The Ambanis, perhaps for religious reasons, created a sanctuary for injured or elderly elephants in Jamnagar. It may be that, at their prompting, Parliament passed a law to make the functioning of such sanctuaries more efficient. This is an example of political influence being used to secure a Pareto improvement. Everybody is no worse off while some are better off as a result. No doubt, the Ambanis are closer to the powers that be than the average child rapist currently incarcerated, but it is a good thing if a charity gets to function more effectively thanks to better legislation. Ram Guha, nitwit that he is, thinks otherwise. But before bringing up the issue of the injured elephants, he trains his guns on the fact that, in obedience to a recent suggestion from Modi, the Adanis celebrated a lavish wedding related ceremony in Jamnagar rather than Dubai or the South of France. Again nobody lost just because Jamnagar gained. This is a Pareto improvement. It may be that the Government didn't charge the Ambanis for providing additional services at the Jamnagar airport because of the publicity and good will the country would gain. But that is a separate matter.
On March 1, 2024, the online edition of The Hindu carried a report by Jagriti Chandra with this headline: “Jamnagar airport gets international status for Anant Ambani’s pre-wedding bash”. The text described how the small airport at Jamnagar, run by the armed forces, had been declared an “international airport” for ten days, from February 25 to March 5. This was done to be “able to welcome global bigwigs such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Rihanna, Ivanka Trump and several former Prime Ministers to the three-day pre-wedding bash” of Anant, the youngest child of Nita and Mukesh Ambani. The “Union government’s Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Home Affairs”, the report continued, “have pressed in resources to set up a Custom, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) facility at the airport.”
Rich people may pay politicians so as to get stuff for themselves at the expense of the tax-payer. In this case, however, it may be that the Government had its own reasons for supporting a high profile 'Marry in India' event. Why did Guha not pick up the phone and call one or two of his contacts in the Central and the Gujarat government to verify if this was the case? The answer is that Guha prefers to look at 'Social Media'.
I read Ms Chandra’s striking report, and then went to see the comments on social media. These were, as to be expected in these times, very polarised. On the one side, there was a series of justificatory remarks by supporters of the political regime which had allowed this extraordinary discretionary favour to the Ambanis. So we were told that the Congress government did the same at Chandigarh airport in 2011 to facilitate Pakistani visitors (but then that was for a major international sporting event, the semi-final of the cricket World Cup, not a private wedding), that the Ambanis provided employment to thousands of Indians, that the VIPs visiting had to be given proper respect and security.
All this is irrelevant. Governments should do things which represent Pareto improvements. The Opposition may try to show that some damage was caused to a third party. But in this case there was no damage.
On the other side, there were a series of critical remarks expressing horror and dismay. One user commented: “For Adani and Ambani life in India is like being in heaven and for the rest of us it is hell.”
This is because Adani and Ambani are very rich. Thus their quality of life in India or America or Africa or Europe or Australia is very high. Sadly, the life of a beggar in such countries is not as nice.
A second said: “We are new Russia with much bigger Oligarchs...”
Ram Guha finds great inspiration in reading such tweets.
A third dryly remarked: “The great saying ‘Vasudhaiva Kudumtakam’, which means ‘The World is One Family’ has been rewritten as ‘Me, My Wealthy Friends and their Friends are One Family’.”
But Modi's own family isn't rich. Kharge's or Sonia's or Stalin's families are all mega-rich.
One comment on the Ambani ‘pre-wedding’ said that the redesignation of the Jamnagar airport was effected “because a young rich kid wants to showcase his private zoo by inviting some famous species from all around the world.” This remark was given credence by images of Ivanka Trump posing in front of a caparisoned elephant in Jamnagar.
A young samskari Hindu may well want to 'showcase' the state of the art sanctuary he has set up for elderly elephants and other such animals.
A few weeks ago, Reliance Industries and Reliance Foundation officially launched 'Vantara', an animal shelter spread over 3000 acres in Jamnagar. It has about 2000 "rescued animals" from around the globe. 600 acres are devoted to elderly or injured elephants with first rate veterinary facilities.
The private zoo referred to is run by an organisation called the ‘Radha Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust’.
Why the scare quotes? It took me thirty seconds to discover that
'The Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust (RKTEWT) is a Public Charitable Trust registered under the Gujarat Charitable Trust Act, 1950. The objective of the trust is to promote animal welfare by establishing shelters and providing state of art facilities to animals who are rescued, hurt, ill, of advanced age, victims of human-animal conflict, victims of human abuse or are abandoned.
'The RKTEWT facility is spread over 600 acres in the RIL’s Moti Khavdi complex where it has an oil refinery. The RKTEWT, set up in 2013, has been receiving elephants from across the country for their life-long care and upkeep. The RIL is also in the process of developing a mega private zoo near its refinery complex in Moti Khavdi village.
