Arpan Banerjee

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[Arpan Banerjee @arpansview]

Delighted to share our new paper
https://t.co/uGUcGPzZ5K
The heart does much more than pump blood—it continuously sends signals to the brain. Understanding how the brain interprets these signals throughout life remains one of the fascinating frontiers in neuroscience.
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[Sabeer Bhatia @sabeer]

OMG - there’s more to this story than I ever imagined. Please 🙏 read below

Antilia uses ~637,000 kWh of electricity monthly—equal to about 7,000 middle-class Mumbai homes—and ~18,000 litres of water daily.

At India’s grid intensity of roughly 0.7 kg CO2 per kWh, that power alone produces around 5,300 tonnes of CO2 per year. No official total environmental-damage figure exists for the residence beyond these operational numbers.

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

India is waging a war against its own researchers:

In Careers360’s Research Summit, Prof. Ram Gopal Rao, Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani described India’s lack of investment in research beautifully. He said “India’s Higher Education is described as African Budgets, American ambitions, Russian methods, Chinese opacity and Indian Bureaucracy.
In the past decade, we have seen a slide in scientific temper and investments in research.
1. Non-NET fellowship are stuck at ₹8,000 a month since 2012, for 16,270 scholars in 45 central universities.
2. JRF stipend: In 2014, the JRF was Rs.25,000 per month. In 2019, it was revised to Rs.31m000. it is ₹37,000 PM. The hrowth hasn’t even kept pace with inflation and in real terms, it has FALLEN. IISc scholars even went on a hunger strike demanding an increase.
3. Maulana Azad fellowship: where more than 1,400 scholars have had stipends stalled since January 2025.
4. OBC fellowships: lists for three NET cycles in 2024-25 were held back, which the social justice ministry put down to insufficient funds.
5. INSPIRE: fellows have their stipends unpaid for 3 to 9 months. The schemes now under Vigyan Dhara fell 67.5% between 2016 and 2025.
6. KVPY: scrapped in 2022, after nearly two lakh students a year had taken its test.
7. JRF bottleneck: only 5,108 of 7,35,614 candidates (0.7%) got JRF in December 2025. Minister Sukanta Majumdar gave no year-wise data when asked.
8. The University of Hyderabad stopped Rohit Vemula’s ₹25,000 stipend in July 2015, and his last letter said he hadn’t been paid for seven months. He later committed suicide.
9. India’s R&D spending: fell from 0.82% of GDP in 2009-10 to 0.64% in 2020-21. PMRF spending was revised to ₹290 crore, less than half its ₹600 crore outlay.
10. SC fellowships: fell 61%, from 4,841 to 1,872, between 2020-21 and 2022-23.
If India indeed wants to be a Vishwa Guru, India should be investing in research, in creating quality Higher-Ed institutions. We cannot be cutting down on stipends, not paying our researchers, holding back payments, scrapping scholarships, not increasing fellowship amounts even to match inflation and still expect students to choose research.

[Arjun Tandon @iarjuntandon]

The audacity of the govt to threaten citizens with 3 months imprisonment for an expired pollution certificate while forcing us to breathe 400 AQI air everyday.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.

These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.

We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.

While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.

[Vikrant Gupta @vikrantgupta73]

All the Gurugram Municipal Corporation needs to do is to repair all broken roads so that the dust particles don’t ruin our lives. They’ve not even cleared garbage post Monsoons

[Haizam Amirah Fernández @HaizamAmirah]

This is pure gold!

Abdul El-Sayed trolling Trump and JD Vance after winning Michigan’s Senate race:

“JD, habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in, in January.”

“Donald, look, I know you struggle with my name, so after JD swears me in, you can just go on and call me Senator.”

[Pinki @PinkiPragya]

My scooty is over 15 years old, and today I was fined ₹3,000 simply because its 15-year registration validity had expired.
But what is the logic behind this?
My scooty is in perfectly good running condition. I get it serviced regularly and maintain it properly. Just because it has crossed 15 years, does that automatically make it unsafe?
If the government can penalize me for using a well-maintained scooter because of its age, then who is going to hold the government accountable for potholes and broken roads that damage our vehicles and put our lives at risk?

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

If you want to understand the State of India’s education and our priorities, read this:

1. In Hyderabad, a university declared a holiday so that students can watch a movie.
2. In West Bengal, the Madhyamik exams were postponed as teachers were on census duty.
3. In Bareilly, schools were shut for a BJP padyatra about protecting democracy!!
4. In Ladakh, a school run by Soman Wangchuk is being asked to shut down.
5. In mumbai, 24 of the total 34 teachers of one school were moved to booth level officer duties.
6. In Karnataka, students got less scores as teachers busy on SIR duty couldn’t teach.
7. In Maharashtra, the election commission recommended alternate days of schooling so that teachers can do election related work.
8. In Maharashtra, 95 FIRs were filed against teachers who refused election work.
9. In Orissa, all schools were closed in a city during the PM’s visit.
10. Calcutta University moved its exams as Central forces were housed in 12 of its affiliated colleges and there was no space to hold exams.

