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Sober but funny, prone to epiphany ।Wordsmith। Coffee & books। Hassled Bangalorean। Medtwitter।Earworms। Photos। Neonatology + Child advocacy @DrRajathAthreya
Bangalore
Joined August 2011
Often prone to epiphany .Sober but sometimes funny, .Is a fool’s wisdom more or less.Than a wise man’s foolishness?. @FoolzWizdom.
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Shame on you @the_hindu .#Reasi massacre almost didn’t make to print. Not in to page 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 .Peerzada Ashiq reluctantly files it on Pg 8. No mention of terrorists in the title, but.“Eight pilgrims . as bus came under fire” .How cruel of the said bus!
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You land in #Bangalore, walk out to the quad and realise how Bangalore is Bangalore! From craft beer to scalding hatti kaapi, no touts but technology, love for plants & gardens, non intrusive people… despite that very bad traffic, we may simply have the best city in India.
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Not sure why this post is floating around my TL?! . But I am worried about so many things in this post and picture . A flimsy butterfly needle and no proper IV cannula, drip set hanging in air with no regard for contamination. All monitors switched off and even unplugged just to.
Last week I was at my lowest grappling with typhoid, drug-induced thrombocytopenia (Platelet was falling below 49000) and proteinuria. The medications have been overwhelming with higher antibiotics like Piptaz along with Doxycycline, then Ceftrioxone, Tamiflu, Azithromycin with
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#MedTwitter Attended to a 15 yo accident victim today. Front passenger in a creta which was doing 60-70 on city roads, the tyre bursts and car goes on the median, somersaults and turns turtle. Airbags deploy, both had #Seatbelts on.
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#Bangalore where autodrivers read English newspaper, where coffee is nectar, pubs are pitcher perfect, where jazz in Chowdaiah, kathak at Kalakshetra, demure Kannada girls acing Hindi prachar sabha exams rub shoulders with experts on Faiz and Ferrari, a modern city that has a.
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You are a parent and you are callous and stupid. No where other than India I have found our species to be this reckless with their own children
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Most underrated cuisine on the planet is the North Karnataka cuisine.
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@amshilparaghu I am more than certain, the Marwari, Malayalee and even the Bihari babu will have learnt Kannada. These mercantile immigrants are not new, they have been with us for several decades.
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Double decker flyover has Silkboarded the entire HSR-Agara-Iblur- kadubeesanahalli.stretch .Bigger volume carried swiftly to stagnate in a new bottle neck. Getting out of HSR is a task now!. Have to grow a pair of wings .ಕಾಗೆನೋ ಗೂಬೇನೋ ಆಗ್ಬೇಕು ಅಷ್ಟೆ!
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People, .Pigeon feeding is worse than feeding cockroaches. You are not feeding cockroaches and rodents inside your homes for dharma or karma, are you? . We are already seeing bird fancier’s disease even in children, albeit from much closer contact. #DontFeedPigeons
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Had Bangalore done anything like Ahmedabad has done with Hotel prices, can you imagine the outrage we would have seen?.
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#Bengaluru #Rains #Traffic . This is now on a stretch of ORR which usually doesn’t get inundated. Anyone that does not 💯 need to be out on the roads, please do not venture. 🙏 .@blrcitytraffic
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Which Brihaspati thought that these are right type of slabs for pavements in Bangalore? Was there any ‘foundation work’ or they were just laid on Mother Earth directly? .This is hardly from a year ago at HSR.
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It maybe still be easier to go to the US consulate in Chennai for Bangalore residents.
Karnataka minister urges US Consulate General to set up office in Whitefield.
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#MedTwitter .Dear Paeds trainees, .Talk to your ‘patients’ - reassure them, make them smile. A hospital is no place for a kid: this 5 yo smiled when I told him - no more needles, just cold gel & USG probe, if tickled he’s allowed to laugh! Admired the No of stars he got on the
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Not a scratch! C- spine intact. A thorough 2y survey yielded no injuries either. No impact on head. USG thorax and abdomen all fine. If the seatbelts were not on, they would’ve been thrown around inside the car and suffered severe injuries. #SeatbeltSavesLives
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No this isn’t a clip in slow motion. This is the normal pace of Mysore …. No hurry, not even someone on wheels and a throttle
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Dear Karnataka businesses, companies, hospitals and miscellaneous bodies, .Namaskara!.We can wish “ #Dasara #NaaDaHabba” we don’t have to #Dussehra it. DhanyavadagaLu.
