@baxirahul Those who are engaged in stressful jobs skip meals at a stretch. The study asked about dietary habits of people in the past two days and based on their response concluded that they are doing intermittent fasting. Never really asked if they are actually doing intermittent fasting
The Constitution of India: A Bahujan Lived Experience
Mainstream discourse in India has generally registered two years as particularly special for our people: 1947 (liberation) & 1991 ("liberalization"). But in the Bahujan perspective, the year that shines the brightest is 1950
In the words of @RamanathanMala “There wandering USB drive, reached owner after a year of travel across India. It survived COVID pandemic, PhD work travails of being lost in handbags and returned to its rightful owner. We mark the moment for posterity” at #ihepa conference
We live in a highly patriarchal society. I hv done around 200 kidney transplants. My findings in my series:
1. Around 80-90 % of Kidney Transplant Recipients are men. When a woman develops ESRD( Kidney Failure), it is very hard to find a Kidney donor, among the relatives.
2. In my entire career, not even a single husband came forward to donate his Kidney to his sick wife, & save her life.
3. When a woman is a Kidney recipient, the person who donates is usually a sister or daughter, or mother.
4. Most women r ready to offer their kidneys to their ailing husbands to save his life. The converse never happens.
5. There was once an extreme case, when a 19 yr old legal wife, donated her Kidney to her 45 yr old husband. After the Tx, I was casually talking to her. Her story was bizarre. This was her elder sister's husband. Just for Tx, the entire family had planned it carefully. The husband divorced his wife, & the 19 yr old girl was beaten fr days to marry the 45 yr old man, since her Kidney was a perfect match.
So, a simple survey of Kidney Tx recipients & donors exposes how deeply patriarchal, misogynistic, our rotten society is.
Scratch the veneer of democracy, modernity in India, & u find that underneath, we are still a feudal, casteist, misogynistic, patriarchal community.
@amarjesani@VeenaJCA@bevinvinay Group of activists raise ethical, safety concerns about ICMR document on Controlled Human Infection Studies https://t.co/AhEielq1rW
Announcement:
South Asian Bioethics Community Methods and Ethics: Monitoring and Evaluation Thursday, July 27, 2023, 4:00 to 6:00 pm IST
https://t.co/oBM41YltKQ
It doesnt seem possible today to maintain an academic journal without associating with big money or the major publishing cos. But the Indian J of Medical Ethics has done that for >30 yrs. Listen in to editor @amarjesani explain how, & more..
@TheIndiaForum
https://t.co/tp8GJ8gLsr
@amithes95@kripalamanna@foodloversindia I can’t remember the name but there was one near Dr Godkhindis clinic in a basement. I don’t know if it still exists.