Physician-health informatics educationist - Ex-Dean, IIHMR, Delhi - Formerly-Project Director, Centre for Health Informatics, National Health Portal, India
New Delhi, India
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🚨SHOCKING - FIR against Malabar:
A man walked into a Malabar Gold showroom in Bilaspur with a simple request: exchange his old 22-carat HUID-hallmarked bracelet.
The staff ran it through their XRF machine. Once. Twice. Three times.
Every reading came back the same: 20 carat.
They even told him the hallmark didn’t exist.
He called the local jeweller who had sold him the bracelet. The jeweller walked in, confirmed the HUID, and asked them to test it again.
Same machine. Same bracelet. Same room.
This time an employee adjusted something on the machine. Suddenly the reading flipped to 916 - pure 22 carat.
The jeweller recorded everything. The Sarafa Association arrived. Police registered an FIR against the showroom manager and the machine operator. The machine and DVR were seized.
This wasn’t a small local shop. This was Malabar Gold “the chain that advertises trust, purity, and BIS standards across India”.
One bracelet. Two readings. An 8% gap in gold value. And the only thing that changed was who was watching.
If a hallmarked piece can magically lose two carats the moment a customer wants to exchange it, and magically regain them the moment someone pushes back, what exactly is the machine testing?
Customers don’t walk into Malabar expecting a calibration error that only appears when they’re selling gold.
They walk in expecting the purity printed on their receipt.
The FIR is real.
The readings are on record.
The machine was seized.
Malabar still hasn’t explained why the same piece of gold needed a “setting” before it became 22 carat again.
Until they do, this isn’t a machine glitch.
It’s a business model.
Service aboard 22895 Vande Bharat express is awfully slow. @AshwiniVaishnaw @serailwaykol @irctc_app @indianrail
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Rs. 1,50,000 is like ~$1500. And Delhi to Goa is just 1000 miles. For less than $1000, one can travel business flat-bed for ~2400 miles / ~6 hrs from NYC to LA on Delta or Jet Blue Mint. India needs a lot more airline capacity looks like. Or is this just a one-off spike in fare?
₹1.5 lakh for Air India business class, Delhi to Goa. The airline sends you to @EncalmIndia. Chaotic, barely a seat in sight.
Encalm is a lovely name. Ambitious, though. Perhaps call it Endure?
As for @airindia, is the premium experience delayed, diverted or cancelled?
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Answers are cheap now. Judgement isn’t.
You see the decisions, but never the process behind it. Now frontier AI models make decisions too.
So we built Judgement Labs:
A simulator to practice real-life scenarios, and RL environments to train models to read between the lines...
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AI Manthan 2.0 | Where Ideas Meet Intelligence
The future of Artificial Intelligence is shaped by conversations that bring together academia, research, industry and innovation.
CSJMU is proud to welcome an eminent group of academicians, researchers, technology leaders and industry experts to AI Manthan 2.0.
Their presence will add valuable perspectives to discussions on Artificial Intelligence, emerging technologies, research, innovation and the future of a digitally empowered society.
From classrooms and laboratories to industry and real-world applications, AI Manthan 2.0 aims to create a meaningful platform for knowledge exchange, collaboration and new possibilities.
#AImanthan2atcsjmu #AIManthan2 #AIManthan #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Innovation #Research #Technology #HigherEducation #DigitalIndia #CSJMU #Kanpur #kanpuruniversity
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Yesterday I came to know that a road in Kolkata is named after the killer Rana Bose’s father Dr. Amiya Bose. After Comrade Rana Bose killed Jadavpur University VC Dr. Gopal Chandra Sen for not toeing the Left dictates, his father Dr. Amiya Bose pulled strings to save his son, and sent him to USA. Rana Bose later moved to Canada.
From what I hear this killer Rana Bose would come regularly to visit Kolkata and never faced any police actions. When visiting he would go and chat with editor Anirban Chatterjee of Anandabazar Patrika.
Rana Bose died in 2024, from leukaemia, 5 years after diagnosis of the disease.
A request to @BJP4Bengal and @SuvenduWB da. Please change the name of this road. It’s a shame that a road in Kolkata is named after someone who had helped his son escape after viciously killing a reputed and an honest academic person 🙏
For the Communists of Jadavpur University who are screaming today after getting beaten up,
Here’s a reminder :
On 30th December 1970, Communists had used iron rods to beat up the then VC of Jadavpur University Dr. Gopal Chandra Sen and then stabbed him to death.
Apparently a ‘brave’ comrade had stabbed him from the back. The brave comrade later ran away to America, as his father was a rich doctor.
.@BJP4Bengal needs to finish off communism in West Bengal if it really wants peace and development in the state.
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The students' protest in Jharkhand is an example of what a protest should be.
It is peaceful, respectful, and rejects symbolic gestures, like demanding someone be fired, in favor of actionable, long-term policy solutions. They want structural reform: an independent CBI probe into recruitment scandals, permanent blacklisting and prosecution of corrupt vendors, age-limit relaxations for affected candidates, fixed annual exam calendars, and complete transparency in evaluation processes.
