Simran Soni

Management Consultant | MBA | Ex Big4 | Startups, Social Issues, Mental Health, Women, Career | Feminist, Rebel

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

Loved the movie Dhurandhar. Saw it in Auckland, NZ. @AdityaDharFilms @RanveerOfficial @ActorMadhavan @rampalarjun @duttsanjay @CastingChhabra @AdityaRajKaul ♥️best movie I have watched since some time. Jai hind 🇮🇳

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Blood boiling stuff!

The prototype of idiotic Indian public is furious at a doctor who received ₹2.5/- in commission for poorly manufactured cough syrups -the quality of which was cleared by THE GOVERNMENT HEALTH REGULATOR probably taking bribes from the manufacturer...

....BUT not furious at public and government officers taking ₹1000000/- to ₹100000000/- as bribes from companies that are destroying this country since decades.

Make doctors the scapegoat of systematic healthcare failure by the government. Easiest way out of accountability in the playbook.

[The Analyzer (News Updates🗞️) @Indian_Analyzer]

Anand Ranganathan nails it: "A judge can go on a vacation, a JUDICIARY cannot.
~ 53 million cases pending, SC shut for 160 days a year, 29% HC & 19% District Court posts vacant, and yet they find time for activism."

SYSTEM HAS COLLAPSED🎯

[ThePrintIndia @ThePrintIndia]

1/5: The Palava flyover in Mumbai had to be shut for traffic barely seven days after its inauguration on 4 July. It had taken seven years to be ready. Bulldozers and JCBs are now back at work, tearing up this newly built road and relaying it with fresh asphalt.

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Kothari Commission had recommended that we spend 6% of our GDP on education. Modi has brought down expenditure on education steadily to 2.5%. He peddles scientific nonsense like “No climate change”; & “clouds will block radar”. No wonder children turn to WhatsApp for Gyan. He has pushed us back to the dark ages

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

Meet Shailendra Singh Gaur

He built six-stroke engine delivering 176 km per litre.

He scientifically proved it on his TVS bike & even sold his land to fund it.

In any serious nation, he would've gotten help from government.

But what to expect in a country that hates Merit?

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

@IndianGems_ @nitin_gadkari @PibLucknow @BJP4India @myogiadityanath where is development?

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

Just watched the show - Counting the beat - on @TVNZ by @tamatiRS episode 1. I loved the format and insights it gave on money, our spending, earnings, net worth, lifestyle etc. waiting for the next ones.

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

@kiranshaw There are no cycle lanes, thus people are forced to get two wheelers and cars. The local buses are in such bad condition and are jam packed that it’s not too safe an option for women to travel. Children don’t have free open playgrounds to play sports.

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

@kiranshaw The list is endless - our cities are not walkable (plight of footpaths), our aging population would find it tough to go around, potholes, flooding, garbage everywhere, open garbage tanks, encroachment on roads. Population is not the problem, how does China do it then?

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

This Guy fills E20 fuel & pays Road Tax for his Vehicle. Who will pay for his Spine? 🙂

#FI

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

At times I watch the morning live news at @nzherald just to watch Ryan Bridge’s jawline 😅
Guilty!

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

Free Sonam Wangchuk

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

On AI and data centres, given that every country is in the race to build massive data centres, can we face an oversupply of data centres?

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

@VijaySales very poor experience with order #7000254766. Laptop due on 19 Aug still undelivered. Tracking first showed “address incomplete,” now “consignee not available” – both incorrect. Gift for parents, urgent before travel. Please resolve today.

[Zucker Doctor @DoctorLFC]

BCCI will say it wasn't our event. RCB will say we had permission. Police will say we denied permission. CM will value lives at 10 lakhs/person. Players will go abroad soon.

Only people who will be scarred forever are the family members of the deceased.

#BengaluruStampede

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

@ANI Such apathy !

[Punjab Kings @PunjabKingsIPL]

You gave it your all, Shashank! 🙇🏻‍♂️

[Simran Soni @chicksim]

Last day at work. Officially unemployed. Thank you! Next! ♥️🙏

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

I have been asked to comment on this absurdity multiple times in my direct messages. Here are my thoughts on this situation.

The Central Ministry of Health in India decided that a new medical course needs to be introduced - one combining modern medicine (MBBS) and traditional medicine (BAMS, Ayurveda) integrated at graduate level. They plan to roll this out at one of the premier most central medical institutes in India, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, (JIPMER, Pondicherry).

This is an important matter that sheds light on so many things with respect to Ayurveda as a career option.

Ayurveda is waaaay past its expiry date. People understand this and students understand this. It's value as a profession is now deeply low, and considered "comical" and "regressive." You know this, and the Government understands this.

In large supermarkets, when products near expiry, they club those products together and sell them as "buy 2 or 3 for the price of one," or club them along with other 'non-expired' products and give them for free. Ayurveda is one such expired product and the only way it can survive as a professional course is to give it free or club it along with another credible and valid course, such as MBBS.

In the current BAMS curriculum, students are already taught modern medicine subjects along with primitive, primal and obsolete Ayurvedic subjects. So this new integration makes little sense, because if someone is already trained in MBBS, they would only choose to practice modern medicine from a rational and scientific point. Because in Ayurveda-based treatments, burning patients with hot rods, giving herbal enemas, putting herbal oils inside nose and anal canal and making leeches suck out blood is the highest level of treatment they can offer and no student would ever want to do that when they have modern technology, therapeutics and drugs that work at their disposal to realistically treat patients.

The other point is, why only Ayurveda? It is because the Government is playing at the religious and political sentiments of a specific group and majority here. Nothing to do with improving healthcare or healthcare education. If not, then there should be MBBS+BHMS (Homeopathy), MBBS+Naturopathy, MBBS+Unani and MBBS+Siddha too, not just Ayurveda. This bias and bigotry from the authorities is an open secret.

This MBBS+BAMS course is a method to keep Ayurveda alive and kicking, and not to make healthcare education better. The Government knows that dogmatic views in medicine, pseudoscientific traditional practices and unscientific garbage like Ayurveda will not see the light at the end of the tunnel if they don't give it "borrowed air and water" from other sources.

No one would ask students in a pilot training programme to first learn how to operate a bullock-cart before they are put inside a cockpit. Same here. It makes zero sense to teach students an extinct and expired healthcare practice based on religious dogmatism and primitive cultural observation inside a modern scientific course. Students must also realize this.

Someone in the regulatory authority has smoked up too many herbs before this decision was made.

Students must not opt for this rubbish course - their future might be affected because good foreign universities will not accept caveman healthcare degrees such as this integrative medicine abomination; and the clinical and healthcare educational societies must come out and fight against this absurdity of a medical course called MBBS+BAMS.

This is a shameless, regressive, integrative medicine fraud. Nothing less. Only if we help students to live, learn and practice science and rationalism, can the country progress.

Otherwise we will have a whole generation of doctors offering urine & dung therapy, blood-sucking leeches & hot rods and chanting hymns while pushing herbal enemas along with prescribing antibiotics and ordering CT scans. A mish-mash of chaotic medical care that serves no purpose, but can harm.