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29 Sep, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Seeing how a lot of ppl, incl famous senior doctors & ppl from other fields, r whole-heartedly parroting sarkari claims on the Digital Health ID, one is reminded of Varun Grover's apt phrase for us - "gullible type"
Ppl in New India hav truly becom such gullible type! They r so nonchalantly trusting the fairy tales of the same ppl who said Demonetisation will help the economy "in the long run", Aadhar is "optional", and that Covid "war" will be won in 18 days like the Mahabharat..
Remember how everyone & their papa tweeted oodles and oodles of "thanks" to modi for demonetisation, calling it revolutionary and all - and then neither these celebrities nor modi himself has ever mentioned how exactly it helped ordinary indians
It is obvious that the Digital health ID will suffer the same fate. But the larger issue here is what the hell has happened to public intellect and wisdom?!!
For example, it is mind-boggling how the supporters of the ID r so innocently saying "Dont worry, the ID is optional and ppl can easily delete their data and ID whenever they want".

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Since there is ample evidence to show that this wont be the case at all, and hasnt been the case in India even in the past, one really wonders how people's minds can be changed when evidence & rational reasoning have ceased to matter.
It is also imp to note that the basic issue is not wheth the data of one billion Indians is gonna be safe & protected - it is not, we already know - but whether a "national" Health ID leads to better health for ppl. Hope the saner TV hosts debate at least that fundamental issue.

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28 Sep
This is re. the apparent enthusiasm of some doctors for the Union govt's Digital Health ID project. I learnt about this enthusiasm from ppl's responses to @SonaliVaid's tweet yday, including the unfortunate trolling.
It seems that many doctors, when thinking about larger public health issues, simply extrapolate from their narrow clinical experiences, rather than taking into account social, economical, political factors. That is, the larger universe beyond the hospital.
Eg, some of the comments were like, Without digitisation, how can we manage records of our increasing population? This kind of concern seems to stem from what all of us doctors have experienced: patients often losing or not possessing imp paper records
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3 Sep
The content of a recent judgment by the Allahabad HC is just another instance of how a lot of "proud" Hindus lack critical thinking skills, or what we call logic and commonsense in ordinary parlance. This lack of logic is not new, and resistance to it also is not new.
One influential Indian who rallied against such juvenile, ignorant ways of thinking prevalent among grown-up Hindus, especially when it comes to history, was Ramkrishna Bhandarkar.
He was a towering scholar who has left behind a huge corpus of work in Sanskrit studies, and in the history and culture of India. Pune’s prestigious Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute was founded as a tribute to him in 1917 on his 80th birthday.
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25 Jul
Many might have heard of the recent disastrous flooding in parts of the Konkan region, incl in the city of Chiplun. Chiplun is where I grew up & where family & friends still live. It has been sobering to witness the disaster thru phone calls & whatsapp messages & pictures.
As usual, it was neighbors who helped neighbors. It was ordinary ppl who rose to the occasion, more than local govt or national response teams. Ppl rushed to help others & carry them to safer locales; brought food & water to the stranded; arranged for volunteers & local NGOs..
Those on the upper floors invited those on the lower floors to stay with them, while they all saw the latter's loved homes sweep away; others made lunch & breakfast for all. Folks with inverters allowed everyone to come charge their phones so they cud get in touch with loved ones
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11 Jul
This is to say thanks to the many medicos who'v been, at great risk of bein abused by trolls, callin out misogyny & sexism in medical circles. Not to mention calling out religious & casteist bigotry which is as prevalent in the medical field as elsewhere in India today.
Thanks also to those who shared stories of how sexism & misogyny hav been trivialized & normalized in the profession (eg this tweet). Sad to see many medicos still refusing to acknowledge these issues & instead choosing to blame feminism, "wokeism" etc
I am sure ther r other medicos who desire to learn & expand their understanding. Since Twitter can be a tricky place to learn such stuff, esp with many so-called influencers actually being bigoted duds, talking directly to decent colleagues around is a better way to go.
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16 Jun
There's many non-factual elements here as @sarayupani has pointed out, & many lazy assumptions as @Shehla_Rashid's brave timeline shows.

But it is clear that there r several folks who think this way. So here's my two cents on this phenomenon of privileged Hindu savior complex.
When a person or a group around us is being oppressed, most of us speak out and protest not to do THEM a favor, but bcz we find the act of oppression abhorrent & an assault on basic human values. We r sending a message more to the oppressor than the oppressed..
Yes it's imp for the oppressed to know they're not alone, but it is also imp for the oppressor to know that they ARE alone, that we do not support their actions and ideas. And in that sense, when we privileged speak up (whether for Muslims or other oppressed groups)...
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27 May
An awesome pleasure of reading academic scholarship is that we begin to look at things we previously thought we knew well, in totally new and different ways. One of many such enlightening instances for me was reading Venera R. Khalikova's 2017 article on Ramdev. (1/n)
There is a lot of excellent research in the article, and i will focus only on a few points from it. As we all know, Ramdev began as a Yoga guru. Khalikova says that India has had many yoga gurus in the past who have done much to bring yoga to the ordinary Indian (and foreigner)..
.."but Ramdev’s success in reaching out to large audiences is truly unprecedented because it is based on the spread of mass media and the growing availability of communication technologies since India’s economic liberalisation."
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