How Sushant Singh Rajput case was twisted for political gains  https://youtu.be/bn3p6tEEjs8?t=205 Let Me Explain Mar 31, 2025  In the aftermath of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, journalism on news channels sank to a new low. Anchors morphed into self-styled crusaders, filling primetime with relentless speculation. Conspiracy theories spiraled out of control. Five years later, the Central Bureau of Investigation confirmed Rajput’s death was a suicide, absolving his then girlfriend and actor Rhea Chakraborty of all charges. 

In this episode of Let Me Explain, Pooja Prasanna examines how the media exploited the tragedy and with no proof, vilified Rhea Chakraborty, branding her a gold-digger, manipulator, and drug supplier, and accusing her of pushing Rajput to suicide. She also dissects how BJP leaders politicised the tragedy, and how vital conversations on mental health were silenced.

https://www.thequint.com/videos/news-videos/rhea-chakraborty-media-lynching-sushant-singh-rajput-cbi-closure-report   Before the legal system could do its job, social media had already pronounced Rhea guilty. Hashtags like #JusticeForSSR were weaponized to paint a narrative. Among the loudest voices were now BJP MP and actor Kangana Ranaut. An independent woman herself, she called Rhea a ‘gold digger’. Pradeep Bhandari, a former journalist and now a BJP figure, played a key role in this smear campaign. He, along with his former boss, hounded Rhea and her family, claiming to ‘fight for justice.’  News anchor Navika Kumar, who once boasted about possessing ‘bags full of evidence,’ c couldn’t provide any to the CBI. 

Hounded and not guilty: A Bollywood media trial blows up in smoke  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwygd3w1l77o  She was slut-shamed and spent 27 days in prison after a hate-filled vicious media campaign in 2020 alleged she had been involved in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput.

 What Makes A Democracy Turn Into A Dictatorship? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJ3_ilohJQ
Mallen Baker  Mar 30, 2025 In their book 'How Democracies Die', Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt identify the four tells for a despot-in-waiting, the democratic guardrails that all dictators-in-progress seek to dismantle, and how they go about it - and the two other essential ingredients that protect a system that people often underestimate, or even miss entirely. And it won't astonish you to learn that all of this is really rather relevant to Donald Trump's America (and a number of other places besides)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Democracies_Die The book warns against the breakdown of "mutual toleration" and respect for the political legitimacy of the opposition. This tolerance involves accepting the results of a free and fair election where the opposition has won, in contrast with advocacy for overthrow or spurious complaints about the election mechanism. The authors also assert the importance of respecting the opinions of those who come to legitimately different political opinions, in contrast to attacking the patriotism of any who disagree, or warning that if they come to power they will destroy the country. 

The authors warn against ramming through a political agenda or accumulating power by playing "constitutional hardball" with tactics like court packing, stonewalling nominations, or abusing the power of the purse, and recommend "forbearance" and some degree of cooperation to keep government functioning in a balanced fashion.

Other threats to democratic stability cited by the authors include economic inequality and segregation of the political parties by race, religion, and geography. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-olR6OCoE  Media vs journalists

 Digital Personal Data Protection Act के बहाने सरकार का RTI पर एक और हमला  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TtT9_Y6uUY | Report
newslaundry Mar 27, 2025  

On the one hand, while the central government is preparing to implement the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, on the other hand, it is being widely opposed by social organizations. The organizations allege that the Government of India recently made some amendments in the Right to Information Act i.e. RTI on the basis of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. Due to which the Right to Information Act can be weakened considerably.

In this connection, on March 25, about 34 organizations including the National Public Information Rights Campaign held a high-level meeting including MPs of opposition parties at the Constitution Club in Delhi. The MPs were apprised of what dangers can be caused by this new amendment and it should be opposed in Parliament.

Apart from social organizations, MPs of Congress, Trinamool Congress, DMK, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) attended the meeting.

Apart from this, representatives of all these organizations also met the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi. ITI activist Anjali Bhardwaj, who was leading the meeting, said, "The government is using DPDP as a weapon to control information and common citizens, journalists and social organizations will all come under its purview."

How is the government weakening RTI through this law? What impact will the implementation of this law have on the Right to Information? And what did the opposition MPs who came to the meeting say about this law?

 Trump Tariffs | "We'll Be Ruined In 3-6 Months If...": P Chidambaram's Warning On US Tariffs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U0eylZ8dvQ Mar 27, 2025 
Congress leader P Chidambaram asked the government to spell out India's response to US President Donald Trump's threat of tariff war, alleging that no discussion in parliament or consultation with Opposition parties has been held over the matter.

'We are completely in dark': Chidambaram asks Centre to spell out response to Trump's tariff war https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/we-are-completely-in-dark-chidambaram-asks-centre-to-spell-out-response-to-trump-s-tariff-war-12978431.html#google_vignette India must stand with saner voices in the world such as Canada, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and collectively do everything to prevent a tariff and trade war, 

He warned that if Trump starts picking out individual countries and applying different tariffs, the affected nations could be left to fend on their own.

