Him.

I am Jon Snow. I know Nothing.

[Forum For IT Employees - FITE @FITEMaharashtra]

Statement by Forum for IT Employees (FITE)

We express our deepest condolences on the tragic death of Software Engineer Sambhav Jain and stand with his family during this devastating time.

Reports indicate that he was facing a combination of serious medical expenses, overwhelming debt, marital and financial distress, ultimately leading to a tragic loss of life.

This raises a larger question for the government:

Every IT employee pays Professional Tax. Employers and employees also contribute towards the Labour Welfare Fund. But when an employee and his family face a sudden medical or financial crisis, where is the safety net?

Why can’t a portion of these funds be meaningfully used for:

🏥 Emergency medical assistance for employees and their dependents
💰 Financial support during catastrophic medical situations
🧑‍💼 Emergency assistance to employees facing sudden job loss
🧠 Mental-health and counselling support
👨‍👩‍👧 Family assistance during extreme financial distress

Professional Tax should not remain merely a collection mechanism. Labour Welfare Fund should mean welfare when employees actually need it.

An IT employee may earn well on paper, but one medical emergency, job loss or family crisis can push a family into unbearable debt.

We urge the Government of Maharashtra to review how Professional Tax and Labour Welfare Fund are utilised and create a transparent Employee Emergency Welfare & Support System.

Employees contribute to the system.
The system must stand with employees when they need it most.

— Forum for IT Employees (FITE)
By Employees, For Employees

[Him. @TheVaL_M]

@mashrujeet Had similar experience with @SamsungIndia where they delayed the delivery of TV by 11 days but standard warranty and paid extended warranty start from day of purchase instead of delivery/installation date against consumer law and law of land even after "CEO" escalation followup.

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

Two college girls were electrocuted and hospitalized after a short circuit under Nerul's LP Bridge electrified accumulated rainwater amid heavy Navi Mumbai rains. #MumbaiRains @MumbaiPolice
@Navimumpolice please check

[Sabudana khichadi @dishasatra]

I was a proud andhbhakt. I was so convinced that Modiji and BJP are going to lead this country the way we all deserved and desired. I had really high hopes and blind belief. Never questioned them once in all these years.
But now things look very different. RSS is corrupt, Ram Mandir Trust people are corrupt, ethnol, I don’t want to start on the CMs and other karyakartas.
Ye kya hogaya hai? Why is BJP behaving like Congress? Feeling betrayed and helpless. What are we (common man) supposed to do now. Hum kaha jaaye? Aage khai peeche kua! I hope they really fix the party and regain our trust back.

[🇮🇳 𝓐 𝓙 ☀️ @warrior_soul13]

One resident had the issue with Jain's painting white path in building common area. This lead to a controversy. Guy in the video outraged it and Opposition parties chamcha's came along and made it a Marathi and Jain issue.

Aneways, I'm just posting it to know the hardships of our Guru and Sadhvi jis and reason behind the white path said by Premanand Ji Maharaj 🙏

[Harshita Sharma @Harshita511]

Why don’t we have a platform where we can write reviews of customers as well? I mean every person should have a profile and they have a rating and reviews about their behaviour at other places and with other people. Might motivate people to behave and stop being a bitch

[Him. @TheVaL_M]

@arshiet Many Congratulations and all the very best for the future 🧠💐

[ɢʀɛɛռ ɢօɖ @iGreenGod]

Losing yourself because you love someone too much and forget that you are special too is the most painful thing.

[Nachiket Bhatia @bhatia_nachiket]

#letsendtoxicity
A radiology resident at NHL Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad attempts suicide after consuming 30 clonazepam tablets — pushed to the edge by 36-hour duties, harassment, and exploitation.

👉 On paper: 13 residents
👉 Reality: Half posted elsewhere → double workload for those left behind

And what follows is not training — it’s slavery:
•Reports written in seniors’ names → punishment of rewriting them 10–50 times for errors
•Personal errands: daily breakfast & food for seniors
•Forced work at professor’s private imaging center
•Lunch >20 minutes? Threats
•Panic attacks? Dismissed as “malingering”

And the lowest of lows 👇
The professor allegedly asked him to produce a psychiatric certificate — so THEY can shift the blame to “mental illness” instead of their brutality.

If this doesn’t shake National Medical Commission and Gujarat authorities into action, then what will?

How many more residents need to break before this system is held accountable?

#NHLMMC #MedicoLivesMatter #StopResidentAbuse #MedicalToxicity #DoctorsAreNotSlaves #ReformMedicalTraining

[Bemba Tavuma X 🐐 @gaandfaadtits]

🚨 HARSHA BHOGLE ON TEAM INDIA'S WINNING CHANCES IN THE T20 WORLD CUP 🚨

Bhogle 🗣️- Honestly, I don’t think this team is winning World cup. We’ve mainly beaten associate teams through individual brilliance, but against strong sides in the Super-8 stage, these weaknesses will be exposed.