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#Mysore streets at 2050 hours .no curfew or mannangatti! .It is always like this at this time of the day
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@DGlaucomflecken The whole of NHS would surely put a collective kettle on for a cup-a-tea with you.
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Asha tiffins HSR was a melting pot today: a young lady reading ‘My dark Venessa’ (I googled - it is about a 15 yo girl having sexual relationship with her teacher), typical HSR words like optimisation/product floating around and a tempering of ‘Avnu kaas kott karskoLoke naanenu
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Thousands of arteries deprived of gallons of ghee pissed on poDi idlis - happy to see a responsible restaurant chain RamYikeswarm.celebrate #WorldHeartDay2023
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@Naina_2728 @pyaazhater Yes, Delhi also has best Mexican, Italian, Hawaiian, French, Egyptian, Rajasthani, Sinhalese and Vietnamese food, way better than what you find in places of origin. And each and every item tastes like either butter chicken or rajma chawal. Mind blowing!.
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Dear Physicians prescribing #Azithromycin in the first few days of COVID with mild symptoms,.Virus isn’t susceptible!.You are carpet bombing public with macrolides - will lead to AMR, they will become completely useless as antibiotics. A doctor’s pen can prescribe patience too!.
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Land of Sir MV, of Sir Mirza Ismail, a city that N Madhava Rao, Lakshman Rao, the Bangalore Development Committee of 1952 . designed and built as a beautiful, liveable urban space has denigrated in to such inescapable mess!.I wish we could wipe the slate clean and start again.
After an hour of intense thunderstorms this evening, Manyata Tech park in Bengaluru is inundated yet again leaving several commuters stranded. #Bengaluru #Karnataka #BengaluruRains
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They don’t even ‘Dear Parents’ us! . They seem to sell #fear. Will you buy some, dear parent?
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Money laundering 👇.
So used to UPI that I have stopped checking my pockets. This is what I found in my washing machine today😭
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Ghee pudi tragedy is spreading like plague 😢.
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If you haven’t caught up with #PaavaKadhaigal start! .#thangame - what a sweet yet poignant story told with good measure of sweetness & poignancy! .Hate & love are both strong emotions especially in their purest forms. @Sudhakongara_of .@BhavaniSre @kalidas700 @imKBRshanthnu
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Veeresh and his wife are art teachers in government high schools in rural mysore district. They had brought their work to chitrasanthe 2 years ago. Work on their modest home had come to a halt as they waited for funds. We paid the asking price without any hesitation.
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#HMPV. 📌 Human metapneumovirus is not an uncommon respiratory virus infecting children. 📌 This virus has always been in circulation especially in cooler months of the year. 📌 Like other respiratory viruses it spreads from person to person and from surfaces to person. 📌 Most.
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Sorry, this isn’t fraud, such stupidity probably needs to be encashed for greater human good.
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Shame on you @timesofindia for using a ‘visual’ to report a tragic incident. Don’t you hire editors/ writers who have basic training? .@IndEditorsGuild is there a forum to lodge a compliant . @CPBlr sir, if this comes under your remit kindly take it up
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After a night long barking and howling and ruling the streets …
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Last thing we need on a day of #ORR mayhem is people sermonising car users. As though we have a choice! Public transport is a near universal.choice when it is reliable and has last mile connect. Why don’t we ban all private cars on ORR and arrange park and ride? create huge.
Just a friendly reminder that traffic jams are not created by traffic police or buses. We, the people create traffic. Out of 10,000,000 vehicles in our city, just 6500 are @BMTC_BENGALURU buses. If even 25% of the car users today used a bus, there would not be a traffic jam.
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We moved into renovated house a couple of months ago, but the ‘devara mane’ needed some work which got delayed. Finally .Truth - Consciousness-Bliss
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Anatomy of a perfect masale dosey at #GTR Mysore.No red chutney layered inside, no butter, no ghee.Roasted to a golden hue+ spongy, fermented slightly ‘sour’ spongy innards.Palya doesn’t overpower it is just there.Chutney is the best you will ever taste.Childhood relived
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@Maniniaf @DrDeepakKrishn1 I love Bangalore now.But, this tweet reminded me of how awful the garden city was decades ago: pubs & restaurants, leafy boulevards, top notch educational institutes, world class hospitals, music & theatre from not just all over India but beyond too, clean streets.It was awful!.
