Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati tells Karan Thapar in an interview that he wasn't invited for the consecration, but even if he had been invited, he would not have attended the event. https://thewire.in/video/watch-its-divided-not-united-india-shankaracharya-of-jyotish-peeth-on-ayodhya-ram-temple 

Swami Avimukteshwaranand made clear that he is not anti-Modi but accepted that the building of the Ram temple as well as the propaganda surrounding the Prana Pratishtha have politicised the temple. He said he completely agreed with comments made by the Shankaracharya of Puri and reported by The Hindu on January 14 where the Shankaracharya said: “Politicians have their limits and they have responsibility under the Constitution. There are rules and restrictions in the religious and spiritual domain and these rules should be followed. Interfering in every area by politicians is insanity…overstepping these rules for propagating one’s name is an act of rebellion against God.”

by Karan Thapar

16/01/2024

 On this 95th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it would be pertinent to recall what he said about a nonviolent campaign.

The "Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change" is based on Dr. King’s nonviolent campaigns and teaching which emphasize love in action.

1. INFORMATION GATHERING: To understand and articulate an issue, problem, or injustice facing a person, community, or institution, you must do research. You must investigate and gather all vital information from all sides of the argument or issue to increase your understanding of the problem. You must become an expert on your opponent’s position.

2. EDUCATION: It is essential to inform others, including your opposition, about your issue. This minimizes misunderstandings and gains you support and sympathy. You can write articles for newspapers and magazines. You can hold seminars, and workshops and build coalitions on the issue. You can write statements for pastors, priests, and rabbis to include in their sermons.

3. PERSONAL COMMITMENT: Daily check and affirm your faith in the philosophy and methods of nonviolence. Eliminate hidden motives and prepare yourself to accept suffering, if necessary, in your work for justice.

4. NEGOTIATIONS: Using grace, humor, and intelligence, confront the other party with a list of injustices and a plan for addressing and resolving these injustices. Look for what is positive in every action and statement the opposition makes. Do not seek to humiliate the opponent, but call forth the good in the opponent. Look for ways in which the opponent can also win.

5. DIRECT ACTION: These are actions taken to get the opponent to work with you in resolving the injustices. Direct action imposes a “creative tension” into the conflict. There are over 250 different direct action tactics, including boycotts, marches, rallies, rent strikes, work slowdowns, letter-writing and petition campaigns, bank-ins, property occupancy, financial withdrawal, and political denial through the ballot. Direct action is most effective when it illustrates the injustice it seeks to correct.

6. RECONCILIATION: Nonviolence seeks friendship and understanding with the opponent. Nonviolence is directed against evil systems, forces, oppressive policies, and evil and unjust acts, not against persons. Reconciliation includes the opponent being able to “save face”. Through reasoned compromise, both sides resolve the injustice with a plan of action. Each act of reconciliation is one step closer to the “Beloved Community.” Not only are individuals empowered, but so is the entire community. With that comes a new struggle for justice and a new beginning. Post by  S. P. Udayakumaran Green Tamilnadu Party Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, January 15, 2024, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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MIRROR NOW issues for youth, unemployment, and layoffs, amid the rising age of technology an AI. After Amazon, now Google, the tech layoffs continue in 2024. After 27000 employees Amazon is now getting ready to lay off a few more.
A panel of experts has joined Sneha Koshy for a detailed discussion. Policy Expert, Tushar Gupta said, “People have to evolve with this change. They have to upskill themselves, network around & look for the right opportunities.

Is re-skilling the answer? Or is it choice of technologies.  Larger portals and centralised solutions, versus decentralised networked and economic systems - small retails, manufacturing, local services, pooled facitlities..

https://murmurations.network/principles/  Murmurations enables a rich set of applications that facilitate decentralised collaboration and empower groups to activate their networks in new and exciting ways.
https://docs.murmurations.network/about/introduction.html  The initial use case for Murmurations was to facilitate decentralized mapping of purpose-driven and solidarity economy organizations and projects. 
https://murmurations.network/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ murmurations-white-paper-v0.1.0.pdf  Murmurations: Making Movements Visible; Distributed data sharing for the new economy Whitepaper v0.1.0 - September 2019 Adam McKenty & Oliver Sylvester-Bradley  Building an alternative economy is not a simple task when the playing field is tilted in favour of large enterprises and hierarchical economies of scale. If we can find ways to leverage the distributed intelligence of the new economy and the growing number of people who want to support it, we can create a network of solidarity and resilience that has the potential to outperform the profit-driven corporate economy.
Our hope is that Murmurations will contribute to this.

