Besides Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, Ambani is the only Indian who has been appointed on the Advisory Committee to the President of COP28. https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/reliance-chairman-mukesh-ambani-joins-advisory-committee-of-global-climate-change-panel-cop28-383005-2023-05-26
The COP28 UAE Advisory Committee brings together climate experts from six continents. The 31 members of the Committee, who represent policy, industry, energy, finance, civil society, youth, and humanitarian and 65 percent of whom are from the Global South, will provide guidance and counsel to the COP Presidency in the run-up to COP28 and beyond

https://planet.outlookindia.com/news/mukesh-ambani-joins-cop28-president-s-advisory-committee-news-415356 The 31 members of the Committee, 65 per cent of whom are from the Global South and represent policy, industry, energy, finance, civil society, youth, and humanitarian issues, will provide guidance and counsel to the COP Presidency in the run-up to COP28 and beyond.

https://themorningcontext.com/business/why-cop28-matters-to-mukesh-ambanis-new-energy-ambitions Mukesh Ambani's plans to turn Reliance Industries into a green energy powerhouse could get a boost if climate negotiators manage to agree on certain aspects of the energy transition. It helps that Ambani himself has found a spot on the panel. 

Right to Information (RTI) & Privacy: Congruent or Contradictory? Panel Discussion  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOZLvR_mkI IMPRI Impact and Policy Research In

[Apar Gupta Puts the whole debate in the real context of the "state" growing frighteningly more and more authoritarian and the "individual" getting weaker and weaker.]

What has to be, in this context, kept in mind is that both "privacy" and "transparency" have two sides.
One, the right -- whether "transparency" or "privacy" -- of the "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" and vice versa.

Puttuswamy had filed his case in the context of the Aadhaar. Aadhar, it was apprehended, would make the "individual" unduly "transparent" to the "state".
This "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" aspect must be on top of our collective mind.
We've, as a rule, to strengthen the "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" -- whether in terms of the "right to know" or "the right to privacy".

That has got to be the bottom line.
Even then, if a conflict arises between the interests of a privileged individual and a commoner, then it's the latter we must bat for.

The Indian Express का विस्फोटक खुलासा_Cyprus Confidential: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgl6kp8pGVY Vinod Adani, Surendra Hiranandani, DESH NEETI

https://youtu.be/TM9vJX7d-c0

Cracking Cyprus Confidential: EU state gave investors tax haven, secrecy – and a golden passport https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/cracking-cyprus-confidential-eu-state-gave-investors-tax-haven-secrecy-and-a-golden-passport-9026642/ Cyprus Confidential: Another veil lifts on offshore money flows involving Russian oligarchs, Syrian warlords and global investors including Indian corporates.
Written by Ritu Sarin , Shyamlal Yadav

The investigation lifted the wraps on a complex maze of investments made by prominent Indian businessmen in Cyprus who cashed in on its range of benefits: from preferential — and loosely controlled — tax rates to tax exemptions on income and gains of offshore trusts; zero estate duty, no trust registration requirements and the promise of beneficial owner secrecy.

What the investigation found | Vinod Adani, Pankaj Oswal among 66 Indians who got golden passport https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/vinod-adani-pankaj-oswal-among-66-indians-who-got-golden-passport-9026977/

Rahul Gandhi responds to PM Modi’s statement, “Poor is the only caste” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQsqonsPPQ Nov 14, 2023 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioning his identification as an Other Backward Class (OBC) member while claiming to see only poverty as the prevalent ""caste"" in the nation. During a public rally in Durg, Chhattisgarh, Prime Minister Modi asserted that poverty is the only caste for him, emphasizing his commitment to serving the poor.

Modi also called out the Congress for allegedly abusing the OBC community and questioned the basis for such criticism if he himself identifies as OBC. In response, Rahul Gandhi, speaking in Chhattisgarh on the same day, mocked the Prime Minister's ""poor is the only caste"" statement, questioning why Modi still refers to himself as an OBC if he believes there is no caste and only poverty in the country.

Additionally, Gandhi addressed the use of the term 'vanvasi' by the BJP to refer to tribal communities, stating that it is an insult to them. He argued that the Congress prefers the term 'adivasis' for tribals, emphasizing the significance of the word 'adivasi' as a revolutionary term that recognizes them as the original custodians of the country's water, forests, and land. Gandhi pledged to eradicate the term 'vanvasi' and its implications from the country.

https://www.youtube.com/@arvindguptatoys

Curator Ranjit Hoskote Resigns from German Arts Panel Due to Row Over 2019 Statement Critical of Israel https://thewire.in/the-arts/curator-ranjit-hoskote-resigns-from-documentas-finding-committee-over-anti-semitism-allegations Hoskote’s resignation is the latest in a string of escalating scandals that have followed an anti-BDS resolution passed by the German parliament in 2019, with artists and curators increasingly finding themselves targeted by weaponised accusations of anti-Semitism.

my signature on a petition circulated by the Indian Cultural Forum and dated August 26, 2019, protesting a discussion hosted by the Consulate General of Israel in Mumbai, on “Leaders’ Idea of Nations: Zionism and Hindutva.” The invitation for this event presented a portrait of Theodor Herzl, the founding figure of Zionism, alongside a portrait of V. D. Savarkar, a founding figure of Hindutva.

