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FINANCE MINISTER and CORPORATE AFFAIRS MINISTER: RESIGN! SCRAP IBC! by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/07/23/finance-minister-corpor... In the shadow of nationwide student uprisings demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the overhaul of NEET and the NTA, this manifesto stands in unbreakable solidarity and expands the battlefield: Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman must resign, and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 must be repealed outright. Under her dual ministries the IBC has delivered its true design—nearly one lakh mostly elderly DHFL depositors stripped of 77 percent of their AAA-rated savings while ₹45,050 crore in proven fraud claims were sold to the acquirer for one rupee and wiped clean by the retrospective shield of Section 32A. A law sold as swift justice now averages 688–853 days, recovers only 31–33 percent, and has been rewritten by at least six parliamentary amendments plus 122 regulatory tweaks in nine years. Financial firms were smuggled in by executive notification, tribunal orders protecting higher offers for depositors were ignored, and the very Committee of Creditors that decided the fate of public money cannot account for its own spending. This is not failure; it is architecture working exactly as built—public risk socialised, private reward privatised. Scrap the Code. Replace it with a depositor-first resolution law passed by Parliament. Question the chair. #Resign_Nirmala_Sitharaman,. #SCRAP_IBC,

FINANCE MINISTER and CORPORATE AFFAIRS MINISTER: RESIGN! SCRAP IBC! by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/07/23/finance-minister-corpor... In the shadow of nationwide student uprisings demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the overhaul of NEET and the NTA, this manifesto stands in unbreakable solidarity and expands the battlefield: Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman must resign, and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 must be repealed outright. Under her dual ministries the IBC has delivered its true design—nearly one lakh mostly elderly DHFL depositors stripped of 77 percent of their AAA-rated savings while ₹45,050 crore in proven fraud claims were sold to the acquirer for one rupee and wiped clean by the retrospective shield of Section 32A. A law sold as swift justice now averages 688–853 days, recovers only 31–33 percent, and has been rewritten by at least six parliamentary amendments plus 122 regulatory tweaks in nine years. Financial firms were smuggled in by executive notification, tribunal orders protecting higher offers for depositors were ignored, and the very Committee of Creditors that decided the fate of public money cannot account for its own spending. This is not failure; it is architecture working exactly as built—public risk socialised, private reward privatised. Scrap the Code. Replace it with a depositor-first resolution law passed by Parliament. Question the chair. #Resign_Nirmala_Sitharaman,. #SCRAP_IBC,

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FINANCE MINISTER and CORPORATE AFFAIRS MINISTER: RESIGN! SCRAP IBC! by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/07/23/finance-minister-corpor... In the shadow of nationwide student uprisings demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the overhaul of NEET and the NTA, this manifesto stands in unbreakable solidarity and expands the battlefield: Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman must resign, and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 must be repealed outright. Under her dual ministries the IBC has delivered its true design—nearly one lakh mostly elderly DHFL depositors stripped of 77 percent of their AAA-rated savings while ₹45,050 crore in proven fraud claims were sold to the acquirer for one rupee and wiped clean by the retrospective shield of Section 32A. A law sold as swift justice now averages 688–853 days, recovers only 31–33 percent, and has been rewritten by at least six parliamentary amendments plus 122 regulatory tweaks in nine years. Financial firms were smuggled in by executive notification, tribunal orders protecting higher offers for depositors were ignored, and the very Committee of Creditors that decided the fate of public money cannot account for its own spending. This is not failure; it is architecture working exactly as built—public risk socialised, private reward privatised. Scrap the Code. Replace it with a depositor-first resolution law passed by Parliament. Question the chair. #Resign_Nirmala_Sitharaman,. #SCRAP_IBC,

