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Anaayaasena maranam...vina dainyena jeevanam
Dehaante tava saannidhyam..dehime parameswaram

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

Assume Guru at 29deg in Mesha & Chandra at 12deg in Vrishabh. It forms a Shakata Yoga in rasi and there is NO aspect at all. Now in D9, Guru gets placed in Dhanu & Chandra in Mesh. There is "aspect" now- HOW?
We hv to rem there is only 1 zodiac of 360deg

[Pavanasoonu 🇮🇳 @Pavanasoonu]

@TAbalaji0500 @deadlipht When divisional longitudes have been taught, aspects must be seen. I remember @homam108 had written an article on this.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@markkaplan20 @Marsztof ApoA1 is protective, right? Amoris has shown a ApoB/ApoA1 of 0.6 has lowest risk of cardiovascular mortality. Can you elaborate on role of ApoA1 here please?

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@markkaplan20 Mark, how was your post prandial glucose? Would that not have provided any clue about delayed glucose clearance? CGM definitely is a lot better but wondering if PPG would not have been a simpler, low-cost hint?

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@doctorinstaha @DocPriyamMD Doc, what qualifies as high salt intake ?

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@MThalwe @Kal_Chiron That is the peril of translating Neech to weak. Hardly the case.
Neech is not powerless. More on the lines of rascal /kamina. Neech guru is capable of providing wealth, looks. Neech Ravi can get wealth via unscrupulous means or at cost of health.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

देखो मैंने देखा है ये एक सपना,
गन्नों के शहर में है राज अपना।
क्या नशा है, E20 यहाँ है,
गडकरी जी बोले—"टैंक भरवा जा!"

[Bhavesh Kansara @kansaratva]

If you have to think of a song for Nitin Gadkari, what would it be?

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@thekaipullai Great idea! It was after a few mins on the site & reading comments that I realized its currently a landing site & the excitement is yet to arrive! Look forward to it.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@LevinaNeythiri Sheegram!

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@IncomeTaxIndia @nsitharamanoffc @officeofPCM @FinMinIndia @PIB_India I must thank Income tax dept for prompt resolution of the issue. A call over phone explained how to work around the bug. Good job on resolving, but the bug must not have been caught early!

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

Every single one of them !! Few more...
1. twirling the cassette tape with a pencil when it got stuck
2. Using a sharpener on a pencil till half it was sawn off
3. Having two separate "rubbers"- one for pencil, one for pen!
4. Ahh....those clanky alum school trunks!

[Mukul Dekhane @dekhane_mukul]

For those who grew up during the 70-90s in middle class India , here are some things that you can identify with……

1. Though you may not publicly own to this, at the age of 12-17 years, you were very proud of your first "Bellbottom" or your first "Maxi" .

2. Phantom & Mandrake were your only true heroes.The brainy ones read "Competition Success Review".

3. Your "Camlin" geometry box & Natraj/Flora pencil were your prized possessions.

4. The only "Holidays" you took were to go to your grandparents' or your cousins' houses.

5. Ice-cream meant only - either an orange stick, a vanilla stick – or a Choco Bar if you were better off than most.

6. You gave your neighbour’s phone number to others with a 'PP' written against it because you had booked yours only 7 years ago and were still waiting for your number to come.

7. Your parents were proud owners of HMT watches. You "earned" yours after SSC exams.

8. You have been to "Jumbo Circus"; have held your breath while the pretty young thing in the glittery skirt did acrobatics, quite enjoyed the elephants hitting football, the motorcyclist vrooming in the "Maut - ka - Gola" and it was politically okay to laugh your guts out at dwarfs hitting each others bottoms!

9.. You have at least once heard "Hawa Mahal" and "Binaca Geetmala" on the radio.

10. If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighbourhood to gather around to watch the Chitrahaar or the Sunday movie. If you didn't have a TV, you just went to a house that did. It mattered little if you knew the owners or not.

11. Sometimes the owners of these TVs got very creative and got a bi or even a tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with two side clips onto their Weston TVs. That confused the hell out of you!

12. Black & White TVs weren't so bad after all because cricket was played in whites.

13. You thought your Dad rocked because you got your own (the family's; not your own own!) colour TV when the Asian Games started. Everyone else got the same idea as well and ever since, no one came over to your house and you didn't go to anyone else's to watch TV.

