The symbolism of Parliament building’s inauguration on Savarkar’s birth anniversary https://www.allindiansmatter.in/the-symbolism-of-parliament-buildings-inauguration-on-savarkars-birth-anniversary/ It’s a well thought out strategy to eventually erase Gandhi from the rewritten history of India and to replace him with the father of the Hindutva Rashtra concept, Savarkar, who I call ‘Maafi Veer’. This is the real reason for the prime minister picking this date. Let’s not be fooled by any other explanation - Tushar Gandhi May 26, 2023

After his release from jail and confinement in Ratnagiri, Savarkar proved his loyalty to the British by boycotting the movements launched by Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress and conspiring to sabotage them. He reinvented himself as a Hindutva fanatic and was among the first to promote the two-nation theory. And, for all his anti-Muslim rhetoric, when it came to grabbing power, Savarkar’s Hindu Mahasabha did not shy from joining hands with the Muslim League to form coalition governments in Bengal and Sindh.

Prabodhankar Thackeray, Balasaheb Thackeray’s father and Uddhav’s grandfather, got to know of an attempt by Sanatani Hindus to murder Gandhi while he was travelling in Akola. Prabodhankar alerted Gandhians about it and issued a public warning to the Sanatanis to desist from making the attempt.

NM: It is not known what was achieved, if any thing, by the secret societies Savarkar claimed to have established in youth

S Sen in whatsapps: We must acknowledge that Savarkar's political career had two distinct phases: first, as a revolutionary Indian nationalist and, then, as a Hindu nationalist -- collaborating with the British colonial rulers.
Of course, there must have been a period of transition too.

It's rather in bad taste to ask what did the Abhinav Bharat achieve. As it would be to query what did Bhagat Singh achieve.
Nothing tangible. But, strong intangible impacts. Of course, in case of the latter, because of his firm principled stand culminating in his sacrifice of life, the impact was way stronger.

Times Group: Inside details of the MoU finalized between Samir & Vineet Jain   https://www.exchange4media.com/media-print-news/times-group-split-inside-details-of-the-mou-finalized-between-samir-vineet-jain-127493.html   May 20, 2023 

Sources say that Samir Jain is expected to get the entire Print business along with online titles of all newspapers; Vineet Jain likely to get TV+Radio+Rs 3,500 Cr

10 Companies That Secretly Control The World   Jan 27, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLx74LmW25w

The way the world appears to work on the surface is, in many ways, deceiving: just a few companies own and control massive portions of their markets and holdings across markets. What if I told you that over a third of scotch whisky brands are owned by the same company? And did you know that just one company manufactures all Mac, Dell, Sony and HP computers? Your choices are much more limited than you may think, and getting away from these companies is nearly impossible. It’s time to get out your tinfoil hats, friends, because these are the companies that are secretly running the world.

Only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world. https://www.businessinsider.in/these-10-companies-control-everything-you-buy/articleshow/58009952.cms

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1524720657548094

https://truththeory.com/10-corporations-secretly-rule-world-must-watch/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbyNp-5U6pg

Following are the 10 corporations that secretly “rule the world”:

10) Nestlé 

9) Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin’s global military expenditure is just over $1.7 trillion.

8) Quanta Computer Inc. Do you own a Mac, Dell, HP, Sony, or Toshiba computer? All of these come from the same manufacturer: Quanta Computer Inc.

7) Inbev . Inbev has a huge monopoly over the beer industry and has massive influence, as a result.

6) Pfizer  a U.S.-based global pharmaceutical corporation — makes $40 billion in profit a year .

5) Pearson Because the company has a monopoly over the education sector, it has been able to increase the prices of learning — and no one is able to stop them.

4) ICBC r the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. The bank is state-owned, and is now of the most powerful banks on the planet.

3) Monsanto The company responsible for glyphosate — which is proven carcinogen — specializes in agricultural biotechnology. It’s estimated worth is around $65 billion.

2) Disney  more than half of all highest grossing movies of the last decade are owned by Disney.

1) Alphabet Inc actually owns Google, making it one of the — if not the — most powerful company in the world.

The 147 Companies That Control Everything  https://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/22/the-147-companies-that-control-everything/?sh=7d29dffd5105 Bruce Upbin Oct 22, 201

https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf The network of global corporate control Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder , and Stefano Battiston?

PM Modi's BIGGEST challenge to protect India's ECONOMY | Geopolitics by Abhi and Niyu  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg3Rn0vhERE 
May 24, 2023
In this video, Abhi and Niyu expose the western hypocrisy of blaming INDIA for funding Russian invasion of Ukraine. The west has blamed India of being a "laundromat" country by helping Russia sell its crude oil to Europe. While Europe is unapologetic of its duplicity - it finds a soft target in India for all the global issues.

https://thewire.in/government/new-bill-to-link-birth-and-death-register-with-electoral-rolls-amit-shah 

“If the birth and death certificate data are preserved in a special way, development works can be planned properly. A Bill to link the death and birth register with electoral rolls will be introduced in Parliament. Under this process, when a person turns 18, his or her name will automatically be included in the electoral rolls. Similarly, when a person dies, that information automatically will go to the EC, which will start the process of deleting the name from the voters’ list. Earlier, the development process took place in fragments, because adequate data for development was not available,” he said, according to the Indian Express.

