@BCNagesh_bjp has lost his reelection campaign. It's a relief. Why? Watch this documentary by @DeutscheWelle: & read this thread to appreciate implications were Nagesh back in power.
@BCNagesh_bjp@DeutscheWelle@BJP4India@RSSorg@BSBommai@CMofKarnataka Nagesh did not burn books. But if he was reelected, he just might have thought of that too. Given the path he was on, one of the steps that would follow would have been to purge books that did not fit into the frameworks of RSS, just as the SA did in Nazi Germany.
of..... art, cultures, of German democracy itself & eventually resulted in the #Holocaust, destruction of Europe, millions of deaths, millions more miseries across the world.
@BCNagesh_bjp@DeutscheWelle@BJP4India@RSSorg@BSBommai@CMofKarnataka What happened in Germany in 1933 is kind of similar to what is happening in India now. Where one is attacked for supporting liberal art, theatre & literature, or becoz of what you wear (Nagesh is the #Hijab-ban man), what you eat, who you love & what you believe in.
When Siddaramaiah was campaigning to win, farmers affected by the most controversial Dr. Shivarama Karanth Layout #sklayout met with him and urged him to support their cause.
About 3500 acres of their fertile & highly biodiverse farmland was being acquired under colonial Land Acquisition Act 1894 for the most environmentally destructive & massive urban expansion into the Arkavathy River watershed to the north of Bangalore. See: tinyurl.com/StopSKLayoutMa…
This is a project of @BDABangalore aggressively pushed by @SRVishwanathBJP as Chairman of the parastatal (thus undemocratic) agency. Siddaramaiah assured farmers that he would ensure there is fairness extended to their cause if @INCIndia came to power.
Agri culture in India involved raising livestock to support farming, for milk and meat, and also to support the leather industry. It has evolved over millennia and weathered quite a variety of challenges: socio-political and environmental. 1/15
Caste was exploited. In post independent India it was eminently possible to attack caste based occupation & discrimination in farming and livestock rearing, without destroying millennia old knowledge that constituted agriculture. The opportunity was forfeited. 2/15
First by the Congress pandering to upper caste pressures, and now BJP, have targeted livestock rearing and turned the farms and livestock into a battle of political ideologies. 3/15
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Over two decades ago, in a most unjust and technically unsound and illegal decision, @AAI_Official expanded @mlrairport . We warned of disastrous consequences. None listened. All the way to @DGCAIndia , Karnataka High Court and also Supreme Court. /1
Despite this disaster, the #airport has turned into a major international hub. And thanks to @narendramodi, it has been gifted to @gautam_adani 's Adani Group. /2
"The deaths in Raichur — where the water purification plant was not cleaned for years — are a grim reminder that the government should clean up water supply systems under its 314 urban local bodies."
When I read this today, I wonder what it is that our system of administration cannot fathom.
#Raichur is fabled for an extraordinary system of #water#harvesting pioneered by Leonard Munn, a Britisher who built over 1500 wells to provide the people of the region good, clean drinking water.
An enriching not so early morning outing at Sarakki lake, south Bangalore.
Go see the lake teeming with spot billed pelicans, cormorants, purple moorhen, little grebe, painted storks, egrets, pond heron, fish, fishers and walkers!
If only the walking path (not natural to the lake) was gently sloping into the water, the lake would have been teeming with more wild birds - particularly dozens of species of waders. (Shores potentially support about 70% of bird life)
This is why the Justice Patil Cmt report, an outcome of a PIL by @esgindia1 advocated gentle foreshore, and walking paths outside lakes in no development zones (min 30 m) and perhaps shaded with endemic fruit & flowering trees (and bushes).
Karnataka Chief Justice Abhay Oka’s order in a PIL filed by @esgindia1 & me is a major leap forward in securing ecological, socio-economic and water security for the people of Karnataka - by devolving lake governance to local levels with public involvement and science based…
Now everyone must use this order and ensure every village, talluk, ward, city and district protects, rehabilitates and governs lakes and Raja kaluves as commons, based on traditional knowledge and wisdom and new scientific understanding of wetlands, and thus secure our lives…