As the rule of law recedes in India, a new majoritarian consensus emerges https://scroll.in/article/1037771/as-the-rule-of-law-recedes-in-india-a-new-majoritarian-consensus-emerges Why did the school apologise for promoting unity and harmony? Quite apparently because they feared local Hindu groups, who – if the rule of law functioned as the Constitution provides – should have faced police prosecution for intimidation.
Instead, as these groups have increasingly demonstrated, they feel emboldened and empowered enough to enforce their own views, as they threaten colleges, raid pubs and resorts in pursuit of their own definition of morality. Muslim groups and extremists, too, ignore the rule of law, murdering Hindu fundamentalists and enforcing their own rules of moral policing. The difference is the Muslim groups get no support from the state. The Hindu groups, as Article 14 reported, obviously do.
There are examples in India of majoritarian proclivities creeping and codified into the law itself, as my colleagues have extensively reported: from laws against cow slaughter, inter-faith love (here and here) and conversions, to often illegal and unconstitutional demolition of properties.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022.pdf (meity.gov.in) https://www.meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/The%20Digital%20Personal%20Data%20Protection%20Bill%2C%202022.pdf
https://www.businesstoday.in/opinion/columns/story/why-the-promised-right-to-privacy-and-data-protection-law-has-not-been-enacted-yet-223449-2019-08-30 enforcers and interpreters of law have shown unpardonable callousness with regard to the age of 'big data' or the collection of data sets which are 'marked by their exhaustive scope and the permanency of collection'. It entails 'profiling' by automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person. It includes analysis or prediction of aspects concerning natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements for the 'nth' time...
The failure of Supreme Court to ensure enactment of right to privacy and data protection law has grave consequences for India's position on e-commerce, computing cloud, cyber jurisdiction, high computing capacity, artificial intelligence, mathematical algorithms, and analytics, which have the potential to make digital colonisation fool-proof through data colonisation in what is being called the Fourth Revolution. Government manoeuvres are grossly procedural, formalistic and insincere. The proposal of Draft Personal Data Protection Bill and the Privacy Bill is akin to putting a cart before the horse.
Why BJP is so upset if Medha Joined Bharat Jodo Yatra? Bharat Jodo Yatra I Medha Patkar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKy4xSb45F8 19-11-22
भारत जोड़ो यात्रा में मेधा पाटकर राहुल गाँधी के साथ दिखने के बाद बीजेपी क्यों परेशान हो गई? क्या वह गुजरात चुनाव में इसका फ़ायदा उठाने के लिए ऐसा कर रही है? क्या राहुल गाँधी ने मेधा पाटकर के साथ चलकर राजनीतिक ग़लती की है? क्या इससे काँग्रेस को गुजरात चुनाव में नुक़सान हो सकता है? डॉ. मुकेश कुमार बात कर रहे हैं जानी मानी सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता मेधा पाटकर से-
Cutting to the ..interview Rahul G with Samdish Bhatia: https://youtube.com/embed/deaCYFp6uX4?start=580&end=1459
how come some partitioned family hate muslims and other do not..https://youtu.be/deaCYFp6uX4?t=581 from My Crazy Interview With Rahul Gandhi ft. Bharat Jodo Yatra | Samdish Bhatia About yatra chaging perspective? Information is being denied to a vast majority.. people consider family as "bhagwan".. Not it is Love..
Shiva as God, a personal idea, ruthless attack on the concept of self.
Lok more relaxed while talking than your speeches... that's because you see me "filtered" through the media...
A irreverent look at the afternoon rest place, lunch and all that... https://youtu.be/deaCYFp6uX4?t=1797
Police arrangement: https://youtu.be/deaCYFp6uX4?t=2736
Sense of what is happening... impact etc. https://youtu.be/deaCYFp6uX4?t=3038
Someone has to pick the narrative by the horns - https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/vision-of-savarkar-vs-vision-of-gandhi-rahul-gandhi-dares-maharashtra-govt-to-stop-bharat-jodo-yatra-2298350-2022-11-17 Addressing a rally in Washim district on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi said Savarkar is a symbol of the BJP and the RSS and when he was jailed in Andaman for two-three years, he started writing mercy petitions The former Congress president had claimed Savarkar wrote a book on himself with a different name and highlighted how brave he was. “He used to take pension from the British, work for them, and work against the Congress,”
- Sanjay Raut ने BJP के सावरकर प्रेम को बताया नकली, बोले- Rahul के बयान से टूट सकता है MVA गठबंधन https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9YYAHekfMk Nov 18, 2022 HIndutva and Akhand Bhrat ideas of Sarvarkar will always be held by Shiv Sena. Rahul Gandhi should not have come to Maharashtra and spoken ill of Savarkar. But the issue is the those in BJP government who are criticising are false, because they have not given Bharat Ratna to Savarkar for the eight year they were in power.
- Rashtra Ki Baat | Rahul ने डाल दी MVA में दरार ? Manak Gupta
Pick Your Savarkar, Don't Forget Foot Soldiers: P Sainath | The Big Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPCNQShsHyo Nov 18, 2022 Noted journalist and author of 'The Last Heroes', P Sainath speaks to NDTV exclusively about the need to chronicle the stories of foot soldiers of the Indian freedom movement. He also takes on the stories and controversies surrounding VD Savarkar and Tipu Sultan. He says, "One can pick their own Savarkar, but must not forget the foot soldiers."
