Anirban Palit

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Honoured and Grateful to receive the @Infy_Foundation Aarohan Award'25 from @SmtSudhaMurty, a true champion for Cervical Cancer awareness. 🌟 The journey for impact-led health startups is tough - your support keeps us going. Order a CERVICHECK kit today. 💙

I spent 1 month studying Hinduism. It inspired me. This is month 2 of my 6-month Spirituality Challenge. And this time, I went deep into Hinduism. Thank you Bhavesh and Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for making me feel so welcome into this new world. See you next month for a controversial video about...ATHEISM!

"We pushed them (India) closer to soviet union by going to China, Pakistan in 1970s, it changed with Prez Clinton, Bush..", US ambassador Garcetti explains the evolution of India US ties; says,'India sees itself as equal..' Ctsy: Council of Foreign Relations

On @Linkedin, @Microsoft and their wokeness. As an Indian institution, Ola is for genuine actions on diversity. We run one of the largest women only automotive plants. Not 1 out of 10 lines, or a small section, but the whole plant! Almost 5000 women now and will grow to tens of thousands in the coming years. And regarding gender inclusivity, we don’t need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive. Our culture didn’t need pronouns to be inclusive for thousands of years. On a personal note, I had visited Ayodhya last year and learnt about how transgenders had been accorded special respect in our culture from ancient times! Here’s a short video from our national broadcaster DD on this - youtube.com/watch?v=goDQFI…. On the other hand, the pronouns issue I wrote about is a woke political ideology of entitlement which doesn’t belong in India. I wouldn’t have waded into this debate but clearly Linkedin has presumed Indians need to have pronouns in our life, and that we can’t criticise it. They will bully us into agreeing with them or cancel us out. And if they can do this to me, I’m sure the average user stands no chance. As a founder and CEO, this western DEI system has a major impact on my business as it grows an entitlement mindset in our professional lives and I will fight it. This situation brings me to the need for us to build our own Indian tech platforms. I’m not against global tech companies. But as an Indian citizen, I feel concerned that my life will be governed by western Big Tech monopolies and we will be culturally subsumed as the above experience shows. This is not about Ola or any of my companies. Ola is too small to make any impact against this. I want to confront this forced ideology as a free thinking Indian and do what I can in my capacity. So here are the actions I’m taking. Putting my money where my mouth is. ⁃While we can’t do anything about Linkedin’s monopoly overnight, I’m making a commitment to work with the Indian developer community to build a DPI social media framework. DPIs like UPI, ONDC, Aadhaar etc are a uniquely Indian idea and is even more needed in the world of social media. The only “community guidelines” should be the Indian law. No corporate person should be able to decide what will be banned. Data should be owned by the creators instead of being owned by the corporates who make money using our data and then lecture us on “community guidelines”! ⁃Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own @Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this. ⁃Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that! Mail us on exitazure@olakrutrim.com. Offer is perpetually open! Read more here: blog.olakrutrim.com/ola-on-linkedi…

Our incubatee Pragmatech Healthcare has received ISO 13485 Quality Management System certification. This certification, crucial for manufacturing & selling #medicaldevices worldwide, will accelerate the commercialization journey of their flagship product - CERVICHECK @BIRAC_2012

@VMCVadodara Reuesting you to please do this in our city too!

@mahitajarjapu @kmr_dilip Absolutely! Infact judgmental questions sometimes asked before a PAP adds to the stigma. A well directed and informative awareness campaign is the need of the hour. Thankfully we do have certain NGOs in India working towards this.

@kmr_dilip @anirbanPHS Could also be partly due to social stigma and hesitation to get screened, which in turn, could be due to low awareness.

This is a scary data. Breast Cancer screening in India is 1.9% against 82% in USA, 70% in UK and 23% in China. Most common cancers in order of occurrence in India are Breast, Cervix and Ovary in women. Typically it costs inr 5-15k. It can be an affordability issue but not for Tier1 cities. What can be done to make screening more accessible? Or accessibility is not the issue here?

@kmr_dilip Cervical cancer is among the most preventable forms of cancer that can be detected at a pre cancer stage through periodic screening/PAP. Unfortunately, uncomfortable sampling process, sexual connotation and lack of an test that's both affordable and sensitive prevents adoption

@kmr_dilip Hi @kmr_dilip it was great catching up with you at HTG Pune. We are working towards making Cervical screening more accessible by working on problems that are specific to India and LMICs. Please check out cervicheck.in

Congratulations @anirbanPHS @spramanik612 for securing Investment at @sharktankindia. @STBI_DSTGoG shall continue to support for Production of #CERVICHECK™:Revolutionary Cervical Cancer Self Sampling Device helping Early Diagnosis of #cervicalcancer @manish_gurwani #Innovation

Invested in Cervicheck, an at home screening & sampling test for cervical cancer. This cancer is completely preventable, yet one woman dies every 8 min & only 2% get screened. They met my research team in Pune last week. Proud to be part of their team. Get educated, get tested !

WE ARE ON SHARK TANK We are sharing our innovation with the world through the platform of Shark Tank Stay tuned to see how our journey spans out 🙏 #sharktankindia #sharktankindiaonsonyliv @spramanik612 @palna_7

This #worldcancerday lets focus on cancer and not controversy #cervicalcancer #poonampandey #schbang

@GabbbarSingh Byeju's

Shareholders of Byju’s want to fire Byju. What will be the new name?

@sarikaphatak :) Yes, this year i collected my bib at the last moment on Sat evening. I had a good run, could'nt beat my last year's timing, which makes for another good reason to come back next year!

@anirbanPHS Thanks! I know!! I was actually looking for you during bib collection. That's where we met last time. I went around the same time as last year and thought I would run into you :)

Mumbai you raise the bar every year. What a crowd, what amazing arrangements, what an environment! You carried us over the shoulders and helped to the finish line! #TMM #HarDilMumbai

#CandidWithCervicalCancer Learn all about Cervical Cancer and the steps you can take to protect yourself from getting the deadly disease, this Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. youtu.be/rog6EUxhoLI?si… #CervicalCancerAwarenessMonth #cervicalcancer @healthy_her_

#PHOTOS #GlobalBioIndia2023 #meetups @CaneBot @venture_center @DatarKirty @anirbanPHS @BIRAC_2012 @GlobalBioIndia Celebrating the journeys of startups that have been beneficiaries of some of our BRBC initiatives! #proud

Glad to be part of this prestigious event organised by @BIRAC_2012 and @GlobalBioIndia Biotech is the future and excited to be a contributor in this future 😁 @spramanik612 @palna_7 @anirbanPHS