Shared stage with RSS Chief Bhagwat, backed by Mahayuti- Who is 'seer' Ramgiri Maharaj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oa_B1r6-ts ThePrint 
Sep 12, 2024 Ramgiri Maharaj became overnight sensation in Maharashtra after he passed alleged derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad . In this video, we decode who is Ramgiri Maharaj and the controversy around him

 IIM-Ahmedabad Batchmates Defend SEBI Chief Madhabi Puri Buch, Call Allegations ‘FalseSep 11, 2024
Is Madhabi Puri Buch, SEBI's chairperson, being unfairly targeted?  Buch’s batchmates from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A)  argue that the claims against her are baseless and have far-reaching implications for SEBI’s credibility. According to her batchmates, accusations regarding ESOPs, retirement benefits, and tax issues are misunderstandings or misrepresentations of the facts. They emphasize that Buch’s handling of her ESOPs and retirement benefits follows standard practices, and they refute claims about undue tax payments and moonlighting.

Madhabi Buch's IIM Ahmedabad classmates play fact-checker on Congress allegations https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/madhabi-buchs-iim-ahmedabad-classmates-play-fact-checker-on-congress-allegations/articleshow/113215786.cms 

 What is the Real Story of Unemployment in India? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-y_AG6JhM The Wire 
Sep 11, 2024
There are wide variations in the number and quality of employment generation in India, which largely stems from the data one uses to estimate these figures. Two prominent researchers in this field, Dr Surjit Bhalla and Dr Santosh Mehrotra, with differing opinions, will present their case .

https://thewire.in/society/the-republic-of-apathy 

The fact that our sustained apathy for corruption has enabled the dehumanising violation of women points to one of the most distressing realities of Indian life – the widespread and persistent lack of concern for the minoritised.

“As they say in India,” the economist Pranab Bardhan wrote in an influential paper on corruption, “in the US corruption is in the process of ‘making’ laws, in India it’s mostly in ‘breaking’ laws.” American – and generally Western – models of corruption require narratives of legitimisation that are often stamped with legislative authority.

In India, on the other hand, the ubiquity of corruption keeps its moral cost low – “everybody’s doing it so why not?” The long history of the public tolerance of corruption paves the ground for the political protection, indeed, the further enactment of corruption. Just break the law with impunity. The only legitimising narrative required here is that it is done all the time and no one really cares.

In this country, the spectre of corruption meets the zombie of apathy. This leads to something far more horrifying than corruption, but something that remains more safely hidden – its nourishment and celebration by its direct and indirect beneficiaries. This includes people in power and dominance as well as ordinary people, sometimes disenfranchised ones as well.

by Saikat Majumdar

08/09/2024

 Mumbai needs 2.7 lakh houses for development,infra projects-Here’s how govt plans to build the stock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odmgoacvVFw   Sep 11, 2024
The state government has in a new policy made a number of proposals to create the requisite housing, including incentives for developers and unlocking vacant land. Manasi Phadke explains the policy in Mumbai Matters. 

The headline says: Rajasthan teacher arrested for deleting Ganesh Chaturthi greetings on WhatsApp. The last line says : The villagers filed a complaint and the police registered an FIR and arrested Ansari on charges of disturbing peace in the locality. 

What had indeed "disturbed the peace"?  The deletion of a post or the protest!

 https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/rajasthan-kota-school-teacher-arrested-ganesh-chaturthi-greetings-whatsapp-deleted-2596076-2024-09-08 According to the police, the committee of the Government Higher Secondary School in Latoori has a WhatsApp group, which also includes residents of the village. One of the residents of the village had posted a message in the group on Saturday, greeting people on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. However, the school's principal, Shafi Mohammad Ansari, deleted the message.

the villagers staged a protest demanding Ansari's removal and arrest. Police rushed to the spot and assured them of action. The villagers filed a complaint against the principal.Based on their complaint, the police registered an FIR and arrested Ansari on charges of disturbing peace in the locality

RG & US speech controversy   Sukla Sen post: 

<what Rahul Gandhi said in the US about Sikhs, their turban and kada.   https://youtu.be/V0twrFSsr_Q  > 

It's more than obvious that he talked of Sikhs (first) only to illustrate and in the process of elaborating his views on the dangerous supremacist character of the RSS ideology and politics. How it threatens, actually and potentially, the self-respect and identities of all minorities -- religious and linguistic, in particular. In the very same breath, he also talked of "Tamil", "Marathi", "Bengali" etc etc. He made it starkly explicit by assertively claiming that the fight is about the rights of minorities -- all minorities. Nowhere -- repeat nowhere -- he said that Sikhs in India are not allowed to wear turbans and kadas.

That's a gross distortion. Much the same way Narendra Modi claimed (ref.: <https://youtu.be/XUp9luKnvFo> and <https://https://youtu.be/XUp9luKnvFo?si=c-H_EfLGanBysjoV-rXws4>, during the last poll campaign, that the Congress had imported X-ray machine(s) to find out hidden jewelleries in Hindu houses in order to confiscate and gift to Muslims by weaponising the word "X-ray" used by Rahul Gandhi, as a metaphor, to describe the purpose and function of the caste census demanded by him (ref.: < https://m.economictimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/congress-will-do-x-ray-of-country-through-caste-census-says-rahul-gandhi/articleshow/110054368.cms  >)!

Yet, this video clip (< https://youtu.be/6RIgj0vpD10  >) put out by a major media outlet unabashedly claims in no uncertain terms that "Rahul Gandhi says Sikhs not allowed to wear turbans in India" in order to reinforce and amplify what the BJP leaders are mouthing: < https://www.ndtv.com/video/dangerous-narrative-minister-slams-rahul-gandhi-s-comment-on-sikhs-835827  >.
Just one example.

Banks and Disaster Relief https://www.cenfa.org/banks-and-disaster-relief/ Kerala Bank has to be congratulated for declaring that the loans given in the affected areas will be written off. Co-operative Banks will do the same. ..

 the State Level Bankers Committee announced that the individual bank boards would take a call on the write-off. The loan outstanding in the area is only Rs. 32 crores, out of which the Housing Loans and Vehicle Loans are backed by insurance. The MSME loans including MUDRA loans should have a credit guarantee which can be claimed.

It is astonishing that almost one month has passed but no Bank board has announced the write-off. The Banks may be in a dilemma that similar demand will come during other disasters too. Yes, it will come. Banks may also be waiting for the Finance Ministry’s approval as Finance Ministry and RBI representatives are on every board. The Finance Ministry may think that opposition-ruled states should not be supported.

When banks could write off Rs. 25 lakh crore in the last 10 years, especially to the corporates, when the average haircut in National Company Law Tribunal referred cases is 67%, the banks should be generous in writing off loans of people in such disasters.

Banks should use this as an opportunity to give fresh loans to the affected people, spend their Corporate Social Responsibility funds for infrastructure funds and show that they are fulfilling their social responsibility.

Historic and Artisanal Coastal and Marine Rights of Traditional Fishing Communities. 
Conflicts and Way Forward (with special focus on coastal land rights)  Series on Customary Governance, Tenure and Traditional Rights of Fisher Peoples 

country case presentations from  Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka https://youtu.be/ag9yNXApQ50   Part - 1 9th September 2024 :

Response to country presentations and thematic presentations
https://youtu.be/Q2RhGaMLt6Y  Part - 2 10th September.2024 :