How to make the biggest public service serve Private Corporates https: //www.cenfa.org/how-to-make-the-biggest-public-service-serve-private-corporates-learn-from-bjp-government/  The Government under Narendra Modi issued a licence for a Payment Bank instead of a Universal Bank which could give loans also.

Though it was announced that 1,55,015 post offices and 3,00,000 postmen will provide doorstep banking services, it has not been done. Now Airtel Payment Bank has 5,00,000 neighbourhood banking units and more than 155 million users. On the contrary, IPPB has 90 million users.

As no loans can be provided by a Payment Bank, IPPB has become an agent of Axis Bank, FIBE, HDFC Bank and Aditya Birla Capital Ltd for personal loans. 

What is more shocking is that the IPPB has signed a strategic partnership with Aditya Birla Capital Ltd, a small NBFC. This will help the private lender to use the services of the present number of 1,64,972 post offices and lend its customers at a high rate of interest. More such are likely to come.

IPPB could have become the biggest public sector bank serving people in their 89% rural branches. Instead, it’s given on a platter to the private sector to exploit. 

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/ 
Francesca Albanese

    The Special Rapporteur urges Member States:

(a)      To impose sanctions and a full arms embargo on Israel, including all existing agreements and dual-use items such as technology and civilian heavy machinery;

(b)     To suspend/prevent all trade agreements and investment relations, – and impose sanctions, including asset freezes, on entities and individuals involved in activities that may endanger the Palestinians;

(c)      To enforce accountability, ensuring that corporate entities face legal consequences for their involvement in serious violations of international law.

    The Special Rapporteur urges corporate entities:

(a)      To promptly cease all business activities and terminate relationships directly linked with, contributing to and causing human rights violations and international crimes against the Palestinian people, in accordance with international corporate responsibilities and the law of self-determination;

(b)     To pay reparations to the Palestinian people, including in the form of an apartheid wealth tax along the lines of post-Apartheid South Africa.

    The Special Rapporteur urges the International Criminal Court and national judiciaries to investigate and prosecute corporate executives and/or corporate entities for their part in the commission of international crimes and laundering of the proceeds from those crimes.
    The Special Rapporteur urges the United Nations:

(a)      To comply with the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion of 2024;

(b)     To include all entities involved in Israeli unlawful occupation in the United Nations database (to be accessible on the OHCHR website).

    The Special Rapporteur urges trade Unions, lawyers, civil society and ordinary citizens to press for boycotts, divestments, sanctions, justice for Palestine and accountability at international and domestic levels; together we can end these unspeakable crimes.
    This report is written at the cusp of a profound and tumultuous transformation. Globally witnessed atrocities require urgent accountability and justice, which demands diplomatic, economic, and legal action against those who have maintained and profited from an economy of occupation turned genocidal. What comes next, depends on all of us.

Have Signed Up Free Trade...': Sanjeev Sanyal Speaks On India-U.S. Trade Talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ7ISaKKqMY
India has already made free trade deals with countries like the UAE and the UK. He also said that the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) shouldn’t bring back old systems that no longer work.

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 Iran Disables GPS, Joins China’s Beidou — The End of U.S. Satellite Dominance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQb_hQalexY

Iran has just shut off GPS across its territory — and switched to China’s Beidou satellite system. Why now? What does it mean for U.S. dominance in space-based navigation and warfare?
Iran’s bold strategic pivot — it may mark the beginning of the end for America’s global GPS monopoly. From WhatsApp tracking scandals and drone warfare to China’s high-precision Beidou system and Belt & Road integration, this decision carries major military and geopolitical consequences.
Why GPS was always a tool of U.S. soft power. How the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis pushed China to develop Beidou What makes Beidou uniquely powerful in battlefield environments.

