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In grief. Nana Patekar. The man who lived life absolutely on his own terms; affectionate in a gruff way (गढ़ड़्या आधी नाही सांगता आले की तु मराठी मुलगा आहेस! When I was first introduced to him). Mistaking me for a Malyali, he said: कुठल्याही angle नी तु गोखले दिसत नाहीस! Gone too soon. You will forever continue to inspire me. Travel well दादा. That I received my only award for journalism from him is truly a cherished memory from 2012. His visit to our studio last year is still one of the most memorable moments for my team.
Got a chance to bathe a rescued elephant “Muthu Maharaja” who serves at the Rescued Elephant Orphanage in Kegalle Sri Lanka, halfway between Colombo and Kandy… later had a ride on his back too!!
#ganpatiseva
#bellathings #elephantsantuary #milleniumelephantfoundation
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The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.
A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.
A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.
These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.
The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.
A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.
#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe
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JUST IN: The United States has not built a new oil refinery in fifty years. Fifty. The last one broke ground when Nixon was president and oil cost $3 a barrel.
Trump just announced a $300 billion deal to build one. The largest energy investment in American history. Port of Brownsville, Texas. Groundbreaking Q2 2026. Binding 20-year offtake agreement. Processing American shale crude. Thousands of jobs in South Texas. “The cleanest refinery in the world.”
The lead investor is Indian.
Reliance Industries, controlled by the Ambani family with a 50.39% promoter stake, operators of the Jamnagar complex in Gujarat, the largest single-site refinery on Earth, are the confirmed major foreign partner. Trump thanked them on Truth Social as “our partners in India, and their largest privately held Energy Company” for their “tremendous investment.”
Now hold two facts simultaneously.
India’s Reliance Industries is investing billions in an American refinery to process American shale oil for American energy dominance. India’s government, led by Modi, is simultaneously importing over 40% of its crude from Russia at war-discounted prices, rejected the US “permission” framing for a 30-day Russian oil waiver on 7th March (“India has never depended on permission from any country”), and continues buying Iranian crude via Chabahar port logistics.
The same country. The same week. Building American energy independence with one hand. Buying Russian crude with the other. This is not hypocrisy. This is the Modi Doctrine operating at its highest expression.
Multi-alignment means India does not choose sides. It chooses deals. QUAD membership for security. Russian crude for energy. Chabahar for Iranian access. Reliance capital for American refining. Israeli defence technology for military modernisation. Gulf remittances for 10 million workers. No formal alliance with any power. Maximum leverage with all of them. Every relationship is transactional. Every commitment is calibrated. Every contradiction serves a constituency.
Trump needs the refinery because the Iran war just proved that 50 years without building one left America dependent on foreign refining capacity for products its own shale produces. The Strait of Hormuz did not just close oil transit. It closed the refined product supply chain that feeds American gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and petrochemicals. Building domestic refining capacity is the structural response to Actuarial Warfare: if chokepoints can be closed by insurance spreadsheets, the only defence is not needing the chokepoint.
Ambani needs the deal because Reliance’s Jamnagar complex processes Gulf crude that transits Hormuz. The same Strait that is mined, uninsured, and defended by 31 autonomous IRGC commands. Diversifying into American shale refining hedges against the exact crisis currently paralysing Reliance’s primary feedstock route. This is not philanthropy. It is the world’s largest refiner buying insurance that no P&I club can provide.
The war created the crisis. The crisis created the deal. The deal was signed by the country whose Prime Minister was just given “permission” to buy Russian oil and told America it never asked.
Fifty years. One war. One phone call. And the billionaire who builds it is from the country Washington cannot decide whether to sanction or celebrate.
Full analysis here.
open.substack.com/pub/shanak…
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At PHDCCI Tourism Hospitality National Young Chef Competition 2025–26, SSCANS Pune emerged as National Winner. Abbas Salehpour & Ruchir Kulkarni presented India’s culinary wisdom.
Chief Guest @gssjodhpur praised culinary legacy.
@phdcci_tourism @symbiosistweet @Peerless_Atul
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I flew a President of India many years ago, on a State Visit—the kind of flight where you expect layers of protocol, noise, and importance.
We were a few hours into the flight at cruising altitude and my colleague and I were in our cockpit seats, focused on the job. Those days during VVIP flights the cockpit door was often open, and the flight deck didn’t feel like a locked fortress.
At one point, I glanced back.
And I was genuinely shocked.
The President of India was already inside the cockpit, sitting quietly in the first observer’s seat behind us and away from our field of view. No announcement. No entourage. No drama. He had come in silently, on his own, with such ease and dignity that neither of us had even noticed him enter.
