Posted on 30th March, 2025 (GMT 07:48 hrs)
ABSTRACT
This article outlines the mission and initiatives of Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA), a self-funded, non-profit organization established in 2021 to address systemic injustices in India’s financial and ecological ecosystems. OBMA focuses on two primary issues: the devastating financial ecosystem, exemplified by the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) scam, and the catastrophic natural ecosystem, emphasizing climate change and environmental degradation. Through non-violent civil disobedience inspired by Gandhian principles and the Occupy Wall Street movement, OBMA campaigns for justice for DHFL scam victims, who faced significant financial losses due to alleged corporate and political malfeasance. The organization employs academic activism, legal challenges, and digital campaigns to expose crony capitalism, regulatory failures, and environmental neglect. Guided by the Buddhist ethos of bahujana sukhaya, bahujanahitaya ca (“for the happiness and welfare of the many”), OBMA seeks to dismantle disciplinary boundaries, foster interdisciplinary praxis, and advocate for systemic reform to ensure accountability and equity
Are you curious about the broader projects and initiatives at Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)?
OBMA is active on the following social media platforms and web-platforms:
Email ID: onceinabluemoonacademia@gmail.com, contactus@onceinabluemoon2021.in
a) Websites for Publishing
WordPress: https://onceinabluemoon726729221.wordpress.com/
Wix: https://obmaacademia.wixsite.com/once-in-a-blue-moon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/obma2022/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/obma2022
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/onceinabluemoon2021
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1564691267737504
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13949066/
Youtube: https://youtube.com/@onceinabluemoonacademiaobm574
Blogspot: https://onceinabluemoon2021.blogspot.com/
Quora: https://debaprasadbandyopadhyaysspace.quora.com/
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@anekanta
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@debaprasadbandyopadhyay
Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/DebaprasadBandyopadhyay
b) Websites for Publicizing/Viralizing
Mouthshut: https://www.mouthshut.com/anekanta01/reviews
https://www.mouthshut.com/product-reviews/Piramal-Capital-Housing-Finance-reviews-926070251
Hellopeter: https://www.hellopeter.com/piramal-capital-and-housing-finance-limited
Pinterest: https://in.pinterest.com/oiabm2021/
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/user/61386126/Debaprasad-Bandyopadhyay
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/80230966@N06/
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/debaprasad
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Realistic_Ad7755
Telegram: https://t.me/+F8IAqLPkkKRlMzFl
Whatsapp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CfGxUDqrB5y7bprbDjJPkH
c) Websites for Academic Articles
Academia.edu: https://spbu.academia.edu/DEBAPRASADBANDYOPADHYAY
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Debaprasad-Bandyopadhyay
d) Petition Platforms
Change.Org: https://chng.it/d9cMzV6xV7
Campoal: https://campoal.com/peace/author/debaprasad105852625753454780106/
Go.Petition: https://www.gopetition.com/account/petitions
Avaaj: https://shorturl.at/1QYpY
OBMA encompasses the contemporary crises, fields, subject areas, and zones of activism related to the following issues:
- Ongoing Climate Crises – including anthropogenic glocal heating and the lack of coordinated, long-term grassroots climate action.
- The Catastrophic State of the World Political (Money Signifier-Based) Economy – (cf. Moneyless Society Movement, Occupy Wall Street).
- 2.1. The Rise of Far-Right Authoritarianism – fascism, religious fundamentalism, and market fundamentalism—fueling a form of pre-debt-or cannibalistic capitalism.
- The Crisis of Institutionalized Education – suggesting the need for alternatives through deschooling, unschooling, and the anti-university movements.
- The Rise of Pharma Companies – now the second-highest earners of profit—raising questions about manufactured illness, profit-driven medicine, and iatrogenesis.
- Caste-Class-Gender-Race/Ethnicity Issues – persistent and structurally embedded.
- The Lack of Disarmament – in a world driven by war-mongering power blocs, creating a sick/risk society.
Attuned to these objectives, OBMA as a generic movement has expanded or ‘branched out’ into the following platforms, pages, groups, and sub-movements:
I. CLIMATE ACTIVISM
Ecotopians of Alternity
II. FINANCE/POLITICAL ECONOMY
Seize Dalal Street
III. POLITICS
i. Partyless Society:
ii. Democratic (Un)Freedom:
iii. Bhagat Singh’s Socialist India:
IV. ANTI-ACADEMIOCRACY MOVEMENT
i. Nice School:
ii. Beyond University:
iii. Copyleft Writers’ Forum:
V. THE PURSUIT OF WIS(H)DOM (EPISTEMOLOGY)
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