Rajesh Sharma

Citizen of the world. Professor (Retd.), Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala.

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

Another life is possible
https://t.co/FA9NIlvYam

[Bikram Singh Majithia @bsmajithia]

👉ਤਪਦੀ ਦੁਪਹਿਰੇ ਸ਼੍ਰੀ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ ਸਹਿਬ ਸਰਕਟ ਹਾਊਸ ਬਾਹਰ ਦੋ ਸਟੰਟ ਦੇ ਆਪ੍ਰੇਸ਼ਨ ਕਰਵਾਉਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਬਾਪੂ ਧੁੱਪੇ ਤੜਫ ਰਿਹਾ – ਪੁਲਿਸ ਦਾ ਹੁਕਮ “ਇਧਰੋਂ ਜਾਓ, ਉਧਰੋਂ ਜਾਓ”। ਦਰਦ ਨਾਲ ਬੋਲਿਆ – “ਮਰ ਜਾਣ ਨੂੰ ਜੀਅ ਕਰਦਾ”।

👉“ਆਮ ਘਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਮੁੰਡੇ” ਅਖਵਾਉਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਕੇਜਰੀਵਾਲ ਤੇ ਭਗਵੰਤ ਮਾਨ ਅੱਜ ਇੰਨੇ ਖਾਸ ਹੋ ਗਏ ਕਿ ਬਜ਼ੁਰਗ ਦੀ ਚੀਸ ਵੀ ਸੁਰੱਖਿਆ ਘੇਰੇ ਤੋਂ ਪਾਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਾਂਦੀ।

👉ਕੁਰਸੀ ਮਿਲਦਿਆਂ ਹੀ ਆਮ ਲੋਕ ਪਰਾਏ ਕਿਉਂ ਹੋ ਗਏ? ਆਮ ਘਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਮੁੰਡੇ ਖਾਸ ਹੋ ਗਏ

#Shame

@BhagwantMann @ArvindKejriwal @AAPPunjab @AamAadmiParty

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

This elusive thing called translation
https://t.co/H4GihjOUns

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

Loud music at midnight. Some wedding function in Mehta Colony, Patiala. Police awake to this violation of law and decency? @PunjabPoliceInd @PatialaPolice @DGPPunjabPolice

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

Read Mehta Colony in lieu of Mehra Colony.

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@PunjabPoliceInd @PatialaPolice Kindly put a stop to the loud noise of singing coming at odd hours from a newly made temple in Mehra Colony near Urban Estate Patiala.

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@PunjabPoliceInd @PatialaPolice Kindly put a stop to the loud noise of singing coming at odd hours from a newly made temple in Mehra Colony near Urban Estate Patiala.

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@PunjabPoliceInd @PatialaPolice Kindly put a stop to the loud noise of singing coming at odd hours from a newly made temple in Mehra Colony near Urban Estate Patiala.

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@rishikeshlaw Honourable? Still?

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

https://t.co/87T5r1DqNR

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

Walking is not the enemy of your knees. Inactivity is.
Most people think knee pain is a "Stop" sign. In reality, it’s usually a "Change Gears" sign.

The Myth: "My knees hurt, so I need to sit down and rest until the pain goes away."
The Reality: Prolonged rest is a recipe for joint stiffness, muscle atrophy, and more pain.

Why Movement is Medicine:
1. Joint Lubrication: Cartilage doesn't have a blood supply; it relies on movement to "pump" nutrients in and waste out (Imbibition).
2. The Support System: Stronger quads and glutes act as shock absorbers, taking the physical load off the joint.
3. The "Rust" Factor: If you don't move, the joint capsule tightens. A "rested" knee is often a rusty knee.

The Strategy:
✅ Don't Stop, Adapt: Switch to low-impact (swimming/cycling) or reduce volume, but keep moving.
✅ Load is Gold: Targeted strength training is the most evidence-based way to "fix" knee pain.
✅ Listen to the '24-Hour Rule': If pain doesn't flare up the next day, the movement was likely safe.

