[Goanet] In India, the voters have spoken. They do not want autocracy.

2024-06-07 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"The key outcome of the balloting is that Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party will not become the sole power center in India for the next five years, as Mr. Modi had hoped and predicted. Mr. Modi and the BJP will lack a free hand for further repression of civil society, imprisonment of the

[Goanet] India Keeps Its Glorious, Messy Tradition Alive

2024-06-07 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"The ever unpredictable electorate of the world’s largest democracy responded to Modi’s demand for still more power resolutely: No thanks." >"It struck me as particularly apt that despite all the fanfare about the glorious new temple in Ayodhya, Modi’s party lost the city’s parliamentary seat

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Yogendra Yadav, political analyst and founder Swaraj Abhiyan --"Lok Sabha Results : PM Modi का तीसरा कार्यकाल, Rahul Gandhi की नई छवि, Yogendra Yadav की नज़र में.

2024-06-07 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
THIS ANALYSIS IS PERHAPS WORTH YOUR VIEWING. THANK YOU. By: Rupa Jha, Editorial leather, BBC Hindi Published in: *BBC News Hindi* Date: June 7, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FORgU1Pps98 *Note*: This interview is in Hindi and there is no transcript. "लोकसभा चुनाव 2024 के नतीजे आ

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Parakala Prabhakar, the economist, author and political commentator, Parakala Prabhakar, who is also Finance Minister's husband--Results “A Very Clear Tight Slap on PM’s

2024-06-06 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: June 6, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNnAQbv7FJg "In an interview to discuss the election results the economist, author and political commentator, Parakala Prabhakar, who is also Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s husband, has

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, biographer and journalist - "Can Old Mr Modi Become New Mr Modi? His Biographer Thinks Not."

2024-06-05 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: June 5, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFdEORJpQoU *Note:* The interview is in English and the transcript is embedded in the source. "In an interview with his biographer to discuss whether Narendra Modi will be temperamentally and

[Goanet] India’s early election results point to rebuke for Modi and his party

2024-06-04 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"In the end, it was voters in the devout Hindu heartland, the BJP stronghold that propelled Modi to victory in 2014 and 2019, who appeared to be pulling back their support. >"Such a result [BJP might not single-handedly secure the 272 seats needed in the 543-member Lok Sabha lower house, as it

[Goanet] Fear and Hope post the Fourth of June

2024-06-04 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Satya Sagar Published in: *Countercurrents.org* Date: June 2, 2024 Source: https://countercurrents.org/2024/06/fear-and-hope-post-the-fourth-of-june/ For weeks now, everyone and his uncle in India has been speculating about the outcome of the country’s general elections, hunting for clues on

[Goanet] Watch interview: With Yogendra Yadav, political analyst - "Could Exit Polls Be a Smokescreen To Conceal Something, . . .

2024-06-03 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta, Political Affairs Editor Published in: *The Wire* Date: June 4, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4FAKxuSrvE *Note:* The transcript is embedded in the source and the interview is in English "The political scientist Yogendra Yadav speaks about a number

[Goanet] Union Home Minister calling 150 District Magistrates directly- Does it not amount to a corrupt practice?

2024-06-02 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
From: E A S Sarma Former Secretary to the Government of India To Shri Rajiv Kumar Chief Election Commissioner Shri Gyanesh Kumar Election Commissioner Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu Election Commissioner Dear Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, S/Shri Gyanesh Kumar/ Rajiv Kumar, I understand that the Congress

[Goanet] Watch: 'Democracy Survives Only Because People Believe In It': Prabir Purkayastha

2024-06-01 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Published in: *The Wire* Date: June 1, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgk7w0-i6pQ "In an event organised by the Press Club of India on 30th May, fresh out of jail Newsclick founder Prabir Purkayastha spoke on curtailment of the ‘Freedom of Expression in Today’s India’ along with

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Shravan Garg, journalist and political analyst- 2024 Election- How politics will change after 4th June? Will nation see a new Modi? | INDIA ALLIANCE

2024-05-29 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
"There are doubts about Modi's democratic credentials. As a result the democratic transfer of power in India is in doubt? A question which has never risen earlier with regard to India." By: Ashutosh, Co-founder, Satya Hindi Published in: *Satya Hindi* Date: May 29, 2024 Source:

[Goanet] Watch Interviews: With various intellectuals of Varanasi- "A Political Evening on Ganga Ghat in Varanasi with Arfa Khanum Sherwani: Will INDIA Gain In UP?"

