Saravanan Shanmugam

𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙,𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩. 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 🚀💰.

𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚📈|🤖𝘾𝙮𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮|📚𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨.
🇮🇳roots🌎mindset🏹

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

@total_woke_ @BBCNews Nice article, you can copy paste it for tomorrow's breaking news.

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

Simple but highly inspiring. 👌

#Indiamanufacturing
#SME

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

India imported $775 billion worth of goods last year.

Every imported product is proof of one thing:

Demand already exists.

Your job isn't to create demand.

It's to manufacture it better, cheaper, or closer.

Replace 0.001% of imports.

That's a $7.75M business.

[Raavanan @raavanamavan7]

Today multiple complaints on @makkal_saatchi have raised serious allegations against Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College, Perambalur.

The complaints describe a repeated pattern of alleged extra fee collection, unofficial payments, internship-year fees, stipend issues, extension-fee demands, and pressure on students.

These are not small claims. They involve students, parents, lakhs of rupees, and medical education.

If the college has followed all rules, the simplest way is to place the approved fee structure, receipts, stipend records, and internship records before the competent authorities.

Requesting Health Dept, DME, NMC, and Fee Committee to examine this fairly and protect students from any retaliation.

1) https://t.co/zZhAVwbTFX

2) https://t.co/o4BTMnQe5N

3) https://t.co/7C0cXUYikJ

4) https://t.co/hthjS7nAsF

5) https://t.co/S033baIlnj

6) https://t.co/4FgzWnWyHY

@CMOTamilnadu @TVKVijayHQ @arunraajkg @AadhavArjuna
@DMER_TN @NMC_INDIA_OFFICIAL

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. I've been in the room when the heart monitor goes flat.
I've watched the moment a family realizes there are no more conversations. No more chances. No more time.
And I've noticed something that haunts me more than the dying. It's what the living say afterward.
It's never "I wish he'd worked more." Never "I wish she'd had more followers." Never "I wish we'd made more money."
It's always the same five words:
"I wish I'd told them."
I wish I'd told them I loved them. I wish I'd forgiven them. I wish I'd called. I wish I'd shown up. I wish I'd said the thing I spent years rehearsing and never delivered.
After twenty years of watching hearts stop, here is what I know — not as a physician, but as a human being who has held the boundary between alive and gone more times than I can count:
Tell the people you love that you love them. Today. Not eventually. I've pronounced time of death on patients whose families were mid-argument. The conversation they thought they'd finish tomorrow became the last conversation they ever had.
Spend more time with your parents. I've watched grown adults collapse at a bedside, realizing their parents were growing older while they were busy growing up. The visits you keep postponing are numbered. You just don't know the number.
Forgive yourself for being human. You were never meant to live without mistakes. I see patients destroy their health carrying guilt, shame, and regret for decades — the stress hormones alone cause measurable cardiac damage. Chronic unforgiveness is a cardiovascular risk factor. That's not a metaphor. It's physiology.
Let yourself cry when life hurts. I've treated men who hadn't cried in thirty years and carried their grief in their blood pressure, their cortisol, their arterial stiffness. Suppressed emotion doesn't disappear. It becomes inflammation. I see it on every lab panel.
Heal the wounds you keep hiding. Unhealed pain shapes your relationships, your choices, your sleep, your appetite, and your heart — literally. The ACE study proved it: adverse childhood experiences predict cardiovascular disease decades later. Your biography becomes your biology.
Stop postponing your happiness. I've watched patients survive a heart attack, swear they'll change everything, and six months later be back to the same life that was killing them. The urgency fades. The habits return. And then they're on my table again — except this time, some of them don't leave.
Learn to enjoy your own company. If you cannot sit peacefully with yourself, there are parts of your life still running on autopilot. I wrote recently about how the Default Mode Network — the brain's background narrator — drives anxiety, rumination, and compulsive behavior. Stillness isn't empty. It's where you finally hear what matters.
Get outside. Into trees. Into sunlight. Into nature. I just wrote about a Japanese immunologist who proved that two hours among trees boosts your natural killer cells — your cancer-fighting immune soldiers — by 50% for a full month. Nature isn't a luxury. It's medicine your ancestors took for free every single day.
Help someone who cannot repay you. The data on generosity and cardiac health is striking — acts of compassion lower cortisol, reduce blood pressure, and improve heart rate variability. Giving without expectation is one of the most measurable longevity interventions that exists.
Love something with your whole heart. A person. A purpose. A craft. Life becomes richer when your heart is fully engaged — and I mean that both ways. The cardiology data on strong social relationships reducing mortality as much as quitting smoking isn't soft science. It's published, replicated, and powerful.

