Simranjit kaur

[Simranjit kaur @Simranj01314317]

ਉਦਾਸ ਹੋਵੀਂ ਨਿਰਾਸ਼ ਹੋਵੀਂ
ਜਾਂ ਦਿਲ ਚ ਕੋਈ ਮਲਾਲ ਰੱਖੀਂ ,
ਪਰ ਇਹ ਵੀ ਹੈ ਇਕ ਪੜਾਅ ਸਫਰ ਦਾ
ਤੂੰ ਏਸ ਗੱਲ ਦਾ ਖਿਆਲ ਰੱਖੀਂ ।
~ ਸੁਰਜੀਤ ਪਾਤਰ
#SurjitPatar

[Simranjit kaur @Simranj01314317]

@amarbirs Proud of you 👏

[Simranjit kaur @Simranj01314317]

@amansharmadb 🙌👏

[Simranjit kaur @Simranj01314317]

“Eh Punjab v mera hai,
Oh Punjab v mera hai..” ❤️❤️

Such beautiful souls Arshad Nadeem, Neeraj Chopra & their respective moms are. Feeling equally elated and proud of Arshad Nadeem considering the hardships he has gone through to reach here @ArshadOlympian1 @Neeraj_chopra1

[Dr Gaurav Garg @DrGauravGarg4]

For me #ArshadNadeem is such a legend that you can’t put his achievement in words.

Coming from a country with limited means, his entire village donating money for his preparation. His achievement will go down in history not just of Pakistan 🇵🇰 but the world. 🗺️

[Narundar @NarundarM]

Silver Gold Diamond

[Simranjit kaur @Simranj01314317]

Amen!

[Words @itswords_]

learn to let go

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
- Rumi

[Simranjit kaur @Simranj01314317]

Lahnde Punjab di Punjabi ❤️❤️

[Nouman Warraich, PhD @NkWarraich]

Afzal Khan, MP from Manchester, UK, took his oath in Punjabi. He originally hails from Jehlum, Punjab 🇵🇰. This example should be followed by the Punjab Assembly and the National Assembly of Pakistan. It also serves as a source of inspiration for all those Punjabis who feel ashamed of their language.

[Simranjit kaur @Simranj01314317]

If this is true, then is The The News ! ❤️❤️ #NusratFatehAliKhan

[Simranjit kaur @Simranj01314317]

Surjit Patar 🙇‍♀️🙌

[A Sidhu @asidhu_]

ਹਰ ਵਾਰੀ ਮੈਲ਼ਾ ਜਾਣ ਕੇ ਤੂੰ
ਕਿਉਂ ਆਪਣਾ ਹੀ ਮੁੱਖ ਨੋਚ ਲਿਆ,
ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ੇ ਵੀ ਮੈਲ਼ੇ ਹੁੰਦੇ ਨੇ
ਪਾਣੀ ਵੀ ਗੰਧਲੇ ਹੁੰਦੇ ਨੇ..

#SurjitPatar

[Simranjit kaur @Simranj01314317]

Feel like again reading the most powerful quote of the decade today 🙌 #Ravishkumar #IndianDemocracy

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This old Portuguese commercial is brilliant

[Khushwant Singh @Singhkhushwant]

A farmer has died at one of the farm protest sites, the Supreme Court has labelled the Chandigarh Mayor election as ‘Murder of Democracy,’a senior BJP leader has referred to an IPS Sikh officer as a Khalistani, trolls and hate mongers are having a free run on Social Media. If this isn’t scripting one’s country’s own downfall, then what is? #FarmersProtest #Sandeshkhali #ChandigarhMayoralElections

[(I'm done)ⁿ @Shayonnita15]

Today, I met a woman at a train station. We were standing together on the platform.

We exchanged smiles, and I went back to reading something on my phone.

When I looked up a few moments later, she was still looking at me. I smiled again. She smiled back. We looked away.

1.

[(I'm done)ⁿ @Shayonnita15]

Goodbye, Wife Jokes!

At a seminar the former top boss of a major FMCG company, is talking about feedback and criticism. Every now and then, to liven things up, the gentleman makes a joke about receiving "emotional" or "groundless" feedback from his wife.

As he goes through his slides, these wife jokes come up quite often. He is joined by other senior industry members who not only laugh, but also join in with similar anecdotes about their "crazy" and "hysterical" wives.

And I'm dismayed. This isn't the first time. In countless meetings with senior male (and sometimes female) members I have heard such jokes. And thus, I come here today, to ask if it's time to stop.

The "wife joke" which portrays the Indian wife as a temperamental, illogical, resentful person who often lashes out, and is "feared by husbands" may seem harmless, but is it?

