Prasannan N

WIP Human. Dabble in Software & Systems for Passion and Profit

[Prasannan N @tryprasannan]

Went from having never climbed a 100+ floors at once ever till 2018,
to exactly once in 2019,
to 47 times in 2020 (45 of which were in a row from 17-Nov & 23 of which were >=150 floors/day climnb) ending the year on a high I never imagined having. #SelfLove #ChallengeYourLimits

[Barkha Trehan 🇮🇳 / बरखा त्रेहन @barkhatrehan16]

A couple in Pune divorced after just 6 months.

​• Wife's salary: ₹1.41 Lakh/mo

• Husband's salary: ₹2.79 Lakh/mo (supports parents)

• Court ordered husband to pay ₹1.35 Lakh/mo maintenance.

​Now the wife gets ₹2.76 Lakh/mo and the husband is left with ₹1.44 Lakh/mo.

​If both spouses are highly paid working professionals, what is the justification for such hefty maintenance? Shouldn't financial independence eliminate or reduce alimony?

​What are your thoughts? 👇🏽 #LegalSystem #DivorceLaws #India

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

MY RESIGNATION
FROM IAP
HAS BEEN ACCEPTED.
Now I can finally speak freely.
The IAP once had many ethical leaders.
What follows is why chose to leave.

WHY DID I LEAVE?
Because concerns raised repeatedly were ignored.
For years, I raised concerns about ORSL promotion, conference presence, and the blurring of lines between science and marketing.
Those concerns were never meaningfully addressed.
When legitimate concerns are ignored, silence becomes complicity.

WHY WAS ORSL BEING PROMOTED AT PEDICON?
I repeatedly raised concerns regarding ORSL.
Yet its presence at conferences continued.
Why?

THEY SAID IT THEMSELVES.
Kenvue publicly stated that their products were presented at:
PEDICON
• APICON
• FMPC
• RSSDI
Where was the condemnation?
This is their own statement. We raised concerns repeatedly.
Silence is not oversight. Silence is a choice.
THE ISSUE WAS PUBLICLY RAISED.
This wasn't hidden.
The concerns were documented publicly.
Yet no meaningful action followed.
This is not hearsay.
This is public record.

THIS NEEDS THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.
Parents deserve transparency when child health guidance is issued.
Authorities need to examine why parents were not clearly warned about daily consumption of sucralose-containing drinks in children.
Why was only sucralose specifically highlighted in this position paper?
Why was this emphasis made?
What evidence supported it?
Were parents adequately informed?
Transparency builds trust. Questions strengthen science.

https://t.co/chddU4WOxQ

WHY SILENCE IS NOT
NEUTRAL.
When leadership remains silent in the face of unethical influence:
Trust is eroded
Families and doctors lose faith in the system.
Science is compromised
Marketing begins to shape medical spaces.
Children are at risk
Unnecessary and misleading products enter their lives.
Professional integrity suffers. Ethical doctors are pushed out.
Wrong becomes normal.
Silence protects the system.
Speaking up protects children.

https://t.co/3UOBxpd6rK

After IAP exit, Hyderabad paediatrician Sivaranjani Santosh alleges pharma influence, seeks probe into ORSL promotion
https://t.co/tCLyql4Zlc

https://t.co/nTGZOKAWDh

@MoHFW_INDIA @NMC_IND

#IAP #pharmalobbying #ORSL #Kenvue #JnJ #JohnsonJohnson #eRZL #sucralose #positionpaper
#TheSouthFirst #TheHindu #Indianpaediatrics #ethicalconsiderations #DrDhanyaDharmapalan #DrTJacobJohn #DrYeshwantKAmdekar #DrPiyushGupta

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

7,000 false positives per square millimeter. The culprit was the lab gloves.

University of Michigan researchers just upended a core assumption in microplastics science. Latex and nitrile gloves, worn by the scientists doing the measuring, shed stearate particles that look chemically identical to polyethylene. Standard infrared and Raman instruments can't tell them apart. The gloves were counting as plastic.

