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In this special episode, we speak with climate activist Disha Ravi, environmental lawyer Mridula Vijairaghavan, and nonprofit leader Stalin Dayanand. Together, they unpack the dynamics of environmental protests—what works, what doesn't, and whether these movements hold the key to shaping climate action in policy rooms. Host: Shreya Adhikari Produced and edited by: Rachita Vora,  Smarinita Shetty, Shreya Adhikari, Derrek Xavier, and Halima Ansari IDR is an online journal that publishes cutting-edge ideas, lessons and insights, written by, and for the people working on some of India's toughest problems. For more information, visit www.idronline.org, or follow IDR on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and Instagram. This podcast is a Maed in India production. Donate: https://idronline.org/donate/

In this episode, Rakesh Kamal, host of of the Climate Emergency Podcast sits down with Disha Ravi, a prominent voice from an environmental awareness youth group, Fridays for Future India. She talks about the expectations and aspirations of the youth as they are participating in the critical climate change negotiations at COP28 in Dubai. Disha shares her realistic insights into the role of young activists, the challenges they face, and the impact they hope to make on the global stage. Tune in for a thought-provoking conversation on the power of youth involvement in shaping the future of our planet.See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

When she was just 22, Disha Ravi, co-founder of Fridays for Future in India, had police show up at her home, borrow a pen and paper to write an arrest warrant on the spot, and bundle her onto a plane to fly across the country to a city she'd never been to. Here she explains what happened, how it's still impacting her two years later, and why she'll never let it stop her activism or force her out of India. An extended version of this interview will run in partnership with the Heated newsletter next week, as the G20 Summit gets underway in Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Climate Question gets lots of emails from listeners asking what they can do about climate change. Is it morally justifiable to fly for leisure? Which type of fish is most sustainable? And how can I use my career or free time to help the planet? In this programme a panel of experts answer your questions and run through some of the most effective things you can do to make a difference, wherever you are in the world. Presenter Graihagh Jackson is joined by: Alice Brock, Phd researcher at Southampton University who specialises in personal carbon budgets Disha Ravi, climate activist with Fridays for Future India Tambe Honourine Enow, Founder of the Africa Climate and Environment Foundation If you have a question about climate change that you'd like us to answer, or a comment – please email them to theclimatequestion@bbc.com Producer: Sophie Eastaugh Researcher: Matt Toulson Series Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: China Collins Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill

This week, climate activist Disha Ravi joins us to discuss the recent controversy around ‘Just Stop Oil' activists throwing soup at a Van Gogh painting, and why innovative protest tactics became more popular post the pandemic. Respectfully Disagree is The Swaddle Team's weekly podcast series, in which we get together to discuss and dissect the issues we passionately differ on.

As pandemic restrictions ease in many places, street protests are starting up again. But what happens when the public takes climate action into their own hands, from sticking themselves to diggers to bunking off school? Mass protests and demonstrations can be an effective way to gain media attention but do they lead to lasting change? Kate Lamble and Neal Razzell are joined by: Disha Ravi, climate activist, India Dan Hooper, (Swampy), climate activist, UK Mel, member of Scientist Rebellion, Mexico Dana R. Fisher, Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, USA Ruud Wouters, researcher Media, Movements & Politics, University of Antwerp, Belgium Contact us: theclimatequestion@bbc.com Team: Reporter: Imran Qureshi, India Producer: Lizzy McNeill Researcher: Natasha Fernandes Series Producer: Alex Lewis Production Co-ordinators: Helena Warwick-Cross, Siobhan Reed Sound engineer: Tom Brignall

“There are no prisons big enough for ideas. They can't put our ideas behind bars. Your movement and what you work for will always be bigger than you.”Disha Ravi is an Indian climate and environmental activist. She is a founder and active member of Fridays For Future India with a focus on “MAPA” (most affected people and areas). Her arrest and detention by the Indian government in February of 2021 was met with widespread international condemnation. In conversation with Kumi, Disha shares her perspective as a youth climate leader from the Global South. She explains what it means to be part of a movement that is bigger than oneself, how the climate struggle differs between rich and poor countries, and speaks passionately about what brings her inspiration and keeps her fighting.----------------------Produced by the Green Economy Coalition, the world's largest movement for a green and fair economy: https://greeneconomycoalition.orgDisha on Twitter: @disharaviiDisha on Instagram: @disharaviiFridays For Future website: https://fridaysforfuture.org-----------------------Learn more about Power, People & Planet by visiting: https://powerpeopleplanet.org

This week will bring around 25,000 world leaders, business people, policy shapers and campaigners together in Glasgow for COP26, a global climate summit that's seen as a crucial moment in the fight to curb global warming. Among them will be young activists who in the last few years have made global headlines with the School Strike for Climate movement. Beginning with Greta Thunberg in Sweden in 2018, millions of young people have taken to the streets to try to get their voices heard. We hear from three young people devoted to climate activism. In the Philippines, Mitzi Jonelle Tan grew up amid severe typhoons that would flood her bedroom. In India, Disha Ravi saw her grandparents struggle to get enough water for their farm. And in the United States, 19-year-old Jerome Foster has been invited to join President Biden's Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Do these young activists feel their voices are being heard? What action do they most want to see from world leaders at COP – and how realistic are their demands? Presenters Kate Lamble and Jordan Dunbar talk to Disha Ravi, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Jerome Foster and the BBC's Environment Correspondent, Matt McGrath. Producer: Sophie Eastaugh Researcher: Natasha Fernandes Series producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon Sound engineer: Neil Churchill

Disha Ravi is a climate justice activist and founding member of Fridays for Future India. In this episode we talk about how FFF has galvanised communities globally, on what an environmentally just future for India looks like and how to sustain activism. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/amplifypodcast/message

In the very first episode of Not Fine, Thanks, we speak to Disha Ravi, a young climate activist based in Bangalore, about how climate anxiety impacts your mental health, how young people feel about the environmental crisis, how they're tackling it in their capacity, and their frustrations with the system.

Almost every year since 1995, politicians and representatives from all over the world have been meeting in the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) to discuss ways to reduce CO2 emissions which cause climate change. Scientists have been producing reports in a collaborative manner and all say the same “Climate change is happening” and over years only say that it is worsening. All the countries came to an agreement in the 21st year of meetings in COP 21 called the “Paris agreement”. The sense of urgency with which climate change has to be addressed seems limited to words and not actions. Since climate change affects all the countries in the world and the vulnerable the most and climate change is so interdisciplinary, there has always been some pressure from civil society. But for the last few years youth from across the world has played a very important role in bringing this issue forward. In this episode of Climate emergency, Rakesh Kamal talks to climate change activist Disha Ravi on youth climate activism, dissent and the role of the global south. This episode also features a poem by feminist & activist Kamla Bhasin who passed away recently. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Subscribe to Newsletter – https://lightscameraazadi.in/newsletter/Support LCA – https://www.patreon.com/azadiFollow Disha RaviInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/disharavii/Twitter - https://twitter.com/disharaviiDisha Ravi, is an Indian youth climate change activist and a founder of Fridays for Future India. In this episode we discuss her journey of becoming a climate activist, issues that she is trying to raise lately, and the debate around environmentalism in India and in the world.3:10 to 5:40Welcoming Disha5:40 to 9:56Disha's journey 9:56 to 14:00Transition from rural to urban 14:00 to 16:00How has your relationship with technology evolved/changed lately?16:00 to 22:40How did Disha dealt with the national attention?22:40 to 35:40Issues that Disha is trying to raise these days?35:40 to 37:45The impact the UN can creates37:45 to 41:05How is the climate conversation different in India as compared globally?41:05 to 49:55How Disha envisions the climate studies?49:55 to 52:55How can we make climate conversation more accessible?52:55 to 1:00:30Is environmentalism a serious debate in global governments? 1:00:30 to endCan there ever be a balance between economic growth and sustainability?

