Sanket Shetty

Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeon

Fellow, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke On Trent, UK

[Aravind @aravind]

Once at Louvre, a French friend asked me how I felt about the Monalisa. I said "It's ok, looks nice."

They were in disbelief at my nonchalant reaction. I explained, in India:

- we see exceptional artwork in our nearby temples,
- hear exceptional traditional music from neighbors,
- read exceptional poetry from 1000 years ago,
- learn exceptional philosophies from 2000 years ago,
- enjoy exceptional superhero stories from 3000 years ago
- and see exceptional statues from 1000s of years ago
- all just like that, all around us, as part of our daily life

So all other work, be it the latest Hollywood Marvel universe flick or a Monalisa or a Mozart, they don't move us so much or make us go "wow" even as we appreciate and enjoy that art.

Just like how a person growing up in Switzerland isn't going to go "wow" entering New Zealand. But a person from Rajasthan may.

Indians should think about this and understand the richness of our culture. This is why we don't take to western names and western clothes and western culture in marriages or western music like the Chinese do.

By the way, this statue is more than a thousand years old 👇

[Dr.B.Karthik Navayan @Navayan]

When Che Guevara was captured in his hiding place, after being betrayed by a shepherd, one of the soldiers asked him surprisingly: How can you betray a man who has spent his whole life defending you, you and your rights? The shepherd replied calmly: His fight against the enemy frightened my sheep!

Many years ago, in Egypt, the Grand Commander Mohamed Karim had led the resistance against Napoleon's total military campaign. When he was captured, the court sentenced him to death. But Napoleon called him and told him: I regret having to kill a man who bravely defended his country. I don't want history to remember me as a hero assassin. I will forgive you if you pay 10,000 gold coins for the losses suffered by my army. Mohamed Karim laughs and replies: I don't have that much money, but the merchants owe me more than 100,000 gold coins. Napoleon gave him a break. Karim went to the market, chained up and surrounded by soldiers guarding him, hoping that those he had sacrificed himself for would help him. But no merchants responded. On the contrary, they accused him of being the cause of the destruction of Alexandria and their crisis. He went back to Napoleon, morally broken. Napoleon then said to him: - I will not kill you because you fought against us, but because you sacrificed your life for a cowardly people, who prefer trade to freedom. Mohamed Rashid Rida summarized this way: "He who fights for an ignorant people is like one who immolates himself by fire to light the way for the blind."

[Akul (𝑨𝑻10) @Loyalsachfan10]

Sums up Sachin Tendulkar's Career.

[Raazi @Crick_logist]

#MustWATCH
Another masterclass in broadcasting.
MARKRAM walk back to pavilion after the epic inning.
Look at his face ,his expression, satisfaction on his face .
Really really hope this one is continued in all ICC tournament.
As I said before.
Pure GOLD.
#WTC2O25Final

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

You only need these things to be happy:

Salary of 1.5-2 Lakhs

Residence in Gated community

PS 5 + OLED TV

2 Golden Retrievers

Travel to new places every 4 months

Giving presents to parents, making their life easier

That's it, you are sorted, that's the key to good life

[Sanket Shetty @sanketshetty]

@airindia AI 155 DEL-AMS, 23 MAY 2025 (3A,3B) Crew Ishita, Garima and @JainNishin
Thanks for your exceptional service. Was a delight flying with you guys.

[Syam steyn @SyamKohli]

How do I explain to a non-cricket fan that this is more beautiful than anything..❤️✨️

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Wow, this is REAL footage from @Firefly_Space of their historic Moon landing two days ago. No CGI, no AI.

Some of the most incredible footage I've ever seen. Such exciting times we are living in.

[Suhas Bharadwaj @srbharadwaj]

This is Jason Holder's journey that day.. a stat that's hard to fathom..
1-1-0-0
2-1-5-0
3-2-5-1
4-2-8-1
5-2-9-1
6-2-17-1
7-2-29-1
8-2-40-1
9-2-74-1
10-2-104-1

[Akul (𝑨𝑻10) @Loyalsachfan10]

Question - Cricket Dekhte hai Sir?

Manoj Bajpayee - Dekhta tha.... Sachin Tendulkar jis din se retire hue Man uth gaya

#SachinTendulkar

[sanjoy ghose @advsanjoy]

How many Bollywood songs can you think of from the last decade which years from now will be celebrated like this?

[Diana Dukic @diana_dukic]

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

- Arthur C. Clarke

[luffy @0xluffy]

watch this at least once a day

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is what will matter 1000 years from now.

Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.

This guy reignited the Space Age.

He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level.

This is history happening before you.

If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in.

We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well.

Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of.

Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed.

Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space.

Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat.

Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them.

Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe.

None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China.

More important, in the long run, than the United States of America.

America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this.

Because this changes everything.

All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood.

All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels.

Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down.

But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star.

You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when.

But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things.

If the puddlefish don't get in the way.

Don't be a puddlefish.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

How it started v/s How its going

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

“The probability of success is uncertain but it is above zero”

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

The Japanese Prime Minister's convoy merging onto highway! Perhaps this is why Japan is a developed country." 👍🏻