Parliament Without Debate: India’s Hollowed-Out “Democracy” (2014-26) by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/07/21/parliament-without-deba... This damning audit of India’s parliamentary law-making from 2014–2026 across the 16th to 18th Lok Sabhas exposes a relentless executive assault on democratic norms. Drawing from official Bulletins, PRS data, PIB releases, and law reports, it reveals roughly 390–410 bills rammed through both Houses, with at least seven major non-fiscal laws cynically certified as money bills—concentrated in 2016–2019 when the government lacked Rajya Sabha majority—to sideline the Upper House. Deliberation has collapsed: committee referrals plummeted from 71% to 16%, over 90% of bills passed without recorded votes, four-fifths of the Union budget guillotined, and shameful records of seven to eight bills bulldozed in a single sitting while the Opposition was suspended or boycotting. Four major legislative retreats were forced extra-parliamentarily under street and electoral pressure, while a churn regime of hasty laws—led by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code with six frantic amendments, five via ordinance—sees statutes perpetually patched by executive fiat. This is no healthy democracy but a clear strategy of procedural fungibility: the bypass tool shifts with parliamentary numbers, yet the core preference for rubber-stamp ratification remains unchanged—findings that align with damning verdicts from V-Dem, Freedom House, EIU, RSF, and CIVICUS. Since 2024, partial corrections have come only from vigilant voters and mass protests, not from the broken institutions meant to prevent such executive aggrandizement within a hollow electoral shell. The fight to reclaim Parliament is urgent.

A Solidarity Statement for Sonam Wangchuk, Satyagrahi of the Anthropocene by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/07/14/a-solidarity-statement-... On the 17th day of his indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, Sonam Wangchuk continues his non-violent resistance for justice, dialogue, and ecological protection of Ladakh. Echoing Jatin Das’s 1929 martyrdom and G.D. Agarwal’s sacrifice for the Ganga, Wangchuk’s ātmaśakti exposes the Indian state’s moral deafness and hypocrisy in the face of genuine satyagraha. Invoking Tagore’s fiery Bhairava hymn — “sarva kharvatāre dahe tava krodhadāha” — this post calls for solidarity with a man who has become the moral centre of a republic that has abandoned its conscience.

The Ballot You Could Not Read: SIR and DHFL CoC by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/07/16/the-ballot-you-could-no... In this essay, Once in a Blue Moon Academia draws a structural parallel between two opaque state-orchestrated processes — the 2020–21 RBI-appointed Committee of Creditors (CoC) resolution of DHFL, which extinguished over ₹4,100 crore of elderly depositors’ savings through an unverifiable electronic ballot they could neither download nor retain, and the 2025–26 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that deleted nearly 91 lakh names in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections. Both exemplify “managed consent”: the meticulous preservation of democratic and procedural rituals while systematically withdrawing verifiability, accessibility, and meaningful agency. Invoking Mīmāṃsā pramāṇas (anupalabdhi and arthāpatti) alongside statutory adverse inference, the essay demonstrates how the sustained withholding of records — despite official claims of transparency — itself constitutes proof of the postulated theft. Dedicated to the UN Special Rapporteurs behind Communication AL IND 8/2026, it frames these as twin installations of a singular “government of registers” that renders citizens legible while keeping the State’s decisive mechanisms illegible, urging the lawful opening of black boxes and the simple demand: show the records.

The Ballot You Could Not Read: SIR and DHFL CoC by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/07/16/the-ballot-you-could-no... In this essay, Once in a Blue Moon Academia draws a structural parallel between two opaque state-orchestrated processes — the 2020–21 RBI-appointed Committee of Creditors (CoC) resolution of DHFL, which extinguished over ₹4,100 crore of elderly depositors’ savings through an unverifiable electronic ballot they could neither download nor retain, and the 2025–26 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that deleted nearly 91 lakh names in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections. Both exemplify “managed consent”: the meticulous preservation of democratic and procedural rituals while systematically withdrawing verifiability, accessibility, and meaningful agency. Invoking Mīmāṃsā pramāṇas (anupalabdhi and arthāpatti) alongside statutory adverse inference, the essay demonstrates how the sustained withholding of records — despite official claims of transparency — itself constitutes proof of the postulated theft. Dedicated to the UN Special Rapporteurs behind Communication AL IND 8/2026, it frames these as twin installations of a singular “government of registers” that renders citizens legible while keeping the State’s decisive mechanisms illegible, urging the lawful opening of black boxes and the simple demand: show the records.

