https://www.facebook.com/100069416646242/posts/685365007120715/?mibextid=xfxF2i Post by Charudutt Acharya Last week on 7th December 2023, 100 plus active feature film screenwriters met under the aegis of the Screenwriters Association India. ..to discuss the proposed MBC (Minimum Basic Contract) for feature films.
A robust beginning has also been made in the direction of discussing royalties and residuals for screenwriters and lyricists.
The recent stupendous success of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in securing several benefits for its screenwriters has been hugely inspiring.
Comment by JD: Really appreciate the struggles of your work on copyright and contracts. The digital space , entertainment, knowledge, service and production is going through re-definition where political economy is being marginalised unless people like you dig in. You recall how George Fernandes struggled to get banks to recognised the taxis itself to be the surety and the labour itself to be the project.. This is similar work.
विदेशी जजों ने मोदी सरकार पर लगाया बेहद गंभीर आरोप, ये तो गज़ब हो गया! Parliament latest news| rafael https://youtube.com/embed/yDCuLCw588g?start=98&end=707 LOKHIT INDIA
CJI-SC Order Wrong ? Article 370 Ruling Questioned ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDhkHM-C6RU Law Chakra
Dec 17, 2023 SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Justice Nariman expressed his concerns about the Supreme Court’s judgment on the abrogation of Article 370. He questioned the decision to convert Jammu and Kashmir into a Union Territory, bypassing Article 356.
https://lawchakra.in/supreme-court-order-on-article-370-disturbing-justice-r-nariman/
the ban on a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi and the harassment of the broadcaster; the revamp of the panel that selects election commissioners; the Kerala governor’s stalling of legislation passed by the Assembly; and the Supreme Court’s delay in ruling on the abrogation of Article 370 and its sidestepping of the constitutionality of the withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood.
This week, while upholding the abrogation of Article 370, the apex court had cited the solicitor-general’s assurance and refrained from giving a specific ruling on the constitutionality of the withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood.
“The solicitor-general does not have any authority to bind any successor government…. Second, and more importantly, he has no authority whatsoever to bind the legislature. And this is going to be a legislative act,” Nariman said.
“So, to say ‘We won’t decide’ means, in effect, you have decided. You have allowed this unconstitutional act to go forward for an indefinite period of time and you have skirted Article 356(5). These are all very disturbing things.”
NDTV बन गया इतिहासअडानी tv को नही देख रहे लोग, Adani media, ndtv. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky8WXu_Oiak
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“What I knew in the abstract I was now living, feeling and observing”: An interview with Sudha Bharadwaj (on her book" From Phasi Yard" Freny Manecksha ·December 17, 2023
She spoke of how as a young student she was influenced by Shankar Guha Niyogi and his vision for a working-class movement that went far beyond lobbying for their rights. Taking up the invitation of ‘Comrade’ Niyogi, she left her middle-class surroundings to visit Dalli Rajhara, a mining township that supplied the Bhilai Steel Plant with iron ore.
“As a lawyer, I visited jails in Odisha and Chhattisgarh and saw terrible conditions. At Malkangiri Jail (bordering Chhattisgarh and part of the Maoist belt) toilets did not have roofs. “Sentries atop the walls could look into areas where women bathe. Sanitary conditions were bad. In contrast, Yerawada and Byculla have better physical conditions. But when you actually stay in prison, it begins seeping in a very real sense … that unfreedom and what that means. “What I knew in the abstract, I was now living. Feeling it, watching it and what it does to people and how they cope with it. It was a revelation. And it was the sorting out of those thoughts that led to this book.
Prison reforms speak of equality before the law. There are declarations that all prisoners must be entitled to basic human rights, human dignity and human sympathy. But, as Bharadwaj’s book reveals with non-judgmental empathy and a keen perspective of human rights, jails are designed to strip one of all that.
Garg's book revels Reason Behind Urjit Patel's Resign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqxsMXFqNSs RBI in 2018 changed the rules regarding loan write-off i.e. NPA. Then Patel gave a speech in March that the government had not given up control on public sector banks. Due to this, there is a problem in regulation. By August, the dispute reached the first place. The central government had increased the support price of crops for farmers a year before the elections. After this, the Reserve Bank increased the interest rate saying that inflation may increase. Governments generally do not like to increase interest rates because it reduces growth. People's life is difficult. No government would want to take such a risk just before the elections. Whereas according to RBI it was necessary to increase the interest rate at that time to control inflation,
Derek O’Brien’s Old Speech Goes Viral Amidst His Suspension From Rajya Sabha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sebv_iD_UqA |
Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Derek O'Brien has been suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remainder of the current session due to "disorderly conduct," as Parliament reconvened amidst heightened tension following a significant security breach in the Lok Sabha the previous afternoon. O'Brien had called for a debate on the incident, during which two individuals leaped from the visitors' gallery into the Lok Sabha and released yellow smoke canisters. The Rajya Sabha Chair, Jagdeep Dhankhar, expressed strong disapproval, identified the politician from Bengal, and ordered his immediate exit from the House.
Why new criminal bills are worse than colonial ones https://pucl.org/manage-writings/why-new-criminal-bills-are-worse-than-colonial-ones/ Mihir Desai, Vijay Hiremath Oct 01, 2023
Three new major offences have been added to the IPC. These are terrorism, organised crime and petty organised crime, and mob lynching. The sections dealing with terrorist acts and organised crime are so widely defined that any dissenter can be brought within its sweep, and the definition of terrorist act is even wider than under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) as it includes even disturbance to public. ..A terrorist organisation is not confined to those listed in the schedule to the UAPA and thus an ordinary trade union or civil society organisation can be branded as such.
Mob lynching has been defined as an offence if five or more people commit a murder, but the punishment ranges from seven years to life imprisonment and death sentence. However, the punishment for ordinary murder is either life imprisonment or death sentence. Thus mob lynching is treated as a softer offence..
The courts are given discretion to conduct all proceedings, including the trial, in electronic mode. This will imply that an undertrial accused will not be brought to court while the lawyer may be in court or conducting the trial from a completely different place.
This can cause three problems. First, the accused may not be able to give adequate and prompt instructions to the lawyer. Second, client confidentiality gets compromised. Third, most of the time, the accused who are undertrials look forward to being brought to the court because that is one way in which they can easily spend some time with their lawyers, relatives and friends. While video conferencing may be the future, especially in the case of undertrials it should be resorted to only if the accused agrees.
The existing laws do require substantial rehauling keeping in mind the rights of the accused as well as the rights of victims. More particularly command responsibility for offences by public servants and corporate homicide for acts of corporations which lead to deaths needed to be added.
74.1% of Indians unable to afford a healthy diet: FAO Report https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/741-of-indians-unable-to-afford-a-healthy-diet-fao-report/article67631605.ece December 12, 2023. 31.7% of children of the country under five years of age suffered with stunted growth. “Stunted growth and development are the result of poor maternal health and nutrition, inadequate infant and young child feeding practices, and repeated infections interacting with a variety of other factors over a sustained period,” the report said.
The Centre had rubbished those data by claiming that the methodology was wrong.
UN की इस रिपोर्ट ने बता दी देश के विकास की हकीकत ! | UN Repoert On Food https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f10OS-u9qkM
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सीनियर जज ने रात में बुलाया, CJI को लिखी चिट्ठी से हड़कंप । Article19 India Dec 15, 2023
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