[Tech with Mak @techNmak]

i don't hate math. i hate that nobody showed me math looked like this.

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

Sir agreed — corruption ❌ must be denounced with no second option.

But let's not over simplify grave issues of society affecting demography. 👫👬👭

🔴Wanted to highlight crucial Health⚕️ and education👨‍🏫, where vast majority of people (irrespective of status: lower, upper middle class and even rich) are put into endless loop of indebtness.

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🐀🐁People are becoming working rats for investors as essentials turn into profit centres. Foreign and big funds hold major stakes in several top chains. For what, obviously, high profits !

🏥Let's see top 5 hospital chains with significant foreign/big fund investments (key stakes as of 2025-26):

1. Manipal Hospitals — Temasek (Singapore sovereign wealth fund) holds ~59% controlling stake.

2. Fortis Healthcare — IHH Healthcare (Malaysia) is largest shareholder at ~31%+ and seeking more control.

3. Care Hospitals — Blackstone has significant controlling stake.

4. KIMS Hospitals — Blackstone involvement with major investment.

5. Max Healthcare — KKR (US PE) previously held major stake (~50%+) and exited profitably; now has high foreign institutional investor interest.

Profits and returns from high fees flow to these foreign funds, sovereign wealth, and PE investors via expansion, dividends and exits.

🏫Top school chains/groups with notable foreign/PE interest, though it is non-profit trust/society rules that limit direct foreign ownership.

1. K12 Techno / Orchids — PE-backed via service/management company models (e.g., investments from funds like Sofina, Sequoia, Gaja).

2. VIBGYOR Group — Institutional and some PE interest in scalable premium model.
3. Ryan International — Limited indirect interest in modern chains.
4. Podar Education — Mostly Indian, with some institutional ties in international schools.

5. Other emerging chains (e.g., certain IB/curriculum-focused groups) — Indirect foreign partnerships or edtech-linked investments.

Investments often happen indirectly through management companies or real estate.

This corporatisation backed by foreign capital is worsening debt traps in essential services. In the name of technological upgradation, are we ready for a US-style healthcare crisis where insurance companies hold people hostage?

🤔Let's think deeply: Who does the overall population work for, and where does the wealth created in India actually go?

🆘We need to protect society from becoming bonded labour to hospitals, schools and real estate groups (ultimately the wealth goes outside).

❤️Time to wake up !
@svembu may pl correct.

Alternate views and counter views are welcomed 🙏.

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

THE INSPIRING STORY OF THE MAN WHO BUILDS IN INDIA.. FOR THE WORLD 🇮🇳

From a small village in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu — where his father worked as a court stenographer — to building a $8+ billion global tech empire without a single rupee of VC funding.

Sridhar Vembu ji cracked IIT Madras, earned a PhD from Princeton, worked at Qualcomm... and then walked away from the American dream.

He came back to India. Started Zoho (as AdventNet) with family & friends' savings in a small Chennai apartment. Bootstrapped it into a SaaS giant that competes with Microsoft, Google & Salesforce — serving 100+ million users worldwide.

But the real inspiration? He moved operations to rural Tenkasi. Built offices in villages. Created Zoho University to train college dropouts and local talent. Proved world-class software can be built from mud roads and mango groves — not just Silicon Valley glass towers.

