 Welcome to the eight years of celebration of NewsClick, and on behalf of NewsClick, I thank all of you for joining us today. And to tell you about NewsClick's journey till now, I would like to invite my colleague, Brangel. Also, if he cracks some joke, which is not funny and that you don't understand, please laugh and laugh. Because that's what we do at NewsClick. Thank you for that kind introduction that you gave. Good evening everyone, I welcome you on behalf of NewsClick. So NewsClick was formed in 2009 just after the 2008 global financial crisis by a very young journalist, Praveer. He was 62 when he started NewsClick. Here's a small presentation that I'd like to make on our journey in these last eight years. So as I said, it was formed just after the 2008 global economic crisis. And we started with a fairly small team in a dingy basement where everybody was displaced, especially me. We didn't have even a proper net connection that time. It was always slow. It took us nearly next three years to reach 100,000 views on our YouTube channel. And that was like a big achievement that we had at that time. But we kept increasing our work. We started covering reports on the ground and especially after 2012. So in 2015, so in next three years, we crossed 1 million views on our YouTube channel. This was to do with that we extensively covered Muzaffarnagar rights and the entire violence that took place from 2013 till 2014. Modi's coming to power. There's also a video that we'll play later which shows a small section of a clip where Amit Shah is giving speech. And that speech was used and given to the election commission which resulted in a ban on his public meetings during the 2014 election campaign. So that was a big achievement in that sense which our newslet had. And after that we changed our work space. We hired a new office. We had new people. Now we have around 20 people in our office and in next one and a half years we have crossed 2 million views on our YouTube channel. So technically it took almost six years to cross 1 million. In next one and a half years we have crossed 2 million views. Today we have 2 million views on our YouTube channel. 1300 total videos that we have produced on different topics and 6000 subscribers we have on our YouTube channel. So I'd also like all of you to help us support NewsClick and also please keep following our website. Here's a small video that is there which winds up our journey, what we have done in 8 years and please have a look. It's clear that our discourse is being terribly initiated by age social media. The demo box with online media have their foot frauds. People who want to control the media want to dictate the news. There has been the usual Indian tendency to blow your own trumpet and talk about big records. And the proportions are different in speakers of Indo-European origin languages versus the Arabidian origin languages. And the crimes that they have, the fear of any kind is not on their minds. It reeks of the whole idea of nations invading other nations, subjugating them and all that kind of thing. Let them burn their homes, let them kill their children, let them burn their homes and take their children away. When the time of the Mughals was when the swords and arrows were walking, they were taking revenge. Now you have to press the button to take revenge. If you press the button at the right place, then the people who have done this will be punished. Threshold for hate speech has risen. We are actually accepting as normal something which is extremely abnormal and should be shunned. It's been two hours and the cash has ended. How are we going to pay the cash? We are going to send money and money. We don't have anything to eat or drink. What they are doing is wrong. They are making the workers hungry. GST even though it's a measure approved by neoliberalism is something which is actually much to the liking of a fascistic government moving in a fascistic direction. While they don't say directly, but they always have this quote and quote scientific research to suggest that things shouldn't be done in a particular way and they keep reinforcing all these things that we fight against. The real terrorist is the American government. State terrorism unleashed against the world. It's the political decision that you put the army against your own people and say well that's the end. Whereas the army is supposed to be at the borders looking across and then dealing with the enemy. So we have to get every script censored and in a strange way that works, dare I say it, as a sort of protective measure in a weird, weird way. So what they are doing really is just shifting the buck, passing the buck. Tid for that business between India and Pakistan, Kashmir. So when we talk in terms of India, India is actually, is it playing its own game? We will never, never, never have a society where we can debate unless people are allowed to see films, are allowed to read books and judge for themselves. What happens in a normal developing country crisis? You go through absolute turmoil and pain and disaster and you suffer and the people suffer but there is hope at the end of it because your currency devalues. The definition of secular was largely that it meant the coexistence of religions, it meant tolerance, it meant nonviolence. It turns out that we decided to take the first point of intervention of GMOs, the actual emming of the Gs, the transfer of a gene from a bacterium to a plant. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to bomb the Assad government? Do you mean we should go to war against Russia? That was the most plain spoken statement of where things lie.