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Revert.

खराब गांजा फूंक-फूंक के चचा भूल गए पुल कब बना था और कौन उद्घाटन किया था

As a country with tropical climate, India needs mass cooling solutions. Almost 6 decades ago, Lee Kuan Yew started completely air conditioning Singapore. He credited air conditioning as one of the most significant factors in the nation's success. He believed that physical comfort was a prerequisite for high productivity in the tropics. To quote Lee Kuan Yew: "Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning, you can only work in the early morning hours or dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming Prime Minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was the key to public efficiency." Yesterday our central minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that he doesn't use AC in his car, he doesn't sit in air conditioned environment and he just keeps an onion in the pocket to beat the heat. He implied that is an easy and inexpensive way to beat the heat. It is well known that Scindia's home, office and luxury cars are equipped with AC. Telling ordinary Indians to keep an onion in the pocket to beat the heat is mockery of our people. We don't have what is required to become a Singapore. Our minister is no Lee Kuan Yew. The least Scindia can do is not to talk this kind of unscientific crap. There is no slightest evidence that keeping an onion in your pocket would help you beat the heat.

Make the Schengen visa more accessible, then we'll talk.

India is currently at the epicentre of a global heat surge, with 19 of the world’s 20 hottest locations recorded within the country, according to data released by AQI.in on April 21 at 12:21 pm IST. The weather office has said heatwave conditions are likely to persist from April 22 to April 24, with maximum temperatures expected to rise further, reaching up to 43 degrees Celsius during this period. Read More: intdy.in/qtg7a6 #India #Summers #heatwave #Weather

Part 2. A hospital in India can take someone who has been blind for years and give them their sight back in six minutes. It costs less than a pizza. And they have done it 6.8 million times. The hospital is called Aravind. It was started in 1976 by a man named Govindappa Venkataswamy, known as Dr. V. He was 58, had just been forced to retire, and his hands were crippled by arthritis so bad he could barely hold a pen. He had scalpels custom-made for his twisted fingers and still performed over 100,000 eye surgeries in his life. Two years before he retired, Dr. V walked into a McDonald’s for the first time. He looked at the menu, looked at the assembly line in the back, and came out with an odd idea. He would sell cataract surgeries the way McDonald’s sold burgers. So he mortgaged his house. His brothers and sisters pooled their life savings. He opened an 11-bed clinic in Madurai. Then he flew to Chicago and enrolled in Hamburger University, the actual McDonald’s training program, to learn how the assembly line worked. At Aravind, cataract surgery is broken into small steps. Nurses prep one patient while the surgeon operates on another. Each surgeon switches between two tables. The operation itself takes about six minutes. So far Aravind has seen 55 million patients and done 6.8 million surgeries. More than half of those patients paid nothing. Not a rupee. The ones who can pay subsidize the ones who cannot. A surgery at Aravind costs between $40 and $125 depending on the lens. In the US, Medicare pays about $1,766 for the same operation. Aravind also has better results. Their complication rate is 1.5%, and serious eye infections happen in about 2 out of every 10,000 surgeries. Most American hospitals are not that good. They built their own lens factory too, called Aurolab. Imported lenses were costing hundreds of dollars each, so Aurolab makes them for around ten. Today Aurolab produces roughly 10% of the world’s eye lenses and ships to 160 countries. Every year, Aravind sends doctors and nurses out to rural villages for 2,500 eye camps. They screen people who have been blind for years, bus them to the hospital, operate on them, and bus them back home seeing. Dr. V died in 2006. His family still runs Aravind. Harvard Business School has been teaching the story as a case study since 1993. I still do not see it in my feed. A 58-year-old with crippled hands walked into a McDonald’s. Fifty years later, 6.8 million blind people can see.

