Karthik P G

Anaesthesiologist

[PD @Pd_waltz]

@baradwajrangan Oh! He compared Raaja to Naushad! BR must have felt a punch in the gut. Raaja is one and only Composer who can compose, write the score, orchestrate, arrange, conduct, play, write the song, sing and elevate the screenwriting via his musical mastery!! #ilaiyaraaja

[Reclaim Chennai streets @reclaimchennai]

Everytime I come across trash in my beautiful Himalayas, a little part of me breaks down inside.

I don't know how Indians see beautiful mountains and rivers and the first instinct is to dump trash.

Indians don't deserve this beautiful country.

Yappers who claim we pray to nature, while trashing it. Frauds

[Terf_Rocks @Terf_Rocks]

1/2 I was just looking through my photos & came across these quotes from the Sandie Peggie Tribunal. It felt strange at the time writing words said from people on the other side because it’s something I’d never done before & as a result I decided against posting them…Until now,

[Titania McGrath @TitaniaMcGrath]

IMPORTANT THREAD 🧵👇

Brave social justice activists such as myself are working tirelessly to expose *all* the racist elements within our society.

Sometimes it is difficult to keep up, so I thought it would be helpful to curate a comprehensive list...

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

There was a time when a holiday overseas began the moment you touched down at your destination airport.

The sheer expanse. The travelators. The duty-free stores bursting with an abundance of alcohol, perfumes, dark glasses, watches, scarves and handbags.

We, the perennially starved of plenty, were awestruck.

The holiday mood began right there.

But today, Heathrow, Frankfurt, Charles de Gaulle - they all look jaded compared with our airports. In need of a serious up-grade.

And though I am now satiated by the abundance that duty-free stores offer, the sheer pleasure of seeing it all at our airports remains undiminished.

Perhaps that joy can only be understood by those who once experienced so little.

From Indira Gandhi International to Dubai International, the journey was seamless. A smooth, effortless flow that would have seemed almost unimaginable to us once.

And now, yes, let’s clean up our cities.

It is so doable. It is such low-hanging fruit.

Cleaner streets, better-maintained public spaces, less litter, greater civic discipline. These are not grand, impossible ambitions. They are within our reach.

And the payoff will be far greater than just making us more attractive to visitors.

It will make us feel good about where we live.

And perhaps that is the most important payoff of all.

[STAR Boy TARUN @Starboy2079]

Super Boss, Boss and Puppets (Thread)

2020-21
COVID was a painful memory for many, but it proved jackpot for few people. While India was fighting its worst challenge ever, a man sitting in the USA was quietly building his army in India

An army of activists.

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[Manish Tewari @ManishTewari]

I do not know how old are you son but I studied Marxism, Dialectics of Marxism, Marxism Leninism and Maoism that has now turned into a capitalistic authoritarian oligarchy very deeply in the mid 1980’s.

I also saw it in action in the erstwhile USSR and erstwhile Eastern Europe where the dictatorship of the proletariat became the tyrannical and repressive dictatorship over the proletariat.

As the first Asian to be elected President of the International Union of Students( IUS) in 1992 that was headquartered in Prague I was witness to the gale of change sweeping across Eastern Europe. Communism and Communists were the most reviled characters in the newly liberated nations of Eastern Europe who overthrew the yoke of oppressive Stalinism.

I have also closely analysed the excesses
Of Joseph Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria and the havoc wrought by the Great Leap Forward, cultural Revolution in China coupled with the egregious atrocities of the Gang of Four .

Marxism- Leninism was rejected by Leon Trotsky itself and Maoism by Mao Tse Tsung ‘s successor Deng Xiaoping who virtually denounced Mao .

I have also seen the tyrannical state of DPR Korea from within and the repression that is let loose on the hapless people by the despotic dynasty that controls that piece of geography.

Despotic dynasts are a problem that is not peculiar to the Communist paradigm but it is most so in DPR Korea and Cuba.

Marxism , Marxism - Leninism and Maoism are historically failed models. No point wasting time over them .

@TovarischManu

[Lt Col Sushil Singh Sheoran, Veteran @sushilskinner]

A Tiktok video by two Chinese is taking the internet by storm, and rightly so. The video mimics the Wagah border drill, a spectacle that has been happening since 1959 and becoming more like a farce every day. What passes for a military drill is actually a circus. It's not wrong when Pakistani Muslims call us Hindus' baniya' because circus is purely for generating revenue, each year, with more foolishness added to attract tourists. I don't suggest stopping it but at least making it look military. Similar stupidity can also be seen at Hussainiwala border. I had a funny experience myself: I was sitting there watching on the steps, and the BSF cheerleader havildar, who was making people say' Bharat Mata ki Jai, ' found me silent and not joining his chorus. He said, "तुम मे देशभक्ति नहीं ह," and I said what the f....k. I was just back from my RR tenure in the thick of militancy. Something needs to be done.

[Ankit Jakhar @Jakhar_ankit_]

Civic sense is rarely organic. It is a manufactured byproduct of the State's capacity to inflict consequences.

