I identify myself as CJI

• "There already is a contempt case against me, but since I identify myself as a judge, I dismiss it."

To confuse sex with gender is astounding for a Chief Justice. A biological man is one who possesses XY chromosomes and produces sperm. He can still identify himself as a woman.

There already is a Contempt case against me, but since I identify myself as a judge, I dismiss it. pic.twitter.com/tIZe6dZZnM

— Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) April 18, 2023




• Milord in a hurry: Will he amend Muslim Personal Law?

Can I get tax benefits for identifying myself as a woman?

Can I get additional tax benefits for being a woman entrepreneur?

Can I contest panchayat elections on seats reserved for women?

Can I marry a person identifying himself as a man, later divorce him & ask for alimony?

— Incognito (@Incognito_qfs) April 18, 2023




• Soros' man? A bigger concern is his lack of autonomy from what Harvard downloads into him.

Remote controlled puppet? Regardless of whether he is right or wrong, a bigger concern is his lack of autonomy from what Harvard downloads into him. pic.twitter.com/WloKbjxBkq

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) April 18, 2023

Quick notes: Separation of powers | Tech secrets...

• ‘Respect the Laxman Rekha’: Vice President takes on the Ayotollahs of Supreme Court. . . . . . Finally, someone steps up to put India's SC in its place, which has been making a mockery of separation of powers. No one relinquishes power voluntarily. You need to seize it by force.

The Supreme Court can have 34 judges.

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud will have the opportunity to fill at least 18 vacancies during his tenure as CJI.

Once you understand the significance of that, you can see why the Law Minister and the Vice-President are wading in so heavily.

— Anup Surendranath (@asurendranath) December 3, 2022





• FTAs and their discontents: Do free trade agreements benefit India? India's balance of trade has worsened with countries with which it has signed free trade agreements



• Tech secrets: Taiwan govt looks to protect TSMC tech from the US
  
  3nm by 2026: TSMC commits to $40 Billion investment on Arizona Fab.
  
  Pointing to high costs and a US skills shortage, TSMC has reported challenges to the completion by next December of its new 4 nanometer semiconductor plant north of Phoenix



• The incredible shrinking future of college: The population of college-age Americans is about to crash. It will change higher education forever.



• Gambling Addiction: Online gambling ravaged UK. America could be next.



• Kumar Mardur: Raag Gaud Sarang | Kirana Khayal.





• The eight negations: Nagarjuna's eightfold negations are that there is no becoming, no not being, no annihilation, no persistence, no unity, no diversity, no coming, and no departure.. "Substance does not exist, non-substance also does not exist, nothing that is to be designated by words exists at all. All the things that are designated by words similar to 'nirvan' are void of an own being".
  
  The eight negations are actually four pairs of neither birth nor death, neither end nor permanence, neither identity nor difference, neither coming nor going.



• Revathi Kamath: Lake activist breathes new life into polluted wetland in Bengaluru outskirts



• Journalism Competition and Preservation Act: US legislation pits Big Tech against news outlets.. Big Tech benefits tremendously from journalism content, yet they refuse to pay local publishers fairly for the content that fuels their platforms.



• New Zealand plans law to require Facebook, Google to pay for news: The legislation will be modelled on similar laws in Australia and Canada. "It is critical that those benefiting from their news content actually pay for it."



• Pathetic record: Western medicine has failed people with chronic pain.

Quick notes: Best CEOs, Data localization...

• The Best-Performing CEOs, 2018: For the second year in a row, the best-performing CEOs in the world were more likely to have an engineering degree than an MBA. Yet another reason to consider urging your kids to go into engineering.



• US wants to "prohibit" data localization: Major American IT companies are up in arms against the latest Indian directive.



• Sabarimala: Deities & Judges




• Early Time Restricted Feeding (eTRF): Merely restricting the number of hours you ate and moving to an earlier eating schedule, produced huge benefits even in the same person eating the same meals. Mean insulin levels dropped significantly, and insulin resistance dropped as well. Even more remarkable was that even after the washout period of seven weeks, the eTRF group maintained lower insulin levels at baseline. The benefits were maintained even after stopping the time restriction. Blood pressure dropped as well.



• Slaughter-free "clean" meat: "We make meat just out of meat. You just don't need to kill the animal,"



• Forgoing booze: We're taught from an early age that drinking is cool and glamorous. We have to learn for ourselves that it's not.



• Native American Prayer:
  
  Great Spirit,
  Give us hearts to understand
  Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give,
  Never to destroy want only for the furtherance of greed,
  Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty,
  Never to take from her what we cannot use.
  
  Give us hearts to understand
  That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion,
  That to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty,
  That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench,
  That as we care for her she will care for us.
  
  Give us hearts to understand
  We have forgotten who we are.
  We have sought only our own security.
  We have exploited simply for our own ends.
  We have distorted our knowledge.
  We have abused our power.
  
  Great Spirit,
  Whose dry lands thirst,
  Help us to find the way to refresh your lands.
  
  Great Spirit, Whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,
  Help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.
  
  Great Spirit,
  Whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,
  Help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.
  
  Great Spirit,
  Whose creatures are being destroyed,
  Help us to find a way to replenish them
  
  Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption,
  Help us to find the way to restore our humanity.

Quick notes: Juvenile justice, Sanskrit terminology...

• Lashkar tells its cadres: Claim to be juvenile to escape law.
  Urgent need to change the law. Is the govt listening?



• Maneka Gandhi: Treat juveniles accused of heinous crimes like rape on par with adult offenders.



• Bodhidharma and Shaolin: South Indian monk, Bodhidharma, is acknowledged as the founder of the Shaolin school of kung fu and finds several mentions outside the entry dedicated to him in the India-China Encyclopedia.



• Nikola Tesla and Swami Vivekananda: Nikola Tesla used ancient Sanskrit terminology in his descriptions of natural phenomena.



• Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence: A natural language that can also serve as artificial language.



• Sanskrit at St James School, London:



• Forward Pass: How football has changed things for Assam girls



• Cycling: Raahgiri pioneer Gurgaon still waits for cycle tracks

Ruling Upholds Access to Cheaper, Generic Drugs

Glivec costs about $1,900 per month, compared with around $175 for a generic versions. India's law restricts pharmaceutical companies from seeking fresh patents for making minor modifications -- an industry practice known as "evergreening".

The ruling might only be a "breather" as patient rights campaigners fear a new India-European Union free trade deal expected soon could contain intellectual property clauses seeking to restrict generic drugmakers.

AFP: India's top court backs generics in key drug patent ruling


IE: Patent with a purpose

FE: Novartis sulks after Supreme Court Glivec verdict, says won't invest in India

Father of Jyoti Singh Pandey Wants Her Remembered

The father of Delhi rape victim Jyoti Singh Pandey wants the world to know his daughter's name.

May She Rest in Peace.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/victim-of-indian-gangrape-is-named-8439740.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/jyoti-singh-pandey-will-become-a-standard-1521344

http://www.rferl.org/content/india-gang-rape-name/24816551.html

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_want-world-to-know-daughter-jyoti-singh-pandey-was-delhi-braveheart-father_1786106

http://news.oneindia.in/2013/01/06/delhi-horror-british-newspaper-reveals-victims-name-1126184.html

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/01/we-now-know-name-india-gang-rape-victim/60640/

UPDATE: Based on feedback from you all, I've taken down the photo which I believed to be of her. Apologies for any error on my part. I'll try to find out more as more facts become available.