Today is a Ash solo episode giving an update on the Farmer's Protest in India (part 1 is Episode 4) and a quick view of what is happening in Israel right now. Sources: https://www.sikh24.com/2021/03/17/ranjit-singh-after-his-release-arrest-by-the-delhi-police-strengthened-my-faith-even-though-i-was-tortured-daily/ https://cnnphilippines.com/world/2021/2/15/Climate-activist-Disha-Ravi-arrested-India-toolkit-farmers--protest-.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/04/world/rihanna-farmer-protests-indian-government-trnd/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farmers%27_protest https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/10/what-is-happenin0in-jerusalem-israel-gaza-clashes-faq/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1435047/Israel-Palestine-conflict-what-is-happening-in-Israel-right-now-israel-palestine-timeline

In the past decade, India has seen the resurgence of Hindu nationalism, a political ideology of “Hindu-ness,” expressed by the neo-Sanskrit term Hindutva. Hindutva envisions India—a country where Hindus are the majority in terms of numbers—as a rightfully Hindu nation; Hindu nationalists feel threatened by minority groups, especially India's Muslims. Riding this momentum is the current prime minister, Narendra Modi, who's fanned the flames of identity politics throughout his career and now governs with a Hindutva worldview, with policies that critics call anti-Muslim. To learn more, I sat down with Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he also directs the Center for Contemporary South Asia. With Indian elections underway—and in a moment when ethnic nationalisms are on the upswing around the world—I wanted to talk with Ashu about how religion has contributed to this Hindu nationalist turn. Find out more about the this podcast and the Center for Contemporary South Asia at our show page. You can check out other podcasts from the Watson Institute here. We're eager for your feedback and support: please subscribe and then rate the show on your favorite platforms so that others can find us. You can email us at southasia@brown.edu. Show Notes This episode refers to political acronyms, specialized terms, public figures, and recent events, including: -Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, intellectual father of Hindu nationalism who coined the term Hindutva -pitṛbhūmi and punyabhūmi, neo-Sanskrit terms for “fatherland” and “holy land” -BJP Bharatiya Janata Party, India's Hindu nationalist ruling party -RSS Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, leading Hindu nationalist volunteer organization -OBC Other backward class, bureaucratic label for socially disadvantaged castes and groups -SBM Swacch Bharat Mission, Modi's sanitation and hygiene initiative -ahiṃsā “non-violence” in Sanskrit -BSP Bahujan Samaj Party, made up of lower caste groups -SP Samajwadi Party, socialist party -Dravidian movement, advocates of ethnic identity made up of Dravidian language-speakers groups in South India -Yogi Adityanath, Hindu monk and chief minister of Uttar Pradesh -CAA Citizenship Amendment Act, extending to citizenship to religious minorities (excluding Mulsims) -pogrom, the massacre of ethnic or religious group -Farmers' Protests, ongoing protests to reform agricultural regulations -Bangalore climate activist Disha Ravi was arrested in February 2021 -IAS Indian Administrative Service -JNU Jawaharlal Nehru University Some additional references of interest: -On religious leaders in Indian politics, Prof. Varshney cites Rajesh Pradhan, When the Saints Go Marching In: The Curious Ambivalence of Religious Sadhus in Recent Politics in India (Black Swan, 2014). -On “Sanskritization,” see M.N. Srinivas, “A Note on Sanskritization and Westernization,” The Far Eastern Quarterly 15.4 (1956): 481-96. -As of 2021, Freedom House has rated India as “partly free.” -On “democratic backsliding,” see Prof. Varshney's recent column for the Indian Express.

Did Pratap Bhanu Mehta jump from Ashoka University? Or was he pushed? This seems to be the Hamlet-esque “to-be-or-not-to-be” question of the day in the Indian media. The simple answer is that it is very good if he was pushed. And it’s even better if he jumped.That of course needs an explanation. The push option is if the Government of India made an offer to the trustees of Ashoka that they couldn’t refuse: get rid of the fellow, or else! That, of course, would be Godfather-esque, and it would mark a welcome change from the pusillanimity that India has traditionally exhibited. Soft States don’t work, which should have been abundantly clear to us all along.If it wasn’t clear, the antics of Xi Jinping’s minions in Alaska just a few days ago should have been enough to convince the most obtuse among us. They calculate that Biden is soft (we can speculate as to why they are so confident about that), so they humiliated the US side as is their wolf-warrior habit. Xi is broadcasting loudly that Biden’s US is a Soft State and that he pwns Biden. Whether this is true remains to be seen, but it is a good opening gambit.India has been the ultimate Soft State, mouthing meaningless platitudes and cringe-inducing homilies while spectators roll their eyes and silently pray: “Just kill me now!”. Hark back to V K Krishna Menon delivering marathon lectures at the UN General Assembly or J Nehru turning down the offer of the Security Council Seat “because China deserves it more”. (By the way, I can quote chapter and verse: no, it is not an urban myth).So if there is — finally — a change of heart, and India does stand up for its interests, then it would be welcome news. Doing tejovadham to undesirables is part of what governments are supposed to do. This was visible in the case of yesterday’s cause celebre as well, the mop-haired Disha Ravi. The fact that she was arrested is important. She herself is unimportant, but it sends a message to other wannabe Urban Naxals: “Your ass is on the line, kid!”, pardon the French.For a long time, secessionists have labored under the illusion that they were immune to the power of the State. They have seen overground and underground purveyors of sedition treated with kid gloves, and they got used to thinking that this is the natural order of things. Not quite. They should look up Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden. The human rights of outlaws or insurgents or their middle-class supporters are not — and they cannot be — greater than those of the average, law-abiding citizen. That is an axiom, and all the billions of the Open Society Foundation and #DeepState are not going to change that very easily. The alternative in Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s case, the jump option, is even better because it means he had no option but to fall on the sword. In other words, the Government didn’t do anything, but out of enlightened self-interest, the trustees of Ashoka informed him that he should resign, or else they would have to fire him: Because he was causing real damage to the Ashoka brand. Of course, Mehta has friends, powerful and shadowy friends. Within 24 hours, there was a letter written by 150 professors from “Harvard, MIT, Yale, Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge” and so on, in his support. Commendably swift. The Ecosystem has its act together to protect its own. The letter also means… exactly nothing. It is precisely like the letter signed by 22 (or was it 35?) Nobel laureates supporting a Naxalite doctor some years ago. I would wager that none of these worthies could even spell that man’s name, or pick him out in a police lineup of suspects. They just blindly signed a piece of paper somebody put in front of their noses. There was also the petition signed by 47.5 “ancient India scholars” some years ago regarding the Aryan Invasion Mythology and related stories in the California Textbook Case. I wrote an unpublished piece then where I pointed out that these alleged “scholars” included people who can’t read Sanskrit or Tamil, urban planners, astrophysicists, economists, sociologists, linguists in unrelated languages, deconstructionists, etc. The one person who had the requisite background in both ancient history and languages retracted her support.In other words, these letters are part of a “toolkit”, a term immortalized by Disha Ravi in her 15 minutes of fame. The same worthies crying about Mehta’s “freedom of expression” or whatever chose to ignore the fact that a young, brown, foreign, racial/religious minority Hindu woman, Rashmi Samant, was cyber-bullied, trolled, terrorized, and forced to resign from her post as elected president of the Oxford Student Union, just days ago. Why? That was a rhetorical question. We know the answer. The same worthies have also ignored a vile campaign by a foul-mouthed assistant professor at Rutgers University to demonize a small racial and religious minority, Hindus, mostly Asian Americans. Tulsi Gabbard, a Hindu though not Asian (she’s a Pacific Islander), has been attacked directly for her faith. Although the hate campaign against her was utterly horrifying, not a single academic bothered to condemn it. Here is an actual campaign poster against Gabbard. (Hat tip to Sheenie Ambardar for this).No, none of this bothers the 150 letter writers. That means they have no moral leg to stand on: they are hypocrites. But they make it sound like Mehta was subjected to something akin to what Hypatia, the foremost woman scholar of her time, and a philosopher and mathematician of repute, experienced in Rome around 300CE. They dragged her out of her chariot and into a church, stripped her naked, gouged out her eyeballs while she was still alive, slashed her to pieces with broken tiles, then cut her body up, dragged the pieces through the streets, and burned them: all because newly-ascendant Christians hated pagans. In fact, it was Rashmi Sawant who was treated a bit like Hypatia, not Pratap Bhanu Mehta; and explicitly for the same reason: she is a Hindu. Abrahamics have a serious problem with Hindus and others of the Old Religions. As described in the fascinating book The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, majoritarian rule by Christians meant the total destruction of the old Roman religion around 400-500 CE.Majoritarian rule by Abrahamics almost inevitably means religious minorities are oppressed, and frequently they are wiped out, exterminated. So there is good reason to fear majoritarian Abrahamic rule, as freedoms will be curtailed.However, by sleight of hand, this Abrahamic technique is ascribed to Hindus, and the likes of Mehta talk up a storm about ‘fascistic’, ‘majoritarian Hindu nationalist’ rule! This sells well to the Deep State and Christian fundamentalists and regime-change enthusiasts in the West, but is entirely without basis. It is a gigantic fraud that ordinary Indians have also been gaslighted into. Hindu rule is demonstrably benign and liberal. Look at the classical Chanakya niti: he advocates sama, dana, bheda and only when other avenues are explored and fruitless, danda. The Pandavas give the Kauravas innumerable opportunities to negotiate a settlement without bloodshed, even willing to accept merely five villages for themselves, while the empire went to the Kauravas.Then there’s the Sisupala story, where Lord Krishna forgives 99 transgressions before slaying him. And look at India today. It may have a large numerical majority of Hindus, but it is a Minoritarian State, as interpreted by the Executive and Judiciary and enshrined in the Constitution. Religious minorities get all sorts of privileges not available to Hindus, most distressingly the fact that Hindu temples are captured by the State. Just two days ago, government bureaucrats were selling off 35,000 acres of land belonging to the Lord Jagannath temple. The vast holdings of churches (the #2 land-owner in the country, after the government), much of it expired 99-year-leases that they squat on illegally as though they were land grants, are never touched. Waqf properties, that is Muslim community properties, are also left alone.There are special provisions for all sorts of things for minorities. Kerala’s government has posted employment advertisements that are reserved for converts to Christianity! There are schemes to pay Muslim priests salaries and Christian priests pensions and to greatly subsidize Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem, while Hindus have to pay for their pilgrimages out of their own pockets. And the Modi government, accused of ‘majoritarianism’ has itself rolled out goodies like scholarship schemes, even entire universities and schemes for women, explicitly for non-Hindus! In other words, extreme liberalism is being painted as fascism! How very predictable! How very Orwellian!All the breast-beating by Mehta and friends about ‘majoritarianism’ boils down to a concern that Hindus will get equality. That’s right: any attempt by Hindus to merely demand equality under the law is treated as ‘fascism’. This is the kind of extreme rhetoric that the malcontents in India espouse.For instance, they made a godawful fuss about the badly-named Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which merely provides non-Muslim minorities being genocided in Pakistan and Afghanistan fast-track access to Indian citizenship. This was portrayed as a grave offense: why? Because the Pak and Afghan Muslims doing the genocide would not gain Indian citizenship! That is utterly absurd!The genocide is not theoretical, either. Just two days ago, there was news of Ajay Lalwani, a Hindu journalist in Pakistan, being shot dead by a gunman. His crime: he had reported on how underage Hindu girls in Pakistan suffer regular kidnap, rape, conversion to Islam, and forced marriage to Muslims. This happens on average to three teenage girls a day, every day. That is explicit Abrahamic majoritarianism. And that is precisely why CAA is an utterly liberal law, protecting the victims of religious apartheid and genocide. Nevertheless, here is Pratap Bhanu Mehta fulminating against the CAA, passed into law by the elected Indian parliament, and suggesting in so many words that the way to challenge it was not to use the Judiciary, but to riot in the streets. But we should recognise that this direction is not going to be set through the nice formalisms of law, or the contrived conventions we can adhere to in normal times. The direction is going to be set by the mob, by brute power, by mobilisation.This is outrageous. Some might call it seditious. If there were McCarthyites in India, they would nail Mehta. There aren’t, so he gets cushy sinecures, while spearheading a reverse-McCarthyite movement to blackball anybody who is not part of his cohort’s Big Brother thought control!What explains this strange power Mehta has to keep an entire country in thrall to his views? It couldn’t possibly be his regular op-eds in the Indian Express. I have been surprised by the drivel he churns out. It is verbose and prolix, full of the turgid and impenetrable vocabulary of the cultural Marxist. He writes 3,000-word essays that say… exactly nothing. That is, of course, when he’s not inciting people to riot, as above. On second thoughts, maybe it is better that he not use many verbs, unlike this famous Doonesbury strip from 1980 lampooning Ted Kennedy.Pratap Bhanu Mehta remains an enigma; nay, a mystery wrapped in a conundrum. What is the source of his influence? How does he regularly end up in prestigious positions for which he may or may not be qualified or competent? Is he an outstanding scholar who has produced great work? Why is he the darling of the Ecosystem? The blurb on Mehta says this:His areas of research include political theory, constitutional law, society and politics in India, governance and political economy, and international affairs.Not being in that business, I have no idea what his contribution is. I used to think he must be a globally-renowned scholar. But so far as I can tell, he has not done any path-breaking, seminal work. The only awards on his blurb are from India. So why is there such a fuss about him from Anglosphere friends? Mehta sounds rather like Yogendra Yadav, who is famous only for being famous. It would also be interesting to see if any of those worthies from Columbia, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, etc. actually invites Mehta to a position in their home institutions. Somehow I doubt that, because they have their own bailiwicks to protect, and anyway he’s probably more useful to them if he is in India. But it is not unknown for washed-up Ecosystem journalists (I can name at least two) to be given cushy slots in the Deep State newspapers of the West. There was also a journalist who said she was an Associate Professor at Harvard, until it crashed and burned and she made (hard to believe) excuses about mail fraud. So I for one would not be surprised if Mehta were to turn up at some university that is friendly to the Deep State and Atlanticism. Don’t cry for Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Argentina. Or Lutyens, or Khan Market. I am pretty sure he’ll pop up somewhere, being hailed as the new Solzhenitsyn. The real Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, poor guy, will turn over in his grave. POSTSCRIPT: Gurcharan Das confirms that Mehta jumped, and was not pushed. Somehow that is a little disappointing. So we are still a Soft State? Sigh. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/a-tale-of-two-heroes-tragedy-at-ashoka-university-shows-the-difficulty-of-doing-good-in-todays-world/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