2024-05-28 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Senior Editor and Journalist Published in: *The Wire* Date: May 28, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-n2O6DRVIc *Note:* This interview is in Hindi and the transcript is embedded in the source. "As the Lok Sabha elections enter the seventh phase, all eyes

[Goanet] I’m an Indian Muslim, and I’m Scared to Say So

2024-05-26 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"I used to answer the phone with 'Salam.' Not anymore. I don’t want people to know I’m a Muslim." >"In the India of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, you can’t take any chances." >"Many Indian Muslims fought against British colonization, and millions rejected the 1947 partition of the country into

[Goanet] Watch: Ground Report by Sheetal P. Singh, Journalist, "Sixth phase polling. Live from UP | LOK SABHA ELECTION 2024 |"

2024-05-25 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
THIS IS PERHAPS WORTH YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. "IN EVERY SEAT IN THIS PART OF UP, BJP'S OWN CADRES ARE ACTIVELY DEFEATING THEIR OWN CANDIDATES." WHY? LISTEN, PLEASE. By: Dr. Mukhesh Kumar Published in: *Satya Hindi* Date: May 25, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV9EZFrWvgk *Note:* This

[Goanet] Watch: जा रही है मोदी सरकार -राहुल हैं असली दावेदार | Laxmi Shankar Bajpai on Loksabha Election |#dblive

2024-05-24 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Trans.: "Modi government is leaving - Rahul is the real contender" By: Atul Sinha Published in: *DB Live* Date: May 17, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUfnl5movQA *Note:* This interview is in Hindi and the transcript is embedded in the source. "Laxmi Shankar Bajpai is a poet,

[Goanet] Watch Interviews: With Anjali Bhardwaj, Sushmita Dev and Nalini Singh -Half the Sky: What Women Bring to Politics is Invaluable

2024-05-20 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Kapil Sibal, Sr. Advocate, Supreme Court of India Published in: *Dil se* with Kapil Sibal Date: May 20, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqXEalfyYPE *Note*: This interview is in Hindi and the transcript is embedded in the source "In a discussion with host Kapil Sibal on

[Goanet] Strangers in Their Own Land: Being Muslim in Modi’s India

2024-05-19 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
*LONG READ* >"It is a lonely feeling to know that your country’s leaders do not want you. To be vilified because you are a Muslim in what is now a largely Hindu-first India." >"It colors everything. Friends, dear for decades, change. Neighbors hold back from neighborly gestures — no longer

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Alishan Jari, an independent journalist and an aspiring documentary filmmaker--What's It Like to be Muslim in Modi's India? To Be Called an ‘infiltrator’ in your own hom

2024-05-16 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: May 14, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHR8pMCGPDg "At a time when the Prime Minister has called Muslims 'infiltrators' and people who have more children than the rest of us, the independent journalist and an aspiring documentary

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Parakala Prabhakar, Finance Minister's husband, the author and economist-- BJP Will Get 200-220 Seats, NDA Below 272; Dictators End Badly

2024-05-15 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: May, 15, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ6J3-j5xiA *Note:* The transcript is embedded in the source "The respected author, economist and commentator Parakala Prabhakar, who is also Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s husband, has

[Goanet] Bhima Koregaon: Gautam Navlakha gets bail as Supreme Court lifts stay on Bombay High Court order

2024-05-14 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
*>"'We are inclined to not extend the stay as High Court order is detailed in granting bail. Trial would take years and years and years for completion. Without going at length into contentions, we will not extend the stay,' *the Court said." >"Navlakha, who is a human rights activist and the

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Dr. Jairam Ramesh, Congress MP, and head of its Communications department- History Tells Us that India’s Future is Best Secured by Embracing Its Many Diversities

2024-05-14 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Kapil Sibal, Sr. Advocate, Supreme Court of India Published in: *The Wire* Date: May 14, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bkgjUcTPro *Note:* This interview is in Hindi and transcript is embedded in the source. "Jairam Ramesh, Congress MP and head of its Communications department

[Goanet] Watch: Q: What do India's elections mean for coal communities and climate change? (Long Read)

2024-05-13 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Aruna Chandrashekar Date: May 13, 2024 Published in: *Carbon Brief* Source: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/india-coal-mines/ "As prime minister of India for the past decade, Narendra Modi has overseen a rapid expansion of the country’s coal-mining and coal-fired power generation. That

[Goanet] Watch: Q: What do India's elections mean for coal communities and climate change? (Long Read)

2024-05-13 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Aruna Chandrashekar Date: May 13, 2024 at 10:47 PM Published in: *Carbon Brief* Source: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/india-coal-mines/ "As prime minister of India for the past decade, Narendra Modi has overseen a rapid expansion of the country’s coal-mining and coal-fired power

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Derek O'Brien, Member of Parliament, TMC, Rajya Sabha-Interview to Kapil Sibal (Dil se with Kapil Sibal)

2024-05-13 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Kapil Sibal, Sr. Advocate, Supreme Court of India Published in: *Dil Se with Kapil Sibal* Date: May 12, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tn1im5Uvko *Note:* The transcript is embedded in the source. "Why Opposition MP Derek O'Brien wears a Tee Shirt says 'BJP Vs Democracy.'"