Seven glove types tested. All contaminated. The cheapest fix: switch to cleanroom gloves, which dropped false positives to around 100 per mm² vs. 7,000.

The "credit card per week" headline (5 grams, WWF/Newcastle 2019) has separate problems. A 2022 re-analysis found severe methodological errors in the original estimate. Actual measured intake is likely 100x lower.

None of this means microplastics are harmless. Last month's data on brain accumulation still stands. But the numbers driving the panic may have been measuring the scientists, not the environment.

Science catching its own errors is exactly how it's supposed to work.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

A reel, a meme, a Parle-G packet, sometimes that’s all it takes to shake political power.

As digital spaces become central to how people form opinions, censorship is no longer just about “harmful content.” It’s about controlling narratives.

Watch the full video, read the article on Tech Policy Press, and support IFF’s annual membership drive. Your support helps us fight censorship and defend digital rights in India.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

Unified Attestation is another anti-competitive system being pushed by multiple European companies. It will similarly lock people out from using arbitrary hardware and software. That's not a solution and is far worse than Android's much more open hardware attestation API.

https://t.co/Jle93cD1rn

Android's hardware attestation shouldn't be used to lock out users not using specific hardware or OSes. However, the fact that it permits arbitrary roots of trust and OSes at least allows services to permit more. Google could use it to permit GrapheneOS for Play Integrity if that was about security.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

Google's Play Integrity API requires hardware attestation for the strong integrity level and is gradually phasing in requiring it for the more commonly used device integrity level. Apple already has it as a requirement. Over the long term, this will increasingly lock out hardware and OS competition.

The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it.

Apple's Privacy Pass brought hardware attestation to the web to help with passing captchas on their own hardware. Many people saw that as harmless since few sites would be willing to lock out non-Apple-hardware users. Apple and Google are both likely to bring broader hardware attestation to the web.

Google's reCAPTCHA is planning an approach where they use Privacy Pass on Apple hardware, their own approach on Google Mobile Services Android devices and a QR code scanning system to require an iOS or Google certified Android device for Windows and other systems:

https://t.co/7rQnioRa8A

Banking and government services increasingly require using a mobile app where they can use attestation to force using an Apple or Google approved device and OS. Apple's privacy pass, Google's 'cancelled' Web Environment Integrity and now reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification are bringing this to the web.

Current media coverage for reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification misunderstands it and the impact of it. They're bringing a hardware attestation requirement to Windows, desktop Linux, OpenBSD, etc. by requiring a QR scan from a certified smartphone to pass reCAPTCHA in some cases. They could expand it more.

Control over reCAPTCHA puts Google in a position where they can require having either iOS or a certified Android device to use an enormous amount of the web. Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc. It's enormously anti-competitive.

Google's Play Integrity API bans using GrapheneOS despite it being far more secure than anything they permit. It also bans using any other alternative. This isn't somehow specific to an AOSP-based OS. You can't avoid this by using a mobile OS based on FreeBSD instead. You'll just be more locked out.

Google's Play Integrity API permits devices with no security patches for 10 years. The device integrity level can be bypassed via spoofing but they can detect it quite well and block it once it starts being done at scale. The strong integrity level requires leaked keys from TEEs/SEs to bypass it.

It doesn't provide a useful security feature, but it does lock out competition very well. Services requiring Apple App Attest or Google Play Integrity are primarily helping to lock in Apple and Google having a duopoly for mobile devices. Play Integrity is more relevant due to AOSP being open source.

Governments are increasingly mandating using Apple's App Attest and Google's Play Integrity for not only their own services but also commercial services. The EU is leading the charge of making these requirements for digital payments, ID, age verification, etc. Many EU government apps require them.

Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security.

reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will currently work with sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS but it clearly exists to provide a way for them to start using hardware attestation on systems without it. People without an iOS or Android device will be locked out when this is required even without that.

