https://issuu.com/devissues/docs/devissues_spring_2022 

Economic intermediation is moving online. This means that the acts of purchase and distribution of goods are shifting from the physical to the digital. These platforms are able to create a competitive advantage for themselves because they reduce transaction costs and because they obtain greater economies of scale. online retailing reduces the number of intermediaries. however the balance of economic power will shift in complex ways. The experience of Asian colonization makes it clear that when trading platforms are monopolizes, wealth accrues not to the producers but to the distributors of goods.

Security aspects of the platform economy are under-emphasized. Large tech companies gather tremendous amount of data and wealth globally and this data and the technologies they develop are utilized by military authorities.

by Sunil Tankha

from International Institute of  Social Studies 'DEVISSUES'

May 2022

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Jignesh Mevani: ‘Bilkis Bano is close to my heart’  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHl1y_BqeM  Former independent MLA and now Congress candidate from Vadagam speaks with Manisha Pande of Newslaundry while campaigning for the second phase of , which is scheduled for December 5. Jignesh talks about the conflict he sees between electoral politics and activism, the reason he is speaking about at election rallies, and why he thinks the Congress has "too much democracy". He also dwells on why he joined the Congress and the role Rahul Gandhi played, the difference between Ambedkarite and Gandhian approach to caste, and more.

Mallika Sarabhai on 2002, Rocket Boys, and how Gujarat has changed in her lifetime | NL Interview https://youtu.be/_FZfFzgRWpE?t=250 Ahmedabad growing.. of institutions.  Ahmedabad is more casteist today that it was a few years ago.  .  Malika Sarabai is an artist, actress, classical dancer and activist from Gujarat. In this conversation with Manisha Pande, she talks about how Gujarat, and particularly her hometown Ahmedabad, has changed since her childhood, her relationship with her parents, the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, her brief stint in politics, and what separates activists from politicians. “Activists don’t play on the common denominator of fear, hatred and insecurity,” she opines, “politicians do”.

Talking about the 2002 carnage, she recalls, “My neighbours were going out there in cars to loot shops and calling their friends to say, ‘Mattresses are good in this shop and we are looting so come.’ My dentist might have been out there, my gynaecologist might have been out there.” https://youtu.be/_FZfFzgRWpE?t=951

She also explores the nuances the TV series Rocket Boys missed about the relationship of her parents, classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and space scientist Vikram Sarabhai.

https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/nehru-read-ramayana-every-morning-for-pure-joy-he-also-turned-to-religion-in-his-old-age/1237854/   "I have begun seriously reading the Ramayan—Tulsi too, and Kabir’s bhajans and slokas from Bhagavad Gita serve as memory exercises whilst I have my morning and evening walks. I have, as you might well imagine, regularly done my prayers, regularly retired at the time appointed by you, and been out of bed at the same hour when, as Nanak says the “Heavens rain nectar”.’ Later in the same letter, Nehru remarks: ‘My days are passed among the saints nowadays, and I should love to finish as well as I can my knowledge of the Bible, the Saints (including Christian Saints of course), the Ramayan and the Mahabharat (including of course the Bhagavad Gita). I have some secular literature [with me], no doubt, but that takes frankly, a subordinate place. 

जातिवादी जजों का खुलासा/SHAMBHU ON PRESIDENT MURMU AND SC  https://youtu.be/wghmmzwQY4w?t=171

President Murmu On Constitution Day: Onus On All Of Us to Make Process Of Seeking Justice Affordable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrL0_3E3Bak   Nov 28, 2022
President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said the legislature, the executive and the judiciary need to have "one thinking" for the country and its people. In her valedictory address at the Constitution Day celebrations organised by the Supreme Court here, she suggested decongesting jails by helping poor people languishing there for years for petty crimes. "It is said that jails are getting overcrowded and there is a need to set up more jails. Are we moving towards development? What is the need to set up more jails? We need to reduce their numbers," she said in Hindi. Ms Murmu said there is a need to do something for these poor people in prisons

Hansraj Meena @HansrajMeena https://twitter.com/i/status/1596843755486990340

भारत की जेलों में 4,78,600 कैदी बिना सजा पाए बंद है। इसमें 3,15,409 यानि 65.90% कैदी एससी, एसटी, ओबीसी है। ये आंकड़ा गृह राज्यमंत्री किशन रेड्डी ने पिछली साल राज्यसभा में दिया था। अब मुर्मू जी, ने कॉलेजियम जजों के सामने इन्हीं को लेकर अपना दर्द व्यक्त किया है। 

"Govt Must Stop Overloading Supreme Court With Statutory Appeals" : Attorney General R Venkataramani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPZNmGDLh8w 

Comment onDeliberate use of words like Vanvasi, Appeasement or for that matter words like Inquilaab , by Shakil Akhtar and Prof. Akhil Swami on dblive  https://youtube.com/embed/TX7Vk_0NSKY?start=898&end=1284 samanta v/s samrakshan etc pseudo-secularism,..

