Strange to hear the privileged complain about feeling miserable and persecuted while the silence of those grappling with poverty and unemployment goes unnoticed.
https://thewire.in/society/the-choreographed-misery-of-the-powerful This recent unity of misery and insult among India’s privileged and powerful coupled with a media split between two hostile groups to speak for each side is a new phenomena in a surreal time. And it is overtaking most of the available media space leaving little to no informed and informative discussion on the economy and climate change issues.
Several major Bills became laws passed by the House, while 143 opposition MPs stood expelled. They were charged with indulging in unparliamentary acts because they were demanding that the Union Home Minister give a statement on the serious security lapses that resulted in an attack by mavericks inside the parliament. While the entire media ran with this story, a gut wrenching story about the mass burial of 87 Kukis killed in Manipur – with the youngest victim being a month-old baby – was relegated to the inside pages or just ignored.
The evolution of our corporate landscape (and that includes the media also) and work being redefined is a story hardly ever highlighted. Not loyalty but flexibility is the flavour of the season. Recruitment agency (CIEL HR) reports 55% of organizations surveyed across sectors are now engaging gig workers and companies have said that they are going to hire more gig workers who are flexible, scale their workforce as required in an atmosphere where project demands are changing swiftly and workloads keep fluctuating. As a result, fresh formal job creation has dipped to a seven-month low in October according to Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) data while gig freelancers’ earnings have grown by 294% according to gig platform Pick My Work.
by Mrinal Pande
24/12/2023
UN की रिपोर्ट से हड़कंप ! मोदी को आखरी वार्निंग, UN Report on Human Rights in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttX_PuK-FzE
DESH NEETI
In Opening Session Speech, UN Human Rights Chief Raises Manipur and Nuh Violence https://thewire.in/rights/india-communal-violence-manipur-nuh-unhrc-speech
Speaking on the situation in India, Volker Türk said that his office “frequently receives information that marginalised minority communities are subjected to violence and discrimination”.
“Muslims are often the target of such attacks, most recently in Haryana and Gurugram, in northern India”.
Last month, riots spread across Haryana after violence erupted during a procession taken out by Vishwa Hindu Parishad. At least seven deaths were reported and there were 200 reported injuries in the clashes which lasted over a week.
Türk then brought up the northeastern state which has seen no end to its ethnic violence for the last four months. “In Manipur, other communities have also been facing violence and insecurity since May.” As per reports, more than 200 people have died and over 70,000 people have been displaced.
बाप रे! ब्राह्मण नेता ने मेरिट धारियों का नशा उतार दिया, वीडियो खूब वायरल हो रहा | Manoj Jha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNaHNS3kNtA
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Analysis of experts on three new laws, all three Criminal Laws passed in Parliament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTMYyIPYImo . Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that after its complete implementation, the entire process from filing of FIR to decision will be online. Colin Gonsalves gives his opinion..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NC3vhuEjvg Press conference on 25th Dec 2023. by Ritu singh
कोई भी इनके खिलाफ बोलेगा मारा जायेगा, भूल जाओ की अब संसद से न्याय मिलेगा,Press Conference, नई दिल्ली https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Laxman.Yadav.1988
Dr. Laxman Yadav
मैं, लक्ष्मण यादव, दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय में एडहॉक यानी ठेके पर पढ़ाने वाला एक असिस्टेंट प्रोफ़ेसर हूँ . सामाजिक, सांस्कृतिक व राजनीतिक मसलों पर सोचना, समझना, पढ़ना, लिखना, बोलना और बातें करना अच्छा लगता है. सामाजिक न्याय की वैचारिकी से बेहद प्रभावित हूँ. सामाजिक न्याय के भीतर आर्थिक और लैंगिक न्याय का समर्थक हूँ. न्याय, समता और समानता पर आधारित मोहब्बत से सराबोर दुनिया का ख़्वाब देखता हूँ.
अगर आप भी मेरे हमख़्वाब होना चाहते हैं, तो मुझसे जुड़िये.
https://www.justicenews.co.in/du-dalit-teacher-sitting-on-strike-for-almost-50-days-said-i-want-justice-not-job/ 116th day press conference.. Dalit Adhoc Assistant Professor Dr. Ritu Singh’s protest, which was going on since the last week of August, outside the gate of the Arts Faculty in the North Campus of Delhi University. ..Dr. Ritu Singh, who was an ad-hoc assistant professor at Daulat Ram College, Delhi University, had accused Principal Dr. Savita Roy of removing her on caste grounds in 2020. Since then she was fighting a legal battle. .. Quoting many things from Manuvad and Manusmriti, Professor Dharampal says, “Those who believe in Manusmriti do not believe in Baba Saheb’s Constitution but instead insult the Constitution and they have created the same atmosphere in the entire country.” ‘ He further says that “Dr. To get justice for Ritu Singh, Bahujan Samaj will have to unite and fight against Manuwad.
https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Laxman.Yadav.1988/videos/908801384220550
Vijay Prashad on socialism https://youtu.be/W13fFjT_cFk?t=2177 Vijay Prashad on socialism why if there is so much wealth in India is there so much inequality.. there is a distribution problem...if there is genuine liberalism, with a mass character it is okay. Things that improve the qulity of life of the poor people it is okay... Socialist project around the world is in crisis as the production processes are not amenable to tradeunionism.. More and more people in India are Uberised..
https://youtu.be/uXUNJFkFN0E?si=QyugcmyQm7VUqyMp
Transformative liberalism vs Transactional liberalism.
