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Obituary of M. S. Swaminathan: The Proliferation of Death Industry

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  Obituary of M. S. Swaminathan: The Proliferation of Death Industry Obituary of M. S. Swaminathan: The Proliferation of Death Industry Posted on 17/02/2024 (GMT 09:05 hrs) Corpse, Corporeal… Hitler tried to start a business with the abandoned corpses collected from the concentration camps– the political economy of flesh turned into the fiscal auditing of deceased corporeal–a profitable business. It was heard that Jean Luc Godard wanted to make a film on this very business of the “raw material”: the “breathless” human corporeal, which were said to be utilized in manufacturing different ostentatious commodities for the free market. Godard told that in the case of filmmaking, the dictum is: “ Time is Money “. In the case of Hitler, the human corpse is a commodity: the money-signifier. Godard could not find a producer to make this violent (?) film. However, there was another plan in the minds of the business tycoons. They utilized the residual waste created due to the Second World War for

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY): A Deliberate Systematic Structural Failure?

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  Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY): A Deliberate Systematic Structural Failure? Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY): A Deliberate Systematic Structural Failure? Posted on 17/02/2024 (GMT 16:22 hrs) In 1985, the then Prime Minister of India, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi of the Indian National Congress (INC), remarked in a public speech that out of every 1 rupee spent by the government administration for the welfare or the benefit of the downtrodden or poor sections of the Indian society, only a fraction of fifteen paise actually reached the persons for whom it was actually intended. Why so? Quite obviously, the presence of Middleperson transactions explains this phenomenon. This was called the “trickle down effect”. Only 15 paise reaches the beneficiary VIEW HERE ⤡ Mr. Rahul Gandhi, the son of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and leader of INC, rejected this “trickle down economics” in 2014, saying that it is bound to failure: Rahul slams trickle-down theory VIEW HERE ⤡  (As reported on 13th April, 2014 ©Mint) It i