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The film is yet another one based on distorting the truth to strengthen Hindu nationalist politics, with an eye on the forthcoming elections.

https://thewire.in/film/films-building-up-majoritarian-narratives-swatantraveer-savarkar 

by  Ram Puniyani

28/03/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYNJHzyPYfQ  Dec 21, 2023
Subaltern Studies 2.0, edited by Milinda Banerjee and Jelle J. P. Wouters (Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago, 2022) may be construed with some reason as an attempt to take the now defunct Sublaltern Studies project into the new, relatively uncharted territory that we know by the name of the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is our present age, the first age when humans are no longer just biological but rather geological agents: the impress of their activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, is now felt in what is known to some as global warming and to others as climate change. What would a subaltern studies project for this age which is still unfolding, rather calamitously, look like? Banerjee and Wouters have together written what some will call a rather wild work and one that, in my judgment, is wondrously risk-taking and intellectual energizing. They invoke a future that would not be so dominated by humans, a future of yak democracy and fungal democracy, a future hospitable to human and non-human species alike, and one where we shall strive together to redeem ourselves from the various "falls" that have characterized the history of the last several thousand years -- the fall that led us to separate non-humans from humans, women from men (and thereby denigrate and demean them), those without speech from those with speech, and (though this is articulated in various different languages) the colonized from the colonizers

A Whistleblower on the Rot in India's Shrimp Exports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvDx3dKuLY The Wire Mar 27, 2024
The general manager of a shrimp packaging plant in Andhra Pradesh quit his job in order to expose the chilling deceptions and violations in the booming export industry: workers housed like animals, mistreated and underpaid, and products – later sold by Walmart, ShopRite and Hannaford – falsely labelled to cover up the use of prohibited antibiotics.

Hidden Harvest https://corpaccountabilitylab.org/hidden-harvest 

https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/india-shrimp-a-growing-goliath/the-whistleblower/  Summary of Choice Canning’s Response
Choice Canning's lawyers said that the company categorically denies the allegations made by Mr. Farinella, whom they said should not be trusted due to his criminal record. They added that all company documentation about shipments correctly shows the source of the shrimp. The company never ships antibiotic shrimp to the U.S. and the FDA has never stopped their shipments due to antibiotics because the company maintains the highest of quality standards. The lawyers also said that documents from Mr. Farinella were manipulated. (Upon request, a private firm that specializes in forensic data analysis reviewed a selection of the documents, including those specifically cited by Choice Canning, and they verified that they were not manipulated in any way.) Internal company correspondence about “Oscar" shrimp does not indicate that antibiotic shrimp was shipped abroad since this shrimp is tested a second time and likely was found at that stage to be antibiotic.