Dr.Rohit Agrawal

Orthopedic surgeon, #Trauma #Arthroplasty #Medtwitter #orthotwitter

[Arram @arram]

Recurring vibe-coding experience:
"Can you make me a demo"
> One-shots incredible demo that's 75% what I want.
"Can you fix x y z details?"
> Six hours later and every iteration is worse.

[Pawan Chandana @PawanKChandana]

As everything slowly begins to sink-in, and after finally getting some sleep last night, I wanted to share a small personal note…✍️

The first call I made after Vikram-1 successfully reached orbit was to my Dad.

He is the man who made my journey possible—with dreams for me far bigger than the ones I had for myself, and by simply never giving up on me.

Until my 8th standard, I was a bad student. I scored 51 marks in Maths and even failed another subject. Back then, I could never have imagined that I would one day make it to an IIT—or have the privilege of contributing to India’s first privately developed rocket reaching orbit, making India only the third country in the world to achieve this.

When I called him after the launch, he just cried.

And cried.

He couldn’t speak a single word.

But I understood every word he couldn’t say.

I managed to hold back my tears when Vikram-1 reached orbit. But somehow, writing this, I can’t.

Thank you, Dad. ❤️

And a big shout-out to every dad who dreams big for their children—and never gives up on them. 🙏

P.S. A picture with Dad from one of my birthdays after starting @SkyrootA.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

India just finished joint World No. 1 at the 58th International Chemistry Olympiad. All 4 Indian students won individual Gold Medals, scripting India's best ever performance in the competition's history

Just days before the chemistry victory, the Indian Physics team secured a flawless 5 Gold sweep, topping the global table.

Indian talent is ready to rule the world.

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀

Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.

History is made. 🇮🇳

#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

Hello space, we have arrived! Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 has completed it's mission.

The first ever Indian private sector launch has been successfully completed.

#Vikram1 #MissionAagaman #OpeningSpaceForAll

[Pawan Chandana @PawanKChandana]

24 hours to lift-off. 🚀

Eight years ago, @SkyrootA started with just two people with an idea.

There was no policy framework for private spaceflight in India, no real funding ecosystem for space startups, and we were taking on one of the world’s hardest engineering challenges. The odds of success seemed incredibly small.

Today, India’s first privately developed orbital rocket stands on the launch pad, ready for lift-off.

This moment belongs to every member of our team, our investors, the Government of India,@PMOIndia, @isro, @INSPACeIND, our partners, suppliers, customers, and everyone who believed in us long before this day.

We have done everything we possibly could.

Now we let physics do its job.

Whatever tomorrow brings, every second of flight will teach us something invaluable. Reaching the launch pad and attempting an orbital launch is a landmark milestone for India—and an achievement only a handful of companies worldwide have reached. Every milestone we cross will advance not just Skyroot or India’s space journey, but the global commercial space ecosystem.

Tomorrow, we take the next step. 🇮🇳🚀

[Dr.Rohit Agrawal @rohit_dr]

@DealsDhamaka Mine was paused, I thought they may charge if I don’t cancel as mine is postpaid. So added card, cancelled subscription, but it still showed active till 1 month from now (original exp 17/06). Then I cancelled card mandate and asked to fully cancel now through chat support. Done.

[blue🌞 @cyanopsis]

no love, however brief, is wasted

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

At the tangent of Gandhi Maidan in Patna begins the historic Ashok Rajpath. Barely 500 meters away, the waters of the Ganga touch the boundary walls of Patna University. Along this stretch stands a chain of colleges that once formed one of India’s greatest educational corridors. Beginning with Bihar National College (B.N. College) and extending all the way to NIT Patna, it was a hub of quality education.

There was a time when this belt produced some of the finest professors, scholars, administrators and thinkers in the country. In the middle of it stands the majestic Patna University building, still carrying the weight of history, even as time and neglect have worn it down.

On one side of Patna College flows the Ganga, and on the other side runs Annie Besant Road, crowded with student lodges, tea stalls, libraries and coaching centres. Within this small geography live thousands of dreams. Students from every corner of Bihar come here to prepare for Bank PO exams, IIT-JEE, engineering entrances, UPSC and countless other competitive exams.

What makes this place emotional is not just education, but the absence of opportunity outside it. Like Kota, this stretch witnesses ambition, heartbreak, success, failure, loneliness, friendship, hope and despair every single day. In the mornings and evenings, swarms of students move through these roads carrying bags full of books and minds full of uncertainty. Outside Patna College lies a large ground where many quietly sit for hours, contemplating their future and the burden of expectations they carry.

Bihar has produced extraordinary minds and remarkable individuals, yet today the state struggles to keep pace. Education is in not in great shape, industries are limited, businesses are not thriving at the scale they should, and opportunities remain scarce. Because of this, generation after generation of talent leaves Bihar and settles elsewhere. Students here often have to struggle for things that many in other states take for granted.

Perhaps that is why Biharis constantly remind themselves of their legacy. Probably as a way to keep their spirit alive whenever someone questions their worth.

