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  The Drugs ( Antibiotics) don’t work : By professor Dame sally Davis  - Excessive use and abuse - self medication  - Not completing the prescribed course - Abuse of antibiotics in poultry  - Abuse in animal breeding  - Cheap copycat pharma companies - Silence of scientific community  - Third world challenges - lazy and lousy governments

Tashkent Diary ; A book by S Umesh  " This book is a consise biography of the former PM of India Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri Ji, focussing more on the events prior and after his sudden demise in 1966 @ Tashkent, USSR "  Foreword : Shri Venkaiah Naidu                       (Hon. VP of India) ################################# When Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri ji died in Tashkent these happened.... These are facts! a) There was no postmortem despite his family insisted on it!  b) His family was not allowed to even reach his mortal remains for many hours after reaching Delhi!  c) Lal Bahadur shashtri was warned by the indian embassy ( Mr Dutta was the ambassador then) not to stay in the villa arranged by the host USSR due to security reasons instead was asked to stay with indian high commission but PMO cleared it!  d) The Russian doctor who examined Shashtri ji after his death did not sign in the death certificate w...

ನಲ್ಮೆಯ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ ನಮಸ್ತೆ  ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಾ....ನನ್ನ ನೆನಪುಂಟಾ? ಕಳೆದ ತಿಂಗಳು ಊರಿಗೆ ಬಂದಾಗ ನೀವು ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಿತ್ತು ಕಳುಹಿಸಿದ "ಕನುಸುಗಳು ಖಾಸಗಿ " ಓದಿದೆ. ಎಲ್ಲ ಕಥೆಗಳೂ ಕುತೂಹಲವನ್ನು ಉದ್ದೀಪಿಸುವಲ್ಲಿ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗಿವೆ.  'ರುಕ್ಕುಮಣಿ'ಯಲ್ಲಿನ ಅಮ್ಮನ ಪೂರ್ವ ಮತ್ತು ಮಗಳ ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ಗಳ ನಡುವಿನ ಜಿಜ್ಞಾಸೆ, ಮನೆಯ ಕಾಪಾಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂಧಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದ ಗುಟ್ಟುಗಳು, ರುಕ್ಕು ಮತ್ತು ರೋಜ್ ಎಂಬ ಭಿನ್ನಗಳು , ಅಮ್ಮ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಬಂದದನ್ನ ಮಗಳು ಅರಸಿ ಹೊರಟಿದ್ದು ಮತ್ತು ಬಲಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದು!  'ಕೆಂಪು ಹಾಲಿ'ನ revealed and unrevealed, ಮುಗ್ಧತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕ್ರೌರ್ಯ (ಹಾಲು ಮತ್ತು ರಕ್ತ ಅಂದುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾ ), 'ಭೇಟಿ'ಯಲ್ಲಿನ ಮೀರುವಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ನೀರರ್ಥಕತೆ, 'ರಿಕವರಿ'ಯ ಅಸಹಾಯಕತೆ ಮತ್ತು ವಾಸ್ತವ, 'ಅಜ್ಜಿಯ ಕಥೆ'ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣಿಸುವ ಮನೋವ್ಯಾಪಾರ ಮತ್ತು ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಔದಾರ್ಯ, 'ಹಿಂಸಾರೂಪೇಣ'ದಲ್ಲಿನ ಹಸಿ ವ್ಯಂಗ್ಯ, 'ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ'ಯ contradiction ಮತ್ತು ಇವೆಲ್ಲ ಕಥೆಗಳಿಗೂ ಅವುಗಳನ್ನು ಅರ್ಥೈಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಸೂಕ್ತ ಆನಿಸುವಂತ " ಕಥನ ಕುತೂಹಲ" ಕಥೆ ನನಗೆ ಬಹಳವಾಗಿ ಹಿಡಿಸಿತು.  ಆದರೆ ''ಕನಸುಗಳು ಖಾಸಗಿ'' ಕಥೆ ನನಗೆ ತುಂಬಾ ಡ್ರಾಮ್ಯಾಟಿಕ್ ಅನ್ನಿಸಿತು, ಸಿನಿಮೆಯ ರೀತಿ ಅನ್ನಬಹುದು.  ಈ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಥೆಗಳನ್ನೂ ಒಂದೇ ಗುಕ್ಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿದೆ....

