Bharat Rakshak

Taking a strong stand against arbitrary suspension of accounts, he Centre on Wednesday told the Delhi high court that a citizen’s fundamental rights must be respected.


In an affidavit filed on a plea by Twitter users Megh Bulletin and Wokeflix challenging the suspension of accounts by the platform, the government said a person’s liberty and freedom of expression cannot be “waylaid or jettisoned in the slipstream of social and technological advancement”, adding that suspension of accounts must be the last resort

Dr. Vandana Shiva@drvandanashiva

#SriLanka has already banned all chemicals and announced a transition to 100% Organic Sri Lanka

Let us all join hands with Sri Lanka, the #Swiss & every community taking steps towards a #PoisonFree #PoisonCartelFree world for our health & the health of the planet @NavdanyaInt

7:17 pm · 11 Jun 2021

One suspects that nobody in the woke universe wants to bring up the disastrous agricultural policies designed by a failed, dangerously incompetent and deranged Indian leftist and the situation being further aggravated by the on going chinese debt-trap situation, even as the lankan people starve there. This is a double whammy that has hit the lankans very badly and yet they may not be aware of all the ramifications still playing/yet to be played out.

The happenings in SL right now has been completely blacked out by both the woke Indian and the woke international media.

Dr. Vandana Shiva @drvandanashiva

#SriLanka has already banned all chemicals and announced a transition to 100% Organic Sri Lanka

Let us all join hands with Sri Lanka, the #Swiss & every community taking steps towards a #PoisonFree #PoisonCartelFree world for our health & the health of the planet @NavdanyaInt

@GeorginaDowns43

My latest article just published prior to the landmark vote in Switzerland on Sunday on banning the use of all #pesticides Go the Swiss!! Fingers crossed!!

10:25 pm · 10 Jun 2021

Channa Prakash@AgBioWorld

Sri Lankan scientists, while forewarning their president on the reckless decision to ban fertilizer and pesticides,correctly predicted the massive reduction in ag productivity if organic farming was embraced

Channa Prakash@AgBioWorld · 4 Sep 2021

Here, the idiotic Vandana Shiva gloats how she helped Sri Lanka to ban fertilizer and pesticides. She will go down in history as Lysenko 2.0

Channa Prakash@AgBioWorld

Sri Lankan scientists, while forewarning their president on the reckless decision to ban fertilizer and pesticides,correctly predicted the massive reduction in ag productivity if organic farming was embraced

Channa Prakash @AgBioWorld

So my hunch was correct! Vandana Shiva owns this Sri Lankan disaster.

See message from a Sri Lankan scientists.

Apparently @drvandanashiva has been advising the SL government on how to engineer this ag disaster in their country.

Vandana Shiva should be put on “No-Fly” list!

What’s behind the science denial of anti-GM activists?

June 15, 2019,
Sanjeev Sabhlok


Sanjeev Sabhlok in Seeing the Invisible, India, TOI



The blog is named after Seeing the Invisible, the title of a book on economics for children that Sanjeev wrote in 2018. Economics involves the study of incentives, motivations ... MORE

Just over a week ago I responded to Kavitha Kuruganti’s refutation of my advocacy of Bt brinjal. My response was informed by consultation with a few of India’s top scientists.

Since I wanted to know from Kavitha whether I had adequately addressed her concerns, I added her to a google group on which I engage with scientists and senior journalists. To ensure comprehensive consultation, I also added Rajesh Krishnan (of Coalition For A GM Free India) and my 2013 acquaintance Devinder Sharma who also opposes GM.

Unfortunately, despite repeated reminders, there was complete silence from them all. They don’t want to engage directly with scientists. Instead, one of them sent my request to Aruna Rodrigues who responded on their behalf. Her points were mainly those that I had already addressed. Nevertheless, I compiled a detailed response to her, as well.

In the meantime, though, Aruna shot off an email to the Government of India claiming that I’ve been “inciting ferment” and “acting seditiously”. Separately, Vandana Shiva vented her fury at the farmers who undertook civil disobedience on 10 June 2019 and called them “criminals”. But there is a huge difference between criminal and political action. Civil disobedience is purely political. It is used when a government fails to listen to reason or becomes oppressive, without any hope of redress from petitions and parliamentary processes. Politics begins when the people have had it to their teeth and decide to publicly disobey an unjust law in order to demand a review.