14. You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning they would announce on the TV. After all how much " Shashtriya Sangeet " can a kid take? Salma Sultana also didn't smile during the mourning.

15. You knew that " Indira Gandhi " was somebody really powerful and terribly important. And that's all you needed to know.

16. The only "Gadgets" in the house were the TV, the Fridge and possibly a mixer.

17. Movies meant Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan.Before the start of the movie you always had to watch the obligatory "Newsreel".

18. You thought you were so rocking because you knew almost all the songs of Abba and Boney M.

19. Your hormones went crazy when you heard “ Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Jindagi Mein Aaye ” by Nazia Hassan .

20. Photograph taking was a big thing. You were lucky if your family owned a camera. A reel of 36 exposures was valuable hence it justified the half hour preparation & "setting" & the "posing" for each picture. Therefore, you have at least one family picture where everyone is holding their breath and standing in attention!

Cheers to good old friends & times.

P.S: Please share with your children for they won't understand half of it!!

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@DocPriyamMD @Medzonetv Doc, I've greatly enjoyed & learnt from your tweets. Very educative & useful.
The risk reduction looks significant when its relative. When Abs risk reduction is looked at, the benefits are far more tempered.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

40 years in shipping gave me one unusual qualification as a historian: I had no academic orthodoxies to protect.

When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I followed the sea lanes backwards into deep antiquity. Without exception, they converged on the Indian subcontinent. This was not the book I had intended to write.

I must give credit to my editor, who gave an unknown author with a controversial approach, an opportunity. His first attempts to find peer reviewers encountered significant resistance. The argument that India sat at the centre of ancient world trade, not its periphery, was considered, to put it gently, inconvenient.

What I found, and what I could not stop finding, is that placing India at the centre of world history does not simply revise one chapter. It cascades. Correct the starting assumption and you are forced to reconsider the origins of mathematics, medicine, philosophy, linguistics, religion. Each conclusion leads to another. I came to call these the collateral heresies.

My three books explain the architecture of how they connect.

If you work in a field where received wisdom is protected by institutional interest rather than evidence, you will recognise the pattern. The question is whether the evidence eventually wins.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

Its kashmiriyat in many words.
"Our land" where our is Kashmiris that includes neighbors that marked out houses of KPs.
Any1 remember her testimony at Congressional hearing? Her anecdote was dat of a Mslm, not 1000s of KPs.
Either sold out, or Stockholm.

[Aarti Tikoo Singh @AartiTikoo]

Kashmir belongs to Kashmiri Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, atheists and agnostics alike. It belongs to us because Kashmir is our land and our home. Those of us who have been displaced, will certainly return to Kashmir, one day.

But our return and the terms of our return cannot be determined by traders, fixers and wheeler-dealers of various foreign governments and international agencies. Our return cannot be decided by the elite of Kashmiri Pandits and Kashmiri Muslims either.

It is quite extraordinary that the NRI Kashmiri Pandit elite, until the other day, held the Abdullahs responsible for the exodus of the community from Kashmir. Today, the same clique is being hosted by the ruling elitist clan of Kashmir — all cheerfully posing for the cameras, as one big happy family.

They are exploring investment opportunities for their respective adopted nations in Kashmir — grand hotels, Airbnb, handicrafts, etc. As patriotic citizens of the US, the UK, and other countries, where they pay their taxes, swear by their laws and constitutions, and are obligated to take up arms against India should there be a war with us, they are entitled to explore trade avenues wherever they can. They may not be the modern East India Company, but their objectives cannot be above suspicion just because they are of Indian descent. One hopes the government of the day does not hand over Kashmir to foreigners just because they have US dollars.

A lot has happened in the last 36 years, but it is quite possible that most of the NRI Kashmiri elite (both Muslims and Pandits) escaped the horrors of the jihadist insurgency, the consequent exodus from the valley, and the human rights abuses, and therefore have no memory of it. But the poor, the lower classes of Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims, had no escape whatsoever. They were targeted, killed, maimed in Kashmir and thrown to snakes, scorpions and centipedes during their displacement in Jammu.

