Sumit Maurya

Thinker| Primate| Citizen of India|

[let it go. @stayaway_002]

I've noticed a pattern at my workplace.

Most of my male colleagues and juniors are incredibly homesick. Many of them travel 2–3 hours almost every other weekend just to spend a day with their parents and in their hometown.
And that's completely fine. Everyone should be able to visit their parents.

But interestingly, these same men expect their wives to visit their own parents only on major festivals like Rakhi or bhaidauj that too after taking permission from his parents.

If you miss your parents so often, why is it so difficult to understand that your wife misses hers too?

[Shashi Learns @ShashiLearns]

The dictator's position is now in danger.

If you can't write, just retweet.

Long live the revolution.

[NUPPL_Ghatampur @NUPPL_Official]

The 69th Raising Day of NLC India Limited (NLCIL) was celebrated with great fervor at Neyveli Uttar Pradesh Power Limited (NUPPL) – a joint venture of NLCIL and UPRVUNL – on 20th May 2025.

The celebration commenced with the flag hoisting ceremony, followed by the rendition of the NLCIL anthem in both Hindi and Tamil, symbolizing unity in diversity. A cake-cutting ceremony added a touch of festivity to the occasion.

On this auspicious day, Shri S. Durai, CEO, NUPPL, read out the message from the Chairman and Managing Director of NLCIL, marking the significance of the day and reinforcing the company's vision and mission.

The event reflected the spirit and commitment of the NLCIL family towards excellence and sustainable development.

20 मई 2025 को एनएलसी इंडिया लिमिटेड (NLCIL) का 69वां स्थापना दिवस एनयूपीपीएल (NLCIL व यूपीआरवीयूएनएल का संयुक्त उपक्रम) में उत्साहपूर्वक मनाया गया।

कार्यक्रम की शुरुआत ध्वजारोहण से हुई, इसके बाद हिंदी व तमिल में एनएलसीआईएल गान का गायन हुआ — जो एकता में विविधता का प्रतीक रहा।

एनयूपीपीएल के सीईओ श्री एस. दुरई ने इस शुभ अवसर पर एनएलसीआईएल के अध्यक्ष एवं प्रबंध निदेशक का संदेश पढ़कर सुनाया।

यह आयोजन एनएलसीआईएल परिवार की उत्कृष्टता व सतत विकास के प्रति प्रतिबद्धता को दर्शाता है।
@nlcindialimited @CoalMinistry @MinOfPower

[NUPPL_Ghatampur @NUPPL_Official]

सफलता की उड़ान!
DAV NUPPL पब्लिक स्कूल का 10वीं बोर्ड (2024-25) में 💯% रिजल्ट!
टॉपर अन्वेषिका ने हासिल किए 97% अंक
स्कूल औसत: 84.10%
विद्यालय चेयरमैन एवं एनयूपीपीएल सीईओ श्री एस. दुरई कुमार ने छात्रों को बधाई देते हुए शिक्षकों के मार्गदर्शन की सराहना की।
@nlcindialimited

[Yogi Adityanath Office @myogioffice]

मुख्यमंत्री श्री @myogiadityanath जी महाराज ने आज कानपुर में नेयवेली उत्तर प्रदेश पॉवर लिमिटेड (NUPPL) के पॉवर प्लांट का निरीक्षण किया।

[NUPPL_Ghatampur @NUPPL_Official]

4 मार्च को @NUPPL_Official में #राष्ट्रीयसुरक्षादिवस पर ध्वजारोहण किया गया, जो राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सप्ताह की शुरुआत का प्रतीक है! इस वर्ष का विषय: 'सुरक्षा और कल्याण: विकसित भारत के लिए आवश्यक'. एक सुरक्षित, स्वस्थ और विकसित भारत के लिए सुरक्षा को प्राथमिकता दें! @nlcindialimited

[NUPPL_Ghatampur @NUPPL_Official]

Milestone FULL LOAD of 660MW reached on 19.11.2024 in supercritical power plant of @NUPPL_Ghatampur
@NLC India Limited
@Coal Ministry #power #milestone

[Sumit Maurya @Sumit_maurya]

@chiragbarjatya @PrateekAgnihot7

[Sumit Maurya @Sumit_maurya]

Stop taking advantage of the gullibility of people in this country.
#health #healthify

[Sumit Maurya @Sumit_maurya]

Dear @healthifyme
Your blog posts are propagating unscientific and BS claims like https://t.co/8mR3GHiTxn
If you really are providing a health based service for which you charge an exorbitant amount of fees stop these kinds of BS right away. Hire/consult some real doctors.