Prime Time With Ravish Kumar | क्या ज़ुल्म के ख़िलाफ़ बोलना देशभक्ति नहीं? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-YfvNgyqpY  Nov 22, 2022 : इन दिनों क़तर (Qatar) में फुटबॉल का विश्व कप चल रहा है. ईरान की टीम के खिलाड़ियों ने कुछ ऐसा किया है, जिससे हम देशभक्ति के पहलुओं को समझ सकते हैं. देशभक्ति एकतरफा नहीं होती है कि आप जिस देश में पैदा होते हैं, जिसके नागरिक हैं, उसे हर हाल में प्यार ही करते रहेंगे, हर हाल का मतलब आप पर या आपके नागरिकों पर ज़ुल्म होता रहे और आप प्यार करने का नाटक करते रहेंगे. उस ज़ुल्म के ख़िलाफ़ बोलना भी देशभक्ति है. 

https://www.opindia.com/2022/11/iran-football-team-world-cup-2022-qatar-protests-back-home/

A 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini was beaten to death by the ‘Morality Police’ in Iran for wearing hijab improperly. Iranian media reported that Amini died in hospital after suffering a heart attack after she was arrested for her improper hijab but her death ignited a series of protests that the Iranian regime is struggling to control.

Since Mahsa Amini’s death, protests have been raging across Iran with women showing up in public without a hijab and challenging the Iranian regime. 

Examples in India when people dont stand up during the national anthem: https://youtube.com/embed/C-YfvNgyqpY?start=449&end=1145 

Cricket Nationalism: Reinventing a tougher ‘Tebbit Test’? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/sarkari-thoughts/cricket-nationalism-reinventing-a-tougher-tebbit-test/ November 24, 2021,Dr. Subhradipta Sarkar On the fateful day of October 24, 2021, Pakistan defeated India in the ICC T20 World Cup – the first and only time in the history of the ICC World Cups. Social media exploded with emotions. It appeared that Pakistan had won a war against India! There were sporadic celebrations cheering Pakistan’s victory. That was enough for the Indian State to come down heavily on the ‘Pakistani supporters’ – charging them under various criminal law provisions including causing public mischief, disturbing public peace, promoting enmity among groups, sedition, and terrorism. Students were suspended from colleges and teachers were dismissed from services. So much so that three Kashmiri medical students in Agra struggled to find legal representation in the court of law for their ‘anti-national’ act. Predictably, all the accused are Muslims.

NPA reduction claim by the Minister of Finance Myth & Reality.
The above data speaks that addition in NPA in last six & half years is 17.97 lac crores as against which reduction by all means is 6.71 lac crores while write off 9.30 lac crores. In NPA as also write off share of corporate is more than 70%. All measures for the recovery such as Debt Recovery Tribunal, SARFESI, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Act have not yielded the results. The burden of this is ultimately shifted to commen man in the form of rise in service charges, or in rate of interest on Deposits as also Advances which or otherwise could have been reduced in case of advances & increased in case of deposits. This is the reason why Government was required to infuse capital in ailing banks consiquent upon huge losses on account of huge NPAs, by providing for in the budget out of tax payers money.
Does it mean that there is no solution to this chronic problem? Certainly not ! Government should amend Banking Secrecy Act & should publish names of the defaulters, willful default should be treated as crime by amending Indian Penal Code, they should be disqualified from contesting elections for the public office by providing for in the code of conduct, recovery laws should be made stringent & personal guarantees of the borrower & guranters should be invoked. The sanctioning authorities should be made accountable & answerable & last but not least Government should come out with white paper on ihe issue of NPA & Write off in the banking system.
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Loan Write offs is the “Biggest Scandal of the Century” https://www.moneylife.in/article/loan-write-offs-is-the-biggest-scandal-of-the-century/46846.html Sucheta Dalal 09 May 2016 Prashant Bhushan has framed several important issues to be considered by the Supreme Court (WRIT PETITION CIVIL NO. 573 OF 2003) on the bad loan issue. These include:
€ Safeguards need to ensure that loans are not restructured without good reasons or restructured on fair terms;
€ Mechanism to ensure that banks obtain adequate security for loans to corporates;
€ Mechanism to ensure prompt action by banks to recover loans;
€ Audit instrument to prevent siphoning of assets of debtor companies through under/over invoicing or through sister entities;
€ Need to ensure that mortgaged assets are not sold off to Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) at arbitrary prices and the further sale of those assets by ARCs;
€ Clear definition of ‘wilful defaulters’ and making them ineligible for further loans from PSBs, etc.

one crucial issue is missing from this list. It is the massive ‘technical write-offs’ by PSBs which were dubbed the “biggest scandal of the century” by Dr KC Chakrabarty (ex-deputy governor of RBI and ex-chairman of Bank of Baroda and Punjab National Bank), in response to a query by Indian Express on the bad loan issue.

This is especially important since some bankers have denied that these write-offs are a scam and insist that the “write-offs are done as a prudent measure and in accordance with the regulatory guidelines laid down and, therefore, cannot qualify as a scam.” But it is a fact that bankers like ‘technical write–offs’ because they remove bad loans from their books and also give them a tax advantage. In the past two decades, banks have written off several lakh crores of rupees as technical write-offs. The Indian Express reported that Rs1,14,000 crore has been written off in the past three years alone.

http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/cic-respondent-banks-provide-names-its-wilful-defa#.Y3zNh31BzIU

https://dsscic.nic.in/files/upload_decision/7436_ASHOK_KUMAR_GOYAL.pdf

https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/249162003310137972order08-sep-2022-434627.pdf