[Goanet] Watch: राहुल गांधी: सामाजिक न्याय के नए प्रवक्ता | Rahul Gandhi's Nyay

2024-05-12 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Trans.: Rahul Gandhi: New spokesperson for social justice PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO WATCH THIS VIDEO MAY SEE THAT TIMES THEY ARE CHANGIN' AND FAST. By: Ravish Kumar Published in: *Ravish Kumar Official* Date: May 12, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM8q0x1wsEw *Note:* This video is in

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Sunanda Datta-Ray, former Editor, The Statesman--Modi ‘An Unashamed Showman', has 'Frog in a Well' Attitude to World, Considers Muslims ‘Outsiders'

2024-05-11 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Date: May 11, 2024 Published in: *The Wire* Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaqEX-OVDt0 *Note*: The transcript is embedded in the source "In an interview to discuss and analyze the often bizarre and inexplicable things said by Prime Minister Modi in his election

[Goanet] WHY: Australia Advised its MPs & Ministers to Carry BURNER PHONE While Travelling to India

2024-05-10 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
MUST LISTEN & SHARE. THANK YOU. By: Dinesh K. Vohra Published in: Dinesh K. Vohra Show Date: May 10, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULFBlQFlWuM *Note:* This news report is in Hindi and the transcript is embedded in the source. "WHY: Australia Advised its MPs & Ministers to carry

[Goanet] Listen to the interview: With Shravan Garg, journalist and former Group Editor, Dainik Bhaskar-Who After Modi in BJP? Why Australian paper asked this question during election? | AMIT SHAH

2024-05-10 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Ashutosh Published in: *Satya Hindi* Date: May 10, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPdL7OfUiRs *Note:* This interview is in Hindi and the transcript is embedded in the source. "मोदी के बाद कौन होगा ? ये सवाल बीजेपी के एक नेता से आस्ट्रेलिया के अख़बार क्यों पूछा कि मोदी के बाद

[Goanet] Listen to: Interview with Mujib Mashal, South Asia bureau chief for The Times - "One Strongman, One Billion Voters, and the Future of India"

2024-05-09 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Hosted by: Sabrina Tavernise Published in: *The New York Times* Date: May 9, 2024 Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/podcasts/the-daily/india-election-modi.html?action=click=audio-series-bar=header=Article "India is in the midst of a national election and its prime minister, Narendra

[Goanet] Watch Interviews: Election Commission Will Be Judged by How it Deals With Ruling Party, Not Opposition

2024-05-09 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Kapil Sibal, Sr. Advocate, Supreme Court of India Published in: *The Wire* Date: May 9, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KajX-MlvO6o *Note:* The transcript is embedded in the source. "In #CentralHall this time, [we discuss] the threats to Election Commission of India's credibility

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Prof. Ravikant, Academic and Political Analyst- This issue will bring BJP further down | LOKSABHA ELECTION 2024 | AKHILESH YADAV

2024-05-08 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Sharat Pradhan, Journalist Published in: *Satya Hindi* Date: April 8, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JizIeyblwuQ *Note*: The interview is in Hindi and the transcript is embedded in the source. "पिछले दिनों कन्नौज में जो हुआ वह भारतीय जनता पार्टी की पिछड़ा-विरोधी और सामंती

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Shravan Garg, former Group Editor, Dainik Bhaskar, भाजपा की ऐसी बुरी हालत,मोदी और शाह से नहीं संभल रहा ॥ Election 2024 ॥ Modi

2024-05-05 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Trans.: "BJP is in such a bad condition, Modi and Shah are not able to handle it. Election 2024॥ Modi" By: Sanjay Sharma, Editor 4PM Published in: *4PM* Date: May 5, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKLN6K_58Sw *Note*: This interview is in Hindi and the transcript is embedded in the

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Shyam Rangeela, Comedian--"मोदी जी को उन्ही की भाषा में जवाब देने वाराणसी जा रहा हूँ" | श्याम रंगीला V/S नरेंद्र मोदी

2024-05-03 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Trans.: "'I am going to Varanasi to answer Modiji in his own language.' Shyam Rangeela V/S Narendra Modi." ELECT A CLOWN EXPECT NOT A CIRCUS, BUT CHAOS AND PERHAPS CATASTROPHE ! By: Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Sr. Editor Published in: *The Wire* Date: May 3, 2024 Source:

[Goanet] The Hasdeo movement is a model of resistance’: Alok Shukla

2024-05-02 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"His [Alok Shukla's] 'Save Hasdeo Aranya Resistance Committee', which mobilised Adivasi communities from across the State, has saved 4,45,000 acres of forests from no less than 21 proposed coal mines. The Hasdeo is home to 15,000 Adivasi people, who depend on forest produce and the Hasdeo river

[Goanet] In Goa, a glaring disconnect between people’s concerns and political narrative

2024-05-01 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Source: https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/goa-politics-bjp-congress-lok-sabha-2024/article68093562.ece frontline.thehindu.com In Goa, a glaring disconnect between people’s concerns and

[Goanet] Chunk of India’s forests ‘missing’ after 27-year-delay to file reports

2024-04-30 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"In compliance with a February 19, 2024, Supreme Court order, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) uploaded the various State Expert Committee