[Sumit Maurya @Sumit_maurya]

@stats_feed Tax

[Poonam Joshi @PoonamJoshi_]

Four members of the richest family of Britain, Prakash Hinduja, his wife Kamal Hinduja, their son Ajay Hinduja and his wife Namrata Hinduja have all been sentenced to jail by a Swiss court for exploiting Indian migrant servants whom they made to work for upto 18 hours a day for less than Rs 700 (£7) per day.
The hourly rate in Switzerland is 32chf which is Rs 2800 (£28).

They paid them in Indian rupees rather than the local currency. Confiscated their passports and didn't allow them to go out. They spent more money in looking after their dogs than paying a decent salary to their servants.

Prakash Hinduja and his wife are in their mid to late 70's. This age is for retiring and moving towards spirituality and not going to jail on serious charges like human trafficking. They have both received 4.5 yrs jail term while the son Ajay and his wife Namrata have got 4 yrs each.

This is how the justice system works in developed country, even though the family did an out of court settlement with the servants in the civil court, criminal charges were still brought against them and they were tried in the court and punished. It doesn't matter how rich or influential one is, law is equal for all.

They probably spent a lot of wealth fighting this case that took away a lot more than money from them. All they needed to do was to treat and pay those working for them, cooking for them and looking after their children, right. Karma always catches up.
#Hindujas #PrakashHinduja #KamalHinduja #AjayHinduja #NamrataHinduja #Humantrafficking #Swisslaw

[Raj Pratap Singh @RajPratapSingh]

Congratulation to officers and staff of UPPCL , NPCL and SLDC for successfully meeting the highest demand in the country.... 30618 MW.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

June 13 was Global Fatty Liver Day. Here are some points on fatty liver that doctors won't generally tell you.

1️⃣ Fatty liver disease is now known as "Steatotic Liver Disease" to remove stigma and body shaming.

2️⃣ Fatty liver can be due to significant alcohol use or metabolic disease or both. Alcohol-related fatty liver reverses completely in 2-4 weeks with abstinence. You do not need drug treatments. Metabolic disease-related fatty liver disease reverses when associated metabolic disease is controlled (diabetes, obesity, hypothyroidism, high lipids, hypertension & heart disease). It requires treatment from metabolic disease point of view. Fatty liver due to both causes, called "MetALD" requires both abstinence and control of metabolic disease. An obese alcohol user has far worse outcome than non-obese alcohol user. But both have same high risk for many types of cancers.

3️⃣ Treating fatty liver based on only an ultrasound finding of fatty liver is wrong. Grades of fatty liver on ultrasound ➡️1, 2 and 3 are just patterns of fat deposition in liver. Grade 1 does not mean lower severity of disease and Grade 3 does not mean higher severity of disease.

4️⃣ If you find fatty liver on ultrasound, look for reasons for fatty liver. You do not treat the effect. You treat the cause. Obese? Lose weight. Diabetes? Control your glucose, maintain calorie deficit diet. Alcohol? Stop drinking. Many doctors will prescribe drugs for fatty liver solely based on ultrasound findings. They are looting you. A large majority of fatty liver patients require only lifestyle changes and no drugs.

5️⃣If you find fatty liver on ultrasound and there are associated risk factors or causes for the fatty liver, then assess the risk of you having or developing severe form of fatty liver. This is called steatohepatitis or NASH, now called MASH. This is the severe form of fatty liver that requires treatment. Do not jump to do a Fibroscan or Shearwave test to look for steatohepatitis. Listen...

