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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.With Indian Missiles Also On MIRV Diet, Will It Be A Nuclear Arms Race?
By Girish Linganna An observer on Abdul Kalam Island may have seen a missile launch on March 11, which may have appeared similar to previous launches. If the observer had paid closer attention, she would have noticed it was actually the tenth test of the Agni V missile, India’s...
Modi Government’s Election-Eve Manoeuvres Smell To Kingdom Come
By P. Sudhir Three developments in one week – one positive and the other two, negative. The first was the Supreme Court order directing the State Bank of India to submit to the Election Commission by March 12 the details of electoral bonds for the Election Commission to put...
Electoral Bond: SC’s Worst Fears Of Quid Pro Quo Proven Right
By K Raveendran The worst fears of quid pro quo between purchasers of electoral bonds and beneficiary political parties in power, which the Supreme Court expressed elaborately in its judgment on the electoral bond scheme, have come true. It turns out that some of the largest bond purchases had...
BJP Goes To Town With The ‘Winnability’ Hype In Madhya Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By announcing candidates for all 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP has taken the lead over the INDIA bloc, which is yet to declare all its candidates. The BJP leadership is taking advantage of the situation and is creating a hype over...
NDA To Get ‘411’, Mega Opinion Poll Crosses All Boundaries
By Sushil Kutty India’s “biggest such survey”, unrolled on March 14, gave the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA ‘411’ seats, keeping Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “400 paar” in mind. The “mega opinion poll” says the BJP alone will bag 350, 20 short of Modi’s ‘370’ brag. And, just so that...
Will Muslims Consolidate En Masse Against The Hindutva-Spouting BJP?
By Girish Linganna During the 17th Lok Sabha elections held in 2019 from April 11 to May 19, there were 27 Muslim MPs in Parliament, slightly more than the 23 Muslim MPs in the previous 16th Lok Sabha elections. This proportion is still ranked as the second-lowest in India’s...
‘Save The Constitution’ Key Slogan Of Congress Campaign In Karnataka
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress has in its manifesto “Save the Constitution” as one of its key poll planks after a senior BJP leader and Uttara Kannada BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde urged voters to give a two-thirds majority to his party to rewrite the Constitution. Congress warned...
Paradox Of Scientific Practice And Increased Human Domination
By Prabhat Patnaik There is a paradox at the core of the efflorescence of science that has occurred over the last millennium. In essence this efflorescence has the potential to increase human freedom immensely. It increases the capacity of man within the Man-Nature dialectic; scientific practice aims to go...
Opinion Polls Will Not Help The BJP Win More Seats In Uttar Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When politics on the ground is changing faster than a survey can comprehend, changing perhaps on a weekly basis, the opinion polls conducted a fortnight or a month ago lose their validity in the present time, even if we presume that they have been conducted...
Modi-Shah Making A Big Show Of BJP Candidates Lists
By Sushil Kutty Was Union Home Minister Amit Shah keeping tabs on BJP Lok Sabha Members of Parliament all these gone five years? How about our vaunted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been working 17-18 hours every 24/7, did he also put sniffer canines behind BJP MPs and...
Revocation Of Article 370 In Kashmir Through The Lawfare Lens
By Maansi Verma Law can be an instrument for good. It can also be a tool to undertake ‘warfare’ or ‘lawfare’, including by a government against its ‘own’ citizens in a democracy because democracy is not always about consent, it is as much about coercion. Kashmir stands as a...
A Generation Of Zero-Food Kids Eats Into India’s Conscience
By Krishna Jha We are a country of hungry people and our children bear the brunt. There are among them those who are denied food for days. Simultaneously, there are no jobs, no earnings, and the shadows are getting darker. Living with zero-resources, the only dream we have is...
Beyond AI: Are We Doomed To The Dangers Of Autonomous Weapons Systems?
By Girish Linganna The transformation of warfare, as well as other aspects of society, by Artificial Intelligence is inevitable. However, it is important to strive for an evolutionary rather than apocalyptic or catastrophic outcome. Advancements in technology have consistently changed the way wars are fought. From chariots and saddle...
Did Sharif Lose The Prime Minister’s Job For Lack Of China’s Support?
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Pakistan is saddled with a hung Parliament. The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have agreed to form a coalition government comprising six parties. Giving up his own claim, Nawaz Sharif nominated his brother Shahbaz Sharif for the Prime Minister’s post, why?...
The Enduring Predictability Of The Mostly Apolitical Oscars
By Eileen Jones What can you say about the Academy Awards ceremony this year that you don’t say every year, if you happen to keep watching? There’s the invariably meh hosting — by Jimmy Kimmel, in this case. There’s the intensifying boredom as it becomes clear that an epic-scale...
Political Scene In Maharashtra Is More Complex Than Expected
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Maharashtra, the second biggest state in India after Uttar Pradesh in terms of Lok Sabha seats, is heading for a rather complex electoral battle, between the NDA alliance (Mahayuti) and INDIA bloc (Maha Vikas Aghadi or MVA), and hence the outcome will likely to throw...
The More SBI Tries To Hide, Its Intentions Come Out Further Revealing
By K Raveendran The SBI fuss over matching donor with donee, which the bank unsuccessfully tried to use with the Supreme Court to prevent disclosure of the details of buyers of the electoral bonds, was clearly a part of its dilatory tactics meant to shield the Bharatiya Janata Party...
Patanjali Is Not The Only One In Promoting Unscientific Health System
By Dr Arun Mitra That the government of Uttarakhand is dilly dallying action against Patanjali, despite Supreme Court’s order is a matter of concern but is not astonishing. The State Bank of India’s refusal to comply with Supreme Court order to submit details of electoral bonds by 6th March...
