Changing nature of POlitical Party funding.. Jagdeep Chhokar in tribute..

"The nexus between Indian politics and big business has become stronger"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zffbZYcSxJE  - Prof Jagdeep Chhokar Paranjoy Online  RIP Professor Chhokar. Indian democracy has become stronger because of your path-breaking initiatives and will be all the more weaker without you.

" political funding is very very intricately intermingled with criminalization of politics.  in the 2019 election, the number of
members of the lower house of parliament who have criminal cases against them is 43%.
there are multiple reasons, political parties say people should not vote for such people. On the other hand, some people like us say that unless you dominate them, people cannot vote. So why do you nominate them? 
And this brings me to the criminal and finance  nexus. a lot of activities happened during the election campaigns which are not legally permitted

Women Charge Sheet the Union Govt, RBI, NBFCs and MFIs

Women Charge Sheet the Union Govt, RBI, NBFCs and MFIs  https://www.cenfa.org/massive-public-hearing-of-women-charge-sheet-the-union-govt-rbi-nbfcs-and-mfis/  women borrowers of the country face harassment, including sexual harassment, displacement, loss of property, and are sometimes driven to suicide because of the debt traps that are set by these organisations.

Charges against the central government  : Falling expenditure on education, health, and employment generation has forced women to take individual/group loans for their needs.

Even though the number of small women borrowers is increasing, their access to loans from public sector banks is declining because of the policy emphasis on privatisation of the banking sector and promotion of MFIs /NBFCs /SFBs.

Robbing Women to loan to corporates: While small savings account form the bulk of deposits in public sector banks, loans below 2 lakhs has gone below 7%,  whereas loans above 100 crore is 23%.  Scheduled banks lends 187L crore to others, out of which 60% is to NBFCs for onward lending to Women, who pay 22-26% interest, which the FIs get at 9-13 %.

Abetting Suicides Due to Debt Traps
According to NCRB, 671 women committed suicide due to indebtedness in 2022. Every suicide and cause are not reported to NCRB. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjbQeuE3hGk 

 

 

 

Unpacking Privilege: The Other Side of Caste

Ravikant Kisana's ‘Meet the Savarnas’ is an important contribution to the field of critical caste studies, aiming to reverse the gaze from the marginalised to the privileged castes.

Caste in India is mostly researched and reported from the experience of the oppressed. Caste as a privilege is not understood well. How do caste elites respond to modernity? How do they understand culture, intimacy, love and tradition? Were their ideas, institutions and imaginations ever even capable of delivering upon the Great Indian Dream?

In Meet the Savarnas, Ravikant Kisana goes where few authors have dared: to document the lives, the concerns and crises of India’s urban elites, to frame the savarnas as a distinct social cohort, one that operates within itself and yet is oblivious of its own social rules, privileges and systems.

Unpacking Privilege: The Other Side of Caste - The Wire 

by Ravi Bharmouri

20/08/2025