This newsletter is really a public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy the good folks at Ad-Auris. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.India Policy Watch #1: Sedition, Blasphemy, DefamationInsights on burning policy issues in India- Pranay KotasthaneA Delhi Court Session Judge’s admirable order granting bail to activist Disha Ravi in the #ToolKit case made me reflect on sedition as a concept. Here are a few initial thoughts emanating from that exercise. Fair warning: this is a conceptual discussion and not a legal one. If detailed legal critique interests you, head over to these two articles by Gautam Bhatia (1 & 2). The “crimes” of sedition, blasphemy, and defamation lie along a continuum. They are categorically similar in that they punish the written or spoken word directed at some other entity. Where they differ is the targeted object. Defamation laws punish verbal or written attacks against a person or a group of people. Blasphemy laws punish utterances against something considered sacred by a group of people whereas sedition laws punish utterances that can threaten the State. A Few DefinitionsBefore wading in any further, understanding three political science terms — nation, state, and government — is important. State is a political construct, an abstract political institution. Max Weber’s instrumental definition of the State as “a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory” is especially relevant here. To ensure that all its individuals’ liberties are protected, a State is invested with the powers to use violence or force to prevent other belligerent groups from terrorising individuals. It is for this reason that a State maintains armed institutions like the police and the army. Going by this definition, an anti-State act would be the one that challenges the State's monopoly over the legitimate use of physical force. In other words, an act of violence or the use of force by anyone other than the State becomes anti-State. Government is a temporary governing body of the State. If the State is like a corporation, the government is like its management. State is semi-permanent. It will live on until it is overthrown or replaced and a new social contract is established. Unlike the State, the government is composed of a set of people organised into a hierarchy. When the electorate vote, they choose their government and not the State. By this definition, an anti-government act would be the one that criticises the policies, strategies, and directives of the governing body in power.Nation, on the other hand, is a mental construct. Ernest Gellner defines this concept precisely yet comprehensively thus:“Two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognize each other as belonging to the same nation. In other words, nations maketh man; nations are the artefacts of men's convictions and loyalties and solidarities. A mere category of persons (say, occupants of a given territory, or speakers of a given language, for example) becomes a nation if and when the members of the category firmly recognize certain mutual rights and duties to each other in virtue of their shared membership of it. It is their recognition of each other as fellows of this kind which turns them into a nation, and not the other shared attributes, whatever they might be, which separate that category from non-members.”In other words, nations are imagined. People belong to the same nation only if they consider themselves to be so. An anti-national act thus could be of two types. One that denies the existence of such an imagined community. For example, libertarians could argue that only individuals matter and not the groups these individuals are a part of. And the other view imagining a nation along lines different from the dominant belief. For example, communism sees workers across the world as one “nation”.What is Sedition then?With these key differences out of the way, we are now in a position to understand sedition and blasphemy laws. Sedition laws can lie on a continuum. In dictatorships and party-states, sedition laws are applied wantonly to criticisms of the government. That is, being anti-government itself is being seditious. In most modern democracies, however, sedition laws punish only those anti-State actions which have the capability to directly challenge the State’s authority. Thus, criticism of the Republic of India would not count as sedition but inciting violence against the police would count as sedition. Crucially, being anti-national is not the same as being seditious. On the other hand, blasphemy laws penalise a subset of anti-national actions, the ones that call into question something held sacred. As the idea of individual freedom has gained prominence, blasphemy laws have been repealed in many places. Not in India though.The Indian Sedition LawNow we are in a position to understand sedition in India. India’s sedition law i.e. Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code has colonial origins. Unsurprisingly then, being anti-government was reason enough to be labelled seditious. Tilak, Gandhi and scores of other leaders were tried for sedition.After independence, the stated aim was to get rid of sedition laws altogether. That never happened. Sedition law continued in its colonial avatar. What did happen is that the application of such laws reverted to a stricter interpretation. Anti-State acts were penalised and not anti-government ones as a result of a right to freedom of speech and expression. In subsequent court rulings, the scope of sedition was further truncated. Only those anti-State acts that had the tendency to incite violence or disturb law and order were deemed to be seditious. This dissonance between the original definition and application continues to this day. See for yourself. The sedition law says: “Whoever,   by   words,   either   spoken   or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards, the Government established by law in India, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, to which fine may be added, or with imprisonment which may extend to three years, to which fine may be added, or with fine.Explanation 1.-- The expression "disaffection" includes disloyalty and all feelings of enmity.Explanation 2.--Comments expressing disapprobation of the measures of the Government with a view to obtain their alteration by lawful means, without exciting or attempting to excite hatred, contempt or disaffection, do not constitute an offence under this section.Explanation 3.--Comments expressing disapprobation of the administrative or other action of the Government without exciting or attempting to excite hatred, contempt or disaffection, do not constitute an offence under this section.Note how wide-ranging this law is. Even disloyalty and all feelings of enmity count as sedition. Now read the qualifier that the Supreme Court added in Kedar Nath vs State of Bihar 1962.“..the sections aim at rendering penal only such activities as would be intended, or have a tendency, to create disorder or disturbance of public peace by resort to violence. As already pointed out, the explanations appended to the main body of the section make it clear that criticism of public measures or comment on Government action, however strongly worded, would be within reasonable limits and would be consistent with the fundamental right of freedom of speech and expression. It is only when the words, written or spoken, etc. which have the pernicious tendency or intention of creating public disorder or disturbance of law and order that the law steps in to prevent such activities in the interest of public order.”In non-legalese, for an action to count as seditious, its connection with violence is necessary according to the Supreme Court but not so according to the original framing in the penal code. This dissonance is a problem. To such an extent that the same judge presiding in two similar cases (Disha Ravi’s and Safoora Zargar’s), referring to the same 1962 judgment, reached two diametrically opposite conclusions! In Safoora Zargar’s case, bail was denied on the grounds that the connection of an act with violence is not necessary. In the Disha Ravi case, bail was granted on the grounds that the connection of an act with violence is necessary. The other problem is the political economy of India’s sedition law. Because it is construed as a grave anti-State offence, it is cognisable i.e. investigation and arrest can happen based on just an FIR, and non-bailable i.e. bail is subject to the decision of a sessions judge. Such strict provisions mean that the police slap sedition charges indiscriminately and by the time charges are cleared, many years pass by. The process becomes the punishment.Clearly, this needs fixing. The Way ForwardBroadly, there are three ways out. The first method would be to revise the sedition law to end the dissonance between the text and its subsequent interpretation. Make the link with violence a necessary condition for the application of sedition. A second way is to scrap the law altogether. If the tendency to cause violence is what triggers sedition, there are enough and more laws in place to address such actions. Even if this law were to be struck down, provisions to punish acts inciting violence against State, government, or other people will still be applicable.A third way out is to address the political economy question by making sedition a bailable and non-cognisable offence. With nothing to gain by slapping the additional charge of sedition, its usage is likely to decline. A solution with a similar effect is to make police personnel comply with additional requirements before arresting a person for sedition. The Bombay High Court tried to do this in the Asim Trivedi case by issuing guidelines to police personnel listing specific preconditions. A failure to adhere to these guidelines made the police officer liable to dereliction of duty. To what extent these guidelines been adopted since then, I do not know. Given my biases, the second solution is the ideal one. But it’s also the most unlikely one in the current situation. We in fact run a real risk of going the other way — sedition laws might well revert to punishing anti-government utterances and blasphemy laws might be used more frequently. Given this reality, focusing on changing the incentives of police might be more practical.For now, I’ll leave with these lines in Disha Ravi’s bail order that need to reach far and wide:“Citizens are conscience keepers of government in any democratic Nation. They cannot be put behind the bars simply because they choose to disagreewith the State policies. The offence of sedition cannot be invoked tominister to the wounded vanity of the governments. Difference of opinion,disagreement, divergence, dissent, or for that matter, even disapprobation, are recognised legitimate tools to infuse objectivity in state policies. An aware and assertive citizenry, in contradistinction with an indifferent or docile citizenry, is indisputably a sign of a healthy and vibrant democracy.”India Policy Watch #2: The Coming InflationInsights on burning policy issues in India- RSJLast week Pranay wrote about the Domar rule and how to think about public debt sustainability. Pranay and I have long held economic growth is a moral imperative for India now. Domar’s paper, like Pranay wrote, makes it clear that growth is necessary even if you favour a big government. The argument is simple. Governments are free to borrow and spend on their favoured programmes. They can run deficits without worrying about today’s deficits turning into tomorrow’s higher taxes or higher inflation only if the national income (r) grows at a rate faster than the interest rate (i). That is if “r” > “i”, we are fine with deficit spending. The logic is simple. If you grow faster than the interest rate, you can keep your debt to GDP ratio at a constant level. So, please go ahead and spendbut choose wisely. Spend in areas that will yield higher growth rates in future. Growth will take care of your debt burden.Since we are in the territory of public debt sustainability and role of government spends, I thought it would be useful to bring the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL from here on) into this discussion. So, consider this an addendum to Pranay’s piece. Price stability or inflation control is a key goal for all governments in a democracy. Why? Because they want to win elections and nothing irks public than price rise. So, there are two questions in public policy on this issue - a) how do we tame inflation and b) is there an optimal level of controlling it?Now, the usual macroeconomic explanation offered to the first question was simple. Inflation is managed by the monetary policy of the central bank. An independent central bank focused on price stability will manage it by controlling the supply of money. If the total output grows at x per year and the money supply grows at y, then over a period of time the prices will grow at (y-x) per year. That’s your inflation rate. Simple. There’s a problem though. It assumes the demand for money among people today is uniform across. This isn’t true. Because all of us have different beliefs about the future. If our view of future inflation is different, our need to hold money today will be different. This means there could be many paths to price stability other than just the monetary approach. These paths are varied depending on households’ views about the economy’s future state. And that’s influenced by fiscal policy. So, according to FTPL, a tough and independent central bank is good to have but it alone cannot guarantee price stability. Fiscal policy will have to work in tandem. Government’s choice of how it finances its debt has a key role in how inflation plays out in future. The central banker must continue to convince the government to adopt the right stance on fiscal policy.On the second question - how much inflation control is optimal - FTPL suggests allowing price levels to swing to any wild variations to the government’s budget. This gets a bit complicated but a simple summary is that in times of economic shocks like a pandemic it is efficient to allow prices to go up. That done, let me move to add my nuance to Pranay’s explanation of Domar’s rule. No one can argue about “r” > “i” logic. The key questions about the deficit, however, are for how long and how much? If you have a fiscal deficit of one per cent for one year and you take the next five to grow higher than the interest rate to offset it, you’re fine. But what if you keep adding a five or six per cent deficit every year for a decade and more? As a somewhat laidback, retiring fiscal hawk, this is what worries me when I see unlimited deficit spending all around. A trillion here in stimulus and another trillion there and soon we are talking about some real money here. My worry is we have reached a stage where “r” > “i” cannot support the deficit spending. So inflation will come in. That’s my view. A high inflation future is inevitable. Addendum squaredRSJ makes an important point. “r” > “i” is a necessary but insufficient condition. The reality is that “r” needs to be sufficiently greater than “i”. That’s because the “r” > “i” condition rests on the assumption that the primary deficit is zero i.e. the government is only borrowing to pay interest on debts accumulated in the past. That’s not the case in India. The primary deficit in 2019-20 was 1.6 per cent of GDP while it is estimated to be 3.1 per cent in the next financial year. This means a lot of borrowing is being deployed not just for capital investment but also for the day to day running of the government. With higher primary deficits comes higher responsibility to restart economic growth. Not(PolicyWTF): Delhi Government’s Singapore AmbitionsThis section looks at egregious public policies. Policies that make you go: WTF, Did that really happen?— Pranay KotasthaneGiven how we keep going on and on about the urgency of economic growth, this line in the Delhi government’s budget came as a pleasant surprise:“Our goal is that the per capita income of Delhi by the year 2047 is equal to the income of a Singapore citizen. To make this possible, we have to increase the income of our citizens by about 16 times which is a difficult target, but not impossible.”It’s not new for Indian governments to aspire to be like someplace else. Isomorphic mimicry is in fact quite common. Vilas Rao Deshmukh wanted to transform Mumbai into Shanghai more than a decade ago. What’s different this time is the Delhi government has set itself a measurable output target with a defined end date, something most governments refuse to commit to. The Delhi Finance Minister even had a well-thought-out response to the question “Why Singapore?”. He said:“Singapore has one of the most stable economies in the world, with high government revenue and a consistently positive surplus. As a result of its strategic geographical positioning in Asia, the socio-economic context of Singapore is relatable to that of India. In addition to this, Singapore is also a city state which has achieved substantial growth in the past 25 years. So, when we think of Delhi 25 years from now, we envision a Delhi which can stand at par with one of the fastest growing and developed economies in the world.”Setting a clear, measurable income target against which performance can be measured is a welcome change. Hopefully, the other governments are watching. HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Article] John Cochrane on fiscal roots of inflation. A great paper.[Article] ‘Disaffection’ and the Law: The Chilling Effect of Sedition Laws in India by Siddharth Narrain is a good overview of the history of sedition in India.[Podcast] Pranay and Saurabh discuss the impossibility theorem of affirmative action on Puliyabaazi. Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

