Aravind Raghavendra

Jon Stewart & Joe Rogan Fan. Wanna’be 🏍’er

Views are Personal

[Aravind Raghavendra @aravindgr]

@rameshsrivats Tweet works on so many levels @rameshsrivats!!

[Ranadeep Bhattacharya @ranadeepbh]

Vaswani Reserve residents applied for a Cauvery connection as per Govt directions. BWSSB approved it and ₹2.5 Cr was paid on 20 May. BBMP delayed issue of demand note till 28 Jun, paid on 29. Yet approval is pending. Please help us get connection @CMofKarnataka @bbmpcommr

[Sudhakar Rao @sudhakar10]

If this man continues with the kind of genuine efforts he has shown on the ground, I will have no option but to vote for Congress in the next State election, even though my political beliefs are not aligned with his party's.

Bangalore has not seen good governance in over a decade now. I hope there will be visible change with him at the helm.

[Aravind Raghavendra @aravindgr]

@adityakamath_ I think i saw 10 different versions on this on "Linkedin" in the last 2-3 days.

[Lakshmisha K S @lakshmishaks]

That is because Bengaluru accounts for 32 seats in state assembly. The rest of the state does not care for the growth of the city. The hard lesson learned from S.M Krishna's defeat is that any CM or politician spending political and financial capital on Bengaluru city will be defeated by the rest of the state. In fact, there is a schaudenfraude with Bengaluru's misery. The fact that Bengaluru contributes significantly to the coffers of the state and that the revenue raised from Bengaluru supports a lot of public works do not really matter. Why would any CM commit political harakiri and be seen as pro-Bengaluru.

[NDTV @ndtv]

🔴#BREAKING | Bengaluru: Standoff between police and residents amid protests over infrastructure mess

NDTV's @dpkBopanna joins @reetksahni with more details

[Aravind Raghavendra @aravindgr]

@sakie339 And here i am eating at Chinese and Italian restaurants! when i am neither of those

[Aravind Raghavendra @aravindgr]

Does justice to his the second line in his profile. Writer.

[Ambarish Satwik @AmbarishSatwik]

What the salad tried to do to us.

The first ambition of any plant is to make itself uneatable. Long before anything clever walked on earth, plants settled on poisoning anything with a mouth. If you can’t run, you better taste terrible. The only way to stay alive was to face your predator (dinosaur, beetle, goat, man) with chemistry. Plants got clever in the only way available to them. They made toxins, astringents, enzymes, fibrous defences. Which made them and their parts bitter. Also indigestible, and outright poisonous.

In evolutionary terms, it was a cunning move. Not that the plant knows anything about cunning. But the natural consequence was deterrence. You bite, you suffer. You learn. You stop biting.

Humans responded in the human way. By using fire and other things. We boiled, we burned, we soaked, we crushed, we fermented. We pickled. We found ways to take the bitter poisonous offerings of plants to our hungers. We hacked our own biochem, made over 50 types of CYP450 enzymes. They’re fascinating. A plant toxin molecule (alkaloid, glucosinolate, cyanogenic glycoside, saponin etc) is like a greasy stain. CYP450s act like detergent: They grab it, break it apart, make it dissolve in water, and wash it away. Cats don’t have a lot of this stuff. The thiosulfates in a couple of cloves of garlic can trigger a dangerous oxidative crisis in cat blood. About four cloves (of garlic) can be a potentially lethal dose. A tiny amount of solanine from a raw potato can sicken and kill a rabbit. Without a particular kind of P450, a potato would be your last meal.

We figured out how to eat the enemy. And then we got kinky about it. Our tongues learned to relish the sting. And the rot. We started liking the burn and the bitterness. We started having poison for the plot. Hot sauce. Tannins. Coffee so strong it peels paint. Flavour is a toxin we’ve come to applaud.

Plants spent a hundred million years trying to kill us. We’ve spent a hundred million years learning to savour their attempts. That’s the story, give or take a few famines and a few million deaths.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

If @narendramodi ji is interested, I would be down to figuring out an economic structure where all Indian students, faculty and researchers can get Perplexity Pro.

[Aditya @adityakamath_]

Of the 6 independent candidates who won:

1. Khalistani accused of terrorism currently in jail
2. Kashmiri militant accused of terrorism currently in jail
3. Son of Indira Gandhi's assassin
4. Pappu Yadav (naam kaafi hai)

And we still have to hear 'democracy is in danger' 🙃.

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

Singapore and Hong Kong have banned MDH and Everest Masala’s 4 products due a cancer causing pesticide, Ethylene Oxide!

Ethylene Oxide is linked to blood cancer, stomach cancer, lymphoma, leukaemia. (Source:US National Cancer Institute)

India has been historically called the land of spices, and now cannot we even trust our spices anymore.

In the last few weeks itself, we’ve had the Bournvita controversy, Nestle Cerelac controversy, Patanjali controversy, protein powder scam, and now this MDH and Everest Masala controversy!

It is clear from the above incidents that we are in the middle of a food crisis.

I request MDH and Everest to only feed us the same masala which you would give to your own kids. I also request the regulatory bodies to take serious action against any company using misleading advertisements or cancer-causing chemicals in our food!

[Smriti Mandhana @mandhana_smriti]

Ee Sala Cup N̶a̶m̶d̶e̶ Namdu! 🏆

ಈ ಸಲ ಕಪ್ ನಮ್ದು ...

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

Most packaged foods are blatantly lying to the public! They have 99% junk in them and 1% something decent, but all they show in the front package is that 1%.

Now imagine if this same thing happened with medicines. Imagine if your vitamin D3 tablet had only 1% vitamin D3, or if your calcium tablet had only 1% calcium, wouldn't you feel angry?

Then why don't we show the same anger when our food lies to us? After all, 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞! Food is where you are supposed to find most vitamins and minerals!

[Aravind Raghavendra @aravindgr]

@sejaljobanputra @kidney_warriors @Vasuragh @b50 @manuconsultants @Chandra12962937 @VandanaMegastar Thanks Sejal. Makes sense

[Sundar Sankaran @sundar_s1955]

Remove disincentives in organ donation
Organ Donors save lives and are Heros
https://t.co/9rvhSCBmZy
@Vasuragh
@drvivekkute
@PMOIndia

[Aravind Raghavendra @aravindgr]

The fact that 6 out of these 10 movies have a common, if not the same shetty team, tells us how much the ‘meaningful cinema’ talent is concentrated. And how much the rest of the industry has coddled/huddled around a few mega stars

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

10 Must-Watch Kannada Films That You Should Watch & Celebrate Now:

A Thread 🧵

[Anuj Tripathi @bennedose5]

Welcome back @danielricciardo

[Aravind Raghavendra @aravindgr]

As an old Bangalore Kannadiga from Malleshwaram, who now toils in Bellandur. I agree!

[bd @bdutta]

@guru3ti Old bangalore is maintained by taxes paid by urban peasants toiling in Whitefield and Bellandur.

[Aravind Raghavendra @aravindgr]

@adityakamath_ 28 cities 🤨