Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

  Arrest Me or Erase Me — But Your Corporate Empire Cannot Silence Me: A Letter to Ajay Piramal Posted on 4th November, 2025 (GMT 03:17 hrs) ABSTRACT This satirical polemic addresses Ajay Piramal and the wider nexus of the BJP-led state and crony corporates (notably Adani-Ambani), charging them with using legal, political, and extra-legal means to silence dissent. Framed as two provocative requests, the author first volunteers to be arrested and prosecuted for “defamation” — demanding the spectacle of litigation as a public test of whether asking questions about the DHFL debacle is now a punishable offense. The letter catalogs named victims of legal harassment, violence, and suspicious deaths (journalists, RTI activists, and dissenting civil-society actors), criticizes SLAPP-style tactics attributed to corporate counsel (DSK Legal), and recalls Vijay Mallya’s critique of Indian prisons to underline the contested nature of incarceration. Second, in darker satirical mode, the au...

  Dear Mr. Ajay Piramal, I Wanna Be Arrested! Dear Mr. Ajay Piramal, I Wanna Be Arrested! Posted on 28/11/2023 (GMT 17: 33 hrs) Dear Mr. Piramal, In continuation to two of my  earlier letters⤡   ⤡  to you, I am presenting the following open letter with you (yet again) being my addressee. The legal documents (see  appendix ) show that I have allegedly done something that has hampered your business and “goodwill”. However, I, along with nearly 2 lakh NCD and FD Holders of the DHFL, have lost our hard-earned money due to your “excellent” performance in the bidding of the DHFL. We have suffered a lot for your “ vaisnava -like performance”, being a perfect disciple of  Radhanath Swami⤡   ⤡ . Therefore, I, as a defamator and contemptor, personally wish to be arrested and fined for 2000 rupees. However, I do not need the “hygienic, well-organized” system in the “reformatory” as earlier desired by Mr. Vijay Mallya: Indian jails over-crowded with poor hygi...