📌 Stop "protecting" your knees into disability. Move them to save them.

Dr Sudhir Kumar
@hyderabaddoctor

[ocean jain @ocjain4]

88 साल के पंजाब के पूर्व डीआईजी इंद्रजीत सिंह सिद्धू 1964 बैच के IPS अधिकारी हैं, जो 1996 में रिटायर हुए। वे चंडीगढ़ के सेक्टर 49 यानि IAS-IPS ऑफिसर्स कोऑपरेटिव सोसाइटी में रहते हैं। वे पिछले 10 से ज्यादा सालों से सैनिटेशन कार्ट उधार लेकर हर दिन सुबह 6 बजे सड़कों की सफाई करते हैं।

भारत सरकार की तरफ इन्हें अब पद्म श्री पुरुस्कार मिलेगा। इंद्रजीत सिंह वास्तविक हकदार हैं।

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

Every night, Anke Gowda chose books over rest.

Once a bus conductor, later a timekeeper at the Pandavapur Cooperative Sugar Factory, Gowda spent nearly 30 years working while quietly building a dream.

After long days as a bus conductor, he’d search for what others had left behind—old textbooks, torn novels, discarded dictionaries.

Over decades, that quiet habit grew into Pustak Mane—the world’s largest free-access library with 2M+ books in 20 languages, rare manuscripts, documents from the Mysore dynasty, and newspapers dating back to the 1800s.

No entry fee. No ID cards. No questions asked. Just shelves of knowledge, open to anyone who walks in—students, researchers, writers, civil service aspirants, even judges.

“Books are my breath. It is my duty to preserve them for the next generation,” Gowda says.

Nearly 80% of his salary, his retirement pension of ₹40–45 lakh, and even his house and plots in Mysuru—all of it went into building the library.

Today, at 75, he doesn’t just run the library—he lives inside it with his wife. Because for him, books were never a hobby. They were a responsibility.

This Republic Day, India honoured him with the Padma Shri.

Impact doesn’t always begin with a big idea. Sometimes, it begins with loving one small thing deeply and choosing it, every single day.

#PadmaShri #RepublicDay #Karnataka

[Professor @Masterji_UPWale]

The hospital bill was ₹78 lakhs.

A 10-day stay.
Nothing exotic.
Nothing experimental.

The family was stunned.

Instead of calling a lawyer or begging the billing desk, they uploaded the entire bill into an AI system and asked it to audit every line.

The AI flagged duplicate charges, illegal code stacking, inflated consumables, and procedures hospitals aren’t legally allowed to bill together.
Then it drafted a formal dispute letter citing exact compliance violations.

No emotion.
No arguments.
Just facts.

Three days later, the revised bill came.

₹21.4 lakhs.

No negotiation.
No “discount.”
Just correction.

#Lesson:
AI’s real power isn’t chat or creativity...it’s leverage.

Hospitals depend on complexity and silence.
AI reads everything and misses nothing.

The question isn’t Can AI do this.
It’s WHY aren’t we all using it?

Save this.
One day it could save you lakhs.

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

National media won’t show this hundreds of farmers standing with their tractors against the destruction of the Aravalli Hills, illegal mining, and irreversible environmental damage.

This isn’t a protest against the government; it’s a movement to protect our natural legacy. Yet farmers are always blamed, ignored, and conveniently labelled “anti-national.”

Deep respect to these farmers who seek no personal gain, only the welfare of humanity!

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@OfficialSBICare The related part of YoNO has started functioning.

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@OfficialSBICare @TheOfficialSBI SBI Wealth on YONO has been dead for three days now. Any possibility of its revival?

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@OfficialSBICare I have lodged a complaint as advised.

[Dr SHRADDHEY KATIYAR @Wegiveyouhealt1]

DIABETES REVERSAL: A MASTER CLASS :

BOOKMARK & SHARE .

Type 2 diabetes is not a sudden disease.
It is a slow betrayal of metabolism, built quietly over years.

