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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.‘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’...
COP27 Makes History On Loss And Damage But Delays Wider Deal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Outcome of CoP27 makes a history in agreeing on setting up a loss and damage fund to help the developing countries, but failed to agree on greater actions to successfully deal with the rising temperature of the Earth, that the Paris Agreement of 2015 has...
Narendra Modi Govt Trying To Pass On The Buck Of Demonetisation To RBI
By Arun Srivastava Like other incongruities, the Narendra Modi government once again has resorted to the same tactics and made Reserve Bank of India answerable for implementing the Prime Minister’s personal decision to demonetise the currency. Only three days back Modi government virtually in an act of renunciation of...
Preventive Detention: The Police State And The Need To ‘Police’ The State
By N. Kavitha Rameshwar The judgment of the Madras High Court on November 14 in the case of Sunitha versus Additional Chief Secretary to Government & Ors. is of increased significance for two reasons. Firstly, it acknowledges the transformation of the welfare State into a police State that has...
Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence Throws Up Challenge To Donald Trump
By Sushil Kutty Former US Vice President Mike Pence is back, armed with a memoir with which he wills to conquer the future—Pence wants to be the spotlight in 2024 even as Donald Trump announced he’s gonna give himself another chance in the glare of the White House. Asked...
Bad Mouthing By Rival Party Leaders Pollutes Bengal’s Political Space
By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when politics in West Bengal was studded by luminaries Kiran Shankar Roy and Hiren Mukherjee known for their erudition and courtesy towards their political opponents who were never considered to be enemies. The tradition eroded over the years as politeness took a back seat...
New Data Protection Bill Boosts Feminists As It Creates Legislative History
By K Raveendran Some 70-odd crore-strong Indian male population will be called upon to come out of their obsession with masculinity as the draft Digital Data Protection Bill, 2022, unveiled by Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for public debate the other day, only identifies them in the feminine gender. Under...
Supreme Court Warning To National Investigation Agency Is An Eye Opener
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Investigating Agency (NIA) under Union Home Minister Amit Shah as Union Minister of Home Affairs has now gained enough notoriety in the public as violators of rule of law and even the order of the courts of justice. NIA’s attitude towards the human...
Karan Singh’s Statement Clarifies Maharaja Hari Singh’s Role In 1947
By Harihar Swarup Maharaja Harijai Singh of Jammu & Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession on October 26, 1947. He was in a tough spot. The subcontinent has been divided on the basis of faith and his mind was not only the 80% Muslims in the state, but also...
Both Uddhav Thackeray And Rahul Gandhi Can Differ On Savarkar
By Arun Srivastava Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray refutation to Rahul Gandhi’s remark on Savarkar might have been driven by political compulsions, but it has provided with the much awaited opportunity to BJP to humiliate and slander him as the true inheritor of the legacy of Balasaheb Thackeray. Vitriolic...
