Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Fountainhead of fundamentalism in India May 28, 2023  https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/veer-savarkar-myth-in-indian-freedom-struggle-by-tamil-writer-jeyamohan/article66903378.ece Savarkar called for an armed rebellion against the British and made preparations for it. He was not grounded by a sense of either reality or history. He had no understanding of the power of the great administrative machinery of the British or their massive army. Lacking a sense of history, he failed to see that the British government drew its power from the popular acceptance it had gained from the millions of Indian people it ruled over. 

Before the advent of Gandhi, during Savarkar’s era, some “intellectuals” believed that the British could be driven out using violent means. Once a violent struggle was initiated, they thought people would join in the riots to destroy the British. Fifty years later, tragically, the naxalites too shared the same belief and modus operandi. Savarkar, Bhagat Singh, and Subhash Chandra Bose were all people with a similar misapprehension of history. Their rebellion was a childish effort completely based on their belief in violence and a misbegotten sense of personal adventure. Their misplaced confidence came from imagining themselves to be extraordinary men capable of determining history. Essentially, it stemmed from a lack of faith in the great power of the people.

https://www.rediff.com/news/interview/savarkar-was-granted-a-pension-by-the-british/20211014.htm Tushar Gandhi interview, quoting from his book Let's Kill Gandhi, .. what you do at the end of your life makes you what you are and what Savarkar did at the end of his life was he was a collaborationist with the British colonial regime and was a part of Mahatma Gandhi's murder conspiracy.

He was granted a pension by the British till 1947 and was given a home in Ratnagiri where he was confined. He was provided sustenance by the British. And at many times he wrote to the British that he needed an increase in pension, which is a fact and I am not alleging anything on my own.

The Nerve-racking Possibility of Being Non-compliant with Rules in India  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siqg1j0Peac  Jul 20, 2023
 Social media is filled with complaints from citizens who have received notices from the Income Tax department on IT returns filed years or sometimes decades ago. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Watch this weeks video as Sucheta Dalal examines how difficult it has gotten for law abiding citizens to comply with the ever changing rules and regulations in India.

A Taxing Tale: Assessing the Impact of Six Years of GST  https://janataweekly.org/a-taxing-tale-assessing-the-impact-of-six-years-of-gst Arun Kumar The ease of doing business has not come about and investment rates have not increased. An alternatively simpler GST exists but the government is not willing to admit its failure. Further, while the benefits have not accrued to the country, fiscal federalism has been dented.

For the huge unorganised sector in India, keeping track of input and output is difficult and they are unlikely to computerise it. So, the unorganised sector with a turnover of up to ₹50 lakh is exempted above that, and if they make a turnover of up to ₹1.5 crore, they are under the composition scheme with a flat 1 percent tax.

But they neither get ITC,(input tax credit)  nor can they offer ITC to their buyers. Thus, they face a disadvantage vis-à-vis the organised sector, which benefits from ITC. The result of GST is a shift in demand from the unorganised sector to the organised sector. 

The ease of doing business has not come about and investment rates have not increased. An alternatively simpler GST exists but the government is not willing to admit its failure. Further, while the benefits have not accrued to the country, fiscal federalism has been dented, which will have long-term consequences.

Manipur | "Women Divided Along Ethnic Lines; As Women We Have Not Stood Together" | Vrinda Grover Jul 20, 2023 Supreme Court advocate Vrinda Grover speaks to Barkha Dutt over Manipur viral video in which women were seen paraded naked.

"Women are also divided along caste, religion, ethnic lines... As women we have not stood together... This country hasn't stood by women," she said.

Further, Grover said- "This country didn't give justice to Bhanwari Devi... Bilkis Bano's rapists' remission should haunt each one of us."

मणिपुर के मुख्यमंत्री ने फोन पर जो बताया सुनकर हिल जाएंगे, मोदी को इस्तीफा दे देना चाहिए Jul 20, 2023

There are hundreds of similar cases’: Manipur CM on video of sexual violence https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/there-are-hundreds-similar-cases-manipur-cm-video-sexual-violence-179995 ‘There are 100 such similar FIRs here. We don’t want to listen to allegations. Hundreds of similar cases have taken place, that is why we have banned the internet,’ Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh told a TV anchor.

“Who suppressed it for two months? The video was leaked only yesterday and we got to know then. There are 100 such similar FIRs here. We don’t want to listen to allegations. Hundreds of similar cases have taken place, that is why we have banned the internet. I condemn it. It is a heinous crime and a crime against humanity,” Singh said while talking to India Today.

