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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk-L4eOLl98   When the 19th century began, no one was sure of who or what a Hindu was. But by the end of the 20th century, it seemed like the majority of India's population was Hindu since the beginning of time. This is the story of what happened in between...

India Ink https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaInkHistory 

 “Secular forces fixate on footnotes, Hindutva gets how Indians deal with history”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfWd25Dv5-8 Manu Pillai  is clear that “#Hindutva has understood and weaponised how Indians deal with history” in a way that the left has not. “#Secular forces are fixated on a footnoted version of history,” he says. This makes it quite unappealing to people looking to history to construct an identity.

Where does that leave the historian? Pillai agrees that he never thought he’d be in such a contentious field when he first started out. But in the end, he sees it as the price of being in the public eye. Historians are people too. The idea that a pure or virtuous history is possible, he suggests, may itself be an idealised position.

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 India deserves better than M-O-D-I: Misinformation, Opacity, Distractions, Incompetence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUoA4kFU3Cg The government’s constant drive for headline management, its pursuit of hype, its industrial-scale disinformation campaigns carried forward by its media and social media armies, and its wall-to-wall projection of Modi as a superhero, are obsessive, fantastical, and delusional', argues TMC MP in Rajya Sabha Sagarika Ghose.

Fifty years after Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency, history is turning a harsher gaze not just on her authoritarian turn but on Jayaprakash Narayan’s fateful alliance with Sangh. Legitimised by JP’s misjudgment, the RSS has wrecked India’s democracy, institutions and political culture.

https://thewire.in/politics/the-emergencys-true-legacy-how-jps-naivety-empowered-the-rss 

Sharada Prasad concluded his letter to Natwar Singh with a penetrating observation: “.. the entire operation was necessary to save our political structure. When we  speak of our political structure or aims, the leftists speak only of socialism, the Anglo-US-European liberals only of pluralistic democracy, neither group gives much importance to secularism. Secularism is the base of Indian democracy. The cardinal mistake of JP and company was to hand over the controls to RSS and no man in his senses can ever say that an RSS-led opposition front can preserve a system based upon religious tolerance and equality.”

History has already dealt a rough hand to Indira Gandhi for embarking on a dangerous road 50 years ago; what she did during those dark days could be rolled back by the masses. History will deal an equally rough, if not  rougher, hand to Jayaprakash Narayan for rehabilitating the RSS as a normal political force. Fifty years later, Indira Gandhi’s excesses pale in comparison to JP’s cardinal sin. The RSS is the only winner of that battle five decades ago.

Harish Khare

25/06/2025

 The Supreme Court has said that the state cannot object to two consenting adults living together just because they belong to different religions. https://thewire.in/law/state-cant-object-to-two-consenting-adults-from-different-religions-living-together-supreme-court 

The apex court recently made this assertion while granting bail to a Muslim man who had spent nearly six months in jail for marrying a Hindu woman.

While the Uttarakhand high court had denied bail to the man in February this year, a bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma recently passed the order, allowing the appeal of the man, reported Hindustan Times.

11/06/2025

Message by Bilawal Bhutto to  Modi Over Kashmir, Water Treaty, And Gaza Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ELQwcYLmM8
as youtubed by Global Pulse..

We  in  India and Pakistan pride ourselves that we're the heirs of the Indus Valley civilization.  Mohenjodaro  is a stone throw away from my constituency back home.  India also prides itself as the heirs of the Indus Valley civilization .  So we should act as heirs of the Indus Valley civilization. 
One of the most incredible things about the Indus Valley civilization is that with all the archaeology that's gone on we've not found a single weapon .  All the great advancements - They had urban planning agriculture water distribution even sewage and things But not a single weapon.

How far we've come from our roots that Indus Valley civilization which didn't have a single weapon is now  is  armed to the teeth.
Mr Modi is sort of the timur version of Netanyahu.It's a little poor copy and we call upon the Indian government to not be inspired  by the worst examples possible .  Prime Minister Modi must decide.  he has two paths to follow before him. He could pursue the path of peace and be a true be a true heir of the Indus Valley civilization.
or he could pursue another path a path that we've been warning about  be it in the context of the Iran war and obviously the actions within Gaza  recently have inspired  some of the actions by the Indian government .

https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world-narendra-modi-is-butcher-of-gujarat-and-kashmir-says-bilawal-bhutto-352790 

From Uptime media   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8kNBkI1Pcg      *Rejection of India's Allegations*: Bilawal Bhutto rejected India's claims of Pakistan's involvement in terrorism, stating that Pakistan is a victim, not an exporter, of terrorism. He emphasized that India's accusations are "stale, rooted in fiction, not fact".
    *Kashmir Issue*: He advocated for a political resolution in Kashmir, rooted in the democratic will of the people, and suggested a plebiscite to determine the region's future. Bilawal condemned India's actions in Kashmir, saying, "Kashmir is not India's territory. It is a promise broken, a wound festering, and a people waiting".
    *Indus Waters Treaty*: Bilawal Bhutto warned India to respect the Indus Waters Treaty, stating that if India tries to block Pakistan's water, "we won't stay silent". He further emphasized that Pakistan would take strong action if India violates the treaty, saying, "Our water or your blood will flow in the Indus River".
    *Military Response*: Bilawal Bhutto praised Pakistan's military response to Indian aggression, claiming that Pakistan shot down five Indian jets "like mosquitoes" during a recent conflict. He warned India that any further aggression would be met with stronger retaliation.
    *Diplomatic Victory*: Bilawal declared that Pakistan's narrative has won in the international media, while India's narrative was defeated. He added that Pakistan successfully conveyed its message of peace and Kashmir's struggle.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/asia/pakistan/bilawal-bhutto-zardari-the-voice-of-pakistan/ar-AA1HcQv3   At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Goa, Bilawal did what many would not dare: he showed up in India, stood his ground, and stood for peace. Despite media hostility and diplomatic chill, Bilawal represented Pakistan with dignity and clarity, refusing to be silenced, yet offering dialogue over division.