By insisting on non-violence, Bapu extinguished the raging fire of communal violence in many parts of India but he himself fell victim to the bullets of an assassin. But how did it affect India for the next fifty years? 

बापू के आख़री कुछ साल | Mahatma Gandhi’s last years | तुषार गांधी https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJGcXsochYQ  Citizens for Justice and Peace Oct 1, 2023  

The last four years of his life proved to be the toughest test of Mahatma Gandhi's principle of non-violence. From Direct Action Day to Partition, when the whole of India was burning in the fire of national hatred and violence, and the leaders of Congress and Muslim League were baking their bread, Bapu alone, risking his life, traveled from Delhi to Noakhali, Bihar. From Calcutta to Calcutta, he kept fighting for the unity of India, taking support of the stick of non-violence. History is witness to the fact that through this effort he was successful in maintaining peace in the eastern parts of the country, but he had to fall victim to Nathuram Godse's bullet. In his books and also in this interview, Bapu's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi says about his last years that because of this valiant effort, especially as a result of his martyrdom, the wind of national hatred blew in this country for about fifty years, if at all it did not last. Didn't get it.

Because times are changing now, and a new era of violence seems to be beginning, it has become necessary to remember those last few years of Bapu.

Citizens for Justice and Peace has been working for national unity in India for the last thirty years. We are Gandhiji's followers in this fight. This special video series with Tushar Gandhi is just an attempt to convey Gandhiji's thoughts to the public in the era of fake news and violence.

https://youtu.be/tXFQ0fx6PL0 On the Investigation- Discussion on Screening of Who killed Gandhi -

https://youtu.be/0uUwmjdxMcc On the Historical Context-

https://youtu.be/4NI5flM76Xc Why no public Screening of the Film Who killed Gandhi in India

https://youtu.be/A35gQbrGhf8  On the Hindutva Narrative

Q & A after a recent screening of the film..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB4i1G6OgYE

Increase forest area in Karnataka to 33% to fight climate change: CM https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/increase-forest-area-in-karnataka-to-33-to-fight-climate-change-cm/article67363235.ece      September 30, 2023 05:52 Out of total land area of ​​the Karnataka, only about 20% is forest area and efforts should be made to expand it to at least 33%, which is crucial to fight climate change, “ Situations like Cauvery water issue, drought, and shortage in food production have arisen. This affects the State’s GDP and per capita income. This time, 50% crop has been damaged in ​​40 lakh hectares

Modernity, Frameworks of Knowledge, and the Ecological Survival of Plurality  http://vlal.bol.ucla.edu/multiversity/default.htm
An Introduction to the Multiversity Enterprise-
United States Chapter

Vinay Lal

RECAPTURING WORLDS   http://vlal.bol.ucla.edu/multiversity/Right_menu_items/Claude_proposal.htm   (The Original Multiversity Proposal, September 2001)
Claude Alvares (Other India Press, Goa, India)

   http://vlal.bol.ucla.edu/multiversity/Right_menu_items/Claude_proposal.htm

Inaugural Conference of Multiversity, February 2002, Penang, Malaysia.

The following papers, speeches and documents are available from the inaugural Multiversity conference in Penang, February 2002:

S. M. Mohamed Idris, Inaugural Address: "The Launch of Multiversity" http://vlal.bol.ucla.edu/multiversity/Right_menu_items/2002conf/Idris_launch.htm The world system has perfected a method of training and selection that enables it to recruit for its needs apparently the brightest and the best, and after selection, to use such recruits against the interests of the rest.

The creative energy of children and youth, from the age of five till the early twenties, is first frozen by suppression, then allowed gradually to atrophy till it appears to disappear completely from their normal life.

how we can take down our present universities, instigate students to rise against the tyranny of dreams pushed by corporate machines and organize workshops to encourage faculty to rebel against the domination of Western intellectuals and create their own creative universes.

Bhupinder Chimni, "On Being Colonized by 'International Law'"

Mohideen Kader, "Colonialism and the Legal Structures of Malaysia"

B. S. Chimni, "Lawyers for International Justice", a briefing prepared subsequent to the conference.

Jessica Hutchins, "Some Thoughts on Maori Science and Education"

Claude Alvares, "The Multiversity Enterprise"

Ashis Nandy, "My Idea of Multiversity"

Claude Alvares, "On Books, Publishing, and Intellectual Independence from the West"

Pawan K. Gupta, "Reflections on Multiversity -- Post-Malaysia"

Yusef Progler, "Multiversity Notes: Reflections on Readings and Resources: Definitive and Affective Dimensions"

The following papers were published in the special issue on "Multiversity: Challenging Intellectual Globalization" of "Humanscape" (Vol. 12, no. 4, April 2005), a journal that comes out from Mumbai. Copies of the journal can be purchased from the Foundation for Humanisation 11 Yogniti, 18 S. V. Road Santacruz (W), Mumbai 400054, India
website: www.humanscape.org
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Vinay Lal, "The west and the rest".

Syed Farid Alatas, "The alternative to Eurocentrism".

Fred Y. L. Chiu, "Towards a people-centered anthropology: An anthropologist's
discovery of multiplicity and diversity".

Roby Rajan, "Those funny little graphs".

Jorge Ishizawa, "Community-based learning in the Peruvian Andes".

