Ankit Kejriwal

Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah

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@theepicmap Wow

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@SupriyaShrinate She would easily be one of the most beautiful women in the world. She looks stunning.

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@Pawankhera 🙌

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.

1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.

1900s: you rub calomel teething powder on your infant's gums. It is a mercury compound, and it leaves a generation with pink disease. Swollen, peeling hands and feet, screaming for months, and some of them died.

1910s: you cook in Crisco, launched by a soap and candle company, because cottonseed oil is modern and lard is what your mother used. The process that made it solid produced trans fat, banned outright a century later.

1920s: you drink Radithor, certified radioactive water, on prescription. Eben Byers took fourteen hundred bottles for his vitality. His jaw was removed in pieces and he was buried in a lead coffin.

1930s: a chemist dissolves a new sulfa drug in diethylene glycol, which is antifreeze. It kills 107 people, mostly children, and only then does America give the FDA power to demand safety testing.

1940s: your doctor lights a Camel in the surgery. More doctors smoke them than any other brand, and the advert runs in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which sold him the page.

1950s: DDT is sprayed over your kitchen, your garden and your children at school. The man who found its insecticidal properties has already been given a Nobel Prize.

1960s: your wife takes thalidomide for morning sickness because it is remarkably safe. More than ten thousand children are born with missing and shortened limbs.

1970s: the country puts down the butter and picks up the margarine, on the instruction of the American Heart Association. The fat everybody switched to was banned in 2015 as unsafe at any level.

1980s: the fat comes out of everything and sugar goes back in to make it edible. Obesity begins a climb it has never come off.

1990s: your father is prescribed OxyContin, because fewer than one per cent get addicted. The company later pleads guilty to criminal misbranding, and the overdose count runs into hundreds of thousands.

2000s: you take Vioxx for your knee. It is pulled in 2004, and the FDA's own safety officer estimates tens of thousands of excess heart attacks.

Not one of those was fringe. Every one had a professional body, a literature and a man in a white coat standing behind it.

Nobody who followed that advice was stupid. They were obedient, to the most qualified people available.

Settled is a word about money. It means the questions stopped being funded, so they stopped being asked.

So which of today's instructions will your grandchildren read out in disbelief.

The oil washed in hexane and built into every cell you own. The statin that blocks the pathway making your hormones, to prevent one heart attack per hundred people. The injection where a third of the loss is muscle. The infant formula built out of vegetable oil.

All settled. None of it funded to be otherwise.

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@TheFigen_ May she be blessed. May she get her child back in another lifetime. May she find peace and happiness. May all beings be happy. Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah.

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@advsanjoy Nusli's nanaji

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@NGKabra HOPE

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@dhwaninanavati Of course it does. But remember, there’s a difference between being naive and foolish, and being honest.

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@hajarkagalwa Couple goals

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@hajarkagalwa Couple goals 🙌

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@INCIndia @RahulGandhi It must have been a dream come true for this man.

[aether @bluewdrift]

This line from Atomic Habits isn't ready to leave my head:

"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

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He turned loneliness into a BILLION DOLLAR company.

This is @aparkthelark - the founder of @join_papa.

Andrew loved his grandpa. And he noticed his grandpa was lonely and needed a friend. So he posted on Facebook, "Who wants to be a pal to my papa?"

And he found someone. A young person who was down to just hang out and talk to his grandpa. And this changed his grandfather's life.

So Andrew had an idea, "What if I could do this for millions of old people?"

He quit his job and with no connections, no investors...he created his company - @join_papa. A place where older people can be matched with a "pal" - a young person who can be a companion and just help with daily life.

They partnered with health insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid. They expanded to 10,000 cities.

And 9 years later...Papa became a billion dollar company. All because Andrew didn't want his grandpa, or any other old person, to grow old alone.

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@ZalupaBank @vovudebosh Hi please DM

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@HistorieEnFotos May all sentient beings be happy. May divine grace shower on everyone. 🙌

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@subhsays @WBPolice @SuvenduWB @cmowbgov Wow

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@BJP4Bengal @SuvenduWB 🙌

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@subhsays @SuvenduWB @cmowbgov He’s absolutely correct. Large number of Kolkata based manufacturing units were earlier contemplating shifting to Orissa.

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@BJP4Bengal @SuvenduWB Please make it 10 cr for small and medium units.

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