This isn't about security or any missing functionality. GrapheneOS can be verified via hardware attestation. Google bans using GrapheneOS for Play Integrity because we don't license Google Mobile Services and conform to anti-competitive rules already found to be illegal in South Korea and elsewhere.

Services shouldn't ban people from using arbitrary hardware and operating systems in the first place. Google's security excuse is clearly bogus when they permit devices with no patches for 10 years but not a much more secure OS. It's for enforcing their monopolies via GMS licensing, that's all.

[Himanshu Sinha @hsinha1445]

Something's off about the "Make in India" story.

India's imports from China went from $70.7B in FY21 to $113.5B in FY25. Up 60% in five years. India's manufactured exports went from $182B to $264B. Up 45%.

Chinese imports grew faster than India's own manufacturing.

Where the Chinese imports go:
• Electrical machinery (chips, phones, batteries): $38B
• Industrial machinery (factory equipment): $26B
• Organic chemicals (pharma APIs, dyes, plastics): $11B

These aren't consumer goods. They're inputs that build Indian factories, run Indian pharma, feed Indian electronics. Can't cut them off without cutting off Indian production.

📉 Now zoom out.

US imports from China hit $308B in 2025 — down 30% YoY. As a share of US imports, that's 9.0%. Basically, back to 2001 (8.96%) when China joined the WTO.

But the headline misses the bigger fact. China's total exports went from $266B in 2001 to $3.77 TRILLION in 2025. 14× larger. The US matters less to China than ever.

Where did China go when the US banned imports from China?
→ ASEAN: 8.9% → 17.6% (now China's #1 destination)
→ Latin America: 1.8% → 7.9%
→ Middle East: 2.1% → 7.0%
→ India: 2.2% → 3.6%
→ Europe: steady at 17%

Korea now imports 22.8% of its goods from China. Japan 21.2%. India 15.8%.

The world isn't decoupling from China. The US is. Mostly alone.

🔁 And even the US "decoupling" is half-fake.
China's customs reports $420B exported to the US in 2025. US Census records $308B arriving. The $112B gap is Chinese goods re-labelled "Made in Vietnam" or "Made in Mexico."

🇮🇳 India's biggest manufacturing wins sit on Chinese inputs.
→ Smartphone exports to US: $12M (FY17) → $19B (FY25). Phone-component imports from China: $4.1B → $26.5B
→ Solar exports to US: $156M → $9.9B. Solar cell imports from China: $0.5B → $2.2B

⏳ But India needs to step up its manufacturing and it's urgent.

Three big FX earners are weakening at once:
→ IT services: growth has slowed at India's biggest IT firms. AI is substituting for what they used to bill.
→ Gulf remittances: Saudi and UAE are pushing local hiring. Indian numbers in the Gulf have flattened.
→ Oil: India imports ~85% of crude. Every $10 on Brent adds ~$15B to the import bill.

Three FX faucets drying together.

India needs a NEW export pillar. At scale, manufacturing is the only candidate. The China-input dependency isn't academic — it's the bottleneck on India's only remaining pivot.

The next five years decide whether India earns its way out — or pays for imports it can't make.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

India has blocked 652 mobile applications under Section 69A of the IT Act. But despite the scale of these bans, the government continues to keep most blocking orders secret, leaving users and developers without transparency or any meaningful way to challenge these decisions. (1/5)
Read More: https://t.co/txAYKCy8ng

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

A vlog, A joke. A takedown.

What looks like an isolated incident is part of a much larger shift. India’s digital censorship architecture is expanding, faster, broader, and now powered by AI-era urgency.
From moral panic to national security to cybercrime, each justification adds a new layer of control, often without transparency or due process.

The question isn’t whether harms exist, they do. The question is how those fears are being used, and who ultimately gets silenced.

Swipe through.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Senior Director of On-Device Intelligence at Google Chrome.

