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.Workers Gearing Up For Bitter Struggle To Survive With Dignity
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India has been witnessing a systematic weakening of Trade Unionism by the ruling establishment through adoption of labour policies that push the workers more and more into unorganized sector. The unprecedented sufferings that the COVID-19 crisis brought for the working class has made them accepting...
Tamil Nadu Govt Under Chief Minister M K Stalin Honours M S Swaminathan
By K R Sudhaman Contrary to the Dravida Model of sidelining Brahmins in Tamil Nadu as part of the caste politics under the garb of so-called social justice, the DMK government in Tamil Nadu led by Chief Minister M K Stalin has decided to honour father of India’s green...
An Attack On Israel Was Inevitable From Iran’s Perspective
By M A Hossain On October 7, 2023, Israel suffered its most devastating attack in decades, orchestrated by the Iran-backed Palestinian militant organization, Hamas. Notably, Hamas’s startling well-planned land-sea-air surprise assault from Gaza on Southern Israeli communities claimed the lives of hundreds and took approximately 150 persons hostage, both...
Afghanistan Needs Massive Assistance To Deal With The Earthquake Disaster
By Tirthankar Mitra Since 2021 after Taliban regime took over Kabul and rest of Afghanistan, links of this beautiful mountainous country with the rest of the world have almost been severed. If the powers that be in it chose isolation for itself, a chain of natural disasters striking it...
Netanyahu’s War On Gaza Risks Spiralling Into A Regional Catastrophe
By Branko Marcetic The human toll of the Israel-Hamas war has been truly terrifying. Israel has responded to Hamas’s murder of thirteen hundred civilians this past Saturday by launching a campaign of one-sided, vengeful slaughter of innocent Palestinian civilians. Israel has killed more than fifteen hundred Gazans, at least...
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sharma Leads Lok Sabha Poll Campaign Of BJP On Communal Plank
By Ashis Biswas In Assam, Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma, responding to fresh charges of corruption from the opposition, has launched a sharp counter attack specially targeting the Congress party in the pre-poll campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam...
Ecuador’s Presidential Poll Runoff On October 15 Is Going To Be A Game Changer
By Satyaki Chakraborty Ecuador belonging to the Latin American continent is witnessing its run off Presidential elections on October 15, Sunday culminating in a fierce poll campaign marked by jail killings, car bombings, shootings and a widespread security crisis involving the common citizens. The Left wing Presidential nominee Luisa...
Delhi Police Raids On Newsclick Is A Sort Of McCarthysm By The Centre
By Prabhat Patnaik The central government’s hounding of Newsclick reminds one of the children’s story about a tiger and a goat drinking water from the same stream. The tiger, wanting an excuse to attack the goat, accuses it of muddying the water it is drinking; when the goat points...
Hamas-Israel War Has Been Taking Serious Global Dimension In A Week
By Sushil Kutty ‘Global Jihad Day’, Friday, October 13, was an imposition on the non-Muslim world. The Muslim world has a grudge and the rest of the world has to pause and pay. It is about who is the aggressor and who is the silent sufferer? It is no...
Caste Census Demand To Shape Assembly Polls, 2024 Lok Sabha Agendas
By Rahil Nora Chopra The stage is all ready for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections as the Election Commission of India announced the dates for the upcoming assembly polls to be held in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram. The polls will be held between November 7 and...
Fist Fights, Locking Union Minister In Party Office Mark BJP’s Factionalism In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Just as Union home minister, Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda are about to make a brief visit to West Bengal early next week, fissures threaten to turn into cracks in the state BJP unit. While leading lights of Trinamool Congress, the ruling dispensation...
United States Funding Of Israeli War Efforts Will Prolong West Asia Conflict
By Stephen Semler On Tuesday, Joe Biden said he’d formally ask Congress to approve military funding for Israel in the coming days, emphasizing: “We stand with Israel. And we will make sure it has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself, respond to this...
Is Hunter Biden Influencing Washington’s Decisions Targeting Awami League Govt?
By Satyaki Chakraborty Is US President’s son Hunter Biden putting pressure on the US administration to tighten noose around the Bangladesh government headed by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to pursue the agenda of the ruling Awami League’s rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) before the general elections scheduled early...
Just Condemning Hamas Is Not Adequate, India Has To Extend Solidarity To Palestinians Also
By P. Sudhir The ferocious conflict which has erupted with the astounding Hamas attacks in southern Israel and the Israeli counteroffensive with the savage bombardment of Gaza constitutes a new chapter in the ongoing history of the occupation and the resistance to it by the Palestinian people. At the...
BRS Under K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Still Frontrunner In Telangana Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty Elections often throw up surprises. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao isn’t one for unexpected surprises though. He is confident his party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, will keep control of the Telangana assembly at the expense of the Congress and the BJP. Reports say money and...
Infighting Is The Biggest Challenge For BJP In Rajasthan Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rajasthan polls, that has been rescheduled for November 25 from November 23 by the Election Commission of India on account of very large number of weddings in the state, has offered the twin challenges of “infighting and anti-incumbency” for both the Congress and the BJP....
U.S. Must Support United Nations Call For Ceasefire In Gaza And Israel
By Phyllis Bennis The most recent eruption of violence in Gaza and Israel is a tragic reminder of the human consequences of decades of oppression. The human toll – hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis killed so far – tells that appalling story. Many of the targets, and many of...
Narendra Modi Government Is Intolerant To Any Independent Media
By Krishna Jha An unprecedented gloom has been setting over in our hitherto unblemished skies. All pervasive, suffocating. Since last nine years, right from 2014, there is all out destruction of everything positive. And it does get noticed. The sentinels of media convey to country how pillars are crumbling....