Many Kashmiri Pandit organizations may claim that they are the spokespersons of the displaced community and their interests, but the truth is that most of these organizations are either beneficiaries or creations of the Kashmiri elites, various governments and agencies. Sadly, the gullible who swear allegiance to them, and are committed emotionally and ideologically to these organizations, have no idea.

The truth is that it is the ordinary Kashmiri Pandit and Muslim who have relentlessly nurtured and safeguarded the idea of Kashmir even after being subjected to misery and suffering. It is that Kashmiri Pandit who never left the valley, that poor Kashmiri Pandit who went back to teach or do clerical jobs and lived side by side with the striving Kashmiri Muslim who did not let his children derail and pick up arms or stones, who did not let Kashmir fall to dark forces. It is the displaced Pandit who aged and died amid the struggles and tribulations of a displaced life in refugee camps, in hovels, in the Jagti transit camp/township, and many other places across India. They are the ones — just ordinary Pandits — who kept alive the fire to return to our homes.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ They are the only ones who will make our return possible on our own terms.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

300 B wont be cash or gold gift to Iran.
Iran will get "loans" on condition of reconstruction work contracted to Amrikan companies.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

Yes, sunk cost is a huge factor.
Bigger one is CYA. A doc who's sued can always point to the guideline he's following.
Good luck with suing the committee that drafter the guideline.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I used to wonder why doctors fight so hard to defend LDL and ApoB.

Then I understood.

Imagine you are a cardiologist. You have spent 30 years prescribing statins. You have told thousands of patients their cholesterol is the problem. Your guidelines say it. Your training says it. Your colleagues say it.

Now imagine a study proves it was never the main driver.

What do you do with that?

Dugani et al. JAMA Cardiology. 2021. 28,024 women. 21.4 years. 50+ biomarkers ranked by heart disease risk.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@techxutkarsh Very helpful.
IIRC, Proton has a limited storage space.
What's your opinion of Zoho mail? Decent 5 GB starter and enhanced space at very reasonable rates.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@vimallakhotia @DocPriyamMD Aah, that's the rub.
There's Lp(a), then non-HDL particles, then VLDL, triglycerides. After covering all that & more, there is still the "Residual risk".
But a statin is a cure-all.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

@HendoOJH @DocPriyamMD This.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

Bullseye.
Taking a step back, the diff b/w RRR and ARR is where one really understands risk, & NNT comes from there. Pharma companies often market RRR and most patients and some docs too push the narrative, likely to be in conformance with the guidelines (CYA).

[Bret Scher, MD @bschermd]

The NNT, number needed to treat, tells you how many people need to take a medication for one person to benefit.

For statins in primary prevention, meaning people without established heart disease, the NNT to prevent one cardiovascular event over five years ranges from 60 to over 200, depending on baseline risk, with the average toward the higher end.

That is not a miracle drug. That is a modest population-level benefit with real individual-level uncertainty.

[LifeLift 🇮🇳 @deadlipht]

Everyone knows the standard Answer, but few are willing to admit that Statins can be the cause too!

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Which common medication, if taken daily for years, can quietly lead to nerve damage and memory loss?

A) Paracetamol / Acetaminophen
B) Omeprazole / Pantoprazole
C) Cetirizine / Levocetirizine
D) Atorvastatin / Rosuvastatin

Bonus: How?

[Hindus of the World | HOW @Rashtra_doot]

The obsession with peddling a self-loathing narrative just to seek validation from the West is pathetic.

You are so desperate to humiliate 1.4 billion Indians that you conveniently "forgot" the most critical part of the story: this notice was instantly met with massive global backlash, severely condemned as racist profiling, and promptly withdrawn by the hotel with an official apology.

Every nationality has rowdy tourists. Westerners are constantly flagged for heavy public drunkenness, property damage, and brawling abroad, yet hotels deal with them individually instead of pinning a xenophobic warning to the wall.

Weaponizing an old, retracted, discriminatory memo to claim Indians uniquely lack civic sense isn't a profound critique, it's just a deep rooted inferiority complex… you brown sepoy!

Stop using half-truths to beg for white validation and demean your own people. Have some self-respect and delete this trash.

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