- Opening pair is still not fixed.

- We are overdependent on Varun Chakravarthy to carry the bowling attack, if he has an off day, the team could struggle.

- Number three batter isn’t performing consistently.

- Rinku Singh is out of form, the team combination still looks unsettled.

- So far and we currently don’t have a truly reliable player to handle pressure or stop a collapse.

- what's your point of view 👀 we are winning World cup or not ?

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

If you take Rs 500 from a worker and give Rs 100 to five lazy people, you lose one vote but gain five… It’s the biggest pyramid scheme in history, and it’s called SOCIALISM!

[Nachiket Bhatia @bhatia_nachiket]

I asked senior doctors why they still want their children to become doctors.
The answers won’t be popular.

“We struggled early. Pay was low. Life was hard.
We got settled around 40.
By 50, we had stability, respect, relevance. We are our own boss today.”

“Our non-medico friends peaked in their 30s–40s.
By their 50s, many were redundant—
humiliated, asked to leave, forced to work for lower salaries.”

“New technology made them replaceable,
despite giving 10–20 years of loyalty to companies
that replaced them with younger employees at 20% of the cost.”

“That rarely happens in medicine.
Experience compounds. Age adds value.
A 55-year-old doctor is trusted—not discarded.”

From the top of the mountain, medicine looks less glamorous—
but it remains one of the safest long-term professions we have.

Do you agree? Or am I missing something?

#Medicine #DoctorLife #JobSecurity #CareerLongevity #HardTruths #IndianDoctors

[Arshiet Dhamnaskar @arshiet]

"Don't worry about money, just treat the patient"

A line so often said by the patient's relatives upon arrival.
Funnily, the people who say it, usually are not to be found anywhere at the time of bill payment.

Let's talk about a sensitive topic: Money in Healthcare.

I write this from my experience working in government and private institutes.

Starting with: Health costs money.

Everything is expensive. For whatever reason; increased demand, low supply, lack of availability in a particular region, marked up prices.

Everything from the Oxygen and Ventilator support given to breathe, the MRI that needs to be done, every blood draw and blood tests, equipment maintenance charges to the service charges for doctors, staff nurses, housekeeping and billing clerk salaries etc needs money

In government institutes, this is heavily subsidised to some extent. But once the stock goes down, you pay out of pocket at market prices.

Coming to the point I wish to make: are we aware of these prices?

Let's say, god forbid, you (or a close one) have to get an angioplasty done.

How much does it cost in a hospital near you? (approximately)

How much would it cost to remove a blood clot in your brain after an accident?

How much does removing an appendix cost? Or a Caesarean section?

How much would it cost you if you get admitted for 5 days if you get a fever?

Are you aware of the ballpark figures at least?

A lot of people come to us saying they have insurance
But it covers petty amounts ~ 1 lakh rupees

That does not even cover half the cost of the neurosurgery, let alone the ICU stay, medicines, tests etc

My Chief says often, you keep an eye on the prices of onions and apples and clothes and gold...
Why not medicines? Why ignore health?

As residents, we are strictly told to keep the prices of medicine in mind.

We see files from other hospitals with a list of medications, almost 8-14 in number.

Our files have 2-3 only.

Only what the patient requires.
We don't prescribe 'tonics' or 'supplements' unless absolutely necessary.

He says, you will prescribe the best medicine.
But if the medicine eats up half of his daily salary, the patient is neither going to come to you again, nor are they going to take the medicines and get well.

When working as an intern, one of my jobs was to prescribe medicines and disposables to patients, as, as usual, the government did not have enough supply.

So we had to 'balance' out stuff.
They did not sell loose gloves, only packs.
But that would set back a patient 160 rupees, while we used maybe half of them.

So I would prescribe it to 1 patient, and then for another patient I would prescribe some of the stuff this patient needed.
So it would come at a reasonable price for both patients.

So what can one do at the patient level?

1} Find out the approximate pricing of common procedures/surgeries at least in the nearby hospitals
2) Invest in a health insurance which matches that kind of pricing
3) Keep a reserve amount for healthcare expenditure, should the insurance get delayed or declined.
4) Take care of health.

P.S.
Remember that Life does not depend on Money, and even if you spend the maximum, you cannot necessarily save one's life
We are all human, after all

[CA Chirag Chauhan @CAChirag]

Income tax filers should have voting rights based on their tax contributions:

two votes for those who file ITR and pay tax,

three votes for payments exceeding ₹1 lakh,

and four votes for payments over ₹12 lakhs.

