Ministry of Women and Child Development say.. the index is related to children, and cannot be representative of the entire population..  https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-drops-further-down-global-hunger-index-to-rank-111th-reports-highest-child-wasting-rate-11697120484216.html  India with a score of 28.7 ranked 111th of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023, according to a report released on Thursday. The country's Ministry of Women and Child Development has said that the rankings are "flawed" and did not depict India's true position. The index is an erroneous measure of hunger and suffers from serious methodological issues. Three out of the four indicators used for the calculation of the index are related to the health of children and cannot be representative of the entire population.  (foot in mouth disease!) The fourth and most important indicator Proportion of Undernourished population (PoU) is based on an opinion poll conducted on a very small sample size of 3,000," the ministry said in a statement. (

The GHI ranked Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka at 102nd, 81st, 69th, and 60th, respectively. In 2022, India ranked 107th out of 121.

Rahul Gandhi के साथ Golden Temple जाने की इतनी बड़ी "सजा", गयी प्रोफेसर साहब की नौकरी! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=438kJ2V3WaI News Tak  Oct 12, 2023
Rahul Gandhi के साथ Golden Temple जाने की इतनी बड़ी "सजा", गयी प्रोफेसर साहब की नौकरी!Did he resign or wqas he thrown out? Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Elc0eT_6s  PM Modi and BJP have no cohesive economic strategy for India: Dr Parakala Prabhakar to TNM

Gandhi’s vision of a constitution was imperfect, but is India paying the price for neglecting it? https://scroll.in/article/1056754/gandhis-vision-of-a-constitution-was-imperfect-but-is-india-paying-the-price-for-neglecting-it Shivakumar Jolad
Oct 02, 2023  He envisaged self-governing and largely self-sufficient village republics and felt that concentrating power would violate democratic principles.

Gandhi had supported a pyramidal structure, with village panchayats at its base. But according to BR Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Constitution, villages were “a sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism” and the cause of India’s ruination. Asserting that a strong Centre was essential for India, Ambedkar argued for a firm Central government with robust limbs (states). Gandhian vision of self-governance Gandhi’s idea of Gram swaraj outlined in Hind Swaraj and later writings envisaged self-governing and largely self-sufficient village republics. He conceptualised villages as “organically and non-hierarchically linked with the larger spatial bodies and enjoying the maximum freedom of deciding the affairs of the locality”, says scholar Shubhangi Rathi.

For Gandhi, the “concentration of either economic or political power would violate all the essential principles of participatory democracy”.

Gandhi’s ideas of decentralised governance had already been experimented with in the princely state of Aundh, Maharashtra, in 1939. The ruler, Bhawanrao Pant, had invited Gandhi to help formulate a constitution that would empower the people to govern themselves. The experiment showcased the positive impact of decentralised governance on education, finances, and social cohesion, but failed to be fiscally sustainable in the long run.

Don't Know Why Delhi Riots Order Upset The Government, It Was The Right Thing To Do : Justice Muralidhar  https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/dont-know-why-delhi-riots-order-upset-the-government-it-was-the-right-thing-to-do-justice-muralidhar-239588 LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK 8 Oct 2023 

In the midst of the communal riots that gripped Delhi in February 2020, Justice Muralidhar had convened a midnight hearing at his residence to pass urgent orders to evacuate a group of patients who were stranded at a hospital in a riot-hit region. The order was necessary as the patients, who required emergency medical treatment at a bigger specialist hospital, could not be moved due to the riot situation. Later in the same day(February 26, 2020), Justice Muralidhar passed another order asking the Delhi Police to decide within 24 hours on registering FIR against certain BJP leaders for allegedly making provocative remarks. In a dramatic hearing, Justice Muralidhar expressed surprise when the Delhi Police claimed ignorance about the speeches, some of which had gone viral in the social media. Justice Muralidhar directed the clips of the speech to be played in the Court for the police officer who was present there and passed a stern order to take a decision on registering the FIR, despite the strong opposition by the Delhi police. On the same night, the Union Government notified his transfer to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

By Not Standing Up For Justice S Muralidhar, Supreme Court Collegium Fails Yet Another Independent Judge Manu Sebastian

https://www.livelaw.in/articles/justice-s-muralidhar-supreme-court-collegium-fails-yet-another-independent-judge-234634

The Oligarch’s Oligarch https://www.monbiot.com/2022/10/30/the-oligarchs-oligarch/   George Monbiot 30th October 2022

Just as we need to get the money out of politics, we have been gifted a Prime Minister who represents the ultra-rich.

