Our forefathers have avidly engraved manifold curvaceous designs along the perimeter of the wheel of Konark Surya Deula; here the design depicts the dina-charya (a routine) of life of a happy couple.
Apart from this many other designs like beads filled circular medallions,
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The Ram temple consecration is still a month away and already we see divine intervention, in the form of the communists deciding not to attend.
My views, on these charlatans who denied the existence of a temple underneath the Babri and peddled Sharia history to fool the courts.
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In 15th c. Bahmani Sultan Tajuddin Firoz fought Vijayanagar & enslaved 60,000 Hindus. Many of the slaves were singers & dancers & musicians of highest caliber. They were forced to convert & degrade their expertise in classical Hindu arts to become performers in Islamic courts.
I retired at 35 after working a 14-year career. From the moment I set foot in an office, I learned the hard way how f-ed up a lot of our society is.
Here are 12 uncomfortable facts about life I learned the hard way.
🧵THREAD: Vitamin D is arguably the most essential vitamin for your health. However, many aren't aware that pairing it with Magnesium, Zinc, and Vitamin K2 is extremely important. In this thread, I will explain why.
Parasurama Aradhana in Parasurama Kshetra!
In the ethereal dawn of today, an ensemble of Brahmanas, stemming from a lineage ancient as time itself, gathered under the spiritual leadership of Tharananaloor Satheeshan Namboothiripad,the revered Tantri of the Padmanabhaswamy temple.
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1. I have written Part One and wrote how Ratan Tata is sitting on an advisory board of Privet British Spy agency Hakluyt which was started by former MI6 officers!
Now read Part Two here👇
भगवान श्री रामलला सरकार के प्राण प्रतिष्ठा कार्यक्रम में राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ के परम पूजनीय सरसंघचालक डॉ मोहनजी भागवत तथा उत्तर प्रदेश के यशस्वी मुख्यमंत्री श्री योगी आदित्यनाथ जी भी उपस्थित रहेंगे।
Pujaniya Sarsanghchalak of RSS Dr Mohanji Bhagwat and Hon'ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Shri Yogi Adityanath ji will also be present at the Prana Pratishtha of Bhagwan Shri Ramlalla Sarkar in Ayodhya.
Dear Muslims, garba is a deeply religious affair - it’s not entertainment. It’s a celebration of Navadurga, of the mighty Devi and her nine forms. If you want to participate, please do ghar wapasi and submit to Maa. Else, pls stay away. Thank you.
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“Cats make friends with the cats and nowhere in the world do the cats make friends with the rats”— Mao
Political leaders go to war, the armed forces fight it and die. The kudos go to the political leaders, the blame to the armed forces. The country faces the consequences. A scenario for a hopefully successful denouement is created by the prudent and judicious mix of political and professional factors. This implies a certain degree of agreement between the political and professional leaders over the issues involved and catering for the factors having a bearing on the outcome. To say this is not to underestimate the factors of luck, which include the actions of the potential enemy, weather and a host of other intangible factors that always affect any war. When such understanding is largely missing between the political and professional leaders, and any of them is functioning under reservations, the outcome is likely to be adverse. And the 1962 war with China is a classic example of this.
Younger generation is slowly turning unhealthy
Young people in the age group of 20-50 years form a sizeable proportion of patients in my OPD now.
Most of them have one or more of the following abnormalities:
1. Overweight or obese
2. High HbA1C
3. Abnormal lipid profle
4. Low vitamin B12
5. Low vitamin D
6. High BP
7. High homocysteine level
8. Disc prolapse (causing neck or back pain)
Common risk factors and unhealthy habits found in them are:
1. Sedentary lifestyle
2. Sitting job of >10 hours per day
3. Lack of exercise
4. Eatig out often and consuming unhealthy foods
5. Inadequate sleep (<7 years)
6. Stress
7. Alcohol consumption
8. Smoking- active or passive
Recommendations for prevening diseases and remaining healthy
1. Sleep for 7 hours or more
2. Exercise for 30 minutes or more per day
3. Combine aerobic exercises and strength training
4. If your job involves prolonged sitting, take a few minutes walking break every 45 minutes
5. Reduce carb intake, increase protein intake
6. Avoid sugar, sweets & soft drinks
7. Avoid smoking
8. Avoid alcohol consumption
9. Reduce stress
10. Get preventive health check up done once a year
#MedTwitter #healthylifestyle #diseaseprevention
Bruce Greenwald invited Li Lu to speak to his class on value investing.
The result is a 90 minute masterclass on how to be a value investor.
If you haven't watched the video, do it now.
If you have, it's worth re-watching.
