The Big Con by Pankaj Mishra 6th April 2023 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n08/pankaj-mishra/the-big-con Extracts The Economist estimates that the share of billionaire wealth in India derived from cronyism has risen from 29 per cent to 43 per cent in six years. ... The new Indian plutocracy owes its swift ascent to Modi, and he has audaciously clarified the quid pro quo. Under the ‘electoral bond’ scheme he introduced in 2017, any business or special interest group can give unlimited sums of money to his party while keeping the transaction hidden from public scrutiny....
Modi also ensures his hegemony by forging a public sphere in which sycophancy is rewarded and dissent harshly punished. ... Human Rights Watch has detailed a broad onslaught on democratic rights: ‘the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government used abusive and discriminatory policies to repress Muslims and other minorities’ and ‘arrested activists, journalists and other critics of the government on politically motivated criminal charges, including of terrorism’...
The defamation campaign against George Soros and the conspiracy-fuelled crackdown on India’s leading think tank, the Centre for Policy Research, are only the latest in a series of measures – bribing opposition politicians to defect; unleashing mobs to attack opponents on the streets and on social media; subverting the judiciary and the education system; denouncing same-sex marriage as a cause of ‘complete havoc’ – that are making India safe for oligarchy and unsafe for nearly everyone else...
The Western rush to embrace Modi’s India isn’t only fuelled by the profit motive. Increasingly, the mollycoddling of yet another exponent of crony capitalism and ethnic-racial supremacism is driven by the imperatives of the new Cold War: the Biden administration’s resolve, deepened by the war in Ukraine, somehow to contain China. Adani’s lavish purchase of the port of Haifa came after the US put pressure on Israel to disallow his Chinese rival, the Shanghai International Port Group, from managing a port frequented by the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy...
Rupert Murdoch anointed Modi as India’s ‘best leader with best.. policies since independence’. Addressing packed stadiums in India and the US with his ‘loyal friend’, Trump confirmed Modi’s place in a global far-right constellation. But it was liberal and centrist politicians, businessmen, economists and journalists in the West who built regimes of casual untruth about Modi and his India...
Like the Russian elite, Modi and Adani have succeeded in bending, repeatedly, the moral arc of politics and journalism towards greed. As New Delhi prepares to host a G20 summit in September, Western officials and opinion-makers more keenly echo Modi’s claims for India’s democracy with words such as ‘largest’ and ‘vibrant’. Both adjectives were deployed last month by a State Department spokesperson as he tried to evade comment on Modi’s crackdown on the BBC.
Fawning on a Hindu supremacist, as his supporters routinely clamour for a genocide of Muslims in India, also entrenches lies and propaganda deeper in the public life of Western societies. Adani’s business empire may or may not turn out to be the largest con in corporate history. But far greater dangers to civic morality, let alone democracy and global peace, are posed by those peddling the gigantic hoax of Modi’s India – the first big fraud of the new Cold War.
End Of The Deshbhakt Near? | Govt. now to decide what is fact or fake! | SNL with Akash Banerjee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCCTECfhrU The Deshbhakt 8 Apr 2023
With the Govt now taking on itself to decide what is fact and what is not - the media's role is over. The Govt. now soon WILL BE the 4th estate - and anything critical of the central govt could simply be denied as lies.
स्वतंत्र आवाजों को दबाने के लिए मोदी सरकार का अब तक का सबसे खतरनाक षड्यंत्र, it rules pib fact check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5PWU7V97M LOKHIT INDIA Apr 8, 2023 NEW DELHI
#whatsapp #history से देश का भविष्य नष्ट किया जा रहा है- S Irfan Habib https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-241UdTy3Ak
History is being created in whatapp. And History is only being used to created Communal Conflict. Therefore it has become a conflict zone. Apr 2, 2023
IH has a good word for ashok pandey has been taken up this project of The Credible History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESsOxl-Vs0&list=PLWfWOjKzIzuhsJRnBwjJTNMuGcm0z1A8Y
Kanhaiya ने गोदी मीडिया को ऐसा धोया की लोग हँस-हँस के पागल हो गए || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NuFKvayfs4 Apr 8, 2023
Govt has given itself absolute power to determine what’s fake or not: Editors Guild on new IT Amendment Rules https://indianexpress.com/article/india/editors-guild-it-amendment-rules-fact-checking-unit-8543980/ In its notice, the Editors Guild of India flagged that the new rules, which were notified by the MeitY on Thursday, failed to mention the governing mechanism for such a fact checking unit.
Kapil Sibal On Why IT Rules For Online News Media Is An Assault On Right To Free Expression http://youtube.com/watch?v=JPXeP8wKAjo The Wire Apr 8, 2023 Former IT minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday attacked the Centre over the fact-check provisions of the IT Amendment Rules, saying now the government will decide what is fake.
