Is there a need to go beyond the "hegemonic" sustainability narratives, including the UNSDGs?
Now along with "sustainability", terms like "resilience" and "regeneration"
are being used.

Some effort to distinguish --

"Sustainability, Resilience, Regeneration – What’s the Difference?"
https://www.regenerationjournal.org/sustainability-resilience-regeneration-whats-the-difference/

A New Class Consciousness https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-new-class-consciousness/Andrew Elrod   For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.

R epublic TV’s hounding of rights activist shows ‘urban Naxal’ is convenient label to crush dissent  https://scroll.in/article/885664/republic-tvs-hounding-of-rights-activist-shows-urban-naxal-is-convenient-label-to-crush-dissent  08 Jul 2018 

https://www.idsa.in/askanexpert/What-is-Urban-Naxalism. ( manhohar Parrikar Institute...the Maoists contend that the urban movement should be conducted through various types of mass organisations; the wider the organisations, the better. These organisations are of different types –– secret revolutionary mass organisations, open and semi-open revolutionary mass organisations, and open legal mass organisations which are not directly linked to the CPI (Maoist). The last of these would include Maoist-inspired cover organisations and legal, democratic organisations.

  https://organiser.org/2023/10/10/200763/bharat/unraveling-the-urban-naxals-nexus/ Quadriga is referred to as the collaboration of radical Islamic organisations, Maoists and evangelical missionaries and organisations, with the set of select intellectuals, legal professionals, NGOs, Bollywood stars, other cultural groups and media platforms.

All the groups (in the so called quadriga) mentioned in the organiser article must agree that there are a biraadari and at least not work against each other....

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/law-to-combat-urban-naxals-to-be-enacted-soon-fadnavis/articleshow/105323674.cms At least 84 frontal organizations in Maharashtra are under the radar.

 Iin the context of the ongoing Israeli war on Palestine resulting in civilian deaths, the Mumbai police has in effect imposed a de facto ban on any form of peaceful public protest by citizens demanding an end to the violence, including the holding of peace gatherings and prayer meetings, even candlelight vigils in public places like the Azad Maidan. In no other part of India do we see this sort of obstruction to the right to protest, as is being seen in Mumbai...

*PUCL Maharashtra once again notes with distress, that there appears to be a concerted attempt to silence peaceful protests against war and violence. PUCL Maharashtra demands an end to the excessive, continuous and restrictive imposition of prohibitory orders under Sec 144 of the CrPC and Section 37 of the MPA. These orders, ostensibly issued to maintain public order, actually result in a curb on the constitutional right to public protest or gatherings and instead facilitate the criminalization of peaceful and democratic protests. This creates a chilling effect, amounts to censorship and is against the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression, association and assembly. PUCL Maharashtra reiterates its demand that the legitimate right of citizens to protest be protected fiercly in the interest of our nation which is built on the fulcrum of that very right. for the full statement

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At Adda| Conversation with Ashis Nandy| Life of Ashis Nandy: Nation, Narration & Psychoanalytics  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aLveVbDdEU  Galp Lok  Apr 20, 2022 #Marx #Freud #Nationalism
Ashis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist, social theorist, and critic. A trained clinical psychologist, Nandy has provided theoretical critiques of European colonialism, development, modernity, secularism, Hindutva, science, technology, nuclearism, cosmopolitanism, and utopia. He has also offered alternative conceptions relating to cosmopolitanism and critical traditionalism. In addition to the above, Nandy has offered an original historical profile of India's commercial cinema as well as critiques of state and violence.

कांग्रेस और उसका हिंदुत्व | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yuCTRTa--k  Qurban Ali The Caravan Magazine  Nov 18, 2023
In this episode of The Caravan Baatcheet, host Vishnu Sharma talks to senior journalist and author Qurban Ali on the Congress party’s Hindu card. Qurban Ali wrote an extensive article in our October issue, explaining how the Congress legitimised the Sangh’s communal politics. During Indira Gandhi’s era, especially after 1977, the Congress deviated from the ideology developed during the Independence movement, and began appeasing Hindu majoritarianism. It was during this time that the Congress openly started playing the Hindu card—Indira revived the Vishva Hindu Parishad, extended support to the Hindu Mahasabha and facilitated a Virat Hindu Sammellan through Karan Singh, to name just a few instances. This trend continued during Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure, who won the 1984 election on a blatant Hindu card, leading up to the opening of the lock of the Babri Masjid.

The Hindu Card: How the Congress legitimised the Sangh’s communal politics  https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/how-congress-legitimised-sangh-communal-politics

Electoral Bonds Biggest Scam In History Of India, Voter Must Know Who Is Funding Parties : https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/electoral-bonds-biggest-scam-in-history-of-india-only-purpose-is-to-enrich-bjp-sr-adv-kapil-sibal-242488 Kapil Sibal Sheryl Sebastian 18 Nov 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVp-m2OOxmA

Besides Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, Ambani is the only Indian who has been appointed on the Advisory Committee to the President of COP28. https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/reliance-chairman-mukesh-ambani-joins-advisory-committee-of-global-climate-change-panel-cop28-383005-2023-05-26
The COP28 UAE Advisory Committee brings together climate experts from six continents. The 31 members of the Committee, who represent policy, industry, energy, finance, civil society, youth, and humanitarian and 65 percent of whom are from the Global South, will provide guidance and counsel to the COP Presidency in the run-up to COP28 and beyond

https://planet.outlookindia.com/news/mukesh-ambani-joins-cop28-president-s-advisory-committee-news-415356 The 31 members of the Committee, 65 per cent of whom are from the Global South and represent policy, industry, energy, finance, civil society, youth, and humanitarian issues, will provide guidance and counsel to the COP Presidency in the run-up to COP28 and beyond.

https://themorningcontext.com/business/why-cop28-matters-to-mukesh-ambanis-new-energy-ambitions Mukesh Ambani's plans to turn Reliance Industries into a green energy powerhouse could get a boost if climate negotiators manage to agree on certain aspects of the energy transition. It helps that Ambani himself has found a spot on the panel. 

Right to Information (RTI) & Privacy: Congruent or Contradictory? Panel Discussion  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOZLvR_mkI IMPRI Impact and Policy Research In

[Apar Gupta Puts the whole debate in the real context of the "state" growing frighteningly more and more authoritarian and the "individual" getting weaker and weaker.]

What has to be, in this context, kept in mind is that both "privacy" and "transparency" have two sides.
One, the right -- whether "transparency" or "privacy" -- of the "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" and vice versa.

Puttuswamy had filed his case in the context of the Aadhaar. Aadhar, it was apprehended, would make the "individual" unduly "transparent" to the "state".
This "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" aspect must be on top of our collective mind.
We've, as a rule, to strengthen the "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" -- whether in terms of the "right to know" or "the right to privacy".

That has got to be the bottom line.
Even then, if a conflict arises between the interests of a privileged individual and a commoner, then it's the latter we must bat for.