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"You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously." - @ProfFeynman

@TVKVijayHQ You should definitely think about starting a TV channel, boss !! Kind of surprised this has not happened till now, frankly

Based on its independent analysis of new satellite imagery and detailed knowledge of the site, the IAEA can confirm recent impacts of military strikes close to Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), including one just 75 metres from the site perimeter. The BNPP itself has not been damaged, the IAEA’s analysis of the 5 April imagery shows. Once again, IAEA Director General @rafaelmgrossi warns that continued military activity near the BNPP - an operating plant with large amounts of nuclear fuel - could cause a severe radiological accident with harmful consequences for people and the environment in Iran and beyond. Regardless of the nature of the intended targets, DG Grossi says such attacks pose a very real danger to nuclear safety and must stop. DG Grossi reiterates call for all parties to fully respect the 7 indispensable pillars for ensuring nuclear safety and security during a conflict. A nuclear facility and surrounding areas should never be struck, DG Grossi says.

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims. Mar 3: "We won the war." Mar 7: "We defeated Iran." Mar 9: "We must attack Iran." Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully." Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet." Mar 13: "We won the war." Mar 14: "Please help us." Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it." Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all." Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me." Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad." Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help." Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO." Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 20: "NATO are cowards." Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it." Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait" Mar 22: "Iran is Dead" Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran." Mar 24: "We’re making progress." Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away." Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO." Mar 28: No major quote Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences." Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing" Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon." Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen." Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences. Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah." 😂

One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday. These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.

I fully support Tamil Nadu’s two-language policy and our CM Thiru @mkstalin’s strong stand against the three-language formula. My Personal Stance I have many Hindi-speaking friends and we get along very well. I do not hate anyone based on the language they speak. India’s real strength is its diversity, and I am against anything that will damage that diversity in the long term. My Personal Language Journey I was able to clear a tough exam like IIT JEE with serious effort. Yet even I struggled a lot with languages. Until fifth standard in a private nursery school I studied three languages: Tamil, English and Hindi. In sixth I had Sanskrit. From seventh I changed to a school with only Tamil and English. By the time I reached 12th standard I was still not fluent. I could neither speak nor write proper essays comfortably in Tamil or English. My English improved only when I started reading English newspapers regularly and putting conscious effort into improving it. My spoken English improved after joining IIT, where I had to speak English every day with students from across the country. Why Three Languages Become a Heavy Burden If someone like me found it so difficult to become properly fluent, forcing a third language in school will be a huge burden for the majority of students. For us Tamilians our language belongs to a completely different family from north Indian languages, which makes it even harder. Modern education research also shows that overloading young children with three languages early reduces valuable time for maths, science and critical thinking. The Reality Behind NEP 2020’s “Flexible” Policy The Centre says the three-language policy is flexible and not mandatory Hindi. But in practice this flexibility is only theoretical. No school is going to find teachers easily for other Indian languages like Tamil, Malayalam or Bengali in other states, so Hindi becomes the default. When there are reports of delays or withholding of significant Samagra Shiksha funds (again, I can’t even pronounce this Hindi/Sanskritised title), it feels like clear coercion, not choice. This Issue is Deeply Emotional for Tamils Tamil Nadu has been resisting Hindi imposition since the 1930s, especially during the 1965 anti-Hindi agitations when many lives were lost. The two-language policy is not new. It is part of our history and identity. Many Tamilians Already Learn Hindi Voluntarily Most of us pick up conversational Hindi naturally through movies, migration or jobs. For example, my children automatically picked up some Hindi by watching movies and also by conversing with their mother who knows Hindi as she grew up in north India. There is simply no need to force it in schools. What We Should Actually Focus On In today’s world English is the international language for science, mathematics, technology, programming, AI and global business. Tamil Nadu is one of the top-performing states largely because we took English seriously. States that focused early on English tend to perform better in tech-heavy industries. Every state should teach maths, science and technology subjects in English and also focus on teaching their mother tongue with emphasis on contemporary usage instead of outdated grammar, and leave any third language to individual choice. Economically, India’s biggest problem is energy security. If economic value is the goal, even languages like Russian, Persian or Arabic may be more relevant to deal with energy-rich countries like Russia, Iran and the Middle East, not another Indian language that gives little economic return. Examples of Hindi Imposition I Have Seen When I was in high school and Doordarshan was the only TV channel, Tamil programmes ran only till 9 pm. After that it became the “National Programme” which was mostly Hindi. Many families including mine simply switched off the TV. Even now, the new criminal laws have all Hindi/Sanskrit titles that I cannot pronounce or remember. I see this as harassment for people whose mother tongue is not Hindi, especially Dravidian or Tamil-speaking people. My Appeal to the Union Government It does not matter which party is in power at the Centre. I have seen that the policy is always the same. They try to impose Hindi on other states. Central ministers, many of whom themselves come from non-Hindi speaking states, should stop this obsession with Hindi. Instead they should push for better English learning across India. Let us accept English as the connecting language. It gives huge economic and global benefits that no other Indian language can match right now. I urge the Union Government to drop this three-language push and make mother tongue plus English the clear national policy. If anyone wants to learn a third language, Indian or foreign, let it be their personal choice. #StopHindiImposition #UnityIsUniformity #RespectPluralism

