https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QURrVv6r0sc  NYU Prof Aswath Damodaran’s Addresses Questions on Hindenburg Report & His Valuation of Adani Shares Doubling of share values was more because F investors, lazy bet on infrastructure.. Fundamantals not a big issue, but momentum..

Why does Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a world renowned expert on Corporate Finance and Equity Valuation, disagree with the Hindenburg claim Adani is “the biggest con” in history? How serious are his doubts about Hindenburg’s allegations of stock price manipulation and earnings manipulation? Why is he unimpressed by what he calls Hindenburg’s “shock-and-awe” approach of throwing up, perhaps, hundreds of accusations? Why does he believe the true value of an Adani Enterprise share is Rs. 945? Finally, does he fear there could be more Adani-like incidents waiting to happen? 

Hidenberg was more about the debt. Playing with earning?

Being overlevered is not an con game , but a risk and that is a businness argument.. ..

why were not the Indian critiques not been given platforms earlier.  investor dont want to face the truth about the weakness of the Indian stories..  Many companies have the same features...The critique is more political than a critque of the company...

https://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2023/02/control-and-complexity-deconstructing.html Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVGJeBe_xGA The India Rising Story hit a road block last week, when Hindenburg Research, a short seller, labeled the Adani Group, one of India's largest, fastest-rising and most politically connected family groups, as the "largest con" in corporate history. I have no financial or emotional investment in the Adani Group, and in this session, I start by providing a short history of how a obscure, regional family group company became one of India's largest family group companies, commanding a market capitalization in excess of $200 billion at the start of 2022. I trace its growth in revenues from infrastructure businesses, accompanies by slim profits, huge investments and lots of debt. I try to consolidate the Hindenburg critique of the company into three groupings - that it is committing accounting fraud, that it is manipulating stock prices and that Indian institutions (banks, regulators, LIC) are staying on the sidelines. Rather than call it a "big con", I am inclined to believe that this is a company that is exploiting the seams and weaknesses in the India story, from the obsessive focus on control in many of its family groups to the inertia and indifferences at institutions to misplaced priorities at regulators to the dominance of bullish momentum-based trading in markets. I close with a valuation of Adani Enterprises, the Group's holding company, and find it over valued, even after the mark down in prices last week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHirUDc3PJs Raising the issues of Adivasis of Jharkand.. and attempts of Centre to block certain developmental and reservation of Adivasis..

Mica poisoning...as a result of mico mining...

अडानी का सबसे पहले भांडा फोड़ने वाले पत्रकार | Paranjoy Guha Thakurta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=276SDqoi62k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ctguXpqB8M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XhE9chzzmE Kissan Panchayat Dr Sunilam  gives report

Farm wheat rates going down, around harvest time.. On threat of confiscating land of farmers for r failure to pay Electricity bills,

Mounting Majoritarianism and Political Polarization in India https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/08/18/mounting-majoritarianism-and-political-polarization-in-india-pub-82434 NIRANJAN SAHOO
Polarization in India is more toxic today than it has been in decades, and it shows no signs of abating. August 18, 2020

Three crucial drivers of increasing polarization have been India’s ongoing economic transformation, changes in traditional and social media, and the rise of competitive caste politics. Hindu nationalist organizations have been able to harness the power of each of these drivers in ways that their opponents have found difficult to match..

Paradoxically, the Congress Party’s reforms proved a huge boon for the identity politics of the BJP, as urban voters tend to be more rather than less supportive of Hindu nationalist narratives.16 As Christophe Jaffrelot argues, “Urbanization has transformed Hinduism more than any other development...The economic inequalities created after 1991 thus have allowed the BJP to build a coalition of odd bedfellows.

TRADITIONAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA:In the realm of traditional media, biased or partisan-leaning outlets have become increasingly influential, at the expense of nonpartisan news sources. Changes in media ownership likely have played a role in this transformation..

CASTE POLTICS As OBC parties began to win a larger share of the vote in the 1980s and 1990s, the BJP and the Sangh Parivar doubled down on religious polarization, mainly by stoking tensions over the Babri Masjid. This strategy has allowed the BJP to separate Hindu Dalits, the class of Indians at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy, and lower OBCs from dominant OBC groups within the caste-based parties..

