Deepak Mata

Learning till death; Love teaching and learning; Hobby - Stocks Investing

[Jerr @jerr_rrej]

Never forget.

1. A man must love himself in order to love others
2. Self interest is the only interest
3. Master self to master others
4. Discipline the body to build self belief
5. Anxiety is solved by action
6. There is only optimism or death
7. There can be no doubt
8. Changing the world begins with changing self
9. Helping men is helping self
10. Romantic love is a trick to steal power

[voided @voided]

The moment you realize what life looks like for people who don't know anything about AI, Politics or the Economy.

[Deepak Mata @deepakmata6]

POLICY SABHA: #EverythingGST https://t.co/8MKZRgdJHc Excellent read on litigation in GST

[Deepak Mata @deepakmata6]

One of the best movie I have seen in many years. Loved it fully.

Binny and Family https://t.co/3K2viVaFbe

[Ritesh Jain @riteshmjn]

Just sharing as i find this v interesting, impressive and inspiring..
I attended the Speciale Investment Summit in Chennai yesterday ( am an investor ) and met and attended some of the investee companies sessions . Below the surface of the large cap listed companies, there is incredible innovation going on .. audacious and well thought out at the same time..
From Agnikul, which is scaling up to hopefully 25 + launches per year, e-plane, UMANND working on intelligent drones , VYOMIC which is launching LEO satellites for Navigation++ ( superior to NAVIC ), Sthyr- working on Zinc storage batteries , companies making progress in material sciences- silica aerogels & more , systems software ( as opposed to applications software ), robots , some of the world’s coolest e bikes ( Ultraviolette ).. the ecosystem of IISC, IIT (esp IIT Chennai ), government departments incl DRDO, constant support from patient VC, i think in a few years many of these companies will become national champions and perhaps in a decade, will replace many of the large caps in listed markets ( many of whom have become prisoners of their stock price, limiting R&D spend )

👆from a Pinetree client.

I am also firmly of the opinion ( and have written many times over years) the future winners in India are not in index…

[NACIN, Vadodara @NacinVadodara]

Continuing 2-days specialised workshop on Adjudication, sessions on case studies were held by NACIN in association with CGST Ahmedabad Zone on 29th August 2025. Faculty Shri Deepak Kumar Mata, Dy.Commissioner, PCCO, Mumbai, shared very usefull information and case-laws of Hon'ble Courts. This workshop was attended by over 56 Group A & B officers of CGST, as well as, SGST department of Gujarat. This session was well received by the participants.

[Ayushmann Khurrana @ayushmannk]

Just made an impromptu appearance at an open mic last night.

#WorldPoetryDay

[Deepak Mata @deepakmata6]

Yes Maam. Fully agree. Healthcare, with all the shortcomings, still is excellent at least in the tier-1 cities in the country. All the Best for your fast recovery as well.

[Radhika Gupta @iRadhikaGupta]

This is an appreciation post!

I had a bad fall and subsequent head injury last Sunday. Had to be rushed for emergency medical care and then treatment. Despite it being a Sunday morning, I managed to get an ambulance, excellent care, tests, and stitches within a few hours thanks to the efficient team at Jaslok Hospital. I was back home in 2.5 hours of the fall. Have lived and seen medical emergencies in many very "developed" parts of the world where long waits at ERs spanning hours and hours are common and medical care even when your head is bleeding is not immediate (despite paying a lot of money for insurance). We aren't a perfect country, but there are many things we do right, and for this, I am very grateful.

[Deepak Mata @deepakmata6]

@profvidhu Very apt article. Common sensically as well, GST being a consumption tax, and lower end of the food supply chain being untaxed, it needs to be largely paid by affluent consuming class.

[Deepak Mata @deepakmata6]

Mitticafe, P6, Arrival, Mumbai Airport; Excellent Initiative

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Please read till end.

In 2020, a middle aged woman came to me for a routine liver health check up. She was based in the UK and she used to drink alcohol, more than occassionally. She was overweight and without any other chronic illnesses. Her husband, who has been following me on social media, was always fascinated by the way I campaigned against alcohol use and how even the lowest doses can increase development of various types of cancers.

They were going to leave India in a weeks time, and so, before they left, wanted a quick check up and a consult with me. I examined the woman and saw that her liver was firm and bumpy. Something was amiss. The liver function and other blood tests were normal. I ordered an AFP (alfafetofprotein) test and sent the patient for a quick ultrasound screening. The AFP came back 28,000 ng/ml (normal <10 ng/ml) and the ultrasound liver showed a 6 cm lesion which had extensively invaded the main blood vessel of the liver, the portal vein. She had highly, locally advanced aggressive primary liver cancer. A CECT scan also confirmed the same, but there were more smaller cancer lesions on other parts of the liver too.

