Supten

Physician-health informatics educationist - Ex-Dean, IIHMR, Delhi - Formerly-Project Director, Centre for Health Informatics, National Health Portal, India

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#OpenGovDataHack Health Sectoral Panel Discussion

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Enjoyed the interactions thoroughly ☺️ https://t.co/BBzWmVVlV5

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Level up 🎉 I reached @localguides level 7 by helping others explore on Google Maps. #localguides

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Table behind seat #62 of C1 coach of now running 22322 Hool Express is repeatedly falling down over seat #67. @indianrail @EasternRailway @AshwiniVaishnaw

[Sudarsan Pattnaik @sudarsansand]

Blessings of Maa Saraswati 🙏
Courage of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose 🇮🇳
On this occasion, my sand art from Moradabad, 🙏

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.

I was reviewing their annual performance data.

"Show me," I said.

She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."

"What's her actual performance?" I asked.

"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."

"So why the low scores?"

"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."

I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."

"Let me talk to Diana," I said.

"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"

"What happened with the pricing?"

"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."

"What else?"

"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."

"Are you still giving feedback?"

"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."

"But nothing's actually improving?"

"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.

I went back to the boss.

"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."

"That's not true."

"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"

Silence.

"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"

More silence.

"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."

A few months later, they redesigned the system.

Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.

Diana got promoted.

"What changed?" I asked the boss.

"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."

"And?"

"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."

Here's the truth about performance reviews:

Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.

The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.

The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.

You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.

And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.

They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

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@metrorailwaykol why is the Amar Kolkata Metro app not working now? Error message: "We couldn't establish a secure connection. Please try again later."

[Surajit Dasgupta @surajitdasgupta]

Your comparison between the Holocaust and the Bengal Hindu genocide, @vivekagnihotri, is not just poignant but absolutely necessary in today's discourse. The stark differences you've highlighted—full acceptance versus large-scale denial, global condemnation versus victim demonisation, and a plethora of films versus none—expose a deep-seated bias in how history is remembered and taught. It's a powerful reminder that while the world rightly condemns the Nazi atrocities against Jews, the systematic violence against Bengal Hindus in 1946 has been conveniently sidelined, often euphemised as "exodus" or "migration" rather than the genocide it was. Kudos for using #TheBengalFiles to bring this uncomfortable truth to the forefront; your work is vital to rectifying this historical injustice.

What I find particularly intriguing is the elite's reception to your film—marked by surprise, shock, dismay, and outright rejection. Why the outrage when the violence perpetrated on Hindus during Direct Action Day is so well-documented in open, accessible sources like Wikipedia? The page on Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) details how the Muslim League's call for a general strike in Calcutta escalated into brutal communal riots, with targeted attacks on Hindu-majority areas such as Rajabazar, Kelabagan, College Street, Harrison Road, Colootola, and Burrabazar. Reports describe Muslim processions armed with iron bars and lathis turning violent post-rally, looting Hindu shops, and committing massacres like the one at Kesoram Cotton Mills in Lichubagan, where over 300 Oriya labourers (predominantly Hindus) were slaughtered. Casualty estimates range from 4,000 to 10,000 deaths overall, with contemporary accounts from figures like Frederick Burrows and later analyses by historians like Tanika Sarkar and Suranjan Das confirming the scale and the targeted nature of the assaults on Hindus.

This isn't hidden knowledge—it's cited from credible sources, including British reports, eyewitness testimonies, and scholarly works. So, why the feigned ignorance or dismissal? Are we witnessing an uneducated generation, one that's either unaware of these facts or selectively blind to them in favour of sanitised narratives? In an era of instant information, such reactions suggest a deeper issue: perhaps a reluctance to confront histories that challenge dominant ideologies or political conveniences. Your film isn't just cinema; it's an educational tool that forces us to reckon with these erased chapters, much like Schindler's List did for the Holocaust. Keep pushing boundaries—history demands it. #TheBengalFiles #DirectActionDay #BengalHinduGenocide

[ethan | building propscout. @ethanwillscout]

Patients were developing NAION.

(Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy).

Sudden, permanent vision loss. No warning. No pain.

Imagine waking up unable to see, with "a curtain falling" over your eyes.

But the worst part?

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https://t.co/IkNC2PFuCb Honoured to have completed 50+ reviews for JMIR.

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Excellent choice without an iota of doubt.

