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It is an established principled of just and fair jurisprudence that once any law is passed, that contains anti-constitutional and oppressive provisions, selective policing, state surveillance, harassment or interference in issues of personal liberty, privacy and autonomy, follow. These take a collective form when the very intent of such laws is not community neutral but majoritarian.
Modi Government is One of the Most Appalling in the World—Bharat Ratna & Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen https://youtu.be/hOhLhaTrSxo?t=110 Jan 14, 2023
In one of the harshest possible criticisms of the Narendra Modi government, the well-known Nobel Laureate upon whom the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government conferred the Bharat Ratna in 1999, Amartya Sen, has said: “the Modi government is one of the most appalling in the world”. Prof. Sen explained that he has come to this view because “it treats its own people in such a nasty way”. He added: “the Indian government’s record has been really rather terrible”. At another point in the interview he said the Modi government’s treatment of muslims and the fact that it has no muslim MP in either house of parliament is “unacceptably barbaric”.
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SONG : HILLE LE JHAKJOR DUNIYA at WALK OF HOPE 2015 -16 https://youtu.be/RHCiocHGHvY?t=120 - Manav Ekta Mission Aug 11, 2016
MUSIC OF HOPE, a music concert by the INDIAN OCEAN BAND which took place on the 27th of February 2016, to promote the Walk of Hope - A padayatra led by Sri M from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, which commenced in Jan 2015 and concluded in April 2016, with the purpose of promoting oneness, peace and harmony amongst the people of India
Walk of Hope: Step by step, humanity brings people together March 19, 2016 https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/sri-m-walk-of-hope-step-by-step-humanity-brings-people-together/ Sri M’s Walk of Hope began in Kanyakumari on January 12, 2015, the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, and will conclude in Srinagar in May, reaching out to 10 million people en route.
Sri M's 'Walk of Hope' from Kanyakumari to Kashmir reaches Delhi https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/sri-ms-walk-of-hope-from-kanyakumari-to-kashmir-reaches-delhi/articleshow/51147205.cms
spreading the message of interfaith harmony, sustainable living, community health, equality, women’s empowerment and education. After having walked more than 5,600 km and having traversed six states, since setting out from India’s southernmost point on January 12, 2015, the walkers have reached Delhi.
Indian Big Business https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/family-business/ Jairus Banaji The evolution of India’s corporate sector from 2000 to 2020
“crony capitalism” had to be grasped in a deeper sense to reflect not the odd favors bestowed on this or that industrialist by the government of the day, but the system that cemented the ties between state and capital.
“At the Modi-Obama reception at Rashtrapati Bhawan [on Sunday 25, 2015], about two dozen industrialists had been invited and were seen standing in a queue to greet the US president. About six to eight of those present collectively owe close to Rs. 3.5 lakh crore1 to banks, mostly public sector undertaking (PSU) banks. The banking industry in India has about Rs.5 lakh crore 2 as total capital and nearly 70 percent of it is exposed to just a half a dozen industrial houses. Technically, if these business houses were to go bust, 70 percent of India’s banking capital will get wiped out. In short, they are too big to fail.
Roots of the Kashmir dispute A.G. NOORANI Published : May 11, 2016 https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/roots-of-the-kashmir-dispute/article64762076.ece
representatives from over 20 civil society organizations from 10 states of India including National Network for Dalit and Human Rights (NCDHR), National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ), Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network (DHRDNet), National Council for Women Leaders (NCWL), Dhanak for Humanity, People’s Union for Civil Liberties
(PUCL), Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR) among others agreed to jointly initiate a Network with the goal of preventing crimes committed in the name of honour.
*The complex and dangerous nature of honour violence, especially in India, cannot be understated. With no law on the books and no definite way to determine cases, convictions in cases of honour killings remain woefully low.*
The campaign, titled ‘Network To Combat Against Crimes Committed in the Name of Honour’ is a National network of national and grass-roots organizations/networks working with an anti-caste, anti-patriarchy, feminist and minority protection ethic.
The Network is aimed at bringing legislative, legal and social protections for persons engaged in inter-caste, inter-faith and queer-trans marriages and associations. This work involves:
- Working towards enactment of national and state legislations to prevent honour-based crimes.
- Ensuring that honour-based crimes are recorded[1], shared publicly, and survivors receive justice and protection.
- Raising awareness among the public on honour-based crimes using all forms of media.
https://www.cenfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Gang-of-20_English-1.pdf A Comic Book by Orijit Sen The annual summit of the G20 world leaders in India for the first time.
The Prime Minister and his team have left no stone unturned to ensure a grand spectacle..
https://www.opindia.com/2022/12/analysis-153-love-jihad-cases-covered-opindia-2022/ Force-feeding beef, hiding marriage and Muslim identity to forced conversion to Islam: Analysis of 153 cases of Love Jihad that OpIndia covered in 2022.
Only this year, OpIndia reported as many as 153 daunting incidents of Love Jihad or Grooming Jihad as we like to call it because, evidently, there is no ‘Love’ in these crimes. In fact, there is no denying that it is a form of ‘Jihad’ in which Hindu girls are being trapped by Muslim men who later either forcefully convert them to Islam, push them into terrorism, groom them or murder and rape them. In several of these cases that we have covered, Muslim men have hid their identity from the Hindu woman and coerced them into a relationship. In other cases, it has been seen that the Hindu woman and the Muslim man got into a relationship knowing each other’s religious identity, however, after the marriage, the husband started forcing the wife to convert to Islam. In several of these cases, it was seen that the woman was forced to wear Hijab, eat beef and Hindu idols were broken. In some other cases, the Muslim man had hidden the fact that he was already married and coerced the Hindu woman into marrying him.
India Pitches for Climate Finance Internationally, But Prioritises ‘Development’ at Home
02/01/2023 https://science.thewire.in/politics/government/india-pitches-for-climate-finance-internationally-but-prioritises-development-at-home/
The Narendra Modi years have seen a political, legislative and policy push to weaken existing environmental and social safeguards and prioritise development projects. As reported in The Wire, the regime has seen through ‘easier awarding of wildlife clearances for industrial projects,’ ‘a draft (later withdrawn) National Forest Policy that came under heavy criticism for envisaging a push for forest-based industries, and diluting Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) rules ‘to allow commercial activities in sensitive zones to promote “economic growth”, putting the ecology and vulnerable communities in these areas at risk.’ A recent analysis by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, of regulatory changes introduced during last two years of the pandemic by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change under the Environmental Protection Act, revealed that 48% of these amendments were in the form of ‘relaxations’ for ‘ease of doing business’ “negatively impacting the clarity, predictability, and stability” of environmental safeguards.
...while India seeks more international capital in green technologies, infrastructure, energy and more as climate finance, and consequently open fresh economic opportunities, it is unlikely to do so at the cost of disturbing existing economic activity to the detriment of big industries here. In fact, as shown above, by dilution of environmental safeguards it is in fact providing a push for maximising unsustainable modes of development and profit making...
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