Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

INDIA WOUNDED: A BIRD’S EYE VIEW   Compiled By Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay “If thou cannot save me, why unfurl such deafening arrangements then?” I. CRISES The following statistics (if statistical data are to be believed! According my personal experience,  Sahibs  oftenallege that this country for  poor data quality  despite this country has celebrated institutes, viz., Indian Statistical Institute, National Sample Survey etc. Cf.  (a)   Data deficit and India’s peripheral States ;  (b)   Why India lacks quality in its demographic and health data? ) of India (Population: 135.26 Crores and still counting, July, 2020) speaks for itself about the condition of the country. It has worsened during the catastrophic situation due to COVID-19 outbreak: Hunger Index:  rank 102 out of 117 qualifying countries (2019) Unemployment rate:  8.74% of the population (2020) GDP growth rate:  1.9% post-lockdown (2020), following global recession. GDP per capita rank 42nd (nominal; 2020) 124th (PPP; 2020) Acc

An Open Letter To Mr. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar concerning DHFL FD Holders   The responsibility of writing such letter will be borne by the signatory, i.e., Dr. Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay—none other than he is to be held responsible for such letter (I am saying so as many of his friends are extremely scared and suffering from persecutory paranoia). It is an appeal for peaceful co-existence without atrocities. He is indebted to them, who oppose this letter by branding it as “anti-national” and “seditious”. He has conveyed his deep regards to them. Long live international equality, liberty and fraternity. According to the author of this letter, Indian economy has both the  de jure  and  de facto  domains: legal financial activities as well as shadow activities. Please note that DHFL scam is also associated with late Iqbal Mirchi, one of the associates of Mr. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar. Dedicated to Dr. Kafeel Khan, Varavara Rao and other “Anti-national Urban Naxals “ Dear Mr. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar,

  An Appeal to Dr. Mohan Bhagwat from FD Holders of DHFL (16/10/2020) To Dr. Mohan Bhagwat Sarsanghchalak, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Dr. Hedgewar Bhawan, Sangh Bldg Rd, Mahal, Nagpur, Maharashtra 440032 पिता नोहसी पिता नो बोधि नमस्तेहस्तु मा मा हिंसी: । Respected Dr. Bhagwat, We, all the FD holders as well as our relatives and friends, earnestly request you to help us recover the hard-earned money invested at the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) in the form of Fixed Deposits at the time of COVID-19 pandemic. As you know well that this shadow bank is undergoing a moratorium since it was referred to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Court in December, 2019. DHFL is now under the apt guidance of the RBI and our money is stuck due to various complex legal issues and bureaucratic niceties. We have invested here in FDs depending on the AAA-rating of the company as we are totally illiterate and ignorant about other forms of investments. Moreover, we have followed the footsteps o

WHITHER EXTINGUISHED DHFL FD HOLDERS? AN APPEAL TO THE GANDHI-NEHRU PARIVAR   “…the crisis of capitalism (…) essentially (…) is due to the ill distribution of the world’s wealth; to its concentration in a few hands. And the disease seems to be of the essence of capitalism and grows with it till it eats and destroys the very system which created it. “Whither India? Surely to the great human goal of social and economic equality, to the ending of all exploitation of nation by nation and class by class, to national freedom within the framework of an international cooperative socialist world federation.” —   Whither India?  (1 933) , Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Dear Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, Mr. Rahul Gandhi and Mrs. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, I am really  ashamed  to share this image of the Laughing Buddha with you, where two antithetical and paradoxical items: Buddha (the enlightened one) and Money are put together. They are incompatible—incommensurable as well. This type of representation makes me remembe