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20/08/2026

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This open letter to Ajay Piramal is a satirical indictment of Piramal as an agential structure of corporate power, wielding pratijñābhaṅga, dharma, and satyāgraha to expose the contradictions of “conscious capitalism,” the DHFL “resolution” (?), depositor dispossession, and the collusive architecture linking capital, State apparatus, and institutional power. Piramal is neither an isolated individual nor an aberration, but a particularly revealing node in India’s dynastic neo-capitalist order—the same oligarchic formation embodied, in their own equally consequential ways, by Adani and Ambani, the notorious twins of India’s corporate duopoly.
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This open letter to Ajay Piramal is a satirical indictment of Piramal as an agential structure of corporate power, wielding pratijñābhaṅga, dharma, and satyāgraha to expose the contradictions of “c…

19/08/2026

'নব পর্যায় জিজ্ঞাসা'-য় আমন্ত্রিত, কারণ-না-দর্শিয়ে না-মনোনীত (?!) লেখা — "মঁসিয়ে ফুকোর খ্যামতার কলাপ আর আজকের প্রলাপ"। শিবনারায়ণ রায়ের আমলে এমন ঘটনা ঘটেনি কখনো।
What does a Roman anecdote about a sword and a horsehair have to teach us about power today? In "মঁসিয়ে ফুকোর খ্যামতার কলাপ আর আজকের প্রলাপ," The author takes the sword of Damocles as a diagram of Michel Foucault's dispositif — the apparatus through which power leaves the sovereign's face, descends, and lodges itself in the very bodies and minds of the governed. Reading anachronistically — from Foucault back through Deleuze–Guattari's rhizome to the Frankfurt School — the essay stages five apparently disconnected images (the suspended sword, the origin-less rhizome, the master's ghost, the Freudian slip of the tongue, the amygdala hijack) as so many entry-points into one question: how does power decentre itself, and can the governed turn the bayonet back around? A rigorous and satirically sharp bilingual (Bengali–English) contribution to critical theory, biopolitics, and the analysis of contemporary autocracy. Read → https://surl.li/zfucnw
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What happens when Foucault is read not as a doctrine but as a device that reads back? Beginning with the sword suspended supposedly above Damocles, this essay follows its displacement—from sovereig…

17/08/2026

This article argues that the political formation presenting itself as temporal guardian of Sanātana Dharma stands convicted, by that tradition’s own oath-jurisprudence, of serial pratijñā-bhaṅga (breach of the solemn word). Classical Indian thought treats the given word as a binding bond, its rupture punished both in the seen (dṛṣṭa: curse, fine, exile, infamy) and unseen (adṛṣṭa: loss of merit, hell). Reconstructing this jurisprudence from Vedic, epic, Nyāya and Dharmaśāstra sources, the paper applies it to two cases. Focus One: the Hollow Piramal Promise in the DHFL insolvency, where Piramal Capital publicly pledged fixed-deposit holders an extra 10% over the CoC plan yet delivered only 23.08% recovery (~77% haircut on ~₹5,375 crore), while assigning ~₹45,050 crore in alleged-fraud recoveries to the acquirer for one rupee. Focus Two: BJP’s jumla politics—the serial non-coherence of promises from ₹15 lakh and two crore jobs to Acche Din, Smart Cities, Housing for All and Viksit Bharat 2047. Method is compelled juxtaposition of promise against record; pseudology is treated as a discursive property, contested claims are marked, and the Piramal material is offered as opinion and fair comment on a matter of public interest. The finding is arthānupapatti—its Vedic name anṛta, the untruth opposite to the ṛta these guardians claim to protect.
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This article argues that the political formation presenting itself as temporal guardian of Sanātana Dharma stands convicted, by that tradition’s own oath-jurisprudence, of serial pratijñā-bhaṅga (b…

15/08/2026

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A debt-ridden economy cannot credibly claim to celebrate democratic freedom!
This video asks, from the standpoint of a young citizen, what “Azadi” (freedom) means in India today, and whether the formal existence of democracy can coexist with a lived condition of democratic unfreedom. Tracing the period from 2014 to 2026, it examines the erosion of civil liberties, institutional accountability, democratic participation, ecological security, and economic justice, before turning to a more fundamental question: what would genuine freedom require? The video proposes the Right to Reject, the Right to Recall, a partyless democracy, and an ecological politics rooted in Oikos — our shared home.
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What Does “Azadi” Mean Today?Azadi. Freedom. But what happens whe...