'The Trust utilises about 500 acres of man-made Miyawaki forest, which helps in maintaining a lower temperature… the Trust has provided for each elephant a day shelter (with fans, overhead sprinkling and showering systems) and separate night shelter. Each shed is equipped with imported rubber flooring to keep their foot pad safe and comfortable. In addition, the Trust utilises about 100 acres of segregated waterbodies in the form of 10 small water bodies and 9 hydro-therapy pools. The Trust has provided for hydro-therapy pool as most of the Elephants are old and have arthritis
'The Trust has received many elephants from donors, such as elephants belonging to circuses, temples and individuals who did not have the financial means to take care of the elephants. Apart from providing care to the elephants, the trust is also providing a better life to the mahouts and their families, who had come along with the elephants.
'2021-10-08: Four elephants that belong to the royal family of Mysore will soon be in Gujarat, at the Elephant Rescue Centre in Jamnagagar. The four females, in the age Group of 27-44 years, will be sent to Jamnagar after the Dussehra festival. The elephants — Rajeshwari (27), Gemini (31), Seetha (36) and Ruby (44) — are owned by the Mysore-Wadiyar dynasty. The royal family has six elephants, of which four are being sent to the facility in Jamnagar.
2021-10: In October 2021, two were sent to Gujarat (from Arunachal Pradesh).
2022-04: The forest department confirmed that seven elephants were sent to the temple trust in April, 2022 (from Arunachal Pradesh).
2022-06-10: Ten elephants belonging to private owners in Arunachal Pradesh that were deployed in the timber industry and are now old and ailing will soon find their way to a care centre run by the Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust (RKTEWT). The 10 elephants — seven males and three females — are set to be transported from Arunachal Pradesh to Gujarat as their owners got assurance from the RKTEWT to accept the pachyderms. With this, the number of elephants at the centre, said to be the biggest such facility for old elephants, will cross 150.
2022: Before december 2022, 29 elephants from circus in India: The circuses that relinquished the elephants include the Ajanta Circus, Empire Circus, Famous Circus, and Kohinoor circuses from Kolkata, Great Apollo Circus from Delhi, Great Golden Circus from Ahmedabad, Great Prabhath Circus from Hyderabad, Moonlight circus from Lakhimpur (Assam), Rambo Circus from Pune (arrived 2016), and Rajmahal Circus from Kanpur.
2023-04-22: Despite opposition from various wildlife organisations and Moran Students’ Union, 20 elephants were transported out of Arunachal Pradesh’s Namsai District on Friday morning. A Supreme Court-appointed High-Powered Committee (HPC) allowed the transfer of elephants to the Radha Krishna Temple Elephant Trust in Jamnagar supported by Reliance Industries Limited.
Guha finds all this very sinister.
This grand religious appellation masks a secular scandal more egregious than making a ‘defence’ airport ‘international’ for ten days.
Not in the view of the Supreme Court. As for 'defense' airports, they can be 'international' for a few days without endangering national security. On the other hand, if Hindu men marry Hindu women in a brazen display of Hindutva values, Guha will shit himself.
This trust and its activities were enabled by an amendment to the Wild Life (Protection) Act in 2021,That bill 'aims to implement the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and expand the number of species protected by the convention which requires countries to regulate the trade of all listed specimens through permits and regulate the possession of live animal specimens so it does not threaten the survival of the species.'
allowing the creation of private zoos
this has always been allowed. The 1972 Act was amended in 1991 or 1992 to create a Central Zoo authority which can provide financial and technical support to registered zoos.
and encouraging the capture, transport and sale of endangered wild species such as the elephant.
Moreover, the Act specifically says that all Homosexual Muslim Elephants and Panthers must be handed over to Ambani or Adani for brainwashing. After that these animals will be sent to Amrika to vote for Trump. Rihanna is actually one such homosexual Muslim elephant. Wake up sheeple!
At the time, the writer and conservationist, Prerna Singh Bindra,
a journalist who served on the National Board for Wildlife under Manmohan.
had pointed out that while earlier the Act had explicitly disallowed commercial transactions of protected species, now, with the amendment, “live captive elephants have been excluded from this general prohibition, leaving a gaping loophole for their commercial sale and purchase. It presents the elephant, a protected wild animal, as a tradable commodity; and is, therefore, at odds with the objective, and the spirit of The Wildlife (Protection) Act. This is a serious anomaly in the law that must be corrected.”
Everybody knew the '72 law was useless. Temples which had illegally acquired elephants fifty years ago wanted to transfer them to 'sevalayas' like that of the Ambanis. The law needed to change to make this legal. A few Congress supporting journalists may pretend that Ambanis are kidnapping homosexual Muslim elephants so as to turn them into Rihanna and get them to vote for Trump. But it is foolish to direct attention to the Ambani's charitable work, more particularly because it has a religious dimension.