On this Annie Besant road, you can hear students saying...

“Jaante ho ji, sabse zyada IAS Bihar se nikalta hai…”
“IIT mein bahut log Bihar se jaate hain…”
“Vashishtha Narayan Singh Bihar ke the…”
“Rajendra Prasad Bihar ke the…”

However, that list had very few sportsmen.

Now, with pride in their voice, people will add another line:

“Jaante ho ji… Vaibhav Suryavanshi hamare Bihar ka hai.”

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You clock out with a free evening ahead, and the guitar still sits in the corner gathering dust. The hours are yours. The energy is the part that ran out, and your job burned through it long before you got home.

The easy answer is that work swallows all your hours. The data points somewhere else. People with full-time jobs still get more than four hours of free time on an average day, and the single biggest piece of it goes to the TV. The time is sitting right there. What runs short is the kind of fuel a hobby actually needs.

Think about the gap between painting and watching Netflix. Painting needs a running start. You have to set it up and push through the part where you are clumsy. Netflix needs nothing from you. So when you are running on empty, you reach for the thing that asks for nothing, every time.

In the 1970s, a University of Chicago psychologist gave people pagers and buzzed them at random all day, asking what they were doing and how good it felt. The activities that lit them up most were the hard, absorbing ones, like painting or playing music. The thing they spent the most hours on was television, which they rated near the bottom for real enjoyment. The stuff that fed them most was the stuff they did least.

And work goes after that starting energy in particular. A 2009 study from the University of Washington found that when you drop one task to pick up another, part of your mind stays stuck on the first one. You can be home on the couch while your head is still back at the desk, stuck on the email you never finished. Most jobs now run on a low-key acting too, keeping your face pleasant when you feel anything but. Researchers followed a group of bus drivers and found that on the days they faked their mood the most, they felt more wiped out that night and slept worse. Holding your face together for eight hours is its own quiet job, and it sends the bill to your evening.

Then it snowballs. A skill you stop using goes rusty, so every comeback feels worse than the last, like opening a novel three chapters in with no idea what happened. A hobby dies the slow way. It loses a small, quiet contest with the couch, night after night, until you cannot remember the last time you tried.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody told you: Talent and intelligence are overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong. The truth is that talent and intelligence are abundant. Courage is not. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t. I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. It's taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name was Lini Puthussery.

She was 31 years old. A nurse at the Perambra Taluk Hospital in Kozhikode Kerala. She had been working there for six years.

She had two sons. Ritul was five years old. Sidharth was two years old.

In May 2018 the Nipah virus arrived in Kerala. Two brothers and a relative were brought to the hospital with symptoms nobody had seen before.

Lini was on night duty when they arrived. She cared for them through the night.

They died soon after. Confirmed Nipah positive.

By Friday Lini herself had fallen ill.

She was shifted to the ICU at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital.

When she learned she had contracted the Nipah virus she asked the hospital not to allow her two sisters to visit. She did not want them exposed.

From the ICU she wrote a note to her husband Sajeesh.

“Sajeesh I am almost on my way. I don’t think I will be able to see you. Sorry. Please look after our little ones and take them to the Gulf. They should not be alone like our father. Lots of love.”

She died on May 21, 2018.

Her body was cremated quickly to prevent the spread of infection. Her family could not say a proper goodbye.

She did not hesitate when the patients arrived.

She did not ask who would care for her sons if she fell ill.

She showed up for her shift and did her job.

Today is International Nurses Day.

Her name was Lini Puthussery. She deserves to be remembered.

[Dr. Shriram Nene @DoctorNene]

Amazing. 26 miles in under two hours is crazy. What that means is 13 miles per hour continuously: imagine when u r doing treadmill at 13 miles per hour…

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Dr.Rohit Agrawal @rohit_dr]

@mightbejell0

[NASA @NASA]

For the first time in over 50 years, humans are Moonbound.

At 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 UTC) NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft lifted off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending four astronauts on a planned test flight around the Moon and back. https://t.co/0Q9ZB4IWVI

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Signal acquired! 📡

Engineers at @NASAJPL have confirmed that the Orion spacecraft is communicating with the Deep Space Network. For the first time in over 50 years, we’re receiving a signal from a spacecraft carrying humans toward the Moon.

[NASA @NASA]

The Orion spacecraft successfully separated from the upper stage of the rocket, and the "proximity operations" test is underway. The Artemis II astronauts are manually piloting Orion similarly to how they would if they were docking with another spacecraft.

[Dr.Rohit Agrawal @rohit_dr]

@theliverdoc Sir here it is mentioned that Isopure has Cadmium, but the doewnloaded PDF from https://t.co/8wxQQHtaPD shows it has Arsenic (0.61 mg/kg). Please clarify. Thanks

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

By studying samples analyzed by the Curiosity rover, scientists have taken another step toward understanding whether life could have ever existed on Mars.

A new study suggests that non-biological sources cannot fully account for the abundance of organic compounds found in a sample collected by the rover.

Dig into the details: https://t.co/zZKCgKEROr