Opinion
Appeal
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.At 75, Super Star Rajnikanth Is Dominating Tamil Cinema Defying All Younger Actors
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer Tamil superstar Rajnikanth will be 75 on December12,this year. Three months before th matinee idol steps in into his life’s platinum jubilee, celebrations have started in Tamil Nadu organized by his fan clubs. AT this age, when people enjoy a retired life, Rajnikanth defies age,...
India’s Jobless Poor Are Trapped In Contradictory Data Details
By Nantoo Banerjee Union Labour and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya’s recent claim of the country’s unemployment rate being the lowest among the G20 nations at two percent seems to lack credibility as per the records available with various government and non-government agencies connected with the matter. Mandaviya’s reference to...
Supreme Court Has Done A Good Balancing Job On Waqf Amendment Act 2025
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Supreme Court of India did a balancing exercise on the Waqf Amendment Act 2025 in the interim stage of hearing on September 15, 2025. The apex court refused to stay the act on the one hand, which brought cheer to the Union Government, but...
Small Exporters Hit By Trump Tariffs Need More Assistance At This Hour
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik President Trump appears to be softening his stance on India. His social media posts on September 6 and September 9, expressing a more friendly overture, reflect this. He emphasized on renewed US-India trade negotiations, described Prime Minister Modi as his “very good friend,” called India–US...
NATO’s Response To Russian Drone Incursions Rekindles The Memory Of 1930’s Europe
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The buzzing of unmanned aircraft over Romanian and Polish airspace carries with it an ominous echo from Europe’s darkest chapter. As Russian drones probe NATO’s eastern frontier with increasing frequency, the alliance faces a moment that historians will recognize as disturbingly familiar: the...
Ensuring Law And Order To Restore Peace Is The Main Task Of Karki Govt In Nepal
By Kalyani Shankar Nepal has welcomed a new Prime Minister, marking a significant step toward the country’s future after a period of turbulence. On Saturday, Sushila Karki, the first female Prime Minister of Nepal and former Chief Justice, took her oath of office and received strong support from Generation...
Prime Minister’s Manipur Visit Failed To Produce Any Concrete Result
By Dr. Arun Mitra Two years ago, we had travelled as a medical team to Manipur to assess the health status of the people. We visited Imphal, where the Meitei population is predominant, and Kangpokpi, largely inhabited by Kukis. What we saw was heartbreaking. Families displaced from their homes...
RSS Has Launched Massive Saffronisation Programme In Northeastern States
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Manipur on September 13 would always be remembered by the strife ravaged Manipur citizens as a political trip for party purposes.. A reluctant visitor, Modi has nothing to offer to the people of the state. His three-hour visit was more...
Sikh Truck Drivers Struggle With Fear And Stigma After Florida Crash
By T N Ashok NEW YORK / STOCKTON / CALIFORNIA: On a Sunday afternoon in Stockton, the prayer hall of a Sikh gurudwara hums not only with hymns but with the quiet murmur of truck drivers practicing English phrases. Men in turbans lean over sheets of paper filled with...
Kashmiri Apple Growers Are Struggling In Selling Their Fruits To Other States
By Sushil Kutty There’s a lot of talk about how Union Home Minister Amit Shah shook off Article 370 and Kashmir turned back towards becoming paradise on earth again. Wonderful, but it was a political game of one-upmanship and the Bharatiya Janata Party took on the mantle of being...
Queen Of Mystery Thrillers Agatha Christie Remains Timeless As She Steps Into Her 135th Year
By Tirthankar Mitra Agatha Christie, the timeless crime and detective storyteller turns 135 on September 15 Be it novels or short stories, the plots of the “Queen of Crime” outsmarted us all time and again.. A proud Britisher, she was born in 1890 and died in 1976 at the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Neighbourhood First Slogan Has Failed In Last Five Years
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking of Neighbourhood First programme since he took over power in 2014. In these eleven years of his rule, India has got isolated from most of the countries who are its neighbours and belong to the South Asian Association of...
New Delhi Has Both Opportunity And Vulnerability In Nepal Developments
By K Raveendran The commotion in Nepal has brought into sharp focus a generational shift in the country’s politics, one that has made the term Gen Z part of the mainstream political vocabulary rather than just a casual reference to youth culture in India and elsewhere in the subcontinent....
Centre Is Implementing Labour Codes Through Backdoor
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi has officially put on hold the implementation of the four controversial labour codes due to stiff resistance from the joint platform of the 10 Central Trade Unions, many provisions of the codes are being implemented across...
Narendra Modi’s Long Awaited Visit To Beleaguered Manipur May Not Lead To Truce
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in No-Modi land’, not that it’s anybody’s fault. It’s Modi who shunned Manipur like a fault, avoided the state like it would soil his shoes. Year 2023 is way back and the events of 2023 split the state wide open. The...
Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Has Opened Up Debate On Wider Issues Of American Values
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University has become far more than a criminal investigation—it is a prism refracting the fault lines of contemporary geopolitics. The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, gunned down mid-speech by a bolt-action rifle, has posthumously...
The British Left Must Defeat The Far Right, Because Labour Certainly Won’t
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Big questions about Britain’s future hang over the working-class movement. They motivate thousands who will march against racism and fascism in London on Saturday, determined to show that far-right thug “Tommy Robinson” does not speak for the majority with his own anti-immigrant rally. They will...
The $4,700 Tax: How Trump Tariffs Are Crushing American Family Budgets
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Sarah Chen stares at her grocery receipt in disbelief. What used to cost her family of four $180 for a weekly shopping trip now rings up at $267. The Phoenix mother’s monthly grocery budget has ballooned by nearly $350 since the beginning of...
