Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

  Open Press Release: An Urgent Appeal to India’s Non-Godi Media on Press Freedom, Censorship, and the DHFL Scam Posted on 24th August, 2025 (GMT 09:50 hrs) ABSTRACT The DHFL scam is not merely a financial fraud but a glaring testament to India’s descent into crony oligarchy, where state-corporate collusion, regulatory failure, and alleged judicial bias have enabled systemic looting of public wealth, leaving millions of ordinary citizens—senior citizens, employees, NRIs, and middle-class investors—silenced and dispossessed. Alongside IL&FS, PMC Bank, and Yes Bank, DHFL exemplifies a decade-long pattern of engineered bankruptcies that enrich tycoons like Adani, Ambani, and Piramal while gatekeepers—auditors, credit rating agencies, and celebrity endorsers—escape accountability. Victims face SLAPP suits, denied justice, and deliberate erasure from mainstream and even non-mainstream media narratives. We, the Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA), on behalf of the DHFL victims, ...