ॐ सह नाववतु ।
सह नौ भुनक्तु ।
सह वीर्यं करवावहै ।
तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु मा विद्विषावहै ।
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

Om, Together may we two Move 
Together may we two Relish,
Together may we perform with Vigour
May what has been Studied by us be filled with the Brilliance; May it Not give rise to Hostility.
Om Peace, Peace, Peace.

Me and my family are really disturbed by some rumours against us. A Bengali man from Mumbai, a self-proclaimed (ex-?) “National Convenor of DHFL FD-Holders “, a pathological liar, is in collusion with one Bengali agent are spreading the false propaganda that we are asking for money to sign an appeal to The Honourable CJI, Supreme Court India. The mass Petition as posted on the platform of change.org is as follows:

Praying for taking Suo Moto Cognizance for the DHFL Scam Victims VIEW HERE ⤡

Friends,

You know very well that I have never asked for money/donation for running the expensive web platform of the Once in a Blue Moon Academia⤡. The fact is that the change.org, GoPetition, Campol, or any other platforms are taking donations (technically it is called “crowd funding”) for web-based campaigning. All such donations are not deposited in my bank but to the owners of the websites. Earlier we had spent money for filing almost five petitions. It is matter of regret that in the context of Neo-liberal economy, everything is commodity sponsored by the companies. Even the act of revolution is also sponsored in the Cyber-age of simulation (Cf. the movie, The International⤡. ).

Though, we are working without self-assertion, we are now bound to advertise our acts and activities against such rumours. Please pardon me and my family for such self-avowed deed.

We have

1. written contents after rigorous investigations and researches (without logico-lagal inputs, how one can hear our plea for justice in the court of law? Only emotional outbursts would not count.);  
2. created 200+ posters, films, podcasts, plays (both in English and Hindi), and reels following the go of the day in the context of web-based non-violent civil disobedience movement. When the mainstream Godi media (fourth pillar of the democracy) has cut a sorry figure to establish facts, when they are used as Goebbelsian propaganda machines to manufacture the consent of the masses, we have to take our recourse to the newly emerging fifth pillar of democracy, the social media, following the paths of Ravish Kumar, Dhruv Rathee, Deshbhakt, Sakshi Joshi, Abhisar Sharma, Alt. News, Desh Neeti, News laundry, Ajit Anjum, Deepak Sharma et al⤡⤡.    
3. filed almost 10+ RTIs (with follow ups) to know the “truths” of the DHFL Scam⤡;
4. knocked every door of the possible gatekeepers, viz., NHRC⤡ ⤡ ⤡, The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) ⤡, The Open Society Foundations⤡, Interpol⤡, Comptroller And Auditor General Of India (Cag) ⤡, Honourable Queen of the United Kingdom⤡, Wikipedia⤡, The Central Vigilance Commissioner, CBI, ED, NIA ⤡  etc.  
5. As a non-partisan political animals (zoon politikon), taken a serious risk to go against the role of the super-rich crony ruling party and billionaire, who is subsequently a secondary kin of another crony billionaire, a close ally of the ruling party. We (along with five others) have got threats, allegations for defaming a billionaire with an astronomical compensation amount of rupees 100cr. The “naturally” vindictive one may annihilate us without any hesitation. Cf. Accidental “Deaths” (?) of some Hindutvavadi Activists (Morte accidentale di Hindutvavadi Attivisti) ⤡ .
6. Written several academic papers on Researchgate and Academia.edu to expose the bare face of oligarchical autocracy or plutocratic regime that has led to such economic collapse through our journal CONVERGENCE TO PRAXIS⤡. Especially, we must mention Devil’s Advocacy: Sabotaging Hindutva⤡, which is a deconstructive attempt to unpack the heterogeneous uncontradictory contradictions (aporia) in the Hindutva’s bulldozing project of a standardized, homogenized, uncontaminated, pasteurized, monolithic nation-statist imagiNATION. These attempts would have a huge say in deciding the future condition of the “union of states”, i.e., India. We composed these papers as part of our all-out attack⤡ (as in Total Football) from all possible fronts and dimensions.                                So, many ailing people are depending on us because they are not tech-savvy, or plunged themselves in pseudo-sciences such as fatalistic astrology, some are way too scared (in the context of the Orwellian state, as Tagore might have said after witnessing the present state of affairs, “where the mind is NOT without fear”!) to sign the petition in the first place, some think that we are sacrificial goats (homo sacer) etc. Some people think, especially the petitioners in Mr. Vinay Mittal’s (with due respect to them) court cases, “All the letters of the OBMA will be thrown in the dustbin beside parliament.” Though it is not possible in the age of cyber-vigilance as all our letters etc., are archived in the cyber-space and the whole world can view the content of our discontent. Furthermore, with the coming of the Personal Data Protection/Data Privacy Bill⤡ ⤡, all the data of Indian citizens are stored in the data-treasury of the government-corporate nexus. The Panoticon is working--the big boss is watching you!  

We are fighting for those who cannot afford the fees of the courts, (cf. Here’s proof that poor get gallows, rich mostly escape. VIEW HERE ⤡ (As reported on JULY 21, 2015 © The Times on India. See also Do you have faith in the Contemporary Indian Judiciary?⤡ ) instead of making money-signifier (fishing in the troubled waters?) at the cost of human suffering. As we are on the same boat, we are earnestly requesting you all to take any action for getting back our hard-earned money without competition and enmity. For this reason, we have cited the mantra of non-hostile togetherness at the beginning of this letter. Moreover, we are urging for unity of all the victims forgetting the governmental “Divide and Rule” strategy as we are in the same boat. 

Listen to the song: We're in the Same Boat, Brother⤡

It is to be noted that we are acting as a pressure group, without which the five pillars of democracy cannot work. Even some people questioned our achievements for doing such work. In answer to those who think like that about us, we can say only one thing: history will decide the “achievements” of such performance: “CONDEMN ME, BUT HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME.” (Fidel Castro)

As far as we remember, in a United Nations’ Conference, former Prime Minister late Mrs. Indira Gandhi cited Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Nagarlakshmi” (Lakshmi of the City) in the context of debt taken from the World Bank-International Monetary Fund-World Trade Organization Trio. The poem depicts a female beggar, or otherwise, pauper, Supriya, offered the Buddha her empty bowl, with the hope to save an epidemic. Buddha courteously accepted this empty bowl instead of taking huge amount of material wealth from the merchants. Let us cite the ending stanza from the same:

She bows to all;

Says, “I have this begging bowl;

The most infirm I am, a destitute lone

So will shower on me your compassion.

On your mercy thus,

Lord’s command will be victorious,

At your home lies my treasure

Overflow will my bowl at your pleasure –

Your alms noble will ease out

The curse of drought.”

(Trans: Rajat Das Gupta)

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay

Mrs. Rupa Bandyopadhyay

Mr. Akhar Bandyopadhyay