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The Wire, the regime has seen through ‘easier awarding of wildlife clearances for industrial projects,’ ‘a draft (later withdrawn) National Forest Policy that came under heavy criticism for envisaging a push for forest-based industries, and diluting Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) rules ‘to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...

Pm Modi Raghuram Rajan पर क्या बोल गए? Modi का Viral बयान तो सुनिए | Kumkum Binwal Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I7qK7Os16c

हम क्यो नही मानते 1 जनवरी को नया साल?

* न ऋतु बदली.. न मौसम
* न कक्षा बदली... न सत्र
* न फसल बदली...न खेती
* न पेड़ पौधों की रंगत
* न सूर्य चाँद सितारों की दिशा
* ना ही नक्षत्र।।

1 जनवरी आने से पहले ही सब नववर्ष की बधाई देने लगते हैं। मानो कितना बड़ा पर्व है।

नया केवल एक दिन ही नही होता..
कुछ दिन तो नई अनुभूति होनी ही चाहिए। आखिर हमारा देश त्योहारों का देश है।

ईस्वी संवत का नया साल 1 जनवरी को और भारतीय नववर्ष (विक्रमी संवत) चैत्र शुक्ल प्रतिपदा को मनाया जाता है। आईये देखते हैं दोनों का तुलनात्मक अंतर:

1. प्रकृति-
1 जनवरी को कोई अंतर नही जैसा दिसम्बर वैसी जनवरी.. चैत्र मास में चारो तरफ फूल खिल जाते हैं, पेड़ो पर नए पत्ते आ जाते हैं। चारो तरफ हरियाली मानो प्रकृति नया साल मना रही हो I

Why don't we celebrate New Year on 1st January?

* Neither the season changed.. nor the weather
* Neither the class changed nor the session
* Neither crop changed nor farming
* Neither the color of trees and plants
* Neither the direction of sun moon stars
* Nor the constellation.

Even before January 1 comes, everyone starts wishing for the new year. Believe it is such a big festival.

New doesn't happen only one day..
Some days there must be a new feeling. After all, our country is a country of festivals.

The new year of the AD Samvat is celebrated on January 1 and the Indian New Year (Vikrami Samvat) is celebrated on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada. Let us see the comparative difference between the two:

1. Nature-
There is no difference on January 1, like December, like January.. In the month of Chaitra, flowers bloom all around, new leaves come on the trees. Greenery all around as if nature is celebrating new year.
2. वस्त्र-
दिसम्बर और जनवरी में वही वस्त्र, कंबल, रजाई, ठिठुरते हाथ पैर..
चैत्र मास में सर्दी जा रही होती है, गर्मी का आगमन होने जा रहा होता है I

3. विद्यालयो का नया सत्र- दिसंबर जनवरी वही कक्षा कुछ नया नहीं..
जबकि मार्च अप्रैल में स्कूलो का रिजल्ट आता है नई कक्षा नया सत्र यानि विद्यालयों में नया साल I

4. नया वित्तीय वर्ष-
दिसम्बर-जनबरी में कोई खातो की क्लोजिंग नही होती.. जबकि 31 मार्च को बैंको की (audit) कलोसिंग होती है नए वही खाते खोले जाते है I सरकार का भी नया सत्र शुरू होता है I

5. कलैण्डर-
जनवरी में नया कलैण्डर आता है..
चैत्र में नया पंचांग आता है I उसी से सभी भारतीय पर्व, विवाह और अन्य महूर्त देखे जाते हैं I इसके बिना हिन्दू समाज जीबन की कल्पना भी नही कर सकता इतना महत्वपूर्ण है ये कैलेंडर यानि पंचांग I
2. Clothing-
Same clothes, blankets, quilts, chilly hands and feet in December and January.
Winter is going in Chaitra month, summer is about to arrive.

3. New session of schools - December January same class nothing new..
Whereas in March and April the result of schools comes, new class, new session means new year in schools.

4. New financial year-
There is no closing of accounts in December-January.. whereas on 31st March there is audit closing of banks, new accounts are opened. New session of government also starts.