Driven entirely by real, ground-level aspirants with no political agenda, the movement maintains a strict distance from all political parties.
This is precisely the kind of cause around which the nation's youth, civil society, self proclaimed apolitical social commentators, and "concerned" celebrities ought to rally. However, because these students lack the funding to hire influencers or celebrities to transform their struggle into a viral, pop-culture trend that everyone wants to be a part of and also don't have the backing of student organisations that have the resources, methods and influence to force governments to the table, their movement will be unfairly overlooked.
Level up 🎉 I reached @localguides level 7 by helping others explore on Google Maps. #localguides
Table behind seat #62 of C1 coach of now running 22322 Hool Express is repeatedly falling down over seat #67. @indianrail @EasternRailway @AshwiniVaishnaw
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Blessings of Maa Saraswati 🙏
Courage of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose 🇮🇳
On this occasion, my sand art from Moradabad, 🙏
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"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.
I was reviewing their annual performance data.
"Show me," I said.
She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."
"What's her actual performance?" I asked.
"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."
"So why the low scores?"
"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."
I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."
"Let me talk to Diana," I said.
"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"
"What happened with the pricing?"
"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."
"What else?"
"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."
"Are you still giving feedback?"
"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."
"But nothing's actually improving?"
"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.
I went back to the boss.
"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."
"That's not true."
"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"
Silence.
"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"
More silence.
"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."
A few months later, they redesigned the system.
Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.
Diana got promoted.
"What changed?" I asked the boss.
"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."
"And?"
"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."
Here's the truth about performance reviews:
Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.
The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.
The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.
You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.
And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.
They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.
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Your comparison between the Holocaust and the Bengal Hindu genocide, @vivekagnihotri, is not just poignant but absolutely necessary in today's discourse. The stark differences you've highlighted—full acceptance versus large-scale denial, global condemnation versus victim demonisation, and a plethora of films versus none—expose a deep-seated bias in how history is remembered and taught. It's a powerful reminder that while the world rightly condemns the Nazi atrocities against Jews, the systematic violence against Bengal Hindus in 1946 has been conveniently sidelined, often euphemised as "exodus" or "migration" rather than the genocide it was. Kudos for using #TheBengalFiles to bring this uncomfortable truth to the forefront; your work is vital to rectifying this historical injustice.
What I find particularly intriguing is the elite's reception to your film—marked by surprise, shock, dismay, and outright rejection. Why the outrage when the violence perpetrated on Hindus during Direct Action Day is so well-documented in open, accessible sources like Wikipedia? The page on Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) details how the Muslim League's call for a general strike in Calcutta escalated into brutal communal riots, with targeted attacks on Hindu-majority areas such as Rajabazar, Kelabagan, College Street, Harrison Road, Colootola, and Burrabazar. Reports describe Muslim processions armed with iron bars and lathis turning violent post-rally, looting Hindu shops, and committing massacres like the one at Kesoram Cotton Mills in Lichubagan, where over 300 Oriya labourers (predominantly Hindus) were slaughtered. Casualty estimates range from 4,000 to 10,000 deaths overall, with contemporary accounts from figures like Frederick Burrows and later analyses by historians like Tanika Sarkar and Suranjan Das confirming the scale and the targeted nature of the assaults on Hindus.
This isn't hidden knowledge—it's cited from credible sources, including British reports, eyewitness testimonies, and scholarly works. So, why the feigned ignorance or dismissal? Are we witnessing an uneducated generation, one that's either unaware of these facts or selectively blind to them in favour of sanitised narratives? In an era of instant information, such reactions suggest a deeper issue: perhaps a reluctance to confront histories that challenge dominant ideologies or political conveniences. Your film isn't just cinema; it's an educational tool that forces us to reckon with these erased chapters, much like Schindler's List did for the Holocaust. Keep pushing boundaries—history demands it. #TheBengalFiles #DirectActionDay #BengalHinduGenocide
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Patients were developing NAION.
(Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy).
Sudden, permanent vision loss. No warning. No pain.
Imagine waking up unable to see, with "a curtain falling" over your eyes.
But the worst part?
credsverse.com/credentials/3… Honoured to have completed 50+ reviews for JMIR.
Excellent choice without an iota of doubt.
I am bewildered that some political pundits are complaining that the speeches of the new state BJP president @SamikBJP is replete with literary allusions. Actually, his speeches bring in a lot of history of modern Bengal. More important they provide BJP activists a sense of their party’s own history. Samik has been a dedicated party worker since the early-1980s. Predictably, like a lot of us who reposed our political future with the BJP, he was inspired by Atal Behari Vajpayee. This includes his mesmerising political oratory. With @SuvenduWB providing the agitational thrust, Samik’s appointment could help make the state BJP more rounded. Maybe, just maybe, a few deft moves could make the party more acceptable to the orphaned Bengali Bhadralok. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I have high expectations from the Samik-Suvendu synergy.
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#WestBengalDay Wishing everyone a very happy foundation day. On this day in 1947, the state of West Bengal was formed. – at Jalpaiguri, India