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One has to agree Bangalore is not one of the most liveable cities on this planet. However, going by what twitter says, no other modern Indian metropolis other than Bangalore has issues which include, but not limited to: roads, regionalism, language issues, signposts, rental.
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SBI Mysore was such a non-SBI.Snr citizens knew officers by their names, were patiently heard, assured that their problems will be sorted out.See who adorns the wall of manager’s office!. Got to see what Old Mysore was all about: kind, unhurried and never lacking personal touch
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Any KadlebeLe chutney lovers out there? You’ve got good taste!
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This is a genuine grouse albeit expressed in a cheeky way. Most people who are new find it strange that security deposit is 10-12 months’ rent. This has been the case for decades & decades in Bangalore and at least in Mysore too. People built extra houses to depend on it for.
Bangalore sounds so good and dreamy until the land-lord asks you for 1 year rent in deposit. 🤣.
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Dear All, . Uru/ooru is a word, meaning city .Bengaluru can be another ooru/uru, as it is - surprise, surprise a city!.Bengaluru is not word to be split into BengaL and uru and certainly not Benga and Luru .(Same way as Chennai is not nai, dilli is not illi, mumbai not a bai) .🙏.
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India’s problem is not it’s young women shaking their leg to a sensuous number. It is young women smoking at every chai ki tapri - .I see the fuse of reproductive ill health, fetal growth restriction, cancer, hypertension, heart disease ans stroke being lit. #smokingisdangerous.
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#WaterShortage round the corner in #Bangalore,but in localities like HSR househelp are made to wash the porch, six cars and the entire width of street with hose pipe turned on for a good half an hour+. You would wonder if it rained or was there a deluge the previous night!
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@nabilajamal_ Dear @nabilajamal please could you delete the video of the child, must be so painful for the family to see this play over and over again in media. For what purpose is the video of the girl in the lift being posted?.
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Lastly, when I see the reckless foolishness of parents driving around kids sticking out of sunroof I don’t understand why that shouldn’t be a criminal offence. Keep yourself and car occupants safe! .#CarSafety #PassengerSafety .N/n
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Local health officer vaccinates a minister at his residence faces enquiry and is suspended. Minister will continue to minister away. The 🎯 is way off the mark, don’t you think?
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3 days into this week and we have already learned 3 new things. Saree is not smart casual . Quarantined because you got vaccinated in India (you may have faked it!) . Vegetarian diet is ‘grass eating’ and takes away your power of thinking . Still 100 Days to go in 2021 😬.
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Why do Wayanad peoples want to rush to forest and all? That too in the dark of the night?.
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#IDliHaageIrliBiDi #LeaveMyIdliAlone movement needs to be started. No micturating (ghee)on this, no smothering it, no making it more colourful, no nothing. Leave them alone!.Only dippa sep seprataa should be allowed.
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I have no qualms in saying I did this. An unprecedented pandemic had locked us all in, hospital ERs were battlefields. A society needed to connect & feel the connect. As HCP would rather not have brickbats or bouquets - this wasn’t that, it was ‘a we are in this together moment’.
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Dear Bangalorean, . The digging, construction of underpasses, fly overs, drains, & pavements,cable laying, metro work, white topping etc will be ongoing for your ‘lifetime’ .Do not live in false hope of a decent, motor able, ‘construction-free’ city. Swalpa adjust madkoli.
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#LiverDoc .1. A Pharma / nutrition supplement giant cannot hold a man of science hostage for stating facts and explaining science .2. We lauded a similar instance when an activist exposed unhealthy ingredients in a ‘health drink’ for children and misleading labels and adverts.
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Just going by a profession, if I have to respect someone for, it will be the Indian home maker mother. It was presumed she wants to be one, it is expected she would be good at it. she never takes a day off, nor does she retire. Her role is well defined to include everything.
What is one profession you have infinite respect for?.
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#LearnToConverseInKannada . Ways to greet .1. Namaskara .2. Coffee /Oota Aayata कॉफ़ी / ऊटा आयता ? Nicer more personal way of saying hello. (Have you had your coffee/meal) . More to follow.
