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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.A Pan-Indian Law Against ‘Forced’ Conversions Should Respect Right To Privacy
By Mihir Nigam Religious conversion is a topic that has remained central to the country’s politics. It also gained significant attention in many recent intellectual debates and discussions on freedom of religion. Article 25 of the Constitution grants “freedom of conscience and free profession, practice, and propagation of religion”...
Republican Establishment Wants To Ditch Trump But They Are Stuck
By Luke Savage Whatever their disappointment about this month’s lackluster midterm results might be, the United States’ conservative establishment has clearly sensed an opportunity. Over the past two weeks, a swelling cavalcade of right-wing pundits, talking heads, and elected officials have sought to distance themselves from Donald Trump and...
10-Year Tenure For Public Sector Bank Leadership Is Out Of Sync With New Banking
By K Raveendran From frying pan into the fire. This is exactly the case about the tenure of the managing directors and CEOs of public sector banks (PSBs). The perennial complaint about leadership tenure in PSBs was that frequent changes at the top led to instability and lack of...
Trinamool Congress Makes Big Forays In Meghalaya Before Assembly Polls
By Ashis Biswas In Meghalaya, led by MP Abhishek Banerjee, the state unit of the Trinamool Congress (TMC)has surprised hill voters by launching a massive pre-poll campaign a few days ago. In a state where most other parties including the ruling National Peoples’ Party, Congress and the BJP have...
Rooting Out The Malaise That Turns Lower Judiciary Dysfunctional
By Arun Srivastava There is a famous adage; wife of a weak villager is the sister in law (Bhabhi) of entire village. The condition of the district judiciary is more or less the same. Every individual enjoying the patronage of the political system or basking in the glory of...
Congress Leadership In Kerala Is Mishandling Tharoor Issue
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The World Cup football is in full cry. So is the political soccer game in Kerala. The only difference is that, unlike in the Qatar extravaganza, political parties in the state, especially the Congress, are busy scoring self goals! The latest episode which betrays the...
China’s Ageing Population Gives India A Big Advantage In Coming Decades
By Sushil Kutty China is five to India’s one. Look at China on any parameter, and India lags. Whether it is the size of the economy or defence capabilities. Even in soft power, like sport and films, China outshines India. Most importantly, China is challenging the USA for global...
New AIIMS Director Dr. M Srinivas Has Big Plans For Expanding The Institute
By Harihar Swarup Dr M. Srinivas, the newly appointed director of the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, comes across as the quintessential topper. A man of humble origins, Srinivas started in a Kannada medium school and later became an MBBS gold medallist. The 56-year-old talks about what makes...
Major Muslim, Hindu Groups Compete For Global Clout Using G-20 Platform
By James M Dorsey As Indonesia passed the chairmanship of the Group of 20 (G-20) to India earlier this month, major Muslim and Hindu organisations, some backed by their governments, are battling to define the role of religion in global politics and whether the world’s significant faiths need reform...
‘She Said’ Film Is A Powerful #MeToo Testimonies Elevating The Drama
By Chauncey K. Robinson The phrase “Me Too” was originally coined in 2006 by Black sexual assault survivor and activist Tarana Burke. It was used as a way to empower victims of sexual assault to not live in the shadows in shame or fear. Yet, it wasn’t until 2017...
BJP Is Planning Big For Its Southern Conquest In Coming Two Years
By Kalyani Shankar Despite trying hard for decades, the BJP has little or no presence in the southern states except ruling Karnataka. The South contributes 129 seats, of which the BJP has only 29. Notably, political churning is happening in Tamil Nadu, where BJP is all set to capture...
Exercise For Last Full Budget Before 2024 Election Has Begun
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Government has begun budget exercise for the year 2023-24 in the right earnest with narrowed options and very high stakes for the ruling establishment led by PM Narendra Modi since it would be the last full budget before the 2024 Lok Sabha election. The...
Winning Delhi MCD Is Important Going Forward For Both AAP And The BJP
By Sushil Kutty It’s confirmed. Elections, combined with the politics swirling around them, brings the worst out of politicians, and political parties. Witness what has been happening in Gujarat, and in Delhi with the MCD elections, which has a 15 year anti-incumbency pulling back on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s...
Govt Agencies Right To Intrusion Into Privacy Remains In Draft Data Protection Bill
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The right to privacy in the time of the internet boom is difficult to enforce. But governments around the world are working to reverse this and restore control in the hands of users. Between tech companies and governments, there is a rush to take...
Congress Campaign Has Steadily Picked Up As Gujarat Polls Are Nearing
By Arun Srivastava Spectre of the BJP losing power in Gujarat has made Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the strongman of Indian politics uneasy. Little doubt this baffling transformation was conjured by the success of Bharat Jodo Yatra. Only a couple of days back he was looking at Rahul’s Yatra...
COP27 Climate Summit Was Another Exercise In Corporate Greenwashing
By Claudia Horn As world leaders gathered for this year’s COP27 climate summit in Egypt, the sister of jailed British-Egyptian activist AlaaAbd el-Fattah addressed the following words to the international media: At this conference, the most vulnerable are supposed to negotiate with the most powerful. I want to say...
India’s Uncontrolled Black Economy Is Choking Real Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee The government may disagree, India’s economic performance in the last eight years has proved to be rather lacklustre. It has been facing a real challenge from the ever expanding black economy, substantially eating up the revenue income of both the national and state governments. Unaccounted money...
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Third Book ‘The Song Of The Cell’ Is A Masterpiece
By Nitya Chakraborty Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee has done it again. His third book’ The Song of the Cell’ published this year has once again mesmerized the doctors, scientists and the common readers much more than the impact he had with his first two books ‘The Emperors of all Maladies’...
