#AnAffordableHeart
Developed by engineers at IIT-Kanpur, ‘Hridayantra’ has the potential of saving the lives of patients .. and that too at a tenth of the cost of the currently available options across the world.  
theprint.in/science/at-iit…
"To be implanted just below the heart, the small battery-operated pumping device comes with a rotating motor which helps pump blood throughout the body"
"“There are total artificial heart pumps and there are Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD), but these can cost over Rs 1 crore a piece, which is far from being accessible even for the upper middle class in India,”
"However, with ‘Hridayantra’, the research team hopes to find a ‘destination therapy’ — a solution that would work for a lifetime."
The device is not going to be cheap because it will be the most advanced version of LVAD available so far. However, we are trying to keep the cost of the product at around Rs 10 lakh — which is about a tenth of the cost of currently available options in the market,”

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Ambedkar in his writing, “Pakistan Or The Partition Of India”, wrote:

"Hinduism is said to divide people and in contrast Islam is said to bind people together.

This is only a half-truth.

For Islam divides as inexorably as it binds."
"Islam is a close corporation and the distinction that it makes between Muslims and non-Muslims is a very real, very positive and very alienating distinction.

The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man.

It is brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only."
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For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt and enmity.

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* Bombing in Mizoram

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1/n
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IMPLICATION

* Assam Rifles is lying.

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Facts in article itself:

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The word you really want is "illiberal".
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