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#KantaraMovie #Kantara . It has a tame Amara chitra katha start and soon improvises to the slickest movie ever made in India. There is simply none other to compare it with. Watch it on a big screen unbiased and before any spoilers reach you. 5.5/5 ⭐️
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NYC can keep its Bagels and Dilli it’s Chole Bhature…. Nowhere on planet these pieces of heaven can sit and steam at 7.30 am other than #Bangalore #ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು
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I was 10, dad came home from PWD office(his work place) one day, slumped from a collective humiliation meted out by an IAS officer,remarked ‘forget anything else just become an IAS you will wield filthy power’ Never again he would say that; maybe he didn’t want me to sell my soul.
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The American MM/DD/YYYY is slightly more irritating than Americans themselves.
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There are people here asking why not! it is only a bit of fun. They may have never seen a child brought to ER with a head injury, seen one too many. Safety on roads, keeping children safe is not a wishy washy thing. Only way to keep kids safe in cars is with seat belts on 🙏.
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#LiverDoc .Objectivity is a virtue that one should aim for in matters of science, especially medical science. ‘I felt bad about how it was told’ ‘I don’t like the person’ ‘He has blocked me and mocked my fellow professionals’ . etc can go right into the bin. Give him a shout.
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Worrying trend in infant feeding . “We are giving formula just one time in a day doctor” has been the refrain of many parents in the very recent months. I was mildly confused as these mothers are breast feeding mostly and the dependence on formula is just for one or two feeds.
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Amongst state provided healthcare systems, TN is much better than most. Having said that, we should stop gloating over how we can see a specialist/get a scan/get operated on in India in a jiffy! While deriding and taking sadistic pleasure in harping on about how terrible the.
//Wow ! I'm so glad you work in the best hospitals on planet earth. I'm sure it must feel amazing//. Of Course. When we have classmates, friends and other users in Twitter / Facebook from US, Canada, UK, Singapore, Australia and most of Europe cry about delay in getting.
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I have a shirt just like that and I often wear it to work. Wish I had the hairline too! What a well dressed decent looking chap! .The IndicBoy however can’t dress up his ugliness with all that can be worn.
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@AdiG1993 Raghu was a 5yo. I was an intern, called to look at infected bite, he had all signs of rabies. He was bitten by a fox. I was told we couldn’t admit, even for diazepam infusion. Had to see them melt into the midnight, nomadic family of 4, all their worldly belongings in one trunk.
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I was left wondering what was it with Bangalore traffic yesterday? It was a trickle! But then #4thofJuly dawned upon me! . Bangalore is just the 51st State.
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#SSE side A . 4 things that stood out for me .1. BGM: soul stirring .2. Believable characters: you feel for them .3. Rukmini Vasanth: Perfect!.4. Ramesh Indira and Sharath Lohithashwa: Perfect & Perfect! . Few things didn’t work, but it is good craftsmanship. 4/5.
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Dear Gov of #Kerala .Why can’t you make God’s own soap why plagiarise and offer BOGOF? .Shame on you!
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A lot of non doctors have now realised that on night duties, doctors as interns and residents may have had no place to rest, would sleep on tables and benches. Shame on the medical education milieu in this country which took pride in dehumanising trainee doctors.
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The soft delights you will never find anywhere else - idlis steamed at home from home made idli batter. It is like tasting a fluffy cloud. (restaurants barely use enough uddina beLe in their batter) .#MatruChef
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Is Onam sadya such a unique thing of the year in Kerala? Such a spread, or grander ‘Habbadadige ’ is very common in Kannada households several times a year, major and minor festivals.
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Ilaiyaraja’s compositions are intoxicating. A talented relative visits home and there was some singing…
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There is Masale Dose, there are friends and then there is Masale Dose with friends
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A visit to Mysore - childhood home feels like you are visiting your child in a boarding school, yearn for him to be back home for good.A child you never want to grow out of childhood.A past you want to be the present.A city that is on a hammock and napping mostly
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@SindhiChokroVB This clip broke my heart. He had it all so sorted out! .Whatever broke him, if at all it wasn’t an aberration of neurochemicals, would be cruelest thing that society coalesced to.
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