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 WATCH: “For the first time in history: America requests a 48-hour truce, and Iran responds with ‘no.’ An unprecedented humiliation for America.”

Your fridge runs 24 hours a day. Solar panels only work while the sun’s out. That mismatch is the entire reason this plant exists, and the fix is just hot salt. The Dunhuang plant in China’s Gobi Desert uses 12,000 mirrors aimed at a single tower about as tall as an 80-story building. All that focused sunlight heats a mix of salts (the same stuff in fertilizer) to 565°C, hot enough to glow red. That liquid salt gets pumped into giant insulated tanks. The tanks are so well insulated they only lose about 1°C per day. When the city needs electricity at 2am, the hot salt boils water into steam, the steam spins a turbine, and you get power. Same basic process as a coal plant. Just no coal. Here’s what makes this different from regular solar: the storage lasts 11 hours. Sun goes down, plant keeps running all night. The big batteries that cities plug into their power grids right now? Those typically hold about 4 hours of electricity. Building batteries that last 11 hours is possible, but the cost balloons fast. A German energy storage study found that storing energy in hot salt costs roughly 33x less than storing it in the lithium-ion batteries we use today. China has built 27 of these plants so far, enough to power roughly a million homes. They doubled that number in 2025 alone. Another 3,000 megawatts (enough for about 2 million more homes) are under construction right now, with 4,000 more in the planning stage. Beijing wants 15,000 megawatts by 2030. The US tried this same technology once. Ivanpah, out in the Mojave Desert. Cost $2.2 billion. But they skipped the storage part entirely, so it could only make power while the sun was shining. It needed natural gas every morning just to start up. It’s now slated to shut down in 2026, thirteen years early, because regular solar panels got so cheap they made the whole project obsolete. China took the same idea, added the one part America left out, and is now building dozens of them. One more thing worth knowing. The salt is made from basic industrial chemicals. No lithium mining. No cobalt. No rare earth metals. And it lasts 30 years of daily use before the tanks need work.

I retired as Medical Superintendent of Sevagram Hospital three years ago. Since then, I have been waging a quiet war against forgetting. It began with blank stares. A first-year resident, fresh from her MBBS in Kerala, drew a blank when I mentioned Dr. Sushila Nayar, our founder. Another asked, “Dhirubhai who?” about a former president. These were the people who built MGIMS. Yet their names are fading in the very place they shaped. I have called this project Architects of MGIMS. Institutions are not made of bricks and reports alone. They are shaped by those who arrive, argue, disagree, create, persist—and slowly leave their mark. To piece this together, I went back to annual reports from the 1970s, faculty records, and long conversations with retired teachers now in their eighties—their spouses, children, and colleagues. I met those still on campus. So far, I have written 93 profiles—not a polished history, but something of the texture of our early years, before silence claims them. It now lives as a digital archive, open to all. We begin today, on Id-Ul-Fitr, with the first profile—Dr. Sushila Nayar. The hospital corridors are quiet for the holiday, but perhaps these pages will bring Sevagram to life again. Read here: books.kalantri.co.in/architect/dr-s…

