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Gautam Govitrikar DMD Profile picture
@Gautaamm
Sep 4, 2021 • 10 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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One of my favourite things to do is walk around the “city”.

Had one such walk last night and captured some of the “dying breeds” as I see board after board with names like “9 Sadashiv” etc!

Thanks @kunal_tilak for baptising me on the “Pune Misal” at Badshahi!

#Pune #city
The beauty and the beast!

All the old structures will soon be gone with the wind and replaced by Monstrosities.

Guess it’s all part of the times!
@GodboleSandeep always something that reminds me of you!

#temple #Heritage
Self owned “Mom and Pop” stores are definitely on their way out!

Just hope my profession does not follow that route!

#girni #saraf #nhavi #danewali
The Original “Facebook”

#Pune #gappa
One of the “leading” theatres at one point!

Now on its last legs!

#Alka
Aala re aala Ganpati Bappa aala!

#GanpatiBappaMorya
And one day ends……
But another day starts!

#clouds
Love love love my city!

#Pune

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Apr 6
Took the kids on a joy ride on the Metro today!

I never imagined we would have one in Pune in their liferime!

One of my favourite aspects are the various scenes we get to witness from the Metro that we would normally be fortunate to experience.

Like the various bridges…..


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Some more bridges and some tracks…..


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From a circus with a Ferris wheel to trees in full bloom to bales of hay at a stud farm to bare twigs and branches all within the heart of the city!


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Feb 13
Pune has always had a rich tradition of “Ganpati mandals.” Associated with the same is a history of “Dhol Tasha troupes”.

Schools like Ramanbaug,Numavi and Jnana Prabhodini have had one for a long time. In the early 1990’s, 2 school boys yearned to play in a Dhol Tasha troupe.
They approached their “Shakha Shikshak” with a request to have their own Ganpati mandal, mainly so they can play the Dhol Tasha.

The shikshak agreed to have a 1.5 day Ganpati and the boys were able to get started with their Dhol Tasha dream.
Back then, any such organisations were invariably named after “Shree Ram” and so the “Shree Ram Pathak Charitable trust” was born.

The children raised some funds from their own parents and purchased the first few Dhol Tasha instruments and started practicing.
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Jan 13
I have said this so often!

When you are a student, you are either in a university town or urban America and surrounded by people your age.

Happy hours and weekend parties help build a decent social life.

When you start working, that starts dwindling.

Specially if you are
Now in rural America in states like Ohio, Idaho, Nebraska which does not a lot of Desi folks living there.

Eventually comes the inevitable move do suburban life, which is when the loneliness really sets in.

Weekdays are pretty much occupied by work ans household chores.
Weekends are consumed by grocery shopping and laundary. Social life is usually meeting local friends on Friday and/or Sat night and some outing on Sunday.

If you live on the East Coast, you are more or less living a life similar to the lockdown during COVID from Nov to April.
Read 7 tweets
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Nov 1, 2023
Healthcare in India is set for a major overhaul.

@ThePollLady shared this article the other day:

#India #Healthcare #VentureCapital #Doctors #Hospitals Image
Initally healthcare was a Patient-Doctor relationship.

Then the Corporate Hospital Ownership came in and made it slightly commercial. People don't realize that this arrangement made it possible for doctors to avail of world class technology and deliver the best healthcare.
Now we have Venture Capitalists from Wall Street in the frame.

They are a purely financial institution and are only coming in to increase their profits by a large number.

They view a Hospital in the same way they view a Hotel or they view a Start up like Peter Thiel viewed FB.
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Oct 30, 2023
Dental treatment gets a bad rap for being "painful".

If done by a well qualfied, skilled dentist with proper diagnosis and anesthesia, there is usually zero or near zero pain.

The pain and discomfort if any is usually during the healing phase.

There are 2 factors that are
responsible for this.

The difference in how the person's body and immune system reacts to surgery and dental procedures ARE surgeries. No one can predict that.

The other, and more relevant factor, is how well the patient follows the post operative instructions.
Medications are an integral part of any surgical treatment and if not taken as prescribed means basically the treatment is incomplete.

Now I will come to the main point.

Anti inflammatory and/or pain medications.

Anytime there is trauma, either due to injury or surgery,
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Aug 17, 2023
Senior couple living alone in Pune 4.

Over the last few months, wife has been deteriorating mentally at a rapid pace.

And hence physically also.

Husband is struggling to cope.

Goes to terrace for a 5 mins break.

Comes down to find wife is not in the apartment.
Panic strikes.

Calls made to daughter and couple of neighbours.

Friends called. Search ensues.

Local police station reports old lady at police station in the city area. Unable to remember name and address.

Daughter goes there and finds her mother.

Turns out that area
was where she grew up.

So she got into a rickshaw and asked to go to that area. But then was unable to give directions so rickshaw Kaka dropped her at local police station.

Kept saying “Aai ni phone karun bolavla aahe”

Issue is that “Aai” passed away 20 years ago.
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