Regulatory favours to big companies have created impression of non-level playing field’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nQg_zyEMvg   Apr 2, 2024 
Former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian talks about why private investment isn’t picking up in India, why the bank cleanup is actually a subsidy to defaulters, and how Centre-state distrust is the main impediment to GST reform. 

'India Inc-Modi govt friendship is cracking. Lack of level playing field just one reason' t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLSueYWJ9M  Apr 3, 2024
The politics behind CEA V. Anantha Nageswaran's statements on employment missed the main point: cracks are emerging in the friendship between the Modi Govt and corporate India, Deputy Editor TCA Sharad Raghavan argues in #StandardDeviation.  

Comments on the Youtube: clearly indicate the kind of narrative that is being brought to the fore

@wisdomhighschool9975  What's wrong with The Govt, Govt's only Provides The Path with Classic Infra, Low Taxes and Subsidies

S&P India Manufacturing PMI is at Record 16-Year High at 59.1, Services are above 60, Defence Exports are at Record Highs

About your FDI video you spoke as if FTAs with UK,US and EU have already been signed U said anything you wanted,even thou FDI as a % of GDP declined,The Total FDI Flowing into India was appx $ 580+ Billion USD in last 9 years, Didn't they know about BITs, EODB etc

@rajivbagga2929 Delays and red tape procedures in ‘land acquisition’ could be another reason for slowing down of new investment in manufacturing sector.

@anindyabagchi6119 
Fair point. The government needs to demonstrate a level playing field and go easy with IT, ED, CBI, etc

@rajx7120 Private investment has been increasing for last 2 years, quarter by quarter. Because of banks being cleaned up. What about Open Credit Enablement Network, and Factor credit reforms, to ease up credit ?

@Jun_kid Look at the FLIP side. This is an EXCELLENT strategy by the Govt to consolidate the under-performing, non-performing corporate-India.
What will happen is these smaller non-performers will be taken over by larger entities, who can now provide SCALE.
And scale is what foreign investors are looking for as China collapses.

These smaller entities are OK for local market. For the Global market scale is important. And that's where India's NEXT growth-impetus will come from - EXPORTS.

@niladribanerjee2821 Apart from that unequal level playing field I can't see any big issue for India Inc not to invest. Govt should stop all those biggies to enter anything or everything. Jio finance aya to rbi baki nbfc me raid krne lag gya...mera iifl ka stock jo 300% up tha ab only 40% up hai.

@RKV0785 Farner ( agriculture)Labour and Land sector reforms are prohibited/ violently opposed by opposition parties  Exit time / resolution time / procedure has been screwed up by courts with frequent interference

@bindurao3463 Much ado about nothing, you are just making a big deal.

@liv4nation781 
the more I see news, the more I learn to tweak data and come to consensus that, how I want to see the data. Having said that, congress would have been the worst.

@worldofsarthak1628 The huge number of new IPOs and SME listings etc actually suggest that smaller corporates are doing well and enthusiastic. Private capex is still a problem it may pickup now after last 3 years boost in govt capex. If pvt capex doesnt pickup within the next 12-18 months there is reason to be a bit worried. As to FDI, the world has changed. From the US perspective or Western perspective - they wont help in creating another genuine challenger. Western policymakers must be kicking themselves for how they due to lure of cheap consumption allowed China to become a giant and destroyed their own manufacturing base. China+1 is the biggest myth in town. At best it is China+ bunch of others, even then US itself want to again kickstart its manufacturing game. So India has to do much much better to benefit from even this China + many scenario. These things sometime show results with a lag. May be in 2/3 years we will look back and think we were being too impatient and FDI and everything is flowing in fine. Also for foreign businesses it may be tough in India with the competition and regulatory favours in favour of domestic behemoths.

 @chittu42  Corporates not donating to BJP is not a measure of the cracks between them & Government. Indian Cos must be vary of the fast changing technologies impacting their business. Traditionally our investments in Research is quite low. India’s manufacturing strategy revolves largely on high technology areas requiring acquisition of technology or partnering with Global
Players etc. This will lead to
Issues in management control. Also uncertainty/ longevity of technology adds to their concerns. It’s time for them to shed their concerns & get into action.

