Anirudh 📸

Coffee-drinking, cat-loving, camera-handling gamer.
(Currently Hibernating)

[Anirudh 📸 @imOR13N]

Went to @KalaGhodaArt Fest opening and shot @anandmahindra and @bindasbhidu ✨

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

THIS IS WHERE A 17-YEAR-OLD SHAMED THE MEDIA 🔥

KARAN THAPAR: If these tender changes had not been made, would Coempt Edutech have qualified?

SARTHAK: Absolutely not, sir.

KARAN THAPAR: So Coempt Edutech practically benefited from the changes?

SARTHAK: You could say that, sir.

KARAN THAPAR: How concerned are you by what you found?

SARTHAK 🎯: I am concerned that the system is not transparent enough. These things should not be uncovered by students like me. They should be available to journalists and investigators.

[MFA Russia 🇷🇺 @mfa_russia]

✉️ President Putin sent a message of condolences to President of India @rashtrapatibhvn & Prime Minister @narendramodi:

✍️ Please accept my deepest condolences over the heavy loss of life & large-scale destruction caused by the cyclone in Uttar Pradesh.

https://t.co/ZiSzmRoSj2

[Anirudh 📸 @imOR13N]

HOLY FUCK THAT'S LOW

[Catty @CatWomaniya]

Wow. There’s no low too low for him, isn’t it?

Can the same logic be applied to rape cases from BJP ruled states?

[Anirudh 📸 @imOR13N]

@iamyuvii_24 BJP...?

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

Tired, but not giving up! Pls download and share before there is a gag order on me.
Thanks to @IndiaESI (who also impleaded in my PIL against misleading branding of sugary drinks as ORS), @FAIMA_INDIA_ , HRDA Andhrapradesh, HRDA Telangana, MARD Thane, MARD Nagpur, Junior Doctor's Association Ahmedabad, Telangana Junior Doctor's Association, Junior Doctor's Association Ranchi, T-SRDA, GARD, Telangana Doctor's Forum, RDA Aligarh, RDWS UP, IMA Telangana State, IMA Hyderabad Airport, Endocrine Society of Telangana, Indian Doctor's and Dermatologists against quackery, for condemning the notice of Johnson&Johnson and Kenvue in which they accused me of disparaging them for my commercial benefits and views! Thank you for staying by my side! Grateful!

[Anirudh 📸 @imOR13N]

biwi-pati kiss karre aur internet raisins ki jal rhi hai...

[Oxomiya Jiyori 🇮🇳 @SouleFacts]

Kissing at the mandap in front of Agni Dev?

Absolutely shameful. A Hindu wedding is a sacred ritual, not a Hollywood set. Stop contaminating our sanskriti with this Western copycat nonsense. If you can’t respect the sanctity of Hindu vivah, you don’t deserve it.

[Anirudh 📸 @imOR13N]

@AndroidAuth Let me guess, ChatGPT-ahh article?

[Anirudh 📸 @imOR13N]

AI generated garbage ruining @EconomicTimes? wow, colour me surprised

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

What prompt did ET use to get an image where a chef seems to be pouring gas off a cylinder on a burning stove? 😂

[Anirudh 📸 @imOR13N]

.@TOIIndiaNews @EconomicTimes this is pathetic. Improve your standards of journalism or call yourself a tabloid at this rate.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Extremely irresponsible reporting by @TOIIndiaNews and @EconomicTimes. I do not know what the crtieria for being your "health reporter" is, but this feels like some kid in 12th grade doomscrolling conspiracy theories on Instagram wrote it. Do better.

Here are the rebuttals to the nonsense your so-called kidney experts and health journalist spouted in the article:

The title claim: "Protein supplements could permanently damage your kidneys"

This is fear-mongering presented as fact.

Multiple systematic reviews and meta-analyses (including a 2018 meta-analysis in the British Journal of Sports Medicine) have found no evidence that protein supplementation causes kidney damage in people with normal renal function. The International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand on protein safety states that intakes of 1.4–2.0 g/kg/day are safe for healthy, exercising individuals, with some data supporting up to 3.4 g/kg/day over extended periods without adverse renal effects. Even the "Gym Nephropathy" review in the Journal of the Egyptian Society of Nephrology and Transplantation concedes that high protein intake improves training adaptations with no harm when baseline renal function is normal.

The word "permanently" in the title has no basis in the literature for whey protein in healthy kidneys.

Conflation of whey protein with anabolic steroids, cough syrups, growth hormone, alcohol, and nicotine
This is the most intellectually dishonest move in this article. The cited case reports invariably involve young men using anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), diuretics, banned substances like spasmo-proxyvon, cough syrups (containing dextromethorphan or codeine for abuse), and sometimes alcohol — alongside protein. The kidney damage in these cases is driven by AAS-induced FSGS (focal segmental glomerulosclerosis), injury from stimulant abuse, or direct kidney damage from banned drugs. Blaming the whey protein powder in this cocktail is like blaming the glass of water someone drank alongside the poison.

