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.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...
Decoding The Ace Film Maker Of Bengal Tapan Sinha On His Birth Centenary
By Tirthankar Mitra One can recall few Bengali film makers other than Tapan Sinha who made the process of building a bridge between a well directed film and cash boxes jingling merrily at the theatres look so easy. The birth anniversary of this physics post graduate who learnt the...
G S Pannun Is A Dreaded Khalistani Terrorist Roaming In US And Canada
By Harihar Swarup At 5 feet 9 inches, Gurupatwant Singh Pannun is hardly tall by Punjabi standards. Nor does he have any stature in Punjab— the people there, including Sikh hardliners, rejected his call for a Khalistan referendum in 2020. He drew attention when he stood on a Canadian...
The United States Has Its Fingerprints All Over The Chaos In Haiti
By Branko Marcetic The situation in Haiti — which will now see an unprecedented foreign intervention aimed at quelling the bedlam that’s gripped the country the past two years — is an awful, bloody mess, and one without any satisfying immediate solutions. But we can say two things for...
The Play Of Politics In The Practice Of Sports In Saudi Arabian And Iran
By James M Dorsey Saudi and Iranian sports have politics written into their DNA. Little more than a decade ago, Saudi Arabia fielded three expatriate Saudi women athletes at the 2012 London Olympics to avoid an International Olympic Committee (IOC) ban on participation. The IOC had made fielding women...
Supreme Court’s Waiting Game On Electoral Bonds Hearing Is Hurting Indian Democracy
By Nitya Chakraborty Once again, the Government has approved the sale of 28th tranche of electoral bonds with effect from October4 lasting ten days and as usual, it is slotted few weeks before the assembly elections to the five states. As usual, the BJP will be getting another big...
BJP Wooing Smaller Parties After Rupture With AIADMK In Tamil Nadu
By Kalyani Shankar Can the split between the AIADMK and BJP be permanent? If so, this could hurt the BJP’s chances of winning in Tamil Nadu since the AIADMK had supported them since J. Jayalalithaa’s passing away in 2016. The decision to end its partnership with the NDA on...
Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi’s Caste Census Pitch Rattles BJP And RSS
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The release of Bihar Caste Census Report has two immediate consequences: First, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has further raised his pitch for conduction of caste census at national level; and secondly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the opposition of “trying to divide the country in...
