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.IT Department Must Be Taken To Task For Ignoring BBC Violations All These Years
By K Raveendran It is no joke that under Indian laws anyone can be hauled up at any time, anywhere, because there are some laws that can be slapped against anyone who the authorities are not well-disposed towards. In fact, these laws have become a tool of repression and...
Daily Wage Workers’ Suicides During Pandemic Is Shocking
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India have been listening PM Narendra Modi and his supporters claiming the “great work done” for the workforce in the country, especially during the pandemic. However, the revelation made by Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav in the Lok Sabha on February 13 is quite shocking....
Supreme Court Prima Facie Acceptance Of No Voting Rights For Aldermen Is A Slap To Centre
By Sushil Kutty Why is it that when certain things (for want of a better word) are constitutionally set and there cannot be two ways about it – also no ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’- that such matters are taken to court and the courts, as if this was the first...
India Could Be This Decade’s China If New Delhi Plays Its Cards Well
By James M Dorsey This could be India’s decade if it plays its cards right. The sub-continental state is poised to be the next China, even if its path will likely be less straightforward than that of China and more of a Leninist two steps forward, one step backwards....
Expunging Words From The Speeches Of Opposition Leaders Is Unethical
By S.N. Sahu During his Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi, the Indian National Congress’ Member of Parliament (MP) representing Wayanad in the Lok Sabha, repeated on many occasions the accusation that his microphone was being switched off whenever he spoke in the Lok Sabha to flag issues of public...
Lone ISF MLA Naushad Siddiqui Is Now Focal Point Of Opposition Stir In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Be it cash for jobs scam or demand for an enhanced percentage of dearness allowance to Bengal government personnel agitation, issues are galore in West Bengal. But the latest one for which the Opposition has hit the ground running is seeking a people’s representative languishing behind...
Mulayam Singh Yadav Had A Chequered Political Career Spanning Nearly Six Decades
By Harihar Swarup Mulayam Singh Yadav, who was decorated with Padma Vibhusan (posthumously), this year, had a variegated career, having come hard way in his carrier. May 2007 was the darkest period of his life. He was trounced in Uttar Pradesh assembly election by his arch rival Mayawati who...
Twenty Years After, The Lessons Of West’s Iraq War Are Still Relevant
By Ben Chacko Twenty years ago on February 16, 2003, two million marched for peace in the biggest protest in British history. The London demonstration formed just one of scores of marches against the US’s stated plan to invade Iraq which maybe mobilised 30 million people worldwide. But this...
Brazilian President Lula Has The Right Strategy On How To Fight The Far Right
By Craig Johnson Last Friday, two American leaders who faced would-be coup attempts, US president Joe Biden and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met in Washington, DC. The pair of presidents traded the usual pleasantries of diplomatic visits, but it was the Latin American visitor who was...
BJP Is Battle Ready For The Nine State Assembly Elections In 2023
By Kalyani Shankar There could be a musical chair this year with nine states going for elections. It will be a trailer and the semi-final before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The results will show whether the BJP continues to sway the voters or the Congress-led Opposition will defeat...
Income Tax Searches Into BBC Offices In India Is A Panicky Reaction By Centre
By Sushil Kutty It has started. The Empire has struck back, the undeclared emergency is out in the open. Teams of Income Tax officials landed in BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Valentine’s Day to conduct what it called ‘surveys’, and not ‘raids’. The “surveys” were on at...
G20 Presidency For India Caught Between Pride And Humiliation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pride and magnanimous words when the country took the responsibility of G20 in the beginning of December 2022, and now UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said with great poignancy to turn “words into action” to get the world...
Congress Is The Weakest Link In Left-Led Opposition Alliance In Tripura Polls
By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, with only 48 hours before the scheduled Assembly polls on February 16, the state Congress unit has been left to fend for itself by the party high command in carrying out its pre poll campaign. Despite earlier assurances by local Congress leaders, neither Mr...
Demolition Politics By Centre At Tughlakabad And Mehrauli Sends Ominous Signal
By Gursimran Kaur Bakshi As south Delhi’s Mehrauli Archaeological Park gets a makeover ahead of the G-20 Summit in Delhi in September, a massive anti-encroachment drive by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) took place in the Ladha Sarai village of Mehrauli on February 10. The demolition drive was carried...
U.S. Economic Sanctions Aggravate Earthquake Response In Syria
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Suffering in Syria and Turkey caused by a strong earthquake on Feb. 6 has elicited an immense worldwide humanitarian response. The toll as of press time for this article was 36,000 people dead, with the number of recorded deaths steadily rising as rubble from...
Debt-Heavy Adani Group May Take Time To Overcome That Sinking Feeling
By Nantoo Banerjee With government banks and financial institutions involved in massive funding in the lately stock-crashed Adani group enterprises, legislators from India’s main opposition parties are understandably concerned. Last week, even the Supreme court sought to know from the government and market regulator the steps needed to improve...
MGNREGA Budget Cut Is Being Protested Across India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ever since the Union Budget 2023-24 was tabled in the Parliament of India, MGNREGA workers across the country has been protesting against substantial budget cut for the second year reducing the earlier employment guarantee making the rural workforce restive. The reduction in budget allocation would...
CPI(ML) Liberation Calls For Broadest Unity Of Democratic Forces To Fight RSS-BJP
By Arun Srivastava With India facing a diabolical threat from the rightwing RSS and BJP, the immediate and most urgent task for the revolutionary communists is to save the country from this flurry of fascist disaster and destruction and to accomplish this it is imperative that all democratic forces...