Here is a list of my favorite quotes from Li Lu 👇
PERSONALITY OF A VALUE INVESTOR
• "Understand who you are as an investor, because you will be tested. You will have to ask yourself if you truly are a value investor."
• "Value investing goes against our evolution of following the crowds to survive."
• "You will spend most of your time as an investigative journalist. To have insatiable curiosity."
• "You almost have to be curious about everything. Because you never know where you'll get that one major insight."
INVESTOR CRITERIA
• Is it cheap?
• Is it a good business?
• Why is this opportunity available to me?
"Once you answer those questions, you really have to go for it."
INVESTMENT CASE STUDY 1: TIMBERLAND
• "The first thing I check in a company is it's valuation."
• "If you're an investor you don't care where it traded before."
• "What matters isn't the price-to-book ratio itself, but what's in the book value."
• "You want to compare the capital invested in the business to how much pre-tax cash flow the business generates using that capital."
• "So Timberland generated $100M on $200M in capital invested. So why does the opportunity exist?"
- Nike, Reebok, all the shoe brands fell off a cliff during the Asian Financial Crisis.
- Founder owns 40% of the stock
- Company was profitable and didn't need financial markets (no sell-side)
- Tons of shareholder lawsuits
• "What would be your conclusion if you were a normal mutual fund hearing this information? That management is milking the company for their own gain."
What does Li Lu do next?
• "I download every file of the shareholder court cases. That's the investigative journalist part."
• "The result was that the founder withdrew guidance and shareholders didn't like it. That was it."
How do you determine if management are decent people?
• "You've got to be an investigative journalist and find the trail of evidence. Go to their community. Introduce yourself to their friends/family/neighbors."
Total Time Commitment: "A couple of weeks of diligent/obsessive work"
• "Investing is intensive work for short bursts of time."
HOW MUCH TO BUY?
• "If you go join a fund, they'll tell you not to risk anything more than 25-50bps."
• "Think about how much effort you put in to this work. You have no downside and its trading at 5x profits."
• "So, I put a shitload of money into Timberland. Over the next 10 years it went up 7x. It was never more than 15x earnings."
• "If you're not a good analyst, you'll NEVER be a good investor."
• "When it goes up, you don't have to do a damn thing. You just sit on it and ride with it."
INVESTMENT CASE STUDY 2: KOREAN COMPANY
• "Don't think about per-share numbers. Think of yourself as an owner."
• "$236M in book value, $60M market cap, $25M net earnings."
How do you know it's cheap?
• "You must confirm that the earnings are there, and that the book value is real, liquid, and tangible."
• "They're trading at the cash value in the bank with no debt. They have hotels and department stores that they own outright. They're making $30M+ in pre-tax earnings. And insiders own 50%."
The result: Went up 5-6x
VALUE INVESTING IS NOT NATURAL
• "There's a lot of money in value investing. But it's still unnatural to most people."
• "One thing you have to do, is you have to do the work. You have to do the reps. You can make a ton of money if you really do this stuff."
• "I benefited by listening AND THEN DOING my own work. Making my own investments and mistakes."
WHAT MAKES A GREAT ANALYST
• "You must provide accurate and complete information. If you can't succeed on that, you can't succeed in this business."
• "If you're not confident about your prediction and what you know, you can't put any money when the stock's in free fall."
WHAT PROVIDES THE BIGGEST RETURNS
• "Your biggest returns will come from no more than ten tremendous insights. That's it."
• "The only way to build those insights is intense curiosity, intense study."
INVESTING MISTAKES
• "The biggest mistakes come when you buy before you've done all the work."
• "My biggest mistakes aren't buying and losing money. It's not buying and missing out on 50-60x returns."
HOW MANY COMPANIES SHOULD YOU BUY
• "I don't have any set rules on how many stocks or companies I buy. Opportunities are sporadic and it depends on the environment."
• "I usually have 3-4 big ideas. If the market is exciting, I have more opportunities. Or if the market is boring, I have fewer."
HOW LI LU ALLOCATES TIME
• "Most of the time I spend reading and studying about everything. Learning new companies and industries."
• "If I find an idea that captivates me. I stop everything and obsess over that idea."
• "Besides that, I spend a lot of time with my kid and my wife."
TL;DR:
• Be an investigative journalist.
• Work obsessively in short bursts and spend the rest. of your time learning.
• When you've done the work and have conviction, buy a shitload to make it worth it.
• Before you invest $1, make sure you can answer the three big questions: Is it cheap, is the management team good, and why does the opportunity exist.
• Never stop learning.
• Become a curiosity machine.