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Viral Video of 'Ramayana' Playing at Noida Pub Sparks Arrests, Case Filed https://www.thequint.com/news/india/ramayana-clip-noida-pub-arrests-case-registered-latest-news THE QUINT 11 Apr 2023
Police are also on the lookout for the DJ seen behind the turntable in the purported video.
Noida bar plays dubbed Ram-Ravan dialogues for dance floor, 1 arrested https://www.indiatoday.in/cities/noida/story/noida-bar-plays-dubbed-ram-ravan-dialogues-for-dance-floor-2358224-2023-04-10
A video from a popular bar in Noida shows people dancing while a dubbed Ramayan clip plays in the background. Police have arrested a person in connection with the incident.
In a 34-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Naseeruddin Shah spoke about a range of issues that have been in the news recently. They include the Information and Broadcasting Minister, Anurag Thakur’s boast that “India has everything that any developed nation in the world has”, Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s criticism that the West “has a bad habit of commenting on others … if (they) keep doing this other people will also start commenting and they will not like it when it happens” as well as the Prime Minister’s claim, made most recently at President Biden’s Summit of Democracies, that India is “the mother of democracy”.
Besides the political motive, the arbitrary changes also reflect a lack of professionalism. Little respect was shown for discipline and pedagogical requirements.
The general criteria for ‘Rationalisation of the Content in the Textbooks’ are briefly spelt out somewhat vaguely:
“In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to reduce the content load on students. The National Education Policy 2020 also emphasises reducing the content load and providing opportunities for experiential learning with a creative mindset. In this background, the NCERT has undertaken the exercise to rationalise the textbooks across all classes.”
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Raj Mungase's song attacked the Eknath Shinde-led government without mentioning names. Umesh Khade criticised politicians for ignoring poverty. Notably, neither named anyone in their songs. https://thewire.in/the-arts/maharashtra-rappers-eknath-shinde-raj-mungase-umesh-khade
Two young rappers posted videos of their songs on the internet. In a matter of minutes, both songs went viral on social media. The two men, from two different parts of Maharashtra and perhaps unknown to each other, had raised similar political and social questions.
While Raj Mungase’s rap attacked Maharashtra’s Eknath Shin
de-led government (without mentioning names), Umesh Khade criticised politicians for ignoring poverty-stricken people for their personal gains .The Maharashtra police found both the songs “obscene” and booked the rappers in two separate cases.
DB Dialogue With Ex Governor Satya Pal Malik | Adani Case | India | Rahul Gandhi | Breaking #dblive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zePA9QnuIZ4
The Big Con by Pankaj Mishra 6th April 2023 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n08/pankaj-mishra/the-big-con Extracts The Economist estimates that the share of billionaire wealth in India derived from cronyism has risen from 29 per cent to 43 per cent in six years. ... The new Indian plutocracy owes its swift ascent to Modi, and he has audaciously clarified the quid pro quo. Under the ‘electoral bond’ scheme he introduced in 2017, any business or special interest group can give unlimited sums of money to his party while keeping the transaction hidden from public scrutiny....
Modi also ensures his hegemony by forging a public sphere in which sycophancy is rewarded and dissent harshly punished. ... Human Rights Watch has detailed a broad onslaught on democratic rights: ‘the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government used abusive and discriminatory policies to repress Muslims and other minorities’ and ‘arrested activists, journalists and other critics of the government on politically motivated criminal charges, including of terrorism’...
The defamation campaign against George Soros and the conspiracy-fuelled crackdown on India’s leading think tank, the Centre for Policy Research, are only the latest in a series of measures – bribing opposition politicians to defect; unleashing mobs to attack opponents on the streets and on social media; subverting the judiciary and the education system; denouncing same-sex marriage as a cause of ‘complete havoc’ – that are making India safe for oligarchy and unsafe for nearly everyone else...
The Western rush to embrace Modi’s India isn’t only fuelled by the profit motive. Increasingly, the mollycoddling of yet another exponent of crony capitalism and ethnic-racial supremacism is driven by the imperatives of the new Cold War: the Biden administration’s resolve, deepened by the war in Ukraine, somehow to contain China. Adani’s lavish purchase of the port of Haifa came after the US put pressure on Israel to disallow his Chinese rival, the Shanghai International Port Group, from managing a port frequented by the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy...
Rupert Murdoch anointed Modi as India’s ‘best leader with best.. policies since independence’. Addressing packed stadiums in India and the US with his ‘loyal friend’, Trump confirmed Modi’s place in a global far-right constellation. But it was liberal and centrist politicians, businessmen, economists and journalists in the West who built regimes of casual untruth about Modi and his India...
Like the Russian elite, Modi and Adani have succeeded in bending, repeatedly, the moral arc of politics and journalism towards greed. As New Delhi prepares to host a G20 summit in September, Western officials and opinion-makers more keenly echo Modi’s claims for India’s democracy with words such as ‘largest’ and ‘vibrant’. Both adjectives were deployed last month by a State Department spokesperson as he tried to evade comment on Modi’s crackdown on the BBC.
Fawning on a Hindu supremacist, as his supporters routinely clamour for a genocide of Muslims in India, also entrenches lies and propaganda deeper in the public life of Western societies. Adani’s business empire may or may not turn out to be the largest con in corporate history. But far greater dangers to civic morality, let alone democracy and global peace, are posed by those peddling the gigantic hoax of Modi’s India – the first big fraud of the new Cold War.
End Of The Deshbhakt Near? | Govt. now to decide what is fact or fake! | SNL with Akash Banerjee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCCTECfhrU The Deshbhakt 8 Apr 2023
With the Govt now taking on itself to decide what is fact and what is not - the media's role is over. The Govt. now soon WILL BE the 4th estate - and anything critical of the central govt could simply be denied as lies.
स्वतंत्र आवाजों को दबाने के लिए मोदी सरकार का अब तक का सबसे खतरनाक षड्यंत्र, it rules pib fact check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5PWU7V97M LOKHIT INDIA Apr 8, 2023 NEW DELHI
#whatsapp #history से देश का भविष्य नष्ट किया जा रहा है- S Irfan Habib https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-241UdTy3Ak
History is being created in whatapp. And History is only being used to created Communal Conflict. Therefore it has become a conflict zone. Apr 2, 2023
IH has a good word for ashok pandey has been taken up this project of The Credible History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESsOxl-Vs0&list=PLWfWOjKzIzuhsJRnBwjJTNMuGcm0z1A8Y
Kanhaiya ने गोदी मीडिया को ऐसा धोया की लोग हँस-हँस के पागल हो गए || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NuFKvayfs4 Apr 8, 2023
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