We hear it all the time. They're long, short, or even simple quips in parties, at family events, on WhatsApp groups:
"I'm not scared of anyone, just my wife."
"I have control in all situations. But my wife controls me."
"If you want to learn anger management, don't pay a therapist. Go home and speak to your wife."
"I have been under maun vrath since 1991. That's the year I got married."

But isn't this deeply, deeply derogatory?

Not only does it reflect very badly on the person that they would want to make light about their marriage in public, and even joke about a person who is their life partner;
it also takes away so much power from the women who aren't even in the place to laugh about it/ react to it.

It also, disregards all women in the room, enforcing a practise from the times when corporates were boys clubs.

One could argue these are "just jokes" and don't make a difference, but jokes alter the societal subconscious, and shape the way societies and young people understand/think about things. Generations of boys hear their father make such jokes, see their mothers laugh as well, and learn that they're acceptable, and okay. And so, they continue the tradition.

If you doubt this impact, think Santa Banta. Years of these Sardar jokes created an impression that Sikh men were "foolish" and "harmless". Which, apparently, I have heard, was the goal writer Khushwant Singh had when he started them after the 1984 riots.

But as women increasingly juggle roles, join the work force and divorce their identities from their husbands', every time we make such a joke takes away from their value, time, and respect. It is worth asking if a "cheap laugh" is worth this—if it reveals more about you as a husband, than your wife.

Over the years I have often wondered what is okay to laugh about and what isn't. Earlier I used to think that jokes are offensive if they take power away from someone. Now, I have a new definition—could you crack that joke in front of the group/person it is on, and would they themselves see the ridicule and laugh along (assuming they have an easy sense of humour). A lot of good comics do just this. Andrew Schultz is one of my favorites!

But if it's not, if it would seem like a betrayal, a twisted use of vulnerability, then maybe it's not funny.

Maybe it's time to retire the boys club "wife joke", esp from public life. Maybe it's time we retired this stereotype.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Woke up to the news that a patient of mine died at a nearby hospital from a bacterial infection that responded to zero antibiotics. Zero. The bacteria, Acinetobacter baumanii was resistant to every single antibiotic tested. Every one of them. He was only 62 years old. He had an easy 10 years left, if not for that infection.

Individuals, doctors and specific communities are to be blamed for such deaths. Not the liver disease. Everyone of us, through actions and silence are to blame.

India is rapidly becoming the hub of multi-drug resistant bacterial infections in the world.

There is a lot we can do at individual and group level for this nightmare to dim out.

1⃣Please stop taking antibiotics on your own, especially for a fever, cough/sore throat which in the majority is caused by a virus, not a bacteria.

2⃣Please stop stockpiling antibiotics at home to use at your own whims and fancies.

3⃣Once started for a bacterial infection, please do not stop the course mid-way and complete the course as advised. Most antibiotic courses range from 5 to 7 days and sometimes more in case of complicated infections.

4⃣Please do not take antibiotics based on "pharmacist prescriptions" over the counter.

5⃣Pharmacists, please do not 'suggest' any antibiotics over the counter because "it is a popular choice" based on doctors prescriptions. You are not 'doctors' to suggest any medicine anytime. So dispense and educate the public on what needs to be done and the needful adverse events of medications (which most doctors fail to discuss on) that they need to know of.

6⃣Doctors, please do not prescribe antibiotics as if fever is a symptom of antibiotic-deficiency. Every patient you meet have not come to you for an antibiotic prescription.

7⃣Doctors, please do not prescribe antibiotics over social media such as Whatsapp without seeing or examining patients to confirm bacterial origin of infection.

8⃣Doctors, please do not start an antibiotic the moment a patient enters the hospital emergency or in-patient department. Not all patients are admitted for infection control. Prescribe antibiotics when reports/cultures for the same or the clinical situation (immunosuppressed) warrants it.

9⃣Doctors, please do not upgrade antibiotics (eg: directly to meropenem from ceftriaxone) because the fever did not go away in 8 hours time and do not keep upgrading and changing antibiotics every day because the fever spikes keep coming, even though intensity and frequency are reducing. Medicine is not magic.

🔟Pseudoscience peddlers - Homeopathic and Ayurveda practitioners and Naturopaths, please dont even think about prescribing antibiotics, because contrary to what you believe and what the Government has empowered you to believe, you are not doctors and are not competent in treating anyone, including single-celled organisms. Turn around, face the wall and stay there. And stop adulterating your junk remedies and supplements with antibiotics.

⏸️Prescription of antibiotics is the singular litmus test for a doctor, that takes into consideration EVERYTHING that makes that person a "doctor" - it tests the physician's knowledge, skill, reasoning, critical thinking, morality, ethics and humanism. You fail at this, you fail in your duty. Be a better human first, being a good doctor will follow.