@HarleyShah Ouch

"China will lose the US market-" "We don't care. China has been here for 5000 years and most of the time, there was no United States" 😭😭😭

CBI has unearthed what it describes as one of the largest medical college scams in the country's history, spanning across multiple states, involving senior officials, middlemen, top educationists, and even a self-styled godman. NDTV's @harsha_ndtv reports

Self driving and self service KFC food truck in China. Imagine what would happen if you release this thing in any large Western city. We can’t have nice things anymore.

What's this Amazon? The Amazon India page for the Graphic Novel "Song of the Seas" has the words "A Muslim Family Story" added to the title! It is not on the US, UK, or any other Amazon pages ISBN:031643891X amzn.in/d/fKbTfdP What's up @amazonIN, @amazon, @AmazonHelp

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When the country's PM flees, this is what follows: they demand female doctors for childbirth, yet won’t allow women or girls to pursue education. These are scenes from a medical college in #Bangladesh, where extremists are threatening female students, forcing them out of classrooms. #WomenEmpowement #GirlsEducation

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The Undertaker looks down at medical staff checking on Mankind after he fell, unscripted, through the top of Hell in a Cell into the ring 16ft below in 1998

A Tamil Brahmin Indian girl the world and the people of India forgot. Every English speaking Jesuit educated Indian know the story of Florence Nightingale but history has no record of Padmavathi Iyer. In the year 1917, a Tamil Indian girl was born in a middle-class family in Rangoon, Burma, where her father had gone for a living. He named her Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavathi. At a time when women were traditionally confined to the kitchen/illiterate, the middle-class girl did MBBS from Rangoon Medical College. When the Japanese invaded Burma, they briefly returned to their traditional home in Coimbatore. In 1949, she went to London to do an FRCP, then unimaginable for a Female Indian doctor. She was selected to study further at Johns Hopkins University, US, where she trained under the legendary cardiologist Helen Taussig. Thereafter, she moved to Harvard University, where she trained under the Father of Cardiology- Paul Dudley White. When a glorious cardiology career awaited her in the US, she was firm in returning to India & serving Indians. She joined Lady Hardinge Medical College in 1953, to become India's First Lady Cardiologist. S.I.Padmavathi started India's first Cathlab & exclusive Cardiac Clinic. Started India's first DM Cardiology course. She founded the All India Heart Foundation (AIHF) in 1962, to serve the poor & needy. She joined Maulana Azad Medical College in 1967, by which time her fame had spread. The Indian Govt under Indira Gandhi honoured her with the Padma Bhushan, that year. She was the cardiologist & administrator of 3 great colleges at the same time- MAMC, G.B.Pant Hospital & Lok Nayak Hospital. She retired as Director, of MAMC in 1978. She set up the National Heart Institute (NIH) in 1981, in Delhi. At age 90, Padmavathi became a fellow of The European Society of Cardiology in 2007. Till age 95, (the year 2015), Padmavathi worked 12 hours a day, five days a week, to serve poor and needy Indians, with state-of-the-art Cardiac Care. She retired from active practice, that year. The Government of India bestowed India's second highest Civilian Award, the Padma Vibushan on S.I.Padmavathi in 1992. Both Padmavathi and her sister Janaki(neurologist) remained single and started the Janaki-Padmavathi trust, pouring in their entire earnings to start a trust to provide poor people with money for life-saving Heart Surgeries. After dedicating her entire life to serving the poor in the field of Cardiology, S.I.Padmavathi passed away in 2020, at age 103 from Corona. Imagine the steely resolve, vision, brilliance and sheer determination of this iron- lady to shatter the glass ceiling in achieving all these, serving poor Indians with quality cardiac care, and finally giving away all her wealth to her fellow citizens. Here is an inspiring story of the first female cardiologist of India 🙏