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.Former Prime Minister Imran Khan Is On Backfoot Over Leaked Audio Tapes
By Sankar Ray The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman and the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s threat to move the court over the recent audio leaks questioning how and who did leak them suggests that that the PTI chief seems to be on the lookout for an escape from...
Panchayat Polls In Bengal Will Be A Fight Between Trinamool Congress And BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra Panchayat elections scheduled to be held in West Bengal early next year will be in stark contrast to the rural polls held five years ago. But the CPI-M has little reason to be upbeat about its chances of surging past the BJP which many voters opposed...
CPI Has To Take Key Role In Building Broader Unity Against Ruling BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) is holding its 24th Party Congress at Vijayawada on October 14 ro 18 this year at a crucial time of the country in terms of both politics and economy. There has been a decisive shift in the political direction of...
India’s Politicised Police Is Mostly Busy Protecting Ruling Party Concerns
By Nantoo Banerjee Last month, the alleged murder of a 19-year-old girl receptionist, Ankita Bhandari, in the Vanantara resort in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Uttarakhand’s Pauri district sparked massive outrage across the country. The girl went missing on September 18 following which a missing complaint was lodged by her parents...
Election Commission Is Functioning In A Bizarre Manner In Shiv Sena Symbol Issue
By Sushil Kutty At the heart of politics is cowardice. Okay, foolhardiness. Take demonetization, for instance. It was a reckless display of authoritarianism, unbridled power, when the BJP-led NDA Government tipped its hat to its Prime Minister and forgot that in a democracy, collective decisions are the norm and...
Freebies Debate In India Highlights The Limits Of Judicial Overreach
By Mayuri Gupta Over the last few months, what the remit of political campaign promises should be has remained constant in public discourse. This increased attention for election promises is partly the result of a public interest litigation (‘PIL’) filed at the Supreme Court in January by politician and...
President Putin Is Losing His Options In Ukraine After Latest Reverses
By Anjan Roy The Ukraine war is taking a turn after seven and a half months which is worrying strategic experts and militaries in Europe in new ways. If initially the worry was about an outright defeat of Ukraine and presence of Russia in eastern parts in a more...
India Needs A Major Revolution In Healthcare System In Next 25 Years
By Harihar Swarup A writer woke up in panic but felt relieved when felt it was only nightmare. He had gone back in time to being a young doctor, feeling helpless with high rate and mortality rates, a paediatric ward filled with children suffering from tuberculosis meningitis, polio, severe...
Sigh Of Relief As OPEC-Plus Cut Unlikely To Reach Declared Levels
By K Raveendran As the global oil markets digest the news about OPEC+ announcement of a 2 million barrels per day of crude output cut, more details emerging from market analysts should calm Indian nerves a bit as the impact may not be as severe as feared. The Brent...
Citizens Committee Blames Centre For Not Doing Enough To Quell NE Delhi Riots
By Satyaki Chakraborty A Citizens Committee comprising former Supreme Court and High Court judges and a former Home Secretary of the Union Government have authored a report raising serious questions about the role of the news media, social media, Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’) and Hindu nationalist leaders, the Delhi...
Digital Credentials Needed For 80 Per Cent Of Jobs In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Explosive growth and spread of digital technologies have brought transformations changes to the working world. Labour market is being reshaped, demand for digital skills and competencies increasing, and the demand for people who perform routine manual jobs is reducing. The COVID-19 crisis accelerated digitalization and...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Emerging As A Principled Leader In His Battle Against Shinde
By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray grew up jostling with a rival for his father Balasaheb Thackeray’s pats and “well-dones”. Cousin Raj Thackeray was finally gone and the years thereafter erased the memory of living with a ‘resentment’. But, irony of all ironies, whoever would have thought that a grown-up...
Death Of Eight Persons During Flash Floods In Mal River In Bengal Poses Many Questions
By Tirthankar Mitra Questions outnumber answers in the tragic death of eight persons in a flash flood in Mal river in North Bengal recently. Even as the Opposition is crying itself hoarse that a “temporary barrage” allegedly in aid of the sand mafia led to the tragedy, the theory...
Betting On The Wrong Horse: Battle To Define Moderate Islam
By James M Dorsey Proponents of a moderate Islam that embraces tolerance, diversity, and pluralism may be betting on the wrong horse by supporting Muslim scholars on autocrats’ payroll. Polling in the Middle East seems to confirm that state-sponsored clerics lack credibility. Recent research suggesting that non-violent protest has...
Bharat Jodo Yatra In Karnataka Has Given A Big Boost To Congress
By Nitya Chakraborty The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi completed one month of its march in Karnataka on October 6. With the participation of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the Yatra got massive character boost, attracting thousands of men, women and even children, as...
Eurozone Countries Facing Double Digit Inflation Hitting Working Class
By Prabhat Patnaik For the first time ever, the annual rate of inflation in the Eurozone, measured by the Consumer Price Index, has reached double digits: it exceeded 10 per cent in September 2022, up from 9.1 per cent in August. Energy and food prices of course drove this...
Digvijaya Singh Likely To Be Leader Of Opposition In Rajya Sabha
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, after filing his nomination for the election for the party presidential post, resigned as the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Rajya Sabha. He met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and submitted his resignation and in line with the party’s one-leader, one-post...
Indian Economy Beset With Dwindling Growth And High Food Inflation
By Sanjay Roy The post-pandemic recovery in the world economy that picked up in 2021 is likely to slow down due to expectations of rising inflation, continuing war, restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and prolonged real estate slump in China as well as a slower than anticipated consumer...