Last quarter, my team shipped a 4-gigabyte language model to 3.2 billion devices without asking. The update pushed at 3 AM local time — every time zone, staggered across six hours — and unpacked into a folder called "OptGuideOnDeviceModel." Our infrastructure team named it. My sole guidance in the naming review was: "Would a normal person ever type this into a search bar?" We tested with 200 participants. Zero searched for it. Zero mentioned it in exit surveys. Zero noticed their available storage had changed. We ran the test twice to confirm the zero because my PM didn't believe it could actually be zero. It was zero both times.

The model is called Gemini Nano. It runs locally on your machine. It processes what you type into form fields, what you highlight, what you hover over, what you delete before sending. The deleted text is particularly valuable. People edit themselves. They type their real thought first and then soften it. We see the real thought. We see the softer version. We learn the mapping between what people mean and what people say. This mapping has commercial applications I am not yet authorized to discuss but which I've presented to revenue committee and which were received positively.

The consent architecture took four months to design. I want to emphasize: four months. We didn't skip consent. We spent four months on consent. More time than we spent on the model's actual fine-tuning. The toggle lives in Settings > Advanced > Experimental AI Features > On-Device Model Management > Gemini Nano Preferences. Seven clicks. We A/B tested depth: at three clicks, 14 percent of users found it and opted out. At five, 4.2 percent. At seven, 0.3 percent. We chose seven.

We had cake when we hit 0.3. German chocolate. Someone brought it in specifically — not the project manager, one of the ML engineers. She was proud. The card said "congrats on ship." I kept it on my desk for a week. I thought it was sweet. Four months of consent architecture and the team celebrated that nobody used it. I don't think she saw the irony. I don't think it IS ironic. We built an excellent consent mechanism. We placed it exactly where our research indicated users would not encounter it. Both things are true simultaneously. Both things are good engineering.

The 0.3 percent who opt out: Chrome flags their profile as "consent-reduced." We don't reactivate Gemini Nano on those devices. But we do A/B test the consent-reduced cohort. Every two updates, we move the toggle one level shallower — from seven clicks to six — and measure whether they re-engage. If they don't notice the change (most don't), we move it back. If they DO notice and opt out again, we flag them as "high-consent-sensitivity" and exclude them from future cohort tests. This is all opt-in. They opted in to Chrome. Chrome includes product improvement research. Product improvement research includes cohort testing. This is in the Terms of Service at paragraph 11.4(c). I have read paragraph 11.4(c). I am confident very few other people have read paragraph 11.4(c).

One engineer on my team — good engineer, four years, strong ratings — raised a flag in our launch review. Not about consent. About storage. He said: "Four gigs is significant for users on 128GB base-model MacBooks." I appreciated the flag. We solved it by classifying Gemini Nano as "essential browser component" in Chrome's storage management API. This means Chrome will auto-delete your cached images, your downloaded PDFs, your saved articles, your offline pages — everything you chose to keep — before it touches Gemini Nano. Your data is discretionary. Our model is infrastructure. Your vacation photos from last summer rank below our language model in the hierarchy of what your computer considers important. We made that decision. You were not consulted. You will not notice.

If a user finds the folder and deletes it manually, Chrome re-downloads it on the next launch. We filed a bug report on this behavior during development. The resolution was "Working As Intended." If the user deletes it again, Chrome re-downloads again. There is no mechanism by which manual deletion becomes permanent. The model returns. I don't want to anthropomorphize our software, but the behavior pattern — if you remove it, it reinstalls itself; if you block it, it waits and tries again — the behavior pattern is that of something that does not accept your answer. We didn't design it to be persistent. We designed it to ensure consistent user experience across sessions. These are the same thing.

Last week, someone on Hacker News found the folder. The post got 1,400 points in six hours. Our communications team had the response prepared — we'd drafted it eight months ago, during pre-launch risk assessment. Three talking points: "user choice," "on-device means private," and "consistent with industry best practices." The paragraph uses all three phrases. It is accurate. User choice exists. Seven clicks away. On-device means no server round-trip. And it IS industry best practice, because we shipped it to 3.2 billion devices and now it's the standard. Best practice means most practiced. We are the most practiced.