This civil disobedience has “regularised” the mass-scale disobedience of the law that has been going on for years. Studies have confirmed that a large proportion of farmers have been planting “banned” seeds, despite these seeds being very costly. Who can blame farmers for working to increase their incomes, for it is a matter of life and death for them. Moreover, the science is on their side. So the law is the problem, not the farmers. The government now has a choice: either jail them all (millions of them) or change the law.

To find more about these activists, I reviewed a 2000 Doordarshan debate between Vandana Shiva and the academic C.S. Prakash. The debate was on Bt cotton, but the points made by Vandana were exactly the same as the points being made by today’s activists against Bt brinjal. One can understand GM scepticism in 2000, just seven years from the first GM commercialisation. But how can these people raise their worn-out points arguments when so much more data on the safety of GM crops has been confirmed?

To understand the motivations of these people I went through the leaked 2014 Intelligence Bureau report on foreign funded anti-development in India, a report widely available on the internet.

The report starts by noting the benefits of GM – the “resounding success of Bt Cotton in the last ten years. India, a net importer of cotton in 2001-02, is now the second largest exporter of cotton in the world, next only to China.” Further, “of the total cropped area in the world, 82% cotton, 75% soyabean, and 32% maize, is assessed to be based on GM organisms, and at least 2 billion people have been assessed to be already consuming GM Food in the world.”

This Government of India report thus confirms what I’ve been saying – that there has been no adverse incident to human health despite billions of people consuming GM foods, and that Bt cotton is a huge success.

Thereafter the report comes down heavily against “anti-Genetically Modified Organism activism in India [that] is led by five Indian activists and six NGOs, including Greenpeace”. It notes that “the above NGOs were active facilitators of news articles, liaison with other activists and social media activism, which contributed to the three-year old moratorium on Bt Brinjal and the ban/moratorium regimes recommended by the Parliamentary Standing Committee (August 9, 2012) and the Technical Expert Committee (TEC), appointed by the Supreme Court (October 7, 2012).”

The IB is basically telling us that despite GM crops being completely safe, these activists misled Indian politicians into imposing a moratorium. Their anti-development tactics were of great concern to the IB then – and I assume even today. Particularly also because these people have been spreading major falsehoods at the grassroots. As the report noted, “in 2008, Ronald Herring (Cornell University) had accused anti GMF activists of spreading the falsehood that hundreds of sheep and cattle had died after ingesting Bt Cotton leaves in Warangal district in 2006 and 2007. Pro-UM researchers, bio-tech companies and other field enquiries have not been able to verify any such deaths, raising questions on the credibility and integrity of reports generated by these activists”. A farmer I know has confirmed that such falsehoods were indeed spread by the activists.

Who funds these people? Foreigners. The IB report notes that “Anti-GMF activism was initiated in 2003 by Vandana Shiva” who received foreign funding both from Navdanya and Greenpeace Australia. The report also specifically names Aruna Rodrigues and Kavitha Kuruganti as recipients of foreign funds. “A significant portion of foreign funding for these NGOs was’ sourced from German donors such as Greenpeace International, EED, Bread for the World and Misereor, amongst others”.

The approach that Kavitha, Aruna and Vandana have adopted over the past two weeks has given away their game, as people with an axe to grind. I was happy enough to engage with them as I would with any honest Indian – but they’ve rejected debate in favour of confrontation.

In the meantime, I have found that the Minister who succumbed in 2010 to pressure from these foreign-funded activists has expressed regret. In 2016 Jairam Ramesh told journalist Vivian Fernandes that “he intended the stay [Bt brinjal moratorium] only for a couple of years [and] he is not opposed to genetic engineering of crops”. Jairam knows that his scientists had totally cleared Bt brinjal. So Aruna should look into the mirror and ask: who is the real criminal here? Who misled Jairam?

Worse, Vandana Shiva wants India to stop technology altogether and switch to organic farming. That is the biggest give-away about her hidden agenda. Norman Borlaug had ruled out organic farming when he said: “There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion would volunteer to die?”. The fact that Vandana wants India to move to the medieval era of famines could only mean one thing: she is working for Western organisations whose sole agenda is to decimate the population of developing countries. I understand that Vandana Shiva is paid heavily as a “speaker” at Western events. Is that a clever mechanism to escape FCRA restrictions on Greenpeace? I smell serious sedition going on here. The accounts and operations of these activists should be investigated as early as possible by the Indian government.

