@NagarJitendra Who gave this right to Gandhi to choose his uttra-adhikari. This wasn't his princely estate. He wasn't the king.
Our democratic roots have electoral corruption inbuilt
This is the condition of the Punjab mansion of Hindu businessman Todar Mal who paid 7,800 gold coins and bought 4 yards of land from the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb to bury the bodies of the 2 young sons and mother of Guru Gobind Singh on December 13, 1705.
The Mughal faujdar Wazir Khan had ordered the two young children be bricked alive as they refused to accept Islam. When they died, their grandmother died of shock
The Mughals did not want to allow the cremation to humiliate the martyrs. They stipulated that the buyer can take only as much space as he could cover with give gold coins for the land. All the Sikh chiefs just stood helplessly
That's when Todar Mal produced the coins and bought the piece of land, and cremated the three bodies.
This is biggest irony of life, India is only country where its true heritage is hidden from next generation and falsehood Is taught.
@MasterMaliq@LeProvacateur If actions arise out of individual decisions, then people can be seen on an individual basis.
But if your action starts with religion and ends with religion, you can't demand that people see your action individually.
Not everyone is that foolish.
Yes, Britain famously transferred wealth to India. When British arrived in India its share of the world economy was 4%. When they left in 1947, they had taken it to 23%, roughly equal to all of Europe combined.
On a serious note.
The Indian railways were financed entirely by bonds sold on the London Stock Exchange. British investors were guaranteed a return of 5% per annum by the colonial government. A guaranteed return, in an era when no other safe investment in Britain offered anything close. And who guaranteed those returns? Indian taxpayers. Indians paid for the construction. Indians paid the guaranteed profits to British shareholders. Indians paid for the equipment, which was manufactured exclusively in Britain and shipped to India at inflated prices. One mile of Indian railway cost twice what the same mile cost to build in Canada or Australia, because the guaranteed return meant there was no incentive to control costs. The more it cost, the more British investors and suppliers earned.
And what were these railways designed to do? Move raw materials from India’s interior to ports. Cotton from the Deccan to Bombay. Jute from Bengal to Calcutta. Coal from Bihar to wherever the Empire needed it. Tea from Assam to London’s drawing rooms. The routes connected mines and plantations to harbors. Not cities to cities. Not people to opportunities. Raw materials to ships. The Indian public’s transportation needs were, as Shashi Tharoor put it, entirely incidental.
Oh, and the railways also moved troops. Very efficiently. So that when Indians protested being looted, the British could deploy soldiers to shoot them. That was the other “infrastructure investment.”
But wait, there is more. Before the railways, India had the world’s finest textile industry. The British smashed the looms, broke the weavers’ thumbs (this is not metaphor, this is documented history), imposed tariffs on Indian cloth, and shipped raw cotton to Manchester to be manufactured into garments that were then sold back to Indians. India went from being the world’s largest textile exporter to an importer of British cloth within a generation.
The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated 3 million people. Churchill diverted food supplies from Bengal to already well-supplied British troops and European stockpiles. When informed of the famine, his response, on the record, was to ask why Gandhi had not died yet. This is the “infrastructure investor” Musk is defending.
India contributed 2.5 million soldiers to fight in two World Wars on Britain’s behalf.
So let us summarize the colonial “investment” in India. They took a 23% global economy and left it at 4%. They destroyed the world’s finest textile industry. They built railways with Indian money, for Indian resources, generating British profits. They engineered famines that killed millions. They drained an estimated $45 trillion in today’s value over 200 years.
That’s some unprofitable adventure.
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".
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 USAID Inspector General finds 101 additional UNRWA school teachers, principals & staffers are Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 terror attacks. U.S. may soon designate UNRWA as a foreign terrorist organization.
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I am truly perplexed that so many people are against mosques being built...
I think it should be the goal of every Western Society to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus mosques should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.
That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy ", and the other a topless bar called "You Mecca Me Hot."
Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called "Iraq o' Ribs."
Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret ", with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.
Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, "Koranal Knowledge ", its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side an off-licence called "Morehammered."
All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so their mosque issue would not be a problem for others.
Respiratory viruses have really good press in India.
They never ever get blamed for cold, cough, fever. They are the culprits who completely escape culpability.