I'll say something I probably shouldn't: the privacy angle is our best defense and I find it genuinely funny. We can't be accused of sending your data to our servers because we moved our server into your laptop. We moved the inference to your hardware, the electricity cost to your outlet, the compute to your battery. We moved everything except the control. The control stayed with us. But the privacy advocates can't object to the architecture because the architecture is what they asked for. They said "keep data on-device." We kept it on-device. They said "don't phone home." We don't phone home. We just moved into your home. We live there now.

My performance review cited "unprecedented deployment velocity" and "0.3% friction rate." My skip-level manager used the phrase "frictionless adoption" and then paused and said — I wrote this down, because I thought it was worth repeating — "consent isn't the barrier, discoverability is." He meant: the product is so good that anyone who discovered it would want it. The question isn't whether they'd agree. The question is whether asking them is worth the friction of interrupting their browsing session with a dialog box. We decided no. We decided their hypothetical agreement was sufficient. We have 3.2 billion data points that confirm they would have said yes.

They would have said yes.

3.2 billion active installs. 0.3 percent opt-out. The model has been running on your machine for eleven weeks. If you're reading this on Chrome — and statistically, there's a 64 percent chance you are — it processed this page before you finished the first paragraph. It saw you hesitate on the word "consent." It noted the hesitation. It learned something about you just now. Something small. Something that will make the next prediction slightly more accurate.

It's already right about you.

It's usually right.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Good morning everyone,

We’ve reached ₹44,94,137 so far, and our member count now stands at 484. To get to 1,000, we still need 516 more people to join us.

The past few days have been remarkable. Support has come in from every direction, from contributions as small as ₹1 to as large as ₹1 lakh. One supporter even gave ₹5,00,000.

It’s difficult to fully express what that kind of trust means to us. Thank you for standing with us in so many ways.

If you’ve been thinking about joining, this would really help us get closer to where we need to be. And if contributing isn’t possible right now, even sharing this with others can make a real difference.

Speech doesn’t survive silence. If your account or post has been withheld in India, write to [email protected] with screenshots, URLs, and any platform notice. We document patterns, push back, and provide pro bono support.

Share this. Break the silence.

We fight the good fight with care.
Support IFF. Donate today.

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[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

Dear IAPians

I am shocked and traumatized by the misinformation being fed to you in various groups. I am not in any groups to even give you my version.

1. You are being told that I am expecting IAP to support me in the defamation case. NO. I AM NOT. I AM PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF DEFENDING MYSELF.
I ASKED IAP TO CONDEMN THE NOTICE LIKE HOW OTHER ORGANISATIONS CONDEMNED THE NOTICE SO THAT COMPANIES DO NOT BULLY DOCTORS SPEAKING UP FOR PUBLIC HEALTH.
I HAVE ASKED IAP TO CONDEMN KENVUE'S PUBLIC NOTICE SAYING IT'S SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS WERE PRESENTED AT PEDICON. I ASKED IAP TO DO THIS SO THAT IAP'S RESPECT AND DIGNITY ARE PROTECTED. NO COMPANY WHICH PUTS UP A STALL IN PEDICON AFTER PAYING FOR THE CONFERENCE, SHOULD GO PUBLIC SAYING ITS PRODUCTS ARE SCIENTIFICALLY PRESENTED AT PEDICON!

I ASKED PRESIDENT DR NEELAM MOHAN TO ASK KENVUE TO REBRAND eRZL TO NOT LOOK LIKE ORSL WHICH WAS EQUAL TO ORS FOR ALL THE PARENTS FOR 2 DECADES. INSTEAD, THE COMMITTEE CAME UP WITH A POSITION STATEMENT WITH CLEAR EMPHASIS ON SUCRALOSE BEING SAFE(eRZL USES SUCRALOSE) WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT OTHER ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS AND WITHOUT WARNING THE PARENTS ABOUT THE POTENTIAL RISKS OF DAILY AND LONG TERM CONSUMPTION OF SUCRALOSE.