The book 'Who will bell the cow?' by Shruti Ganapatye is an audacious contribution to the recent history of violence over cow slaughter in various states of India.

https://thewire.in/books/exploring-cow-politics-violence-and-the-roots-of-non-violence-in-india 

A contemporary theme of the book is about the criminal cases filed in various states on the allegations of cow slaughter, beef trading, and hate crimes, resulting from these allegations.

by Siraj Hussain

10/01/2024

Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra: ‘Modi Sarkar or Bharat Sarkar’? Voters seek answer, stop chariot  https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/viksit-bharat-sankalp-yatra-modi-sarkar-or-bharat-sarkar-voters-seek-answer-stop-chariot-9099340/  January 8, 2024The video since has inspired villagers in different parts of the state, who have been either stopping the chariot from entering the village or bombarding officials with questions forcing the event to get wound up in few minutes. It is all being done without a banner of a political party.

Fearing protests, over eight Panchayat Samiti employees of Parbhani district on December 28 wrote to the district collector, highlighting that they have been getting phone calls from villagers asking them the reason behind writing “Modi Sarkar” on the chariot and questioning if they are “campaigning for Modi”. The employees had requested police protection from the collector during the yatra.

On being told that the yatra is meant to spread awareness about central government’s schemes, Rajvaibhav Shobha Ramchandra, a 30-year old Ambedkarite activist from Sonyachi Shiroli village asked, “If the schemes are from the government of India, then why is it that the chariot has ‘Modi government’s guarantee’ written on it?” “The Constitution says, ‘India, that is Bharat’. It could either be ‘Bharat Sarkar’ or ‘Government of India’. If a person is replacing country’s name, then it is the violation of constitutional principle of sovereignty. It is as good as a treason,” he said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUInbUwZ_mg सोलापूर जिल्ह्यातील बार्शी तालुक्यात विकसित भारत संकल्प यात्रेला विरोध पाहायला मिळाला. बार्शी तालुक्यातील बोरगाव झाडी गावात विकसित भारत संकल्प यात्रा परतून लावली. सुशिक्षित तरूणांनी केंद्र सरकारवर टीका करत विकसित भारत संकल्प यात्रेला विरोध दर्शवला. प्रमोद भोंग आणि हर्षवर्धन बोधले या युवकांनी विकसीत यात्रेच्या रथासमोरच भाषण करून सरकारवर टीका केली. रथ यात्रा अडवणाऱ्या तरूणांनी शेती प्रश्न, बेरोजगारी आणि मराठा आरक्षणाच्या मुद्द्यावर सरकारला सवाल केले.

चारशेचा गॅस हजारला? जनतेचा पैसा का उधळता?", तरुणाच्या प्रश्नांनी अधिकाऱ्याची झाली बोलती बंद https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNBVJUkGDto LOKMAT

In Solapur मोदींच्या रथ यात्रेला विरोध, बार्शीच्या सुशिक्षित तरूणांचा संताप | Maharashtra Times

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoTi8JIfAzc   Narendra Modi यांच्या संकल्प रथाला विरोध, साताऱ्यात गावकऱ्यांनी कार्यक्रम उधळला | Bjp साताऱ्यात केंद्र सरकारचा संकल्प रथ दाखल झाला होता. मोदींच्या संकल्प रथाला गावकऱ्यांनी विरोध केला. 

Mumbai Tak

साताऱ्यात केंद्र सरकारचा संकल्प रथ दाखल झाला होता. मोदींच्या संकल्प रथाला गावकऱ्यांनी विरोध केला. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TMx64L89Qk

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समंदर निहारते PM Modi के कभी छुट्टी नहीं लेने की कहानी ? अब तक मणिपुर क्यों नहीं गए ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dyxsHOwJgw Ajit Anjum

अदाणी-सेबी पर कोर्ट का फ़ैसला | SC verdict on Adani-Sebi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVzcC2cI_KA Ravish Kumar Officia  Has Adani Group got a clean chit from all the charges?Adani Group has been denying all the allegations from the beginning. But fresh questions are being raised in view of the Supreme Court's decision. The Hindu has written in its editorial that this decision saves SEBI. In this same newspaper, Prosenjit Bose raises many serious questions in his article. He says that the court has not given any clean chit to Adani.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL48bdNGpKw Ravish Kumar : अडानी पर कोर्ट का फैसला ,Today Breaking News HindiNews Podcast

जज न्याय नहीं फैसला सुना रहे हैं || अडानी के सामने भी झुक गए ? पत्रकार Raju Parulekar को सुनिए https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-29Q4flLaI Bolta Hindustan