Dr Shilpa Singh, MS, FRCS

Ophthalmologist, blogger, travel enthusiast, experimental cook.
@youridoctor

[Rozita Singh @RozitaSingh]

The best time to plant a #tree was years ago.
The second-best time is today.
In a warming world, trees are not decoration. They are shade, cooling, cleaner air, and protection from heat.
#solutions #climateaction

[Rozita Singh @RozitaSingh]

Small actions won't solve climate change alone.
But they can help us build a culture that values enough over more
Maybe the environmentalism we need isn't just greener.
Maybe it's slower.

#WorldEnvironmentDay #SustainableLiving #CircularEconomy #SlowLiving #ClimateAction

[Dr Shilpa Singh, MS, FRCS @drshilpasingh]

Agree 💯

[Rozita Singh @RozitaSingh]

We normalized carrying ecological grief silently. #ClimateAnxiety

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

There is so much recent negativity about @airindia that I want to put this out.
I have taken 3 flights on @airindia in the last three days.
On Wednesday:Rome to Del
On Thursday: Del to Bom
On Friday: Bom to Del
In every single case the flight was on time. The inflight service was warm & efficient. Luggage came relatively quickly (quickest in Del)
The check in was entirely painless
I don’t think frequent travellers care as much as others about airline food but if you think that’s important then I had a very good dinner on Rome to Del.
On the international sector I
flew one of the older Dreamliners & I am not one of those aeroplane nerds but I thought
it was very comfortable.
It’s second nature for many
of us to bitch about @airindia but it’s one of only two international airlines I
fly regularly. The other is @emirates which admittedly is far better ( & far more expensive) but it is the best airline in the world so it’s better than every other carrier anyway.
The Tatas need to hold their nerve. There is a lot that is good about @airindia that rarely gets acknowledged
@TataCompanies

[Mongabay India @MongabayIndia]

For generations, farmers in Bir village in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district have relied on seasonal rhythms to guide when to sow and harvest crops. Today, many residents say those patterns no longer hold.
@RozitaSingh reports.
https://t.co/QisFk2d0Bf

[kapil bishnoi @Kapil_Jyani_]

मिलावट की भी हद होती है…

बाज़ार में मिलने वाली सौंफ देखिए

हम और आप तो कभी धोकर देखते भी नहीं होंगे

[Dr Shilpa Singh, MS, FRCS @drshilpasingh]

@_PVRCinemas it’s been more than 2 weeks since release of #Dhurandhar2‌TheRevenge .. and the #cancelled premiere show ..
when will we get the #refund of the tickets of the #movieshow
#noresponse from #customercare

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

Some basic dos and don’ts at restaurants. Never let them put a slice of lemon in your drink. The peel is probably full of pesticides. Never dig into the communal bowl of saunf at the end of a meal. You might as well have the germs injected intravenously.
@seemagoswami at her best

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

Goliath won! This era's David can't fight Corporate+Government authorities!

Headlines Today- Kenvue introduces ORSL for diarrhoeal and eRZL for daily hydration!
What can a citizen do when the Govt. authorities are in cahoots with a corporate which is not wanting to do ethical branding of it's product?!
The eRZL is sweetened with SUCRALOSE, an artificial sweetener. It is not allowed below 2 years of age, and even for older children, it is not recommended on a regular basis. It can worsen the diarrhoea, it can affect the gut microbiome, it can cause children develop preferences for sweet foods and lose appetite for healthy foods, and the long term effects are debatable. Abbot had to remove it from Paedialyte for these reasons, and there are multiple court cases against Abbot for these very concerns. For that matter, this can't be recommended for adults also for daily hydration. eRZL is so deceptively similar to ORSL, and is going to be available in pharmacies and hospitals again! Parents who were always believing ORSL was the real ORS, are going to think this is the new version of ORSL(ORS as far as they are concerned), and imagine the havoc it can wreak!
Here, I am requesting you all to write to the Trade Marks Registrar and the FSSAI CEO, and Kenvue has already made the announcement! How did they get permission in less than 2 months for eRZL branding and in less than 1 month for the varieties of eRZL?!
I do not think I can fight this team comprising of the CORPORATE AND AUTHORITIES any more!

@narendramodi, Sir, you stop them from playing with the lives and health of the children, atleast! Please, Sir!

