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  The Aeroplane’s Gaze: Mountain, Market and Martyrs Posted on 23rd June, 2026 (GMT 07:15 hrs) DEBAPRASAD BANDYOPADHYAY ⤡ ABSTRACT In this climate horror narrative with a positional paper disrupting the narrative flow, the author weaves personal flights over a rapidly thawing Himalaya with a critique of the “Three Ms”—Mountaineering, Market, and Martyrs—to expose how post-1990 commercialization has transformed high-altitude climbing into a neoliberal experience economy that commodifies risk, normalizes preventable deaths, and externalizes massive ecological waste onto fragile ecosystems. Drawing on observed glacial retreat, shrinking snowlines, data from Everest expeditions (e.g., 2019’s 877 summits and 11 deaths; 2025 permit hikes and ongoing congestion), the Chhanda Gayen case study, and corporate sponsorship spectacles, the analysis reveals how market logic—sunk-cost pressures, sponsorship demands for novelty, and regulatory filters—produces economic fatalism and “regulatory mar...

  ব্রাত্য বঙ্গে সনাতনী ঘুসপেটিয়া Posted on 12th June, 2026 (GMT 07:45 hrs) আখর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ⤡ দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ⤡ DOI:   10.13140/RG.2.2.15343.39846 License: CC BY 4.0 LEGAL DISCLAIMER This article is an independent academic-activist work published under the open-access platform of Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA), onceinabluemoon2021.in. The views, analyses, interpretations, and arguments expressed herein are solely those of the named authors — Akhar Bandyopadhyay and Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay — and do not represent the position of any institution, editorial body, journal, university, or affiliated organisation with which the authors may be or have been associated. On the nature of the sources: This article draws exclusively upon textually archived primary historical sources — among them the Ṛgveda, the Aitareya Āraṇyaka, the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, the Baudhāyana Dharmasūtra, the Manusmṛti, the Parāśara Smṛti, the Mahābhārata (Karṇaparvan), the Rājataraṅgiṇī...