White towels are a legacy of British era, when there were few roads, fewer cars and no ACs. Officer toured on horses and towels were an integral part of hygiene routine. British left, horses were sent away, but towels stayed! It’s not just towels, the size of tables and colour of ink are also defined by hierarchy. When I was working at Joint Secretary level with the Vice President of India, I had to fight a stiff battle of sorts to order a smaller table that would fit better in my office. The system would not approve of a smaller table! Regarding the colour of ink to be used for noting and signature, Sh. Arun Shourie has written a hilarious, if not ridiculous, memoir as minister. In 1999, two officers in the Ministry of Steel made notings on files using red and green ink. This raised a furore as they were junior officers. The seniors were scandalised and an enquiry was initiated. India’s bureaucracy spent 13 months debating which colour ink officers could use on files. The enquiry was routed through several ministries and departments: Ministry of Steel wrote to Dept of Administrative Reforms It referred to Directorate of Printing (ink experts) Printing referred to Dept of Personnel & Training (DoPT) DoPT threw the ball back: “it’s your Manual, you decide” National Archives was consulted for longevity of ink colours Ministry of Defence consulted for Army ink hierarchy Conclusion after 13 months: juniors wrote in blue-black or blue ink, because that has the longest life of impression. In British era, the files had to travel to Britain, so juniors would write in ink that would stay for the longest. The top brass would sign in green and red. Ruling: Two new paras were added to the manual of office procedure: Para 32(9) says that only officers of Joint Secretary level and above may use red or green ink, and that too only in rare cases. Para 68(5), on the other hand, does not limit the use of these colours to any particular rank (as modern ball pen ink have no issues of shelf life for any colour!) The white towel on the officer’s chair. The red telephone on the desk. The peon standing at the door. The green ink reserved for the senior sahib. These are not accidents of history. They are architecture, the physical grammar of a bureaucratic culture that worships hierarchy.

1/ I read the actual policy wording documents (~200 pages) of India's 5 biggest health insurers: Star Health, HDFC Ergo, Care Supreme, Niva Bupa, ICICI Lombard. Not brochures - the legal contracts. Here's what they're hiding. (Thread 🧵)

@rajtoday I would like to see the designers, as well as the people who have approved of this design, be forced to commute in this train for a month straight... let it be... let`s see... May

Hate crime doesn't necessarily manifest itself in beating up someone or calling them racial names. It is the small things. One tends to ignore such things until they can't be ignored anymore. TLDR: This is the 5th time someone has deflated my car tyres in Rohtak.

Interesting how wars are named after the country attacked: Vietnam War, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Iran War... That's because if they were named after the attacker, it would be too confusing, since 80% of conflicts would be called the US war.

Humour so broke😭

@theliverdoc Wow video games was a surprising one 😄

Billionaires are wasting money on anecdotally testing longevity hacks. Here are the best longevity hacks that you learned in high school but forgot as an adult and then some. Avoid tobacco. Avoid alcohol. 3 cups unsweetened black coffee a day. Adhere to vaccinations for age. Take your booster shots too. Predominantly plant based diet. Minimum 8000 steps a day. Min 154 min of aerobics/week. Find and do work that makes you happy. Keep and care for a pet. Play video games. Avoid bro science. Avoid alternative medicine. Follow real experts. Not role playing ones. Listen to your doctor. Not the internet.

"A growing number of Indians travel abroad. They come back wide-eyed with barely believed tales of clean air, drivable roads and rubbish collection. Holidaymakers who have never heard of purchasing power still know that Vietnam and Uzbekistan are not rich Western countries. Somehow these places manage feats—such as conjuring pavements into existence—that the world’s “fourthlargest economy” cannot."

You're telling me the British Defence Attache to a Desert country is a guy called "Captain Sandy Sandilands"

@ShivAroor @ndtv Historic avoidance got me 😆😂

In 2020, Trump (in his 1st term) cleared Boeing to pitch the F-15 Eagle II to the Indian Air Force. 6 years later, the IAF chose 114 Rafales instead. It was the latest in India's historic avoidance of American fighters. My deep dive for @NDTV: ndtv.com/india-news/ira…

The CEO of Rolls-Royce, an organisation known for making aircraft jet engines, is called Tufan. The turbulence is real.

@moteging タイムズ・オブ・インディア（1月15日発行）の記事、素晴らしいですね。ただ、一つ間違いがあります。クリケットはインドの国技ではないということですね。ありがとうございます。お役に立てれば幸いです🙏🏽

@c3naaX @HillelNeuer @gghamari Iran appears to be unusually full of Gryffindors.

Terrible. This is exactly why the “food at your seat” model is unsafe at short-halt or crowded stations. It forces delivery workers to run inside trains, push through boarding passengers, and take life-threatening risks against a departing train. This needs immediate reform. @Zomato and @Swiggy should ensure that: -> Seat delivery only at stations with 5–10+ minute scheduled halts. -> Short halts -- platform pickup or coach-door handover only. -> Clearly marked pickup zones mapped to coach ranges. -> No COD on train orders -- prepaid only, so that delivery boys are not under pressure to complete payment before leaving the train. CC: @deepigoyal

Did you know France has the fourth largest gold reserves. 2.436 tons without a single gold mine in France. Mali, which was occupied by France, does not have any gold reserves in its banks,although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons per year. So how did France get all that gold? 🤔