Centre using it powers under section 69A It act to even remove all content of Manipur parading incident..

https://youtu.be/lsMJoFxpdco?t=972

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/everyday-explainers/what-is-section-69-govt-take-down-manipur-video-8850737/

After a video of two Manipur women being paraded naked by a mob and sexually assaulted sparked outrage, the Centre has asked Twitter and other social media platforms to take down the video. Tweets of some accounts that had shared the video have been withheld in India, in response to the government’s demand.

“Some links have been shared with social media companies to take down the video as it could further disrupt the law and order situation in the state,” a senior government official said, requesting anonymity.

Centre May Act Against Twitter Over Video Of Manipur Women Paraded Naked https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/manipur-violence-twitter-centre-may-act-against-twitter-over-video-of-manipur-women-paraded-naked-4224219 The government is likely to act against Twitter over the circulation of videos that "could lead to problems in law and order", sources said.

https://www.cenfa.org/un-inc-2-ends-in-frustration-as-divided-nations-lose-ground-amid-accusations-of-industry-stonewalling/

The “High Ambition Coalition” (HAC), which includes the EU, Japan and numerous African and South American nations, is pushing for global mandatory plastic reduction targets, which the coalition says could end plastic pollution entirely by 2040.

Opposing nations like the US and Saudi Arabia call for a “country-driven” approach, allowing individual nations to define their own production and waste management strategies because they say differing national circumstances require self-determination to address plastic pollution issues effectively.

The HAC is aiming to end plastic pollution entirely by 2040.

With the INC-2 concluded, all eyes are ahead for the third round of negotiations, planned for November this year in Nairobi, Kenya.

Fears that further delays will be caused by the petrochemical industry, which for some states, including Saudi Arabia, are central economic commodities, are already being espoused by critics who deem the presence of business representatives a conflict of interest.

https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/un-inc-2-ends-in-frustration-as-divided-nations-lose-ground-amid-accusations-of-industry-stonewalling.html

Burnt out or jobless - meet China's 'full-time children'   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66172192  Gruelling work hours and a dismal job market are forcing young Chinese to make unusual choices.

The burnout driving working adults to become "full-time children" is not entirely surprising given China's notoriously poor work-life balance - work culture in the country is often referred to as the so-called "996" - where people consider it a norm to work 9am to 9pm, six days a week.

Poor no longer? Dimensions of poverty in India https://www.livemint.com/news/india/multidimensional-poverty-in-india-niti-aayog-s-findings-show-progress-but-pandemic-s-impact-not-reflected-in-data-11689703547861.html Tanay Sukumar 2 min read 18 Jul 2023, Around 135 million Indians exited ‘multidimensional poverty’, a measure of deprivation beyond money, between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the Niti Aayog says. The basis of calculation is the National Family Health Survey (NFHS). 

Doesn’t this show resilience during the pandemic?
Not really. The national MPI, as well as the global MPI for India, used data from the NFHS, which last took place between June 2019 and April 2021. Fieldwork was already complete in 22 of the 36 states and Union territories, including some of the most populated states, by February 2020. So the MPI doesn’t reflect any possible post-pandemic shifts.
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/multidimensional-poverty-in-india-niti-aayog-s-findings-show-progress-but-pandemic-s-impact-not-reflected-in-data-11689703547861.html

12.6 करोड़ की नौकरी गई, तो 13.5 करोड़ लोग गरीबी से ऊपर कैसे उठे? https://www.viplavikisansandesh.page/2023/07/126-135.html जुलाई 18, 2023 •

India's Niti Aayog is claiming that the number of poor in rural areas of the country has decreased from 32.59 percent to 19.28 percent and the number of poor in urban areas has decreased from 8.65 percent to 5.27 percent during that period, during which the country's economy was further reduced to minus growth and then the large population was suffering from hunger, deprivation, lockdown, unemployment, and death in the Kovid epidemic. According to Mahesh Vyas, CEO of the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, 1 crore people lost their jobs in the second wave of Kovid. Whereas in the first wave 12.6 crore people had lost their jobs in 2020 itself. Of these, 9 crore were daily wage workers.

According to the business podcast of 6 May 21, by April 2021, the poorest 20 percent of the country's families had lost their entire income. While India's richest families saw their own income drop by less than 25 percent in the same period. A research by Azim Premji University suggests that the first wave of Covid pushed 230 million new people into poverty. It was found in this research that in the first period of Kovid, there was an increase of 15 percent in the village and 20 percent in the city in the number of poor. In such a situation, this juggling of fake figures released by the Niti Aayog of the Modi government completely exposes the Modi government and its Niti Aayog.