Fearlessness Is Now Part Of Aesthetic Experience For Writers, Artists: Ganesh Devy https://www.outlookindia.com/national/fearlessness-is-now-part-of-aesthetic-experience-for-writers-artists-ganesh-devy-news-218885 Writers from 78 countries recently attended the PEN event. Several among them had gone to prison for protesting against governments, experienced assaults on life and survived.
The term ‘Dakshinayan’ itself, Devy said, has multiple interpretations. It is also represents an astronomical phase during which nights are longer than days on account of the trajectory of the earth’s revolution around the sun.
“It refers to a period of depression. Period where worries are multiplied and of course in India for the last several millennia power is concentrated in the north. So it is necessary to challenge the powers that be while speaking in the name of Dakshin (south) so that the country’s federal structure is protected,” Devy said.
The weighed down ecosystem, says Devy, has also sparked new literary trends in the country, especially among already marginalised groups.
“…after 2014, these Dalit writers were not just writing about resistance to caste discrimination but to fascism. Similarly, feminist writers have turned their attention to the question of a totalitarian state not just patriarchal society,” Devy said.
Kanhaiya Kumar released of book Who killed Judge Loya? written by Naranjan Takle @Aurangabad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVGbzcUHuC0
Oct 8, 2022 organized by Maharashtra Gandhi Smarak Nidhi Mahatma Gandhi Bhavan Aurangabad & Dhamma Ganga Prakashan Aurangabad.
Journalist hurdles to investigating.. mind mapping of sources.. https://youtube.com/embed/nVGbzcUHuC0?start=742&end=1039
RSS training camp in government residential schools raises eyebrows Jayanth R. Bengaluru October 08, 2022
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/rss-training-camp-in-government-residential-schools-raises-eyebrows/article65985736.ece Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society (KREIS), a government-run body, has given permission to an organisation affiliated to RSS to conduct training camps in Morarji Desai Residential School in Kolar and Uttara Kannada districts “without disturbing students.”
The note from KREIS says that “boys and youth” can join the training programme which will involve physical activities, personality development programmes, yoga and initiatives to promote nationalist thought. In a separate note circulated in Kolar, RSS, district division, said the participants should come with complete ‘Ganavesha’ (the RSS uniform) along with ‘danda’ (staff) for this training camp.
Dussehra Rally पर Uddhav Thackeray और Eknath Shinde में भीड़ की टक्कर। Shivaji Park । Shiv Sena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhYcbyH8F0
Dussehra Rally पर Uddhav Thackeray और Eknath Shinde में भीड़ की टक्कर। Shivaji Park । Shiv Sena
305,634 views Oct 6, 2022 Shivaji Park: Dussehra Rally पर Uddhav Thackeray और Eknath Shinde में भीड़ की टक्कर। दोनों ने दशहरे के दिन अलग-अलग मैदानों में रैलियां की और यह दिखाने का प्रयास किया कि उनके साथ ज्यादा लोग हैं. Crowd clash between Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde at Dussehra Rally. Both held rallies in different grounds on the day of Dussehra and tried to show that they have more people with them.
Pradeep All (a)around
It was 1974, when VISTAS, an organisation co-founded by Pradeep, with him as General Secretary went about the task of putting their ideas into practice. And in typical Pradeep Style, all of it was self-thought, self taught, and self-worked out. At this self-designed training course - no internet then, nor wikipedia each one of us had to pick up on a theme which they felt was relevant, while some of us picked up books like Summer Hill, Tools for Conviviality, Pradeep explained "Lateral Thinking" by Edward de Guha! He drew a cros on the top right hand side of the board, and a circle near the bottom to signify where we are. He started dancing the chalk all over the board, and spoke of how each point viewed the objective till he felt we had a clear shot at the objective and then arrowed the chal straight to the objective in a quite decisive action.
During the same training course Pradeep bundled all 14 of us to see Alyque's Jesus Christ Superstar. On our return to the Bandra Centre where we were holed out, we re-jiged the whole play, with Pradeep taking the part played by Nandu Bhende... My mind is clearer now.. At last all to well I can see where we all soon will be.
This image of Pradeep keeps popping up, when I consider all the times we spend together, as well as the few but intensive interaction we have had since his joining the media and entertianment industry. From Taposh, that bright young boy in Laksmi Court in Wadala through Pradeep the Activist, and the Csar, this seems to be the play.
When we at Doccentre, then a project of Vistas, which Pradeep took over after the objective seems unattainable, took up the task. Where we were was a bunch of clippings pasted on the pages of Corporate Annual Reports piled up by Pradeeps dad in the loft of 201/3 Laksmi Court. He looked at what the times reference system and its manila envellopes, and various systems --, godrej filings used by other centres. The hit the Box Files as it had adjustable clips with space for large label on the spine. There was another aspect. We bauked at the use of fresh paper, as the early stirrings of the environment spoke predominantly about the trees, and our pockets were quite empty. He soon made a deal with the waste newsprint department at the times.. But along with such brilliance, Pradeep combined the meticulous. He one finger typed out the CED Classification system on our Old Godrej, several drafts of them, all spaced out and charted, from notes off a flip pad, to tab and space bar even as we were discussing arguing indeed labouring every point..
And he had the ability to work round as well as to the clock. Just as he flourished to the end of a task - Full point and Rolled out the paper, he glanced at his watch and of a frenzied finish "now we go to New Empire (or Excelsior or even far away Naaz). Jump into a cab and reach just in time for the main show. So we had this full life.
Strangers in Their Own Land https://thebaffler.com/salvos/strangers-in-their-own-land-sitlhou Makepeace Sitlhou no. 65 October 2022
Assam’s Bengali-origin Muslims face disenfranchisement and indignity
National Register of Citizens (NRC). Originally developed in 1951 as part of independent India’s first census, this misleadingly titled registry is supposed to contain a list of “official”—or “legal”—Indian residents of Assam. In 2019, the Indian Supreme Court completed the NRC’s first update since its inception to detect “doubtful” voters, but the NRC does not determine citizenship, nor does it correct the voter list. During the process, which began in 2015 and was funded by the federal government, Assam’s state government reviewed some sixty-six million documents submitted by over thirty million applicants. Those who didn’t make the final draft were likely to face detention or deportation.
Meanwhile, at a federal level, the BJP passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), paving the way for the naturalization of all non-Muslim migrants who came to India before December 31, 2014 from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The BJP claims that the CAA is a humanitarian gesture intended to help religious minorities fleeing surrounding countries, despite the law making clear that all other non-Muslim religions were exempt from new citizenship checks—that in effect, it codified the selective disenfranchisement of Muslims as a whole.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a retired Border Police official told me that since 2007, each Border branch was given a monthly quota, and, if unmet, the BP would not pay their salary or punish them in some other way. It’s not difficult to imagine that police officials fabricated false cases under these circumstances. Officials would even use registers of village surveys in a local station to easily pick off names to charge. “This is what happens when you’re working under pressure to report ten to fifteen cases every month,” the official said. The quotas, of course, are not recorded in any official communiqué by the higher authorities.
Himanshu Kumar Exposed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX2iWgyS4OE Jan 7, 2012
Himanshu Kumar, of the now destroyed Vanvasi Chetna Ashram in Dantewada Chhatisgarh, is caught on camera talking about his true ideas. It has been reported that having worked for 17 years in the tribal best of Dantewada, the security forces swooped down upon his ashram and razed it to the ground in 2009. In 2010 he was forced to flee from Chhatisgarh as the pressure to arrest him mounted
He has often been called a maoist sympathizer. This video exposes where his true sympathies lie.
Comments 10 year ago. 2012 bhupat shoot What kind of social revolution is required -- this is debatable question before many kind of organisations, fighters and revolutionaries but there is no amicable agreement on thoughts and ideology.
Alan R: 1 year ago What is indisputable is Modi and cronies permitting the abuse of the rightful owners of the land trying to force them from the only thing that they possess - their forests and the minerals which lie underneath. Their shameful and unlawful treatment of the
Adivasi tribal peoples is all about engineering them into pitiful camps. The poorest of the poor being exploited in the name of progress and corruption.
Three Months On, India's Single-Use Plastic Ban A Dud By Tanvi Deshpande| 2 Oct, 2022
Banned plastic including straws, cutlery found in circulation in Mumbai and Delhi. Experts call the ban weak and ask that big players, that produce more plastic, and more plastic items be brought under the ban's ambit
Of the total plastic generated, the share of the now-banned single-use plastic--at, as we said, 2-3%--is minuscule. Thus, even if the ban had worked well, the impact on plastic waste generation would be negligible.
In 2020-21, India generated nearly 3.5 million tonnes of plastic, as per details provided by 35 states and Union territories. Maharashtra forms 13% of this, followed by Tamil Nadu (12%) and Punjab (12%). Meanwhile, India's recycling capacity, at 1.56 million tonnes per annum, is only half of the total plastic generated. Brands are expected to recycle around 800,000 tonnes per annum as part of their Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
India Wants Manufacturers To Manage Plastic Waste. Here’s How Proposed Rules Fall Short By Bhasker Tripathi| 5 Oct, 2020 https://www.indiaspend.com/india-wants-manufacturers-to-manage-plastic-waste-heres-how-proposed-rules-fall-short/ The draft rules offer three options to producers: pay a fee into a central corpus that would be spent towards managing the waste; buy credits from a system that would be established to offset the plastic waste they generate; or participate in and pay for establishing producer responsibility organisations (PROs) to collect and manage post-consumer plastic waste...
Industry experts who have studied the draft say the rules do not hold producers responsible, rather offer them ways to evade responsibility. By failing to put curbs on overproduction, the draft fails to emphasise waste minimisation and also provides no clarity on how these models will work.
One of the biggest reasons for India's plastic crisis is that the country's plastic industry uses different tactics to distract, delay, dilute and derail progressive legislations on plastic control that are unfavourable to them, according to an addendum to the September 2020 global report, Talking Trash: The Corporate Playbook of False Solutions to the Plastic Crisis. https://talking-trash.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TalkingTrash_FullReport.pdf
The India-segment of this report was researched and written by Shah, quoted earlier.
No asbestos mine functional in India but trade, manufacture and use of asbestos yet to be stopped Saturday, October 1, 2022 http://www.asbestosfreeindia.org/2022/10/no-asbestos-mine-functional-in-india.html In answer to Sangamlal Gupta and P.P. Chaudhary on “Ban on Asbestos Mines”, Pralhad Joshi, minister of coal and mines said " no asbestos mine functional in India because of the harmful effect of asbestos" . Yet, 25 per cent of the entire asbestos produced globally comes to India because India is yet to ban trade, manufacture and use of all kinds of asbestos .
India imported asbestos to the tune of 3,61,164 tonnes in 2019-20. It was 3,64,105 tonnes in the previous year.
According to World Health Organisation (WHO), 250, 000 are dying annually because of asbestos related diseases.
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The Emergency Then: Life in Jail https://www.newsclick.in/emergency-then-life-jail Prabir Purkayastha 25 Jun 2022
The author, a student in JNU during Mrs Gandhi’s Emergency, was jailed under MISA. In this extract from a longer work on resisting political emergencies, he remembers life in jail in 1975.