Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

Ecology, Economics and Elections: The Night Before…   Ecology, Economics and Elections: The Night Before… Posted on 03/06/2024 (GMT 18: 47 hrs) Compiled by the   Partyless Society⤡  &  Occupy Dalal Street⤡ Only a few hours are left till the election results for the 2024 General Elections are to be declared. We, the OBMA activists cum authors, do not know, who will ascend the so-called “throne” of the so-called “Mother of Democracy”, which has been reduced to an electoral autocracy, a totalitarian nation-state. Given these conditions, the present article shall attempt to correlate three aspects of the arena of Indian democracy, viz., ecology, economics and the elections. A few days ago, many of the poll personnel or electoral officials along with common citizens died after suffering from massive heat strokes in the conditions of rising temperatures (their docile bodies were also suffering from the long-term impacts of the  COVID vaccination or the “death...

 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....