I immediately started to apologise.
He stopped me with a gentle smile and said,
“I didn’t want to disturb you.”
That single sentence has stayed with me for life.
Because that is what real stature looks like: power without noise, authority without arrogance, dignity without performance.
And then, as we spoke, something even more human emerged. He wasn’t there to intimidate or to be “treated specially.” He was simply curious. He told us he had always been keen to be a pilot as a child but could not due to a medical condition —and he began asking questions the way a fascinated young boy would. About instruments, procedures, navigation, decisions in the air. He listened carefully, absorbed every answer, and looked genuinely delighted to be in the cockpit.
No ego. No entitlement. Just wonder.
And I can’t help comparing that memory with what we see so often today.
Today, we deal with fragile egos—people with small authority who behave like emperors. Politicians and bureaucrats who demand respect but can’t offer basic courtesy. People who want red carpets, not responsibility. Who want to be addressed, escorted, praised—yet won’t even reply to a simple phone call.
Messages go unanswered.
Emails are ignored.
Basic decency is treated like a favour.
No class. No humility. No grace.
That’s why that moment in the cockpit still feels so powerful to me.
Because the President of India didn’t need to announce himself to be important nor did he have a huge ego
that demanded attention.
He had qualities of a leader that are far more important and rare:
Humility,decency and dignity.
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Enjoy this Maharashtrian curry that beautifully balances both tangy and mildly sweet flavours! 😋
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For folks complaining about the winter... 😊
(...this has gone viral on whatsapp) #Pune
Honoured to deliver a plenary talk at the 57th NSI Conference (ICMR–NIN, Hyderabad Nov 14–15, 2025) on -Refocusing Culinary Arts Education for Nutrition
Culinary education can drive #SuposhitBharat & #ViksitBharat through innovation & community impact. #NSI2025 @SSCAPune
Atul A Gokhale, Director Symbiosis Culinary School retweeted
The absurd statements by Trump in recent times like he stopped the war between India and Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, then saying that India is no longer buying Russian oil etc is not just making political noise but it’s a planned strategic manipulative move.
Pavneet Singh analysis the moves of President Trump.
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On the way to Navi Mumbai to take part in the programme marking the inauguration of Phase-1 of the Navi Mumbai International Airport. With this, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region will get its second major international airport, thus boosting commerce and connectivity. The final phase of the Mumbai Metro Line-3 will also be inaugurated. We are committed to enhancing Mumbai’s infrastructure and boosting ‘Ease of Living’ for the people of this dynamic city.
🎂 Happy 75th Birthday, Shri @narendramodi ji! 🙏
On this special day, I wish that you continue to lead with wisdom, strength, compassion, and health. Here’s to many more years of progress, peace, and prosperity. #HappyBirthdayModiJi #NarendraModi75 #PMModi #75YearsOfModi
🪷🌷||गणेश चतुर्थीच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा ||🌷🪷
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi from Symbiosis School of Culinary Arts and Nutritional Sciences (SSCANS)
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A horrible experience with @Uber @Uber_Support, today me and my family was en-route to CP from noida. Near to Parthala Bridge Noida a police intercepter vehicle asked the driver to stop the car but the driver didn’t stop and trying to escape from police vehicle.@noidapolice
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Apply for India’s 1st MBA in Food Tech & Entrepreneurship at SSCANS, Symbiosis Pune via #SNAP2025!
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#MBA #FoodTech #SNAPTest #Symbiosis
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"College degrees are dead. AI will crush elite schools" - Vinod Khosla
I have been saying this will happen unless the current lecture-based university system does not change radically. Expensive liberal arts college education will soon be seen as finishing schools - good for buzz words, but not for real skills. Of course, skill oriented education will still thrive but even here the mode of teaching will have to change. Big disruption ahead.....
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Famous American economist Jeffrey Sachs cautions that US doesn’t want a strong India…hear this to understand the American perspective.
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Is Excessive Salt in Your Food Secretly Harming You?
Did you know India is facing a "silent pandemic" of excessive salt consumption, leading to serious health issues like high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke?
Just had a stark reminder of how much hidden salt is in our food, even when eating out!
This is one among the Trio that we need to Trim - others being Sugar and Fat.
Here is my article on LinkedIn diving into:
•The alarming data on salt intake in India.
•Why it's a critical public health issue.
•Simple, actionable tips to reduce salt in your home cooking!
linkedin.com/pulse/silent-pa…
Every pinch counts! Let's make healthier choices together.