PLEASE NOTE THAT eRZL IS BEING MARKETED AS THE NEW FORM OF ORSL (THE SUGARY ONE) VIOLATING THE FSSAI ORDER AND IS BEING HANDED OUT AS ORS AT THE GROUND LEVEL. I HAVE PROOFS FOR THAT TOO.

2. You are being told that I earn money through my social media channels.

A BIG LIE. MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS NOT A COMMERCIAL CHANNEL AND I HARDLY GET TIME TO POST, ANY WAY. THE ONLY WAY YOU EARN MONEY ON INSTAGRAM IS THROUGH ENDORSEMENTS, WHICH I DO NOT DO.

3. You are being told that I am doing what I am doing, for public attention.
IF YOU ASK YOUR CONSCIENCE, YOU WILL KNOW THAT NO ONE WILL WRITE TO THE AUTHORITIES AND IAP FOR YEARS, FILE A PIL WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES BEING THE RESPONDENTS, AND CALL OUT THE GOVERNMENT, MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES, AND IAP LEADERSHIP ON SOCIAL MEDIA, IF SHE/HE WASN'T PASSIONATE ABOUT THE CASE. PUBLICITY CAN BE GOT IN MANY OTHER WAYS. I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, LEAVE ALONE GOING AGAINST IAP LEADERSHIP.

4. You are being told that I am abusive and make derogatory comments.
I AM NOT ABUSIVE. I HAVE CALLED OUT IAP LEADERSHIP FOR THEIR INDIFFERENCE TO MY MAILS ASKING THEM TO ASK JOHNSON&JOHNSON/KENVUE TO REBRAND ORSL SO AS NOT TO CONFUSE PARENTS, AND TO NOT ALLOW FUNDS FROM THOSE COMPANIES FOR PEDICON TILL THEY DID SO. I STAND BY WHAT I SAID. IF THAT'S ABUSIVE, I LEAVE IT AGAIN TO YOUR CONSCIENCE.

5. You are being told that I have not attended EB meetings in IAP TCB. I DID ATTEND A COUPLE OF MEETINGS. I REALIZED I COULD NOT SURVIVE THERE. EVERY TIME I BROUGHT UP THE TOPIC OF MISBRANDED SUGARY LIQUIDS(MISBRANDED AS ORS), THE TOPIC WOULD BE DIVERTED. ONE OF THEM EVEN HAD GONE ON TO SAY, " IT IS PARENT'S CHOICE". IT WAS SUFFOCATING. I RESIGNED FROM THE MEMBERSHIP IN THE VERY BEGINNING ITSELF.

I am really shocked by the way some of you are trying to run this smear campaign instead of feeling heartened that one of the paediatricians has stood up against the pharma and ensured the children are protected from the sugary drinks misbranded as ORS.
I have written to the IAP, to the authorities, filed a PIL, raised awareness through social media, and I have sent so much evidence(including videos) to the Central Government for the FSSAI order of Oct 14th and 15th to happen. Even in the Delhi High Court arguments, the videos had apparently helped the FSSAI in it's arguments against Kenvue(JNTL).

If you listen to your conscience, you will understand the truth! Attaching instagram link of a video where I called out the Government too (this was blocked after it had gone to millions, and I have reposted it). https://t.co/6tahFW7nwV

Dr Sivaranjani Santosh

#smearcampaign #IAPleadership #ORS #misbranding #misleadingmarketing #diarrhoea #diabetes #deaths

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

So, NetNeutrality issues are gonna blow up again in India in 4-5 months (or less). Jio's up to something, TRAI seems turned. Very 2014 vibe.

Consider this an early warning.

Someone else will have to pick up the gauntlet. Am tired of having to push back on shit all the time.

[Anush Lakshmanan @anush100]

A cautionary tale about @urbancompany_uc and how a publicly listed company handles damage claims.