 @hazy76 Truth is, corporates are scared to give feedbacks to Govt. And Govt doesn't take feedback or criticism sportingly

@RKV0785 
You may be right. But if corporates are fearing the BJP govt, they will be awallowed by large corporates from India or abroad in the long term

 @sunraj53892 
I wish you had spent some time talking about how the playing field is not level, which specific policy are contributing to this, and how the government can change policy to make it level. Without details, this video is largely speculative and serves little purpose than to drive supporters and detractors of the government to their respective soapboxes.

@akshaytakkar6747 
Maybe the corporates didn't donate because everyone already knows the BJP is going to win. Who else is going to win Rahul Gandhi?

 @sklux6147 Electoral Bonds Vs Liquor Deal.
Holy Vs Victim.
Chowkidar Chor Vs Natwarlal.
Thousands of cr Vs Rs 100 cr.

Go back corruption, QPQ, Match Fixing.
Hindutva doesn't approve of hypocrisy. Time to change. Kaun banega PM?
Hindutva alone is the way forward.
Abki baar BJP 400+.
Jai Shri Ram
Satyamev Jayate 🪷
Jai Hind 🫡

Sabse Bada Sawal : ‘सुप्रीम’ रोक के बावजूद क्यों छापे गए इलेक्टोरल बॉन्ड ? | Garima Singh | News 24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWf9GcLZQNs

after 15th Feb verdict.. days later new bonds were printed. indicating preparations for a possible 20,000 C worth bonds

Union Culture Ministry Bars Lalit Kala Academy Chairman From Taking Administrative Actions https://thewire.in/culture/union-culture-ministry-bars-lalit-kala-academy-chairman-from-taking-administrative-actions In an order issued on January 8, 2024, the ministry cited V. Nagdas’s failure to respond to an earlier “complaint” while alleging non-compliance with the ministry’s “administrative directions”. 

Under his chairmanship, the academy presented two exhibitions — ‘Imag(in)ing the Immediate – Curating from a National Collection’ and ‘The Afghan Journal’ — in addition to announcing a mega art camp in Ayodhya in the run-up to the Ram Temple inauguration which didn’t materialise due to “funding issues”, the paper reported.

Within two months of taking charge, Nagdas had conducted around eight workshops in different parts of the country and was planning to conduct an Art Triennial in 2025 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi..https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2023/Jun/28/an-artist-on-a-mission-2589106.html Speaking about the challenges faced by artists today, he says, “Technology has dominated all art fields. Most of the budding artists are playing with technology not with brushes and canvases. They often forget the art with other mediums and the research and studies about that. Masters don’t follow this technology because of the generation gap and thus, there will be a clash. Both, students and teachers, need to have conversations and exchange of ideas. We also need more infrastructure and scholarships for the student artists to facilitate studios and galleries,” adding that every form of art should be taken into consideration and should be given prominence. 

 Kejriwal Running Government Successfully From Jail: Priyanka Kakkar  https://youtu.be/bv4QENBD3J4   AAP’s chief national spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said that the party will not buckle down under the pressure from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and that Kejriwal is running the government successfully from jail. Kakkar also said that despite the cloud of corruption on the AAP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, all leaders continue to be “kattar imaandars (staunchly honest)”.

 Kejriwal Running Government Successfully From Jail: Priyanka Kakkar https://thewire.in/video/watch-kejriwal-running-government-successfully-from-jail-priyanka-kakkar  AAP’s chief national spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said that the party will not buckle down under the pressure from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and that Kejriwal is running the government successfully from jail. Kakkar also said that despite the cloud of corruption on the AAP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, all leaders continue to be “kattar imaandars (staunchly honest)”.

Why Congress Mustn't Go Back on Rahul Gandhi's Caste Census, Social Justice Promise  Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd https://thewire.in/politics/why-congress-must-not-go-back-on-rahul-gandhis-promise-of-caste-census-social-justice  

What the Congress’s Dwija  (Brahmin, Baniya, Kayastha, Khatri and Ksatriya) leaders who oppose Rahul Gandhi’s carefully crafted social justice agenda do not understand is that he is re-shaping the Congress in the context of post-Mandal developments and in the given context of the RSS/BJP’s ideological position on caste. Caste identity, particularly, the OBC identity has become a force after the Mandal movement and V.P Singh’s regime implemented the Mandal Commission report (even if it was just one recommendation). Since the Congress under the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi opposed the Mandal report implementation, the Shudras/OBCs started distancing themselves from the party. A large number of Shudras/OBCs believe that the Congress is a Dwija-Muslim party. They believe that is the identity of the party. That identity needs to change for the Congress to win national elections in which the Shudra/OBC vote matters the most.