GODIWOOD STRIPPED 🎬 The Complete Exposé of BJP-Hindutva Propaganda Cinema | Film-by-film breakdown with verified box office tables, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, MouthShut & Times of India scores — The Kashmir Files, The Bengal Files, Uri, Tejas, Emergency, The Taj Story, Main Atal Hoon & more. Plus the companion academic paper on how a 36% vote share becomes "emotional majoritarianism" through First Past the Post mechanics and cinematic pedagogy (Gramsci, Laclau, Debord). 📌#Godiwood, #GodiwoodStripped, #BollywoodPropaganda, #HindutvaCinema, #SaffronCinema, #PropagandaFilms, #BJPPropaganda, #RSSNarrative, #VHPIdeology, #CulturalWarfare, #Saffronwashing, #WhitewashedHistory, #ManufacturedNationalism, #JingoisticCinema, #MilitarizedNationalism, #HinduVictimhoodNarrative, #MuslimVillainyTrope, #CommunalPolarization, #ElectoralCinema, #VoteBankMovies, #StateSponsoredCinema, #ArticleSeriesPartOne, #PMNarendraModi, #TheKashmirFiles, #TheKeralaStory, #TheBengalFiles, #TheTashkentFiles, #EmergencyMovie, #TejasFilm, #UriTheSurgicalStrike, #TheTajStory, #MainAtalHoon, #OperationValentine, #UdaipurFiles, #Dhurandhar2, #Article370Movie, #SwatantryaVeerSavarkar, #BuddhaInATrafficJam, #FilesTrilogy, #VivekAgnihotri, #KanganaRanaut, #KashmiriPanditExodus, #PartitionNarrative, 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#PropagandaFilmsIndia → #PropagandaFilms, . 

Godiwood Stripped: An Exposé of BJP-Hindutva Propaganda Films (Review Series— Part I) by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/07/08/godiwood-stripped-an-ex... Visual documentation and cover art for OBMA's twin publications: (1) a four-platform critical review compendium — MouthShut, Times of India, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes — covering PM Narendra Modi, The Kashmir Files, The Bengal Files, The Tashkent Files, Tejas, Emergency, Uri: The Surgical Strike, The Taj Story, Main Atal Hoon, and Operation Valentine, each with verified box office and ratings tables; and (2) the companion academic paper Cinematic Nationalism and Electoral Arithmetic, analysing FPTP mechanics, cultural hegemony, and emotional majoritarianism in contemporary India through Gramsci, Laclau, Mouffe, and Debord. Full text: onceinabluemoon2021.in |

Damn the Dams! by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2026/06/23/damn-the-dams/ This paper critically examines the political ecology of mega dams and hydroelectric power through historical, scientific, and activist lenses, exposing the profound environmental, geological, and social costs that often eclipse their touted benefits. From Lenin’s GOELRO electrification drive and Nehru’s “temples of modern India” to the suppressed warnings of scientists Meghnad Saha and Kapil Bhattacharya, the analysis reveals how hydraulic nationalism has repeatedly silenced ecological knowledge, leading to reservoir-induced seismicity (as in Koyna), catastrophic siltation, landslides, and dam failures. Drawing on cases like the Tehri Dam, Farakka Barrage, Vaiont, and Banqiao disasters, alongside Gandhian resistance by Sundarlal Bahuguna, Baba Amte, and the Narmada Bachao Andolan, and cultural critiques in Tagore’s Muktadhara and Tarkovsky’s Stalker, the author argues for a fundamental reevaluation prioritizing river integrity, democratic consent, and geological realism over technocratic hubris. In an era of climate change, the paper calls for letting rivers flow as essential to ecological justice and human survival.