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- RSJChaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature Court (2014) convinced me about two things. One, here was a global talent whose cinema will make us proud in future. He did that and more with his next feature - The Disciple (2020). I knew of the precocious Tamhane back from 2007-08 when his knowledge and analysis of global cinema of all stripes used to leave us awestruck. We were no mugs about cinema ourselves. But he was different. Next level as they say. That aside, it is the second point that I was left with at the end of Court that has stayed with me for long.Ruka Hua FaislaBut to back up a bit, here’s what Court is about. It begins with a day in the life of an elderly Dalit activist, Narayan: a writer of protest songs and a teacher for poor kids living in the slums. A simple man of deep conviction he has devoted his life to causes that are dear to him. Soon, he is arrested because a manhole worker died by suicide after listening to one of his angst-ridden songs that seemingly abetted it. The trial is a Kafkaesque nightmare. It is clear that the manhole worker died because of inhaling the poisonous sewage gases. This isn’t anything new. The plight of these workers who go into the manholes without any safety equipment has been documented many times over. Yet, the public prosecutor and the state produce fake witnesses who testify against Narayan and bring up bizarre new charges like possession of illegal books (there’s one on Yoga) to make it watertight case against him. The state can’t accept the man died because of the abominable work conditions. Instead it must have been that old mass murderer over the ages - poetry. The autopsy report and the testimony of the wife nail the lie. This was no suicide. Meanwhile Narayan’s health continues to deteriorate while he is in custody. The judge grants him a bail for a surety amount of Rs. 1 Lac. Good news? Wait. The next day Narayan is arrested again on another trumped up charge. This time it is about sedition and for waging a war against the state. The case is back to the same judge who tells them to appeal to the High Court. The film ends with what appears like a complete non sequitur. We see Narayan on bail going back to teaching the poor kids in the slums. And then there’s a surreal bit to end the film. The judge and his family go out for a day long picnic. They travel in a minibus singing songs and playing antakshari. We see members of the family seek the judge’s counsel on different issues. The judge is like that old uncle we all know. He dispenses vacuous, outdated advice. The last scene has the judge dozing off on a bench mid-afternoon while the children play cricket nearby. A ball hits the judge mildly. He wakes up and promptly slaps the boy who has come to pick it up. The film ends.A Reflection Of Our SocietyThere are multiple themes apparent in the Court: the vengeful state, an indifferent judicial system, the drudgery of bureaucratic work, the idealism of an aging activist and the tenacity of a young advocate who is representing him. However, I was struck by that last scene. What was that about? Over the last few years, I have thought about that scene often. Why? Well, let me offer you three recent newspaper pieces.First, here’s Shekhar Gupta in The Print on “how our judiciary is murdering the principle of ‘bail, not jail’ routinely”:“It is a challenge to decide which institution has declined over the recent decades, the police or the judiciary. But today, if you are someone the powers that be don’t like, they can easily find police officers to file a case with serious sections from the IPC, never mind if they don’t have a shred (or iota, which our judges prefer in their orders) of evidence.You might still think, certainly, they still have to produce me before a magistrate who would easily see through the police case that’s thinner on evidence than Coronil, if even that. And once the magistrate sees that, the order will be determined by that immortal line from the legendary late Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer: Rule is bail, not jail.Contrary to our belief, that Krishna Iyer line wasn’t immortal. If anything, it’s been murdered and cremated routinely, and at least three times in recent days. Check the cases of Munawar Faruqui, Nodeep Kaur and Disha Ravi. Our choice of three very young and vocal people is a conscious one.”Or, read this from The Economic Times:“Chief Justice of India triggered a controversy on Monday with his remarks in two cases. In one case, he asked a man accused of rape in a relationship with a 16-year-old, whether he was willing to marry the complainant. The man faces accusations of rape, cheating and criminal intimidation, besides charges under the stringent Pocso Act designed to prevent exploitation of children.The CJI’s remark was panned on social media.In another case, the CJI asked if a man’s sexual conduct, however brutal, could attract rape charges if it was made by his partner.”Or, how about this:“Justice Pushpa Ganediwala recently acquitted a man accused of groping a 12-year old girl's breast because he did not make skin-to-skin contact, and days earlier, ruled that holding the hands of a five-year-old girl and unzipping pants do not amount to 'sexual assault' under the POCSO Act.In two other judgments, she acquitted two persons accused of raping minor girls after noting that the testimony of the victims did not inspire confidence to fix criminal liability on the accused persons."No doubt, the testimony of the prosecutrix (victim) is sufficient for conviction of the accused. However, the same ought to inspire confidence of this Court. It ought to be of sterling quality, Justice Pushpa Ganediwala said in one of the judgments.”I could go on and on but I think you get my drift. A Good Citizen?Why have things turned this way over the past few years? I have 3 reasons to offer. Firstly, we draw our bureaucrats and our judges from our society. Our society has progressed on liberal axis over the past seventy years. But not enough. It is largely illiberal. Secondly, society was illiberal in the past too. But there was no incentive for those running it to be illiberal while interpreting the law or administering a rule. Going by the evidence above, this seems to have changed as the state has turned illiberal. When incentive changes, behaviour changes. Thirdly, we seem to be sorely missing virtue in public life. In the absence of it we have deified certain institutions where virtue is often visible. Like the armed forces or the judiciary. There’s always a price to pay for deification without adequate scrutiny. That brings me back to that last scene of the Court. I seem to get it a tad better these days. Apart from the many other themes apparent in the film, the one that was running in the subterranean was that old question of Aristotle - who is a good citizen? Is an old activist fighting the good fight against the state, writing revolutionary poems and organising the downtrodden to demand for their rights, a good citizen? Or is a learned judge with the majesty of law by his side, lording it over a court where the witnesses are fabricated and charges are often false, a good citizen? The society and the state have an answer. But is that the truth?Tamhane answers this in that brilliant coda to his film. The activist whom the state considers a threat is busy teaching kids despite his troubles while the judge with no care in the world wastes his time in a frivolous picnic and slaps a boy who disturbs his afternoon siesta. Court was released in 2014. Like all good art it is timeless. Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