The Indira -Rajiv’s anti-OBC reservation policy led to the rise of the RSS/BJP in the country. That also led to the formation of many Shudra/OBC regional parties which weakened the Congress. They always recognised the Muslim minority identity in their politics but never accepted caste identities.

Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins ? KARTHICK RAM MANOHARAN  Mar 29, 2024 https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/periyar-genocide-brahmins-tm-krishna-sangita-kalanidhi-music-academy-madras-carnatic/article67997754.ece
In hierarchical societies, reformers challenge the status quo with provocative and uncivil speech. Accusing them of hate speech is ill-intentioned.

Hate speech and offensive speech are ruptures in civility. But, importantly, both are not the same...

In an important chapter on hate speech in his book Offend, Shock, or Disturb (2018), Gautam Bhatia writes: “Hate speech legislation is constituted upon the understanding that words can have consequences, that words cannot be separated from broader practices of subordination and inequality in divided societies, and that words can actually impede equal enjoyment of rights, and equal access to social and physical infrastructure”

For example, statements like “white people are racists” and “Black people have criminal tendencies” both rely on generalisations. Both could be legitimately considered offensive. But in racially hierarchical societies where whites enjoy disproportionate social, political, and economic privileges, the first statement is extremely unlikely to cause actual grievous collective harm, while the latter can actually affect the progress of Black people. The latter can be said to constitute hate speech.

Civility has its advantages because often it is the right wing that makes optimal use of the collapse of civility. We can and must insist on civility, but this should not blind one to the difference between uncivil speech from dominant forces and those representing subaltern interests. The former instigates and sustains violence in society; the latter, as provocative as it may be, is a comment on inequalities in society. The use of offensive speech in social justice movements could be hurtful, but it compels a rethinking of society; hate speech, entrenched in dominance, stifles thought, including civil dialogues.

The totalitarian project behind the electoral bonds scheme https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/bjp-modi-electoral-bond-scheme-truth-hindu-rashtra/article68001490.ece 
.  Mar 29, 2024 PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA,ABIR DASGUPTA Beyond trade-offs and extortion, the scheme goes to the very heart of the Sangh Parivar’s long-term goal of an ideological dictatorship

Transparency in political finance requires transparency on both sides—fund-raising and expenditure. These structural features are barriers to transparency at both ends. ..Transparency as a lens and a goal, however laudable, is not a political principle in itself. It cannot be disconnected from the ideological. This is where it is necessary to return to the larger political project within which the electoral bonds scheme was implemented...

when the government brought in the electoral bonds scheme, the BJP was already far outstripping the other parties in donations: so what was the need for the scheme? The answer to this question lies in the form of society and polity that the Sangh Parivar’s wider project seeks to create. That society features a totalitarian and authoritarian state, with a permanently mobilised para-state, primed to the over-riding priorities of its ideological project. This system oversees every individual’s life, in as granular detail as it is able to, and it relies on people to act as its enforcers, whether out of belief or fear. Virtually no personal choice remains in that society, every person’s life and mission is to serve the national project. That state brooks no form of independent motivation in any institution or individual in the public sphere (including anyone who might donate funds) that does not adhere to its political project and priorities. It is inconceivable for any committed individual, association, or company, to not contribute to the national project, whether monetarily or otherwise—it is everyone’s civic and national duty.

How did Future Gaming & Hotel Services pay for its electoral bonds  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiLt0Lgelyg Mar 29, 2024
Ever since news came out that Future Gaming & Hotel Services was the largest purchaser of electoral bonds, questions arose about how a company with such small profits could afford to buy large amounts of bonds. An investigation into its financials, and the working of the lottery business, lends a lot of insight, Deputy Editor TCA Sharad Raghavan finds.