S K Mohanty

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[S K Mohanty @skm503]

@MumukshuSavitri Wow!

[S K Mohanty @skm503]

@MumbaiPolice Sir, I understand police has stopped pvt vendors offering lockers for mobiles near US VISA Consulate and Biometric centers at BKC. Kindly inform whether any alternate method has been provided. I and my wife, both Sr citizens and are having appointments soon.Thanks.

[Ananth Rupanagudi @AnanthOnTrack]

An Incredible Story!

A ₹3,480 crore IPO of Physics Wallah has hit the market. While reading about this issue, I came across information about a village called Patwa Toli in Bihar.

This year, 45 students from this village cleared JEE, and 38 of them cleared JEE Advanced, meaning 38 students from a single village secured admission to IITs.

Patwa Toli is a village of traditional weavers. There is not a single coaching institute here. Instead, it has a community-driven education system run by current and former students of the village.

The Patwas are traditional weavers, originally from Rajasthan. They were brought to Bihar by Raja Man Singh during Emperor Akbar’s reign to produce a specific type of cloth used in Hindu funeral rituals. Over time, their weaving industry flourished so much that the village earned the title Manchester of Bihar. Today, however, it is better known as the Village of IITians.

The spark of educational transformation was ignited in 1991 when Jitendra Patwa became the first student from the village to gain admission to IIT. His success inspired an entire generation. Although he now lives abroad, he has never forgotten his roots. Through the NGO Vriksha Foundation, he and other IIT alumni continue to support educational initiatives in the village.

The educational model followed here is truly unique. Students from earlier batches mentor the next generation. Whenever a junior student faces difficulty, they seek help from their seniors. Over time, this has created a continuous support network where everyone helps one another move forward.

The foundation has established a digital classroom and a well-equipped library. Expert teachers from cities such as Delhi and Mumbai conduct online classes. A dedicated team continuously monitors students’ progress to ensure that no one is left behind. This is a remarkable blend of modern technology and community participation.

This is more than an educational program—it is a movement that is transforming lives. For many students, attending expensive coaching classes in big cities was once an impossible dream. Today, they can pursue those aspirations from their own village. Most importantly, the doors of opportunity have also opened for girls, enabling them to dream of a brighter future.

Patwa Toli teaches us an important lesson: when an entire community decides to invest in its children, extraordinary things can happen. A united community is the real need of the hour. If schools improve, villages will progress. #Bihar #education #IIT

[Next Science @NextScience]

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST CREATED BATTERIES POWERED BY LIVING BACTERIA!

What sounds like science fiction is becoming reality. Scientists are developing tiny batteries that generate electricity using living microbes. As the bacteria break down organic material, they release electrons that can be captured and turned into power.

The technology is still in its early stages, but it could one day power sensors, medical devices, and remote equipment without traditional batteries. The biggest mystery? Some of these systems can even generate energy from ordinary soil.

It may not charge your phone yet, but it could change the future of clean energy.

Source:
Fraiwan, A., & Choi, S. *Bacteria-Powered Battery on Paper*. Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Lee, H., & Choi, S. *An Origami Paper-Based Bacteria-Powered Battery*. Nano Energy.

[S K Mohanty @skm503]

@UnSubtleDesi Even though I may like it, are these not criminal offences (manhandling, pelting eggs)? I thought BJP will end lawlessness and will bring in lawfulness.

[Srikanth Matrubai @SrikantMatrubai]

BEFORE SLEEPING KNOW THIS...

FOR 15 YEARS, while most people escaped the summer heat, Harpal Singh Pali drove a tractor-tanker deep into the burning Shivalik Hills every alternate day carrying WATER for wild animals. As lakes dried and forests cracked under extreme heat, deer, wild boars, blue bulls, and peacocks began waiting for one sound — the arrival of his tractor.

Using his OWN MONEY, without donations or government support, Pali created and refilled 25 water holes across nearly 5 kilometres of forest so animals would not enter villages searching for water. Fuel prices increased. Maintenance costs rose. Still, he never stopped. He even dedicates 10% of his income to wildlife welfare.

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

Australia just did something no other country has ever done.

Doctors in Sydney are now killing cancer tumours by freezing them solid — no scalpel, no stitches, no surgery at all.

It's happening at Liverpool Hospital in southwest Sydney, home to Australia's first MRI-guided cryoablation machine.

Here's how it works.

A needle thinner than a few millimetres is threaded into the tumour while doctors watch every move in real time on the MRI.

Then gas shoots through it, dropping the temperature to around minus 180°C in seconds.

The tumour freezes into a tiny "ice ball." The cancer cells rupture. The blood supply chokes off. The tumour dies.

No cutting. No bleeding. No weeks of recovery.

One of the first patients was Josephine Cordina, 64, who'd been living with a 9mm tumour buried in her spine. The pain stole her sleep. Painkillers barely touched it. Open surgery would've meant screws in her spine and weeks flat on her back.

Instead, doctors froze it.

One day later, she walked out of the hospital pain-free.

That's the part that sounds impossible — most patients go home within 24 hours and skip the long hospital stay entirely.

