Mugdha Singh

Collector of imperfect things. Arm looper. Subtext tormentee.

[Mugdha Singh @mugdhasingh]

Re-sharing this brilliant thread on grief by @LaurenHerschel. For anyone who is grieving, I hope it'll help you understand what living with grief looks like over time. It helped me tremendously.

Strength and healing to all of us.

[Lauren Herschel @LaurenHerschel]

After what has been a surprisingly okayish Christmas, I had a moment today in SuperStore. Saw a lady who reminded me of my 92yo grandma, who even in the early stages of dementia, completely understood that my mom died.
I thought I’d share the Ball in the Box analogy my Dr told me

[Mugdha Singh @mugdhasingh]

@SingaporeAir This is unacceptable! My friend has had to reschedule her flight because of an emergency surgery. She has all the files to back it up and yet you're not helping her out with her refund & other concerns.

Do better than to add to the stress of a recovering patient.

[Ramneek Kaur @Ramneek54482710]

@SingaporeAir someone who has always regarded SIA highly, this experience has been incredibly frustrating.

Following surgery, I’ve spent days receiving contradictory information regarding my cancellation, refund, baggage refund and seating assistance.

[Mugdha Singh @mugdhasingh]

@IndiGo6E @DGCAIndia @JM_Scindia
@MoCA_India @CAAA_SL

[Mugdha Singh @mugdhasingh]

So apparently you can reach Delhi T1 1.45 hrs before your flight, go to the "Ready to go" automated counter, but be sent to the regular check in line because you are 600gms overweight (when I'm not carrying any cabin bag), wait 45 mins to get to the counter, @IndiGo6E +

[Mugdha Singh @mugdhasingh]

@IndiGo6E Sent a DM. I have already paid to get a seat on the next flight, I doubt you can help me with anything other than a refund at this point. But you can definitely fix the utter chaos and confusion at the Terminal and not cause unnecessary stress for passengers.

[Mugdha Singh @mugdhasingh]

PSA for everyone flying out of Delhi T1, go to counter H10 if your flight is departing in the next one hour. And then to F10 if there is a big queue at H10.

[Mugdha Singh @mugdhasingh]

But credit where credit is due, your staff at all the counters were courteous and helpful, even while dealing with extremely anxious passengers who were all missing their flights or about to at no fault of theirs. Please fix the chaos at Delhi T1 @IndiGo6E.

[Sagar @Sagar_reporter]

Except Jharkhand, India's major coal fields are now in BJP-ruled states. Adani Power will grow exponentially, which will mean more displacement of Dalits, Adivasis, and agriculturist castes from their homelands, and which will mean more destruction to enviornment.

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

Clear Mandate Against Constitutional Democracy…

[Vidya @VidyaKrishnan]

Every single day this week a woman has been gang raped. Not garden variety rape. A gang of thugs got together and took turns raping, like a sport.

The youngest was 6yo. But this 👇🏾is "news" in this country cursed with horrible men who run everything.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

#UmarKhalidBailPlea: Can you fathom the absurdity of this? The Supreme Court of India says "continued detention has not crossed constitutional impermissibility to override the statutory embargo as against them" in the case of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam.

In other words, Justice Aravind Kumar means that although a constitutional court can grant bail if the period of incarceration is long, unjustified, or disproportionate, in the case of Khalid and other, the time in jail is NOT YET long enough, the delay is NOT YET shocking or unconstitutional, and that Article 21 right to life and liberty has NOT BEEN VIOLATED yet!

The constitutional right to liberty has NOT reached a level STRONG ENOUGH to defeat the draconian UAPA bail prohibition! FIVE YEARS in jail without possibility of trial starting is not good enough for Hon'ble Lordships Justice Aravind Kumar and Prasanna Varale!

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

Ram Rahim comes out of jail today, on the same day that Umar Khalid’s bail application is denied.

Let that sink in. A child rapist has more rights than a student who dared to question the government.

#NewIndia

[Maria Khan @mariakhan_11]

India is burning through real problems and Parliament is busy fighting with two words that kept this country together..
Priorities are a joke at this point.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

Umar Khalid and others have been denied bail by the Delhi High Court, despite, five years or so of incarceration. Many of us fail to see it, but the rot in the judiciary has become far greater than we imagine. Today’s dismissal of the bail pleas, by a bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur (she retires in a few days) is only the latest reminder.

It is not merely about one man, or one case. It is about an institution that has forgotten its own constitutional role. Bail is the rule, jail is the exception we are told. Yet, for five years now, the ten young Muslim scholars, activists have been imprisoned without trial on charges so frivolous that they would collapse under the slightest judicial scrutiny.

The High Court’s refusal to intervene, to insist on first principles, is not delay or caution: it is complicity. The two judges have treated liberty as expendable. We must ask ourselves this: do we still need to wonder how much this rot has taken hold?

When a candidate with questionable integrity is allowed to ascend under a cloud of suspicion as a future Chief Justice of India, what exactly are we comparing or crying about? The Supreme Court Bar, under @vikassinghSrAdv, did not even utter a word, acted like a servile notary, and stamped its approval on a process everyone knew was rotten. A profession that once prided itself on defending rights showed that it lost its moral compass.

Ask most lawyers in Delhi and they would find pride in assuring one that the matter will be “fixed” before pliant judges who they would allow being appointed.

One need not think too hard to guess what kind of persons such a Chief Justice will appoint as member of the Collegium, persons who will go on to hear bail pleas of other Khalids and Fathimas. This is the context in which their bail plea dismissal should be seen. It is not an aberration—it is a symptom. The judiciary has normalised the language of suspicion (that is all that the larger conspiracy case is about) to justify indefinite incarceration. And the Bar has normalised its own complicit silence.

We need to take a long, hard look at ourselves and ask what we have done to arrest this rot. Until we do, many more Umar Khalids and many more Gulfishan Fatimas will continue to languish in prison on charges so flimsy they would not survive in any -serious democracy-.

https://t.co/y2qXG1Xy3m

https://t.co/5XP6OJabGz

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

That the most vile and uncouth elements of society are also expressing sadness today only shows that the two judges have surpassed even the Executive’s expectations and outshone their fellow judges who lacked the courage to *fully* oblige it. Slow claps.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

Wow what a Masterstroke! Perfect way to ensure every democratically elected opposition government is toppled—legally.

Such good intentions—there’ll be no need to engage in horse trading. A part of that money can be used to lure CBI/ED Directors to arrest. Too good! 🤩