Demographic dividend, any one?

[Dr. Rajeshwari Iyer @RajeshwariRW]

Last month I visited South Korea.

• Clean air and better AQI
• No billboards glorifying politicians
• No political flags everywhere
• No VIP culture on the roads
• No stray dogs
• No garbage on the streets

After 80 years of independence, why can’t India build even ONE city like this?

What exactly politicians been doing all these years?

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

Too many potholes ? Don't travel by road

[Anup @ItsAnupX]

The most normalized open extortion in Indian middle class life:

The Sub Registrar office on property registration day.

You spend 10 years saving every rupee from your salaried job.

You pay 30% TDS on your income.
You pay 7% official stamp duty online via net banking.
You pay 1% registration fee through a government treasury challan.

Every single paisa is accounted for on your bank statement.

Then you reach the government registration office with your builder or seller:

The deed writer pulls you aside into a dusty corridor:

"Sir, ₹25,000 to ₹40,000 cash alag se lagega for the desk. Official receipt nahi milegi."

You: "Bhaiya, I already paid ₹4.5 lakhs in official government stamp duty online!"

Agent smiles with complete indifference:

"Sir, mat do. Phir file 'Property Under Valuation' mark hoke audit me chali jayegi. 6 mahine chakkar kaatna."

You stand in an airless hallway, walk to the nearest ATM, withdraw ₹30,000 cash, and slip it inside the file folder just to get your own thumb impression scanned.

We aren't a digital, cashless economy.

We are a country where honest taxpayers have to withdraw physical cash just to get legal permission to own what they already paid for.

Did your property registration happen 100% clean, or did you have to pay the "corridor settlement fee" too?

[Arpan Banerjee @arpansview]

Not very different from parts of Gurgaon

[biased indian @RakeshK32229480]

I don't think even Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, Uganda, or Nigeria have urban infrastructure as bad as Faridabad. Truly, sub-human MPs, MLAs, and babus rule this city. 😭

[Saurabh Bharadwaj @Saurabh_MLAgk]

I as Health Minister tried to bring a Health Act to cap prices in Private Hospitals. Obviously, the Private Hospital lobby did not want that law and therefore Health Secreatary also opposed it tooth & nail.

Unfortunately, Hon’ble HC Judge took side of Health Secretary & it indirectly helped the Pvt Hospital lobby. I told Hon’ble Court about it. But he did not listen. Instead he threatened to send me to jail. 😀

Hon’ble Judge is now Hon’ble SC Judge.

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

An information which may be very disturbing to everyone. A medical distributor of a particular injection which is used in chemotherapy, his wife was suffering from cancer. She was taking treatment in a very renowned hospital. We will not take the name of the hospital. So the dealer requested the hospital authorities, sir I am myself a dealer and to me the injection comes at Rs. 11,000 dealer price. The hospital refused to administer that injection and charged Rs. 1,30,000 for that injection. Can you show any justification for this loot, please? Why this difference? Where does the money go? Supreme Court asks Centre

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

"A chemotherapy injection cost ₹11,000. The hospital charged ₹1,30,000 for that. Any justification for this loot? Why this difference? Where does the money go?"

— Supreme Court of India to Govt

[Arpan Banerjee @arpansview]

Got a chance to hear from the BOSS (honorable PM Shri Narendra Modi ji ) in person about the latest initiaves in S&T with colleagues at @estic_2026 @DBT_NBRC @PsethNbrc @Dhruba2016 @DrSagarSengupta @110ahmadkhan @DBTIndia

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

If Prasar Bharati can spend ₹15 crore a year on a DD News show featuring a star anchor, while the ISRO Chairman’s basic pay is about ₹27 lakh a year, shouldn’t we rethink our priorities? If India wants to conquer space and attract our finest scientific minds, our rewards must match our ambitions.

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

फिर भी कहेंगे कि भारत का युवा गांवों में जाकर काम नहीं करना चाहते। डॉक्टर कस्बों में नहीं जाना चाहते हैं। जो जाएगा, ग़लत देखेगा, बोलेगा तो जेल में डालेंगे।

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

INTERESTING: “If every citizen becomes a journalist, it will create problems for all,” says CJI Surya Kant.
With a mobile phone, every citizen can now document events and hold power to account. Not everyone is a professional journalist, but every citizen has a right to free expression.
Your Lordships, stand by the CONSTITUTION, not STATE POWER!🙏

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

The Atlas of Cognitive Disorders.