अब Social Media पर Modi सरकार शिकंजा कस रही है। Supriya Shrinate से सुनिए सरकार का पूरा प्लान. https://youtu.be/JLqT-HJh9e0?t=193 ..Indian National Congress अब Social Media पर Modi सरकार शिकंजा कस रही है। Supriya Shrinate से सुनिए सरकार का पूरा प्लान...संसद
सत्र खत्म होते ही सोशल मीडिया की ताकत का दी एन्ड https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ezJRwQQ1I This video is based on the new IT rules and the objections raised by the Editors Guild. Providing information related to these new rules, the script of this video explains how these new rules will have a serious impact on press freedom. The video also highlights the statement of the Editors Guild.
मोदी की नाव डूब गई, कर्नाटक में ED IT ऑफिसर्स भेजी सरकार, IT & ED Officers Sent To Karnataka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWH0XYJNV2w Apr 5, 2023
Karnataka; Centre dispatched agencies to raid Congress candidates, alleges Surjewala ANI | 05 Apr 2023
https://www.aninews.in/news/national/politics/bjp-facing-mass-exodus-in-karnataka-centre-dispatched-agencies-to-raid-congress-candidates-alleges-surjewala20230404233530/ BJP facing Mass exodus
Karnataka: BJP facing mass exodus; Centre dispatched agencies to raid Congress leaders, alleges Surjewala https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/assembly-elections/karnataka/karnataka-bjp-facing-mass-exodus-centre-dispatched-agencies-to-raid-congress-leaders-alleges-surjewala/videoshow/99266400.cms
मोदी जी की डिग्री पर मिला उस दौर का गवाह, क्या बताया अमरजीत कौर ने? https://youtu.be/-qeJYk5eu3w?t=184
6/Apr/23 I spoke to CPI Leader Amarjeet Kaur about the time when PM Modi promised to graduate from Delhi University, here it is. In this interview, Amarjeet Kaur will share her memories of the time when she was a student at Delhi University.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9S9jVcqDag
पीएम मोदी की डिग्री को लेकर डीयू की प्रोफेसर ने किया ये खुलासा, जानकार रह जाएंगे हैरान! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dl6-oHJWPs Apr 6, 2023
how govts and companies are trying to greenwash their way out of climate and biodiversity responsibility.
https://wsimag.com/economy-and-politics/66356-the-net-zero-greenwash
Indian agri-tech start-ups in this space too like Boomitra <https://boomitra.com/>
Big Ag like Yara and oil companies like Chevron < https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/boomitra-raises-4-million-from-yara-chevron-technology-ventures/article34915350.ece >
Comments by Nachiket Udupa (
there are also valid demands for payment for ecosystem services. The polluter pays principle is also fairly well established. It seems that people are putting the two together to arrive at ‘net-zero’ and 'no-net-loss'. People seem to be thinking 'payment for ecosystem services' + 'polluter pays' = ‘net-zero’ / 'no-net-loss'.
Maybe there is a need to demand for greater criminal convictions from those polluting in addition to making them pay to move away from the greenwashing mindset where it is possible to buy one's way out of pollution. A few years ago, however, the government seemed to be wanting to go the other way since they haven't been able to secure criminal convictions. And so seemed to be wanting to change these from criminal to civil offences <https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/rs-1-crore-penalty-for-polluters-117072900719_1.html>.
Engaging with Water and Rivers from a Multispecies Justice Perspective Carlota Houart Wageningen University & Research https://bluepapers.nl/index.php/bp/article/view/59/53
Multispecies justice recasts the subject of jus-tice beyond (only) humans and invites us to re-think relations between human and non-human beings in the worlds we share and co-create.
examples of hydrosociality in the Mag-dalena River in Colombia and in the Great Lakes region of North America show us how human and non-human systems and communities are profoundly entangled, and how the future of healthy, living rivers may be closely related to the upholding and protecting of the lives and lifeways of these diverse beings and communi-ties. Blue Papers 2023 (Vol. 2 No. 1), 50-5710.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.05
Gorai, Culvem women hold sit-in against lake ‘beautification’ https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/women-in-mumbai-s-gorai-and-culvem-hold-sit-in-against-mla-s-beautification-works-at-culvem-lake-locals-protest-paving-over-natural-waterbody-101680635459951.html
Prayag Arora-Desai The work will pave over large parts of the natural waterbody, which the locals currently use to irrigate small farms, wash clothes, catch fish, bathe livestock, and wash fishing nets among others...“Gorai and Culvem residents have not asked for any such beautification. We want the lake to remain as it is. It is our ancestral talao and is well taken care of by the local farmers, fishers and tribals. The Dharavi Beth Bachao Samiti has written multiple letters to the MLA, local police, the collector’s office and even the BMC asking for the work to be stopped. .. “The villagers want a gram sabha to be held in presence of the MLA, so he can explain why this project is being pursued. It will benefit nearby resort owners, not the locals. Till date, there is no clarity on who is funding the project and at whose request, but two excavators are working on the site day and night. Large amounts of mud have been dredged from the lakebed and it should be restored.”
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