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Unveiling BJP’s Border Blunders: Naravane’s “Censored” Memoir

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  Unveiling BJP’s Border Blunders: Naravane’s “Censored” Memoir Posted on 11th February, 2026 (GMT 18:08 hrs) ABSTRACT The review examines the “unpublished” (?) book Four Stars of Destiny: An Autobiography by General M.M. Naravane (retd.), former Chief of the Indian Army (2019–2022), in comparative dialogue with three major critical interventions on contemporary Indian state power: the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, Rakesh Sharma’s Final Solution (2003), and Rana Ayyub’s Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover-Up. While differing in form—military memoir, investigative journalism, and documentary cinema—all four works converge in unsettling dominant state narratives through documented, insider or evidentiary accounts of crisis, violence, and political accountability. The review argues that the prolonged suppression of Naravane’s memoir through bureaucratic delay constitutes a form of de facto censorship analogous to the formal banning, blocking, or marginalization faced by the ...
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Pollute, Pay, and Profit: Post-Facto Penalties and the Crisis of Environmental Governance in India

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  Pollute, Pay, and Profit: Post-Facto Penalties and the Crisis of Environmental Governance in India Authored by  Ecotopians of Alternity (EOA)⤡  under the Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA) Platform ABSTRACT India’s environmental legal framework relies heavily on post-facto penalties—fines, compensation, and retrospective clearances—that fail to deter ecological crimes and often enable corporate violators to commodify the very resources they degrade in the first place. This article critiques the systemic flaws in post-facto approaches through case studies of Piramal Sarvajal (a CSR water purification venture following groundwater pollution in Digwal, Telangana) and Reliance’s Campa Cola revival under Isha Ambani Piramal (a beverage expansion exacerbating water scarcity). Linked by dynastic ties and philanthro-capitalist logic, these ventures illustrate how polluters repackage harm as opportunity, turning natural components like water into “Any Time Money” while eva...
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