At a time when the brainwash toolkit has enabled any person to be called a traitor / conspirator / agent - the bail of Disha Ravi comes as a surprise. Not only that the order by Justice Rana also reminds citizens of their duty at a time when rulers have convinced the masses that Government is the country. We take a look at why this bail order is significant and also pay our tribute to andolanjivis before Disha - like Ravi Shankar Prasad, Late Arun Jaitley & PM Modi himself. *** Unlock MEMBER ONLY - Discord / Chats / Content PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/thedeshbhakt YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmTM_hPCeckqN3cPWtYZZcg/join MERCH - https://kadakmerch.com/thedeshbhakt Chapter Heads : 00:00 - Civics lesson for India! 02:32 - Right to question 03:13 - Jaago Nagrik Jaago 03:43 - Diversity is the essence 04:15 - Right to Global audience 05:04 - Story of Whatsapp Group 05:44 - The Bail ! 06:55 - Opposition tum ho kaha!? ** READ ** https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/comment/standing-your-ground-a-toolkit-953561.html https://images.assettype.com/barandbench/2021-02/05c1a67e-051b-49c3-a0a1-cd1bc1e24da0/Disha_Ravi_bail_judgment.pdf https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/ten-reasons-why-disha-ravi-was-granted-bail *** SUBSCRIBE / FOLLOW US *** YouTube: - https://youtube.com/thedeshbhakt Twitter :- https://twitter.com/thedeshbhakt Web - https://thedeshbhakt.in/ Instagram :- https://instagram.com/akashbanerjee.in Facebook :- https://www.facebook.com/akashbanerjee.in Podcast - https://anchor.fm/thedeshbhakt **More DeshBhakt Videos** The Deshbhakt Episodes: https://bit.ly/3eLgvLv INDIA IN EMERGENCY: https://bit.ly/3dM4Bj8 Bhakt Banerjee Rocks: https://bit.ly/2VuFQlf B&D Media and the Public: https://bit.ly/389jjzw Akash-Vaani: https://bit.ly/3eKvN3h ** Credits ** Writer : Akash Editor : Tushar --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thedeshbhakt/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedeshbhakt/support