Cyrano wrote:Madam Shiva has been very active internationally in US, Canada, EU etc... non time for India under an oppressive govt

Cyrano wrote:Madam Shiva has been very active internationally in US, Canada, EU etc... non time for India under an oppressive govt

Primus wrote:

Cyrano wrote:Madam Shiva has been very active internationally in US, Canada, EU etc... non time for India under an oppressive govt

Yeah, very active and feted as a darling of the 'poor farmers' by NPR many times here. One of the many reasons I stopped my donations to them.

Rsatchi wrote:^^Chetakji
The Cabal is still very active and alive waiting for a opportune moment to make a grand entrance.
rNDTV is quiet and not running any of these activities otherwise Madam Shiva was always there!!
All maybe hoping for 2024 and a 'Kichadi Gobermint' then they run riot no!!

iMac_too @iMac_too
Purie is the most dangerous media baron https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1 ... 6228868097

sanjaykumar wrote:I don’t think many residents of Chandigarh, Hindu or Sikh, would want this. This is something the Panjabis won’t tell you.

It’s not difficult to see what.

Pratyush wrote:Truth won't matter. Only lies and emotional appeal will work. But we know that BJP doesn't have the ability to make any emotional appeal to Punjabi Sikhs.

Pratyush wrote:The template is well established by Kejriwal.

Truth won't matter. Only lies and emotional appeal will work. But we know that BJP doesn't have the ability to make any emotional appeal to Punjabi Sikhs.

Emotional distress has to be introduced in the state some how. Only once pain has gone beyond a certain threshold, will any communication will become possible.

Forget about Punjab being a border state. If there is going to be an insurgency. It should happen on Indian timetable.

Sachin wrote:

Pratyush wrote:Truth won't matter. Only lies and emotional appeal will work. But we know that BJP doesn't have the ability to make any emotional appeal to Punjabi Sikhs.

Then BJP should try any form appeals with non-Sikh communities. AAP as a party cannot survive only on Sikh votes. If they pander towards that community alone, use that to hit back at at them at other places. Kejriwal itself is not a Sikh, so use that aspect as well. AAP (and its handlers outside India) aim would be to bring back terrorism into the state of Punjab, but then India is not Punjab alone.

Ambar wrote:

Sachin wrote: Then BJP should try any form appeals with non-Sikh communities. AAP as a party cannot survive only on Sikh votes. If they pander towards that community alone, use that to hit back at at them at other places. Kejriwal itself is not a Sikh, so use that aspect as well. AAP (and its handlers outside India) aim would be to bring back terrorism into the state of Punjab, but then India is not Punjab alone.

Non-sikh community are the majority in Delhi and yet AAP sweeps elections after elections there. Its not like Kejri-AAPians freebies is a new thing in Indian politics, but its the AAP's PR machinery, knowing exactly which nerve to touch and when and sensing weakness which makes them so potent. While Rahul and Priyanka are prized assets of BJP and hope they continue to hold the reigns of INC for a long time to come, atleast in PJ for the sake of the country there should be a resurgent INC. BJP has no chance of winning there ever given the demographics, and INC is the lesser of two evils especially if it can find someone like Capt Amrinder Singh again. AAP's next move will be Haryana and Himachal, once they cover the Punjab belt they will move south where Karnataka is ripe for picking with one army of buffoons' fighting another army of buffoons.

Rsatchi wrote:^^Chetakji
The Cabal is still very active and alive waiting for a opportune moment to make a grand entrance.
rNDTV is quiet and not running any of these activities otherwise Madam Shiva was always there!!
All maybe hoping for 2024 and a 'Kichadi Gobermint' then they run riot no!!

Cyrano wrote:Madam Shiva has been very active internationally in US, Canada, EU etc... non time for India under an oppressive govt

Prem Kumar wrote:

Cyrano wrote:Madam Shiva has been very active internationally in US, Canada, EU etc... non time for India under an oppressive govt

She has been on interviews with Rajiv Malhotra. In these, she has been an open advocate of the fact that eco-feminism has its roots in India. She seems pro-Hindu and not the typical leftist garbage. She will be a good asset for overseas deployment. Not for local consumption.

Prem Kumar wrote:
She has been on interviews with Rajiv Malhotra. In these, she has been an open advocate of the fact that eco-feminism has its roots in India. She seems pro-Hindu and not the typical leftist garbage. She will be a good asset for overseas deployment. Not for local consumption.

When, at prime time, with millions of Americans watching, a CNN reporter interviewed "Anmol Gupta from northern India", as the young man was described, India's image got a healthy boost.