A barefoot billionaire who lives simply, rejects flashy wealth, and invests in rural India. Padma Shri awardee. True patriot. Real role model.

Sridhar Vembu ji reminds us:

You don’t need to chase the West. Build where your roots are. Dream bigger. Stay humble. Impact deeper.

Thank you for showing what's possible with conviction, patience & swadeshi spirit 🙏

You are an inspiration for us sir. I use @zoho products now and I must say, they are amazing.

Happy Birthday @svembu ji !!

Lots of love,
#FI

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

Very informative medical tweet.

#Healthiswealth
#medicaltweet

[Murali Srinivasa @MuraliSrinivasa]

He is also my guru, a lot of inspiration and courage to build lioncircuits by coming back from bay area was from @svembu !

Our new campus in Mulvad is also inspired by the way Zoho is built and Tenkasi operations.

A very Happy Birthday to you Sridhar ji!
Cheers to more zoho like companies from India.!

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

@svembu Two of my favorites and legends @svembu பிறந்தநாள் வாழ்த்துகள், வாழ்க வளமுடன். 🌷💐
@elonmusk Happy Birthday 💐💐

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

Sir agreed — corruption ❌ must be denounced with no second option.

But let's not over simplify grave issues of society affecting demography. 👫👬👭

🔴Wanted to highlight crucial Health⚕️ and education👨‍🏫, where vast majority of people (irrespective of status: lower, upper middle class and even rich) are put into endless loop of indebtness.

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🐀🐁People are becoming working rats for investors as essentials turn into profit centres. Foreign and big funds hold major stakes in several top chains. For what, obviously, high profits !

🏥Let's see top 5 hospital chains with significant foreign/big fund investments (key stakes as of 2025-26):

1. Manipal Hospitals — Temasek (Singapore sovereign wealth fund) holds ~59% controlling stake.

2. Fortis Healthcare — IHH Healthcare (Malaysia) is largest shareholder at ~31%+ and seeking more control.

3. Care Hospitals — Blackstone has significant controlling stake.

4. KIMS Hospitals — Blackstone involvement with major investment.

5. Max Healthcare — KKR (US PE) previously held major stake (~50%+) and exited profitably; now has high foreign institutional investor interest.

Profits and returns from high fees flow to these foreign funds, sovereign wealth, and PE investors via expansion, dividends and exits.

🏫Top school chains/groups with notable foreign/PE interest, though it is non-profit trust/society rules that limit direct foreign ownership.

1. K12 Techno / Orchids — PE-backed via service/management company models (e.g., investments from funds like Sofina, Sequoia, Gaja).

2. VIBGYOR Group — Institutional and some PE interest in scalable premium model.
3. Ryan International — Limited indirect interest in modern chains.
4. Podar Education — Mostly Indian, with some institutional ties in international schools.

5. Other emerging chains (e.g., certain IB/curriculum-focused groups) — Indirect foreign partnerships or edtech-linked investments.

Investments often happen indirectly through management companies or real estate.

This corporatisation backed by foreign capital is worsening debt traps in essential services. In the name of technological upgradation, are we ready for a US-style healthcare crisis where insurance companies hold people hostage?

🤔Let's think deeply: Who does the overall population work for, and where does the wealth created in India actually go?

🆘We need to protect society from becoming bonded labour to hospitals, schools and real estate groups (ultimately the wealth goes outside).

❤️Time to wake up !
@svembu may pl correct.

Alternate views and counter views are welcomed 🙏.

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

Very informative medical tweet.

