Posted on 23/09/2023 (GMT 09:20 hrs) Updated on 23/09/2023 (GMT 18:30 hrs) We were surprised to view the following tweet by Paul Koshy: TWEET ⤡ One can see the PM’s blatant lie on the Chinese occupation : In countering the claim of The Hon’ PM,, Dhruv Rathee and Akash Banerjee, two anti-Godi Modia journalists, hadContinue reading “Is there any Discontent in the Indian Armed Forces?”
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.
Urging for a Free and Just Society: Web-based Social Movements (#OBMA_Talks -4)
Posted on 22/09/2023 (15:59 hrs) VIEW HERE: What is a Social Movement? A social movement can be defined as an agitational expression of collective behaviour. It targets some aspect or the whole of the social structure and the functioning of that structure through various institutionally-sanctioned norms, mores, customs, processes etc. The elements of a socialContinue reading “Urging for a Free and Just Society: Web-based Social Movements (#OBMA_Talks -4)”
OCCUPY INTERNET TO RESIST PIRAMAL’S ADVERSE POSSESSION OF DHFL
Posted on 14/09/2023 (GMT 17:00 hrs) Updated on 28/09/2023 (GMT 16:16 hrs) Dedicated to Mrinal Sen… Remembering the movie “Chorus” (1974): This movie is about the crumbling of the bureaucratic apparatus as part of the controlling strata/mediator of the surveillance society in the context of the capitalist economy by the mass mobilization of workers, farmersContinue reading “OCCUPY INTERNET TO RESIST PIRAMAL’S ADVERSE POSSESSION OF DHFL”
Immunization Against Plutocracy: Rajib Chowdhury’s Selected Artworks
Posted on 22/06/2023 (GMT 11:00 hrs) About Rajib Chowdhury Rajib Chowdhury is a Kolkata, West Bengal born practicing visual artist lives and works in Baroda, Gujarat. He completed his Bachelor’s in Painting from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata (1991 to 1996) and studied Printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda (1997Continue reading “Immunization Against Plutocracy: Rajib Chowdhury’s Selected Artworks”
The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Me: the Story of an Insignificant Indian
Posted on 10/06/2023 (GMT 10:30 hrs) ## PLACE: INDIA, A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION ⤡ DATE: xx/xx/2023 AUTHOR: A moribund intellectual of a decadent society ## As I flipped through the worn-out pages of Ghalib’s shayaris, I stumbled upon this particular piece: Alternative Translation of the Shayari: In the cage, telling me the events of the garden,Continue reading “The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Me: the Story of an Insignificant Indian”
Oh King, Are you Hearing Impaired? An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India
Posted on 26/05/2023 (GMT 2:00 hrs) Updated on 15/06/2023 (GMT 19.58 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 orContinue reading “Oh King, Are you Hearing Impaired? An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India”
Oh Thou His Highness, Keep Your Promise Please! (Video)
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. An appeal is made to the ruling party: they must utilize their astronomical assets for the victims of bankruptcies (viz. DHFL) by following their leader, Hon. PM’s enunciation.
HOPE OR NO HOPE: THE DHFL DISASTER
PODCAST Posted on 20/04/2023 (GMT 08:15 hrs) Updated on 17/09/2023 (GMT 07:24) 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… VIMEOContinue 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) Updated on 21/09/2023 (GMT 15:50 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 pointsContinue 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”
Once in a Blue Moon Academia 