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Dushyant Dave, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India--PM “clearly breached” MCC & “undoubtedly violated” RPA whilst ECI response “insult to constitution”

2024-04-30 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 29, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09bCzbd1u54 "Modi [has] "very clearly and categorically' breached Model Code of Conduct and 'undoubtedly violated' Representation of People Act; Election Commission has 'abdicated its solemn

[Goanet] Watch video: Alok Shukla, 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize, India

2024-04-29 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Published in: Goldman Environmental Prize Date: April 29, 2024 Source: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGxStwKVwDKDSrpvrKvgGvqQbSL?compose=CllgCJZbjcSwwsVzdmmHsFwWbhlPNRSrJxlCtrKGZhcnwFsGtdrqmnfnkGmzLklvptCzzbftfvq=1 Note: The transcript is embedded in the source "Alok Shukla led a

[Goanet] From Chai to Pani Puri. The times they are a changin'

2024-04-27 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
"Meet The Pani Puri Seller Who Looks Like PM Narendra Modi" Published in: *Nandighosha TV* Date: April 27, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1hATnnlPzM

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Shravan Garg, Former Group Editor, Dainik Bhaskar-"What does second-round polling indicate?" | BJP | INDIA ALLIANCE | LOK SABHA ELECTION 2024

2024-04-26 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
THIS IS PERHAPS WORTH YOUR TIME. IF SO, PLEASE SHARE. THANK YOU. By: Prof. Mukesh Kumar Published in:* Satya Hindi* Date: April 26, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAoXqgxZ9aY *Note:* This interview is in Hindi, there is no transcript. "दूसरे चरण का मतदान क्या कहता है? क्या कम मतदान

[Goanet] Maharashtra officials told to pay activist Rs 2 lakh for blocking letter from jail to mother

2024-04-26 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"The Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission has asked the state government and the superintendent of the Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai to pay compensation of Rs 2 lakh to activist Arun Ferreira

[Goanet] Australian journalist says Indian government pressured her to leave

2024-04-24 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
> "An Australian journalist with the country’s public broadcaster was pressured to leave India after Indian authorities expressed anger over her reporting on Sikh separatism and informed her that her journalist visa would not be renewed, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the journalist,

[Goanet] Watch: Ab Ki Baar - No 400 Paar?? | Supreme Leader's Meltdown | Akash Banerjee

2024-04-24 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
PLEASE WATCH & SHARE. THANK YOU. SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME? By: Abhishek Banerjee Published in: *The Deshbhakt* Date: April 24, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiECG7BOdiU "Supreme Leader is pissed - reports are showing that 400 Parr is not happening! Supreme Leader's long standing

[Goanet] Watch Interview: "With If You're Too Good & Independent, You're Out": Justice Rohinton Nariman On Justice Akil Kureshi

2024-04-24 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Rohinton Nariman, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India Published in: *LiveLaw* Date: April 24, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qbMCkdSjQ4 *Note:* Transcript is embedded in the source "Speaking on the appointment of judges, former Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Rohinton

[Goanet] Watch Interviews: "I am an Indian Citizen. No Matter My Faith, Caste, Region or the Food I Eat"

2024-04-23 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Kapil Sibal, Sr. Advocate, Supreme Court of India Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 23, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qosEDyLHsDo *Note:* The transcript is embedded in the source "In #CentralHall, senior advocate Kapil Sibal explores the question of one identity at the heart

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Alpa Shah, Professor of Anthropology, LSE & Oxford--“Modi’s India is a Modern Fascism”

2024-04-19 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 19, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_tIRYyiNQ *Note:* The transcript is embedded in the source. "We need to call Modi's India a modern Indian fascism": Alpa Shah, Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford University, to Karan

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Yogendra Yadav - The Missing Modi Wave as Livelihood Issues Dominate | MK Venu

2024-04-19 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: M.K. Venu Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 19, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4toVAUxZDJA *Note*: The transcript is embedded in the source. "National convenor of the Bharat Jodo Abhiyan Yogendra Yadav, who is on a 1,500-km tour of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Bihar,

[Goanet] Minister ‘called for tea’, read headlines with ‘sarcasm’: NYT journo recalls her time in India

2024-04-19 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
MUST WATCH. THANK YOU. >“'To be clear,' she [Emily Schmall was the Delhi-based South Asia correspondent for *The New York Times*] said, 'journalism is under threat in India.'” >"She [Schmall] recalled India’s 'antagonistic' climate, saying foreign correspondents find themselves being 'targets of

[Goanet] Archbishop of Goa urges to skip pilgrimage, vote for candidates with 'secular' credentials

2024-04-18 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"The Church's obligation to participate in nation-building and in shaping the moral character of society is a requirement of our faith, it is an all-important part of the mission we have received from Jesus Christ. It is in this spirit that all eligible Catholic voters need to exercise their

[Goanet] PM's Interview To ANI News Channel Prima Facie Violates The Model Code Of Conduct

