Opinion
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Trump, Tariffs, And The Tightrope Of U.S.-India Relations
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In a dramatic shift that threatens to upend years of growing U.S.-India strategic convergence, President Donald Trump has announced a substantial tariff escalation against Indian exports, targeting what he calls “India’s defiance” in continuing to buy Russian oil. The proposed increase—raising already-high tariffs...
TMC Second In Command Abhishek Banerjee Charts Out Booth Level Strategy For 2026 Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: New brooms sweep clean. And after being made the leader of All India Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha, Abhishek Banerjee has turned his sights on the polling booths of West Bengal for a triumphant result in 2026 Assembly elections in the state. Mamata Banerjee-led...
Trump Plan To End Free Elections In 2026 Midterm And 2028 Presidential Revealed
By Mark Gruenberg NEW YORK—The Trump administration and its radical right foot-soldiers in the federal government and in the states are undertaking a comprehensive scheme to undermine future state and federal elections, in effect rigging the rolls to keep themselves in power no matter what the voters decide. So...
Supreme Court Bench Comment On Rahul Gandhi Is A Sort Of Judicial Overreach
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A citizen’s right to criticise the government is protected under the Constitution of India. Nevertheless, a Bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Mahish questioned the patriotism of India’s leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi on August 4,...
NCERT Is Distorting The Class VIII History Books To Suit RSS Agenda
By Krishna Jha The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been aggressively pursuing the task of distorting our past. It is trying to rewrite it according to its subjective interpretations which amount to primacy of bias against the fact. Times are with them and distortion goes...
Private Equity Infusion In Health Care Hikes Costs Of Treatment In Both India And US
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Over the past decade Private Equity (PE) firms have invested over $1 trillion in U.S. healthcare, acquiring hundreds of hospitals as for-profit assets. In India private equity, both domestic and overseas, and venture capital investments in Indian health care systems and hospitals has jumped...
Dishom Guru Shibu Soren Pioneered The Adivasi Movement In Eastern India For Five Decades
By Arun Srivastava For Adivasis of India, Shibu Soren was their second Bhagwan (God) after their first Bhagwan Birsa Munda. In the initial years of his struggle for emancipation of adivasis from the grip of non-adivasi money lenders and landlord nexus, he followed the line of political reform. But...
First Time Rajya Sabha Member Kamal Haasan Is Making Waves Through His Comments
By Sushil Kutty It did not take long for actor-politician Kamal Haasan to reveal his true colours. It isn’t ‘saffron’, though. ‘Kamal Saar’ is a time-tested disruptor. He is grateful to Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin for the Rajya Sabha seat and whose thoughts on ‘Sanatan Dharma’...
Why The Supreme Court Must Strike Down Bihar’s Voter Verification Drive?
By Jhuma Sen In the name of “purifying” the electoral rolls, the Election Commission of India (‘ECI’) has launched a bureaucratic assault on the right to vote in Bihar. The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (‘SIR’), now under challenge before the Supreme Court in Association for Democratic Reforms v. ECI,...
Democratic Party Leadership Still Lacking A Coherent Strategy To Fight Trump
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The 2024 U.S. presidential election marked a decisive and humiliating blow to the Democratic Party. Donald Trump, once impeached, twice indicted, returned to the White House with renewed authority and an emboldened political machine, bulldozing every democratic institution in his path. The Democrats,...
India Must Ignore Trump’s Trade Tariff Trap
By Nantoo Banerjee US President Donald Trump is becoming increasingly unpredictable, if not crazy, with his freakish combination of styles to deal with countries and issues – from trade to diplomacy. The 25 percent import tariff on India since last Friday may not considerably hurt India’s export trade with...
India’s 2000 Sq Km Land To China Will Remain In Public And Political Discourse
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In spite of Supreme Court of India’s bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih’s poser on August 4, 2025 on Rahul Gandhi’s remark on India’s 2000 sq km land gone to China saying that a true Indian will not say this, the issue...
For India, Next Few Weeks Are Crucial For Narendra Modi To Show His Skill In Diplomacy
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: India is once again at the epicentre of a great geopolitical tug-of-war. On one side stands the United States under President Donald Trump—erratic, aggressive, and determined to punish India with a 25% tariff for buying discounted oil from Russia. On the other, Russia,...
India Opting For Restraint And Caution In Dealing With Trump’s 25 Per Cent Tariffs
By Kalyani Shankar India’s hopes for reduced export tariffs to the United States were dashed on Wednesday when the Trump administration announced a 25% levy and an unspecified penalty for buying arms and crude oil from Russia. The Narendra Modi government is responding cautiously, as the full impact of...
Rate Cut Again Or Pause: RBI Monetary Policy Committee To Make The Choice
By R. Suryamurthy As the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) begins its three-day deliberation from August 4 to 6, all eyes are on Mint Street. Will the central bank pull the trigger on another rate cut, or will it stick to a cautious pause? The stakes...
DMK Led Front Will Have A Tough Battle In 2026 Polls Against AIADMK-BJP Combo
By Sushil Kutty Politics has taken a turn in Tamil Nadu as parties, fronts and alliances get on the front foot for the 2026 assembly elections except that the DMK-led alliance might not end up with an encore as it faces the AIADMK-led alliance which also includes the Bharatiya...
Through SIR, BJP-RSS Combine Is Pushing For One Nation, One Election Plan
By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding Supreme Court’s assurance to the petitioners, the opposition parties and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), to hear their pleas against SIR on August 12, the confidence level with which the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has been moving steadfastly and shifted its operational area as well...
Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals System Lacks A Secure Legal Foundation
By Tiasha Mukherjee Assam’s Foreigner’s Tribunals (‘FTs’)have declared over 165,000 people as “foreigners”, with more than 85,000 cases still pending and more than a million NRC appeals potentially headed to these tribunals. Behind each data point are individuals facing serious consequences as a result of the State’s one hundred...
