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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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.

Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-orders/ 27th April 2023
The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership..The orders vary widely in scope and subject, but all involve a government asking ..  In one case from January, India’s information ministry ordered Twitter to take down all posts sharing footage from a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Dozens of posts were removed, including one from a local member of parliament... The bulk of the recent requests come from countries that have recently passed restrictive speech laws — 

.. In July 2022, the company sued the Indian government over an order to restrict the visibility of specific tweets. After Musk’s takeover, however, Twitter complied with more than 100 block orders from the country, including those against journalists, foreign politicians, and the poet Rupi Kaur.

... Musk has made clear in interviews that his vision of free speech does not extend to legal requests. “We can’t go beyond the laws of a country,” he said in a recent interview with the BBC. “If we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we’ll comply with the laws.” 

India's New Internet Rules Are a Step Toward 'Digital Authoritarianism,' Activists Say. Here's What They Will Mean https://time.com/5946092/india-internet-rules-impact/ India’s new rules come at a time when tech platforms are facing threats of regulation by Western governments over content including hate speech, misinformation, and incitement to violence. But the Indian rules are more worrying, the open letter says, because they are part of a wider push toward “digital authoritarianism,” including Internet shutdowns and arrests of journalists. Although the Indian rules also contain useful provisions like mandating transparency in cases when user content has been removed

Sukla Sen: Email -- the term entered into the popular vocabulary only with the rise of (revivalist reformist) Arya Samaj movement -- mainly in the Punjab region...
The traditionalists, opposed to "reforms" (of any sort), coined the term to distinguish themselves from the Arya Samajis. They branded themselves as "Sanatani" Hindu. The earlier (modernist reformist) Brahno Samaj movement initiated by Rammohan Roy..

References complied by S Sen..

The concept of Sanatan Dharma: its roots and the historical context of its use https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-history/sanatan-dharm-meaning-history-8924036/ Mythologist and author Devdutt Pattanaik posted  that the word “sanatan”, meaning eternal, does not appear in the Vedas. “The word sanatan started being used in the Bhagavad Gita, and refers to knowledge of the soul, which is eternal.. Zavos in his article the Punjab Census Report of 1891,  (said) it is not as if each of the sabhas promoting Sanatan Dharma had a common doctrine that distinguished them as orthodox...“Sanatanis (then) refuting the arguments of Dayanand and other reformers as they arose,”

What is Sanatan Dharma? https://www.deccanherald.com/india/explained-what-is-sanatan-dharma-2674213   Amit Vasudev .. In his book, Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, Julius J Lipner says, "the term ‘Sanatan Dharma’ was used in the Bhagwat Gita by Arjuna, when he told Krishna that 'when the clan is vitiated, the sanatan-dharmas of the clan are destroyed'.... In his book, Revolution and Counter Revolution in Ancient India, Dr BR Ambedkar very unabashedly puts, "The history of India is a history of mortal conflict between Buddhism and Brahmanism"...Caste system remains a sticky issue in the Hindu religion which is unlikely to die anytime soon.

Sanatan Dharma: Its roots and the historical context of its use  https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/soul-search/sanatan-dharma-its-roots-and-the-historical-context-of-its-use/articleshow/103608346.cms Resham Sengar  Sanatan Dharma is a way of life practiced to break the web of Maya or cosmic illusion. It is Maya that plants the desire to acquire objects of the world.... The ancient shruti and veda state that there is only ONE God or force and He is present in all the tangible and visible objects in the Universe.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/sanatana-dharma denote the “eternal” or absolute set of duties or religiously ordained practices incumbent upon all Hindus, regardless of class, caste, or sect. Sanatana dharma is contrasted with svadharma, one’s “own duty” or the particular duties enjoined upon an individual according to his or her class or caste and stage of life. The potential for conflict between the two types of dharma (e.g., between the particular duties of a warrior and the general injunction to practice non-injury) is addressed in Hindu texts such as the Bhagavad Gītā, where it is said that in such cases svadharma must prevail.

A Reaction against Reform https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/sanatan-dharma-sabha-caste-hierarchy-hindu-reform-dalits-purification-8957653/ Christophe Jaffrelot writes: How Sanatan Dharma was used to defend caste, combat Hindu reform 

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CJI मोदी-अडानी का बैंड बजाएंगे, Electoral Bond, 2024 Election, Supreme Court , PM modi DESH NEETI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voPxwzMUiSo

Electoral bonds are 'legalised bribery', says P Chidambaram Vartha Bharati | 30-09-2023 https://english.varthabharati.in/india/electoral-bonds-are-legalised-bribery-says-p-chidambaram He  claimed that, as their fresh tranche opens on October 4, it will be a "golden harvest" for the BJP.

The government on Friday approved the issuance of the 28th tranche of electoral bonds that will open for sale for 10 days beginning October 4. The decision comes ahead of assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram. The poll dates in these states are likely to be announced soon.

"The crony capitalists will open their cheque books to write out their 'tribute' to the lord and master in Delhi," the former Union minister said.

मोदी-BJP सरकार पर बड़ा खुलासा, Hindustv watch report on Modi - BJP govt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJpo0MB5L54  DESH NEETI 2nd Oct. 2023

Modi’s BJP linked with most hate speech in India: Report https://www.deccanherald.com/india/modis-bjp-linked-with-most-hate-speech-in-india-report-2700882  Some 80 per cent of the 255 documented incidents of “hate speech gatherings targeting Muslims” occurred in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states and union territories, according to a report from ...

Some 80 per cent of the 255 documented incidents of “hate speech gatherings targeting Muslims” occurred in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states and union territories, according to a report from Hindutva Watch. The Washington DC-based research group tracks hate crimes and inflammatory speech against Muslims and other minorities in India.

Though India doesn’t have an official definition for hate speech, the research group used language from the United Nations, which characterizes hate speech as “any form” of communication that employs “prejudiced or discriminatory language towards an ...

2023 Half-Yearly Report: Anti-Muslim Hate Speech Events in India  https://hindutvawatch.org/hate-speech-events-india/
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023 https://hindutvawatch.org/hate-speech-events-india/ Throughout the first half of 2023, India witnessed several instances where hate speech events, coupled with hate crimes, exacerbated the insecurity of its religious minorities. On March 30, on the occasion of the Hindu holiday of Ram Navami, Hindu far-right leader Kajal Shingla alias Kajal Hindustani made hateful remarks about Muslim women, helping ignite a riot in the western state of Gujarat. On the same day, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a procession filled with provocative and hateful slogans resulted in violence in the town of Biharsharif, leaving one dead and several injured. In June, rampant and repeated instances of hate speech events in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, culminated in clashes in the western state, while a month-long campaign in the northern state of Uttarakhand centered on the Hindu far-right conspiracy theories of “Love Jihad,” “Vyapar Jihad” and “Land Jihad,” resulted in the displacement of Muslims from several parts of the state. Muslim shops and homes were marked with a black ‘X’ symbol in an apparent attempt to intimidate the marginalized community.

Around 52% of hate speech gatherings in BJP-ruled states and union territories were orchestrated by entities affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), including the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Bajrang Dal, the Sakal Hindu Samaj, and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Overall, 42% of all hate speech gatherings in 17 states which includes two centrally controlled territories were organized by groups affiliated with the RSS.