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 Decoding the Adani Scam  https://youtu.be/y07OMvvSMDg?t=965 Panel Discussion two hour long

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Opening Remarks: Feroze Mithiborwala, Writer, Social Activist  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=1126&end=1455    This is not just about PMs role, but it is a matter of national sovereignty when a company is sold national resources and logistics. How do activists understand this.. five stage operation.. cooking up books of accounts, manipulation in the share markets through some entities buying shares, which enables higher loans from banks , which again round trip the capital. Prior to the Hindenberg report, journalist has written about the off shore companies involved.. Role of Adani in other countries like Srilanka, Bangalesh, Israel and facilitation of this through the PMs office.

Presidential Remarks by Dr. G G Parikh. https://youtu.be/4UMYPp0JhRw  The gandhian path would be to get people and youth in large numbers. Can we get back to those ways.  They feel that they can keep making mistakes, and people will forget. I dont think this can continue. Slowly a situation will arise when youth will come to the streets in a big way. Naya Jamana Ayega, Humari Republic bach Jayegi.

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Journalist, Author  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=1797&end=1894   the Adani group has filed six cases against him, including two gag orders, but he chose to speak as silence was no more an option.

Six Defamation cases details  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3653&end=4405   Story of Resignation from EPW, Gag order after story on retirement of judges. Was PGT informer for Hindenberg? 

About the Adani group. Its spectacular rise & precipitous fall : https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=1895&end=2267    “The Adani group has expanded into many areas of business for which it has taken loans from various banks and even LIC. It is too big to fail but if it slows, it can certainly have an impact on the country,”

 The Uniqueness of the Adani group . Never before has a corporate group spreads to so many sectors of the economy, and is dominant of many of the sectors.  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=2267&end=3044  The story of the different started with the SEZ in Mundra during the Congress regime.  which is now the biggest SEZ, biggest container port. and a chain of 12 ports all along the coast. The core of the india's infrastructure, including food storage infrastructure and defence military grade drone., importer of coal, nine coal mines in India has been rendered to the Adani Group.

 Bangladesh project issue.  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3044&end=3177  

Dominance in gas, solar, cement media, real estate, etc https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3179&end=3653 

Real estate: more than 300 projects.. Dharavi included  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3393&end=3443

Family connections https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3443&end=3539

Ravi Nair, Journalist, Author 

 Bailable warrant from Mansa station in Gujarat. what was it all about   https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=4485&end=4726 . adani in aug 2021. Court used to send summons to an old address. They collated different tweet and different articles, most of the tweets are quotes from other articles with links. So what the original article is not defamatory, but tweeting it became defamatory!

 government support to the group. https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=4726&end=5356  “Adani calls his rise mehnat (hard work), mehnat and mehnat. But it is Prime Minister Modi who has worked hard for him,” said Nair. eg Godda power project. 2 MOUs for indian companies, to establish plants in Bangadesh.  After 3 months the MOU changed to Adani project to build the plant in India, and export that power.  For the project they forcibly took 2,000 acre of land from farmers to help them set up a power project. . Just before the 2019 elections this Godda area has been declared as an SEZ where he enjoys many tax exemptions,”      “Bangladesh is paying more price to a private company who is exporting thermal electricity to them when India is not even a power surplus country.

The story of water being drawn from the ganga. environment clearaance?  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=5356&end=5562             Then they wanted water from the Ganga which is 90 km away, so again they forcibly took more land.

Sri Lanka Story  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=5563&end=5826        Modi govt. forced the Lanka govt to give this project to Adani.

In 2019 - PMO decided to privatised six airports. The story behind Mumbai airport. https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=5827&end=6383        -

Offshore  investments & SEBI investigations: https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=6392&end=6941  “There were to be inquiries against the Foreign Portfolio investors who were investing only in his companies in India. SEBI was to inquire but where are the earlier reports? Now, SEBI will be inquiring again,”

Adv. Mihir Desai, PUCL https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=8629&end=8878   Refers to the opinida article referenced below.. when you are talking about Adani you are not only talking about shares going up and down. You are talking baout large scale un-employment, about rights being taken away from Adivasi, you are talking about environment being de-graded. All these are human rights issues. and it is likely to affect the economy at large.  and when you see the government also  tweaking the Laws, that is something that needs to be answered by the government. 

