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.Remembering Ela Bhatt Who Battled For The Unorganised Till Her End
By Indira Jaising Much is known about the life and times of Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA. I had the privilege of working for her and with her in the service of self-employed women, which gives me some confidence to speak about her and her work. I was always...
Italy’s Far-Right Government Is Already At War With Migrants
By Richard Braude Threats, lies, and the breaking of international conventions. Another Italian government, another round of attempts to turn the ports of Italy into a circus of violations and dehumanizing logistical wranglings. Another round of bolstering Europe’s racist border regime — as if the sea were barbed wire...
Bolivia’s Socialist Government Confronts Separatist, Racist Uprising
By W. T. Whitney Jr. With the exception of a coup-government interregnum in 2019-2021, the Movement Toward Socialism political party (MAS) has headed Bolivia’s government since the beginning of Evo Morales’s presidency in 2006. The MAS government now led by President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca announced...
India Needs Large FDI Inflow To Become Factory To World
By Nantoo Banerjee Global investment banker Morgan Stanley may have predicted the current decade as India’s following economic slowdown in China. But, the Indian economy is not growing as fast as it should. Large foreign direct investments (FDI) seem to be fighting shy of India’s highly price sensitive economy....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Playing The Victim Card On The Eve Of Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava Like an incompetent carpenter who blames the tools for his bad work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi too has started playing the victim card having failed to keep his promises made to the people and provide a people oriented governance. Modi has come to realise that his...
Congress Has Every Right To Object To Release Of Rajiv Assassins By Supreme Court
By Sushil Kutty Let us agree not to disagree with the Congress that the Supreme Court should not have released the six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case; that this was “totally unacceptable and completely erroneous.” The ruling has made the top court a laughing stock to some,...
Bank Employees Are Again Up In Arms Against Managements
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Bank employees of the country are again up in arms against their management against their alleged highhandedness. To oppose these, which allegedly include unlawful and unfair actions of the bank managements against the employees, All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) has already served a notice...
TMC Corruption And BJP Infighting Give Some Hope To Left Front In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Led by CPI(M) Left Front seems to have a leg up in next year’s panchayat polls in the state. The change of political fortune is thanks to the windfall it received from the recent series of intra-party squabbles with state saffron from camp and Trinamool Congress...
Why The New CJI D Y Chandrachud Means Hope For Indian Judiciary
By N. Kavitha Rameshwar “It is well for a judge to remind himself or herself of the fact that flattery is the graveyard of the gullible”, said then Supreme Court Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, in one of his judgments. While being alive to this thought of his and how...
New Sense Of Realism Emerging In Approach To Quota As Welfare Tool
By K Raveendran The first major indication of the Supreme Court thinking on the reservation issue was available in the apex court’s judgment in the Maratha reservation case of 2021, although the substantive issue raised in that plea was different from the court’s latest stand in the 10 percent...
CJI Chandrachud And Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Crown
By Sushil Kutty Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Chandrachud have two years facing each across the aisle. The rightwing Prime Minister, and the left-liberal CJI described as progressive and ’woke’. Head to head, the two are as different as chalk and cheese, and the...
Congress Is Giving A Good Fight To BJP In Gujarat Through Door To Door Campaign
By Harihar Swarup With the Election Commission firing the starter’s gun for the Gujarat assembly elections, one thing is clear. The real fight is over who is best positioned to challenged the multi—decade positioned political hegemony of BJP. Will it be AAP or Congress? So it A (APP) versus...
As Meghalaya Heads For Polls, Political Theatrics Heat Up
By Ashis Biswas In Meghalaya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a small entity within the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government, starts its pre-2023 Assembly poll campaign with a handicap against rival, the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Led by former Congress leader Mukul Sangma, the TMC has 12 members...
Akhilesh Facing Big Challenge To Defend Mainpuri Lok Sabha Seat In Bypoll
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is facing biggest challenge to defend Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat lying vacant after the demise of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav who recently passed away. Taking this challenge seriously Akhilesh Yadav decided to field his wife Dimple Yadav to...
COP27 Should Take Serious Cognizance Of Nuclear Weapons Abolition Issue
By Dr Arun Mitra Humanity is on a “highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator”, the UN secretary general has warned, saying ‘the fight for a liveable planet will be won or lost in this decade.’ He told world leaders at the opening of the Cop27...
Xi Toying With A Saudi Visit: Manoeuvring Dangerous Middle East Minefields
By James M Dorsey Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hit all the right cords when he spoke virtually with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan, at a meeting of the China-Saudi Arabia High-Level Joint Committee last month. Wang told Bin Farhan: “China attaches great importance to the development...
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju Is Defaming The Judiciary To Protect Centre
By Arun Srivastava It is not a secret what made the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju to question the functioning of the collegium of the Supreme Court and malign the face of the judiciary in public. For a fortnight he has been targeting the judges and judiciary and accusing...
Many Questions Remain Unanswered Relating To Inclusion Of Converted Into Dalits
By Sushil Kutty Why would those who converted from Hinduism to Islam and Christianity want to be classified as ‘Dalit’, when it was the Scheduled Caste status in the Hindu religious and social order what made them to convert in the first place? In fact, the strongest argument to...