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Emergency 1975 vs 'Undeclared' Emergency 2025!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6WN5YlUJA  Agency कल आज और कल | Six .. Straight Bat with Rajdeep

1. Too much power concentrated in one  person is injurious to the health of democracy. . the kind of psychopantic chamcha giri personality cult politics that dare I say one hears today

2.  stop treating the police and enforcement agencies as your
private army.  misusing draconian laws , climate of fear and intimidation
today leaders in power often use their control over the police and enforcement agencies to target their political opponents

3. please stop destroying institutions. the gradual erosion of
institutional integrity in this country.  there are hardly any checks and balances in our system left. just look at the manner in which the right to information act for example is being systematically undermined or indeed the election commission's
so-called neutrality that has now come under the scanner

4. the rise of extra constitutional authorities and the vigilantism that is coming with it .today we have vigilante armies who terrorize minority groups who brazenly engage in hate speech who will resort to violence if required and believe they have the protection of those in power .

5. the media must stay .unchained. today there are many social media and digital revolutionaries who can still speak their mind out. but that is scant comfort when some one like Prabir   was pushed into jail where he spent months under highly specious grounds only because his website was anti-government. There are many others who have suffered in different ways from journalists being sacked to sedition charges being put against them to ED investigations to takeovers of media channels . there are enough instances of how state power has been ruthlessly used and has had a chilling effect on media freedoms .

6. the elite especially the urban middle class elite must speak up. there were public spirited groups like the PUCL the People's Union for Civil Liberties and a few brave crusaders who played an important role in highlighting the abuse of human rights and civil liberties in India. Today too, I at time sense a troubling normalization of  authoritarian behavior amongst our elites . When someone is arrested for a tweet or a YouTube video or a standup comedian is being targeted or a cartoon critical of whoever is in power leads to imprisonment should we not raise our collective voice far more forcefully as citizens silence is cowardice. Reversing a democratic recession and creeping autocracy needs far more men and women with a spine to push back. Whenever there is a misuse of power that to my mind is one of the enduring lessons of 1975 that we need to relearn.

The Unmaking of India: How the British Impoverished the World’s Richest Country  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIzQxNZfGM4 Over 190 years of colonial rule, the British collapsed India's institutions and economy, and destroyed the equivalent of $45 TRILLION. This is the shocking story of how the British -- through the East India Company first, then the Crown -- actually accomplished such a horrible feat. 

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, first published in India as An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, is a work of non-fiction by Shashi Tharoor,  https://ia800407.us.archive.org/26/items/inglorious-empire/Inglorious%20Empire.pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03068374.2018.1487685 

 India Through Lens of Marginalised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6Dakdv2tY Jun 25, 2025  
Audrey Truschke discusses her book on 5000 years of South Asian history, starting with the Indus Valley Civilization around 2600 BCE. She explains the choice of 5000 years, including a brief account of early human migration 120,000 years ago. Truschke emphasizes the importance of diverse voices, particularly women and oppressed castes, in her narrative. She critiques political appropriations of the Indus civilization and hig

https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/audrey-truschke-on-india-5000-years-of-history-on-the-subcontinent hlights the book's non-nationalist approach, covering historical connections, cultural exports, and the evolution of Hindu nationalism. I use the term “India” in its older geographical sense of the subcontinent, which includes parts of the modern nations of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Bangladesh. This practice may be uncomfortable for some readers who are accustomed to “India” meaning the modern nation, which covers only some of the Indian subcontinent, but I can live with that discomfort. In fact, challenging reader assumptions is important to shake everybody out of our collective tendency to write the present onto the past.

Audrey Truschke — Hindutva History and Other Modern Problems with the Indian Past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCyL2wb5B3I

I survey in the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries. Millennia earlier, I elevate the voices of Buddhist women (rather than men) in capturing the early history of Buddhism on the subcontinent. I cover some highlights of civil rights movements in twentieth-century India led by Shudras and Dalits, which are far too often omitted in overview histories.

https://www.audreytruschke.com/

 Debunking Audrey Truschke's Malicious Narrative of Hinduism - Presentation & Analysis  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUSNMfdLlk  Sangam Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk-L4eOLl98   When the 19th century began, no one was sure of who or what a Hindu was. But by the end of the 20th century, it seemed like the majority of India's population was Hindu since the beginning of time. This is the story of what happened in between...

India Ink https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaInkHistory