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.Gaza War Drowns Out Sane Voices On Both Sides Of Palestinian Divide
By James M Dorsey Gershon Baskin may be one of the few sane voices left on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Baskin speaks with authority when he denounces the Israeli assault on Gaza as a war crime and Hamas for its brutal October 7 attack on Israel that...
American Presidential Election In November 2024 Promises To Be A Tumultuous One
By Kalyani Shankar A hypothetical President Joe Biden versus his predecessor, Donald Trump, contest in the 2024 U.S. presidential race is too close to call. Elections will be held on November 5, 2024, just a year away. News agency Reuters says this election promises to be like no other...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Is Reconciled To His Term In Tihar Jail
By Sushil Kutty Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal is bound for prison. The Delhi Chief Minister is reconciled to his fate. The enforcement directorate will question him, arrest him and put him behind bars, period. There are no two ways about it. Kejriwal has convinced himself and he...
Bigger Challenges Lying Ahead For Congress In Rajasthan
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Contestants arrayed in the electoral battlefield of Rajasthan is almost clear. The Congress and the BJP are engaged in a bitter, closer, no holds barred contest than expected earlier. Hitherto sidelined BJP leader and former CM Vasundhara Raje has come back to the centrestage, while...
Egoistic Akhilesh Yadav Is Emboldening Anti-Secular Organisations
By Arun Srivastava The problem with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has been his own overblown ego. He treats himself as the most astute politician possessing the highest order of intellect and wisdom. He also nurtures the feeling that no other politician could read his mind and make out...
Trinamool Congress Leadership Preparing For Lok Sabha Polls With Confidence
By Tirthankar Mitra Feeling the heat from a slew of corruption charges and more than 10 of its leaders behind the bars, a brainstorming session is on within the Trinamool Congress to reboot it’s election game plan for next year’s Lok Sabha polls. The strategy will be two pronged...
Narayana Murthy’s 70 Hour A Week Working Hour Proposal Is A Health Hazard
By Dr Arun Mitra The Chairman of Infosys Shri N R Narayana Murthy seems to have forgotten the popular poem that was taught to us during school days ‘The Cry of the Children’, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, dedicated to the condition of children in England who were made to...
Call For Immediate Ceasefire Gets Positive Response In US Democratic Party
By John Bachtell NEW YORK: Calls for an immediate ceasefire are accelerating worldwide as the horrific death toll among Palestinians rises and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza deteriorates by the minute. The extreme-right Israeli government is ignoring those pleas as it continues its ground assault and aerial bombardment of...
Anonymous Political Donations Are Harming India’s Democratic System
By Nantoo Banerjee Increasing secret business donations to political parties to help fight state and general elections threaten to harm India’s democratic system. The practice protects the anonymity of contributors. If France, one of the world’s most vibrant democracies, can ban political donations by business corporations, why do political...
Expanded NDA’s Lead In Maharashtra Panchayat Polls Is A Bad Signal For India
By Sushil Kutty Last heard, the NDA had taken a massive lead in the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat elections with the BJP, the NCP Ajit Pawar faction and the Shinde Shiv Sena going great guns while the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP Sharad Pawar were way behind, underlying the...
Mizoram And Chhattisgarh To Vote For Peace And Development
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Mizoram and Chhattisgarh may vote for peace and development. Elections to all the 40 Vidhan Sabha seats in Mizoram and 20 out of 90 in Chhattisgarh are scheduled to be held on November 7. During the entire election campaigns for this phase of election, violence...
Modi More A Threat To His Own Party, Less Prime Danger To Opposition
By Arun Srivastava It appears that Narendra Modi has lost his political sense and prudence; else how could he choose to launch a ruthless attack on the opposition, and even target a section of his own party, just while the Lok Sabha election was hovering on his head. This...
President Elect Muizzu Is Getting His New Government’s Priorities Wrong
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Maldives incoming president Mohamed Muizzu has been giving sleepless nights to the Indian establishment by touching a raw nerve: the presence of Indian military personnel in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation. The 45-year old Muizzu has been the mayor of Male, the densely-populated capital city...
The Growing Pro-Palestine Protests Over Gaza War Are Becoming A Mass Movement
By Yaseen Al-Sheikh On October 20, thousands of protesters marched through the streets of New York City to call for an immediate cease-fire and an end to hostilities in Gaza. Jeremy Cohan, cochair of New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and a Jewish organizer, told reporters that...
Kunal Sen, Son Of Film Director Mrinal Sen Writes About His Bondhu
By Tirthankar Mitra A son writing on his father makes interesting reading. BONDHU, MY FATHER, MY FRIEND a book on Mrinal Sen penned by his son Kunal Sen does not disappoint. In a country where a famous sire is usually succeeded in his profession by his son/daughter, Kunal chose...
ED Raid Aimed To Involve Chief Minister Baghel Before Polls Is Ominous
By Sushil Kutty The regularity with which the Enforcement Directorate discovers alleged wrongdoings of opposition parties on the eve of elections should be a matter of investigation. But that calls for a regime change; the Narendra Modi government should be divested of power for discovering a nexus, if any....
Hezbollah’s Intensified Preparations Suggest Impending War With Israel
By Girish Linganna Along the border between Lebanon and Israel, a missile expert from Hezbollah is currently preparing for a war situation with a level of intensity and readiness he has never experienced before. Dressed in black tactical pants, green camouflage attire, and armed with a pistol, the officer...
Pakistan Army Wants Former PM Nawaz Sharif To Contest And Win Elections
By Harihar Swarup Nawaz Sharif’s celebratory return to Pakistan after several years in exile will turn into a political triumph only if the country’s military establishment, which had banished him from politics six years ago and now facilitated his recent insurrection, fundamentally changed its behaviour. So far, it seems...