It works on tumours in the spine, the liver, the kidneys. And it gives hope to people who were told they were too old, too sick, or too high-risk for traditional surgery.

The future of cancer treatment might not involve a single cut.

Source: Liverpool Hospital, Sydney (Australia's first MRI-guided cryoablation procedure)

[Varun Guru @iamvarunguru]

Indian scientists just made history.

Researchers from IIT Madras and IISc Bengaluru just pulled off something impossible.

They've created the world's "first carbon-free ferrocene".

This means we can finally build the next generation of incredibly durable tech.

Let me explain.

See, ferrocene is this wild organometallic molecule - where an iron atom is perfectly sandwiched between two carbon rings.

But it’s insanely stable.

Which is why it is already used in rocket fuels, car gasoline additives, long-life batteries, and even cancer medicines.

And for the last 75 years, everyone thought it was impossible to build the same stable structure without using carbon.

But this team of Indian scientists proved everyone wrong.

They created the same perfect sandwich structure - by swapping iron for osmium and carbon rings for boron rings.

And what they got was the world's first carbon-free ferrocene - which is so much stronger than the carbon bonds.

By doing so - they've opened up a whole new era of chemistry. And we have no idea how many amazing things we might discover.

But to think all of this started in India is truly amazing.

Kudos to everyone on this team: Sundargopal Ghosh, Stutee Mohapatra, Suvam Saha, Urvashi Gupta, Deepak Patel - from IIT Madras, Gaurav Joshi and Eluvathingal D. Jemmis - from IISc Bengaluru.

[S K Mohanty @skm503]

@thehealthb0t Is there anyway a vegetarian can adopt a keto diet? Milk, cheese allowed. But no meat, fish or egg.

[S K Mohanty @skm503]

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[S K Mohanty @skm503]

@bpradhanodisha @KVSinghDeo1 @TPCentralOdisha @oercodisha @PradeepJenaIAS The system in Odisha implemented by TPCODL is extremely customer unfriendly. They insist on an affidavit by the earlier owner of a flat for transferring the connection to the new owner. Copy of registered sale deed, mutation etc are not enough. They refuse to cite any govt rule.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name was Shehla Masood.

She was 38 years old, lived in Bhopal, and ran an event management company.

Then in 2009, she discovered the RTI Act.

She filed over 200 RTI applications in two years. She exposed illegal construction happening in plain sight. She fought to save tigers being poached by the very forest officers meant to protect them. She took on Rio Tinto, a global mining giant sitting on 27.4 million carats of diamonds inside a protected forest in Chhattarpur. Two district collectors were transferred to make that mining happen. She filed RTIs, went to parliament, and stopped it.

A month before she died, she gave an interview. She said she feared for her life but would not stop, because the nexus between politicians and babus was slowly poisoning this country.

On August 16, 2011, she sat in her car outside her home, about to leave for an Anna Hazare rally.

A hired gunman shot her once through the throat.

The CBI said the motive was a love triangle. Four people were convicted and sentenced to life. The mining angle was never investigated.

Her father told investigators that high profile people had conspired to kill his daughter.

Nobody listened.

She was posthumously given the SR Jindal Crusade Against Corruption Award, an honour shared with APJ Abdul Kalam.

India rewarded her with a bullet, then gave her an award, then forgot her name.

Follow for real stories India never makes headlines about.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Today is World Liver Day 2026.
Here are 8 things your liver actually wants you to know.

1
There is no such thing as a "liver detox."
Your liver runs phase I and II detoxification 24/7 on its own.
No juice cleanse, no milk thistle, no herbal detox speeds this up.

In fact several have caused liver injury - the opposite of the claim.

2
Alcohol has no safe dose.
Liver harm begins from the first drink.
The old "moderate drinking is protective" myth came from flawed studies contaminated by abstainer bias - now debunked by Mendelian randomization.

Zero ml is best.

3
"Natural" supplements are now a leading cause of acute liver failure.
Ashwagandha. Green tea extract. Garcinia. Kratom. High-dose turmeric. Giloy/Tinospora.
They dominate drug-induced liver injury registries across India, the US, and Europe.

Natural ≠ safe.

4
Coffee is genuinely liver-protective.
2–3 cups/day (caffeinated or decaf) lowers the risk of fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.

One of the very few dietary interventions with real, replicated evidence.

5
Fatty liver (MASLD) now affects ~1 in 3 adults worldwide.
A 7–10% body-weight loss:
• clears Liver fat
• reduces inflammation
• can regress early fibrosis

No approved drug currently beats this. Your plate and feet are the first-line therapy.

6
Sugar-sweetened drinks independently cause fatty liver.
Fructose is metabolized almost entirely by the liver - straight into fat.
One daily soda raises MASLD risk even after adjusting for total calories.
Lesser is better.

7
Get vaccinated against hepatitis B. Get screened for HBV and HCV at least once in your lifetime.
HBV vaccine prevents >95% of chronic infection, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.
Hepatitis C is curable in 8-12 weeks with >95% success - but most carriers don't know they have it.

8
Exercise protects the liver independent of weight loss.
150 min/week moderate OR 75 min vigorous activity reduces liver fat and stiffness - even when the scale doesn't move.