Shah also released a publication at the inauguration of the newly built Janganana Bhawan and said, “Today, history of all Census since 1981 has been compiled and published in the form of a book. The accountability can only be expected when responsibilities are fixed, and with the launch of upgraded SRS mobile application with geofencing today, employees at even the lowest level will become more responsible.”

23/05/2023

How can nonprofits ensure people’s participation in lawmaking? https://idronline.org/article/advocacy-government/how-can-nonprofits-ensure-peoples-participation-in-lawmaking/ by ANTARAA VASUDEV

In February 2014, heeding to the demand for greater transparency and legitimacy in lawmaking, the Ministry of Law and Justice drafted India’s Pre-Legislative Consultation Policy (PLCP).  since 2014 Civis (a nonprofit that works on co-creating laws) has observed an 805 percent increase in the number of consultations opened for public feedback—here’s Civis’s data on the accessibility of environmental laws.

Doctors, Psychiatrists Need to Read What Daily Hatred, Fear, Anxiety Means for Muslims in India https://thewire.in/rights/doctors-psychiatrists-need-to-read-what-daily-hatred-fear-anxiety-means-for-muslims-in-india by Prof Mohan Rao

The vast majority of the people from the Muslim community are being brought down to nothingness that mental health professionals in India do not recognise.

It is not just Muslims whose lives are traumatised, shortened, brutalised and filled with fear and anxiety, the same occurs among Hindus as well. They do not face brutality, nor are they threatened for their lives, but their lives, too, are restricted in imagination, in comfort and togetherness. Their souls are shrivelled, for they too act out of fear, a potent political weapon.

They miss out on the richness of Muslim culture and history, and get trapped in their own xenophobic ghettos. I am convinced that this strengthens patriarchy and the control of women’s lives among Hindus.

Study Says A New Lens Is Needed to Look at Mental Health of Indian Muslims https://thewire.in/health/new-lens-mental-health-india-muslims-communalism-trauma The report covers the social, emotional and financial burden that the Muslim community has had to face in the country due to the dramatic rise in communal polarisation and hate crimes over the past few years.  When violence, discrimination and humiliation are ongoing, their impact cannot be fully understood just through established clinical terms like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The trauma responses are also ongoing and cyclic and need a newer lens and approach to redefine the meanings of mental health, selfhood, resilience, and survival, says social activist and researcher Hasina Khan..

The loss of community, the study says, severely affects one’s sense of confidence and surety about navigating a difficult situation in legal cases or simply rebuilding one’s life after a violent incident. “An all-pervading sense of being made to feel powerless in front of a fascist state and hateful ideology, which has forced several Muslim victims of communal violence to change how they live their lives, is the most important point that has emerged from our work,”

“PTSD better describes the experiences of an American soldier who goes to Iraq to bomb and goes back to the safety of the United States. He’s having nightmares and fears related to the battlefield and his fears are imaginary. Whereas for a Palestinian in Gaza whose home was bombarded, the threat of having another bombardment is a very real one. It’s not imaginary. There is no ‘post’ because the trauma is repetitive and ongoing and continuous.” - https://qz.com/1521806/palestines-head-of-mental-health-services-says-ptsd-is-a-western-concept

The law, as exists, prohibits the act "in any polling area" .. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/100109554.cms Appeals to voters on social media outside polling area not under ambit of law: EC sources on Cong complaint against PM May 9, 2023

Section 126 specifically does not cover the use of social media or intermediaries during the silence period. It also does not cover violations outside the poll area, the sources said.  Section 126 of the Act restricts the public display of election matter in the polling area during the "silence period" thereby limiting its application only to the display of election matter in the polling area, they said. "Silence period" is for 48 hours ending with the time fixed for conclusion of polls.

The dilemma of the Muslim liberal https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/on-a-knifes-edge-by-s-irfan-habib-liberal-muslims-left-with-little-elbow-room-to-raise-genuine-concerns-within-community/article66524533.ece  S. IRFAN HABIB Faced with Hindutva hatred, the Muslim liberal is today sandwiched between two extremist groups. Feb 23, 2023

It is difficult to adhere to the new standards of patriotism thrown at them by the majoritarian “nationalists”. The secular space where a liberal Muslim or Hindu can prosper has shrunk dangerously. A liberal Muslim is sandwiched between two groups of extremists, one from her own community and the other, and more visibly vocal one today, the hydra-headed Hindutva’s foot soldiers and ideologues....

Most Muslims in India are converts but the reasons were diverse; although some were surely cases of forced conversion, many were attracted to Islam as an egalitarian and socially a seemingly less oppressive faith, which was a message spread through Sufi khanqahs as well. This hatred for the ‘other’ has peaked, or perhaps it has not yet, but we now see calls for genocide being made from the very heart of the capital at Jantar Mantar while the police remains a mute spectator...

In the midst of t...blatant communalism, we hear a call for peace and for all religions to be respected from the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat. Bhagwat also said that everyone who lives in India is a Hindu, as Hinduism is a way of life and Sanatana Dharma is a religion.

I see this merely as a façade to promote majoritarian politics. For me, as a liberal, anyone born in India is an Indian, he/she may later be a Hindu, Muslim, or even an atheist.

https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/the-role-of-liberal-muslims-in-india-today/article66524691.ece