5. Calendar
New calendar comes in January.
A new calendar comes in Chaitra. All Indian festivals, marriages and other auspicious times are observed from there. Hindu society cannot imagine life without it. This calendar means Panchang.
6. किसानो का नया साल- दिसंबर-जनवरी में खेतो में वही फसल होती है..
जबकि मार्च-अप्रैल में फसल कटती है नया अनाज घर में आता है तो किसानो का नया वर्ष और उतसाह I

7. पर्व मनाने की विधि-
31 दिसम्बर की रात नए साल के स्वागत के लिए लोग जमकर मदिरा पान करते है, हंगामा करते है, रात को पीकर गाड़ी चलने से दुर्घटना की सम्भावना, रेप जैसी वारदात, पुलिस प्रशासन बेहाल और भारतीय सांस्कृतिक मूल्यों का विनाश..
जबकि भारतीय नववर्ष व्रत से शुरू होता है पहला नवरात्र होता है घर घर मे माता रानी की पूजा होती है I शुद्ध सात्विक वातावरण बनता है I

8. ऐतिहासिक महत्त्व- 1 जनवरी का कोई ऐतेहासिक महत्व नही है..
जबकि चैत्र प्रतिपदा के दिन महाराज विक्रमादित्य द्वारा विक्रमी संवत् की शुरुआत, भगवान झूलेलाल का जन्म, नवरात्रे प्रारंम्भ, ब्रहम्मा जी द्वारा सृष्टि की रचना इत्यादि का संबंध इस दिन से है I

अंग्रेजी कलेंडर की तारीख और अंग्रेज मानसिकता के लोगो के अलावा कुछ नही बदला..
अपना नव संवत् ही नया साल है I

जब ब्रह्माण्ड से लेकर सूर्य चाँद की दिशा, मौसम, फसल, कक्षा, नक्षत्र, पौधों की नई पत्तिया, किसान की नई फसल, विद्यार्थी की नई कक्षा, मनुष्य में नया रक्त संचरण आदि परिवर्तन होते है। जो विज्ञान आधारित है I

अपनी मानसिकता को बदले I विज्ञान आधारित भारतीय काल गणना को पहचाने। स्वयं सोचे की क्यों मनाये हम 1 जनवरी को नया वर्ष..?

6. New year of the farmers - In December-January, the same crop is grown in the fields.
When the crop is harvested in March-April, new grain comes in the house, then the new year and enthusiasm of the farmers.

7. Method of celebrating the festival-
On the night of 31 December, people drink heavily to welcome the new year, create ruckus, there is a possibility of accidents due to drunken driving at night, incidents like rape, poor police administration and destruction of Indian cultural values.
While the Indian New Year begins with a fast, the first Navratri happens, Mata Rani is worshiped in every house. Pure sattvic atmosphere is created.

8. Historical importance- There is no historical importance of January 1.
Whereas on the day of Chaitra Pratipada, the beginning of Vikrami Samvat by Maharaj Vikramaditya, the birth of Lord Jhulelal, the start of Navratras, the creation of creation by Brahma ji, etc. are related to this day.

Nothing has changed except the date of the English calendar and the people of the English mentality.
Our new era is the new year.

When the direction of sun and moon, season, crop, class, constellation, new leaves of plants, new crop of farmer, new class of student, new blood circulation in human etc. change from universe. which is based on science

Change your mindset and recognize science based Indian time calculation. Think for yourself why should we celebrate the new year on 1st January..?

 The Dangers of Financialization Oct 11, 2016   TIME magazine assistant managing editor Rana Foroohar’s book Makers and Takers sounds an important note of warning on the dangers of financialization of the U.S. economy. She reveals that the financial system no longer funds new ideas and projects — only about 15 percent of the money coming out of financial institutions goes into business investment; the rest is spent buying and selling existing financial instruments. That’s why $4 trillion worth of monetary stimulus that followed the 2008 financial meltdown has failed to produce anything more than anemic growth. In this video, she discusses her book, and its implications for the economic policy challenges facing America’s decision-makers, with Institute president Robert Johnson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIk7WlINPQ

