Archna Singh

Foodie with a passion for travel. Lazy thinker. Value work ethic and innovation.

[Archna Singh @ArchnaMIC]

@GenShinozakiMD Congratulations. We all need to find hope from inspiring stories. All the best

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@dtptraffic Still not fixed

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@dtptraffic JPNATC Traffic light still not fixed

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@dtptraffic But it was still not working at 5 pm

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@dtptraffic traffic signal at AIIMS JPNATC center crossing for past two days. Utter chaos.

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@lavsmohan Yes. This happened to me too. The minute I heard that I was supposed to have sent illegal stuff abroad, I disconnected the call. Why is no action being taken to trace these scamsters?

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@ShamikaRavi @drambujroy
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@manujosephsan That’s because most of India is surviving not because but despite the system. We have survived many apocalyptic events and onslaughts. There is a collective fatalistic attitude and so we survive or hopefully, escape.

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@AdityaRajKaul @rakeshkhar It is an example of what will power can achieve; it is also a comment on how our system is failing its citizens by propagating the “ Jami jamayi vyavastha”.

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@AAI_Official at Patna airport- saw the luggage handling staff throw suitcases across the room for loading on luggage trolley! Hard top suitcases were being thrown over other luggage recklessly. No wonder we get damaged luggage on arrival!

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@dtptraffic flagrant violation of traffic lights on Vivekanand marg in RK Puram.

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While every Indian knows about Jallianwala Bagh massacre, few of us think about the reactions of the British public to the event. The massacre itself was blacked out by the government in India and martial law was in place. When news got out, the British tabloids referred to Jallianwala Bagh massacre as the “Amritsar affair” — in an obvious use of minimising language.
How could the “affair “ change the attitudes of British public if they were denied truth? The answer lies , as often, in the efforts one man. A man whose origins are as far away from Punjab as one can imagine.

Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair was born in an aristocratic family in 1857 in Palakkad district of Kerala. His strong sense of fairness and justice, drove him to pursue law. Nair was an iconoclast and defied the dictates of Vakil association, which said no Indian would work under a British barrister. His reason : his clients had the freedom to choose their lawyer. To him justice mattered more than the color of the lawyer’s skin. He was a vociferous advocate of social reforms.

As Madras High court judge, he ruled that those who converted to Hinduism cannot be treated as outcastes. He also supported inter-religious marriages and was clearly ahead of his time. He became the youngest leader of Indian National congress. When the Montagu Chelmsford reforms were introduced in 1908, he called out the act as being partial. Even though Sir Edwin Montagu called him an “impossible man” , the British respected his moral rectitude and knighted him in 1912. In 1915 Nair became a member of the powerful Viceroy council and was given the education portfolio.
Then Jallianwala Bagh happened.

Nair resigned from the Viceroy council in protest - something unheard of , at that time. . He wrote “Gandhi and Anarchy” in which he openly accused Punjab Governor Michael O’Dwyer (the man who would be later shot by Shaheed Udham Singh). In response, O’Dwyer filed a defamation suit against Nair.

Nair faced a suit against a British man in a British court , presided over by a British judge and a British jury. All cards were stacked against him - yet he fought valiantly. The trial was the longest civil case London had seen until that time and lasted five and a half weeks. It laid threadbare the British atrocities in India and got extensive press coverage , something neither Nair nor O’Dwyer could have imagined. The British public, for the first time, understood that the call for Indian Swarajya wasn’t rebellious or seditious.

Sadly Nair lost the case 11 to 1 and had to pay a fine of 500 pounds. O’Dwyer said he would forgo that amount if Nair apologises. To which Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair said, “ I would rather pay 500 pounds than say something I don’t believe in. Besides what’s the guarantee that the next 12 shopkeepers in a British court wouldn’t side with their own? “

His fearless nature ensured that people all over the world heard about Jallianwala Bagh massacre. From New York to Paris, from Berlin to Moscow , Nair shook the image of the mighty British Empire, if only for five weeks.

Not all battles are fought for victory. Some are fought simply to tell the world that someone was there on the battlefield. The greatest tragedy such a warrior can face is being forgotten, erased from the history books of the very nation he fought for. The least we can do to correct such historic wrongs, is to tell our children about courage and conviction of our heroes.

Happy Independence Day !

Jai Hind !

[Archna Singh @ArchnaMIC]

@nitin_gadkari Honest dedicated national highway patrol with strict enforcement of rules is the need of the hour. People respond to reward and punishment only.

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@dtptraffic @dcptsr
The JPNATC traffic light has been out of order for weeks now. It’s a busy junction with buses rushing through it. Please try to get it fixed.

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@dtptraffic AIIMS JPNATC traffic light out of order again! Buses rushing through at crazy speed!

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@dtptraffic But it’s still not working…for nearly two weeks at a really busy traffic junction

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

Kanwariyas Dance To Loud Music Inside #Delhi Metro, #ViralVideo Angers Netizens.

https://t.co/jrsGrLa3ya

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@dtptraffic But it has not been repaired yet

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@MukkiMotwani @nitin_gadkari That’s true.. we can’t want power without responsibility. A lot of us only want access to sophisticated infrastructure without any accountability attached to it or knowledge to handle it responsibly

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@AdamMGrant Empire of pain

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@dtptraffic The RING road JPNATC traffic light has been out of order for three days now! The traffic at this busy junction is dangerously chaotic!