In this episode, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry's Ayush Tewari and Supriti David.The conversation starts with Ayush and Basant's report on Dainik Jagran running a disingenuous PR campaign for the UP government's farm policies. Ayush points out the “questionable relationship between media houses and governments” and describes how impactful these campaigns can be. On the toolkit case and Disha Ravi getting bail, Supriti talks about her report, her experience in court, and the case itself. When Disha got bail, she says, “you could see that she was perhaps smiling, but couldn't really see it because she had her mask on. She was constantly cracking her knuckles and she looked really, really tired.” She also reads out specific parts from the judgement. Ayush talks about how the media and the establishment are now targeting young female protesters. Supriti says, “I view it as part of this larger trend of how women, incarcerated or not, are always represented in the media...It's very disturbing and it doesn't seem like it's going to change.”The panel also discusses memories of the Delhi riots. This and a lot more as they talk about what made news, what didn't, and what shouldn't have. Tune in! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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“If highlighting farmers' protests globally is sedition, I am better off in jail.” With this, perhaps the most brave words spoken in India in the past seven years, 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi showed the country what courage is all about. A Delhi court granted her bail but it came only after she had spent several days behind bars after being charged with sedition for editing a digital document on how to highlight the farmers' protests. Here's why her incarceration should worry each one of us.

In this episode of The Lead, Advocate Vinay Sreenivasa to talk about the laws concerning sedition and jurisdiction, which have once again come to the fore in the form of the Disha Ravi case. Ahmed Shariff: Hi, this is Ahmed Shariff and welcome to the Lead by DH Radio. In today's episode, we are joined by Advocate Vinay Sreenivasa to talk about the laws concerning sedition and jurisdiction, which have once again come to the fore in the form of the Disha Ravi case. Hi sir and welcome to DH Radio. Vinay Sreenivasa: Hello. Ahmed: It's nice to have you on our show. Sir, getting straight to the questions. In legal terms, what constitutes Sedition and how has the Indian system defined it and what are the loopholes in this definition? Vinay: Sedition is an outdated law, which is there from British times. In fact, you must remember that Gandhiji was also arrested for Sedition... To know more about the conversation listen to the podcast. Download the Deccan Herald app for iOS devices here: https://apple.co/30eOFD6 For latest news and updates, log on to www.deccanherald.com Check out our e-paper www.deccanheraldepaper.com

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Delhi's Patiala Court on Tuesday, 23 February, granted bail to Bangalore-based climate activist Disha Ravi, who was arrested on 14 February in connection with a toolkit on the farmers' protest that was tweeted by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. In his order granting bail, Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana said, “Considering the scanty and sketchy investigation, I do not find any palpable reason to breach the rule of bail for a 22-year-old girl who has absolutely no criminal antecedents.” Ravi has been directed to furnish two sureties of Rs 1 lakh each for her release, responding to which her lawyer Siddharth Agarwal argued that her family was in no position to pay as much. However, the court denied this request. Ravi has also been directed to cooperate with the ongoing Delhi Police investigation and not leave the country.Ravi was also produced before a magistrate in the same court for remand hearings. Upon being told that Judge Rana had granted her bail, the magistrate said that he will dispose of the matter.As per the Delhi Police, Ravi edited the ‘toolkit' containing ‘anti-India content at the behest of pro-Khalistani organisations,' which sought to trigger violence amid the farmers' protests. However, Judge Rana in his bail order noted the Bombay High Court ruling which previously held that, “conspiracy cannot be proved merely on the basis of inferences. The inferences have to be backed by evidence.”And that the lack of evidence by the prosecution is what was highlighted by Judge Rana in his bail order as well.In today's episode, we will tackle the big questions: What were the claims in Delhi Police's FIR? How did Judge Rana respond to the key contentions of the parties and where does the case stand right now?Host and Producer: Himmat ShaligramGuest:Vakasha Sachdev, Legal Editor, The Quint Editor: Shelly Walia Music: Big Bang FuzzListen to The Big Story podcast on:Apple: https://apple.co/2AYdLIl Saavn: http://bit.ly/2oix78C Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/2ntMV7S Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IyLAUQ Deezer: http://bit.ly/2Vrf5Ng Castbox: http://bit.ly/2VqZ9ur

The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court granted interim bail on medical grounds to ailing poet-activist Varavara Rao.Climate activist Disha Ravi was granted bail by the Delhi Patiala House Court.Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged GST Council to bring petroleum products under GST purview as early as possible. For more live news download Etv Bharat Download ETV Bharat on App store – https://apps.apple.com/in/app/etv-bharat/id1453416186 Play Store – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etvbharat.android Or watch us live on – www.etvbharat.com ETV Bharat is a Division of Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. , is a comprehensive digital national news platform conceived to deliver seamless news and information services, using video-centric Mobile App and Web Portals. It is first-of-its kind offering in India in terms of diversity and depth, dedicated journalists network, reach of 24 states with services in 13 languages i.e.– Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese, Odia and English. ETV Bharat is the latest initiative of the five-decade old multi-dimensional Ramoji Group. The Group's highly successful media endeavors include : Eenadu - one of the largely circulated language dailies in the country , and ETV Network with Telugu general entertainment, infotainment and news channels. With a strong lineage of the most trusted media house, ETV Bharat would draw on its strengths of decades' long experience and innovation. ETV Bharat will combine the new technologies of mobile and digital media to engage news and information seekers in a new connected world. It will be driven by well-established news gathering setup, technology specialists and other professionals.

In your evening news brief, Delhi court grants bail to climate activist Disha Ravi; Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court gives interim bail on medical grounds to poet-activist Varavara Rao and Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh says sale of Coronil tablets of Patanjali will not be allowed in Maharashtra without proper certification. Download the Deccan Herald app for iOS devices here: https://apple.co/30eOFD6 For latest news and updates, log on to www.deccanherald.com Check out our e-paper www.deccanheraldepaper.com

EAM S Jaishankar said that as one of the key priority partners, 1,00,000 doses of 'made in India' COVID vaccine reached Mauritius immediately after India rolled its vaccination program. Dadra and Nagar Haveli MP Mohan Delkar allegedly died by suicide at a hotel in South Mumbai. Patiala House Court sends Disha Ravi on one-day Police remand in the Toolkit case. For more live news download Etv Bharat Download ETV Bharat on App store – https://apps.apple.com/in/app/etv-bharat/id1453416186 Play Store – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etvbharat.android Or watch us live on – www.etvbharat.com ETV Bharat is a Division of Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. , is a comprehensive digital national news platform conceived to deliver seamless news and information services, using video-centric Mobile App and Web Portals. It is first-of-its kind offering in India in terms of diversity and depth, dedicated journalists network, reach of 24 states with services in 13 languages i.e.– Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese, Odia and English. ETV Bharat is the latest initiative of the five-decade old multi-dimensional Ramoji Group. The Group's highly successful media endeavors include : Eenadu - one of the largely circulated language dailies in the country , and ETV Network with Telugu general entertainment, infotainment and news channels. With a strong lineage of the most trusted media house, ETV Bharat would draw on its strengths of decades' long experience and innovation. ETV Bharat will combine the new technologies of mobile and digital media to engage news and information seekers in a new connected world. It will be driven by well-established news gathering setup, technology specialists and other professionals.