My reason for signing this petition was because the event clearly posited an equivalence between Herzl and Savarkar, and was intended to develop intellectual respectability for an alliance between Zionism and Hindutva. I found this highly ironic, since Savarkar was known to be an admirer of Hitler and openly expressed his admiration for Nazi ideology and methods, which he proposed as a model for a Hindu-majoritarian India to follow, especially with regard to the treatment of the religious minorities.

No member of the German commentariat who denounced me has asked herself or himself why the Israeli Consulate General thought it appropriate to equate Zionism with Hindutva in the first place.

 Adani Group advisor’s presence on Environment Ministry’s expert committee flags conflict of interest
Janardan Choudhary, an advisor to Adani Green Energy Limited, was also reportedly part of a meeting in October when a project by the company came up for evaluation https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/opposition-parties-slam-government-over-reported-appointment-of-adani-energy-advisor-on-environment-ministrys-committee/article67531668.ece Mr. Choudhary clarified to the Press Trust of India (PTI) that while he had attended the October 17 meeting, he had refrained from participating in the session focusing on AGEL’s Tarali project. The minutes of the meeting, perused by The Hindu, show that he participated in the meeting on October 17 “via video-conferencing” but was absent on October 18. The records, however, do not suggest that he recused himself from the meeting.

.. A senior official in the Ministry, familiar with the procedures around EAC proceedings, told The Hindu on condition of anonymity that having members affiliated to industry in the EAC committees was not out of the ordinary and an accepted practice. This was because their practical experience was “invaluable” in ascertaining the impact of projects. However, all members had to declare their affiliations and recuse themselves from matters that could conflict with their position. Such recusals were expected to be noted in the minutes of the meeting, and this has been an established practice in the past. “It was possibly an oversight but this would require an explanation,” the official noted.

Priyanka C of Shiv Sena said: “If an ethics committee can hold an elected member of parliament guilty for sharing email by calling it a national security and conflict of interest issue, how is a person working as an advisor to a private company, a company that has pending approvals in MoEFs EAC be allowed a seat on the EAC itself?

Modi Has “Killed the Constitution By a 1000 Cuts”, Whilst Many Were Asleep, Others Complicit https://youtu.be/sLRO4qs6Q-Q?t=80 The Wire

One of the foremost scholars of India’s constitution and its democracy says the first Modi government (2014-2019) is guilty of “killing the constitution by a thousand cuts” whilst the second Modi government has taken the process insidiously further in significant ways. Prof. Tarunabh Khaitan adds that many of India’s political parties and institutions have “sleep walked into (Modi’s) authoritarianism” whilst others “are complicit” in Modi’s undermining of democracy. He says many people “didn’t realize it was happening” whilst “huge swathes of constitutional machinery” were aware but let it happen.

Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: Executive Aggrandizement and Party-State Fusion in India Law and Ethics of Human Rights https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3646238_code1023159.pdf 

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he has been exploring/ researching fundamental questions regarding knowledge creation and aesthetic sense development in the context of colonization of the non-Western world and the subsequent homogenization of knowledge and aesthetic sensibilities.

Living with non-literate indigenous communities has helped him to explore the very biological basis of cognition and aesthetic sense.

Working with children has enabled him to understand how children learn naturally, how aesthetic sense gets awakened autonomously, and how modern schooling alienates modern human beings.

His focus of the present work is to enable the so-called educated to reclaim their natural cognitive system using non-teaching pedagogy developed in the course of offering courses for design and architecture foundation students.

TEXT DISTORTS, DIGITAL DESTROYS, WORLD AWAKENS
http://jinankb.in
http://ekfoundation.in
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC80rT8Zj1EE8TrzD3UreYfQ
http://beingacademy.in
http://rethinkingfoundation.org
https://independent.academia.edu/JinanKodapully

The basic premise of the exploration is based on three things.

1. All living beings are learning and creating knowledge.
2. We are biologically equipped to create knowledge
3. The formation of the neural network depends on the experiences we have.
4. literates learn the WORD; illiterates learn the WORLD
5. Modern education totally disregards the importance of the sense in cognition

Illiterates create IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE of the real world which is
outside the realm of language and this knowledge can be explicated by
becoming attentive to what is implicitly known (METACOGNITION). This
also doesn't require language as the observation is happening while
the activity is being done. The best example is the way implicit
knowledge of grammar gets embedded by the age of 3/4.