Whey protein is not a "gym supplement" in the same category as testosterone injections or codeine-containing cough syrups, and lumping them together under the umbrella "gym supplements" is a category error designed to maximise alarm.

Excessive protein intake causes hyperfiltration injury to the kidney filters
Hyperfiltration is a normal physiological adaptation, not abnormal injury. When you eat more protein, kidney filtration increases to handle the increased nitrogen load — this is the kidney doing its job, just as heart output rises during exercise without "damaging" the heart.

The Brenner hypothesis (that hyperfiltration leads to progressive kidney damage) was derived from animal models of kidney disease and patients with chronic kidney disease or after kidney removal surgery, not from healthy kidneys. The conflation of "adaptive hyperfiltration" with "injurious hyperfiltration" is a basic error in renal physiology.

The Nephrologists cited in the article should go back to first year MBBS.

The case report: 20-year-old with kidney damage
This is the centrepiece of the article, and it's doing enormous heavy lifting for very little information. We're told he had "no prior medical issues" but developed proteinuria and oedema after 6–8 months of consuming protein powders.

What we are NOT told: what else he was taking (steroids? pre-workouts? creatine at absurd doses? SARMs?), how much protein he was consuming, whether he had undiagnosed IgA nephropathy or FSGS (both common in young Indian males and often unmasked by any physiological stressor), whether a renal biopsy was performed, and what the histopathological diagnosis was.

A single uncontrolled case report with incomplete clinical details proves nothing about causation. The fact that his parents are doctors is irrelevant to the pathology but is included for emotional impact — classic journalistic manipulation.

The infographic claim: "Most healthy adults need only ~0.8 g protein per kg body weight/day"
This is the RDA — the Recommended Dietary Allowance — which represents the minimum intake to prevent clinical protein deficiency in sedentary adults. It is not a ceiling. It is not optimal. It is the bare minimum to avoid malnutrition. For resistance-training individuals (which is the population this article targets), 0.8 g/kg/day is inadequate to support muscle protein synthesis and recovery. Presenting the sedentary minimum as the recommended ceiling for gym-goers is either ignorance of sports nutrition or deliberate fear-mongering.

Dr Ravi Bansal: "individuals should avoid exceeding a protein intake of 1.2 g/kg of body weight"
This is a nephrologist speaking from a CKD-management perspective and inappropriately generalising it to healthy gym-goers. The 1.2 g/kg figure is the upper limit sometimes recommended for patients with established mild-to-moderate CKD (stages 2–3) to slow progression. It has no applicability to healthy young adults with normal renal function who are resistance training.

Dr Bansal: "natural dietary proteins remain superior to artificial substitutes"
Whey protein is not an "artificial substitute." It is derived from milk through a physical separation process (filtration). It contains the same amino acids as the protein in a glass of milk, yoghurt, or paneer. Calling it "artificial" is factually wrong and plays into the naturalistic fallacy that pervades Indian health discourse — the same fallacy that props up Ayurvedic products with actual hepatotoxic potential while demonising a dairy-derived food product. There is no evidence that protein from whey is metabolised differently or has different renal effects compared to protein from chicken, eggs, or lentils at equivalent doses.

This report cherry-picks a single incomplete case report, conflates physiological adaptation with pathological injury, misrepresents the RRecommended Daily Allowance as a maximum safe intake, ignores the actual evidence from controlled trials and meta-analyses, lets steroid abuse and supplement contamination off the hook entirely, and wraps it all in World Kidney Day alarmism.

This is irresponsible health journalism in a country where protein deficiency kills far more people than protein excess ever has.

[Anirudh 📸 @imOR13N]

@Nher_who "rickroll's song"💀
You know his name is not actually "rick roll" 💀

[Cats with Aura 😺 @catwithaura]

"Where do you see yourself in 40 years?"

me:

[⋆ @lowkeyalbert]

Just found out it doesn’t matter how early I go to bed I just dont wanna go to work

[Jay 💫 @Jayyakamii]

When your boss says "we'll get it done somehow" and you realize you're the somehow

[Netflix India @NetflixIndia]

Women-led cinema has a special place in my heart ❤️

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If Israel insists on destroying civilian targets in Lebanon, let them buy and build their own weapons. American taxpayers should not be funding this.

[Tony Montana @9mmScorpion]

Because North Korea can send freedom back.

[cats with powerful impression 🐾 @catshealdeprsn]

Put a camera on your cat and find out how many friends he makes on the street.

[Aimun @bluemagicboxes]

Incredible to see this after 3 years of watching children in Gaza carry their cats from one bomb site to the next

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

The phrase "nobody wants to work anymore" is hilarious..

Like, no dude, people don't want to:

• Commute 2 hours daily
• Miss their kids growing up
• Trade their entire life for rent
• Get laid off with zero warnings
• Work 50 hours for 40 hours pay

Fix the system. Not the workers.