🚨 IAS OFFICER : Where is your appointment? Come back later.
MAN : You are a public servant not a private employee. Serving the people who pay your salary is your duty not a favour.
Both NEET PG 2026 and INI-CET 2026 have made one thing clear: short courses alone won't help. The questions are getting deeper, almost everything is clinical, and there is a limit to how much mnemonics and tricks can help.
On the other hand, short courses have a distinct advantage: they allow multiple revisions.
The ideal approach is to combine the two.
At Cerebellum here is what we are following - Students use the more detailed resources (Mission online live classes / Rapid Revision) to build understanding, and Hyper Revision (the shorter course) for multiple revisions.
The best part is that you don't have to spend time adding one resource to another.
Mission / Rapid Revision and Hyper Revision are taught by the same teacher, have the same content, and are completely in sync. No content confusion, no transition troubles.
If Smit Machchhar was not there in flyDubai, Those 200 people would have lost their lives.
Israel would have started WW3. This guy saved the middle east from the wrath of Netanyahu.
Brahmins are saviour, not oppressor.✍️
The Ambanis have raised their kids well.
In an era dominated by corporate jargon, Anant Ambani’s choice to anchor a major market milestone for Jio in traditional Indian values and devotion is a refreshing departure from convention.
A friend recently asked me which digital payments app I was using.
When I told her, she promptly asked, “Why not use BHIM, our very own Indian app?”
I admitted I didn’t know much about it.
“Well, let me introduce you to someone you’ll enjoy meeting.”
That someone was Dilip Asbe, MD & CEO of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
Dilip kindly agreed to come over for a chat.
That conversation was illuminating, to put it mildly.
We all know the payment apps we use every day. PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm, BHIM…
But think of them as trains running on a railway network.
NPCI provides the tracks.
And what an extraordinary railway India has built!
In September, UPI alone processed over 2,400 crore transactions. That’s more than 80 crore transactions every single day!
India is now the world’s largest real-time payments market. A true global force multiplier.
And Dilip has been one of the key people behind that remarkable achievement.
His mind is buzzing with plans to build more ‘railroads’ that will enable new apps in wider financial spheres.
But here’s what struck me most about him.
Not the scale of his achievement. Not his knowledge of the technology.
His humility.
Dilip is well known in financial & technology circles. But I met a man with no airs, no sense of self-importance & seemingly little interest in the spotlight.
Just immense pride in what his team has accomplished & a genuine sense of privilege at being able to serve his country.
I also learned that his mother was a teacher.
Perhaps I’m biased, but I’ve always believed that mothers who are teachers have a special knack for instilling values that last a lifetime. And I couldn’t help wondering if that explained something about Dilip’s grounded personality.
People like him derive their satisfaction not from being seen, but from seeing their work make a difference.
Thank you, Dilip, for the conversation. And for reminding me that ambition & humility can indeed travel together on the railroad to success.
And I’ve switched to the BHIM app now!
#MondayMotivation
"When HINDUS visit Amarnath in Pahalgam, heavy security is DEPLOYED. When we Kashmiri Muslims visit Ajmer Sharif, there is NO security needed. Why? Because Hindus DON’T kill."
A Kashmiri Muslim Gen Z girl EXPOSES the hypocrisy of regional parties who once incited STONE-PELTING, asking who was ever safe as a Hindu in Kashmir before the 1990s.
And I can’t make 100 of 30 or 34 balls 😜 Well played sir @OfficialAbhi04 ! Great innings aur apne single bhi le liye 🤷🏻♂️ Good stuff on the other end by #VaibhavSooryavanshi! Devastating combination! Hats off to @IamSanjuSamson, playing at no. 3 as a complete team man! Well-bowled by our bowlers to keep the score under 200! Great series win 👌 congratulations Team India 🇮🇳
#IndVSNZ
@BCCI
I wrote this back in February 2020 . CoVID was still a fringe random disease. World was different. A lot has changed in 6 years. Just felt like posting it here again.
My father was diagnosed as having Acute lymphoblastic Leukaemia in December 2019.
I thought it was some sort of ironical joke universe is playing at me. I never wanted to be a doctor. The thing that made me stick around with this profession was my love for one subject and one book in particular. Emperor of all Maladies and Hematology . I just loved everything about it.
And one thing in particular I loved and will always remember is a line from my pathology textbook which made me want to do Hematology and be an Hemat-oncologist in particular was this – ‘Paediatric ALL is one of the greatest success stories of cancer chemotherapy . 90% of children achieve remission and 70–80-% have >5y survival’.
This line stuck with me. Intoxicated me. Made me passionate. Made me wonder and marvel at human achievement – that we had conquered cancer – cancer which is essentially nothing but our own body cell’s way of achieving immortality. We had conquered immortality to prevent our own mortality. How beautiful . How seductive.
My association with Hematology and ALL increased with my thesis on Neutropenic Diet in Paediatric leukaemia patients.
My world my work my fantasies revolved around leukaemia. Till the time I didn’t want it too.
Till the time my own father had it.
When I read that line from my pathology textbook again and read the line after it – ‘Prognosis in adult ALL patients is generally poor’
It felt as if my intense desire had somehow contrived the universe into my father having this disease.
I thought I was unlucky.
Till I again met someone.
I don’t know her name. I have only met her once. Her and her child. But some moments are so powerful that they change you.
I was posted in Paediatric casualty when my father was diagnosed with ALL.
I met a mother with an infant. There was something peculiar about her. A closer look revealed that she was blind.
She was in the casualty since her infant had guess what – ALL. Infantile leukemia also carries a very poor prognosis.
I didn’t say anything to her, I couldn’t . She asked me – would her child be alright? She told how her husband too is blind. They belonged to a poor socioeconomic strata. Did not have the money to afford the treatment. The child was a girl. The grandparent and the society had told to let the child die since she was a girl. And she told me all this and said – she wants her daughter to be all right. She wants her to live and asked me – would she? Will she?
I couldn’t say anything . I just told her that right now she requires blood and platelet transfusion and we will do that.
You only have as much courage as your inner demons. But this was something beyond that. My SR told me that pragmatically she should be allowed to die peacefully. AIIMS should treat cases with better prognosis or better outcome. She would consume a lot of resources with a dismal prognosis.
But my friend told me something else – something so powerful. That she is precisely the case the biggest tertiary care centre in this country should try to treat.
Our institution is not necessarily meant for pneumonia and abscess. It’s meant for these particularly challenging cases. For these people. For people with these complex socioeconomic challenges. We should give our everything for these children. After all a life is a life and no one ever can put a cost on that.
I have not met her again.
But that moment made me realise – everyone amongst us is fighting a battle. A battle we have no idea about.
Kindness costs nothing and could mean the world to someone. Be kind . Be sweet. Laugh. Live. No one’s getting alive out of here anyway.