India’s official audit body slams approval of Adani port expansion at Dahej | Ayaskant Das (Adani Watch, Oct 27, 2022) http://sacw.net/article15044.html 
27 October In a report tabled in the Parliament of India on 8 August 2022, CAG has stated that the Adani Group failed to enunciate any mitigation measures for endangered coastal ecology while it expanded the capacity of the Dahej Port in Gujarat in a joint venture with the government-owned oil and gas company Petronet LNG.

https://www.adaniwatch.org/audit_body_headed_by_modi_confidante_slams_approval_of_adani_port_expansion_at_dahej

https://cag.gov.in/en/audit-report/download/116707  Extract from Annexure :

Name of Project: Gujarat Expansion of Adani Petronet (Dahej) Port, Bharuch District by M/s Adani Petronet (Dahej) Port Pvt Ltd
Risk to marine flora and fauna, ecologically vulnerable areas:  The EIA Report envisaged generation of wastewater during concrete casting, cleaning of construction equipment, vehicle garage workshop, oil spills from the operation of construction equipment and Diesel Generating set and the same was stated to affect the marine water quality near the shoreline.

Mitigation measures not envisaged in the EIA: Despite the identification of the impacts, no mitigation measures were enunciated in the EIA report.

Risk to marine flora and fauna, ecologically vulnerable areas:  The population of the intertidal macro benthos indicated relatively high standing stock of macro benthos with moderate group diversity. The EIA further stated that the reclamation would impact nearly 23 ha. of benthic habitat and no recovery of benthic organisms was possible as the habitat would be permanently lost due to reclamation.

Mitigation measures not envisaged in the EIA: No mitigation measures were envisaged for the protection of benthic organisms in the project area.

India needs legal framework for closing mines and power plants by Kundan Pandey on 25 October 2022 https://india.mongabay.com/2022/10/india-needs-legal-framework-for-closing-mines-and-power-plants/  India is on the way to decommissioning thermal power plants (TPP) and disposing of coal mines at a large scale in the coming few years. However, the country has no legal framework on how this transition will take place. Estimates say that due to these measures, millions of people will lose their livelihood, a large amount of land would need closure or repurposing and several toxic materials need to be taken care of... 

The report underlines that the power plant land area is estimated to be equally split between centre, state and private sector power generation companies (GENCOs), at 33% each. As laws and regulations in India do not firmly establish the clean-up and remediation requirements, there is a risk of plant sites being left abandoned. This is especially true if GENCOs are financially stressed and do not have adequate resources to remediate or repurpose/redevelop, says lead author Mandvi Singh from iForest.

There is another catch with the land issues. Forest land is often diverted for TPP development. (see https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/violation-of-development-control-rules-at-mill-land-to-be-probed-cm-fadnavis/)

a two-part study, done by iForest, a Delhi-based, non-profit environmental research organisation. https://iforest.global/research/just-transition-of-coal-based-power-plants-in-india/  Its first part “Just transition of coal-based power plants in India: A policy and regulatory review”.. the second study “Just Transition of Unprofitable and End-of-life mines: A Legal Assessment”

Current laws scant to deal with decommissioning of power plants:  12 Oct 2022,  Paurush Omar CEO of iFOREST Chandra Bhushan said, “If the Ministry of Power's advisory to retire coal-based generation units of over 25 years of age is implemented, then as much as 50,000-60,000 MW capacity will have to retire by 2030."

A just transition entails the complete remediation of the plant site, wage replacement or compensation for the workforce, compensation for the economic loss suffered by dependent communities, and the creation of new economic opportunities and environmental outcomes that will benefit the communities.

"However, our current laws do not ensure a just transition.

This is the book review  by Atul Sood - "Where is India Headed?  An historical critique " by Dr. Vinod Mubayi  And where lies the Inspiration for Change? 
21/02/2022

Partition Split Us Up: Can We Live in Peace as Neighbors? – 
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– Dr Vinod Mubayi

The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions – Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy
03/10/2022 https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0 

How, when, and why did the two-nation theory emerge? 100 years ago India was never a unified whole. no monolithis set of belief. Hindu comes from the River Sindu. Al hind. Also no sense of muslimsness then.. .. https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=420 why difference in the first plae..https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=1390

once Pak was achieved, Jina realised it was a disaster to play this divide..time to junk the two nation theory.. 