While Rishi Sunak was chancellor, the government repeatedly delayed its manifesto promise to ban no-fault evictions. Landlords are ruthlessly exploiting this power to throw their tenants on to the street or use the threat to force them to accept outrageous rent rises and dismal conditions. Had Sunak’s “help to buy” mortgage scheme succeeded (it was a dismal flop), it would have raised house prices, increasing rents and making ownership less accessible: the opposite of its stated aim. But this, as with all such schemes, was surely its true purpose: to inflate the assets of existing owners, the Conservative party’s base.

Public services are collapsing at breathtaking speed. Headteachers warn that 90% of schools in England could run out of money next year. NHS dentistry is on the verge of extinction. Untold numbers are now living in constant pain and, in some cases, extracting their own teeth. The suspicion that the NHS is being deliberately dismembered, its core services allowed to fail so that we cease to defend it against privatisation, rises ever higher in the mind.

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4 insights on BJP’s Madhya Pradesh challenge & why it has thrown Union ministers & MPs into battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnjVT0GmSFM ThePrint  Sep 27, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnjVT0GmSFM
The BJP has so far, over three lists, announced 79 of its candidates for the election to the 230-seat Madhya Pradesh assembly. The second list included three union ministers and four other MPs. In episode 1317 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains what the BJP’s lists say about its plans for the crucial Hindi-heartland state and the challenges it faces, the fallout of the 2020 Jyotiraditya Scindia rebellion against the Congress, and the calculation behind sending national leaders back to state polls.

एक अजीब सी मुश्किल । Kunwar Narayan poem recited  by Rajendra Gupta | Dhai Aakhar Prem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-1n2V83sok   Sep 15, 2023

“समय
पागलों की तरह भटकता रहता
कि कहीं कोई ऐसा मिल जाए
जिससे भरपूर नफ़रत करके
अपना जी हल्का कर लूँ
पर होता है इसका ठीक उलटा
कोई-न-कोई, कहीं-न-कहीं, कभी-न-कभी
ऐसा मिल जाता
जिससे प्यार किए बिना रह ही नहीं पाता”

- कुंवर नारायण
कविता पाठ - राजेंद्र गुप्ता

https://youtu.be/_-1n2V83sok?t=152 Ajeeb ke mushkil be pade aaj kal..

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National Cultural Campaign of Love, Fraternity, Equality, Justice and Humanity.

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Pranesh Prakash @pranesh Oct 3, 2023
Some tech advice for activists & journalists in India:
1. Do not use biometrics to unlock your phone/laptop. Use a strong passphrase.
2. Use full-disk encryption to encrypt the data on your device.
3. Know that you are under no obligation to share your passphrases w/ the police
4. Switch off your device before you hand it over to anyone else. (Don't put it on suspend; turn it off.)

I strongly believe press associations & media groups should be conducting workshops on security for journos. (PS, I'm available to consult on practical digital security.)

I was very careful with how I worded that (having argued against crypto-fantasists in the past). Most people, including lawyers I've come to realize, don't know that you are under no obligation to give up your password or to unlock your device for the police.
If you're an accused, then you have a *constitutional right against self-incrimination* under Art. 20(3). You cannot legally be required to reveal any potentially incriminating info to the police. This isn't being "above the law", it *is the law*. (This is also a right u/ IHRL.)

Pegasus is India’s Watergate moment https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/pegasus-is-indias-watergate-moment/article35434074.ece Adv Pranesh Prakash July 21, 2021 Intelligence gathering needs to be professionalised, parliamentary oversight introduced, and liberties and law protected

“If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.” Those words of Sen. Frank Church, who led one of two committees on intelligence and surveillance reform established in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, are just as relevant in India today given the revelations of extensive surveillance — it is unclear by whom, but signs point to the Indian government — by the use of spyware on people’s phones . While there is much to be said about the international regulation of the unaccountable sale of spyware by shadowy entities such as the NSO Group, it is equally, if not more important to ensure that surveillance in India is made accountable.