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  The Piramal Pratijñābhaṅga: The Itching Palm of “Conscious Capitalism”?! An Open Letter to Mr. Ajay Gopikisan Piramal ( Yes, Again! ) Posted on 20th August, 2026 (GMT 08:57 hrs) ABSTRACT This open letter to Ajay Piramal is a satirical indictment of Piramal as an agential structure of corporate power , wielding pratijñābhaṅga , dharma , and satyāgraha to expose the contradictions of “conscious capitalism,” the DHFL “resolution” (?), depositor dispossession, and the collusive architecture linking capital, State apparatus, and institutional power. Piramal is neither an isolated individual nor an aberration, but a particularly revealing node in India’s dynastic neo-capitalist order —the same oligarchic formation embodied, in their own equally consequential ways, by Adani and Ambani, the notorious twins of India’s corporate duopoly . DISCLAIMER: This letter addresses “Mr. Ajay Piramal” principally as a structure of corporate and financial power, not as a private individual divorced ...

  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...