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.Modi Government Going Tough On Opposition Before Lok Sabha Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As India moves closer to the Lok Sabha election 2024, the number of raids on, arrests of, and seizures from the leaders of political parties in opposition has increased. Central agencies such as CBI, ED, NIA, and the Department of Income Tax have become super...
European Political Leaderships Are Complicit In US Efforts To Undermine Their Economies
By Prabhat Patnaik One of the most intriguing questions at present is why Europe’s political leadership has become complicit in what appear to be US efforts at undermining European economies. The well-known American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, having already provided evidence that the United States was responsible for the...
US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Ouster Is A Bad Sign For American Politics
By Anjan Roy This is all about what a super is. An internal politicking in the American capital —Washington— results in the overthrow of the US House Speaker and it puts countries across the world in a flutter. US House speaker, Rep Kevin McCarthy, was thrown out of his...
Modi’s Caste Politics Is Revenge Against The Poor And Backwards
By Arun Srivastava Ruthless attacks on his political opponents, unleashing the central agencies against social and cultural activists, and the latest to add to the long list of oppressed, the journalists, is mostly Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking revenge on his past. Till he was installed as the chief...
PM Versus Rahul Gandhi Battle In Telangana Campaign Has Become Interesting
By Sushil Kutty So, the ‘South’ is not the same as the ‘North’ is, and that is as old as independent India. But, this was the first time a Prime Minister of India took the trouble to remind the ‘South’ that it stood at a permanent disadvantage vis a...
Bihar Caste Census Throws Up The Numbers In Nitish-Lalu’s Favour
By Rahil Nora Chopra The much-awaited results of the caste survey in Bihar which has been made public, strengthening CM Nitish Kumar and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, who were one of the prime supporters of the move. It is widely taken as a move to empower the ruling...
Jon Fosse, The Writer On Silence Traverses The Areas From Personal To Universal
By Tirthankar Mitra Jon Fosse writes on silence. Even as critics split hair whether the author of the “unsayable” who pens his thoughts in Norwegian Nynorsk language is the right recipient of Nobel Prize for literature this year, his readers are enjoying a joyous laughter. But it is not...
NewsClick Raid By Delhi Police Is A Fit Issue For Suo Moto Consideration By Supreme Court
By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian Democracy is currently under severe attack by the ruling Government at the centre. The raids by the Delhi police on the staff of the NewsClick news portal and subsequent arrest of the founder editor Prabir Purkayastha and HR head Amit Chakraborty on October 3...
Economic Distress In The Country Is Accentuating Fast Under Narendra Modi
By Sitaram Yechury Last Sunday, lakhs of central and state government employees converged in the capital New Delhi, demanding the restoration of the old pension scheme. The coverage of this massive rally was limited to describing it as an event, obscuring the reflection of a deeper economic malaise afflicting...
Supreme Court Question On Naming AAP As Accused Rattles ED Officials
By Sushil Kutty It did not strike anybody. Neither to the enforcement directorate, nor to the prosecution. And it did not strike the defence team of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. None of the AAP ministers or the AAP MLAs thought of it. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind...
Time Has Come To Rediscover The Secular Principles Of Mahatma Gandhi
By Krishna Jha As the summer with its heat is receding and winter, with its horror of ice cold nights shivers even in these warm days, India’s majority population, jobless, hungry, goes to bed to spend a night of miseries. It is October again, and on its second day...
National Capital Territory Region Heading For Severe Pollution
By Dr. Gyan Pathak National Capital Territory region is heading for a severe pollution in the coming months, despite the assurances given by the state governments and the Centre, and their claims of doing everything possible to protect people. Stubble burning, which used to be the chief cause of...
TMC Number Two Abhishek Banerjee’s National Image Gets A Big Boost After Dharna In Delhi
By Tirthankar Mitra Participating in dharnas or sit-in agitation supporting a demand and being dragged away from the stir site have been part and parcel of West Bengal politics for years. Yet the recurrence of this apparently routine agitation on October 2 and 3 in Delhi helped visiting Trinamool...
Mohamed Muizzu’s Win In Maldives Presidential Polls Should Be Worrying To India
By Girish Linganna Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first world leaders to congratulate president-elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, of the People’s National Congress (PNC), on Sunday in a post on social media platform X, saying that New Delhi was unflinching in its determination to strengthen...
Centre’s Raids On Newsclick Is A Part Of Policy Of Intimidation Of Independent Media
By K Raveendran The use of terrorist laws against journalists in the NewsClick makes the Narendra Modi government’s intentions very clear: terrorise independent media outfits which dare not to follow their ‘gaudi’ counterparts that dominate the country’s media scene. The government apparently feels that even the few that remain...
Bihar Caste Census Report Has Exposed BJP’s Political Faultlines
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Bihar Caste Census Report released on October 2 has exposed the weaknesses of the BJP’s so called social engineering which the party needs to reset urgently before the Lok Sabha election 2024. Caste Dynamics from now onward may change BJP’s political prospects in Bihar, and...
AAP-Congress Row Over MLA’s Arrest In Punjab Should Be Solved Amicably
By Sushil Kutty The police of AAP-ruled Punjab arrests an opposition Congress MLA and it’s just the tip of trouble roiling the AAP and the Congress. The big question haunting the two parties is, however, will their spats at the Punjab state level harm the INDI-Alliance of which both...
BJP High Command Reviewing Its Social Engineering Strategy In The Light Of Caste Census Findings
By Arun Srivastava It will take a couple of days more to unravel the truth whether it was a coincidence or a well-designed plan of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to detain dozen of journalists to deflect the attention of the nation and its people from the impact the...