The uncomfortable truth is that the masses require "Danda Therapy." The highly disciplined societies of China and the Southeast Asian tigers (like Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore) did not achieve their utopian civic sense through moral science classes. They achieved it through ruthless, uncompromising state enforcement.

India’s tragedy is our hyper-democratic paradox. The moment the State actually wields the danda to enforce basic civic discipline (like clearing encroachments or penalising littering), the activist ecosystem launches a synchronised vidhwa-vilap, screaming that human rights and the Constitution are under attack.

We already have domestic proof that the "Danda pill" works. Just compare a chaotic local bus depot to the Delhi Metro. Commuters do not suddenly attain civic enlightenment at the Metro turnstiles. That pristine discipline is entirely engineered by the zero-tolerance surveillance of the CISF and immediate financial penalties.

You cannot lecture a population into first-world behaviour.

You have to enforce it.

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

A man named Riazuddin saved 12 people's lives in a Delhi fire by spreading mattresses worth Rs 2 lakh from his shop.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

New York passes legislation to replace the word “mother” with “gestating parent” in some contexts, per NYP.

[Revathi @revathitweets]

Way back in 2019, I reported extensively about the Globarena Intermediate marks fiasco in Telangana.
In fact, I had run a major campaign on my media company Mojo TV. We were the first TV channel up pick the story too.

23 students died by suicide, I spoke with all their families and it was truly heartbreaking.

I remember one particular case where a single mother who worked as a farm labour was very proud of her bright daughter. The entire village came to support her education, everyone pitched in with books, commute and all expenses. When the Globarena marks mess up happened, she cried the whole night. Her mother told her it is okay, and she can go for reevaluation or write the exam again, morning the mother wakes up to see her daughter hanging in the middle of the house.

I had demanded blacklisting Globarena, arresting the officials. But I guess companies like Globarena are pests that never die, they just transform into something bigger and dangerous and come back to haunt.

Globarena now has become Coempt Edu Teck that messed-up the CBSE evaluation.

Globarena in 2019 messed up results of 9.74 lakh students in Telangana. Out of this total, approximately 3.8 lakh students failed. 23 suicides were reported. Back then too Globarena failed to provide the answer sheets.

After all this, Globarena transforms into Coempt Edu Teck, messes up the future of 18.5 lakh CBSE students across the country.

It is almost like they got rewarded for bad behaviour.

The officials who were giving approvals for CBSE just 74 days prior knew the history of Coempt Edu Teck. They knew the company is incompetent, but still decided to go ahead and give them the tender.

Yes, the Globarena/ Coempt Edu Teck guys are fabulous at landing tenders. The names and associations of Coempt Edu Teck board now seem to run pretty deep in the highest offices.

Unless the rot is burnt right from the root level, this won’t stop. All board members, directors, CEO, investors, government employees that tweaked the system to ensure Coempt Edu Teck got the contract should be dragged to the courts & never should be allowed near any business again.

But in this country that is so much in love with corruption, I doubt if this will ever change. Coempt Edu Teck may soon get the tender for all exams across the country.

PS: To all the students, one exam is not the end. Kudos to your fight. Keep fighting, never ever give up.

And if you are feeling low, speak with friends and family or reach out to any helplines.

Roshni Helpline, Telangana
[phone]

[Nimal Raghavan @being_nimal]

மாண்புமிகு தமிழ்நாடு முதலமைச்சர் @CMOTamilnadu @TVKVijayHQ அவர்களின் கவனத்திற்கு. நீர்நிலைகள் சீரமைக்கும் பணிகளில் எங்களுக்கு அனுமதி கிடைப்பதில் மிகவும் சிரமமாக இருக்கிறது. தயவு செய்து உதவுமாறு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறேன்🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
@BussyAnand

[Anna Maria Junus @JunusAnna]

Who is on the trans train?

1. The money people. Pharmaceutical companies, the medical field, psychiatry, government, & fashion. This would get nowhere without the support of these people. They create and pass the laws allowing it. They are laughing while they roll in the money.

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

Lasertec is a Japanese company with fewer than 1,200 employees. TSMC, Intel, and Samsung depend on it to verify every EUV mask before a chip is printed. One defect on the mask and all chips printed from it fail. Lasertec holds 100% of the market. The inspection requires 13.5 nanometer light, the same wavelength that prints the chip. No other company on Earth has built a tool that can do it. KLA poured an estimated $500 million into one, cut 600 jobs, and abandoned it. Lasertec had been at it for a decade before KLA even started. Intel has given Lasertec its Distinguished Supplier Award six years in a row. ASML builds EUV scanners that cost up to $380 million each. None of them print a chip without a mask Lasertec has inspected.

[Healthy Alfred 🌴🥥 @HealthyAlfred]

They clamped both carotid arteries in a rat’s neck shut. For 20 minutes. Zero blood to the brain.

Brain damage. Hippocampal lesions. Memory wiped. Motor coordination destroyed.

The untreated rats never recovered. The brain never even tried to repair itself.

