Arati Kadav

"Diffuse, disguise, confuse, obfuscate, deny"- only rules of time travel.”

[Arati Kadav @AratiKadav]

Cargo - our small, intimate, indie scifi is out for you all.
Do watch It on Netflix.

@masseysahib
@battatawada

[Arati Kadav @AratiKadav]

Digger really worked for me! Also Tom Cruise that one long take monologue was one of the best I have seen- the design of that entire space. Wish FahadFasil had done the role of the Indian.

[Arati Kadav @AratiKadav]

@BlueTokaiCoffee appalled overall by service. The female server in bkc was eating walking about, not reciprocating. I went for coffee and breakfast decided to just have kombucha because unsure of folks serving and eating at the same time.

[Zatchfcb @zatchfcb]

Hands down the best Youtube short ever made. What an incredible edit! 👏

[Arati Kadav @AratiKadav]

The leaked pic of Rajamouli’s set shows animatronic giant dinosaurs - and is prob better PR than any vfx heavy snippets from our films. Going back to on-camera effects, first principles is important. Going back to playfulness and audacity is important.

[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.

A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.

A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.

These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.

The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.

A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.

#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe

https://t.co/Ye9CVzr8qU

[Arati Kadav @AratiKadav]

“But now the Falling Man is falling through more than the blank blue sky. He is falling through the vast spaces of memory and picking up speed.”

[Adam Kramer @KegsnEggs]

If you'e never read The Falling Man, you should do so. I post this on September 11th every year, and I find time to read it on this day every year. Still, in my eyes, the greatest piece of journalism I have ever read. https://t.co/gZgwzRoSgX

[Matt Neglia @NextBestPicture]

What the fuck did I just watch? One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder’s unparalleled, full-access look into Elizabeth Holmes’s life leading up to her imprisonment. Shocking, expansive, and revealing, depending on what you choose to believe. At 174 minutes, it never lags, but it certainly lingers, leaving behind haunting revelations and disturbing moral contradictions that I’m still trying to wrap my head around. A mesmerizing psychological excavation of truth, performance, and self-deception that will have you questioning every glance, gesture, and word and all through Fielder’s dark, comedic point of view. Gorgeously photographed and edited. Completely stunned.

[Sann @san_x_m]

More than 1 billion teeth around the world have been filled with a material that one woman invented.

The reason it looks like a real tooth instead of a repair is that the particles inside it are smaller than light.

Her name is Sumita Mitra.

She was born in India in 1949. Her father was a chemist. As a child she used to go to his laboratory and stand behind him watching him work, and that is where chemistry got hold of her.

She went to the United States, joined the company 3M, and ended up in its dental products laboratory.

In the late 1990s she looked at the problem with tooth fillings.

The white fillings dentists had then came with a trade off. The ones strong enough for the back teeth, where you actually chew, looked wrong. The ones that looked good went dull quickly and could not take the force of biting.

So a dentist had to choose between a filling that lasted and a filling that looked like your tooth.

At the same time, nanotechnology was becoming a serious field. She had an idea nobody in dentistry was working on.

Here is the science, and it is simple once you see it.

Visible light travels in waves. When light hits a particle bigger than its own wavelength, it scatters, and scattered light is what makes a material look cloudy or dull.

Nanoparticles are smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Light does not scatter off them. It passes through.

So a filling made of nanoparticles can look like enamel, because it handles light the way enamel does.

Her first attempt failed. She made tiny particles of several sizes, and the material did not handle properly. Dentists could not work with it.

She worked out why. To pack together into something strong, the particles needed a wide range of sizes, not a few. So she and her team built linked clusters of nanoparticles, which they called nanoclusters, and mixed those with single particles of different diameters.

That worked. It was strong, it took a polish, it held that polish, and by adding tiny amounts of pigment they could make it in shades that matched a person's own teeth.

It was launched in 2002.

It has now been used in more than 1 billion tooth restorations.

She holds over 100 patents. In 1998 3M elected her to its Carlton Society, the highest research honour the company gives. She retired in 2010. In 2021 the European Patent Office gave her the European Inventor Award. She is in the United States National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Most people who have one of her fillings in their mouth right now have never heard her name.

She has said what the work was for. The use of nanotechnology gave me the opportunity of making a new material. It restores people's smiles and improves the quality of their lives.

[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

Maharashtra shows the Way

Food safety is ultimately about people, not files, inspections or statistics.

Every safe meal is a family protected. Every action against unsafe food is a step towards protecting someone’s health, dignity and future.

Maharashtra’s experience reminds us that governance earns people’s trust when purpose is clear, action is fair, and compassion remains at the heart of enforcement.

Public service is, at its core, about standing with people; especially when they need the system most.

#TukaramMundhe #FoodSafety #PublicHealth #PublicService #GoodGovernance #People #Leadership #Inspiration
https://t.co/Xauebv8LQf

[The Hollywood Reporter India @THRIndia_]

Exclusive: The internationally acclaimed filmmaker, #ShaunakSen was diagnosed with early-stage cancer in 2024, and has spent the last two years filming his recovery through the perspective of a New Delhi surgeon.

Read here.
https://t.co/FP2jrB1xAn

[Annalise Keating @Ariannnyy_]

You can’t convince me life is just a series of coincidences. What do you mean Lionel Messi was randomly paired with a five-month-old baby after the baby’s family won a UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot while Messi played for Barcelona… and that baby grew up to be Lamine Yamal?

Lamine would go on to become one of the brightest young stars in soccer, wear the same No. 19 Messi wore for the same team when that photo was taken, and now, nearly two decades later, could face Messi in a World Cup Final???????

[Wildlife SOS @WildlifeSOS]

Breaking news: Shankar has officially won the Best Selfie on the Internet award.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“I helped a man climb a mountain and found that I too had reached the top.” — Unknown

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Shocked to hear David Hockney has died. His huge achievement was to make serious painting look effortless. He carried forward one of the most sustained investigations into vision, space and representation by any post-war artist. British art has lost a giant.

[Arati Kadav @AratiKadav]

Seeing AI actors in ads makes me feel like I am seeing dead people- like some carcass is dancing or trying to sell me a thing. - and then I saw an ad mixed with Ai and real actor and the presence of real actor reassured me. The world is not falling apart yet!

[Gowri @aliceonaroll]

Raghu Rai's uncommon eye for common scenes

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard:

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

[Arati Kadav @AratiKadav]

I didnt know I could use chat gpt for reminders!!

[NDTV @ndtv]

Indian-Origin OpenAI CTO Srinivas Narayanan Quits, Plans To Spend Time With "Ageing Parents In India"
https://t.co/7cPN8XSgUz

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Emma Kunz (1892-1963), Swiss healer, visionary and outsider artist who published three books and produced many drawings #womensart #BookArtWeek