India's economy to double in size to $5 trillion by 2022: PM Modi https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/india-s-economy-to-double-in-size-to-5-trillion-by-2022-pm-modi-118092000665_1.html 20th Sept 2018
Modi said the Indian economy will grow at over 8% rate with massive employment generation being seen in IT and retail sectors

https://www.globaljurix.com/blog/will-india-become-5-trillion-dollar-economy-in-next-5-years.php To achieve the target, India needs to grow with an average annual growth rate of 10-12% in dollar terms for next five years (as against 6.8% in 2018-19), and raise its aggregate investment rate to around 38% of its GDP every year, as against 31.3% in 2018-19, according to experts, including the Ernst & Young (EY). Again, India's inflation (consumer price index) shall be required to be kept below or around 4% (the target inflation rate according to the Monetary Policy Framework), to ensure commensurate increase in the purchasing power of money. According to the finance ministry, the inflation in India has been kept under check and at around 4.5% in the last five years, and now it is on a declining path to reach 3.4% in 2018-19. Again, to support the target rate of GDP growth, the rupee should not depreciate further against the dollar. As per an PTI report, to achieve the target GDP growth, the exchange rate depreciation must not be higher than 2% per annum...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/astrology/horoscope/yearly-horoscope-2023-what-s-in-store-for-all-zodiac-signs-in-the-coming-year-101672215982930.html

Evicting the inhabitants is like firing the workers: the restoration of the old unjust order of neoliberalism needs the precarious and uprooted to avoid being hindered in the race of the financialized economy, fueled by real estate and land speculation, feeded by wars, at the expense of people, communities, the climate and the environment.

A financialized economy that is flooding the relaunch of unlimited development policies with flows of money, the same ones encouraged by the New Urban Agenda of Habitat 3, to which we countered the Inhabitants' Solidarity Agenda already in 2016. The vultures of the financialization of the economy are already profiting from the private and public debts that this crisis and the wars are accumulating.

These policies, including the fake "green" ones, are exacerbating authoritarianism, patriarchy, gender discrimination, racism and the criminalization of human rights activists.

Right to Vote ! A Constt. or Legal Right ? SC asks AG Does the AG reduced it to the Level of a Legal Right. 

Prashant Bhushan, argues that their contention is based on the fact that Democracy is part of the basic structure of the Constitution, and therefore Right to Vote, and the Duties of the Election Commission in this regard is also discharged as being part of the basic structure..

Text of letter: This complaint is being filed to bring to your notice Ms. Pragya Singh Thakur’s speech in Shivamogga at the Hindu Jagarana Vedike’s South Region annual convention, on 25th December, 2022. She spoke with the clear intention to disturb communal harmony and national integration. The Shivamogga police have registered an FIR (No 0181/2022) against her ( IPC U/S 153A, 153B, 268,295-A,298,505,508) . It should be noted that a sitting elected representative has said that when an opportunity presents itself, we should keep our knives ready and that knives which cut vegetables can cut the heads of the enemy. This call for violence itself violates the constitutional norm that citizens will not take up arms against each other. Further, she refers to the entire Muslim community as the enemy thus targetting them . We are therefore writing to you to initiate action against her. 

In her speech, Ms.Thakur stated:

"Apni ladkiyon ko surakshit rakho. Apne ghar me hatiyar rakho. Kuch nahi to sabji katne wala chaku kuch tez rakho. Spasht bol rahi hoon ki hamare gharon me bhi sabji katne ke liye hatiyar tez honi chahiye. Unhone chaku se hamare Harsha ko goda tha. Unhone chaku se hamare Hindu veeron ko, Bajrang Dal ke karyakarta, BJP ke karyakarta, Yuva Morcha ke karyakarta ko goda hai, kata hai. To hum bhi sabji katne wala chaku ko tez rakhe, pata nahi kab kaisa mouka aaye. Jab hamara sabji achi roop se kategi tab nishchit roop se dushmano ke sir aur mooh bhi ache katenge.”

(Links to media reports and video of her speech at the end of the petition)

Alluding to the Muslim community, she proceeded to prompt the audience to store weapons in their house for the safety of their women from Muslim men. She explicitly urged the onlookers to ensure that the knifes used to cut vegetables at their homes are kept sharp. Ms. Pragya Singh Thakur also urged the audience to sharpen their knives in anticipation of obtaining an opportunity against those who commit ‘Love Jihad’, euphemistically used to refer to Muslims, particularly Muslim men. In her speech, without mincing words she states that “when our vegetables cut well so will the heads of our enemies.” Thus, her statements uncompromisingly indicate an incitement to genocide, asking people to prepare for genocide.

