Gated Arks in Sacrifice Zones: Vantara and the Political Economy of “Conservation”

Posted on 27th February, 2026 (GMT 04:57 hrs) ABSTRACT The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 establishes a dual legal framework combining fraud recovery and insolvency resolution. Section 66 embodies the Code’s accountability function by empowering recovery from fraudulent and wrongful trading, thereby restoring value to creditors. In contrast, Section 32A, introduced in 2019 with…

Posted on 27th February, 2026 (GMT 07:28 hrs) ABSTRACT Written from the standpoint of one pauperised by the DHFL collapse—once a trusting fixed-deposit holder, now among the dispossessed—this essay interrogates Piramal Finance’s “Neeyat” campaign as an apparatus of aggressive linguistic marketing that weaponizes micro-honesty to legitimize macro-consolidation. Through semiotic, Marxian,…

Posted on 25th February, 2026 (GMT 05:39 hrs) ABSTRACT This manifesto is a fact-based cry from over 2.5 lakh DHFL depositors who lost life savings in massive 54–77% haircuts. It chronicles how India’s first AAA-rated NBFC — a sound ₹91,000+ crore housing finance company — was deliberately dismantled under the IBC: starting with Ajay Piramal’s “shock” warning (28 Jan 2019) followed by the…

Posted on 24th February, 2026 (GMT 06:25 hrs) ABSTRACT The DHFL insolvency resolution, culminating in its acquisition by Piramal Capital and Housing Finance (now Piramal Finance) and the February 2, 2026, Mumbai PMLA Special Court discharge from a ₹5,050 crore money-laundering case under Section 32A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), exemplifies alleged systemic flaws in India’s…

Digwal’s Poison, Dahej’s Acid, Mumbai’s Climate Time-Bombs: Mr. Piramal’s Toxic Trails

Posted on 16th February, 2026 (GMT 06:35 hrs) Authored by Ecotopians of Alternity⤡ I. Introduction: Setting the Stage The Piramal Group—pharma powerhouse pivoting to luxury real-estate, sealed by the 2018 marriage of Anand Piramal to Isha Ambani—embodies a stark pathology in contemporary capitalism: accumulation by dispossession (David Harvey, 2003). It systematically externalizes ecological…

Posted on 16th February, 2026 (GMT 02:18 hrs) ABSTRACT This essay is a self-reflexive critique that interrogates the corporate deployment of sacred Indian ethical concepts—karuṇā (boundless compassion), sevā (embodied relational service), and samṛddhi (ethically conditioned flourishing)—within the assemblages of philanthro-capitalism, particularly through the Gandhi Foundation and CSR…