Posted on 26/05/2023 (GMT 2:00 hrs) Dearest Modiji, Hello, hello, hello, Dear Government, can’t you hear my cries? Hey, superrich ruling party, are you hearing impaired? Last 3 and half years, we, the DHFL Victims⤡ are suffering from different psychosomatic disorders—do you know that? Oh, I do not expect knowledge or wisdom from you as you areContinue reading “Oh King, Are you Hearing Impaired? An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India”
Category Archives: Art of Resistance
Following the dictum “Cultural revolution must precede political revolution”, we are striving to create the scope for an alternative cultural space, which can offer resistance to all forms of coercion, and can also serve as a medium for conducting non-violent, horizontal dialogical exchanges.
Oh Thou His Highness, Keep Your Promise Please! (Video)
Posted on 02/05/2023 (GMT 18:39 hrs) This compilation of videos is an attempt to perform an act of subversion by pointing out the uncontradictory contradictions/aporia in the ruling party’s discursive formations by correlating them with their adjoining performance. There is a heaven and hell difference between what they speak and what they do in reality.Continue reading “Oh Thou His Highness, Keep Your Promise Please! (Video)”
HOPE OR NO HOPE: THE DHFL DISASTER
PODCAST Posted on 20/04/2023 (GMT 08:15 hrs) The optimist and the pessimist– both of them are victims of financial abuse caused by huge haircut as prescribed by the resolution plan presented by Mr. Ajay Piramal in the case of the DHFL Scam. Let’s hear their conversation on this issue… VIMEO LINK FOR THE PODCAST: VIEWContinue reading “HOPE OR NO HOPE: THE DHFL DISASTER”
India (2014-23): Mass Media, Censorship and the DHFL Scam
Posted on 09/04/2023 (GMT 07:25 hrs) The following video collage is focused on the recent #internet_ban (only in India) suffered by Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA) while resisting the Piramal CHFL aka Piramal Finance’s forced acquisition of the DHFL with the ruling party’s alleged aid. It points to the pan-Indian scenario where theContinue reading “India (2014-23): Mass Media, Censorship and the DHFL Scam”
A Conversation between a Pessimist and an Optimist on the DHFL Scam
Posted on 06/04/2023 (GMT o4:20 hrs) The optimist (O) and the pessimist (P)– both of them are victims of financial abuse caused by huge haircut as prescribed by the resolution plan presented by Mr. Ajay Piramal in the case of the DHFL Scam. Let’s hear their conversation on this issue. P: We will never getContinue reading “A Conversation between a Pessimist and an Optimist on the DHFL Scam”
Mritkaal (Hindi)
Posted on 23/03/2023 (IST 21:25 hrs) Translated version of English agitprop Mritkaal (The Era of Pharmakon) Translated by: Atreyee Dutta Roy A skit/Agitprop Dedicated to the DHFL victims Naatkiye paatr Ek auraat: Ek bharatiya sena ke shaheed ki muslim vidva aur DHFL ghotaley ki shikaar. Chaddi: Sattaroodh Bhagwa Party/Hindutvavadin ke sadasye ya karyakarta. Liberandu: EkContinue reading “Mritkaal (Hindi)”
Topsy-Turvy Indian Governmentality: The Curious Case of the DHFL Scam
Posted on 12/03/2023 (IST 23:58 hrs) Updated on 18/03/2023 (IST 12:40 hrs) Here are some posters on the DHFL scam that throw light on its ambiguities, ambivalences, contradictions, irregularities, illegalities, void spaces and above all, the tale of politically motivated transformation of an ongoing, solvent, profitable company to an insolvent, bankrupt company. Though the formerContinue reading “Topsy-Turvy Indian Governmentality: The Curious Case of the DHFL Scam”
DO WE NEED A ROBIN HOOD TO ENRICH THE INDIAN HAVE-NOTS?
Posted on 09/03/2023 One fine morning, an idea came into our minds that the loots of Indian wealth can be stopped by following a peculiar “Robin Hood approach” (henceforth RHA). Before revealing the RHA, we have to point out the money-laundering cases by the fugitives, the burden of external plus internal debt, political donations, terror-fundingContinue reading “DO WE NEED A ROBIN HOOD TO ENRICH THE INDIAN HAVE-NOTS?”
Mritkaal
(The Era of Pharmakon) A Skit/Agitprop Dedicated to the DHFL Victims Posted on 05/03/2023 Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay ⤡ Akhar Bandyopadhyay ⤡ Dramatis Personae A Lady: a Muslim widow of an Indian army martyr and a victim of the DHFL scam Chaddi: a member or karyakarta of the ruling Saffron Party/Hindutvavadin The Man: a non-partisan political activistContinue reading “Mritkaal”
Saffron Censorship vs The Dissenting Lyre
Posted on 26/02/2023 This video collage puts together the reel and the real, fact and fiction: combining together the persecution of the anti-establishment singer Charandas from the film “The Kingdom of Diamonds” (1980; Dir: Satyajit Ray) and the recent uproar regarding the Bhojpuri singer Neha Singh Rathore due to her straightforward anti-fascist stance in theContinue reading “Saffron Censorship vs The Dissenting Lyre”
Once in a Blue Moon Academia 