Today, my father was discharged from NH Hospital after successfully undergoing bypass surgery.
He is now recovering well, and we are truly grateful for his steady progress.
Overall, NH is reliable and affordable hospital, especially for middle-class families. @NarayanaHealth
I recently had dinner with Dr Devi Shetty, the founder of Narayana Hospitals. For those who don't know him, he's the guy who figured out how to do open heart surgery for a few hundred dollars when the same procedure costs a bomb in the US. Narayana has 18,000 beds across India, and if you ask most middle-class people in Bangalore about it, they'll speak highly of it.
There was one thing I kept thinking about over and over again after meeting him.
Narayana's market cap is around ₹38,000 crore. Now compare that to pretty much any half-decent financial services business in India, and it'll be valued more than that, including Zerodha. A brokerage, worth more than a hospital chain, that has probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
I get the arguments. If you're a fund manager/analyst, you can immediately explain it away using margins, capex, asset-light vs asset-heavy, and all that, and I'm not saying the market is wrong.
But it's still a strange world we've built, where the businesses closest to money get valued the highest, and the ones doing the hard and essential things get priced like boring utilities. A hospital carries physical infrastructure, enormous liability, thin margins and the actual weight of keeping people alive. And somehow that's worth less than a platform for buying and selling stocks.
I don't have a clean take on this. All of this just felt odd.
Ps: Nothing here is investment advice. For that, go to @zerodhavarsity
I recently had dinner with Dr Devi Shetty, the founder of Narayana Hospitals. For those who don't know him, he's the guy who figured out how to do open heart surgery for a few hundred dollars when the same procedure costs a bomb in the US. Narayana has 18,000 beds across India, and if you ask most middle-class people in Bangalore about it, they'll speak highly of it.
There was one thing I kept thinking about over and over again after meeting him.
Narayana's market cap is around ₹38,000 crore. Now compare that to pretty much any half-decent financial services business in India, and it'll be valued more than that, including Zerodha. A brokerage, worth more than a hospital chain, that has probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
I get the arguments. If you're a fund manager/analyst, you can immediately explain it away using margins, capex, asset-light vs asset-heavy, and all that, and I'm not saying the market is wrong.
But it's still a strange world we've built, where the businesses closest to money get valued the highest, and the ones doing the hard and essential things get priced like boring utilities. A hospital carries physical infrastructure, enormous liability, thin margins and the actual weight of keeping people alive. And somehow that's worth less than a platform for buying and selling stocks.
I don't have a clean take on this. All of this just felt odd.
Ps: Nothing here is investment advice. For that, go to @zerodhavarsity
Whereas the #UnknownMen sacrifice everything, even the chance to see their families after completing their mission, made me realize how painfully brutal a spy’s life truly is… some sacrifices never end.
Thank you @AdityaDharFilms for this scene 🙏
During this scene, I couldn’t hold back my tears. I lost my mom in an accident 3 years ago, and the pain still hasn’t faded I’m still living with that trauma every single day.
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#Dhurandhartherevenge#Dhurandhar2
Mixed feelings about Dhurandhar 2: The action and violence are dialed up several notches, opening brilliantly with an engaging fight sequence to ARI ARI which sets the tone for the next 4 hours. The smaller surprises are well sprinkled and end up being the best part of this sequence, imo. There are definitely a few moments that make you go “woah!”
Ajay Sanyal is aura farming hard throughout, while Akshaye Khanna was missed in Lyari. Uzair’s impact is less than anticipated. The censorship feels a bit patchy, it beeps words like haramkhor but lets loda and lund go through on full blast (lol). The post-credit scene was underwhelming given the standards set by Aditya Dhar saab himself, or did I miss something (?)
Nevertheless, the film keeps you engrossed for the full 4 hours without breaking a sweat. It’s a solid, engaging watch that never gets boring, but if I really had to choose: Dhurandhar OG > Dhurandhar 2 as a complete package especially in terms of music and overall novelty.
P.S. Also, brace yourselves for a flood of “propaganda film” posts in the coming days. It’s going to be insufferable. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
There are times when nothing happens for decades, and then decades unfold within weeks. The release of this male tiger into Rampachodavaram Division, within the landscape of Papikonda National Park, after his capture from the East Godavari district, has been one such moment.
Befitting the name “Explorer,” he has been traversing the landscape extensively, revealing places and patterns we had never imagined witnessing. Through the radio collar fitted around his neck and continuous monitoring using VHF telemetry, every movement offers a glimpse into the hidden life of the forest.
This initiative marks a historic milestone, as releasing and systematically monitoring a radio-collared tiger in the wild is a first in the conservation history of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
As the tiger moved across the terrain, he highlighted not only the magnificence of this landscape but also the deeper sociological dimensions of conservation. Ecological readiness alone is not enough; social readiness and the willingness of people to coexist with large carnivores are equally important.
Each movement reminds us that conservation requires preparing both forests and society to welcome the return of tigers to a landscape they have historically graced and rightfully shared with us.