00:00If I talk about Dr. Ambedkar, okay, so if we see this whole question with regards to
00:06what thoughts Dr. Ambedkar has given, who was the architect of our Indian constitution,
00:15he was one of the most brilliant legal minds of this nation. And, you know, he has told that,
00:21you know, that he had been fighting his whole entire life, which was not perfectly compliant.
00:31Okay. Why? Because he was operated in full public view. He was economically enforced. He was
00:38socially celebrated, but at the same time, he was not living within the law. Okay. And that's why
00:46he was fighting for people like who are Dalits, who are Adivasis, who are again, not living within
00:52the law, who are living outside the law. And they were being crushed by the system that the law simply
00:59refused to challenge. So compliance with that order was exactly the problem. So now, right now,
01:05if I ask the same thing in context of ESG today, so when a corporation builds a so-called green
01:12energy project and acquires a land, okay, who loses their home? Another question is that when a forest
01:20is declared a protected carbon sink and local communities are pushed out so that a multinational
01:27can buy that carbon credits. Now, again, who loses their home? Who bears that cost? When a factory is
01:34built at the edge of the village? And, you know, it's a waste goes into the local water supply whose
01:42children drink that water. So the answer to all these questions is the same. It is a Dalit farmer.
01:49It is the Adivasis family. It is the marginalized people living in that community. So the people who
01:56have used the least resources and have contributed the least to the climate change and ecological destruction,
02:03they pay the heaviest price for it. They live closest to the harm. They have the least power to fight
02:09it
02:09back. And ESG, as it is currently structured, mostly ignores them. Okay, so what we can take it from
02:17Dr. Ambedkar. So he told us something that we need to hear again today. He said, formal equality,
02:26treating everybody on papers won't work. It is meaningless if the lived reality of the people
02:34remains unequal. So he did not just want laws that look good. He wanted that laws should actually
02:41change people's lives.
02:42Thanks.
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