2024-04-16 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Source: https://countercurrents.org/2024/04/pms-interview-to-ani-news-channel-prima-facie-violates-the-model-code-of-conduct/ PM’s interview to ANI news channel prima facie violates the Model Code of Conduct by E A S Sarma 16/04/2024 -- by Jagdeep S. Chhokar & E A S

[Goanet] Watch Interviews: With Ashok Lavasa, S.Y. Qureshi and Maj. Gen. Anil Verma ADR--Is it Right to Put the Election Commission in the Dock? #CentralHall

2024-04-16 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Kapil Sibal, Sr. Advocate, Supreme Court of India Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 16, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhelBaWK88o "The Constitution mandates the Election Commission (EC) to conduct free and fair elections in India, the backbone of India’s democracy. But how

[Goanet] Fwd: When Did Inter-religious Weddings Become Communal Conspiracies In Kerala?

2024-04-15 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"They ['most Christian denominations'] do reflect an unacceptable and toxic mix of orthodoxy with a dose of patriarchy and racism in the guise of tradition and culture. But not communalism, or religious targeting." >"The church hierarchy needs to be questioned on how it zeroes down on an issue

[Goanet] When Did Inter-religious Weddings Become Communal Conspiracies In Kerala?

2024-04-15 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"They ['most Christian denominations'] do reflect an unacceptable and toxic mix of orthodoxy with a dose of patriarchy and racism in the guise of tradition and culture. But not communalism, or religious targeting." >"The church hierarchy needs to be questioned on how it zeroes down on an issue

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With K.M. Chandrasekhar, former cabinet secretary - "Modi guilty of impropriety, telling bureaucrats to make post-election roadmap is undemocratic, wrong "

2024-04-15 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 15, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaulTI5BwcM *Note:* The transcript is embedded in the source "In an interview to comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s order to senior civil servants to prepare a roadmap for the first 100

[Goanet] 'Unchristian Act': Concerned Catholics Slam Idukki Diocese Over Screening of 'The Kerala Story' A poster for 'The Kerala Story'.

2024-04-13 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"In a statement issued, the group of Catholics said the decision by the Church authorities to screen the film is 'deeply concerning because it actively sows seeds of hatred, intolerance and prejudice, among children, instead of promoting peace, compassion, and acceptance, which are the core

[Goanet] Open Letter To President Of India: Take Control Of Election Commission And Other Regulatory Bodies

2024-04-13 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
PLEASE READ & SHARE. THANK YOU. >"An Election Commission that considers itself subservient to the political executive cannot conduct elections in an apolitical manner." >"With almost all institutions brought to near-total submission, with almost every regulatory authority rendered subservient

[Goanet] The Kerala story, Manipur documentary, church factions & BJP's strategy in its most distant state

2024-04-13 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief Published in: *The Print* Date: April 12, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDsAMPbFS7w "Amid Kerala's multi-party, multi-faith politics, BJP is trying to ground its image as the number 2 party and weaken the Congress led UDF. In Episode 1431 of Cut

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Parakala Prabhakar, economist - "Of Course Modi’s a Dictator & His Return Would be a Disaster”: Finance Minister’s Husband

2024-04-12 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
A MUST WATCH & SHARE. THANK YOU. By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 12, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLy3YOJeogA "Of course, Modi's a dictator; he's dragging India back to the dark ages; his return to power would be a disaster for India": Finance Minister

[Goanet] Israel’s Spy-Tech Industry Is a Global Threat to Democracy

2024-04-11 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"Israel’s surveillance industry is one of the most advanced and prolific in the world. A unique environment of legal enablement, partnerships between private firms and the Israeli military, and the availability of Palestinians as free test subjects

[Goanet] Watch Interview: Shravan Garg, Former Group Editor, Dainik Bhaskar -SC livid with Ramdev, rejects apology, Will (it) further penalise him! | PATANJALI | CORONIL

2024-04-11 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Ashutosh Published in: *Satya Hindi* Date: April 11, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go1v9CvczZU *Note:* This interview is in Hindi The transcript is embedded in the source "रामदेव के पतंजलि ने पिछले दस सालों में खरबों का साम्राज्य खडा किया है । जो भ्रामक विज्ञापनों की बिनाह पर

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Praveen Chakravarty, Congress Manifesto Committee- Congress wants to "bring back the original idea of India, an inclusive liberal Republic"

2024-04-10 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 11, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6iXJ3ZtoWw *Note*: The transcript is embedded in the source "In an interview to discuss in some detail the 2024 manifesto of the Congress Party, a key member of the Congress Manifesto Committee

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Praveen Chakravarty, Congress Manifesto Committee- Congress wants to "bring back the original idea of India, an inclusive liberal Republic"

2024-04-10 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 11, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6iXJ3ZtoWw *Note*: The transcript is embedded in the source "In an interview to discuss in some detail the 2024 manifesto of the Congress Party, a key member of the Congress Manifesto Committee