Congress govt in Puducherry toppled after CM Narayanasamy failed to win the trust vote in the Assembly. He has resigned as the CM of the Union Territory. Dadra and Nagar Haveli MP Mohan Delkar was found dead in a hotel in the Marine Drive area of Mumbai. A Delhi court sent 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi to one-day police custody. Tomorrow, February 23, order on her bail will be issued. Download the Deccan Herald app for iOS devices here: https://apple.co/30eOFD6 For latest news and updates, log on to www.deccanherald.com Check out our e-paper www.deccanheraldepaper.com

The 10th round of Corps Commander level talks between India and China is underway on the Chinese side of the Line Of Actual Control in Moldo. Hearing underway in Disha Ravi bail plea case, before additional sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana at Patiala House Court. The ethnic and LGBTQ groups of Myanmar on Saturday came out on the streets to protest against the military junta for overthrowing the democratically elected government. For more live news download Etv Bharat Download ETV Bharat on App store – https://apps.apple.com/in/app/etv-bharat/id1453416186 Play Store – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etvbharat.android Or watch us live on – www.etvbharat.com ETV Bharat is a Division of Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. , is a comprehensive digital national news platform conceived to deliver seamless news and information services, using video-centric Mobile App and Web Portals. It is first-of-its kind offering in India in terms of diversity and depth, dedicated journalists network, reach of 24 states with services in 13 languages i.e.– Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese, Odia and English. ETV Bharat is the latest initiative of the five-decade old multi-dimensional Ramoji Group. The Group's highly successful media endeavors include : Eenadu - one of the largely circulated language dailies in the country , and ETV Network with Telugu general entertainment, infotainment and news channels. With a strong lineage of the most trusted media house, ETV Bharat would draw on its strengths of decades' long experience and innovation. ETV Bharat will combine the new technologies of mobile and digital media to engage news and information seekers in a new connected world. It will be driven by well-established news gathering setup, technology specialists and other professionals.

In your evening news brief, Delhi Police opposes Disha Ravi's bail plea; Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dubs the rising fuel price a "vexatious issue”; Japan's Naomi Osaka beats Jennifer Brady in straight sets in Australian Open final and Karnataka Health and Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar rules out imposing of lockdown, as of now, in any part of the state. Download the Deccan Herald app for iOS devices here: https://apple.co/30eOFD6 For latest news and updates, log on to www.deccanherald.com Check out our e-paper www.deccanheraldepaper.com

This Episode of Kaka Balli Punjabi Podcast sheds brief light on controversial arrest on environmental activist Disha Ravi, who is charged with sedition. Also, her alleged connection to Pro-Khalistani group Poetic Justice and Sikhs for Justice. Delhi police's role to arrest Disha Ravi. Also, my opinion of Greta Thunberg's approach on Global warming and her impractical solutions to it. ਕਾਕਾ ਬੱਲੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪੋਡਕਾਸਟ ਦਾ ਇਹ ਕਿੱਸਾ ਦਿਸ਼ਾ ਰਵੀ ਉੱਤੇ ਵਿਵਾਦਗ੍ਰਸਤ ਗ੍ਰਿਫਤਾਰੀ ਬਾਰੇ ਸੰਖੇਪ ਚਾਨਣਾ ਪਾਉਂਦਾ ਹੈ, ਜਿਸ ਤੇ ਦੇਸ਼ ਧ੍ਰੋਹ ਦਾ ਦੋਸ਼ ਹੈ। ਖ਼ਾਲਿਸਤਾਨੀ ਗਰੁੱਪ ਪੋਇਟਿਕ ਜਸਟਿਸ ਅਤੇ ਸਿੱਖਸ ਫਾਰ ਜਸਟਿਸ ਨਾਲ ਉਸਦਾ ਕਥਿਤ ਸੰਬੰਧ ਹੈ। ਦਿਸ਼ਾ ਰਵੀ ਨੂੰ ਫੜਨ ਲਈ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਪੁਲਿਸ ਦੀ ਭੂਮਿਕਾ। ਇਸ ਤੋਂ ਇਲਾਵਾ, ਗ੍ਰੇਟਾ ਥਨਬਰਗ ਦੀ ਪਹੁੰਚ ਅਤੇ ਇਸਦੇ ਅਭਿਆਸਕ ਹੱਲਾਂ ਬਾਰੇ ਮੇਰੀ ਰਾਏ.

A magnitude 4 earthquake hit Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand at 4:38 pm today. Jharkhand High Court rejects RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav's bail plea in the Dumka treasury case. Disha Ravi sent to three-day judicial custody by Delhi's Patiala House Court in the Toolkit case. For more live news download Etv Bharat Download ETV Bharat on App store – https://apps.apple.com/in/app/etv-bharat/id1453416186 Play Store – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etvbharat.android Or watch us live on – www.etvbharat.com ETV Bharat is a Division of Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. , is a comprehensive digital national news platform conceived to deliver seamless news and information services, using video-centric Mobile App and Web Portals. It is first-of-its kind offering in India in terms of diversity and depth, dedicated journalists network, reach of 24 states with services in 13 languages i.e.– Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese, Odia and English. ETV Bharat is the latest initiative of the five-decade old multi-dimensional Ramoji Group. The Group's highly successful media endeavors include : Eenadu - one of the largely circulated language dailies in the country , and ETV Network with Telugu general entertainment, infotainment and news channels. With a strong lineage of the most trusted media house, ETV Bharat would draw on its strengths of decades' long experience and innovation. ETV Bharat will combine the new technologies of mobile and digital media to engage news and information seekers in a new connected world. It will be driven by well-established news gathering setup, technology specialists and other professionals.

India Climate Activist Jailed / Beyond the Headlines / A New Leader for USDA / The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World Amid ongoing massive farmer protests, the Indian government is cracking down on activists including Disha Ravi, the young climate activist who founded Fridays for Future - India. How climate activism connects with the Indian farmer protests, and the government's attempts to silence activists and journalists. Also, President Biden's pick for Secretary of Agriculture is Tom Vilsack, who would be reprising the role after his 8 years in the Obama administration. "Vilsack II" is showing signs that since then he's become more supportive of food assistance programs and reforming historically racist programs at USDA. And insects far outnumber us on this planet, and they've shaped the course of human history. A conversation with the author of "The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World" on this legacy and the critical need to preserve insect biodiversity for future generations.

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In your evening news brief, Disha Ravi sent to three-day judicial custody; Jharkhand High Court rejects RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav's bail plea in the Dumka Treasury case and WhatsApp says it has conveyed to the Indian government that it remains committed to protection of privacy of personal conversations across the country Download the Deccan Herald app for iOS devices here: https://apple.co/30eOFD6 For latest news and updates, log on to www.deccanherald.com Check out our e-paper www.deccanheraldepaper.com

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The arrest of 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi has raised a number of questions. She has been charged with conspiracy and sedition for editing a google document, a toolkit supporting the farmers' protests. The Delhi Police arrested Ravi from Bengaluru without a transit remand order. The police did not inform her chosen lawyers of her remand hearing and provided her with a legal aid lawyer instead. Then the magistrate ordered five days of police custody.  On this episode of The Suno India Show, our reporter Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Colin Gonsalves, a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court and the founder of Human Rights Law Network. Gonsalves says that even people protesting peacefully and legally can be arrested by the police illegally. However, he gives legal advice on how those arrested can speak up for their rights before the police and the court. Legal precedents and guidelines cited by him are linked below.  DK Basu guidelines Arnesh Kumar vs State Of Bihar MHA advisory on arresting an accused outside State/UT jurisdiction  See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

The police have alleged that Disha Ravi was the one who shared the toolkit document with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/harjinderwalia/message