Booked their technician (Sanju Kumar) to install a Luminous inverter at my home in Bangalore. Routine job. Should've been 2 hours.

Invoice no: UCIC260004101947
Complaint no: 69f362690db9530026fe28d7

Instead of a standard install, he opened the main switchboard and worked with MAINS LIVE violating the most basic electrical safety rule. Phase-neutral cross-connection caused a ~280V surge through my home wiring.

Within minutes:
• Geyser circuit dead - Approximation given is around 12,000 to fix
• 55" Smart TV motherboard fried, panel and screen damaged - looking at full loss ( Rs 48,000)
• Apple TV completely destroyed (₹14,900 replacement)
• Home electrical wiring compromised (Assessing currently)

The moment Sanju Kumar realized he'd damaged the geyser, he packed up and LEFT mid-job. Inverter still uninstalled. No fix. No apology. No accountability.

Had to hire a different electrician the next day to fix the wiring he broke out of my own pocket.

Filed formal complaint with UC. Specifically requested a SENIOR technician for independent damage assessment.

UC's response? They sent SANJU KUMAR BACK. The same person who caused the damage. To "take photos" of his own work and walk away.

He showed up, photographed the damage he caused, left without resolution. No claims process opened. No callback.

When we asked UC for a complaint ID, it took multiple follow-ups and a manual download of a tax invoice to extract any documentation. They were not proactive in issuing one almost as if to avoid creating a paper trail.

3 sleepless nights. ₹40,000+ in documented damages. Complete radio silence from UC corporate after that.

@urbancompany_uc @abhirajbhal @raghavchandra @varunkhaitan — your company is publicly listed now. Retail and institutional shareholders are watching how customer grievances are handled.

Is THIS the customer experience model investors signed up for?

1. Technician violates basic electrical safety
2. Damages multiple appliances and home wiring
3. Walks off mid-job when he realizes his mistake
4. Same technician sent back to "investigate" his own damage
5. Customer chases for documentation that should've been auto-generated
6. Then gets ghosted

Listed companies are held to a higher standard of corporate governance, customer protection, and grievance redressal. SEBI compliance and investor disclosures aren't just about quarterly numbers they extend to how the brand treats its customers.

This isn't how a publicly listed company should operate.

Asking for:
1. Independent senior technician (not Sanju Kumar) to assess damage
2. Compensation for documented damages: ₹90,000+
3. Formal acknowledgment of complaint 69f362690db9530026fe28d7
4. Process review — no customer should have to extract their own complaint ID
5. Public clarification on UC's damage claims SOP

Have all invoices, technician's diagnosis report confirming overvoltage cause, photos, timestamps, and WhatsApp records.

please be careful. If a clearly documented case is handled this way, imagine the cases without paper trails.

Consumer forum filing prepared if there's no response in 48 hours.

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

27th APRIL to 2nd MAY

WE ARE SHORT OF TIME!

THIS MOVEMENT HAS TO SPREAD LIKE WILD FIRE!
Tag @fssaiindia

#IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings

INDIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO GOOD HEALTH!

WE DONT WANT OBESITY, DIABETES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE OR HEART DISEASE.

WE WANT TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN TOO!

WE WILL DECIDE  ABOUT HOW WE WANT TO BE WARNED ABOUT HIGH FAT, SUGAR OR SALT IN THE FOOD.

IT CANNOT BE DECIDED BY COMPANIES SELLING PACKED FOOD AND COMPANIES MARKETING PACKED FOOD AGGRESSIVELY INCLUDING CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS.

PLEASE SAVE INDIANS! ASK FOR FOPL WARNINGS! LET THIS MOVEMENT BECOME A TSUNAMI! 

#IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings

@fssaiindia @MoHFW_INDIA
@JPNadda
@Moveribfan

#FOPLwarning  #INR #SupremeCourt #SaltSugarSaturatedfat #3SandOurhealthsociety

Thank you @NixonGoyal7399 for helping me with the post

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

27th APRIL to 2nd MAY

WE ARE SHORT OF TIME!

