Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

 In Defence of the Ladakh Movement: A Faint Voice of Solidarity During the Ominous Hour of Climate Emergency In Defence of the Ladakh Movement: A Faint Voice of Solidarity During the Ominous Hour of Climate Emergency Posted on 28/03/2024 (GMT 18: 20 hrs) #ISupportLadakhClimateFast #ISupportSonamWangchuk Authored By  AKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY ⤡ “In the beginning GOD created the world. Waste and void. Waste and void. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. And when there were men, in their various ways, they struggled in torment towards GOD Blindly and vainly, for man is a vain thing, and man without GOD is a seed upon the wind: driven this way and that, and finding no place of lodgement and germination. They followed the light and the shadow, and the light led them forward to light and the shadow led them to darkness, Worshipping snakes or trees, worshipping devils rather than nothing: crying for life beyond life, for ecstasy not of the flesh. Waste and void. Waste and void....

 Sell-ebration of Turncoats: The BJP’s Laundry of Deceit Sell-ebration of Turncoats: The BJP’s Laundry of Deceit The Collusion Among the Business Tycoons, BJP and the “Underworld” Posted on 30/03/2024 (GMT 17:05 hrs) After the revelation of the   Flashnet Scam⤡ , where, in 2018, Mr. Ajay Piramal bought BJP Union Minister Mr. Piyush Goyal’s company at 1000 times its face-value (In percentage terms, the premium was nearly 100,000%!) and later sold it off within a few months, there is another big scam that has come to the fore: The Aviation scam as well as the PMC Bank Scam, perpetrated by Mr. Praful Patel, who belongs to that faction of the NCP (Ajit Pawar group), which is now part-and-parcel of the BJP-led NDA since July 2023. Though on 17 th  October, 2019, Mr. Piyush Goyal justifiably accused Mr. Patel of fraudulent transactions in collusion with the wife of underworld gangster late Iqbal Mirchi. Interestingly enough, in the beginning of that very same year,  C...

 A Sympathetic Note to the CBE Paramavaiṣṇava Ajay Piramal  A Sympathetic Note to the CBE Paramavaiṣṇava Posted on 26/03/2024 (GMT 09:10 hrs) Dear Paramavaiṣṇava Piramal ji, We are really shocked to hear that you have  donated 85 crores to the BJP by means of Electoral Bonds alone (though we don’t know your contribution to the BJP through shell companies)! ⤡   We fear that a great philanthropist like you (one who perfectly follows and embodies the path of  Karma Yoga  as revealed in the  bhagavad-gītā   despite the fact that business tycoons or  vaiśyas  are depicted as “ pāpayoni ” or of sinful birth in the very same text :  Cf. 9.32⤡ ) can rightfully commit such an act of political charity to the richest and the most honest Indian political party only for the altruistic reason, which is grossly misinterpreted by the envious opponents as “bribery”. The BJP’s grand motto of “ Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikaas ” within the cherished...