According to Indian families it is always the icecream /chocolate/ fridge ka paani/ car AC etc
Never the virus or environmental factors that help viruses spread. (crowded places/malls/schools/ lifts/ door knobs)
Gazab hai yaar!
@elonmusk Ahura Majda of Zoroastrianism is same as Asura Medhira of Rigveda/Hinduism
Both means "Wise Omnipresent Lord"
The Indo-Europian "S" became "H" in Persian.
MY RESIGNATION
FROM IAP
HAS BEEN ACCEPTED.
Now I can finally speak freely.
The IAP once had many ethical leaders.
What follows is why chose to leave.
WHY DID I LEAVE?
Because concerns raised repeatedly were ignored.
For years, I raised concerns about ORSL promotion, conference presence, and the blurring of lines between science and marketing.
Those concerns were never meaningfully addressed.
When legitimate concerns are ignored, silence becomes complicity.
WHY WAS ORSL BEING PROMOTED AT PEDICON?
I repeatedly raised concerns regarding ORSL.
Yet its presence at conferences continued.
Why?
THEY SAID IT THEMSELVES.
Kenvue publicly stated that their products were presented at:
PEDICON
• APICON
• FMPC
• RSSDI
Where was the condemnation?
This is their own statement. We raised concerns repeatedly.
Silence is not oversight. Silence is a choice.
THE ISSUE WAS PUBLICLY RAISED.
This wasn't hidden.
The concerns were documented publicly.
Yet no meaningful action followed.
This is not hearsay.
This is public record.
THIS NEEDS THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.
Parents deserve transparency when child health guidance is issued.
Authorities need to examine why parents were not clearly warned about daily consumption of sucralose-containing drinks in children.
Why was only sucralose specifically highlighted in this position paper?
Why was this emphasis made?
What evidence supported it?
Were parents adequately informed?
Transparency builds trust. Questions strengthen science.
https://t.co/chddU4WOxQ
WHY SILENCE IS NOT
NEUTRAL.
When leadership remains silent in the face of unethical influence:
Trust is eroded
Families and doctors lose faith in the system.
Science is compromised
Marketing begins to shape medical spaces.
Children are at risk
Unnecessary and misleading products enter their lives.
Professional integrity suffers. Ethical doctors are pushed out.
Wrong becomes normal.
Silence protects the system.
Speaking up protects children.
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After IAP exit, Hyderabad paediatrician Sivaranjani Santosh alleges pharma influence, seeks probe into ORSL promotion
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@MoHFW_INDIA@NMC_IND
#IAP #pharmalobbying #ORSL #Kenvue #JnJ #JohnsonJohnson #eRZL #sucralose #positionpaper
#TheSouthFirst #TheHindu #Indianpaediatrics #ethicalconsiderations #DrDhanyaDharmapalan #DrTJacobJohn #DrYeshwantKAmdekar #DrPiyushGupta
Around 2600 BC, Indus Valley created a mineral, ernstite for drilling carnelian and agate. Only recently people realized that it's not a natural mineral but it's made out of heating sandstone and laterite to 1100 degrees. You know how important is that for human technological evolution? There are only two other items in the whole of human history before Industrial Revolution which are near to it in hardness(7.5-8 on Moh's Scale) - Wootz Steel(again, Indian) and porcelain. Just think. For more than 4000 years, humans weren't able to match that technology. 4000 years!!
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Small Victory. The @CDSCO_INDIA_INF has finally created a searchable database of all NSQ drugs they test.
A long standing demand to ensure transparency and accountability and kudos to the DCGI for finally getting it done.
1/n
Here it is: https://t.co/FXuI3hGQMs
The most painful irony is that the only ritual space finally available to her was neither her inherited tradition nor her husband’s, but a third religious framework that intervened on humanitarian grounds.
Simple questions:
Why do 5 million Palestinians have the "right" to a state, but not 40-60 million freedom-seeking #Kurds?
Why are there endless marches & protests for Palestinians, but not Kurds?
Why is the UN obsessed with Palestinians, but doesn't give a damn about Kurds?
@docakx Legally medullary absolute contradiction but a shared decision can be made in a patient where the benefit outway the risk after proper consent.
@docakx None.
Thyroid cancer in family is not an absolute contradiction.
95% thyroid cancer is non medullary.
For medullary, black box warning is there but based on rodent data,human data is reassuring. Rats have high GLP1 in thyroid, humans don't.