 #A good book but OVERRATED # Just finished reading " Jonathan Livingston sea gull " story and i must say, this is one of the most overrated books of our times 🤭 Richard Bach is very good in explaining the nuances of flight (himself being a pilot) and tying it to the fable he unravels by employing the SEAGULL bird, but the fable itself is known to mankind for ages! The books like these are more accepted by business freaks across the world for its VALUE than literary or social communities for its MEANING!

Bernie Sanders says that the only lobby which wins 98% of the time in the US Senate is the Big Pharma lobby.  What is big Pharma?  'Big Pharma' comprises of Huge pharmaceutical companies mainly from US and Europe (Pfizer, johnson and johnson, gsk, eli lilly, Bristol mayers Squibb, Roche, Astrazeneca, Merck and co, Novartis, Bayer, Sanofi etc.)  What do they do? These companies are into life saving medicines for cancer, heart diseases, organ rejection, psychological drugs, rare drugs etc these are also called as branded drugs because they are developed by the Pharma Companies themselves by putting in lot of efforts and money into R & D or atleast they say! Why are prices high?  One of the main reasons why these companies keep the price of these medicines high is inflated research and development costs.They also unilaterally rise the prices of these medicines without any logic and consultation. In the past 20 to 25 years the cost of some of the life saving medici...

 iPhone is a luxury brand as always promoted by Steve jobs and a key differentiator as a symbol of desire .... Google is an organiser of world's information for which you dont pay a cent... Facebook is an obsession where the privacy dissolves fast at the expense of social relevance and quench for acceptance.... Amazon is a world's everything store ( A to Z as per its logo) which mainly operates by predatory pricing, intelligent tax evasion and an unmatched appetite for growth.... Slowly and steadily these trillion dollar companies are encroaching our lives and societies, getting bigger than governments and institutions showing no signs of stopping anytime soon. They have embraced all the tech which is poised to rule the world for decades to come. Scott gallaways book is a " tour de force " of software tech written in a cult way for anyone interested in knowing how the post IT revolution world is operating, organizing and heading!

## Massive Health fraud that showed country in a very poor light Author : Katherine eban Released : July 2019 About : This book is about the blatant lies Ranbaxy, the largest generic drug company then, told to the most strict regulator FDA for a period of 10 years (early 2000 till 2010) Lies : A company wide falsification of batch data, creating false documents overnight, creating false trial - patient data, backdating information, destroying records, fake tests, tests with competitor ( branded drugs) material to show how good are generics etc. Quality Impact : Drugs that are cheap for US, Europe, latin america, asian and african market but are JUNK when it comes to efficacy rates! Whixh means they either dont work or kill patients (because of no timely release of active ingredients or killing impurities) Involvement : The then CEO of Ranbaxy and Fortis hospitals (yes Ranbaxy owned fortis as well then), Malvinder singh, his brother shivinder, Abha pant of regulatory affairs, D S Brar (...

Avi Jorisch 's book is a fitting revelation of the ingenuity of the Israeli people i.e. Jews-Christians-muslims-Druze alike. This book is organic in nature which connects the personal struggles, concerns of the innovators in solving a diring problem not just for the immediate community but for the world. The words like chutzpah, tikkun olam are almost cultural ethos which are filled with goodness inspired by the strong jewish beliefs. The very expression " Saving a life is saving the world" tells a lot about the foundation on which the israeli innovation stands on. This could be life saving ambulances, deep brain stimulation therapy, drugs for multiple sclerosis, pain medication, ortho supportive wearables or yield increasing watering methods, grain saving cocoon bags or desert agricultural methods or harnessing the sun most efficiently, protecting the country from missile attacks through iron dome or saving lifes through protective bandages or advance security system...

This is a first hand, day to day account of what happened in those three months ( june to august) when Dr.Manmohan singh under the aegis of Narasimha Rao opened up Indian economy forever to foriegn investment in 1991.  It gives a very good insight into the state of indian economy then, thought process behind these drastic policy changes, inhibitions from inside the ruling congress party and opposition from left and the BJP amongst other parties. And in the process how the team manmohan singh was determined to change india for good. This happened with consultations from all political parties taking all into confidence.  India with its skepticism with foriegn businesses due to its experience with british colonisation had a good reason not to open up. But destiny had its own course which is evident in PVN becoming prime minister after assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and manmohan singh becoming the first bureaucrat finance ministry which led a huge and a risky proposition at that ti...