Padmanaban V

Associate Professor of Biochemistry, CMC, Vellore. Views own.

[Padmanaban V @PadmanabanV55]

The value of IAS officers is precisely this. Giving a completely useless and irrelevant number like this as long as it gives a sensational headline to media which has weaponized their incompetence

[Akshita Nandagopal @Akshita_N]

TVK’s white paper on finances: highest debt incurred under the DMK govt in the last 60 years

[Padmanaban V @PadmanabanV55]

Because Tamil Nadu govt is committed to welfare and development despite sending a huge fraction of the govt revenue to India that it never gets back

[Kiran Kumar S @KiranKS]

Tamil Nadu has more debt than India's biggest economy (Maharashtra) and India's most populated state (UP). Why??

[Kartikeya Bhatotia @bhatoti]

Our white paper on extreme heat in India just got published by @HarvardSalata and yes, the timing is rather unfortunately suitable:

https://t.co/ZD7IL9qoNf

[Nirmalya Kajuri @Kaju_Nut]

Statement of solidarity with academics in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon from Indian string theory community.

[Padmanaban V @PadmanabanV55]

For all it's flaws, Tamil Nadu runs the closest thing to a large scale universal free public health care system anywhere in the developing world

[பூதம் @angry_birdu]

அரசு மருத்துவமனைகளில் சிகிச்சை பெரும் நோயாளிகள் ஆண்டுக்கு சராசரியாக கையில் இருந்து செலவு செய்யும் தொகை எவ்வளவு என்பதை NSO வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. தமிழ்நாட்டில் ரூ. 1,357 செலவாகுவதாக இந்த புள்ளிவிவரம் கூறுகிறது. மற்ற மாநிலங்களில் எவ்வளவு செலவாகிறது என்பதை இதில் கூர்ந்து கவனியுங்கள்!

[Padmanaban V @PadmanabanV55]

This is a very simple and fair demand. But knowing Indian union and it's ruling class, they would choose continuous and extreme centralisation over one person one vote any day.

[Aravind Varier @VarierAravind]

If you want the majority of South Indians to support the delimitation of Lok Sabha seats on the basis of population to uphold the idea of ‘one vote, one value’, then North Indians will have to support the devolution of powers from the Union Government to the states in return.

NOTE: The Union Government should handle only subjects related to defence, foreign affairs, and currency stability, while all other subjects should be handled by the states.

[Revanth Reddy @revanth_anumula]

Dear Thiru @mkstalin

You were amongst the first of leaders to foresee this danger and organise leaders of South India at a conclave in #Chennai in March last year.

We have to unite against this onslaught on the political rights and protect our voice in Delhi.

Let us take inspiration of Babasaheb
Dr B R Ambedkar on this most special days to “Educate, Agitate, and Organise”.

Together… let us march.

#LokSabhaDelimitation

[akhilrk1989 @akhilrk1989]

Delighted that my MD Medicine thesis from @OffCMCVellore is finally published in IJID! @ISID_org
A pilot study on paradoxical reactions in TB lymphadenitis with immunological insights.
Grateful to @PriscillaRupali for the guidance through the project
https://t.co/x3ciaMCuct

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

One day, if this planet survives, children will learn about the American century the way we now learn about plagues.

A disaster that swept across continents.

A sickness that left mass graves and smiling photographs.

And they will ask the same question we ask about past horrors:

"How did they get away with it for so long?"

The answer will be the same.

Because they held the power to name their crimes as something else.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Iran is better than the United States. The United States is worse than Iran.

This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil.

Iran isn’t blanketing a major metropolis with military explosives, killing over a thousand people including hundreds of children. The United States is doing this with its partner in crime Israel.

Iran isn’t continuously bombing and invading countries around the world, toppling governments, circling the globe with hundreds of military bases, targeting civilian populations with siege warfare and brandishing nuclear weapons at its enemies in the name of securing planetary domination. Only the United States is.

The US empire is the single most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin. No one else comes anywhere remotely close. Not Iran. Not anybody. Every government in the world is morally superior to the most evil government, and the most evil government is the United States.

Whenever I say this I get US empire apologists going “We’re only the ones fighting the wars and dropping the bombs because we happen to be the ones with the power to do so!”

But that’s false. The US isn’t the world’s most vicious government because it happens to be the most powerful, it’s the most powerful government because it’s the most vicious. It’s the power structure which was willing to do whatever it takes to rule the world, no matter how profoundly evil.

Genocides. Starvation sanctions. Nuclear brinkmanship. Imperialist extraction. The deliberate creation of failed states and humanitarian catastrophes. Policies designed to keep entire regions in a continuous state of division and strife. The United States and the globe-spanning empire structured around it have inflicted depravities upon our species which cry out to the heavens for vengeance. If you could truly comprehend the scale of the suffering it has created over the years, even for a second, you would never stop screaming.