09/08/2026

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This citizens’ charge-sheet records Rajnath Singh’s institutional tenure as Home Minister (2014–2019) and Defence Minister (2019–present) through the state’s own certified contradictions: the intelligence and convoy-security collapse that killed forty CRPF personnel at Pulwama on his watch; the selective silence on lost patrolling access in Eastern Ladakh; the Pahalgam attack of 22 April 2025 and the retaliatory Operation Sindoor; the categorical parliamentary denial of any soldier losses on 28 July 2025, followed thirteen months later by the state’s compelled disclosure of six names chiseled onto the National War Memorial; the parallel refusal to admit aircraft attrition until the Chief of Defence Staff conceded it abroad; the conversion of the soldier into a four-year disposable contract under Agnipath; the political shielding of opacity around Rafale; and the quiet advance of dynasty inside a party that campaigns against it. Built exclusively from Hansard, the National War Memorial’s Roll of Honour, Ministry of Defence clarifications and on-record statements of constitutional functionaries, the pattern that emerges is voluntas celandi—the will to hide—operating at the very site of memory, semantic truncation that leaves dual realities permanently open, and the systematic manufacture of impunity upstream of every demand for accountability. The minimum grammar of ministerial responsibility therefore requires the holder of the chair to step down; because the institutional machine is constructed so that no minister of this regime need ever activate that grammar, the deeper structural demand remains the constitutional Right to Recall and the Right to Reject.
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This citizens’ charge-sheet records Rajnath Singh’s institutional tenure as Home Minister (2014–2019) and Defence Minister (2019–present) through the state’s own certified contradictions: the intel…

05/08/2026

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Nirmala Sitharaman RBI Says Supreme Court Of India Ministry of Finance Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Five Posters. One Question: Where is Justice for the DHFL Victims?

For more than six years, more than a lakh ordinary depositors have waited while institutions, procedures and legal processes have moved at their own pace. Behind every financial statistic lies a family, a lifetime of savings, and a promise that was broken.

This five-part poster series from OBMA raises five questions that continue to demand public attention:

1. Core DHFL Demand
Return the DHFL victims' money.

2. Regulatory Failure
What happens when watchdogs fail to protect those they were created to protect?

3. Insolvency & IBC
Can a legal framework that grants immunity while victims continue to wait truly deliver justice?

4. Victims' Voice
Depositors are not experiments. Life savings are not disposable.

5. The Accountability Question
Follow the money. Ask the questions. Demand answers.

This series is not a final verdict. It is a call for transparency, institutional accountability, and meaningful justice for those who continue to bear the consequences of the DHFL crisis.

It calls out the political regime run by the BJP (headed by the Mo-Shah gang) that has captured all the institutions, demeaned the Indian Constitution solely for the benefit of a few chosen corporate groups like that of Adani, Ambani and Piramal at the cost of the lives and securities of thousands and lakhs of innocent citizens.

Justice delayed remains justice denied.

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05/08/2026

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BAN THE RSS.

The saffron flag they worship as "irrefutable".
The khaki shorts they wore for ninety years — now swapped for full pants, same chauvinist ideology underneath.

These are not neutral symbols.
They mark ***an unregistered te*rro*rist organization*** that stayed outside the anti-imperialist freedom struggle while others fought and died.
They mark a project that has always put majoritarian-theocratic identity above the constitutional promise of “We, the People.”

Changing the shorts did not change the politics.
Raising the saffron flag still signals the same hierarchy: one culture and one religion over, above and against all others.

We do not salute that saffron flag, carrying the traces of Hi**er and Mussolini's regimes of terror.
We do not respect that uniform, carrying the trace of British Army Uniform.
We stand with the Republic that refuses both.

They stayed away when India fought the empire.
They bowed when others bled.
They trade in division while claiming the nation.

We choose the opposite:
Plurality over supremacy.
Secular democracy over communal-extremist poison.
“We, the People of India” over every force that tries to shrink that promise.

No more silence.
No more excuses.
The Constitution is not optional.

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05/08/2026

The streets remember what fascist power deliberately forgets.

From campuses to workplaces, from villages to cities, people are rising together to reclaim accountability, transparency and collective dignity.

Resign Modi–Shah.
Resign the Modi Cabinet.

We demand:
• Right to Reject
• Right to Recall
beyond the compromised electoral machinery.

In solidarity with all those who are resisting the Mo–Shah authoritarianism and defending the constitutional promise of "We, the People of India..."

The Republic belongs to its people—not to those who forcibly attempt to rule over it.

We stand in defence of the right to protest, the right to rebel, and the right to democratic dissent.

— Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

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03/08/2026

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This citizens’ charge-sheet documents twenty-one instances of foreclosed accountability, institutional failure and the systematic manufacture of impunity under Amit Shah as Union Home Minister — from the Gujarat encounter cases and the tadipaar externment, through surveillance, financial opacity, the architecture of control in Kashmir, CAA–NRC and electoral machinery, to security collapses in Manipur, Pahalgam and on the China border, culminating in the use of brutal and repressive force against unarmed students at Jantar Mantar. It demands his resignation and the democratic rights of recall and reject.
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This citizens’ charge-sheet documents twenty-one instances of foreclosed accountability, institutional failure and the systematic manufacture of impunity under Amit Shah as Union Home Minister — fr…