How systemic issues like pendency sustain the Indian judiciary’s corruption problem  https://theleaflet.in/judicial-accountability/how-systemic-issues-like-pendency-sustain-the-indian-judiciarys-corruption-problem  At the heart of the matter are long standing ailments such as India’s massive case backlog of over 5 crore cases

The lack of transparency in judicial appointments, inadequate accountability mechanisms, and the judiciary’s resistance to external oversight further compound the issue. For example, the in-house mechanism for addressing judicial misconduct, overseen by the Chief Justice of India, has been criticised as opaque and ineffective, with no FIR permitted against a judge without the CJI’s approval. The courts are not too enthusiastic about providing information in RTI. ..

In  Transparency International’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, 45 percent of surveyed households viewed the judiciary as corrupt, and when Indian respondents were asked to give a score between ‘1 to 5’ regarding how corrupt they believed the judiciary to be, Indians gave an average score of 3.3. 

Global Corruption Barometer 2013
01 April 2013   https://www.transparency.org/en/publications/global-corruption-barometer-2013  Global Corruption Barometer 2013 In  Transparency International’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, 45 percent of surveyed households viewed the judiciary as corrupt, and when Indian respondents were asked to give a score between ‘1 to 5’ regarding how corrupt they believed the judiciary to be, Indians gave an average score of 3.3. 
01 April 2013 

 The latest findings from Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer series – the world's largest survey asking citizens about their direct personal experience of corruption in their daily lives – shows what people experience and just how far countries have to go to fight corruption. It’s no wonder that measuring corruption is at the heart of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Transparency International also believes it is necessary to have good quality data. That is why it is important to ask real people how they face corruption in their daily lives.   https://youtu.be/ybUstRYy1dU    

PI 2024 for Asia Pacific: Leaders failing to stop corruption amid an escalating climate crisis  https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2024-asia-pacific-leaders-failing-to-stop-corruption-amid-escalating-climate-crisis C

 Corruption Perception Index 2023: India ranks 93 among 180 nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8q5XPZc7FI
Manu Law Feb 29, 2024 
In 2023, India obtained a total score of 39, a slight decrease from the previous year's score of 40. Its rank in 2022 stood at 85. In the Asian region, Singapore claimed the top position with a score of 83, securing the fifth spot.
India was positioned 93rd out of 180 countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2023, as per the latest report by Transparency International. This index evaluates countries based on the perceived levels of corruption within their public sectors. Denmark led the rankings, followed by Finland, New Zealand, and Norway.
The index operates on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 signifies high corruption and 100 indicates very low corruption.

Samajwadi Party MP, former Union Minister and National General Secretary of SP Ramjilal Suman's residence in Agra was vandalized. Earlier, the Karni Sena had vandalized the Bhopal state office of Samajwadi Party.

https://www.facebook.com/DrSunilam/videos/ Dr Sunilam's facebook  https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18FigAFxMs/ 

Karni Sena should answer how many kings of the country were there who ruled by making compromises with the Mughals and the British. Should they be called traitors of the country's freedom movement or not?

https://jajaipur.blogspot.com/2025/03/blog-post_27.html 27 मार्च 2025
कोशी पीड़ितों तक राहत क्षतिपूर्ति, पुनर्वास व अन्य कल्याणकारी योजनाओं के क्रियान्वयन के गैप को दूर किया जाए : जस्टिस अरुण कुमार 

In response to a public hearing on the Koshi floods in Sept, retired judge of Patna High Court Justice Arun Kumar said that there is a gap in the implementation of disaster and welfare schemes for them, which should be removed. At the same time, former Vice President of Bihar State Disaster Authority and retired senior IAS officer Vyas said that two things have been understood by listening to the people, first, the standard operating procedure and standards made by the disaster department on flood should be given to the Kosi victims

Rethinking On Territories Of Life  https://thefrontiermanipur.com/rethinking-on-territories-of-life/  

The modern ways of thinking on the concept of ‘development’, and the pursuit of developmental activities by States and private entities that shamelessly intrude into the ancient domain of the natives without their consent and expressed knowledge, is what causes the maximum conflicts of interest between States and local people.

There are hundreds of cases across the globe where IPLCs are fighting for their rights within their territories of life, even as rich and powerful nations and companies are slowly eating into their territories in the pursuit of minerals, oil and gas, and the extraction of natural resources in large scale, destroying pristine forests and reclaiming water bodies along the way. 

 instances of the ethnicities in Manipur, too, where there are several issues of local people’s objections to the extension of PAs in areas where IPLCs have the right to the territories. Land in Manipur’s uplands is traditionally owned, managed and administered by the natives in their own best ways and, therefore, any form of intrusion into these territories without the communities’ knowledge and consent can only be met with objections.

Comment:  Today "development" seems to "trump" even modern formations eg.  Greenland, Canada, Gulf of Mexico, Gaza strip,  and many straits, and strips through out the world..