[Goanet] Watch Interview: Dhruv Rathee- “Modi is 80% a Dictator and a Darpok (Coward)”; I Call on Indian Voters to Throw Him Out" on YouTube

2024-04-09 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 9, 2024 Source: https://youtu.be/4bBIfkK0Z7g?si=huxIPHPZOrcsalNn Note: The transcript is embedded in the source "Dhruv Rathee, who is arguably the most widely followed and most highly admired YouTube video-maker of his generation in India,

[Goanet] Trump to Sue Judge in Last-Ditch Attempt to Avert Manhattan Trial

2024-04-09 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"Court records showed on Monday that Mr. Trump was filing an action against the judge, Juan M. Merchan , though the papers were not immediately made public." >"Two people with knowledge of the matter said

[Goanet] Watch: Chief Justice of India, D. Y. Chandrachud-"Need To Balance Seizure powers and Individual privacy rights "

2024-04-08 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"Need To Balance Seizure powers and Individual privacy rights " By: Chief Justice of India, D. Y. Chandrachud- Delivering the D.P. Kohli memorial lecture, New Delhi, April 8 ,2024 Published in:* Live Law* Date: April 8, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIf24YfLNj0 Note: The

[Goanet] Watch: Shravan Garg, Former Group Editor, Dainik Bhaskar- Is New Congress emerging! Is New BJP only to win for Modi? | RAHUL GANDHI | 2024 ELECTIONS

2024-04-08 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Ashutosh Published in: *Satya Hindi* Date: April 8, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wMgf17j8WE *Note:* This news program is in Hindi "श्रवण गर्ग की खरी खरी । राहुल गांधी क्या नई कांग्रेस का जन्म दे रहे है ? क्या पुराने चेहरे ग़ायब हो जायेंगे ? क्या मोदी की बीजेपी किराये की कोख

[Goanet] Watch: Rajasthan is going to surprise this time | ELECTION 2024 | BJP | PM MODI

2024-04-07 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
PLEASE WATCH. THANK YOU. By: Sheetal Singh Published in: *Satya Hindi* Date: April 7, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAX57v-XKmM *NOTE:* This ground report is in Hindi. The transcript is embedded in the source. "राजस्थान इस चुनाव में चौंकाने जा रहा है । किसानों के आंदोलन ने यहाँ

[Goanet] Watch: BREAKING: Supreme Court के वकील Kapil Sibbal ने किया बड़ा खुलासा!।DilliTak।

2024-04-07 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
PLEASE WATCH & SHARE. THANK YOU Trans.: Supreme Court lawyer Kapil Sibal made a big revelation!. Dilli Tak. By: Kapil Sibal, Sr. Advocate, Supreme Court of India Published in: *Dilli Tak* Date: April 7, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRW_f1Em7nU *NOTE:* This important press

[Goanet] Here’s the full text of the Congress manifesto for Lok Sabha polls 2024

2024-04-06 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"The Congress party has promised to restore the statehoodof Jammu and Kashmir, give legal guarantee to MSP, conduct anationwide socio-economic and caste census and scrap the Agnipath scheme." By: Express Web Desk Published by: *The Indian Express* Date: April 5, 2024 Source:

[Goanet] Watch: Ravish Kumar -- 2024: जारी हुआ कांग्रेस का घोषणा पत्र | Congress releases its Manifesto

2024-04-06 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
PLEASE LISTEN. THANK YOU. By: Ravish Kumar Published in: *Ravish Kumar Official* Date: April 5, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rYNon59GdE *NOTE*: This news report is in Hindi "अगर आप जानना चाहते हैं कि कांग्रेस सत्ता में आई तो क्या संसद वैसे ही चलेगी जैसे मोदी राज में चलती रही

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Sanjay Singh - जेल जाने के डर से आज़ाद हूँ, भाजपा से लड़ने को तैयार हूँ: संजय सिंह

2024-04-05 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Trans.:"I am free from the fear of going to jail, ready to fight BJP: Sanjay Singh" By: Ravish Kumar Published in: *Ravish Kumar Official* Date: April 5, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ2mP-fAdLI *Note*: This interview is in Hindi "संजय सिंह रिहा हो गए हैं और राजनीतिक जीवन की

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Atishi Singh, The Wire चायख़ाना में दिल्ली की Firebrand मंत्री आतिशी सिंहक्या केजरीवाल होंगे भारत के अगले PM ?

2024-04-05 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Trans.: Delhi's Firebrand Minister Atishi Singh [is] in The Wire Tea House. Will Kejriwal be the next PM of India? By: Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Sr. Editor Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 5, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euKfRV70ges *Note:* The interview is in Hindi. "Atishi

[Goanet] BREAKING | Supreme Court Grants Bail To Shoma Sen In Bhima Koregaon Case

2024-04-05 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"Senior Advocate Anand Grover, who represented the arrested professor, emphasized that there is a lack of evidence connecting Sen to the case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, or establishing her purported links with the proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist)."

