1) “How Indian media sold out|The Caravan Long View Ep 5”
In this episode of The Caravan Longview, Hartosh Singh Bal and Sushant Singh provide an analysis of the structural decay within Indian journalism and how its inherent vulnerabilities have been weaponised for political gain. They argue that the “Godi Media” phenomenon was not an overnight accident, but the result of a pre-existing, fragile ecosystem being systematically re-engineered into a disciplined machinery for narrative management.
2) “Osman Hadi is becoming a Malcolm X for Bangladesh, influence multiplied after death”
Bangladesh has been on the boil since the death of a prominent student activist, Osman Hadi and a core component of it has been the anti-India sentiment. But what is driving it? It is just a student leader’s death, Sheikh Hasina’s exile to India post 2024 or more? Bangladeshi political analyst Shaquat Rabbee speaks to Debdutta Chakraborty on this and more in ThePrint #Uninterrupted
3) How Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar shatters the global myth of Buddhism as peaceful
How did a religion symbolised by its guiding tenet of non-ahimsa or non-violence see a shift where the monks ended up picking swords in pursuit of a nationalist identity across South and South East Asia? Author & journalist Sonia Faleiro discusses this and more in ThePrint #SoftCover, where she discusses her newly released book, The Robe and the Sword with Debdutta Chakraborty
4) Aamer Rahman on “Reverse Racism”
“The war on Christians in India”
By Azad Essa
https://azadessa.substack.com/p/the-war-on-christians-in-india
“Paradise Lost: Kashmir, orientalism, and the politics of belonging”
By Maheen Azmat
https://www.dawn.com/news/1962813/paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging
The word Ahimsa means non-violence.
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BB – enough; pls don’t test my patience
Much material in this article, so no excepts. I learnt Derivatives theory from a Satyajit Das book in 1999.
Shadow Banking: unregulated financial institutions (structured investment vehicles, asset backed commercial paper issuers, securitisation structures, money market and hedge funds)
non-bank financial groups totalled around $257 trillion, growing ate 9.4 percent in 2024. In contrast, banks’ assets rose 4.7 percent to just over $191tn in 2024.
As of 2024, shadow banks total financial assets were *225 percent of Global GDP up from 150 percent* in 2008. In comparison bank assets, which have grown more slowly are 175 percent. Since 2008, hedge funds have doubled to 8 percent of GDP.
This means there is a distinct lack of appetite for measures to regulate shadow banks as that would require dealing with debt levels or changing a borrowing driven economic model.
In the *next financial crisis* , shadow banks will again exaggerate asset price falls, increase volatility, *and be a source of financial instability.*
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/12/satyajit-das-the-shadow-of-financial-instability.html
How Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar shatters the global myth of Buddhism as peaceful
The speaker Sonia Faleiro says re Sri Lanka Hindu Tamils versus Sinhalese Buddhists.
Very far from the truth and oft repeated in Western Media and Indians. Sinhalese Buddhists share and believe in the same “gods”
The Govt vs LTTE civil war was about separatism LTTE trained and funded by India
eg Upulvan now considered to be Vishnu.
Mahavansa, The great chronicle of Sri Lanka, tells how the “Upulvan Deiyo” thus Vishnu was selected as the guardian to protect the land of Sri Lanka and Buddhism within it at the time of Buddha’s passing away
https://amazinglanka.com/wp/devinuwara-devale/
thailand and cambodia fight.
pol pot
some chines and japanese.(world war ii)
vietnam
the way navayanas in india act.
tibetian special units auxillary to india.
too many non violent things.
Nothing comes close to ongoing Hindu Muslin fights.
Specially Partition
“The war on Christians in India” By Azad Essa
https://azadessa.substack.com/p/the-war-on-christians-in-india
I dont think this anti Non Hindus is going to away soon. Even the educated Hindu Indian commenters on this site (eg Nivedita) have this almost vitriolic hate for non Hindus. However they have no issue in Embracing Western culture including Learning English
Personally I am against all religions as they foster superstitions and irrational belief. However, I think one should have the freedom to change belief just as much as one changes vote
Essa is an Islamist
Finally Israel First is getting exposed.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is furious with journalist Megyn Kelly after she accused prominent Jews in the media – Ben Shapiro and Bari Weiss – of “making antisemites” through their attempts to censor criticism of Israel.”
Tensions peaked at Turning Point USA’s AmFest conference last week, where Shapiro downplayed the 1967 USS Liberty incident in which Israel attacked a US Navy ship and killed 34 Americans – calling it a ‘mistake’ that’s now largely irrelevant because it happened so long ago:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/adl-goes-ballistic-after-megyn-kelly-says-bari-weiss-ben-shapiro-are-making-antisemites
On “hybrid regimes” in Pakistan and elsewhere:
“Smoker’s Corner: Pakistan’s Permanent Gray Zone?”
By Nadeem F. Paracha
https://www.dawn.com/news/1963571