Raman Lakhera

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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Gasoline-only cars fall below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time in history.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Either have children or become a saint, because eventually, you have to find something you love more than you love yourself."

@naval

[Raman Lakhera @ramanlakhera]

Rupee is in crisis.

[The Factor Report @PeterLBrandt]

Yet another continuation pattern in the Rupee
Whoopie!!!!!

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Hero

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Humanity's lackadaisical response to the superintelligence threat makes me feel I'm in the movie "Don't Look Up". I just explained why here: https://t.co/9rQ1NmpY7s

[Maahir Panchal @maahirpanchal]

Take this as a rant.

Take this as something a long time coming

Take this from someone who's spent his life in factories growing up.

We need to develop a better ecosystem for ourselves to thrive!

A +ve critique on India's manufacturing scene. https://t.co/S2JcsubqDr

[Raman Lakhera @ramanlakhera]

@grok @TheAmrikan @nntaleb @grok What is role of Vo2 max in this.Dies walking count in this ?

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Absolutely remarkable

All five Indian students who participated in the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) 2026 in Colombia, won Gold!
Placing India joint #1 in the world alongside China, Kazakhstan, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan, among 381 students from 87 countries.

The champions:
Kanishk Jain — Pune
Riddhesh Anant Bendale — Indore
Rishit Garg — New Delhi
Shresth Suraiya — Mumbai
Svarit Joshi — Ahmedabad

And this comes without the kind of vast, state-organised apparatus that some countries deploy to nurture Olympiad talent.

We’re fortunate to have the dedication of the scientists, teachers and mentors at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, who have built a world-class Olympiad programme with only modest resources.

But, at the end of the day, the driving force is the raw talent, curiosity & hunger to succeed of these remarkable young minds.

I want to say thank you to these Olympians & to everyone who has helped shape their journey for making me so optimistic about India’s future.

They’re my #MondayMotivation

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Dear friends, as promised, the citizens funded generics vs. branded drugs project is now published after 4 months in peer review. It was hardwork, but worth the effort because all of you helped us realize this important work.

You can read the full detaild paper here: https://t.co/jZhm8ZcPCq

Here is a simplified summary:
Do cheaper generic medicines work as well as expensive branded ones? It's a question that worries patients and even many doctors, who often quietly assume that a low price must mean lower quality. This doubt has real consequences in India, where medicines make up nearly two-thirds of what families spend out of their own pockets on healthcare — a burden that pushes millions into poverty and forces people to split doses or stop treatment altogether.

To put the question to a fair, independent test, our team at the Mission for Ethics and Science in Healthcare (MESH) carried out a fully citizen-funded study, paid for entirely by donations from ordinary members of the public, with no money or influence from any drug company.

We bought 131 samples of 22 commonly used medicines — covering heart disease, diabetes, infections, pain, acidity, and more — from seven different kinds of outlets across Kerala, including government stores like Jan Aushadhi, private generic chains, and premium branded pharmacies. Every sample was then coded, blinded, and sent to a top accredited laboratory for rigorous testing against the Indian Pharmacopoeia 2022 standards. What makes this study unusual is that very few before it have tested branded and generic versions from the same market side by side, included government-supplied medicines, and combined strict quality testing with a hard look at price — all at the same time.

The result was striking in its simplicity: every single one of the 131 medicines passed every quality test. 100%. It made no difference whether a pill was generic or branded, cheap or expensive — they were all equally good in their active ingredient content, their purity, and how they dissolve in the body.

Yet the prices told a completely different story. Generic medicines were, on average, 48.6% cheaper than their branded twins, and the most expensive brand cost up to 13.9 times more than the cheapest generic of the very same drug. Government Jan Aushadhi stores were the cheapest source for 18 of the 22 medicines tested, with potential savings running into thousands of rupees a year per medicine — for instance, over ₹16,000 a year on a single liver drug.

For doctors, this is reassuring, hard evidence that prescribing a quality-assured generic is not a compromise on care; it is the same medicine at a fraction of the cost. For patients, it means you can stay on your treatment without it draining your savings, which is exactly what keeps people healthier over the long run.

And this is precisely why independent, publicly funded projects like this matter so much for the future of healthcare in India: they answer the questions ordinary people actually have, free from commercial pressure, and they build the trust that programmes like Jan Aushadhi need to truly succeed. Affordable and high-quality are not opposites — in a well-regulated market, they go hand in hand.
More here: https://t.co/jZhm8ZcPCq

[Raman Lakhera @ramanlakhera]

@TaPlot Thank you

[Raman Lakhera @ramanlakhera]

@ravikarkara @bhash @grok why this is important?

[Raman Lakhera @ramanlakhera]

The rich have money. The wealthy have time. It is easier to become wealthy than rich.

[Vaishali Mathur @mathur_vaishali]

This needs to be said: We are at Jim Corbett and apparently there is no restriction on loud music till 10:30pm in the night. The roads are full of cars speeding around, at least 30 jeeps plying in one area of the forest, you can see brunt land on both sides and massive tree felling.
So guilty of attending a family wedding here, I cannot say. There’s one I skipped because I didn’t want to be a party to destroying the habitat of animals. But why is Uttarakhand government allowing weddings in a forest reserve? I know my tweet will have zero reaction but
Please tag the concerned agencies when you read this.
@ukcmo @uttrakhand24 @AniUttarakhand

[Raman Lakhera @ramanlakhera]

@speaknsee @realDonaldTrump @narendramodi @JDVance @marcorubio @netanyahu @DrSJaishankar @grok summarise this video

[Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw @kiranshaw]

Garbage is a serious malaise countrywide n no municipality of big cities has managed to solve it. Indore n Surat seemed to have cracked it but mumbai delhi Bengaluru etc haven’t. Very very pathetic which shows citizens lack of civic sense n huge apathy by both citizens n administration. We lack pride

[Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw @kiranshaw]

Important to note that in the Global #Innovation Index 2025, #India has done exceptionally well in services exports, VC deals, unicorn valuation and intangible asset intensity. We have risen to 38th place, taking a lead in Central and Southern Asia. https://t.co/M4sWKzCK8t

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

So, the government is pushing people to use public transport (which is inadequate), or to car-pool (whose apps are banned), in order to decongest roads (which are half-unusable), and clear lanes (that are non-existent).

[Indian Doctor🇮🇳 @Indian__doctor]

🚨 Today India's 1.8 lakh Doctors on #strike!
#Maharashtra Govt’s decision to let BHMS homeopaths prescribe allopathic medicines after just a 6–12 month CCMP course is nothing less than gambling with public safety.

👨‍⚕️ How can 5.5 years of rigorous MBBS training be equated with a few months of pharmacology?
⚠️ This is a direct threat to patient lives.

👉Politicians fly abroad or go to luxury hospitals for their own treatment, while the poor are forced to rely on mixopathy doctors. This double standard must end!”
#medtwitter

[Woke Eminent @WokePandemic]

Why Indore is the cleanest city in India?

Here is one reason, Any one who does not follow the civic rules of garbage disposal
A team visits them and counsels them on it and make sure they follow the rules set for Garbage disposal and segregation

If Indore can do it why can't other cities and towns?