veg ppl who were previously nonveg have this way of eating where they dont close their mouths & one has to suffer the sounds 😖😖😖😖
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Bloomberg says truckers are avoiding India's new expressway. So an influencer went there to find out the ground reality.
Instead of relying on headlines, he spoke directly with truck drivers using the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway (NE4).
And what he found on the ground tells a more nuanced story.
Yes, there are challenges. Yes, the expressway is still incomplete. But does that mean it's a failed infrastructure project?
Here's what the truck drivers actually had to say.
India is building US-style expressways to move freight faster. But many truckers still prefer older roads, where food, repairs and rest stops are cheaper. Aryan Gupta explains what’s putting the country’s $130 billion bet at risk: bloom.bg/4Bn5lr4
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A Maratha king's court in Thanjavur kept painted records of diseased eyes, including a corneal ulcer drawn before and after treatment.
The king was Serfoji II, a Bhonsle who ruled from 1798 to 1832. He ran a hospital called Dhanvantari Mahal, where Siddha, Ayurveda and Unani medicines were made.
In March 2004, a team from Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai went through the eye records in the Sarasvati Mahal Library, Thanjavur. They reported 44 patient case sheets, 6 in Modi script and 38 in English, plus 18 drawings.
Patients were between 5 and 60 years old. The English sheets use the words of an eye clinic: lid, conjunctiva, cornea, lens, lens capsule, posterior chamber.
One entry is dated 9 September 1827. A 4 year old man had a cataract 6 months old. A needle was passed into his eye and the cloudy lens pressed down below the pupil. Part of the outer layer came loose and stayed in the pupil. The sheet notes much pain, then the treatment given, then the lens slowly absorbing and the man improving.
Diagnosis, treatment, a complication and the result are all on 1 record, and some cases have a painted picture of the eye as well. Outcomes were written as "improved" or "same", and patients were paid Rs 2 when they left.
The authors think the operation was probably couching. They also say Serfoji is "said" to have been skilled at cataract surgery, but the sheets don't show who held the needle.
Sources: J. Biswas, V. Badrinath, S.S. Badrinath, "Ophthalmic contributions of Raja Serfoji II (1798-1832)", Indian Journal of Ophthalmology 60(4):297-300, 2012.
Photo 1: A painted pair of eyes with handwritten annotations. The source identifies the condition as leucoma, a white opacity of the cornea.
Photo 2: The paper's record counts: 44 patient records, six in Modi script, 38 in English and 18 drawings. The March 2004 library visit is also highlighted.
Photo 3: Patient ages, anatomical terminology, recorded vision outcomes of "improved" or "same", and the Rs 2 inam on discharge.
Photo 4: The dated case in the post: 9 September 1827, a 45-year-old cataract patient. The highlighted passage describes the procedure and the lens fragment remaining in the pupil. The following lines record pain, treatment and improvement.
Image Source: Biswas, Badrinath & Badrinath, Indian Journal of Ophthalmology 60:297-300 (2012), Sarasvati Mahal Library collection. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
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"why do women wear high heels if not for the male gaze" idk man some of us enjoy clip clopping around like a beautiful horse once in a while
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How foids sound like when they're told to dress up for the occasion and not have their tits hanging out at every occasion from birthday to shradh:
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Saṃsāra chakra is endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, driven by karma, avidyā (ignorance), and attachment. The pāpī of the present may once have performed punya in a prev birth and now be experiencingtheir sukrta-phala. Yet, under the veil of Māyā and the influence of
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If you read Valmiki Ramayana, you won't like Ravan.
If you read Ved Vyasa Mahabharat, you won't like Karna.
If you depend on pop-culture, modern retellings, novels of ancient epics, you would like Ravan & Karna.