Their whole life turned upside down with that one consult with me. I broke the news in the most empathetic way and told them that this was stage C (BCLC-C: https://t.co/yiAiong7f9). They did not speak much. Angry and sad, they left my outpatient without discussing their decisions with me. They went to other doctors asking for help. Most of them discussed death with them and the lack of option for curative liver transplant surgery because the tumor was locally advanced. They offered them various medications, some radiotherapy, even some surgeons offered to adventorous and gave them option for a liver transplant.

Distressed with the lack of consensus from many doctors, they came back to me. They had two days left to return to the UK. The husband told me, "Sir, you diagnosed my wife. We are hopeless now. You only please guide us, because we were wrong in meeting many doctors and she has become depressed."

Since there was nothing I could do at the point, as they were leaving for the UK, I wrote two well-meaning, detailed empathetic letters - one to the woman's GP at their place of stay and one to the specialist oncologist (I did not know their names, wrote in general) asking them to please consider this patient for immunotherapy if it was available as a protocol their. I decided that immunotherapy with Atelolizumab-Bevacizumab, based the landmark IMBRAVE150 trial (https://t.co/Olr6SctY6e) was their best option. I made that decision for them because they were not in s state to make decisions. Their children were young.

Early 2021, I was informed by the husband that they got into the NHS oncology program very quickly because the GP escalated my letter and the diagnosis for the immunotherapy. And it was all for free. They did not have to pay any money and an ambulance and medical personnel for come and pick her up and give her the injections under close monitoring and send her back home. She was given close 2 years or may a bit more than to survive.

Last week, I saw the patient and her husband again in my outpatient. After almost more than 3.5 years. She was well. Her cancer disappeared. NHS protocol showed that there was no recurrence and all the big cancer in the liver and the smaller ones and the ones in the liver vein melted away. They asked me to evaluate them, for their satisfaction. I did a contrast MRI on her liver. No tumor. Nothing. Just old features of chronic liver disease. Her AFP was 1.8 ng/ml now.

They were just so happy that the kids got their mother to be around, when they were growing up. She was cancer free, but in remission and ready for a life saving transplant whent the time came. Almost 4 years now.

As gratitude, they got me this IPAD 10th Generation as a gift. "But I do not accept gifts," I told her. "My patients well-being is the greatest gift that I can receive. You are here in front of me, after nearly 4 years, alive and well, because of a decision I made for you. This is the greatest gift," I told them.

But they were adamant and kept the box on my table, bid me goodbye to journey back to the UK.

I was happy, but also sad. I see hundreds of patients in my outpatient who are candidates for this drug treatment but cannot afford it. I send most of them to palliation and they die within a year. And here was a patient, who was destined to die in my care if she was where I was. But instead, she found freedom from a devastating illness because treatments were made affordable where she was. I was happy for her, but also sad for the many I had to let go here.

But here is the reason why I wrote this post.

I do not have personal use for this new IPAD. I have my phone and my computer and I am happy using them. I do not require additional gadgets and do not want to keep them in a corner and waste them. So if you know any NGO or childrens educational/teaching programs that use IPADs and would like to have this IPAD, please tag them in the responses to this post. I will gladly send this IPAD to their official address for free for them to use. Please make sure you do not not lie to me to get this for your personal use or for your children to play Candy Crush. Let us find someone or some group who can genuinely find use for this because I have no use for this at present.

IPad, 10th Generation, Wi-Fi only, 64GB, Blue color (brand new).

Thanks for your time reading this far.
Take care.

[Deepak Mata @deepakmata6]

Excellent Article on business culture and it's importance

[NDTV Profit Alpha @NDTVProfitAlpha]

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@IncredAmc's @AdityaKhemka5 in conversation with @niraj_shah on 'The Portfolio Manager'. #NDTVProfitLive https://t.co/OoBWsEz8NG

[Dr Prashant Mishra @drprashantmish6]

This lady has given the answer to all the problems of human beings in just 56 seconds. 👏🏻✅👍

[Vijay Kedia @VijayKedia1]

My new poem.
Crypto is new gold, oil is new data,
I. T is forever, in jumlo ne khoob lapeta. 😊

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

“Heroes do not have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done.”

Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the holocaust.

Some of the survivors surprised him 50 years later.

[Radhika Gupta @iRadhikaGupta]

Every law has a cost and we all bear that cost. An effective law is where the cost is very high for the crook and very low for the ordinary person.

A very good point made by @SandeepParekh.

[Deepak Mata @deepakmata6]

Just completed watching #RocketryTheNambiEffect . What a movie. One of the best movies I have seen. @ActorMadhavan Sir has his best performance and infact has lived the role. Hats off to Nambi Sir for his grit.

[Deepak Mata @deepakmata6]

Wish you a very healthy and happy life Sir. All the best for future endeavours

[Naresh Penumaka, MCom., LLB.,IRS(Rtd) @nareshpenumaka]

Thank you all as I retire today from Government Service of 35 years in IRS(C&amp;IT) and 2 and 1/2 years in RBI &amp; ONGC 🙏💐God Bless All💐🎉