#Healthiswealth
#medicaltweet

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Let me tell you what I see in my practice that breaks my heart more than any clogged artery.
A patient walks in carrying five diagnoses — obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, and gout — on seven medications. Each prescribed by a different specialist. Each treating one symptom. None of them talking to each other.
Nobody told this patient the five diagnoses are one disease.
They are five faces of the same metabolic dysfunction. And the root is almost always the same: chronically elevated insulin driving fat storage, inflammation, and organ damage simultaneously.
Medicine gave this patient a bigger bucket under every leak instead of fixing the roof.
Here's the roof. And how to fix it.
In 2025, the ICD-10 coding system — the official classification used by every hospital and insurance company in America — added a new code: E11.A. Type 2 diabetes in remission. Medicine now officially recognizes that type 2 diabetes is not a permanent, progressive sentence. It can be reversed.
The DiRECT trial in the UK achieved 46% diabetes remission at one year through intensive dietary intervention. A 2025 Indian study of 2,384 patients achieved 31% remission. A 2024 trial in Pacific Islanders achieved 23% remission — with some patients entering remission without significant weight loss, proving the mechanism is metabolic, not just weight-driven.
This is not theoretical. It's published, replicated, and now coded in the medical system. Your doctor can document your reversal.
Here's the protocol I walk patients through — step by step.

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

#Coimbatore
#Inspirational
#Unsungheros

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name was G. D. Naidu.

He was born in 1893 in a small village near Coimbatore, into a farming family.

He hated school, left after the third standard, and never returned to formal education.

As a teenager, he saw a British officer riding a motorcycle and could not believe a vehicle could move without an animal pulling it.

Determined to own one, he left his village, worked for nearly three years as a waiter in a hotel, and saved every coin until he could buy a motorcycle.

Then he did something unusual.

He took the entire machine apart, piece by piece, simply to understand how it worked.

By putting it back together again, he taught himself to be a mechanic.

That curiosity changed his life.

He began with a single bus that he drove himself and eventually built one of the finest bus services in the country.

In 1937, at his workshop in Coimbatore, he built India’s first indigenous electric motor.

That invention played a major role in transforming Coimbatore into one of India’s leading industrial cities.

He did not stop there.

Over his lifetime, he developed more than a hundred inventions, including an electric razor that won international recognition, ultra thin shaving blades, a tamper proof voting machine, a fruit juice extractor, an affordable radio for ordinary homes, and even a small two seater car, though he was denied a licence to manufacture it.

People began calling him the Edison of India.

Nobel laureate C. V. Raman described him as a man in a million.

A boy who walked away from school after the third standard spent the rest of his life teaching a nation how to build.

Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

[Raavanan @raavanamavan7]

Initial version of Drug Watch is live 🚨

A simple anonymous public reporting web app to report illegal drug selling, consumption, banned tobacco/gutkha, suspicious storage/godown, and school/college zone concerns.

No public identity. No fear. Just report what you see.

Now live at: https://t.co/x9ENOcHHMG

This project is open source. Anyone interested can contribute, improve it, and help build a safer public reporting system.

#DrugFreeTN

[MemeCreaker @MemeCreaker]

Beautiful on so many levels 🙌

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

@MuraliSrinivasa Great news on two fronts, a critical manufacturing facility for India and located in a relatively rural area. 💐👏
Good Luck 🤞

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is humbling to consider that if we harness just 1 millionth of the Sun’s power for AI, that will be much more than a million times the intelligence of all of humanity

[Kyunghoon Kim @Kyunghoon_Kim_]

🇮🇳 India looks increasingly similar to a developmental state.

The developmental state is typically characterized by the state’s autonomy and capacity to mobilize long-term capital for industrial upgrading, combined with effective implementation of industrial policies.

(1/n)

[Saravanan Shanmugam @natty_natter]

🤞🤞

[Prof BrahMos @ProfBrahMos]

The only thing GOI needs to do to beat this IT myth is,
1. PM and respective state CM visit IIT Bombay, Madras, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Roorkee, IISc Banglore.
2. Hold meeting with Director and HOD of their computer science department.
3. Ask the Director and HoDs for AI models, Social media app to be built from scratch.
4. No Bureaucracy involved. Time bound projects.
5. No funding issues.

I can bet within 2 years we shall have enough LLM models and social media apps to beat the west.

[DFCCIL @dfccil_india]

Double Stack Container On Western Dedicated Freight Corridor