Here is what Opindia highlighted : https://www.opindia.com/2023/02/naxals-muslim-and-christian-groups-organise-event-on-adani-scam/

& Free Press ... Here's how Adani slowing down can have impact on India https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/heres-how-adani-slowing-down-can-have-impact-on-india The slowing down will not just affect the economy of the country but can also lead to large-scale unemployment and the use of public money to bail it out, said the speakers. March 02, 2023  The Adani group has filed six cases against Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, including two gag orders, but he chose to speak as silence was no more an option. ...there has been a pattern in the rise of the Adani Conglomerate; a pattern in the filing of defamation cases against journalists who wrote against Adani, no publication of earlier enquiry reports in which Adani was accused and tweaking of government rules to favour Adani in getting airports where it had no experience.

 Speakers said that the citizens of Bangladesh were against the terms and this could harm the relations between the two countries. In many cases, the speakers alleged that there was a lot of transfer of goods within the group itself. They further alleged that some of the companies were owned by relatives of Adani who are on the run for having defaulted on bank loans and their whereabouts are not even known.

We, the undersigned members of the filmmaking community in India, and supporters, are shocked to hear that the inaugural film festival organised by Film Society Ravenshaw at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, was stopped from screening Debalina Majumder's Gay India Matrimony and Shabnam Virmani' s Had-Anhad.

Gay India Matrimony is a 2019 documentary which takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the problems and prospects of same-sex marriage in India, featuring the director herself and two others. Gay India Matrimony has been criticised by the opposing outfit Hari Om as "an attempt to corrupt the minds of yore ruth to steer away from family see values and tradition". In Had-Anhad (2008), Virmani traces the 15th century mystic poet Kabir's attachment with Ram, across the Indo-Pak border. In this case, Had-Anhad is charged with "romanticising the Indo-Pak right relationship".

Both films are well-known and have already been in circulation in film festivals and campuses in India and abroad. At a time when free speech is threatened across the country, journalists and mediamakers attacked, the forcible stoppage of the screenings of these two films only adds fuel to the rising intolerance in the country.

What is particularly dismaying is how an institute of higher learning, a University, finds documentary films that have been widely screened and acclaimed in many public fora unsuitable for its own students.

We are also appalled to hear that the outfit, Hari Om, objected to the screening of Pather Panchali (1955) by Oscar awardee and Bharat Ratna Satayjit Ray as "romanticising poverty in India" and to his equally classic cinematic work Charulata (1964) as "borderline incest". Such policing of Indian cinema through intimidation and threats of violence further shrinks the culture of free thinking and creativity. Universities and film societies are integral parts of our public spaces, their right to screen and discuss cinema needs to be upheld at all costs.

We strongly condemn this illegal vigilante action by self-appointed "guardians" of "morality" and culture.

We stand in solidarity with the filmmakers and the organisers of the film festival, and extend our unflinching support to them.

$1 trillion in the shade – the annual profits multinational corporations shift to tax havens continues to climb and climb https://theconversation.com/1-trillion-in-the-shade-the-annual-profits-multinational-corporations-shift-to-tax-havens-continues-to-climb-and-climb-200034 : February 23, 2023.  By our reckoning, corporations shifted nearly US$1 trillion in profits earned outside of their home countries to tax havens in 2019, up from $616 billion in 2015, the year before the global tax haven plan was implemented by the group of 20 leading economies, also known as the G-20. 

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of 37 democracies with market-based economies, developed a plan that consisted of 15 tangible actions it believed would significantly limit abusive corporate tax practices. These included creating a single set of international tax rules and cracking down on harmful tax practices. ..

following leaks like the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers – which shed light on dodgy corporate tax practices – public outrage led governments in the U.S. and Europe to initiate their own efforts to lower the incentive to shift profits to tax havens.

Our research shows all these efforts appear to have had little impact.