The good news is simple and uncomfortable at the same time.
What is built slowly can often be undone deliberately.

This is not motivation. This is physiology.

First principle: Diabetes is a fuel problem, not a sugar problem

Blood sugar is only the smoke.
Insulin resistance is the fire.

Your cells are already full of energy.
Excess glucose has nowhere to go.
So it spills into blood, damages vessels, nerves, kidneys, eyes.

Lowering sugar without fixing insulin resistance is cosmetic medicine.

Second principle: Insulin resistance is reversible

Human biology evolved for scarcity, movement, and long gaps between meals.

Modern life gives:
• constant eating
• refined carbohydrates
• seed oils
• sleep debt
• zero muscle use

Insulin resistance is the logical outcome.

Remove the cause, and the body corrects itself.

Step 1: Fix food timing before food quality

Before supplements. Before drugs. Before fancy diets.

Give insulin a rest.

• Stop snacking
• 2 to 3 meals max
• 12 to 16 hour overnight fasting window

Insulin falls.
Fat burning restarts.
Liver glucose output normalizes.

This alone can drop fasting sugar significantly.

Step 2: Eat to lower insulin, not calories

Calories matter less than hormonal response.

Prioritise:
• Protein at every meal
• Whole foods
• Natural fats
• Vegetables that grow above ground

Reduce aggressively:
• Sugar
• Refined grains
• Liquid calories
• Late-night eating

Rice, roti, bread, juice are not evil.
They are tools. Use them rarely and intentionally.

Step 3: Muscle is medicine

Muscle is the largest glucose sink in the body.

No gym membership required.
But muscles must work.

• Resistance training 3 to 4 times weekly
• Walking after meals
• Sitting less than 30 minutes at a stretch

More muscle means more insulin sensitivity.
This is non-negotiable.

Step 4: Sleep fixes what diet cannot

Poor sleep raises insulin resistance even on a perfect diet.

• Sleep before midnight
• 7 to 8 hours
• Dark, cold room

One bad night raises fasting sugar the next morning.
This is documented physiology, not opinion.

Step 5: Correct silent deficiencies

Common in diabetics:
• Magnesium
• Vitamin D
• B12

Low magnesium worsens insulin resistance.
Low vitamin D worsens inflammation.
Correct them properly, not casually.

Step 6: Stress control is metabolic control

Chronic cortisol keeps glucose high even in fasting.

Breathing, sunlight, walking, prayer, stillness.
Pick one. Practice daily.

A calm nervous system handles glucose better.

Step 7: Medications are tools, not enemies

Metformin helps insulin sensitivity.
GLP-1 drugs reduce appetite and liver glucose output.

Use them intelligently.
But do not outsource discipline to prescriptions.

The goal is dose reduction, not lifelong dependence.

How do you know reversal is happening?

Not just HbA1c.

Look for:
• Falling fasting insulin
• Improved TG/HDL ratio
• Waist reduction
• Energy stability
• Reduced post-meal crashes

When insulin normalizes, sugar follows.

Final truth

Diabetes reversal is not heroic.
It is boring consistency.

Eat less often.
Move your body.
Sleep deeply.
Build muscle.
Lower stress.

Do this long enough, and the body remembers what health feels like.

Not because of motivation.
Because that is how humans were designed.

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@TheOfficialSBI @OfficialSBICare Does anyone even read customer grievances? Or gas SBI been taken over by chatbots totally? @RBI

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@TheOfficialSBI @OfficialSBICare I emailed SBI customer care yesterday that a certain amount was being shown as withdrawn though the ATM didn't dispense the money. The message on sceen also expressed regrets for inconvenience. The amount remains unreversed. Reply says thank you.

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@RBI

[Rajesh Sharma @kriticulture]

@TheOfficialSBI @OfficialSBICare I emailed SBI customer care yesterday that a certain amount was being shown as withdrawn though the ATM didn't dispense the money. The message on sceen also expressed regrets for inconvenience. The amount remains unreversed. Reply says thank you.