6️⃣If you have fatty liver on ultrasound + risk factors (age >40 and metabolic diseases) for severe fatty liver, then screen yourself with the FIB-4 or NFS scores.
FIB-4 (use if 40-65y): https://t.co/eYAZ8c2sCk
NFS (use if <40 or >65y): https://t.co/MFmQpNX6Ed
Remember, only use these scores if you have ultrasound fatty liver AND metabolic risk factors.

7️⃣ Now if the above scores are beyond cut off for significant or advanced (severe) fatty liver disease (also called significant fibrosis due to fat and inflammation) then go for Fibroscan or Shearwave (elastography) test to confirm presence of significant/advanced fibrosis in liver.

8️⃣ Those patients with significant or advanced fibrosis due to fat in the liver are the ones who require drugs for liver disease apart from drugs for metabolic disease and lifestyle changes.

9️⃣The currently approved drug for severe non-alcohol related fatty liver disease is Resmetirom (for those without cirrhosis). And the other recommended ones include vitamin E and pioglitazone. No other drugs are to be given and are not approved or recommended for non alcohol related fatty liver.

🔟 In India, a pharmaceutical company promoted drug called Saroglitazar is heavily prescribed by physicians, surgeons and specialists. This drug is NOT recommended by major Hepatology clinical societies for treatment of severe fatty liver disease. It is expensive and must be avoided. Many looter-doctors prescribe Saroglitazar even just based on ultrasound findings of fatty liver. Pharma promotion of this drug is out of control in India. But consumer/patients beware. It's use is only limited to diabetes patients with high triglycerides and not for severe forms of fatty liver.

1️⃣1️⃣Similarly other drugs like ursodeoxycholic acid, s-adenosyl methionine, combination of dietary supplements, n-acetyl cysteine, silymarin, vitamin C or herbal products are all waste of your money and sometimes more damaging to health. Avoid them and avoid doctors who prescribe them.

[Sumit Maurya @Sumit_maurya]

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[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Puducherry | Overseas French citizens cast their vote to choose their representatives to the European Parliament. (09.06)

[Hari Prasad Nadig @hpnadig]

Father-in-law who’s a consumer activist sends me this and writes:

“Tucked away in an obscure corner of a newspaper, this notice, that is very useful and good to know that the central government wants all citizens to know...”

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

Okay putting some facts together for you:

[1] India's population will peak in 2065
[2] Right now India's real estate (Eg. Mumbai) is more costly than in Dubai (this makes no sense)
[3] If you are retiring in 2040s, 2050s, 2060s, you will witness a high inflation world (especially in Indian major cities)
[4] We don't have a reliable social security (most healthcare expenses will remain out of pocket)
[5] Right now healthcare is inexpensive in India (but inflation growing at 12-14% per year in this segment)
[6] What really pushed a lot of people from lower middle class to upper middle class: were IT jobs
[7] India had a competitive advantage: English speaking, willing to overwork, getting paid 1/5th the salaries than the western world.
[8] With AI/ML, many of these jobs are permanently going away.
[9] We don't have any new growth Engine.
[10] You would say startups: most D2C customer startups buy/manufacture outside (to lower their cost) and sell to Indians. This does not create any real wealth.

It is not about me being pessimistic/optimistic.
It is about understanding reality.
And, educating people accordingly.

Look at macros, real picture emerges.

A massive retirement crisis is going to hit: where people will stay unemployed for many of their productive years, own no homes, and can't depend on government for social security.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

A lot of people have been sharing a recently published study on adverse events associated with Covaxin [Indian made Covid vaccine from Bharat Biotech] which was published in the journal, Drug Safety by a team from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

I read through the study and found it sub-standard and not methodically sound. I did not want to waste time discussing the inconsequential study.

