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Azadi, or Democratic Unfreedom? A Video Message from OBMA

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  Azadi, or Democratic Unfreedom? A Video Message from OBMA Posted on 15th August, 2026 (GMT 06:52 hrs) Spoken by Akhar, Co-founder, Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA) ABSTRACT 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 asking what genuine freedom might require: the Right to Reject, the Right to Recall, a partyless democracy, and an ecological politics rooted in Oikos — our shared home. VIDEO OVERVIEW From my teens to the present (2014–2026), what I have come to understand, as a citizen of India, is that azadi here amounts to nothing more than a democratic unfreedom. What I have witnessed is the negation of azadi: the throttling of fr...
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Encountering Pratijñābhaṅga: BJP’s Jumla Politics and the Hollow Piramal Promise

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  Encountering Pratijñābhaṅga: BJP’s Jumla Politics and the Hollow Piramal Promise The Sanātana Auto-Critique of the NDA Regime, 2013–2026 Posted on 16th August, 2026 (GMT 03:05 hrs) ABSTRACT 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 recoveri...
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