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Non-Godi Media, This Is Your Wake-Up Call: The DHFL Scam

Posted on 25th August, 2025 (GMT 12:37 hrs) ABSTRACT This video is a direct appeal to India’s non-Godi media to break their silence on the DHFL scam—a financial catastrophe that destroyed the savings of pensioners, defence families, employees, and small investors while powerful corporations, auditors, rating agencies, and regulators escaped accountability. It exposes how political donations,…

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Why Today's India Cannot Deny Its Undeclared Emergency

Posted on 24th August, 2025 (GMT 07:50 hrs) Authored by Partyless Society⤡ ABSTRACT This article examines the concept of an “undeclared emergency” in contemporary India under Narendra Modi’s regime, situating it against the backdrop of declared Emergency (1975–77). While declared Emergency was openly authoritarian and time-bound, today’s context is marked by a much more diffuse and insidious…

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Open Press Release: An Urgent Appeal to India's Non-Godi Media on Press Freedom, Censorship, and the DHFL Scam

Posted on 24th August, 2025 (GMT 09:50 hrs) ABSTRACT The DHFL scam is not merely a financial fraud but a glaring testament to India’s descent into crony oligarchy, where state-corporate collusion, regulatory failure, and alleged judicial bias have enabled systemic looting of public wealth, leaving millions of ordinary citizens—senior citizens, employees, NRIs, and middle-class…

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Press Freedom In India: A Declining Trajectory

Posted on 24th August, 2025 (GMT 07:35 hrs) ABSTRACT This paper traces the sharp decline of press freedom in India under the Modi government (2014–2025), situating it within a broader democratic backslide marked by surveillance, censorship, impunity, and institutional capture. Drawing on global indices such as RSF’s World Press Freedom Index, CPJ’s Impunity Index, and the Atlas of Impunity, it…

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Shut Down Arms Factories to Stop Wars: Dismantling the Global War Profiteering Machine

Posted on 23rd August, 2025 (02:00 hrs) ABSTRACT The global arms industry—worth nearly $95 billion annually—is both a driver of human suffering and a silent engine of ecological collapse. Wars claim over 2,000 lives daily, displace millions, and shatter societies, while leaving behind poisoned aquifers, fragmented habitats, and toxic soils contaminated by unexploded ordnance and chemical…

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When Institutions Dodge Responsibility, Who Answers to the DHFL Victims?

Posted on 20th August, 2025 (12:02 hrs) ABSTRACT On 30th July 2025, OBMA submitted a detailed appeal to India’s top regulatory and judicial authorities, calling for institutional accountability, independent inquiry, and restitution for thousands of DHFL depositors whose savings were wiped out. Despite detailed evidence of auditing failures, flawed credit ratings, and regulatory lapses, SEBI’s…

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We Love You SRK, But You Must Answer for DHFL!

Posted on 19th August, 2025 (GMT 03:30 hrs) ABSTRACT This statement calls on Shah Rukh Khan to take accountability for endorsing DHFL between 2015 and 2018, a period when lakhs of small depositors were persuaded to trust the company before its collapse in 2019, which wiped out over thousands of crores of rupees. Citing the Consumer Protection Act 2019, it argues that Khan failed in his duty as…

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DHFL Scam: Who Audited and Rated Our Trust?

Posted on 18th August, 2025 (GMT 15:43 hrs) ABSTRACT Between 2010 and 2019, DHFL projected itself as a secure, AAA-rated housing finance company, yet it concealed one of India’s largest financial frauds involving shell companies, fictitious loans, and alleged political collusion with the BJP. Despite glaring irregularities, auditors and credit rating agencies continued to endorse its…

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Resist Fear, Defend Freedom: Stop SLAPPs, Stop Surveillance

Posted on 16th August, 2025 (GMT 03:45 hrs) ABSTRACT This video exposes how India’s democracy is under siege through SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation), draconian laws like UAPA, and unchecked digital surveillance. From the DHFL scam victims fighting corporate–state collusion, to students, journalists, and whistleblowers imprisoned or silenced, the message is clear:…

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DHFL Scam and the Death of Public Trust: Time for a Truth and Accountability Commission!

Posted on 15th August, 2025 (GMT 07:30 hrs) ABSTRACT This appeal calls for the creation of a Judicial Truth and Accountability Commission to investigate the Supreme Court’s April 1, 2025 verdict on the DHFL insolvency case, which allegedly legitimised a flawed resolution plan favouring corporate interests while wiping out the life savings of lakhs of small investors, including widows, senior…

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Landmark Victory in the DHFL Narrative: A New Ray of Hope for the Victims

Posted on 15th August, 2025 (GMT 13:15 hrs) ABSTRACT On 31 July 2025, the Chandigarh State Consumer Commission delivered a landmark ruling in the DHFL scam, holding Catalyst Trusteeship, CARE Ratings, and Brickwork Ratings liable for negligence and ordering them to compensate an investor—marking the first time market gatekeepers, not just the defaulter, were held accountable. This breakthrough…

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Justice Beyond Courts: DHFL Scam and the Call to Organize

Posted on 14th August, 2025 (GMT 06:48 hrs) ABSTRACT On India’s Political Independence Day, we discuss the strength of social movements and why DHFL scam victims need more than courtrooms to win justice. Learn how to educate, agitate, and organize for real change—and why united action is the only way to hold the “powerful” accountable. 📢 Sign and share the petitions: PETITION 1– SIGN HERE:…

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Fortifying India: Balancing Defense Ambitions, Fiscal Challenges, and Covert Strategies in 2025-26

AbstractIndia’s defense strategy for the fiscal year 2025-26, underpinned by a defense budget of Rs 681,210 crore (13.45% of the Union Budget), reflects a complex interplay of indigenous manufacturing, reliance on imported equipment, covert operations, and fiscal constraints from external debt servicing. This article examines the defense budget’s allocation, compares it with education and health…

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Of Size and Suffering: Challenging the Illusion of "Progress"

Posted on 10th August, 2025 (GMT 07:50 hrs) ABSTRACT India’s emergence as the world’s fourth-largest economy masks deep ethical and structural crises. This article critiques the country’s development model, which prioritizes GDP growth while perpetuating informal labour, systemic inequality, environmental degradation, and authoritarian neoliberal governance. It highlights the disjunction…

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Demand Transparent Accountability: The Mass RTI Appeal to the DHFL Victims

Posted on 10th August, 2025 (GMT 07:15 hrs) Authored by Partyless Society⤡ ABSTRACT This mass RTI appeal urges DHFL victims and their communities to demand transparency regarding the RBI-appointed Committee of Creditors’ (CoC) meetings, voting records, and expenditures during the DHFL insolvency resolution process. Faced with systematic denial of crucial information, this coordinated effort…

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No More Silence: DHFL Victims, Unite and Sign for Justice!

Posted on 7th August, 2025 (08:45 hrs) ABSTRACT This open letter is a heartfelt call to action for victims of the DHFL financial scam, urging collective courage and mobilization against systemic injustice. It outlines the devastating betrayal by corporate, regulatory, and judicial entities that enabled the fraud, leaving lakhs of small investors unheard. Framing the crisis as a human rights…

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Hold Shah Rukh Khan Accountable for DHFL Endorsement! (An Online Mass Petition)

Posted on 5th August, 2025 (GMT 14:56 hrs) ABSTRACT This petition seeks urgent legal and ethical accountability from Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan for his role in endorsing Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd. (DHFL), a company whose collapse in 2019 devastated lakhs of small investors. As brand ambassador during DHFL’s fraudulent operations, Khan’s public image bolstered investor trust in a…