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Amit Thadhani
@amitsurg
Surgeon, trekker, occasional musician, part time farmer. Author - The Rationalist Murders. Views are personal. Abusers will be blocked or replied to in kind.
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May 29 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Have you ever heard about the 685-year old man who was arrested in 1948 by Indian police and released after they couldn’t figure out how he survived without any food or water? Read on, because this is one hell of a story! 🧵 Image A mysterious man named Prabhakaran Namboodiri surfaced in Cochin, claiming to be 685 years old. He was staying as a guest of a lecturer in Victoria college. He claimed to consume neither water nor food. People started gathering to have a glimpse of this “siddhayogi “.
Jun 13, 2024 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Buckle up for a great story. 🙂
For many years, SBI Odisha kept writing to the state govt that an urn with the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi were lying unclaimed in their locker in Cuttack. Eventually they got tired and stopped. And then in 1994, things suddenly blew up.
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Image In 1994, Gopal Godse, Nathuram
Godse’s brother, requested Odisha government to hand over the urn containing Gandhi’s ashes so that his and Nathuram’s ashes could be dispersed in the Sindhu together once Akhand Bharat was restored. It obviously led to uproar. 2/n Image
May 25, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ambedkar in Rajya Sabha, 1955:
“ I said that I wanted to burn the Constitution.. The reason is this: We built a temple for god to come in and reside, but before the god could be installed, if the devil had taken possession of it, what else could we do except destroy the temple?” 1/n “We did not intend that it should be occupied by the Asuras. We intended it to be occupied by the Devas. That’s the reason why I said I would rather like to burn it.”
- Dr BR Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha on 19 March 1955. But who was Ambedkar calling “asuras”, and why? 2/n
Mar 14, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Congress needs a better CA as the present one seems to be as incompetent as the party leadership. Short thread with screenshots of the court judgment. The matter goes back to 2019 when congress failed to file its IT returns in time, due to which its income became taxable. 1/n
Image A large number of people “donated” cash amounts in excess of 2000/-. As per law any donation above 2000/- in cash is disallowed. So congress showed it as “voluntary contribution” which has cash limit of 20k. But sadly for them, courts have held earlier that this is taxable. 2/n
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Feb 10, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My daughter was defrauded on @bookingcom on 16th Jan while blocking a hotel room for a friend. She got a notification from the hotel through the app, asking for card confirmation which is a usual practice on the app. On giving the card details, Rs. 94693 was instantly swiped.

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Image Minutes later, the hotel mails her saying their account was compromised and that knew about it but did nothing. She immediately realised the fraud and called @bookingcom . She was assured of refund by the operator. booking.com
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Apr 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This “liver doctor” claims the ranitidine causing cancer controversy is because of an impurity and not ranitidine. But the fact is, the potentially carcinogenic agent, NDMA, is a direct degradation product of ranitidine itself and not just an impurity. ImageImageImage This has been known for some time now. Pharma companies are trying different formulations to retard or prevent degradation of ranitidine into NDMA. But success hasn’t been achieved till date. Ranitidine is inevitably going to have to be withdrawn from the market.
Sep 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Have you ever heard the names of these young freedom fighters, all aged between 21 and 25, who were tried and executed by the British? If not, don’t be sad: you’re one of 99.999% citizens of Bharat who don’t.
Thread follows soon. Image These brave soldiers were from the 4th Madras Coastal Defence
Battery of the British Army and were among a dozen 'rebels' arrested on April 18, 1943, on charges of “acting against the Government and obstructing and/or adversely affecting the war efforts”.
Sep 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Nehru, who said he would fight against INA personally on the Indian border, realised this would be big. He put his appearance on record and walked away with credit for defending the INA soldiers. And then made sure they would never get pension or be employed in the Indian army. It was actually much worse than this. Nehru also begged for continuance of dominion status, which was declined by the British as they didn’t want to take any further responsibility.
Jun 18, 2022 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Rakesh was part of the rioting mob that set fire to Secunderabad railway station. It’s now known that this attack was planned meticulously via multiple WhatsApp groups. “Some of these protesters were allegedly assisted by their tutors who coached them in their entrance exam”. Videos of the attack. Railway police eventually opened fire to control the mob, and Rakesh lost his life. The real culprits, the planners of this “agitation”, are still at large. No hopes from local police since KCR is busy rewarding the rioters.
