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.Hate Speech By Right Wing Politicians Rose By 1130 Per Cent Since 2014
By Arun Srivastava The leaders of the saffron brigade, RSS and BJP, are quite annoyed with the Supreme Court’s concern over hate speech and putting the simple question; “what have we reduced religion to? There cannot be fraternity unless members of community drawn from different religions or castes of...
Mulayam Singh Yadav Started Muslim-Yadav Combo, Akhilesh Has To Expand It
By Harihar Swarup “Ek parinda bhi nahi mar sakta Ayodhya main (I will not allow a bird to flap its wing in Ayodhya)”—the line famously delivered by Mulayam Singh Yadav in 1990 that was to make him presiding deity of M-Y (Muslim—Yadav) politics in Uttar Pradesh for quarter of...
Supreme Court Judges Have Given The Order – Will The BJP State Govts Implement?
By Sushil Kutty On October 21, when the Supreme Court asked police of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to initiate direct action against hate speech and not “wait for complaints”, adding that “hesitation” will invite instant retribution, the first thought that came to mind was that the Supreme Court...
Strong Laws To Protect Encryption Are The Need Of The Hour
By Prachi Arya “Encryption safeguards the personal security of billions of people and the national security of countries around the world.” The opening statement on the About page of the Global Encryption Coalition (‘GEC’), which consists of 180 members from among civil society organisations, companies and individuals, captures the...
Mamata’s Sudden Remarks On Blaming CPI(M) For Tata’s Exit From Singur Are Planned
By Tirthankar Mitra When chief minister, Mamata Banerjee said that it was CPI-M and not she who drove away the Tatas from Singur small car project, it was no throwaway remark. Twin hidden agenda lay in it which include diverting the Opposition criticism from issues troubling her dispensation together...
2022 World Cup: Qatar’s Make Or Break Moment
By James M Dorsey The final run-up to the 2022 World Cup and the tournament’s management is make-it-or-break-it time for Qatar. Both will determine Qatar’s ultimate soft power benefit from the World Cup. How Qatar manages the tournament, and potential flare and hick-ups will shape how the 2022 World...
Disclosures Further Cloud Remission Of Bilkis Bano Rape Convicts’ Sentence
By K Raveendran The release of Bilkis Bano rape case convicts by the Gujarat government is turning even more dubious amidst new disclosures that the remission was allowed despite opposition from the CBI as well as the city civil and sessions court of Greater Bombay and the prisons and...
Both Centre And The State Governments Have Failed India’s Hungry Children
By Sushil Kutty As if the remission to the “Gujarat gang-rapists” and the showboating from the ramparts of the Lal Qila weren’t enough, now there’s India’s humiliating 107 out of 121 ranking on the Global Hunger index, too, indicting the Modi Government. Only the morally-corrupt and the ethically-challenged will...
Kharge As Dalit President Can Improve Congress Tally In Gujarat
By Rahil Nora Chopra Veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge becoming the third Dalit president of the Indian National Congress, after D Sanjivaiah (1962) and Jagjivan Ram (December 1969), is expected to have a big impact on Gujarat assembly polls. In the western state and home-turf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...
India Has Performed Worse Than Pakistan And Bangladesh In Hunger Index
By Prabhat Patnaik The Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2022 has just come out, which shows India occupying the 107th position among the 121 countries for which the index is prepared (countries where hunger is not a noteworthy problem are left out of the index).India’s score on the hunger...
New Congress President Kharge Has To Launch An Ideological Battle Against BJP
By Arun Srivastava The presidential election has virtually split the grand old party of India, the Congress, on ideological plane. Congress has been a conglomerate of people having divergent political and social backgrounds. It never had a defined ideological line. The party primarily followed the centrist political line. Even...
USA’s Latest Sanction On Chinese Companies On Chips Is A Threat To Global Economy
By Prabir Purkayastha The US has gambled big in its latest, across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap China and retain its global dominance. From the slogan of globalisation and “free trade” of the neoliberal 90s, it has reverted to good old technology...
Nepal’s General Elections On November 20 May Not Lead To A Stable Govt
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Nepal is going to polls on November 20 this year for the second time in its latest tryst with democracy. The first round of general elections took place in 2017 after the country got a brand new constitution in 2015. What makes the Nepal elections...
Congress Has A Golden Opportunity To Reunify And Rejuvenate The Party
By Sushil Kutty Suddenly everybody is an advisor to newly elected Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, advising him on how to go about running the 137-year-old party, which, if it had life of its own, will know the constant that nothing changes in the Congress till the Gandhi family wants...
India Under Narendra Modi Is The Hunger Spot Of The World In 2022
By Vikas Kumar The Global Hunger Index 2022, released on October 13, shows that India’s rank in the world has slipped further – from 101 last year to 107 this year – in terms of this important indicator of conditions of hunger and malnutrition. India’s rank is far below...
New Congress President Kharge Has To Tread Carefully
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Defeated, but not disgraced. That is the apt assessment of the outcome of the Congress presidential election, which saw Mallikarjun Kharge become the first non-Gandhi leader to head the grand old party in 24 years. The Congress veteran will officially take over the post on...
Akhilesh Yadav Is Positive To Nitish Kumar’s Unity Bid Of Socialist Groups
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The visit of leaders from different political parties to Sefai village in Itawah in Uttar Pradesh to meet Akhilesh Yadav to condole the death of his father and founder of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav had significance for future alliances by SP to face 2024...
British Prime Minister Liz Truss Steadily Losing Support Of Tory Members
By Arun Srivastava Britons nurse the feeling that Labour Party has lost the opportunity to take advantage of the present crisis facing the Tory Government led by Liz Truss. Though its leader Keir Starmer is trying to capitalise on the government crisis, the major section of the Labour leaders...