Watch: Team Uddhav Hints May End Alliance With Congress Over Savarkar Row | The Big Fight - https://youtu.be/Y6Egbxssw80
Comment by Shukla Sen Clearly shows up his keenness to get into an ideological battle regardless of its short-term impact on local electoral prospects. The intention, obviously, is to challenge the very legitimacy of the packaging of Hindutva politics as "nationalism". He has, of course, solid facts--well-documented--very much on his side. Even then -- given the current circumstances and the role of the mainstream media, in particular -- it's, no doubt, a tough and daring venture
PM Modi ने जब एक पत्रकार से नाराज़ होकर बीच यात्रा में छोड़ दिया था - Ajit Anjum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRR_iEmCIko
Sack These Ministers, Warn Them: Sena Leader On Comments Over Delhi Murder Case|Left, Right & Centre Nov 17, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNV5cD6mkM
These are not just leaders. They are Union Ministers. All he has to offer are moral platitudes. According to these leaders, a woman is supposed to be totally responsible for her security. PM Narendra Modi has been talking about women's rights. Ministers who talk like this need to be sacked by the PM or warned not say something like this,” said Priyanka Chaturvedi, Shiv Sena leader, when asked about the statements made by some politicians putting the onus on the victim Shraddha Walkar, who was killed by her boyfriend Aftab Poonawala.
After Horrific Murder In Delhi, A Toxic Discourse | Left, Right & Centre - https://youtu.be/1V91Y12JlU8
Shraddha Murder Case: Advocate Seema Samridhi ने कहा - "सबूतों के बिना निष्कर्ष ...." | Des Ki Baat Nov 18, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8D4tg-aZDk Shraddha Murder Case Update: एडवोकेट सीमा समृद्धि ने श्रद्धा हत्याकांड के संबंध में शुक्रवार को एनडीटीवी से बातचीत की. इस दौरान उन्होंने बताया कि किन सबूतों के आधार पर आरोपी आफताब को सजा हो सकती है. साथ ही ये भी कहा कि इस मामले में सबूतों के बिना किसी निष्कर्ष पर पहुंचना जल्दबाजी होगी.
"Shraddha को अक्सर पीटता था आफताब, 2020 की Medical Report से हुआ खुलासा": https://youtu.be/LsDjk_YplGk
Amit Shah Directs Officials to Detect, Detain and Deport ‘Illegal Migrants’ in Each State https://thewire.in/government/amit-shah-directs-officials-to-detect-detain-and-deport-illegal-migrants-in-each-state
Shah has asked intelligence officials to identify around 100 'infiltrators' in each state, check their documents, arrest and deport them, and continue with the crackdown even if the neighbouring countries do not accept them.
Salvatore Babones Punctures 'Anti-India' Narrative By Intellectuals With Facts, Figures & Reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsaCnXGGsEI
Dr Salvatore Babones, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Sydney, spoke exclusively with India Today's Shiv Aroor on his show 5ive Live. He exposed intellectuals who are romanticising with poor India.
Anti India Agenda News Explained | Professor Salvator Babones | English News Today | News18
International think tanks ranking countries based on their democratic strengths or weaknesses are not biased against India but are a result of “anti-Indian" sources from intellectual class, said Sociologist Dr Salvatore Babones on Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pI9aIed-rM The associate professor at the University of Sydney who came to limelight recently with his article ‘Indian Democracy at 75: Who are the Barbarians at the Gate?’ had argued that negative ratings of Indian democracy published by three major rating organisations are disproportionate to the actual evidence provided to support.
Dr Salvatore Babones, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Sydney, also said India has problems “but the problem is” that activists, journalists and intellectuals “allow internationally to colour the overall evaluation of this system”. As anchor Rajdeep Sardesai tried to counter him saying that intellectuals are “at least raising a few red flags”, Babones asked if their criticism is “tied to the BJP government or will it continue inevitably to any other government who will come to power”.
As the comments went viral, Babones was criticised by several social media handles, who sought to know the relevance of such remarks by a western voice
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/08/indian-democracy-at-75-who-are-the-barbarians-at-the-gate/ There is no such thing as an ‘objective’ democracy ranking, and indeed concepts like democracy and freedom admit of many different meanings. The specific numerical rankings assigned to India by each of the organisations that rate it should thus be taken with something of a grain of salt. But in publishing sensational downgradings of the world’s largest democracy, these organisations are aware that their ratings will be widely reported—and subjected to intense scrutiny.
Morbi Accident: Not God’s Will, BJP Government’s Failure https://www.newsclick.in/morbi-accident-not-gods-will-bjp-governments-failure
Newsclick Team | 02 Nov 2022
Morbi Tragedy- Heavy Politics Over People's Pain https://www.newsclick.in/morbi-tragedy-heavy-politics-over-peoples-pain
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Who's Real Culprit of Morbi, Why no Higher Judicial Inquiry? Newsclick Team | 02 Nov 2022 https://www.newsclick.in/whos-real-culprit-morbi-why-no-higher-judicial-inquiry
So far, 135 people are reported to have died in the Jhoola bridge accident at Morbi in Gujarat.
Morbi Bridge Collapse: Who Will Answer for More Than 135 Deaths? Newsclick Team | 01 Nov 2022 https://www.newsclick.in/morbi-bridge-collapse-who-will-answer-more-135-deaths
Usually, common people term such incidents the 'will of God'. .. The administration did not adopt the standards for testing, monitoring, and control that are required while carrying out the repair and maintenance of the public property. Just look at the agreement signed between Orewa company and Morbi Municipality to operate the suspension bridge. The contract says that the company can increase ticket rates, and use bridge for commercial purposes, and additionally, government agencies would not interfere in the company's work.
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