey — Bangalore to Hyderabad — the documents vanished.

Gone. Originals. Irreplaceable.

When Manoj found out, ICICI Bank had one answer: it was the courier company's fault. Not ours.

He went to the Banking Ombudsman. They told ICICI to publish a public notice about the loss and pay him ₹25,000 for the trouble.

Twenty-five thousand rupees. For losing the original documents to a ₹1.86 crore property.

Manoj sent a legal notice. ICICI denied any mistake.

He went to the NCDRC.

The apex consumer court looked at the facts. The bank had taken custody of the documents. The bank had chosen the courier. The bank could not hand that liability to a third party and walk away.

ICICI Bank — India's second-largest private bank, ₹9 lakh crore in assets — was held liable. Ordered to obtain reconstructed certified copies, issue an indemnity bond, and pay ₹25 lakh in compensation.

One loan. One lost file. One bank that blamed the courier.

Save this — if your bank loses your original property documents, they cannot blame their courier agent. The documents were in their custody. The liability is theirs. File at your district consumer forum. The law is on your side.

(Source: Manoj Madhusudhanan vs. ICICI Bank Ltd. | NCDRC | LiveLaw, September 2023)