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 The Rise of Gautam Adani | 21 July 2024  https://youtu.be/eiO12AQfsjM?t=419  

 Adani’s role in various harmful projects in conjunction with Narendra Modi’s Hindu supremacist government, and with global imperialist powers. These include the coal mining of Adivasi lands, weapons sales to Israel including through shipping and ports (Adani acquired the lease for Israel’s second largest port, Haifa, even as Indian dock workers have been refusing to load Israeli weapons) and the creation of residential schools for Adivasi children. Crucially, we will also be focusing on ongoing resistance to Adani’s destructive policies, particularly among Adivasi communities.

In this session, we have a discussion between Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Ravi Nair on how Adani acquired his immense wealth, will feature a discussion.

How George Soros became ‘Enemy Number 1’ for India’s Modi https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/26/how-george-soros-became-enemy-number-1-for-indias-modi

n a series of posts on December 5, the BJP posted on X that the Congress leaders, including Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, used the work of a group of investigative journalists — funded in part by Soros’s foundation and the State Department — to target the Modi government on questions related to the economy, security, and democracy.

But some experts have suggested that the move is about domestic political posturing, aimed also at aligning the Modi government with the incoming Trump administration’s insistence on how the “deep state” conspires to undermine democracy.

“The instrumentalisation of Western criticism into a domestic political platform represents a rather new phenomenon in Modi’s India,” said Asim Ali, a political researcher. It represents an effort, he said, to build the narrative of a “face-off between a ‘Western-backed coalition’ and a ‘popularly backed nationalist coalition’.”

A Road To Nowhere  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM0ypDSp81I INTACH Pune Chapter Apr 15, 2016
With increasing urbanization, often short term solutions are provided without thought to long term effects. The Pune Municipal Corporation planned and constructed a road on Mutha river bed under the garb of providing alternative to already congested Sinhgad road. This is a story of the river, the road and the struggle to ensure safety of citizens.