May 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
And people still claim BJP doesn’t change a single word in school textbooks 🤷🏾‍♂️ I have time and again debunked this myth. Short thread. Image Changes in Rajasthan textbooks during @VasundharaBJP tenure
Apr 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Violence in Amravati after peaceful group removes saffron flags put up along the road during Hanuman Jayanti procession. See video in next tweet. Note that these flags were not on any mosque. The problem is with saffron flag itself and not where it’s put.
Mar 30, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Dr Archana Sharma’s bereaved husband Dr Suneet Upadhyay. Hear him, PM @narendramodi HM @mansukhmandviya And please let us doctors know what action you will take against Kirodi Lal Meena and his subordinate goons from your party who are responsible for her death. Part 2.
Mar 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The reason why most people opt for jobs - stable cash flow. No doubt it’s very important. Entrepreneurship requires capital, ability to “work” your way through the system, a certain ruthlessness. Not everyone’s cup of tea. But job can be lost overnight and with it the cash flow. That’s why govt jobs are the most in-demand. Job can’t be lost. Stability highest. Downside to this obviously is no motivation to perform to the best of ability, common man suffers the cost of this job stability. Those holding up our hospital’s payments since months lose nothing.
Mar 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Another nice initiative under #DigitalIndia - TB Arogya Sathi app. All patients who test positive for tuberculosis are told to download the app, which contains information on the disease and treatment. But that’s not all, it does a lot more than that. Short thread. Patients have to update their treatment by confirming whether they have taken the days dose. Number of missed doses are tracked. Patient knows exactly when the treatment started and will end. These details are entered by the govt DOTS center. Notice something at the bottom?
Jan 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Under the benign gaze of Maratha fort photographer CM, mosques are being constructed inside fort after Maratha fort along with residential encroachments. Even Raigad and Vishalgad, which are pilgrimage sites for the devout Hindus, haven’t been spared. Maratha CM has funds to beautify Dargah inside Vishalgad but none to make a decent memorial for veer Bajiprabhu whom lakhs of Hindus come to pay homage every year.
Dec 6, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Who is the greatest sports person in the history of the world across all domains of physical endurance and achievement? Most of you may not have even heard his name. He is Nirmal “Nims” Purja, the fastest man to climb all fourteen 8000 meter Himalayan peaks - in just six months. Reinholdt Meissner, first to climb all fourteen 8000ers took 17 years to do it. The fastest it has ever been done was 7 years. But Nims Purja did it in an incredible 6 months. He summitted Everest, Lhotse (4th highest) and Makalu (5th highest) in a total of just 48 hours. Total.
Nov 30, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Siddhivinayak temple trust has come out with an app for online booking of darshan in Covid times. If you want to visit, prior online booking is mandatory. Of course like all govt controlled temples, there’s a scam going on in online darshan too. Read this thread. 1/n This Sunday, I went to Siddhivinayak temple with some relatives. When we reached there, a man standing outside one of the flower shops approached us and said that darshan was only possible with prior online booking. But he could get us in immediately, for a fee of course. 2/n
Nov 14, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Cows are vital for farm economy due to gobar which enriches the soil and gaumutra, which acts as both fertiliser and antiseptic. Organic farming depends heavily on cowdung. But that’s not all: entrepreneurs across the world are making furniture and other products from cowdung. This is a student from Birmingham.
homecrux.com/furniture-made…
Nov 13, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Standard policy of the state govt and BMC is to do audit, detect serious lapses, promise funds to rectify them, and then do absolutely nothing further till next audit. This is only the latest, several have already been done earlier with similar results. Short thread follows. Audit from April 2021 - same story. It will cost 150 crores to rectify, money is no problem etc etc. and then nothing done.
m.timesofindia.com/city/mumbai/fi…
Sep 13, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
CoWin is a top class portal for vaccination. Have seen it functioning from both ends: as a person availing vaccination for self and family, and from the perspective of our hospital being a vaccination centre. But some aspects of the portal make it even more special.
Short thread. The portal has a special provision for people with disabilities. They don’t need to submit any document at all, only enter their unique disability registration number and that’s it. Contrary to popular belief, you can get vaccinated without aadhar.
Aug 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
While Uwe Hahn has been a great athlete and coach, he cannot be given credit for Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic performance as Neeraj had stopped training with him since 2019. The rightful credit goes to Bartonietz who has been with him all the way. hindustantimes.com/sports/olympic… Also Hohn had quit as coach of the Indian Olympic team before #Olympics2020 due to differences with the sports authorities on remuneration terms, and joined Australia as women’s team coach.
But more importantly, his wards Shivpal Singh and others were also unhappy with him.