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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.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...
Prime Minister’s Cup Of Woes Is Full As India Starts Campaign For National Caste Census
By Sushil Kutty Overnight a couple of planks for the 2024 General Elections has been laid – with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar releasing the Bihar Caste Census and Prime Minister Narendra Modi raking up the Kanhaiyalal ‘sar tan se juda’ in pollbound Rajasthan, both the politicians ready to...
Rahul Gandhi Seeks To Transform The Ideological Outreach Of Congress Through Caste Census
By Arun Srivastava Rahul Gandhi calling for caste census has multiple political dimensions and also implications. Of course, its immediate move aims at estrangement of the OBC, EBC and other backward castes voters from the influence of the politics of Hindutva of RSS and Narendra Modi, but it has...
Demoralised Shivraj Singh Chouhan May Severely Affect BJP Campaign
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was promoting to make Madhya Pradesh the third most developed state of the country, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan surprised everybody by saying “You will miss me when I am gone”. This statement is being interpreted as an announcement...
John Gambon Will Be Remembered For Long For His Performance In Harry Potter Movies
By Tirthankar Mitra Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances is a quote which aptly encapsulates the histrionic talent of Michael John Gambon who passed away last week.. He lived up to this quote as the octogenarian will be best remembered for his performance in the role of Albus...
Nelson Mandela’s Granddaughter Zoleka’s Inspirational Journey
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Zoleka Mandela, the granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically elected President, passed away at the age of 43 due to cancer. Zoleka battled metastatic cancer affecting her hip, liver, lung, pelvis, brain, and spinal cord. Surrounded by loved ones, she departed on the...
James Joyce Was A Product Of Ireland’s Revolutionary Generation
By Adam Coleman James Joyce was a member of Ireland’s revolutionary generation. The author of Ulysses (1922) was born in 1882, the same year as Éamon de Valera, and three years after Patrick Pearse in 1879. The latter two figures proved to be instrumental in realizing a political revolution...
