Prateek Sharma

I use Twitter to talk to myself! Tweet (read retweet) about India, art, healthcare, economy & finance. Product of @bitspilaniindia + @CFAinstitute + @ISBedu

[Congress @INCIndia]

न संवेदना.. न पछतावा
सिर्फ सत्ता का अहंकार

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

Possibly even sadder than Yogi's rude reply is that a parent of a dead child needs to first communicate she supports the BJP when talking to the CM.

Every day in India is darkly surreal.

[प्रणव @PranavaBhardwaj]

Thanks @IndianExpress for reporting this.

Needs courage.

[Pooja @poojaofficial5]

Gutkha has been banned in Maharashtra since 2012

But for years, the gutkha mafia continued to operate freely.

Then FDA Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe took charge.

In just 3 weeks
200+ FIRs
300+ arrests
₹3 crore worth of gutkha seized
MCOCA invoked against supply chains

This is the same officer who has faced 25 transfers in 21 years of service.

Some officers work sitting in AC offices,

Others step out of the AC, work on the ground, and challenge powerful systems.

Tukaram Mundhe chose the second path.

There are some officers who work outside the office AC.

Do honest officers like him deserve greater support instead of repeated transfers ?

Share your opinion in the comments.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

40 years in shipping gave me one unusual qualification as a historian: I had no academic orthodoxies to protect.

When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I followed the sea lanes backwards into deep antiquity. Without exception, they converged on the Indian subcontinent. This was not the book I had intended to write.

I must give credit to my editor, who gave an unknown author with a controversial approach, an opportunity. His first attempts to find peer reviewers encountered significant resistance. The argument that India sat at the centre of ancient world trade, not its periphery, was considered, to put it gently, inconvenient.

What I found, and what I could not stop finding, is that placing India at the centre of world history does not simply revise one chapter. It cascades. Correct the starting assumption and you are forced to reconsider the origins of mathematics, medicine, philosophy, linguistics, religion. Each conclusion leads to another. I came to call these the collateral heresies.

My three books explain the architecture of how they connect.

If you work in a field where received wisdom is protected by institutional interest rather than evidence, you will recognise the pattern. The question is whether the evidence eventually wins.

[Gargi Rawat @GargiRawat]

Really.. why is an elderly Pahadi man Keshav Negi being scape-goated for the fire in the Malviya Nagar hotel. He didn’t build over 20 rooms when there was permission for only 6. Obviously some nexus in the area too #HotelFire

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Police have arrested this cook who was preparing food in the kitchen of Hotel Flourish Stays, where the fire reportedly started.

Next, they should arrest the vegetable, grocery, and dairy suppliers. Had they not supplied ingredients that day, there would have been no cooking and no fire.

After that, they should arrest the farmers who grew the vegetables, the factory owners who produced the grocery items, and the cows that gave the milk.

Sabko pakad lena. Kisi ko mat chhodna. Except, of course, the officials whose job it was to inspect such establishments and flag safety violations before a tragedy occurred.

[Ramesh Bhatt @Rameshbhimtal]

शेफ केशव नेगी को गिरफ्तारी क्यों?

मालवीय नगर अग्निकांड में 21 निर्दोष लोगों की जान चली गई। लेकिन सबसे बड़ा सवाल है कि कार्रवाई आखिर किस पर हो रही है?

शेफ केशव नेगी को गिरफ्तार कर लिया गया। एक ऐसा व्यक्ति जो पहाड़ से पलायन कर अपने परिवार और बच्चों का पेट पालने के लिए दिल्ली आया था और जिसका काम रसोई में खाना बनाना था। क्या उसका काम यह देखना था कि बिल्डिंग वैध है या अवैध? फायर NOC है या नहीं? एक ही एंट्री-एग्जिट क्यों है? रिहायशी इलाके में कमर्शियल गतिविधि कैसे चल रही है? अवैध निर्माण और अतिक्रमण कैसे हुआ?

अगर इतने बड़े स्तर पर नियमों की अनदेखी हुई, तो जिम्मेदारी उन लोगों की भी तय होनी चाहिए जिनके ऊपर कानून लागू कराने, निरीक्षण करने और अनुमति देने की जिम्मेदारी थी।

21 निर्दोष मौतों के मामले में केवल सबसे कमजोर कड़ी को पकड़ लेना आसान है, लेकिन क्या असली सवालों और बड़े जिम्मेदार लोगों तक भी जांच पहुंचेगी? देश जानना चाहता है।
@DelhiPolice
@gupta_rekha
#Delhifire

[Rajendra B. Aklekar @rajtoday]

The Thane elected ministers did a demo for pre elections to fool real estate industry and the general public by taking two MRS1 trains from Line 7/2 and placing them on the line. The trains are rotting there. They may not be even compatible when the full Alstom signalling thing gets going. But no one bothers. One of the Thane elected ministers is also a builder with upcoming properties around the stretch of the line.

[NDTV India @ndtvindia]

#NDTVExclusive | ‘दो लाख रुपये के गद्दे मैंने लोगों को बचाने के लिए बिछा दिए... मुझे सुकून है कि इस वजह से 8-12 लोगों की जान बच गई...'- NDTV से बोले गद्दे की दुकान के मालिक रियाजुद्दीन

@ravishranjanshu | #Delhi | #MalviyaNagar

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

One of the most remarkable images in the history of Indian archaeology.

[Mojo Story @themojostory]

As flames and thick smoke engulfed a South Delhi guesthouse, turning a routine morning into a nightmare that claimed 21 lives, it was not trained rescue teams but ordinary citizens who became the city's true heroes. Residents of Hauz Rani rushed towards danger, not away from it, improvising life-saving measures in the face of chaos.

Mohammad Afzal and fellow locals spread mattresses and bedsheets sourced from a nearby shop to create makeshift safety nets and carry the injured, while shop owner Riyazuddin Mansoori and his son Arman willingly sacrificed merchandise worth lakhs to save strangers trapped inside. Waseem Raja, drawing on his hospital emergency training, administered CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to unconscious victims blackened by smoke, helping pull several back from the brink. Amid heartbreak, panic and loss, these men embodied extraordinary courage and compassion, proving that in humanity's darkest moments, ordinary people often shine the brightest.

[barkha dutt @BDUTT]

"I lost 2 lakhs worth of mattresses, but get peace from saving lives"- Meet Riyazuddin, Delhi Fire's Hero, who spread out mattresses so that people trapped in the burning building could jump to safety. Its a financial hit ahead of his daughter's wedding but he has zero regrets

[Uday Kotak @udaykotak]

Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn.
Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together.
It’s a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe.
Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Bombay in 1910: Notice the planning in the British era. All our nationalism matters little if we can’t rival and beat the standards that existed over 100 years ago. It can be done.
Source: Bombay Mumbai Heritage on IG

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

Visibility from Bandra-Worli Sea Link today 😍

[Jim Norton @JimNorton]

The graphics on the news in India are insane. The great Louis C.K. joins me this week on JNCSY before his May 5 show at the Hollywood Bowl #india #indianews #war

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

For those of us who witnessed the rise of Web 1.0, the shutting down of Ask Jeeves yesterday feels like the pulling down of an old building that we once frequented. We know that the building had long fallen into disuse, but the pulling down still feels sad.

https://t.co/aY7dilwlVH

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder.

Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.