Jorg Haider to Geert Wilders : Far-right Normalised in Europe https://www.newsclick.in/jorg-haider-geert-wilders-far-right-normalised-europe
18/12/2023 subhash gatade A new Europe is emerging, ready to give space to ethnonationalism and exclusivist agendas.Studies tell us that “in several countries, support for the far right is growing fastest among younger voters,” The Guardian pointed out.
But the youth has not suddenly become exclusivist. There is a growing housing and healthcare crisis, and life is increasingly precarious without regular jobs. Slogans that promise to ‘make the country great again’ are bound to appeal to younger voters.
An editorial in The Hindu newspaper warns that rising ethnonationalism is a wake-up call for the establishment parties in the West. “Establishment parties should have a clear economic agenda and political vision to arrest the rising tide of far-right politics, which echoes Europe’s dangerous and not-so-distant past,”
Writing in The Wire, Aurelien Mondon, a senior lecturer at the University of Bath, notes, “We cannot pretend to stand against the far right while referring to its politics as ‘legitimate concerns’. We must stand unequivocally by and be in service of every one of the communities at the sharp end of oppression.”
This applies in South Asia, too, where parties have repeatedly demonstrated political naiveté by aligning with retrograde forces, such as under the name of “fighting corruption”. It has, ultimately, facilitated the ascent of the right to the echelons of power.
https://thewire.in/world/look-to-the-mainstream-to-explain-the-rise-of-the-far-right
in the media or academia, populism is generally used carelessly as a key defining feature. Using “populist” instead of more accurate but also stigmatising terms such as “far-right” or “racist” acts as a key legitimiser of far-right politics. It lends these parties and politicians a veneer of democratic support through the etymological link to the people and erases their deeply elitist nature – what my co-author Aaron Winter and I have termed “reactionary democracy”.
the mainstreaming process has involved platforming, hyping and legitimising far-right ideas while seemingly opposing them and denying responsibility in the process...We too often view the far right as an outsider – something separate from ourselves and distinct from our norms and mainstream. This ignores deeply entrenched structural inequalities and forms of oppression core to our societies. ..
YouTuber beware! Broadcast bill is coming! Ravish Kumar Official Dec 24, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ahixFQeoE
Is the government preparing to nab YouTubers also? After strangling the media, you have seen the bleating of the Godi media. In response to these, some journalists and some creators on YouTube are commenting on the government and today's situation in various ways. All of them are being dressed in a pajama named Broadcaster. Not only journalists, comedians will also come under its purview. Even those people who make and post videos on road and train conditions while walking. Even those who while cooking pulses in cookery shows tell that pulses and oil are becoming expensive. This bill covers every person who is making any kind of comment on the internet. Platforms like YouTube are the place of independent voice in today's time, if these also disappear then what will you be left with? Why is the Broadcast Bill being called a threat to YouTubers? The conversation about this cannot and should not be small. We have spoken to journalist Meghnad to understand this bill. He has read this bill closely and has presented its dangers to you in simple language. The government is seeking suggestions and comments from the public on this bill till January 15.
Hate slurs ensure a discriminated citizen: India’s Muslim voices speak up, 2023 A glimpse at daily life for Muslims living in India? https://cjp.org.in/hate-slurs-ensure-a-discriminated-citizen-indias-muslim-voices-speak-up-2023/ 19, Dec 2023 the Hindutva brigade executes both a social and political project of ensuring the permanent construct of an antagonist picture of Muslims. Be it as a violent race, intolerant, aggressive, traitorous or unclean, the doppelganger to these prototypes is the meat consuming, lascivious, male Muslim who is responsible for the insidious rise in Muslim population. Using repetitive propagandist methods of stigma, these forces have fine-tuned this hate-letting to minute detail, harnessing technology and even music for far reach.
In India itself latest reports indicate an alarming 500% surge in cases filed under India’s hate-speech law over the past seven years, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). There were 255 incidents of hate speech documented at gatherings that targeted Muslims in the first half of 2023 alone. The report further exposes that a staggering 80% of hate speech events transpired in states governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Several incidents, including those involving top official leaders such as Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, have been recorded over the year.
Poet and writer, Hussain Haidry reflects on how firmly entrenched and pervasive propaganda and otherisation of Muslims has become.
“What has happened is that the otherisation is pretty much complete. Now it is very difficult to not be spotted as a Muslim under any circumstance, in any room. Today, I couldn’t pass off (without my identity). Identity is obvious.
“Secondly, while there may not be physical violence, because my class capital and social capital afford me some protections. But, this also exposes you (me) to online attacks, which can easily translate into real life by harming your career and lead to social and economic ostracisation. There may not be an imminent physical threat as such, but online attacks can also affect and attack my career since my livelihood is dependent on that.
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