Kumar Abhinandan

| Humanist | Eternal Optimist | Non-Conformist | Universalist |

Doctor by Profession. Seeker by Passion.

[Anuj Gurwara @AnujGurwara]

RANT - after watching this distressing video and the ones of that illegal structure falling on people.

Read at your own risk.

India has - more than ever before - become a nation where only those with access to wealth and power are able to lead comfortable lives within the bubbles they construct for themselves.

Everyone else is a statistic and a temporary headline in the event of a tragedy.

Every common person is only racing from birth to death, navigating through one obstacle after another.

For most people, death can literally happen any time - bad roads, flooding, unsafe electrical poles, fights in the neighbourhood, road rage, animals loose in the streets, contaminated foods, botched medical practices, unauthorised structures falling on their heads, broken infrastructure crashing down during or after construction - or just mobs baying for your blood because you are different.

Regulations are a joke. There is no value for human life. The infrastructure and ecosystem is not designed for those without privilege.

Worse still, the overburdened justice system is not reliable.

The era of leaders is over. Politicians have taken over from the mafia. Most who get into politics don’t do so to serve the masses. They do so to get away from them and elevate themselves above the commoners.

Politics is the most profitable taxpayer funded, tax-free business there is.

Movie stars live in ivory towers right in the middle of a garbage dump. Some of them make more money than most Hollywood actors but live less than 1/10th of their lifestyles when in India.

Surrounded by security, assistants and servants - politicians, celebrities and the 1% secure their own bubbles by hook or crook, evade taxes, exploit every legal & financial loophole and avoid accountability.

Yet, we worship them and place them on a pedestal because we want access to the power they hold.

Because we want to be able to know someone when we are in a police station, a hospital or in court. We want to use a reference to get admission, get a job or just get pension.

The collective self esteem of a billion people is at an all time low and being lowered still to suit the political ambition of a few hundred people desperately holding on to power.

The rich won’t protest societal injustice because they can escape into their bubbles whenever needed and pay their way into convenience.

The middle class doesn’t have the time to protest because they’ve been pushed into being on survival mode all day every day. Time lost is money lost.

The poor can’t protest beyond a point because hunger is real and the above two classes won’t allow them to.

Our children are growing up in an environment of corrupted education and contaminated nutrition. Their physical and intellectual growth is stunted when compared to developed countries.

India’s children swing between malnourishment and obesity. An entire generation ahead will feel the effects of of this sheer neglect of childhood.

We don’t care about our young and our elderly. Women are not safe anywhere. Our teenagers are hooked up to dopamine all day - youth in cities, towns and villages are addicted to porn, violent games and on the hunt for get-rich-quick schemes. I blame the system that doesn’t empower them otherwise.

We are squeezed dry to pay direct and indirect taxes, endlessly waiting for our lives to upgrade a little bit.

Buying a vehicle or a home now is literally a process of extracting blood money. Most of India is one medical bill away from poverty.

We haven’t lost count of human tragedies and disasters. We will queue up in the thousands on bridges and hillsides to offer our prayers to the Gods who look on silently at the destruction our own fellow humans have caused in their name.

This post will be forgotten in a few hours too. You and I will both get busy because life goes on and we must move forward with it.

Let’s get back to election gossip, IPL and Orry. Let’s forget about all this. For just one more day.

End.

[Javed Akhtar @Javedakhtarjadu]

Badi raunaq thee iss ghar mein yeh ghar aisa nahin tha Gilay shikway bhi rehte thay magar aisa nahin tha .

[Kumar Abhinandan @kumarabhinandan]

@STAOdisha @RTO_SAMBALPUR @CelexHsrp Finally able to register for HSRP. The process was seamless this time. Thank you for quick response to my request.

[Kumar Abhinandan @kumarabhinandan]

@STAOdisha @RTO_SAMBALPUR @CelexHsrp I am unable to apply HSRP as OEM of my Car (OD15B1441) is wrongly listed as "BSA Motors" in place of "Volkswagen Motors". Twice emailed to RTO SBP (cc to STA Odisha) for correction yet no steps taken. Kindly Help.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

1/ 'There's a self referred patient for you', ER doc tells me

'Self referred?'

'Yes, husband getting her discharged from multiple hospitals looking for a diagnosis'

Self referrals are nerve-racking, I thought, as I walked in, looking at the deeply jaundiced, disoriented woman

[Kumar Abhinandan @kumarabhinandan]

@bmcbbsr There's a huge garbage dumpsite on the main road in front of my house in Samantarapur. Tons of garbage continues to be dumped there daily by BMC workers and stays there for days on end. Many such local dumpsites exist in our area. When is BMC planning to stop that ?

[People's Archive of Rural India @PARInetwork]

Bhagat Singh’s ideology is not meant to be hijacked. He has written with remarkable intellectual clarity. Read what he stood for in his essay — Why I Am an Atheist.

Do not let anyone cloud your mind and reasoning. Snippets in the 🧶 below, link at the very end

[Ambarish Satwik @AmbarishSatwik]

“Now, you’ve got an aneurysm in there as big as a grapefruit, and it’s about ready to burst. But you’re a strong boy, and I’m the best surgeon in the world, so if this had to happen, we’ve got the best possible odds.”

[M D Madhusudan @mdmadhusudan]

LONG THREAD: Since 1987, India has assessed its forest cover every two years in its India State of Forest Reports (ISFR), produced by the Forest Survey of India (FSI). The 17th ISFR was released three days ago.

Here I take a closer look at the entire stack of ISFR reports…

[Ola Electric @OlaElectric]

Haaye! 🥺

[Tin Doom 😑 @PajamaStew]

I may regret sharing this, but I have a very personal story I would like to tell. I hope it doesn't get too long... Anyway...

I was 20 years old when I was sent to erase a man from existence and became haunted by him.

[Manoranjan Pegu @manoranjanpegu]

Post olympic victory
-Don't call her Manipuri. She is Indian first.

At other times,
-Where is Manipur? Wahan pe toh log Kutta khate hai na?

Sorry but have to point this out.
When you talk about Mirabai, talk about Manipur, talk about NE,so that such questions are not faced

[Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life @rajbhagatt]

#Map shows the Scheduled Tribes population distribution in #Odisha. Each Village/Town shown as a dot.

Blue = Less ST Population; Red = More ST Population;

Size slightly adjusted based on population

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Profoundly wise — and SO true. Hats off to Justice Midha.

[Kumar Abhinandan @kumarabhinandan]

@naukarshah I guess we seek the Truth using Reason. One is the goal and the other is the path leading to it. Though your last statement is so apt for those who tend to conflate the above two.

[Reuters Asia @ReutersAsia]

The largest reservoir in the United States and created by the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead has sunk to its lowest level. The low water levels underscore the magnitude of the extreme drought that has gripped Western U.S.

[Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ @netshrink]

Chatting with a psychiatist-researcher friend & he was surprised by how poorly Indian Drs were trained to assess evidence. Nor did they understand evidence synthesis. I echo his concerns. It a fault of Indian medical education. I don't remember being taught this at med school.

[Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life @rajbhagatt]

#Thread
#Elections are supposed to be about electing representations for framing legislations

However the geography behind delimitation which doesnt consider complex socio-economic conditions promote communal polarization leading to deterioration of Democractic values

1/n

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Witness the historic moment in full. The Mastcam-Z cameras on
@NASAPersevere show us the takeoff, hovering and landing of the #MarsHelicopter.

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Almost any elite Indian's dream of a "developed" India will have Nordic type infrastructure and safety and low crime. But still daily domestic help that is paid in Indian wage terms, cheap autos and cabs, cheap food delivery etc.