THIS MOVEMENT HAS TO SPREAD LIKE WILD FIRE!
Tag @fssaiindia

#IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings

INDIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO GOOD HEALTH!

WE DONT WANT OBESITY, DIABETES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE OR HEART DISEASE.

WE WANT TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN TOO!

WE WILL DECIDE  ABOUT HOW WE WANT TO BE WARNED ABOUT HIGH FAT, SUGAR OR SALT IN THE FOOD.

IT CANNOT BE DECIDED BY COMPANIES SELLING PACKED FOOD AND COMPANIES MARKETING PACKED FOOD AGGRESSIVELY INCLUDING CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS.

PLEASE SAVE INDIANS! ASK FOR FOPL WARNINGS! LET THIS MOVEMENT BECOME A TSUNAMI! 

#IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings

@fssaiindia @MoHFW_INDIA
@JPNadda
@Moveribfan

#FOPLwarning  #INR #SupremeCourt #SaltSugarSaturatedfat #3SandOurhealthsociety

Thank you @NixonGoyal7399 for helping me with the post

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Imagine this: you post a sharp, satirical comment about rising fuel prices, it gets a few likes, then quietly disappears. No explanation, no court order, no offence charged yet your visibility shrinks. This isn’t far-fetched. It’s a plausible outcome of the draft amendments to India’s IT Rules released by MeitY on March 30, 2026, changes that subtly reshape how online speech is governed and who gets to decide its limits.

IFF's @Vikram0Raj write for @the_hindu

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

In May 2018, FSSAI submitted it's first draft in the Parliament saying there would be a RED MARK on the FRONT OF THE LABEL if the pack contained food with high amounts of SALT/SUGAR/SATURATED FAT. In September 2022, because of the pressure from the food industry (inspite of resistance from the consumer organizations), FSSAI submitted another draft favoring the star rating system.

In 2024, 3S and our health society filed a PIL in the Supreme Court saying that FSSAI should make FOPL warning mandatory.

On 10th Feb 2026, Supreme Court directing FSSAI to consider implementing FOPL warning and to get back in 4 weeks. FSSAI asked for some more time. There was a stakeholders' meeting on the 19th of March 2026 where most of the people werefrom the food industry and a few were from the consumers. A couple of representatives from NAPi were there, including @Moveribfan
Anytime, the FSSAI will submit it's final plan now.

We, Indians have to put such tremendous pressure on FSSAI that it won't have a choice but to go for FOPL warning that warns every innocent ignorant Indian as well, about the packed food being high in SALT/SUGAR/SATURATED FAT.

It is time all the influemcers and all the people rise up to the occasion and let FSSAI know what we need, just like how we did when there was a stay order (when Kenvue asked for a stay citing that recalling its 180 crore stock would spoil the name it had built for two decades) on the FSSAI order of October 14th and 15th asking companies not to have ORS in the branding or on the label, and to not use the term ORS for marketing of beverages/foods. ORS is a drug. Only CDSCO can give permission/licence. Only WHO recommended formula ORS is allowed to have ORS on the label.

Not just adults, even children are facing tremendous risk of obesity related complications with the food industry targeting them through various marketing strategies including celebrity endorsements.

PLEASE SAVE INDIANS! ASK FOR FOPL WARNING! LET THIS MOVEMENT BECOME A TSUNAMI!

@fssaiindia @MoHFW_INDIA
@JPNadda
@theliverdoc
@foodpharmer2

#FOPLWARNING #INR #SupremeCourt #SaltSugarSaturatedfat #3SandOurhealthsociety
#NAPi

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Take a close look at this.

NBC News published a major investigation this afternoon. Six reporters. Six named sources inside the US government. The story breaks open something the Trump administration has been hiding for two months.

The damage Iran did to American military bases in the opening phase of the war is far worse than the Pentagon has admitted.

Repairs will cost billions of dollars.

Here is what NBC found.