[Swapan Dasgupta @swapan55]

I am bewildered that some political pundits are complaining that the speeches of the new state BJP president @SamikBJP is replete with literary allusions. Actually, his speeches bring in a lot of history of modern Bengal. More important they provide BJP activists a sense of their party’s own history. Samik has been a dedicated party worker since the early-1980s. Predictably, like a lot of us who reposed our political future with the BJP, he was inspired by Atal Behari Vajpayee. This includes his mesmerising political oratory. With @SuvenduWB providing the agitational thrust, Samik’s appointment could help make the state BJP more rounded. Maybe, just maybe, a few deft moves could make the party more acceptable to the orphaned Bengali Bhadralok. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I have high expectations from the Samik-Suvendu synergy.

[I Love Siliguri @ILoveSiliguri]

#WestBengalDay Wishing everyone a very happy foundation day. On this day in 1947, the state of West Bengal was formed.

[Cine Verite Studio @Cine2verite]

#Teaser
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#SoumeekChowdhuri
#SilentExecution

[WBDF @Wbdf_official]

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Witnessing History in the Making! 🙏🏻

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An interesting discussion! 😊 https://t.co/sMDNlVJLdY

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@iKaran70 @surajitdasgupta Both 1 and 2.

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Honoured to have contributed! 😊

[Arti Agarwal @parantapah]

Seen too many ppl having a "problem" with Jewish community getting worldwide support and griping about Hindus not getting support & Hindus giving support to Jews. I did not think this needed a proper analysis, thought it was self evident. But the spate of tweets say otherwise. So here it is.

1. Hindus FAILED to talk about, document their own genocide for more than a century. I'm not going to sit and quibble over the reasons for this. This is the fact. The https://t.co/RiljdqOb1K project was born out of this very obvious need. But we are nowhere close to what is needed. If Hindus themselves cannot even do the most fundamental task of systematically putting together the data of their own genocide, the battle is lost even before it is fought. The world, and future generations of Hindus themselves will stay in the dark.

2. Due to (1), 90% of Hindus have no idea about the horrible atrocities faced by Hindus not just in the past, but in different countries/ places even NOW. Social media helps, but not a lot. We need info--not politicized news.

3. Due to (1) and (2), Hindus DO NOT speak up when Hindus in another part of the world face atrocities. If Hindus themselves do not speak up, please don't be naive and expect other communities to show support for you. It takes WORK. It takes money. It takes effort to gather support. Jews have done it for decades, painstakingly. We have not. We still don't. We would rather take selfies with ministers and senators then pressure them into making policies that uphold Hindu rights. We expect overnight miracles when something goes wrong and then we spend 2 weeks cribbing about it online. And then we forget about it. Ad infinitum.

4. Hindus carry a deep sense of SHAME in talking about their own genocide. This is a trans-generational trauma due to genocide over several generations and colonization. We feel STUPID talking about it because the society as a whole judges us for it and ostraicizes us for it. I have lost many friends/ acquaintances simply because I speak on this issue. ONLY because I speak. This is the case with most ppl who speak on this issue. It is a stigma. You are suddenly thought of as "aggressive" if you speak about how innocent teenage girls are raped in Pakistan or how temples are burnt in Bangladesh or how homes are torched in West Bengal.

5. The most outstanding part of Jewish community is that they disagree, criticize their governments for their policies, but when it comes to human rights of Jews, they expect every govt to deliver--right, left, whatever. And right & left BOTH support each other on this particular issue. Hindus on the other hand want to live like Modi fans and assume that if they are fans of PM Modi, everything is done and they will reach svarga after this life. In other words, they behave like SHEEP who are desperate to follow some shephard.

6. Jews didn't get this strong due to any one person's great leadership. They rally together and new leaders keep coming forward. They can THINK. They remember. The stories of not just the holocaust but their persecution in many other countries also live on in families for generations together. They are not waiting for a leader. They get their act together the moment it is needed.

7. Hindus showing support for Jews is neither bad nor surprising since we are two religious communities which let each other be and have done that since eternity. We don't impose our philosophy and we are not out there to convert others. It shows we have basic humanity and empathy for those being persecuted. It is a good thing. Hindus have the inherent ability to empathize and that is a GOOD thing. They just have so much self hatred that they often fail to empathize with their own. It is called self-discrimination. It is sad. But it is what I have seen repeatedly.

If Hindus can purge themselves of this self hatred, and stop trying to take silly short cuts to get popular on social media or their office or whatever, we can break the glass ceiling on this thing. We are some of the smartest people in every country. This should be a cakewalk. It is not because the smart people among Hindus do not have their hearts in the right place.

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@AnindyaSarbadh1 has published her article: The role of digital health in emergency medicine education : Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://t.co/UqpKbm7ml2