Why is Pakistan a praetorian state but India is not? https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=1823 when Jinah was trying to drum up support for two nation theory, the main muslim league, including jinnah was mainly feudal landlord.in 1947 ML was intellectually weak, in that vacuum only one institution was strong that was the Army.. Jinnah did not have a vision for Pakistan.  No thinking on how do mustlims live together  India had a thick layer of institutions..

Was Partition preventable and had it not happened what might have been the consequences? https://youtube.com/embed/BH_61s2fbr0?start=2623&end=3145  Some in Pak feel that the current situation in India proved that the two nation was sound.    On the other hand Could we have had a depolitization of religion? Unionist party, faced a new communal drive by Jinnah.. 

https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=3448  Q what about the future?  Uniting does not mean extinguish nation state..  Is there another narrative of unity .. https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=3674 Hoodbhoy Undoing partition is impossible now three states as there would be massive blood letting.. Think of healthy relations, trade etc.. Patnaik.. can we have a common market, freedom of movement..  Hoodboy, Kashmir needs a soft border.. Ketkar: Cold war created situation where this division coudl be sustained.. With the fall of Afghanistan , pakistan's rental value came down.   1979 events..cut off points.. 

Sukla Sen https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=4535  https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=4564 Congress and its advocacy for the centralised state.. Congress wanted to construct a notion of nation.. India however has been able to keep the state together.. 

https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=4837 Ashraf Muslims upper echelons of muslims..  dominant in UP, but they are now aware of the fat that they have been taken for a ride..  SAvarkar first wrote of two nationa theory in 1923 before Jinnah

https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=5185 going forward faith has to be on the people.. people to people contact.. 

Gauhar Raza https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=5320 the generation that had commonality has now goine.. need a stakeholders like culture could be a new entry point ..  just let tourist go freely.. 

Satya Pal https://youtu.be/BH_61s2fbr0?t=5613  why is Bangladesh not prominent in the discussion of unity.. Even though young minds have been poisoned with hate.. there is a group of young people are seeing this..

- वैश्विक एजेंसियों ने खोली विश्वगुरु के फ़क़ीरी की पोल दुनियाभर से पढ़ रहे modi को जूते Prasun Bajpai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jutNh3ziJ8g  The following International indexes down:
- Economic Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index.
- UNDP Human Development Index.
- Lawrie's Choot Asia's Power index.
- Freedom House's Freedom in the World
- Brand Power's Global soft power index.
- World Competitiveness Ranking.
- Reporters Without Borders.
- Wordl Justice's Rule of Law.
- UN happiness Report.
- Prosperity Index.
- Women's peace & Secuirty index,
- Joe Institute Global Economic Freedom Index
- Cato Human Freedom index.
- WEF global gender gap index,
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- US chanber of Commerce, Global Innovation Policy centre International Interlectual Property Index,
- Global Hunger Index
- Child index Technology Data science. Migrant Integration policy index,
- Oxfam Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index
- Economic and POsitive peace index
- Bloomberg quality of life

Panel Discussion on 'Comics and Resistance' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UepJiZrqJo 
Oct 15, 2022 Graphic Artists of India come together to talk about their work, hopes and aspirations. Venue was the Gang of 20 comic book launch at New Delhi 

How Adani Vs Reliance Vs Airtel's 5G Race shape the future of India? : 5G Business case study  https://youtu.be/7lqGQ17A2c4?t=189  

5G Basics: 3:07 Auction: 4:23 5G Superpowers : 7:36

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-10-06/energy-transition-and-post-growth-scenarios/ 

Last piece in Mahatma takeover jigsaw https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/last-piece-in-mahatma-takeover-jigsaw/cid/1891268 
Gujarat institution founded by Gandhi invites governor to be chancellor, crystallising a pattern

the Gujarat Vidyapith  council in a 13-9 vote decided to invite Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat to take over as chancellor of the Vidyapith. 

In October 1920, Mahatma Gandhi had written a two-line letter to Vidyagauri Nilkanth, one of the first women graduates from Gujarat: “I have always wanted Gujarat Vidyapith to be established. It goes without saying that the government will have no say in its affairs.”