Ms.Pragya Thakur has violated settled norms of international law which governs all nations, namely the prohibition against the incitement to genocide. If homicide is the killing of one person , genocide is the elimination of an entire group. Any call to eliminate an ‘ethnic, national, racial or religious group’, in this case Muslims therefore amounts to a call to genocide and is what international law considers the ‘crime of crimes.’

What is a crime as per the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1949 which India has ratified is also a crime under Indian law. Her speech also violates existing provisions of Indian law which prohibit the promotion of communal disharmony, incitement of enmity between communities and the impeding of public tranquillity.

By inciting hatred against members of one religious community she has laid the ground work for the call to genocide to become the future crime of genocide. As the Supreme Court observed in Pravasi Bhalai Sangathan v. Union of India, (2014) 11 SCC 477:

Hate speech is an effort to marginalise individuals based on their membership in a group. Using expression that exposes the group to hatred, hate speech seeks to delegitimise group members in the eyes of the majority, reducing their social standing and acceptance within society. Hate speech, therefore, rises beyond causing distress to individual group members. It can have a societal impact. Hate speech lays the groundwork for later, broad attacks on vulnerable that can range from discrimination, to ostracism, segregation, deportation, violence and, in the most extreme cases, to genocide. (emphasis supplied)

By making a call for violence, Pragya Thakur has violated her oath taken under the Third Schedule of the Constitution when sworn in as a Member of Parliament. When a Member of Parliament takes an oath to ‘bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution’ it is premised on a fundamental respect that all India’s diverse peoples and communities are entitled to the right to life, liberty and dignity. When a Member of Parliament asserts that one faith community is not so entitled, it is a fundamental violation of the very ‘idea of India’ premised as it is on the peaceful coexistence of the diverse and plural traditions of India. She undermines the constitutional promise of fraternity and the premise of constitutional morality and the unity and integrity of India. In short the member of parliament has declared that she does not accept any of the fundamental premises underlying the Indian Constitution, be it the sanctity the right to life of entire groups of people, the promise of fraternity or the importance of constitutional morality.

As citizens of India we are gravely concerned that a member of parliament, has so declared her lack of faith in the Constitution and has given a speech which prepares people for a genocide, what international law considers to be the ‘crime of crimes’.

We bring attention to the above under rule 233(A) of Rules of Procedures and Code of Conduct of the Lok Sabha:
Rule 233A. Procedure for Ethics Complaints states:
(1) Any person or member may make a complaint relating to unethical conduct of a member of Lok Sabha:-
Provided that if a complaint is made by any person, it shall be forwarded by a member
(2) A complaint shall be made in writing and addressed to the Speaker, who may refer it to the Chairperson, Committee on Ethics, for examination, investigation and report.

Our Demand
As citizens of this country we are deeply aggrieved by her speech. We are concerned that such open calls for violence are made, and that too by an elected representative in full public view. As a country we need to move towards equality and dignity for all and not encourage lawless, unconstitutional, vigilante violence.

The oath taken under the Constitution is not a mere moral obligation, but is a constitutional responsibility which binds a person solemnly to the values of the Constitution. We urge you to immediately disqualify her from her membership of the Lok Sabha and take all other urgent and immediate action against her for violating her oath to ‘bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India’.

(This open letter has been initiated by the Campaign Against Hate Speech, Bahutva Karnataka, All India Lawyers Association for Justice and People’s Union for Civil Liberties – Karnataka)

The referred portions of her video can be found here - https://youtu.be/jQjWJg0iMNw .

The media also widely covered her speech – 1)Asianet News https://newsable.asianetnews.com/india/keep-knives-at-home-sharpened-pragya-thakur-stokes-controversy-in-shivamogga-rnhln0

2) Times Now : https://www.timesnownews.com/videos/times-now/keep-sharp-knives-at-home-pragya-thakurs-provocative-speech-in-bhopal-times-now-english-news-video-96535173

3)Indian Express - https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2022/dec/29/karnataka-shivamogga-police-bookpragya-for-hate-speech-incitement-2532753.html

नोटबंदी पर रिपोर्ट में सारा सच बेपर्दा, Modi is Exposed on Demonetisation, Fake Currency Increasing  https://youtu.be/2cSUQGCwzrg?t=83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cSUQGCwzrg DESH NEETI Dec 23, 2022 नोटबंदी पर रिपोर्ट में सारा सच बेपर्दा, Modi is Exposed on Demonetisation, Fake Currency Increasing