Shamit Manchanda

Medanta Sri Ganganagar, 200 Bedded Super Specialty Hospital : For an Architect the best sense of satisfaction is to see what you conceived on paper turn into reality

@SandeepMall @saffrontrail Almost fell for the trap.

@saffrontrail I have. His account is hacked

@TheDilliMirror @Roflindian Though we have exchanged DMs in the past. This was a very well structured phishing DM. Almost fell in the trap

@shamit @Roflindian I think his account is hacked . Very unlikely DMs from him

@Roflindian DM From you ?? Or is your account hacked

My suggestion, while trying to pass a Constitutional Amendment to bring in Women's Reservation & increase the strength of Parliament to 750-815, bring in a law that makes it mandatory for over 80% attendance per session for every Member of Parliament. This includes right from top, from the Hon'ble PM, to the Hon'ble LoP to an ordinary Member of Parliament & failure to have over 80% attendance in two sessions will mean a dismissal as MP. Also each MP has to raise 10 written questions for their constituency per session & a failure of this would mean the MPs will not get their perks as MPs! I am sure you agree with me :

Open platform for hyperlocal air quality data across India, built by a consortium of institutions: oaq.notf.in 👏👏

@vikramchandra @ash_misra The problem is that you are considered a trusted source of news even on 1st April 😉

@ash_misra Date dekh lo!

Wow - Delhi to ban all petrol/diesel vehicles by 2030 to move completely to EVs. Future goal to phase in robo-taxis by 2040 “once the technology reaches maturity” The just announced policy should help both with traffic congestion and air pollution!

India ran the most important cardiovascular study of the 20th century by accident, and then immediately forgot about it. In 1967, Dr. S.L. Malhotra published a study in the British Heart Journal examining heart disease rates among 1.5 million Indian railway employees. The population was extraordinarily useful for research purposes: same employer, same healthcare access, comparable income and working conditions, spread across the entire country. The only meaningful variable was geography. Which meant diet. North Indian railway workers: Punjab, Rajasthan, UP, ate a diet built around ghee and dairy fat. They consumed up to 19 times more fat than their southern counterparts. The fat was primarily saturated: clarified butter, milk fat, the short-chain saturated fatty acids that Ancel Keys had recently been telling the Western world were arterial death. South Indian railway workers ate a diet based on rice, sambar, and seed oils: groundnut oil and sesame oil, primarily. They ate considerably less fat overall. By the standards of dietary advice being formulated in the 1960s, they should have been the healthy ones. Heart disease mortality in South India: 135 per 100,000. Heart disease mortality in North India: 20 per 100,000. Seven times higher in the population eating seed oils. Among railway sweepers specifically, the lowest-paid, most physically active workers, the gap was even wider. Heart disease was fifteen times more common in the South Indian sweeper population than in the North Indian sweeper population. Malhotra controlled for everything he could reach: smoking, where Northerners actually smoked more. Activity levels, where the relationship was inconsistent. Socioeconomic status, where executives died more often than sweepers regardless of region. He found no variable that explained the gap except the type of fat in the diet. He published the data. In a peer-reviewed journal. In 1967. The study was cited periodically, acknowledged as methodologically interesting, and then set aside. The decade in which Malhotra published was the decade in which Ancel Keys's fat hypothesis was being converted into policy. The American Heart Association was issuing guidance recommending polyunsaturated vegetable oils as replacements for saturated animal fats. The food industry was producing seed oils at industrial scale. The infrastructure of seed oil promotion was being built, expensively and with great institutional momentum. A study showing that populations eating animal fat had a fraction of the heart disease of populations eating seed oils was not, in that context, a study that anyone particularly wanted to follow up. Nobody followed up. Almost sixty years later, the finding stands unrefuted in the literature. It is not in the dietary guidelines.

The judiciary still stuck in colonial era. And the Executive does not even want to remember the architect of the colonial era

Congratulations Bharati

For years I found myself drifting away from much of prime-time Indian TV news. Too much noise, too little depth. I often turned to BBC or CNN for perspective, and increasingly to long-form YouTube conversations — though those require time and patience. But I must say, the coverage of the Iran war has been a welcome change on Indian television. @IndiaToday Rajdeep Sardesai, @NDTV Shiv Aroor, @NewsX Uday Pratap Singh — and earlier on Zakka Jacob — have brought clarity, context and calm analysis to a complex global conflict. Geeta Mohan and Marya Shakil of @IndiaToday too have been good to watch and listen to. It is heartening to see serious, informed journalism when it matters most.

@sidin More interesting facts, Gwadar, now in Pakistan was once part of Oman till 1958. Before selling to Pakistan, the Sultan of Oman reportedly offered to sell Gwadar to India, but Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declined it.

Brief random Oman-UAE thread. So this is Oman and UAE. And that narrow bit of water are the Straits of Hormuz. (Maybe named after Ahura Mazda.) 1/n

@Sameer_vyapari @grok what is the height of the ladder assuming the person standing next to it is 5'6" high

Get this ladder manufactured to do the electrification work in the warehouse. Guess the correct height of this and I will send two T-shirts free to one random person.

@historyinmemes This was the case at Leh airport also a few decades ago

The only road on Earth where planes take priority over cars

@37VManhas @gauravcsawant Belated Birthday Greetings Gaurav

Blessings & good wishes to ⁦@gauravcsawant⁩ Sir on his birthday today. DATA LINE KARGIL is one of the most iconic books ever written on #KargilWar. MATA RANI keeps blessing you always.

Psychological warfare using hyper realistic AI generated videos has started

@KTRBRS Does it comply with Fire and Life safety provisions of the National Building Code. Patients are not allowed to be housed above 30m (approx8-9 floors) Wonder what's happening in the top 15-16 floors

Audacious vision looks like this 👇 India’s largest hospital in Govt sector was grounded in Warangal on 21st June, 2021 by KCR Garu as the CM To be constructed in 24 Floors with over 2 thousand beds serving people of several districts 75% of the works were completed within 2 years by and of 2023 But the Congress Govt has chosen to ignore and delay the completion deliberately for last 2 years Why this apathy towards public health @RahulGandhi ? #CongressFailedTelangana

What is the logic of stamp duty on property? Why should anyone pay so much to sarkar for some transaction between two parties? Assume that stamp duty is like value capture tax on the property then tax also has to be on value added and not on entire consideration. Assume Mr. A buys a flat from B for 1 cr then he ends up paying 6% as stamp duty. Then later if he sells it to C for 1.25 cr then C also pays stamp duty on 1.25 and not on value added i.e. 25 lacs. Now I am assuming this value of 25 lacs for added to property value due to new road, or metro or some public spend hence the stamp duty is justified. Fair enough so why is the same amount getting taxed twice? Isn't this unfair. Shouldn't the tax on transaction 2 be only on value added? This post is for my own understanding and thought process. Serious views are welcome.

@kamleshksingh @narayananh

The invitation said "Come, Invest", NOT "Come, in vest"

@cristianoamon request you / @Qualcomm to relaunch Eudora, the best email client ever made. @Qualcomm stopped supporting it in 2006, but die hard fans still use it.

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