Another objection I’ll encounter when I make these observations is “Well, I’d rather live in the US than Iran!”

And it says so much about the western worldview that people think this is an argument. Sure it’s probably nicer to live in the United States than Iran, especially now, and certainly ever since the US has been deliberately strangling the Iranian economy with the explicitly stated goal of making its citizenry so miserable they wage a civil war against their government.

But it’s so revealing that westerners see someone saying Iran is better than the United States and think it’s a statement about where they personally would prefer to live, because it shows how completely invisible US warmongering is in their worldview. Washington’s acts of mass military slaughter simply do not count as immoral or abusive behavior in their eyes, because they are being inflicted on foreigners overseas. So they automatically assume the comparison is asking which country would make your feelings feel nicer to live in as an individual.

The fact that the US government happens to export the majority of its abusiveness to other countries outside its own borders doesn’t make it any less murderous and tyrannical, it just means the people bearing the brunt of its savagery happen to live in other places. Their lives don’t matter any less than American lives, and only a warped, American supremacist worldview would feel otherwise.

The US government is quantifiably morally inferior to the Iranian government. It is quantifiably more tyrannical, more murderous, more destructive, and more megalomaniacal. It is the very last power structure on earth that should have any say in who leads Iran and how the Iranians ought to conduct their affairs. It is not morally qualified to be making those decisions.

[Padmanaban V @PadmanabanV55]

@doctorveera Welcome back! Great news for India!

[Devansh Pandey @devpandeyay]

Half of people with heart disease first find out after a heart attack. What if we could see risk years earlier using MRI, genetics, and blood tests? We introduce preCog, a multimodal AI for preventive cardiology trained on >500k images and genetic data from 1.25M individuals.

[Jagadish Ramasamy @jagadishbio]

#Publication #obesity #ferritin #hepcidin
Delighted to share the chapter titled “The Dysregulation of Iron Homeostasis in Obesity” that I authored for the book “ Handbook of Public Health Nutrition” published by Springer
@SpringerNature @BioIronSocial
https://t.co/So6qvbNoaR

[Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya]

Dry fish is a great source of protein. Can be a good supplement for Anganwadi and mid day meals especially in coastal fish eating communities https://t.co/uLvJ4usBbB

[R. Prasad @RPrasad12]

17 lakh babies in India are born each year with birth defects, many of which are due to genetic conditions. 1 in 250 children has a treatable genetic disease. Yet, genetic screening at birth is nonexistent in public sector, write @bani_jolly @vinodscaria

https://t.co/O7hu7uTwUR

[Padmanaban V @PadmanabanV55]

Our study on the effect of weight loss on beta-cell function was published in Metabolism Open. The study was driven by the hypothesis that lower beta-cell function and abnormal body composition are interconnected in the South Asian population.
https://t.co/p5cWs8JjkM

[Indians for Palestine @Hind4Palestine]

Friends in Chennai, do join🇵🇸🇵🇸

[Priyanka Gandhi Vadra @priyankagandhi]

It is shameful and disappointing that our government has chosen to abstain on the UN motion for the protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations in Gaza.

60,000 people, mostly women and children have been killed already, an entire population is being confined and starved to death, and we are refusing to take a stand.

This is a tragic reversal of our anti-colonial legacy. In fact, not only are we standing silent as Mr Netanyahu annihilates an entire nation, we are cheering on as his government attacks Iran and assassinates its leadership in flagrant violation of its sovereignty and complete contravention of all international norms.

How can we, as a nation, just abandon the principles of our constitution, and the values of our freedom struggle that led the way for an international arena based on peace and humanity?

There is no justification for this.
True global leadership demands the courage to defend justice, India has shown this courage unfailingly in the past.

In a world that is increasingly divisive, we must reclaim our voice for humanity and stand fearlessly for truth and non-violence. 🇮🇳

[Padmanaban V @PadmanabanV55]

It took so long for our leaders to speak but glad they are finally speaking

[M.K.Stalin @mkstalin]

Israel’s strikes on Iran is a reckless act of aggression that risks igniting a wider war. Coupled with the continued bombardment of #Gaza and suffering of Palestinian civilians, this violent path must be condemned.

The world must push for restraint, justice, and meaningful diplomacy.

#NoMoreWars

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

Israel, a covertly nuclear-armed state that practices apartheid in the West Bank and genocide in Gaza has launched a full-scale bombing campaign against Iran without a single Western government condemning this rogue attack. #rulesbasedinternationalorder