Naturally, given who was in power and who they were obliged to, the anomaly was not corrected.
It should not be corrected. Rich zoos should be able to take over injured or elderly animals.
The consequences are now starkly there for us to see. A report in The New Indian Express in June 2022 documented eight cases in a single month where attempts were allegedly made by racketeers to fake No Objection Certificates by using forged signatures to smuggle wild elephants from Assam.
But there were thousands of forged ownership certificates for elephants all over the country! It was quite usual for a ten year old animal to have a certificate showing it to be fifty or sixty years old.
Seven of these cases saw attempts made to transport elephants to the Ambani-run trust in Jamnagar.
17 animals were transported in 2022. The next year, locals tried to stop the transport of elephants but they failed. The police ensured the animals were moved from Arunachal to Gujarat on orders from the Supreme Court. Tripura has 74 pet elephants as per the 2022 Animal Census. It has sent 23 elephants to Jamnagar.
These eight cases were the beginning of a flood. In the last week of February 2024, Anant Ambani boasted that the Radha Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust now housed more than two hundred ‘rescued’ elephants. These claims were taken at face value by the godi media. However, an investigation by the website, Northeast Now,
there was no investigation. They just quoted some activist or other
reported that “many of these ‘healthy’ and ‘fit to travel’ elephants were transported from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Tripura to the RKTEWT, raising concerns about the traditional notion of ‘rescuing’ animals in need.”
Very true. Jayaprakash Narayan was very healthy when India paid for him to go to America for medical treatment. After all, if he was 'fit for travel', he must have been in the pink- right? The fucking CIA killed him.
It was surmised that most of these elephants were illegally captured in the wild,
when an elephant is born in the wild, its Mummy puts a microchip under its skin and alerts the authority so they can register the little pachyderm.
and subsequently ‘purchased’ with the help of middlemen.
When you purchase something you pay for it with money. When you 'purchase' something from a middleman, you fuck him in the ass and then he shits on your tits. Homosexual Muslim Elephants object to this practice. That is why Ambani is kidnapping and brainwashing them and then sending them to US to vote for Trump.
Another report in Northeast Now quoted from a letter written by an animal rights group. It was troubled by the transport of young elephants “from their fertile, lush, tropical, natural habitat of Arunachal Pradesh, 3400 km apart, to the dry, unnatural terrain of Jamnagar, in western Gujarat.” The letter continued: “The cavalcade — in which each elephant per truck is strapped in, boarded by wooden frames — is racing without any stops through Bihar for six more days of the total nine-day journey.” The letter was written to alert the wider public to this “seemingly illegal trade of freshly captured wild elephants being legitimised…”
by the Supreme Court. Why don't these 'activists' launch a PIL? If there really is something wrong with the law and if the Courts, for some unknown reason, are intent on transporting Homosexual Muslim Elephants to Gujarat, then the country has bigger problems than Modi and Ambani. It is Parliament and the Judiciary which should be abolished and reconstituted on a basis that ensures more equitable outcomes for Gay, Disabled, Elephants regardless of color, creed, or their degree of wildness.
An animal rights activist I spoke to said while he welcomed attempts to house, rehabilitate and care for wild species that had already been dislocated from their natural habitat, the scheme to transport hundreds of elephants from the Northeast to the Ambani facility had reactivated old animal trafficking networks.
Had the animal rights activist Guha spoke to, spoken to me, she could have mentioned the Homosexuality of those Elephants which, however, did not prevent them from affirming a strong faith in Islam as well as a determination to vote for Biden in the upcoming elections.
Once, wild elephants were captured and sent to temples;
despite being Muslim or, in certain cases, Homosexual Mormons.
now, they were being dispatched to this private facility in Jamnagar. The respected ecologist, Ravi Chellam,
who has a 'long term involvement with Asiatic lions'.
has compared the Ambani zoo to a personal “stamp collection”
Ravi can afford to collect stamps. Elephants and lions are outside his price-range. Thus his long term involvement with Asiatic lions has not led to sexual consummation. Sad.
which does not contribute in any significant manner to the globally-recognised aims of wildlife conservation.
Money and money alone contributes to this. Chellam was head of the Indian Greenpeace. Without foreign funding it seems to have withered up and died.
Wildlife scientists and conservationists have raised three questions that Ambanis and those facilitating them (both within and outside government) must answer.
They need to bring a PIL. Sadly, this means uncovering actual evidence, not just making shite up.
First, why transport so many wild elephants to Jamnagar, a dry industrial belt spectacularly unsuited to the well-being of this forest-loving animal?
