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.Rightwing Populism Dominating National Elections In Europe
By Sankar Ray Europe’s centre-right political parties were until a decade ago seen as ‘both dependably dull and dependably stable’. But that is now a thing of the past. Now the continent’s Christian democratic, conservative and market liberal parties together constitute the mainstream right. They are now undergoing significant...
Many Questions Remain Over The Demand For Use Of Hijabs By Muslim Girls
By Sushil Kutty Iran’s ruling clerics are up to their necks in protests for defending a piece of cloth they insist women should wear to keep their dignities intact. What’s wrong with that? The ‘hijab’ is such an innocuous wraparound. And it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, not when...
Fresh Land Survey Initiated By Soren In Jharkhand Is Leading To Battle With BJP
By Arun Srivastava The new face of Adivasi identity, Hemant Soren, son of the legendry tribal Guruji, Shibu Soren , has blown the war trumpet against the BJP’s design to impair the sensibility of Adivasi individuality and turn Jharkhand into the colony of the capitalists advocating the Hindutva political...
Risks Of Kessler Syndrome Is High As Space Debris Accumulate
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With Earth’s Orbits getting crowded, the risks of Kessler syndrome – a catastrophic and irreversible chain reaction of on-orbit collisions between debris and operational satellites –is becoming high, even though according to the most recent projection by Merrill Lynch/Bank of America the space economy would...
Biden Seen Likely To Grant Immunity To Saudi Crown Prince
By James M Dorsey The Biden administration is mulling whether to grant Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sovereign immunity in a case related to the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist’s fiancé and a non-profit organization he helped found filed the lawsuit in a Washington district court....
Jobless Growth And Dwindling MSME Sector Worrying Factors For Economy
By K R Sudhaman Indian government is gung ho about Indian economy’s GDP numbers, which recorded a double digit growth in the first quarter this financial year and overtook Britain to become the world’s fifth largest economy. These numbers do give us a sense of pride as they are...
Global Media Making Narendra Modi A Hero Of Samarkand SCO Meet
By Anjan Roy from Toronto Prime minister Narendra Modi’s televised interview with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin at the SCO summit on September116 at Samarkand is reverberating in the Western international media even five days after the event. All major media houses in USA and Canada are repeating the...
Time To Recall Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is gubernatorial grouchiness at its worst. Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan must be replaced immediately. The Governor is guilty of going against all accepted norms of gubernatorial conduct, in the process of violating the Constitution he is supposed to uphold. Arif Mohammed Khan upped...
Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar Started His Fraudster Career At The Age Of 17
By Harihar Swarup One of the earliest stories of confidence trickery by serial conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar is from early days in Bengaluru where he grew up. Then a 17-year-old, he is known to have carried around with him a forged letter of Bengaluru police commissioner declaring that the teenager...
New British Monarch Has A Long Relationship With India And Its Culture
By Kalyani Shankar Prince Charles, who held this title for a long time acceded to the British throne after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, last week. He has a robust Indian connection and has been familiar with Indians for decades. After his accession, he became Head...
India Most Vulnerable To Disaster Displacement In South Asia
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With 41.4 million disaster displacement in the last decade between 2010 and 2021, India has emerged as the most vulnerable in South Asia, followed by Pakistan with 16.4 million, Bangladesh with 14.1 million, and Nepal with 3.3 million displacements. South Asia, as a whole, accounts...
Ashok Gehlot Versus Shashi Tharoor Will Be An Interesting Fight
By Sushil Kutty Has Rahul Gandhi’s persistence prevailed? The Gandhi scion has always wanted an elected Congress president, and it seems he is getting his wish fulfilled: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has given her consent to Thiruvananthapuram Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to contest the party’s presidential election, and...
Akhilesh Yadav Focuses On Padayatras To Meet BJP Challenge In 2024 Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Leader of Opposition and Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav has decided that his party would hit the streets on public issues to take on BJP to face 2024 Lok Sabha. Former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav led impressive padayatra of his party legislators on the...
Hate Mongering Has Serious Physical And Mental Health Impact
By Dr Arun Mitra Health refers to a state of complete emotional and physical well-being. It is, therefore, important that social and environmental milieu is conducive and fulfils the criteria of better nutrition, equitable distribution of resources and affordable healthcare facilities. There have to be sufficient conditions to prevent...
Inflated Stock Prices Are Behind Gautam Adani’s Massive Wealth Spurt
By Nantoo Banerjee The skyrocketing wealth of Ahmedabad-based business tycoon Gautam Adani in the last three years may be exciting news for shareholders of Adani group companies, but the same can’t be said about lenders to those enterprises as the liabilities don’t match with their real assets. According to...
ASHA Workers Helping Deprived Sections Are Themselves Deprived
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “ASHA will be the first port of call for any health related demands of deprived sections of the population, especially women and children, who find it difficult to access health services,” read the Union Government’s document on Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA). However, ASHA workers...
BJP Bihar Leaders Start Vilification Campaign Against Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava The cat is out of the bag. It is no more a secret that the week old indiscriminate firing by four criminals in Begusarai of Bihar was planned by close aides of a local BJP leader. Only a couple of days back, a Congress leader came...
Bizarre Reactions To The Leaked Videos From A Girls Hostel Of Chandigarh
By Sushil Kutty ‘Iconoclastic filmmaker dead’ read the headline, and people reckoned rightly that it must be about the death of French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard, whose reputation as an “image destroyer” was an established fact long before he called it a day. Veneration of anybody and anything was...