The BJP thus was able to win over Hindus who might otherwise have voted along caste lines. Recent data from the 2014 and 2019 elections suggest that the party’s deft use of Hindu nationalism played a key role in blunting caste divisions and securing landslide victories for the BJP.

REMEDIAL ACTIONS
Initiatives to address the causes and consequences of polarization in India can be roughly divided into two categories: those that seek to counter majoritarian politics and those that aim to improve civic dialogue.

All kinds of Mining on non-forest land adjoining forest even before forest clearance is given   https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mining-on-non-forest-land-before-final-nod-approved-101675882793031.html   The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) decided in October 2021 to approve coal mining on non-forest land adjoining a forest. Now this seems to be extended to all kinds of mining..In 2014, a three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by justice RL Lodha said mining companies that invested money in blocks without getting all clearances took the decision at their own risk. Any investment made in anticipation of clearances cannot be justified and such coal blocks cannot be protected if the companies fail to get clearances within the time frame fixed under the law, the bench had said. Environmental experts said commencing of mining on non-forest land would result in expectations that the entire mine will be accorded clearance because of the investment involved.

Post of WhatsApp: A tribal Girl is disqualified in police cadre based on her height. Are there any studies from Maharashtra on nutritional status of Tribals? 

Undernutrition among tribal children in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6392283/
Soumitra Ghosh... , to improve tribal women's overall health development state government interventions need to introduce on nutritional health in among tribal and in general population specifically needy sections. Furthermore, it is imperative to create awareness, and health care infrastructure with the delivery system should be designed effectively. To address the tribal women's nutritional health, health services must focus on tribal culture.

The present study confirms that despite several nutrition programmes, the extent of undernutrition has remained extremely high in the children living in predominantly tribal rural areas of Palghar district, Maharashtra. One of the possible reasons for having persistently high level of undernutrition among tribal children is the decline in the budgetary allocation on ICDS in recent years [20]. Our analysis of the state’s budget also reveals that the nutrition expenditure as a percentage of the state budget has drastically declined from 1.68% in 2012–13 to 0.94% in 2018–19 (S1 Fig). Moreover, Singh and Sethi [22] showed that tribal sub plan funds have been underutilised by Maharashtra, particularly in two sectors (rural development and nutrition). As the main underlying cause of undernutrition among the tribal children is the poor socioeconomic conditions of the tribal population, there is a need for a multi-pronged strategy for redressing this problem.

No ‘Cow Hug Day’ on February 14: Animal Welfare Board withdraws appeal https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/no-cow-hug-day-february-14-animal-welfare-board-withdraws-appeal-173110 The Animal Welfare Board of India made an appeal to all “cow lovers” to celebrate February 14 as “Cow Hug Day” to bring “emotional richness”, which received backlash online.  After receiving much ridicule online and in other spaces, the Animal Welfare Board of India has withdrawn its appeal to hug a cow on February 14, Valentine’s Day. In its appeal, it urged “cow lovers” in the country to celebrate the occasion as “Cow Hug Day”. However, in its latest communication on Friday, February 10, the board said, “As directed by the Competent Authority and Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, the appeal issued by the Animal Welfare Board of India for celebration of Cow Hug Day on 14th February, 2023 stands withdrawn.”

Christophe Jaffrelot writes: A new Rahul Gandhi, an old Congress Christophe Jaffrelot February 9, 2023 https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/christophe-jaffrelot-writes-a-new-rahul-gandhi-an-old-congress-8431128 Bharat Jodo Yatra has helped Rahul Gandhi's image. But electoral success for his party is another matter

Can Rahul Gandhi now compete with Modi? He’s certainly a leader for some people. But Modi’s power relies on other pillars. First, there’s the so-called mainstream media’s saturation of the public sphere with his image, the G20 story and so on. Second, Modi’s political resilience is also due to the Sangh Parivar, an organisational backing that Rahul misses given the condition of the Congress party.

While the Bharat Jodo Yatra may not translate to electoral gains in the near future, by returning to the roots of the Congress — as a people’s movement — Rahul has prepared the ground for a different future, something others may (or may not) help him to build, before it’s too late.