A day after Delhi Police arrested Bengaluru-based climate activist Disha Ravi on charges of sedition for having allegedly edited a toolkit which Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg shared on Twitter, two more activists came under the spotlight –– Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk. Who are they and what is the police alleging? Nikita Jacob is a practicing lawyer in the Bombay High Court and Shantanu Muluk is an environmentalist who had quit his aerospace engineering job around six months back, to focus on the parched regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada. From the press conference held on 15 February, we know that the Delhi Police had named the three accused –– Disha Ravi, Nikita Jacob and Shantanu –– as the editors and creators of the toolkit who laid out an “action plan” for 26 January. Their aim? To create misinformation and disaffection against the lawfully enacted government. The police further revealed that a Zoom meeting took place on 11 January, attended by Jacob and Shantanu, and organised by the Poetic Justice foundation, which the police deems as a pro-Khalistani organisation, in which ‘the modalities of the Global Day of Action were worked out'.In her defence, Nikita Jacob has stated that the toolkit was simply an information pack, that her intent was never to incite violence and there was nothing illegal in what she did.Shantanu Muluk, who was granted transit anticipatory bail on 16 February after a Delhi court issued a non-bailable warrant against him, had said in his bail plea before the Bombay High Court: "...Vendetta has trickled down from politics to the house of a common man making a mockery of the rights and principles enshrined in the Constitution of India. That such vendetta, which is the dark face of authoritarianism, is the real ‘toolkit' for devastation of not only of democracy but also basic human rights.”Naturally, the statements of the police and the accused contrast... so in this episode we are going to try and see where the law stands on toolkits and sedition, and how the law should treat Shantanu and Nikita Jacob's case.Producer and Host: Himmat ShaligramGuest:Vakasha Sachdev, Legal Editor for The Quint Editor: Shelly Walia Music: Big Bang FuzzListen to The Big Story podcast on: Apple: https://apple.co/2AYdLIl Saavn: http://bit.ly/2oix78C Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/2ntMV7S Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IyLAUQ Deezer: http://bit.ly/2Vrf5Ng Castbox: http://bit.ly/2VqZ9ur

आज FYI के इस एपिसोड में साहिबा ख़ान बात करेंगी ‘toolkit' की। वही ‘toolkit' जिसे Greta Thunberg ने किया था ट्वीट और इसके चलते कई activists को गिरफ्तार करने में लगी हुई है दिल्ली पुलिस। क्या है उस ‘toolkit' में ? क्या सही में उसमें कुछ ऐसी चीज़ें है जो देश के खिलाफ हैं या फिर ये केवल एक तरीका है किसान आंदोलन में समर्थन कम करने का? साहिबा बात करेंगी Indian Civil Liberties Union के founder अनस तनवीर सिद्दीक़ी से जो पेशे से वकील हैं , और जानेंगे इस केस के क़ानूनी डाव-पेंच। पूरा एपिसोड सुनने के लिए जाएं और सुनें ये podcast, ABP Live पर। आप इसे gaana.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts aur Jio Saavn पर भी सुन सकते हैं।

In your evening news brief, War of words erupts between BJP, Opposition over Disha Ravi's arrest; Sensex finishes above the 52,000-mark and Petrol and diesel prices hiked for the seventh day in a row. Download the Deccan Herald app for iOS devices here: https://apple.co/30eOFD6 For latest news and updates, log on to www.deccanherald.com Check out our e-paper www.deccanheraldepaper.com

..1-Elezioni in Catalogna: vincono i socialisti e l'ala pragmatica dell'Indipendentismo. ..( Emanuele Valenti) ..2-India. Si allarga il fronte contro la riforma agraria voluta dal premier Modi . ..Anche i giovani del Friday for Futures si schierano con i contadini in lotta. Arrestata l'attivista Disha Ravi , 22 anni, perché fu ritwittata da Greta Thunberg. ( Martina Stefanoni) ..3-Terrorismo. Al via il vertice Francia – paesi dell'Africa sub sahariana. Sul tavolo il disastro delle operazioni militari di Parigi. ( Luisa Nannipieri) ..4- Stati Uniti. Dopo aver salvato Donald trump dall'Impeachment i repubblicani intendono archiviare al più presto i 4 anni di estremismo politico alla casa Bianca. ( Roberto Festa) ..5-Passaporto vaccini. I Pro e i contro secondo il quotidiano britannico The Guardian...( Anna Nessi) ..6-Serie tv: Framming Britney Spears, Il documentario che sta facendo discutere l'America. ..( Alice Cucchetti – Film TV)

Cybercrime Unit arrested 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi, Real Madrid eased to victory over a lacklustre Valencia in La Liga, Rs 1 lakh reward on information about Republic Day violence suspect Lakha Sadhana & other top stories in your morning news bulletin.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the meeting called by BJP President J P Nadda on 21st February in Delhi. The Delhi Police said that Disha Ravi along with Nikita Jacob and Shantanu created the 'toolkit', which was used to amplify misinformation regarding the farmers' protest. India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin scores a century on the third day of the second Test match in Chennai. For more live news download Etv Bharat Download ETV Bharat on App store – https://apps.apple.com/in/app/etv-bharat/id1453416186 Play Store – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etvbharat.android Or watch us live on – www.etvbharat.com ETV Bharat is a Division of Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. , is a comprehensive digital national news platform conceived to deliver seamless news and information services, using video-centric Mobile App and Web Portals. It is first-of-its kind offering in India in terms of diversity and depth, dedicated journalists network, reach of 24 states with services in 13 languages i.e.– Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese, Odia and English. ETV Bharat is the latest initiative of the five-decade old multi-dimensional Ramoji Group. The Group's highly successful media endeavors include : Eenadu - one of the largely circulated language dailies in the country , and ETV Network with Telugu general entertainment, infotainment and news channels. With a strong lineage of the most trusted media house, ETV Bharat would draw on its strengths of decades' long experience and innovation. ETV Bharat will combine the new technologies of mobile and digital media to engage news and information seekers in a new connected world. It will be driven by well-established news gathering setup, technology specialists and other professionals.

Myanmar army crackdown. Israel vaccines. Change in drug laws in Oregon. Climate activist Disha Ravi arrested. Ken Ofori-Atta travels to USA. NIB arrests Kwadwo Darko Mensah.

On today's update, we have UAE's latest coronavirus figures, the news that second doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been pushed back due to a Dubai vaccine centre closing for two weekends and the announcement that all schools in the Northern Emirates have switched to distance learning. Dubai Police seize 20 vehicles with illegal speed boosters and Israel's ambassador to the US says Benjamin Netanyahu is 'not troubled' that he hasn't received a call from US President Joe Biden. Thoraya Abdullahi joins us for what's trending including Disha Ravi, Nicki Minaj and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

In a move that has triggered anger and disbelief in equal parts across social media by legal experts, the opposition parties, climate activists and even the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, Delhi Police on 13 February arrested 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi from her Bengaluru residence on charges of creating and sharing  a toolkit on the farmers' protest that was posted by international climate activist Greta Thunberg.Disha Ravi's arrest marks the first arrest in an FIR filed by the cybercrime unit of the Delhi Police, which was registered against the creators of the ‘toolkit' on 4 February.Delhi Police's statement claimed that Ravi was a ‘co-conspirator' in the toolkit's formulation –– and ‘in this process' collaborated with ‘pro-Khalistani Poetic Justice Foundation to spread disaffection against the Indian State'.Ravi has denied being part of any conspiracy and said that she didn't create the toolkit and just made two edits to it. She was produced before a magistrate in Delhi on Sunday, 14 February, who remanded her to five days police custody.Disha Ravi's case raises questions on the legality of her arrest – and the process which the Delhi police followed – over and above questions about whether the offences that she and others are accused of are even made out. Producer and Host: Himmat ShaligramGuest:Dr NC Asthana, a retired IPS officer and the former DGP Kerala,andRebecca John, a senior law advocate Editor: Shelly Walia Music: Big Bang FuzzListen to The Big Story podcast on: Apple: https://apple.co/2AYdLIl Saavn: http://bit.ly/2oix78C Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/2ntMV7S Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IyLAUQ Deezer: http://bit.ly/2Vrf5Ng Castbox: http://bit.ly/2VqZ9ur

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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal called the arrest of climate activist Disha Ravi in the toolkit document case an “unprecedented attack on democracy". She was arrested from Bengaluru for allegedly sharing with Greta Thunberg, the "toolkit.Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra came out in support of climate activist Disha Ravi, who was arrested by Delhi police over the "toolkit" controversy.Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani tested positive for COVID 19. For more live news download Etv Bharat Download ETV Bharat on App store – https://apps.apple.com/in/app/etv-bharat/id1453416186 Play Store – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etvbharat.android Or watch us live on – www.etvbharat.com ETV Bharat is a Division of Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. , is a comprehensive digital national news platform conceived to deliver seamless news and information services, using video-centric Mobile App and Web Portals. It is first-of-its kind offering in India in terms of diversity and depth, dedicated journalists network, reach of 24 states with services in 13 languages i.e.– Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese, Odia and English. ETV Bharat is the latest initiative of the five-decade old multi-dimensional Ramoji Group. The Group's highly successful media endeavors include : Eenadu - one of the largely circulated language dailies in the country , and ETV Network with Telugu general entertainment, infotainment and news channels. With a strong lineage of the most trusted media house, ETV Bharat would draw on its strengths of decades' long experience and innovation. ETV Bharat will combine the new technologies of mobile and digital media to engage news and information seekers in a new connected world. It will be driven by well-established news gathering setup, technology specialists and other professionals.