-The Original Thackeray: 7 Things About Prabodhankar You Must Know. Many don’t know that Bal Thackeray’s father was a social reformer, a political activist and an eminent author. 20 Nov 2016. “Prabodhankar’s Hindutva was not against any religion.” . ...Prabodhankar was a face of anti-Brahminical movement....Prabodhankar was aggressive about women’s rights and education. 

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On the Cusp: Reframing Democracy and Well-Being in Korchi, India by Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai and Mukesh Shende  https://beyonddevelopment.net/on-the-cusp-reframing-democracy-and-well-being-in-korchi-india/

Gram sabhas and the MGS face numerous internal and external challenges, the most significant among them being existence within the nation-state and its adopted exploitative capitalist model of economy and representative electoral democracy. Party politics, having entered all other levels of governance, now strives to control the gram sabhas. The PRS institutions at all levels are beginning to feel threatened by the emerging power of the gram sabhas, creating friction with the MGS. Religious right-wing (Hindu in this case) and cultural right-wing tribal outfits are using identity politics for political gain, some of these are supported by the mining companies and often create hurdles for the MGS and gram sabhas opposed to mining. Many local activists, including one of the core team members of this study, have been imprisoned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), which gives the state draconian powers to arrest without a warrant or evidence and keep people in police custody without bail for a certain period of time.

The government’s decentralisation efforts are different from the people’s movement towards self-rule and direct democracy in that the former remains fixated on the external structure rulebooks at the cost of the spirit of decentralisation, while the latter focuses on the spirit by constantly adapting and evolving strategies, structures, rules and operations to address the opportunities and challenges encountered while ensuring that the core principles of transparent dialogue, consensus-based decision-making and equity are not compromised. As a Gondi proverb says, Changla Jeevan Jage Mayan Saathi Sapalorukoon Apu Apuna Jababdarita Jaaniv Ata Pahe (“to achieve well-being, everyone needs to know what their responsibility is”). The MGS members believe that to be more effective politically, different taluka-level collectives need to come together to form a district-level federation and must also have their delegates in the state legislature, which is yet to be achieved. They hope to slowly move in that direction. 

Transformations - Wellbeing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD3VxRvIeuo Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group A federation of 90 village assemblies is attempting to transform local society, politics, ecology and economy, in the process articulating their own conceptions of wellbeing
Around the world indigenous people are resisting mainstream development models which have devastated local biodiversity, threatened species with extinction and changed the earth’s climate.
Many communities are creating transformative alternatives to challenge such ideas of development.
Korchi taluka in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra State in India, is one such region where the local villages are moving towards social, political, economic and ecological transformation and are re-defining development and wellbeing.

As the rule of law recedes in India, a new majoritarian consensus emerges  https://scroll.in/article/1037771/as-the-rule-of-law-recedes-in-india-a-new-majoritarian-consensus-emerges  Why did the school apologise for promoting unity and harmony?  Quite apparently because they feared local Hindu groups, who – if the rule of law functioned as the Constitution provides – should have faced police prosecution for intimidation.

Instead, as these groups have increasingly demonstrated, they feel emboldened and empowered enough to enforce their own views, as they threaten colleges, raid pubs and resorts in pursuit of their own definition of morality. Muslim groups and extremists, too, ignore the rule of law, murdering Hindu fundamentalists and enforcing their own rules of moral policing. The difference is the Muslim groups get no support from the state. The Hindu groups, as Article 14 reported, obviously do.

There are examples in India of majoritarian proclivities creeping and codified into the law itself, as my colleagues have extensively reported: from laws against cow slaughter, inter-faith love (here and here) and conversions, to often illegal and unconstitutional demolition of properties.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022.pdf (meity.gov.in) https://www.meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/The%20Digital%20Personal%20Data%20Protection%20Bill%2C%202022.pdf

https://www.businesstoday.in/opinion/columns/story/why-the-promised-right-to-privacy-and-data-protection-law-has-not-been-enacted-yet-223449-2019-08-30 enforcers and interpreters of law have shown unpardonable callousness with regard to the age of 'big data' or the collection of data sets which are 'marked by their exhaustive scope and the permanency of collection'. It entails 'profiling' by automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person. It includes analysis or prediction of aspects concerning natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements for the 'nth' time...

The failure of Supreme Court to ensure enactment of right to privacy and data protection law has grave consequences for India's position on e-commerce, computing cloud, cyber jurisdiction, high computing capacity, artificial intelligence, mathematical algorithms, and analytics, which have the potential to make digital colonisation fool-proof through data colonisation in what is being called the Fourth Revolution. Government manoeuvres are grossly procedural, formalistic and insincere. The proposal of Draft Personal Data Protection Bill and the Privacy Bill is akin to putting a cart before the horse.