[Goanet] Watch: Farewell tea-party for Hon'ble Smt. Justice Anuja Prabhudessai [The first woman from Goa to be a High Court judge in India.]

2024-04-05 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Bombay Bar Association Date: April 5, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poPfAAiOWNk The Bar Association had organized a farewell tea-party for Hon'ble Smt. Justice Anuja Prabhudessai on Monday, February 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm in the Bar Association premises.

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Former Revenue Secretary, E.A.S. Sarma -Why is the Election Commission So Scared of Modi?

2024-04-05 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 5, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmuPEB9Fqb4 "Former Union revenue secretary and transparency advocate E.A.S. Sarma and Siddharth Varadarajan discuss the functioning of the Election Commission of India.

[Goanet] अख़बार ने दिखाये पुख़्ता सुबूत, भाजपा बनी इतिहास की सबसे भ्रष्ट पार्टी

2024-04-04 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Trans.: "Newspaper shows strong evidence [that] BJP [has] become the most corrupt party in history." By: Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Sr. Editor Published in: *The Wire* Date: April 4, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMg5ozijQx4 *Note:* This news report is in Hindi The transcript is

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Justice Madan Lokur -- Arvind Kejriwal Arrested in Delhi Liquor Policy Scam: Exclusive

2024-04-03 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
THIS MAY HAPPEN TO YOU. SO, PLEASE WATCH & SHARE. THANK YOU. By: Rajdeep Sardesai Published in: *India Today* Date: April 2, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL6KJbZM2Q "In a recent episode of our television show, former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Madan Lokur, provides insights on

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Dushyant Dave--Kejriwal in Tihar till April 15th. Is this action justified? | Faye D'Souza

2024-04-02 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Faye D'Souza Date:April 2, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrpyYqa5wRs "The arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal less than a month before the Lok Sabha elections raises crucial questions for the AAP and the larger anti-BJP Opposition bloc, and also the nature of the

[Goanet] Watch interview: 600 Lawyers' Letter a Threat to Judiciary By BJP Proxies But CJI is Also Bench-Fixing—Indira Jaising

2024-04-02 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published by: *The Wire* Date: April 2, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C01OR5CQpkU "[The] Letter by 600 lawyers [is] 'a threat to the judiciary'; 'they don’t speak in their own voice'; 'CJI guilty of fixing benches': former Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising

[Goanet] Watch interview: Kerala and Tamil Nadu still invincible for BJP | 2024 ELECTIONS | PM MODI | INDIA ALLIANCE

2024-04-01 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
In this interview with Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, a former Chief of Bureau, The Hindu, in Delhi and Senior Associate Editor, says that "in this claim of 370 seats there will be no contribution from Kerala and Tamil Nadu." By: Sheetal P. Singh Published in: *Satya Hindi* Date: April 1, 2024 Source:

[Goanet] Watch: मोदी के सांप्रदायिक भारत से ऊपर, नुज़हत-सुनीता की दोस्ती का जहान

2024-03-31 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Trans.: Nuzhat & Sunita's friendship is in a world way beyond Modi's communal India By: Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Sr. Editor Published in: *The Wire* Date: March 31, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw4sRzMDAq8 *Note: *The interview is in Hindi. The transcript is embedded in the source.

[Goanet] The Life, Times, Science and Context of Veronica Rodrigues

2024-03-31 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Vrushal Pendharkar Published in: *The Wire* Date: March 31, 2024 Source: https://thewire.in/the-sciences/remembering-veronica-rodrigues-birth-anniversary Please access the source for the entire article "A peek into the life and studies of the passionate biologist who devoted her life to the

[Goanet] Watch Interviews: Mega Extortion, ‘Quid-Pro-Quo’, Money Laundering Charges Must be Investigated, Culprits Booked

2024-03-30 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Kapil Sibal, Host - Central Hall, and Sr. Advocate, Supreme Court of India Published in: *The Wire* Date: March 30, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVmGDXSI7KM "In #CentralHall, host Kapil Sibal discusses various facets and implications of the 'crooked intent' of the BJP bringing

[Goanet] This Easter, Is Christianity Still Promulgating Antisemitism?

2024-03-29 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"This Sunday, Christians around the world will celebrate the peace and renewal promised by Easter, but at the heart of Holy Week liturgies leading up to the feast are a set of texts that have had brutal consequences for Jews, not just in the past, but in the present." >"An unfathomed thermal

[Goanet] Watch: Interview with Prof. Ashutosh Varshney- Has Kejriwal's Arrest & Financial Action Against Congress Impaired India's Electoral Democracy?

