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Emergency 1975 vs 'Undeclared' Emergency 2025!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6WN5YlUJA  Agency कल आज और कल | Six .. Straight Bat with Rajdeep

1. Too much power concentrated in one  person is injurious to the health of democracy. . the kind of psychopantic chamcha giri personality cult politics that dare I say one hears today

2.  stop treating the police and enforcement agencies as your
private army.  misusing draconian laws , climate of fear and intimidation
today leaders in power often use their control over the police and enforcement agencies to target their political opponents

3. please stop destroying institutions. the gradual erosion of
institutional integrity in this country.  there are hardly any checks and balances in our system left. just look at the manner in which the right to information act for example is being systematically undermined or indeed the election commission's
so-called neutrality that has now come under the scanner

4. the rise of extra constitutional authorities and the vigilantism that is coming with it .today we have vigilante armies who terrorize minority groups who brazenly engage in hate speech who will resort to violence if required and believe they have the protection of those in power .

5. the media must stay .unchained. today there are many social media and digital revolutionaries who can still speak their mind out. but that is scant comfort when some one like Prabir   was pushed into jail where he spent months under highly specious grounds only because his website was anti-government. There are many others who have suffered in different ways from journalists being sacked to sedition charges being put against them to ED investigations to takeovers of media channels . there are enough instances of how state power has been ruthlessly used and has had a chilling effect on media freedoms .

6. the elite especially the urban middle class elite must speak up. there were public spirited groups like the PUCL the People's Union for Civil Liberties and a few brave crusaders who played an important role in highlighting the abuse of human rights and civil liberties in India. Today too, I at time sense a troubling normalization of  authoritarian behavior amongst our elites . When someone is arrested for a tweet or a YouTube video or a standup comedian is being targeted or a cartoon critical of whoever is in power leads to imprisonment should we not raise our collective voice far more forcefully as citizens silence is cowardice. Reversing a democratic recession and creeping autocracy needs far more men and women with a spine to push back. Whenever there is a misuse of power that to my mind is one of the enduring lessons of 1975 that we need to relearn.

The Unmaking of India: How the British Impoverished the World’s Richest Country  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIzQxNZfGM4 Over 190 years of colonial rule, the British collapsed India's institutions and economy, and destroyed the equivalent of $45 TRILLION. This is the shocking story of how the British -- through the East India Company first, then the Crown -- actually accomplished such a horrible feat. 

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, first published in India as An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, is a work of non-fiction by Shashi Tharoor,  https://ia800407.us.archive.org/26/items/inglorious-empire/Inglorious%20Empire.pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03068374.2018.1487685 

 India Through Lens of Marginalised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6Dakdv2tY Jun 25, 2025  
Audrey Truschke discusses her book on 5000 years of South Asian history, starting with the Indus Valley Civilization around 2600 BCE. She explains the choice of 5000 years, including a brief account of early human migration 120,000 years ago. Truschke emphasizes the importance of diverse voices, particularly women and oppressed castes, in her narrative. She critiques political appropriations of the Indus civilization and hig

https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/audrey-truschke-on-india-5000-years-of-history-on-the-subcontinent hlights the book's non-nationalist approach, covering historical connections, cultural exports, and the evolution of Hindu nationalism. I use the term “India” in its older geographical sense of the subcontinent, which includes parts of the modern nations of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Bangladesh. This practice may be uncomfortable for some readers who are accustomed to “India” meaning the modern nation, which covers only some of the Indian subcontinent, but I can live with that discomfort. In fact, challenging reader assumptions is important to shake everybody out of our collective tendency to write the present onto the past.

Audrey Truschke — Hindutva History and Other Modern Problems with the Indian Past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCyL2wb5B3I

I survey in the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries. Millennia earlier, I elevate the voices of Buddhist women (rather than men) in capturing the early history of Buddhism on the subcontinent. I cover some highlights of civil rights movements in twentieth-century India led by Shudras and Dalits, which are far too often omitted in overview histories.

https://www.audreytruschke.com/

 Debunking Audrey Truschke's Malicious Narrative of Hinduism - Presentation & Analysis  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUSNMfdLlk  Sangam Talk