@fssaiindia @MoHFW_INDIA
@JPNadda @CimGOI
@PiyushGoyal @PiyushGoyalOffc #orsl #erzl #hydration #sucralose #kenvue #johnsonjohnson

[Dr Shilpa Singh, MS, FRCS @drshilpasingh]

Got a similar msg .. thankfully didn’t enter any card details.. was wondering y there weren’t any other details shared such as photo, location, option to contest/appeal in court, etc
#scam #trafficchallanscam

[Shridhar V @iimcomic]

Who says Indians are not innovative? Look at the sophistication of this scam 😱 I almost entered my card details before googling the domain. Insane amount of fraud must be happening with so many people. By the time police starts acting on it, they’d make millions! Terrible 😠

[Dr Shilpa Singh, MS, FRCS @drshilpasingh]

@AirIndiaX Bag broken into lock missing shawl and clothes worth 8 to 10 k missing and also bag worth 10 k plus damaged and rendered useless @AirIndiaX @DGCAIndia

[Dr Shilpa Singh, MS, FRCS @drshilpasingh]

@airindiaexpress turning a #Christmas travel to a nightmare needs to be learnt from you. #Zip & #lock of our #suitcase broken with #zero #accountability and labelling it as normal wear and tear is #unacceptable

[Indian Doctor🇮🇳 @Indian__doctor]

Reality Behind White Coat!!
Two Doctors=Two India !!
#medtwitter

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Courageous 🔥

Hats off to Visha Dadlani 👏

This should go viral.

[Yashovardhan Jha Azad @yashoazad]

Why all airlines fail in India & keep failing - a very perceptive piece.

_By Mohan Murti_

There is no rocket science to why airlines fail in India. You don’t need McKinsey. You don’t need economists. You don’t even need a “high-level committee.”

You just need basic common sense — the rarest commodity in Delhi.

Kingfisher didn’t just die — it committed financial suicide inside a bad policy system.

Jet Airways bled out because India taxes aviation like sin goods and prices tickets like charity.

Go First collapsed like a paper boat in the first monsoon.

SpiceJet enters the ICU so often it practically has a loyalty card.

And IndiGo — the last gladiator standing — is one regulatory whim or one ATF spike away from joining the funeral procession.

India is not a land of failed airlines.
India is a land where airlines are engineered to fail.

*THE SIX BULLETS THAT KEEP KILLING INDIAN AIRLINES*

Let’s list the murder weapons plainly:

Aircraft Turbo Fuel- ATF taxes among the highest in the world.

Airport charges that would make even Heathrow blush.

A hyper–price-sensitive market that forces fares below cost.

Weak balance sheets bleeding from day one.

Regulatory bottlenecks that treat aviation like punishment in a Nazi Concentration Camp.

And rupee depreciation — costs in dollars, revenue in Indian sympathy.

India is a graveyard of airlines not because Indians don’t fly, but because the economics are designed for obituary writing.

*THE WORLD BUILDS AIRLINES. INDIA BUILDS TAXES.*

Some countries build Emirates.
Some countries build Singapore Airlines.
India builds taxes, paperwork, and bankruptcy tribunals.

We should erect a memorial at every airport entrance:

“In honour of all Indian airlines that died fighting the Ministry of Finance.”

*THE COUNTRIES THAT GET IT RIGHT — AND WHY WE DON’T*

Look at the Gulf carriers. They don’t run airlines; they run strategic state instruments with wings. They aren’t “subsidised”—they’re structurally blessed. Their fuel isn’t taxed into oblivion the way we do it here; in fact, jet fuel in Dubai is practically cheaper than mineral water.

Their airports aren’t overcrowded shopping malls with landing strips attached; Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi built aviation hubs as national economic engines, not real-estate jackpots.

Try firing a crew member in India — you’ll need a year, a lawyer, and a prayer.

Try doing it in Dubai — it’s finished before the coffee cools.

Their governments don’t fear ordering 100 new widebody aircraft because they actually understand aviation is strategy, not gamble. Emirates isn’t an airline — it is Dubai’s foreign policy, a national soft power, on autopilot.

And then there is Singapore Airlines — the gold standard, the airline equivalent of a Swiss watch.

Singapore Airlines is owned by Temasek but run by professionals, not cousins, cronies, retired bureaucrats, or the occasional political nephew.

Most importantly, Singapore treats aviation as nation-building, not a cow to be milked dry with ATF taxes.

India insists it is a “deregulated market” where airlines are “free to set fares.”

India does not officially dictate ticket prices.

It unofficially dictates what airlines can get away with.

DGCA “advises.”
Ministers “summon.”
Media “outrages.”
And airfare “caps” appear magically out of thin bureaucratic air.

Then comes UDAN — Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik — a scheme that caps fares on routes that no sane airline can serve profitably.

Airlines cannot raise fares without being accused of daylight robbery.

But ATF taxes? Those can rise anytime, without warning and without apology.

India pretends to be a free market
but behaves like a controlled ration shop with runway access.

*THE FINAL TRUTH*

Airlines don’t crash because of pilots.
They crash because policymakers tax jet fuel like champagne and operate aviation like ration distribution in the sky.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

DigiYatra promised your data stays on your phone..This court battle shows it never really did.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Stubble burning was NOT the main cause of spike in air pollution, vehicular pollution and dust is as per a detailed CSE report based on hard data. Listen in to Sunita Narain from CSE.

[BNO News @BNOFeed]

6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19

[Amil Bhatnagar @AmilwithanL]

People coming back from hot air balloon ride in delhi