Aniruddha Sen Gupta

George Orwell on nationalists.

A massive fire broke out in a children's hospital in Delhi. The hospital had no valid fire safety license and no fire exits. Seven babies died. Seven tiniest of them. Imagine the suffering. Imagine the plight of the parents. It is heartbreaking...and pathetic. The Neonatal ICU (NICU) - one of the most precious parts of a hospital, one place where an extreme form of decision making skills, competency and clinical acumen is required was manned by an Ayurveda practitioner - not a real doctor. I do not blame the poor fellow. He is not a doctor. But the medical system in India made him believe he was one. Ayurveda practitioners (who are not doctors) are not even trained to diagnose a passing flu, or treat a wart, much less take care of an NICU. I mean, what is the whole point of grilling this young Ayurveda graduate now? Grill and roast the Government and the Health Ministry who are making such "doctors" every year. On an average, about 20,000 alternative medicine graduates and 2000 alternative medicine post-graduates pass out from various Ayush institutions each year. For what? To witness deaths of new borns? To mislead people on social media? To sell their ignorance as treatments to a scientifically illiterate population? F*ucking chaos. Nationalism, culture, religion, tradition - did any of these save any of those babies? A science trained, competent, compassionate duty doctor would have, for sure! Ayurveda practitioners are so arrogant because of their indoctrination and ignorance that they will go to any lengths to defend their incompetency. Like this guy in Court. He said the babies did not die because of the fire, they died of suffocation. They are that thick skulled. He was also so stupid that when the fire broke, instead of calling police/ fire services, he called the hospital owner and wasted half hour which could have been used to shift babies to safety. The stupidity does not end there. When asked why he wasted so much of time doing total bull crap, he said that he was a trainee there and was looking to study the ways of modern medicine. Then why in the absolute hell did he waste 5.5 years studying glorious ancient Ayurveda? Who is to blame here? The indoctrinated made to look like an idiot alternative medicine practitioner or a system that nurtures development and growth of such practitioners in India? In a better world, one would ban Ayurveda and that nonsensical thing called Homeopathy and Siddha and Naturopathy and dismantle the Ayush Ministry, and stepwise convert these quackeries peddling colleges into rational institutes that teach science and medicine to students and graduates so that they become competent citizens.

I voted. But observed a disturbing trend. The problem is that the BJ Party has muddied the waters in MH by design. I belong to the Shirur constituency where Amol Kolhe (NCP-Sharadchandra Pawar, with INDIA bloc) was against Adhalrao Patil (NCP-Ajit Pawar, with NDA). 1/n

This male sumatran orangutan is Raku: he got a wound on his right cheek. Scientists were surprised to spot him applying a medicinal plant on his face: akar kuning (Fibranaurea tinctoria), a type of climbing vine that acts as an analgesic. After about 8 days he applied the chewed stems and leaves of the plant, the wound began to heal and in approximately a month he completely recovered. This series of observations undoubtedly constitutes the conclusive proof of the level of ingenuity that these majestic animals have.

If you genuinely love India, can you spare 98 seconds and listen to him? You can come to your conclusions, but listen to him first. Please.

“Don’t shout at me.” This is what happened at the Supreme Court hearing on electoral bonds… 📹: Supreme Court of India/YouTube.

funny but I don't remember SBI asking for more time when modiji abolished 500-1000 rupee notes in the entire country and gave banks TWO DAYS to deal with the shitshow. PHYSICAL cash. electoral bonds can only be bought using digital means. should be much easier to compile, no?