It is because those elephants were proudly following a Homosexual Islamic lifestyle while living peacefully in the magnificent jungles claimed by the People's Republic of China. Ambani is kidnapping and brainwashing these elephants and sending them to Amrika to vote for Trump.
Second, why create a parallel regulatory system to facilitate this?
Because homosexual elephants refuse to follow lateral regulatory systems.
Third, why not work with state forest departments to create such facilities in natural habitats to keep elephants safe, secure and as these wonderful animals themselves want to be?
Why not indeed? How come these nutters aren't spending billions to allow wild animals to cavort in a manner they themselves find pleasing?
These are vitally important questions, but it is overwhelmingly unlikely that the Ambanis or their political patrons will bother to answer them.
Because these questions aren't important at all.
When I was young, the Congress regime of the time was derided by left-wing critics as a “Tata/Birla Sarkar”.
But those left-wing circles were derided by everybody else. The Tatas and Birlas are still around.
Yet, surely not even J.R.D. Tata or Ghanshyam Das Birla, at the height of their influence and power in the 1950s and 1960s, would have thought that they could get Jawaharlal Nehru or Indira Gandhi to accord the airport nearest their factories ‘international status’ for a family wedding (still less a ‘pre-wedding’).
Dictators fuck up industrialists and found dynasties. Sadly, autocracy is tempered by assassination. As for getting immigration and customs to open desks at an airport for a major event, the thing is merely a matter of cost and benefit. I suppose Modi is signaling that in his third term, roadblocks for FDI will be cleared away. If his party wins big, India jumps to a higher growth trajectory.
Nor could they have persuaded them to radically change the wildlife conservation act to favour a single family zoo.
Actually, Indira had some posh friends who were into Tigers and so forth.
Things are now all too different. As the economist, Arvind Subramanian, has argued, instead of creating a level playing field, in which all entrepreneurs have an equal chance of succeeding,
as opposed to an equal certainty of going bankrupt or being nationalized
the Indian State has in recent years promoted a “2 A variant” of “stigmatized capitalism”.
This is a term invented by Arvind Subramaniyan to mean distrust of the private sector. On leaving his post as Chief Econ Adviser he said-“My hypothesis is that India is affected by stigmatized capitalism, where there is not enough trust in the private sector or in the ability of the state to regulate the private sector. It is making it much more difficult to give the private sector a bigger role. It is easier to give a public or a quasi-public entity a bigger role rather than getting more private sector participation#
Two industrial houses, the Adanis and the Ambanis, have witnessed a spectacular rise in their fortunes, largely because of government policies that have allowed them to establish a dominant position in such critically important areas as ports, airports, clean and dirty energy, petrochemicals, and telecommunications.
Both had grown rapidly under previous administrations. This does not mean they are bullet proof. Anil Ambani- once the sixth richest man in the world- is bankrupt. Adani could have been brought down by Hindenburg but appears to have weathered the storm
Opposition politicians in India have trained their gaze on the proximity to the Modi regime of one of those A’s, the Adanis.
Kejriwal used to gas on about the Ambanis but changed tack because voters think Ambanis and Adanis can provide electricity while what andolanjivis can produce is gobar gas. Kejriwal is now suggesting that 'Pakistanis' (Hindu or Sikh refugees from Pakistan) will move into your neighborhood and rape your wife. Send those damn kaffirs back to Pakistan where they can be killed or forcibly converted!
Yet, as the cases of the Jamnagar airport and the amendments to the Wild Life (Protection) Act show,
voters are happy that rich peeps are spending their money in India not Dubai. Capitalists are no longer stigmatized. People understand that they provide useful stuff like mobile phones, broadband, electricity, brainwashing for homosexual Islamic elephants etc. etc.
the Ambanis have a comparable ability to bend the professedly mighty Indian State to their will.
The Indian State is increasing in might by doing sensible things. Promoting the Ambani wedding was good publicity for India Inc. The elephant thing doesn't matter much but probably ties up with the Jamnagar District's Tourism master-plan or something of that sort.
What Guha is not saying is that there were billionaires, like Vijay Mallya, who bought their way into Parliament, and that there are plenty of billionaire regional politicians some of whom are outright gangsters.
To invoke a currently fashionable idiom, in business matters as well as family matters, both the Adanis and the Ambanis enjoy Modi Sarkar ki Guarante
This is marvelous publicity for the Ambanis and Adanis. Guha is saying 'buy shares in their companies. They are close to Modi who is bound to be re-elected with a bigger majority. If they can get the government to do somersaults just for a private function, what will they not be able to achieve when it comes to their profit making ventures? This also means that other billionaire entrepreneurs need to be seen to be supporting Modi. OMG! Now it makes all makes sense! The Supreme Court has got rid of Election bonds and compelled publishing the names of donors so as to help Modi's diabolical plan to brainwash homosexual elephants of the Islamic persuasion.
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