Movement is "medicine".

🫂

PS: we also need a liver emoji

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name is D Roopa Moudgil.

She joined as DIG Prisons Bengaluru on June 23 2017.

She lasted 17 working days.

In those 17 days she visited the prison three times. She found drug abuse. She found 30 to 50 inmates packed into single dormitories.

And she found VK Sasikala living in five private cells with her own corridor. Her own kitchen. Her own cook. A meeting room with no CCTV where she received visitors for hours.

Roopa filed a report alleging a Rs 2 crore bribe had been paid to prison officials for this arrangement.

Her senior called it baseless. The government transferred her. The Power Minister said publicly she should not have gone to the press.

17 working days. Gone.

In 2019 an independent inquiry confirmed everything she had written. Special treatment confirmed. Records falsified. Serious lapses confirmed.

She was vindicated two years after they silenced her.

This was not the first time. In 18 years she was transferred 41 times. Every single time she touched something powerful people wanted left alone.

She never challenged a single transfer in court.

She said this.

Wherever I am posted I will do my duty with honesty. Once I move on I do not bother about what happens there.

41 transfers. Zero compromises.

Follow for real stories about people who chose truth over everything.

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name is U Sagayam.

He became District Collector of Namakkal in 2009.

The first thing he did was upload his personal assets on the district website.

Bank balance: Rs 7,172.

House in Madurai jointly owned with his wife: Rs 9 lakh.

That was everything he had after 18 years of government service.

He said this. The district collector should set an example of honesty for his subordinates.

He was the first IAS officer in Tamil Nadu to voluntarily publish his financial details.

In 2000 he found dirt floating in Pepsi bottles as Additional District Magistrate in Kanchipuram. He sealed the entire plant. Refused to back down despite pressure.

In 2004 he found restaurants in Chennai using subsidized domestic gas cylinders illegally. He confiscated 5,000 cylinders in three days.

In 2012 as District Collector of Madurai he investigated illegal granite quarrying. His report found losses to the state of at least Rs 16,000 crore. He named politicians and officials.

He was transferred four days after submitting the report.

That was transfer number 19.

In 2015 the High Court appointed him to probe a granite scam. He needed to exhume bodies as evidence. The police refused to help. He was worried evidence would be tampered with.

He spent the night alone in a graveyard.

In Namakkal 5,000 villagers once came out to protest when the government tried to transfer him. The transfer was withdrawn.

He was ultimately kept for six years in an insignificant post at Science City Chennai with nothing to do.

In 2021 he resigned voluntarily. Three years before retirement.

His office door had a sign throughout his entire career.

Reject bribes. Hold your head high.

His name is U Sagayam.

Follow for real stories about people who chose truth over everything.

[S K Mohanty @skm503]

@bpradhanodisha Benchmark rates should be close to the avg value of the land in a particular area. SD etc should be on the benchmark rate, not on the sale value. This will result in (1) higher tax collection (2) There would be no incentives for cash transactions.

[Shekar Iyer @SHEKARSUSHEEL]

I wonder if anyone has heard such an accurate depiction of human voice being played on an Instrument!
Really stunning as if the violin is singing the song.

This is Dr. Joby Mathew Vembala, who is Asst. Professor at SST College of Music, Thycaud, Trivandrum, Kerala.

[S K Mohanty @skm503]

@Outdoctrination How to get selenium in the form of nano particles. I assume selenium will come under nutraceuticals and will not require a prescription.

[S K Mohanty @skm503]

@RohitInExile @NonGuruu Dear friend, you said you shared the GPS coordinates. Did you share Google maps location and direction from a known point? Also please check satellite imagery in Google maps. The resolution is good enough to show houses. This may force the authorities to have a relook. 🙏

[Shikhar @shekhu04]

yesterday I visited the Harish-Chandra Research Institute in Prayagraj for some work. While I was there, someone casually mentioned the name Ashoke Sen

I had never heard of him before.
But the more I asked, the more I was stunned.

So I researched everything about him

here is what I found 👇

> he is a Indian Theoretical Physicist & String Theory Pioneer
> born in a middle-class family in Kolkata
> No elite background. No connections. Just pure brilliance
> studied at Presidency College, Kolkata
> moved to IIT Kanpur, then Stony Brook University, USA
> spent years on problems most physicists considered unsolvable
> colleagues doubted the relevance of String Theory
> governments didn't fund it. Industries ignored it still he didn't quit
> In 1994 he proposed S-duality a breakthrough that shook the world of physics
> changed how scientists understood the universe at its deepest level
> opened the door to the String Theory Revolution
> cracked the mystery of Black Hole Entropy using String Theory
> did what even Einstein couldn't fully do
> the world finally noticed
> In 2012, awarded the inaugural Fundamental Physics Prize 3 times bigger than Nobel Prize
> $3 Million (₹35–36 crore) the largest individual prize in science at the time
> chosen among the greatest minds on Earth
> never left India permanently. Chose to work from first Allahabad now Bangalore
> proved that world-changing science doesn't require Silicon Valley or Harvard
> became India's greatest living theoretical physicist

said "The best discoveries come not from chasing prizes, but from chasing truth."