Surajit Dasgupta
Surajit Dasgupta

@surajitdasgupta

2 Tweets 2 reads Apr 11, 2024
Deal with the attack on Ayurveda with an exposé of the Indian Medical Association, an NGO with a Christian office bearer who nurses pathological hatred for Indic wisdom. First, file a PIL asking how a private group can name itself "Indian", creating a false public impression that it's an institution of the Government of India. While the court may or may not agree the nomenclature is wrong — because the NGO was created long before the law prohibiting the use of words such as "All India", "Indian", "Akhil Bharat", "Bharatiya" etc in the names of private associations — the hearings will make enough news headlines to sensitise the people.
Second, file another petition for the violation of the Societies Registration Act of 1860 by the IMA. The NGO has not been working according to its MoA made in 1928. It's not supposed to do activism. Its current modus operandi is not how its founders like Bidhan Chandra Roy and Nilratan Sircar worked. "They are more politicians than doctors," reads a report about the IMA, which is true, considering its calls for strikes and supporting/opposing both UPA and NDA governments at different points in time.
Third, launch a series of articles detailing the corruption charges against the IMA, especially in the duration of Dr Ketan Desai who held positions in the Medical Council of India (now called National Medical Commission), IMA as well as WMA. How the IMA favours some medical centres, certain medical regimens and doctors of a certain affiliation must be highlighted.
Fourth, file an RTI query at the Ministry of Health, asking whether it allows misrepresentation/identity theft of the departments under the ministry — such as the MCI/NMC — by an NGO.
Fifth, highlight through media articles and broadcasts how several medicines advocated/promoted by the IMA have serious side effects.
Sixth, find out why the Supreme Court has been so considerate of the IMA's points of view and concerns for the past two decades and why it loses its sense of proportion while addressing the side that the IMA opposes, in effect issuing threats to them.
Seventh, since the IMA swears by laboratory tests, keep questioning which lab has established the existence of "God Almighty" or "Jesus Christ" whom the NGO's Johnrose Austin Jayalal swears by.
Disclaimer: Ayurveda is not a form of medicine. Ayurveda is an ancient prescription for leading a healthy life — so healthy that you wouldn't need medicines in the first place. The debate 'Ayurveda or modern medicine' is baseless because the two are not comparable. Certain claims by Patanjali Ayurved are certainly over the top and unscientific. Coronil most certainly couldn't cure Covid-19, but so couldn't any modern medicine. But Patanjali Ayurved alone does not represent India's ancient knowledge of a healthy life. At the same time, users endorse the effectiveness of several other products made and sold by Patanjali Ayurved. And several speculative prescriptions issued jointly by the Ministry of Health and the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were changed every few months during the two pandemic years, raising doubts about their scientific bases. Around the same time, the anti-Covid vaccines prescribed by Western governments and advertised by pharmaceutical companies have shown serious side effects including death.

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