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.Multipolarity Or Dependency? Russia’s Bid For African Allegiance
By M. A. Hossain When Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and current deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, addressed the Liberation Movements Summit in South Africa on July 27, his message was as predictable as it was provocative: Russia stands with Africa in the fight against neocolonialism and envisions...
In First Six Months Of Trump 2.0, Left Wing Latin American Regimes Feeling The Heat
By Roger D Harris and John Perry NEW YORK: With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Call it the “new cold war” or – in Trump’s words, “endless war” – this is the era that the world has entered....
Supreme Court Raises Many Doubts About ECI’s SIR Move In Bihar
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Election Commission of India (ECI) was busy in giving final shape to the Draft Revised Electoral Roll of Bihar to be published on August 1, an oral direction of the Supreme Court to ECI on July 28 to proceed with accepting Aadhaar and Electors...
Trump’s Forced Trade Deals With EU And Japan Have Set A Template For Others
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump is emerging as a parallel to the WTO which we could eponymously call the “American Trade Organisation” — ATO — with his Art of the Deal with Indonesia, Japan and now EU. ATO is a unique organization that Trump...
Kharif Crisis Brews As China Weaponises Fertiliser Supply Against India
By R. Suryamurthy When China quietly shut off the tap on fertiliser exports to India earlier this year, it didn’t just disrupt supply lines or trigger a price surge. It exposed a far more troubling truth: India’s agricultural security is only as strong as the weakest link in its...
ECI’s Adamant Attitude Not To Accept Aadhaar And EPIC For Identity Has Angered Bihar People
By Arun Srivastava Quite intriguing, notwithstanding agreeing to the submission of petitioners, especially of the Association of Democratic Reforms, the Supreme Court has refused to pass order restraining ECI from publishing the draft voter list implying the implementation of its plan to remove names of nearly 1 crore Dalits,...
Amit Shah Gloats About Indian Success In Operation Sindoor But Avoids Intel Failure
By Sushil Kutty Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke in the special debate on Operation Sindoor and Operation Mahadev and it was a clinical performance, concentrating as he did on explaining threadbare ‘Operation Sindoor’, which was primarily against ‘terrorism’ and Pakistan was a carrier of the disease. For Shah,...
U.S. Restriction On China Transshipping Goods Through Vietnam Is A Relief To Indian Exports
By Subrata Majumder Concerns loomed large, when the basic reciprocal tariff on imports from Vietnam to USA was drastically cut by Trump administration on July 9, 2025 from 45 percent to 20 percent, leaving India in a major setback. This is lower than import tariff from India, which will...
Harassment Of Bengali Speaking Muslims In BJP Ruled States Gives TMC Big Weapon To Hit Its Rival
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Processions are commonplace in West Bengal with its capital Kolkata being once dubbed “a city of processions” by a prime minister. But the “bhasa michil’ (language procession) taken out on Monday by Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee leading a sizeable number of activists in the...
EU Can’t Ban Non-Member India From Buying Russian Oil
By Nantoo Banerjee The European Union seems to have arrogated itself with extrajudicial power to prevent outside nations from purchasing Russian oil. It has no locus standi to impose its will on countries which are not members of EU. Thus, the latest expansion of the EU sanctions targeting Russian...
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...