The only thing that reversed the damage — was BPC-157.

Memory fully restored. Coordination fully restored. Hippocampal neurons recovered at both 24 AND 72 hours. Not compensated. Not retrained. Reversed.

(PMID: 32558293)

Stroke is the #1 cause of long-term disability in the US. 700,000 Americans every year. Most survivors never return to baseline. Ever.

You survived. Everyone told you that’s what matters. But surviving a stroke and recovering from one are two completely different things.

You relearned how to button your shirt at 58. You do speech therapy 3 times a week. You write lists for things you used to remember without thinking. You tell people you’re doing great because you’re tired of the look on their faces when you say you’re not.

You stopped expecting to get better. You just adapted. And everyone around you called that recovery.

Your neurologist prescribed rehab. Your PT retrains your muscles. Your speech therapist retrains your words. Every single one of them is teaching your brain to work around damage that nobody tried to repair.

Your aspirin prevents the next clot. Your statin manages cholesterol. Your blood pressure medication adjusts the number. They’re protecting you from the NEXT stroke while nobody repairs the damage from the FIRST one.

Researchers cut blood flow to a rat’s brain completely. 20 minutes. The exact model for human stroke. BPC-157 reversed both early and delayed brain damage and achieved full functional recovery.

A rat had zero blood to its brain for 20 minutes and BPC-157 brought its memory back. Your post-stroke fog is a simpler ask.

→ Blood to brain cut off completely: reversed
→ Brain damage: repaired at 24h AND 72h​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
→ Memory: fully restored
→ Motor coordination: fully restored
→ Side effects: zero

Your rehab retrains the brain around what’s broken. Your medication prevents the next event. Neither repairs the damage from the one that already happened.

That brain damage isn’t permanent. It’s unrepaired.

Your rehab adapts to the damage.

BPC-157 reversed it.

Not FDA-approved. Preclinical evidence. Not medical advice.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Read more about GigaTIME: https://t.co/RcsovR8l5y

[Karthik P G @drpgkarthik]

@NTanjore @SHEKARSUSHEEL Hello sir, good evening. Can you send me the link ?

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This 50 minute lecture from Jeff Bezos in 2005 at Stanford GSB will teach you more about innovation and product growth than most 2 year MBA programs

[Nsikan @CkanJohnson]

I know this feeling. Not the loss of it exactly, but the moment you notice it’s gone.

For me, it happened at the gym. This girl asked if I was done with the machine, and I just nodded and walked away. Didn’t even say the words. Just nodded. And I caught my reflection in the mirror across and barely recognised the person staring back.

There used to be a version of me that would’ve said something, anything. Made her smile, asked how her workout was going, and existed in that moment like it mattered. But I was already thinking about my next set, my macros, and the work I had waiting at home.

I grabbed my water bottle and thought, 'When did I become someone who just nods?'

What I think happened is we started carrying the future differently. Not in the dreamy way we carried it when we were younger, when everything felt possible and distant. But in the accountant’s way. We began calculating the cost of things that used to be free.

Talking to strangers used to feel like play. Now it feels like time. And time is the thing we’re supposed to be strategic about. We’re supposed to be building something. Moving toward something. So we perform this math in real time: Does this conversation serve my goals? What is the ROI of charm?

And the terrible thing is, we’re not wrong. We do have things to build. The weight of that is real. It changes your posture, literally and metaphorically. You start moving through the world like someone with somewhere to be.

But here’s what I’ve been learning: the self-awareness that makes you focused also makes you self-conscious. You become the kind of person who watches themselves in conversations, who edits while speaking. You catch yourself staring instead of seeing. Calculating instead of connecting.

My uncle told me once, when I asked why he seemed quieter than he used to be, “I got tired of performing.” At the time, I thought he was just old. Now I wonder if he meant something else. Maybe what looks like losing your spark is actually just being more selective with your light. If maybe you don’t lose the ability to make people laugh, you just stop seeing it as your responsibility.

I don’t know what happened to you. But I know what happened to me. I became someone with a plan. And plans have a way of making the present feel like a waiting room. You stop improvising. You start thinking of spontaneity as something you can’t afford.

The only thing I’ve figured out is that the goals we’re so busy serving might actually need the part of us we’ve put away. The ease. The play. The version of ourselves that didn’t count the minutes. Because the person you’re becoming isn’t supposed to be smaller than the person you were.

Sometimes now I make myself stop. At the gym, in the elevator. I make myself inefficient with my attention. I ask the unnecessary question. I laugh at the small thing. Not because I’m trying to get my rizz back or whatever we’re calling it. But because I’m trying to remember that I’m not just a project under construction. I’m also a person here, now, in this moment that doesn’t need to be optimised.

I still see that girl at the gym sometimes. We nod at each other now, and that’s fine. But I think about that moment. How she asked a simple question, and I couldn’t even find words. Perhaps I’ve been confusing warmth with performance and presence with productivity.

Personally, you didn’t lose anything. You just got heavier. And now you’re learning how to move with the weight.