But since I have been getting multiple requests to discuss the study because, exactly as the authors wanted, it has increased anti-vaccine sentiments within the public in India, who were already misinformed and misled by reports on extremely rare side effects of Covishield (AZ vaccine)

This report by @Banjotkaur is fantastic and dives deep into the study and why one must not take it too seriously.

Additionally, I have these points to add which makes this study quite clownish. I am not sure how this got through peer-review, because, as @shinsmon who has a great deal of knowledge in critically validating vaccine and immunology science papers, puts it - "its crap."

1. No control (neither unvaccinated nor pre-vaccinated era). Thus, they have no clue about the base rate.

2. Telephonic query. Thus playing into bias. A whole lot of bias. Telephonic interviews are the worst in measuring realistic primary events/ outcome measures. There is no way to qualify or quantify it. Did they actually call these people included in the study? We do not really know because there is no raw data for us to analyze.

3. As @Banjotkaur explains, AESIs are adverse events, or the side effects, as the name suggests, of ‘special interest’. These are not necessarily all AEFIs (adverse effects following immunisation). In fact AESIs may be referred to as a subset of AEFIs. In this study, the significant volume of self-reported AESI are actually seen in individuals with pre-vaccination comorbidities - that is they were already at risk for such events independent of vaccination status. This shows the authors had already decided what the study results had to be (more on that later).

4. Many events marked as AESI are known to be associated with Covid/long Covid. They could have been due to other flu/flu-like illnesses. But they don't consider it and a significant volume of AESI turn out to be upper respiratory tract infections or URTI. But the authors did not test for Covid or other completely different infections. Conveniently, they claim 'they can't rule out it's not COVID-19' but fail to acknowledge it could be COVID-19. It is all the play on phrasing, but it does tell us their agenda - which is to feed anti-vaccine sentiments.

5. One of the authors (the corresponding senior author) Sankha Shubhra Chakraborty, of Department of Geriatrics, Banaras Hindu University is a prominent antivaxxer on Twitter who keeps spreading vaccine misinformation. In fact, I am not tagging him here because he was abusive towards me because of my posts on Ayurveda pseudoscience. He is also an alternative medicine sympathizer and a fanatic who believes in miracles rather than science (go through his TL if you have nothing else to do).

6. Back in 2022, when the same group led by Sankha Shubhra Chakraborty published a similar study on Covishield, @shinsmon asked for raw data from his paper which he did not provide. Instead the BHU "doctor" asked Dr. Shinsmon to approach the journal - for the raw data. The authors are in charge of raw data and they are bound to release it during post publication peer review. The whole group is very fishy. I am not sure if they would share raw data of this Covaxin study if they were asked to.

7. When @shinsmon contacted Sankha Shubra's co-author and Ayurveda professor, Vaidya Kishor Patwardhan (who teaches/studied Ayurveda which has no germ theory in their teaching syllabus) for the 2022 Covishield paper raw data, he blocked him on Twitter.

The BHU group led by Sankha Shubhra Chakraborty and his co-authors, have been publishing low quality, methodically poor, conveniently controversial and thoroughly 'deep in conspiracy' papers for short bursts of 15 minutes of fame on social media and majority of the Indian media have been lapping it up, sans brain matter and vomiting the findings without critically analysing it, adding anti-science fuel to the already growing anti-vaccine sentiments within the public.

One of the authors (Vaidya Vaibhav Jaiswal) of the BHU study, is from the Department of Kaumarbhritya/Balroga (Ayurveda-Paediatrics). I bet if you ask him about types of immunity and basic downstream immune cascade in different types of vaccination, he would develop an atrial flutter.

To remind everyone, anti-vaccine movement kills. Especially children.
https://t.co/Ns5jmtyl1r

So do not be fools, dont fall for conspiracy theories and parrot controversies in healthcare, but act like grown ups and embrace the good-faith science, and never the bad-science like this one published by biased, low-quality research groups like this one from BHU.

Please read the @thewire_in article by @Banjotkaur here:
https://t.co/EumEMne4Mb

Original (BHU-BS) study: https://t.co/11ytyDX2uL

[Sumit Maurya @Sumit_maurya]

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