What do you think? Would this promote national growth?

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

There should be a provision where Govt returns a portion of income tax paid by an employee if he or she gets laid off.

You taxed them when they were earning. Now help them in their tough times.

[Soham Sarkar @sohamtweet]

Met a college friend who works at TCS, and according to him, around 80,000 ( yes 80k, it’s not a typo) employees have been let go so far - some with 18 months salary, some with 3 months, and some with zero severance package. This is a staggering number, and I am sure it will spill over to other IT services firms.

[Him. @TheVaL_M]

@madhavsharma Ideally those drops didn't cost us much so far leading to no learnings, next one being a no risk match #IndiavsSriLanka we should lose it to avoid any blunder in #AsiaCup2025 final

[Prem Soni @ValueWithPrem]

I admitted my son to a hospital today. I have a ₹1.2 crore Acko Platinum Health Plan the one with no room rent limit. @ACKOIndia @duavarun

Guess what?
The hospital flat out denied me a suite room. 👇🏻

[Dr Prashant Mishra @drprashantmish6]

WhatsApp forward , must Read.

*India’s Silent Emergency* :
How Foreign Hands Are Hijacking Our Healthcare,
One Patient at a Time

A covert national security brief, disguised as a headline.
*For the eyes of every Indian who still believes hospitals exist to heal-not to harvest*.

In the shimmering corridors of India’s private hospitals, beneath the glint of new-age diagnostic machines and corporate efficiency, a silent takeover is unfolding. It began without a bang-no coup, no tanks, no headlines.

100% FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in healthcare was allowed. No upper cap. No strategic oversight. No localisation mandates. *What was once a deeply human ecosystem-driven by values of service and sacrifice — became a marketplace on a global spreadsheet*.

And since then, foreign capital hasn’t walked-it has stormed in.

*The Great Hospital Handover*

Over the last few years, some of India's largest hospital chains have been fully or partially acquired by global private equity firms, sovereign funds, and foreign pension conglomerates:

*Manipal Hospitals* – backed by Temasek & TPG Capital

*Aster DM* – tied to Olympus Capital & other global funds

*Max Healthcare* – owned by Radiant Life Care, & *BMH* backed by KKR

*CARE Hospitals* – controlled by Evercare, a TPG–CDC vehicle

*Fortis Healthcare* – acquired by Malaysia’s IHH Healthcare

*Medica Synergie* – financed by pan-Asian investor networks

*Sahyadri Hospitals* – until recently, controlled by Canada’s Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), now bought by Manipal in a ₹6,400 crore deal

These are no longer Indian hospitals.

They are foreign financial assets-spread across annual reports in New York, Singapore, Toronto, and Abu Dhabi.

*What was once a temple of healing is now a tool of strategic monetisation*.

Who Does the System Truly Serve?

What does this transformation mean for ordinary Indians?

• Treatment costs have soared — not due to better care, but to meet boardroom profit targets.

• Doctors are pressured to act as sales agents, with performance incentives tied to diagnostics and procedures.

• The poor, the rural, and the complex cases — unless “high-margin” — are quietly turned away.

• The ethics of medicine are overpowered by quarterly returns, investor expectations, and actuarial calculations.

• Monopolies are forming in critical care regions, where one conglomerate controls diagnostics, pharmacy, insurance, and hospital care — end-to-end.

And underneath all of this is a new gold rush — not for organs or land, but for data.

*The Data Goldmine*: Your Body Is Their Business Model

Every visit to a private hospital — every blood test, MRI, gene panel, ICU monitor reading, medication profile — is quietly captured, stored, and monetised. Hospitals now run on data economics. Your medical records are used to train foreign-owned AI diagnostics, build predictive models for health insurance underwriting, and refine drug targeting algorithms — often without your explicit consent.

India’s regulatory vacuum — where patient data is neither sovereign nor protected — has turned its people into clinical lab rats for the Global North.

*From Patients to Patents*: How Pharma Giants Exploit Indian Data

Foreign pharma companies now view Indian hospitals as real-time drug development labs. Here's how it works:

Patient data is anonymised (or not) and transferred to offshore R&D centres.

AI platforms mine this data to discover new drug targets, simulate treatment responses, and design early vaccine trials.

Indian diversity — genetically, geographically, and demographically — becomes a testing ground for products priced far beyond Indian affordability.

From cancer immunotherapies to cardiac biologics to vaccine booster models, Indian suffering has become a substrate for Western patents.

No royalties. No IP transfer. No public benefit. Just one-sided extraction.

*The Insurance–Hospital–Data Cartel: A Systematic Loot*