2024-03-29 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: March 29, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9onXnL2xSBU "Join us live to hear Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences at Brown University, discuss one of the most critical questions of our

[Goanet] Indian politics roiled as huge donations are linked to investigated firms

2024-03-29 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"Jalan’s [ 'Mahendra Kumar Jalan was an Indian millionaire (whose) companies confidentially donated millions to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party as he faced scrutiny from the Indian government’s financial crimes investigators in 2019'] case was one of many subplots

[Goanet] This Easter, let’s not try to pretend Jesus was a ‘Palestinian Jew’

2024-03-28 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"Easter marks the resurrection of Jesus, but this year the holiday comes with a twist: Jesus resurrected as Palestinian. Never mind that Jesus was born and died a Jew in Judaea. From the pronouncement of a member of Congress

[Goanet] Watch: A Whistleblower on the Rot in India's Shrimp Exports

2024-03-27 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Published in: *The Wire* Date: March 27, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvDx3dKuLY "The general manager of a shrimp packaging plant in Andhra Pradesh quit his job in order to expose the chilling deceptions and violations in the booming export industry: workers housed like animals,

[Goanet] A Whistleblower on the Rot in India's Shrimp Exports

2024-03-27 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Published in: *The Wire* Date: March 27, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvDx3dKuLY "The general manager of a shrimp packaging plant in Andhra Pradesh quit his job in order to expose the chilling deceptions and violations in the booming export industry: workers housed like animals,

[Goanet] 100+ Rights Groups Alarmed by Rising Hindu Supremacy in the US

2024-03-27 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>This ['Hindutva or Hindu nationalism'] political ideology, which was first articulated in the early 20th century with direct inspiration from Nazism, Fascism and other ideologies of racial subjugation, now finds itself in a deepening

[Goanet] Watch: If PMLA Is Misused, Nation Will Suffer: Justice Ujjal Bhuyan Supreme Court Judge

2024-03-26 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
Published in: *LiveLaw* Date: March 26, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRRN43SG9s *Note*: The transcript is embedded in the source

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Dinesh. K. Vohra - "Stay in jail or resign. BJP government is scared of Kejriwal : LIVE"

2024-03-26 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
THIS INTERVIEW IS PERHAPS WORTH YOUR TIME. PLEASE SHARE IF SO, THANK YOU. By: Anand Vardhan Singh Published in: *The Public India* Date: March 25, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswq9yrp2sI NOTE: This interview is in Hindi

[Goanet] Kejriwal's Arrest Takes India From the Rule of Law into the Rule of a Tyrant

2024-03-24 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"With the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, the hugely popular serving chief minister of Delhi, Narendra Modi has crossed the *lakshman rekha *– that uncrossable, invisible line* – *betweenthe Rule of Law and the rule of a tyrant." >"Now, with his third election battle imminent, he has finally crossed

[Goanet] Kerala Government sues President Murmu for withholding assent for Bills

2024-03-23 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"In an unprecedented move, the Kerala Government on March 23 sued President Droupadi Murmu for withholding assent for the four Bills passed by the Kerala Legislature without disclosing any reasons and Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan for keeping the Bills pending for a long and indefinite

[Goanet] Watch: The crackdown on India’s political opposition

2024-03-23 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Sreenivasan Jain Published in: *Aljazeera* Date: March 21, 2024 Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-india-report/2024/3/21/the-crackdown-on-indias-political-opposition "The India Report on Al Jazeera The crackdown on India’s political opposition Elections are weeks away in India and

[Goanet] Modi’s Party Doesn’t Control All of India. But He’s Working on It.

2024-03-23 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"The news media, the national legislature, civil society, sometimes even the courts — all have largely been bent to his [Prime Minister Narendra Modi's] will. But one critical group of holdouts remains: some of India’s richest states, the engine of its rapid growth." >"They [ his opponents]

[Goanet] Watch Interview: With Anjali Bhardwaj - Primetime: What the Electoral Bond Scam, Kejriwal Arrest Tell Us About the State of Indian Democracy

2024-03-22 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor Published in: *The Wire* Date: March 22, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlEhy_QHQzs *Note:* The transcript is embedded in the source "Anjali Bhardwaj of the Satark Nagrik Sangathan speaks to Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire." "Satark

[Goanet] Kejriwal Acting As CM From Jail, 'Atrocious Behaviour' of TN Gov RN Ravi Shows Constitutional Crisis

2024-03-22 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
By: Karan Thapar Published in: *The Wire* Date: March 22, 2024 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHmdNTNR0yA *Note*: The transcript is embedded in the source. "In an interview to discuss two dramatic developments that occurred yesterday – the late night arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind

[Goanet] Tax Dispute Becomes Political as India Freezes Opposition’s Accounts

2024-03-21 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"India’s largest opposition party accused the national authorities on Thursday of paralyzing its political activities by blocking the party’s access to its bank accounts, in what it described as a heavy-handed response to a tax dispute just weeks before a pivotal general election." >“'We can’t

[Goanet] Hidden Harvest: Human Rights and Environmental Abuses in India’s Shrimp Industry

2024-03-21 Thread Dr. Vivek Pinto
>"The current system of farmed shrimp production is not sustainable – not for workers, the environment, or – ultimately – for retailers, wholesalers, or consumers. The Indian shrimp sector is rife with discrimination, dangerous working conditions, hazardous child labor, sexual harassment, debt

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