Why BJP is so upset if Medha Joined Bharat Jodo Yatra? Bharat Jodo Yatra I Medha Patkar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKy4xSb45F8  19-11-22
भारत जोड़ो यात्रा में मेधा पाटकर राहुल गाँधी के साथ दिखने के बाद बीजेपी क्यों परेशान हो गई? क्या वह गुजरात चुनाव में इसका फ़ायदा उठाने के लिए ऐसा कर रही है? क्या राहुल गाँधी ने मेधा पाटकर के साथ चलकर राजनीतिक ग़लती की है? क्या इससे काँग्रेस को गुजरात चुनाव में नुक़सान हो सकता है? डॉ. मुकेश कुमार बात कर रहे हैं जानी मानी सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता मेधा पाटकर से-

Cutting to the ..interview   Rahul G with Samdish Bhatia:  https://youtube.com/embed/deaCYFp6uX4?start=580&end=1459    

how come some partitioned family hate muslims and other do not..https://youtu.be/deaCYFp6uX4?t=581  from My Crazy Interview With Rahul Gandhi ft. Bharat Jodo Yatra | Samdish Bhatia About yatra chaging perspective? Information is being denied to a vast majority.. people consider family as "bhagwan".. Not it is Love..

Shiva as God, a personal idea, ruthless attack on the concept of self.

Lok more relaxed while talking than your speeches... that's because you see me "filtered" through the media...

A irreverent look at the afternoon rest place, lunch and all that... https://youtu.be/deaCYFp6uX4?t=1797

Police arrangement: https://youtu.be/deaCYFp6uX4?t=2736

Sense of what is happening... impact etc. https://youtu.be/deaCYFp6uX4?t=3038

Someone has to pick the narrative by the horns -  https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/vision-of-savarkar-vs-vision-of-gandhi-rahul-gandhi-dares-maharashtra-govt-to-stop-bharat-jodo-yatra-2298350-2022-11-17  Addressing a rally in Washim district on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi said Savarkar is a symbol of the BJP and the RSS and when he was jailed in Andaman for two-three years, he started writing mercy petitions The former Congress president had claimed Savarkar wrote a book on himself with a different name and highlighted how brave he was. “He used to take pension from the British, work for them, and work against the Congress,”

- Sanjay Raut ने BJP के सावरकर प्रेम को बताया नकली, बोले- Rahul के बयान से टूट सकता है MVA गठबंधन https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9YYAHekfMk  Nov 18, 2022   HIndutva and Akhand Bhrat ideas of Sarvarkar will always be held by Shiv Sena. Rahul Gandhi should not have come to Maharashtra and spoken ill of Savarkar. But the issue is the those in BJP government who are criticising are false, because they have not given Bharat Ratna to Savarkar for the eight year they were in power.
- Rashtra Ki Baat | Rahul ने डाल दी MVA में दरार ? Manak Gupta

Pick Your Savarkar, Don't Forget Foot Soldiers: P Sainath | The Big Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPCNQShsHyo  Nov 18, 2022 Noted journalist and author of 'The Last Heroes', P Sainath speaks to NDTV exclusively about the need to chronicle the stories of foot soldiers of the Indian freedom movement. He also takes on the stories and controversies surrounding VD Savarkar and Tipu Sultan. He says, "One can pick their own Savarkar, but must not forget the foot soldiers."

Watch: Team Uddhav Hints May End Alliance With Congress Over Savarkar Row | The Big Fight - https://youtu.be/Y6Egbxssw80 

Comment by Shukla Sen Clearly shows up his keenness to get into an ideological battle regardless of its short-term impact on local electoral prospects. The intention, obviously, is to challenge the very legitimacy of the packaging of Hindutva politics as "nationalism". He has, of course, solid facts--well-documented--very much on his side. Even then -- given the current circumstances and the role of the mainstream media, in particular -- it's, no doubt, a tough and daring venture  

PM Modi ने जब एक पत्रकार से नाराज़ होकर बीच यात्रा में छोड़ दिया था - Ajit Anjum   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRR_iEmCIko

Sack These Ministers, Warn Them: Sena Leader On Comments Over Delhi Murder Case|Left, Right & Centre   Nov 17, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNV5cD6mkM

These are not just leaders. They are Union Ministers. All he has to offer are moral platitudes. According to these leaders, a woman is supposed to be totally responsible for her security. PM Narendra Modi has been talking about women's rights. Ministers who talk like this need to be sacked by the PM or warned not say something like this,” said Priyanka Chaturvedi, Shiv Sena leader, when asked about the statements made by some politicians putting the onus on the victim Shraddha Walkar, who was killed by her boyfriend Aftab Poonawala.

After Horrific Murder In Delhi, A Toxic Discourse | Left, Right & Centre - https://youtu.be/1V91Y12JlU8

Shraddha Murder Case: Advocate Seema Samridhi ने कहा - "सबूतों के बिना निष्कर्ष ...." | Des Ki Baat Nov 18, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8D4tg-aZDk Shraddha Murder Case Update: एडवोकेट सीमा समृद्धि ने श्रद्धा हत्याकांड के संबंध में शुक्रवार को एनडीटीवी से बातचीत की. इस दौरान उन्होंने बताया कि किन सबूतों के आधार पर आरोपी आफताब को सजा हो सकती है. साथ ही ये भी कहा कि इस मामले में सबूतों के बिना किसी निष्कर्ष पर पहुंचना जल्दबाजी होगी.

"Shraddha को अक्‍सर पीटता था आफताब, 2020 की Medical Report से हुआ खुलासा": https://youtu.be/LsDjk_YplGk