Why Modi govt did not condemn Bidhuri & Pragya for their remarks, & the Khalistan issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7wlPzL-U Sep 29, 2023
'What would have happened had a legislator behaved like BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri in any other parliamentary democracy?'- Author & Columnist Vir Sanghvi argues that the only reason why Modi govt did not condemn his remarks is because it's election season again & the BJP needs to keep the Hindutva faction faithful on its side in MP, Rajasthan & other states. Watch #ThePrintSharpEdge

 The Global Risks Report 2023 18th Edition https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2023.pdf

Global risks ranked by severity over the short and long term

In two years
Cost-of-living crisis
Natural disasters and extreme weather events
Geoeconomic confrontation
Failure to mitigate climate change
Erosion of social cohesion and societal polarization
Large-scale environmental damage
Failure of climate change adaptation
Widespread cybercrime and cyber insecurity
Natural resource crises
Large-scale involuntary migration

In 10 years
Failure to mitigate climate change
Failure of climate-change adaptation
Natural disasters and extreme weather events
Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse
Large-scale involuntary migration
Natural resource crises
Erosion of social cohesion and societal polarization
Widespread cybercrime and cyber insecurity
Geoeconomic confrontation
Large-scale environmental damage

Global Risks 2033: Tomorrow’s Catastrophes
2.1 The world in 2033
2.2 Natural ecosystems: past the point of no return
2.3 Human health: perma-pandemics and chronic capacity challenges
2.4 Human security: new weapons, new conflicts
2.5 Digital rights: privacy in peril
2.6 Economic stability: global debt distress

Swami Vivekananda Speech in Chicago America | शिकागो भाषण का संदेश क्या था - Saurabh Bajpai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1U-awrxWHo
Jun 14, 2023
स्वामी विवेकानंद (Swami Vivekananda) जी द्वारा 1893 ई. में अमेरिका के शिकागो शहर में दिए गए भाषण का संदेश क्या था ?

S V called for a declaration to the world of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: “Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me.” Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descen­dant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with vio­lence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal

https://www.artic.edu/swami-vivekananda-and-his-1893-speech

Celebrating the Ideas and Vision of Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary

Prominent Historian Mridula Mukherjee's views about Bhagat Singh
https://youtu.be/3lcnwoZyqwA

Prof. Salil Misra's views on Bhagat Singh
https://youtu.be/3FVmjyJCnrk

Dr. Saurabh Bajpai raises a significant question: What Bhagat Singh would have done if he was alive at the time of Gandhiji's assassination?
https://youtu.be/0pSzsUANhlE

Dr. Sujata Chaudhary explains what Gandhiji did to save Bhagat Singh's life.
https://youtu.be/zCCRAd-6Ltc

Credits : Nationalist Adda & Natio

As AI is being used to usurp job, and shift the ownership of creative and labour work, it is important that standards are set in this regard. Whom should the benefits of creative process abd cumulative skills go. How is that "labour power" being usurped by the owners of the "remote" "digital', "artificial intelligence algorithms.  A begining seems to have been made by the Screen Writers Association. 

Can this principle also be applied to gig workers, The Left needs to develop theory and Law on this after their 148 day strike!

Summary of the agreement between WGA and AMPTP relating to use of  Artificial Intelligence

We have established regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) on MBA-covered projects in the following ways:

AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material under the MBA, meaning that AI-generated material can’t be used to undermine a writer’s credit or separated rights.
A writer can choose to use AI when performing writing services, if the company consents and provided that the writer follows applicable company policies, but the company can’t require the writer to use AI software (e.g., ChatGPT) when performing writing services.
The Company must disclose to the writer if any materials given to the writer have been generated by AI or incorporate AI-generated material.
The WGA reserves the right to assert that exploitation of writers’ material to train AI is prohibited by MBA or other law.

A summary of the deal terms for the 2023 MBA, as compared with the AMPTP offer on the table as of 5/1/2023. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/WGAContract/files/WGA-Negotiations-Tentative-Agreement.pdf

  Four takeaways from the WGA deal to end the writers’ strike https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-09-26/writers-strike-deal-wga-amptp-takeways-ai-pay-residuals

increases in wages and residuals,

demands for minimum staff in television writers rooms, (TV seasons have gotten shorter and writers rooms have shrunk. That has meant fewer opportunities for writers, who have to cobble together one job after another to make a living)

payments based on the success of streaming shows (The contract establishes a system of providing bonuses to writers based on viewership on streaming services. ) and

protections against the use of artificial intelligence .(The new WGA contract includes language that regulates the studios’ use of AI but also provides flexibility to the guild’s members. Companies must disclose to writers if any material given to a writer has been generated by AI or incorporates AI-generated material, according to the guild’s document.)

This contract—won with the power of member solidarity and our union siblings over a 148-day strike—incorporates meaningful gains and protections for writers in every segment of the membership. Prior to the strike, the companies refused to engage on most issues.
A summary of the deal terms for the 2023 MBA, as compared with the AMPTP offer on the table as of 5/1/2023. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/WGAContract/files/WGA-Negotiations-Tentative-Agreement.pdf

Writers’ strike: What happened, how it ended and its impact on Hollywood https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-05-01/writers-strike-what-to-know-wga-guild-hollywood-productionshttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-05-01/writers-strike-what-to-know-wga-guild-hollywood-productions  The deal does not include SAG-AFTRA, the performers union which is also on strike after its contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expired over the summer.