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.Protests And Adjournments Crippling The Functioning Of Parliament
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The first week of the Monsoon Session of the Parliament of India closed with a note of hope, which turned into frustration with the beginning of the second week on July 28. Protests and adjournments crippled both the Houses of the Parliament of India –...
Jagdeep Dhankar’s Resignation Is A Big Embarrassment For PM Modi And BJP
By Kalyani Shankar The political circles were aghast when Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar abruptly resigned in the current monsoon session. His term was to end in 2027. He was the Prime Minister’s direct choice. Dhankhar had previously stated, ‘I will retire at the right time, in August 2027, subject...
Special Debate On Operation Sindoor And The Curious Behaviour Of Ruling Party
By Sushil Kutty “When Ravana crossed… and when Pakistan crossed”, both times red lines drawn by “India” were breached. Parliamentary Affairs minister Kiren Rijiju posted this on ‘X’, invoking Ramayana and talking about the “special debate” on ‘Operation Sindoor’ in the Lok Sabha. “When Pakistan crossed the red lines...
Eminent Journalist Sumit Chakravartty’s Demise Is A Big Loss To Indian Media
By Satyaki Chakraborty Sumit Chakravartty, who led the Mainstream weekly for more than four decades consistently carrying the fight against the divisive forces in the country upholding the cause of secular values and equity, passed away late Saturday evening, July 26, in Kolkata. He was 81. He is survived...
Manipur Congress President Challenges Status Of 60 Member Assembly
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee has recently posed to state Governor Ajay Bhalla certain constitutionally significant issues regarding the status of the 60 member-Manipur Legislative Assembly. If stretched a point, the issues raised by Manipur Congress president K Meghachandra Singh, MLA, in his letter to...
India’s Iconic Film Sholay Is Same Mesmerising Even After Fifty Years
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Sholay, the movie which is arguably one of the most significant milestones of Indian cinema has turned 50. Released at a time when colour television sets were not part of our lives and mobile phones and laptops were not even in our wildest dreams, Sholay...
Huge Enthusiasm For A New Socialist Party In Britain Is Encouraging
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Four hundred thousand and counting. Sign-ups to be part of founding the new party initiated by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana in Britain already surpass the membership of any existing political party in Britain. While the appetite for a left alternative to Labour has long...
Union Ministry Of Labour Still Peddling False Narrative On Joblessness In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It is ridiculous. Union Government of India is still hiding behind a questionable extrapolation on employment based on Reserve Bank of India’s KLEMS (Capital, Labour, Energy, Materials, and services) database, and informed the Lok Sabha on July 24 that India added 17 crore jobs between...
INDIA Bloc Parties See ECI As A Tool By Modi-Shah To Win State Polls In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava By adding 70 lakh fake voters, the then CEC Rajeev Kumar had helped Narendra Modi’s NDA to grab two-third seats out of 288 in the assembly elections held in Maharashtra in 2024 end and now his successor, current CEC Gyanesh Kumar is working on the plan...
FAA Is A Defender Of Boeing First And Then An Aviation Regulator
By K Raveendran As expected, the United States Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has absolved Boeing of any mechanical fault in the Air India 787 jetliner crash at Ahmedabad that killed 260 people, in a move that seems both premature and all too familiar. The FAA’s basis for clearing Boeing...
The Queer Way Of Teaching Patriotism By Two Bombay High Court Judges
By Sushil Kutty It is a matter of understanding. Some understand, some do not. Where does the Bombay High Court stand? Is protesting the Election Commission of India issuing ‘show-cause notices’ to the evicted slum-dwellers of Bhoomiheen Camp, Kalkaji, Delhi, asking them why their names should not be struck...
U.S. Intel Chief Tulsi Gabbard’s Gambit Backfires As Obama Strikes Back
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director Tulsi Gabbard’s incendiary claim that former President Barack Obama committed “treason” in the 2016 election with her gunpowder plot of Russian interference that enabled Trump to win involving Hilary and Bill Clinton, has ignited a political firestorm—one that...
Resource Nationalism Has Given Impetus To India’s Economic Development
By Kunal Bose KOLKATA: Resource nationalism gives expression of a country’s ambition to use various minerals mined locally for value addition instead of sticking to the easy option of selling resources in their crudest form in the world market. Value addition to minerals leads to rises in GDP (gross...
Ninety Years Later, Talk Of Popular Front To Fight Fascism Has Started
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON DC: Fascism—the word is on more lips today than at any time since the 1930s. Back then, it was associated with names like Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. Today, it’s frequently attached to figures such as Trump, Orban, or Le Pen. And just like then, debates...
European Union At Crossroads As It Faces Trump’s Wrath Over China Link
By Marc Vandepitte LONDON: On July 24, European leaders travelled to Beijing. What initially appears to be a purely diplomatic ceremony — the 50th anniversary of EU-China relations — is in fact shaping up to be a strategic meeting in a world that is fundamentally changing. Since Donald Trump’s...
Empowering Parliamentary Oversight Through The Committee System
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: In India’s democratic structure, legislatures are not merely institutions for making laws—they also serve as powerful platforms for holding the executive accountable, ensuring financial discipline, and scrutinizing administrative actions in the public interest. Legislative committees form a foundational mechanism for achieving these goals. In a...
Interim President Al-Shaara Proved He Is Still A Jihadist Commander
By Manish Rai Recently, we saw large-scale violence targeting the Syrian Druze community in Sweida province in southern Syria. Druze are a small religious minority group in Syria and are around 3.20% of the total Syrian population. As per the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) Syrian interim President...
Another Indian Origin Left Democrat Saikat Chakrabarti Is Creating Waves In U.S.
By Nitya Chakraborty The Left wing section in the Democratic Party in the United States of America led by Senator Bernie Sanders is on upswing even though the party establishment seems clueless to deal effectively with the challenge thrown by the second term President Donald Trump to the very...
