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.Parliament Must Plug Loopholes In Present Anti-Defection Law
By Kalyani Shankar Elections and defections go together despite stringent anti-defection laws in the country. The law proves ineffective as the legislators are lured by money and position. The lawmakers skirt around the rules, find loopholes to their advantage, and defy them. In last week’s Rajya Sabha polls, Rajasthan’s...
Sharad Pawar Can Be More Useful To Opposition For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Sushil Kutty The President of India’s post is where quite often a key politician is put to pasture. The news cycle in the last couple of days moved from Prophet and Nupur Sharma to rioting and bulldozer, and Rahul Gandhi. Now, there is Sharad Pawar, tapped for the...
Food Prices Have Gone Up To Unbearable Levels For Common People
By Anjan Roy Unabated rises in food and fuel prices have kept India’s retail inflation at elevated levels. Even without getting into the nitty-gritty of detailed figures, the price trend are hurting and needs to be tamed if only for maintaining overall stability. Several questions are now cropping up:...
French Left Has A Big Opportunity To Defeat Ruling Party In Run-Off On June 19
By Satyaki Chakraborty French voters in their first round elections to the National Assembly of Parliamentarians on Sunday gave a clear signal to the incumbent President Emanuel Macron that the people are ready for change. The opening round saw Macron’s Ensemble coalition take a slight lead with 25.75 per...
Bulldozer Is The New Power Symbol In India Of Narendra Modi
By Arun Srivastava In the New India of RSS and Narendra Modi it is the lathi and not the rule of law that defines and underlines the character of India. Though the RSS and BJP leaders are not tired of claiming that India has not deviated from its traditional...
Price Rise And Inflation Now Devastating Poor Households
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Sharp price rise and inflation in general and of food articles in particular is now casting devastating impact on poor household, though Modi government and so called economic experts trying to underplay the dire consequences by telling the people all sorts of things including it...
Demolition Of Houses By Uttar Pradesh Government Through Bulldozer Is Illegal
By Satyaki Chakraborty Seeking ‘suo motu’ action against the bulldozer tactics and indiscriminate arrests of the protestors in Uttar Pradesh, several former judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts and senior advocates have written to the Chief Justice of India, N.V. Ramana, to intervene in the wake...
Foreign Portfolio Investors Find Indian Market Hot
By Nantoo Banerjee There is nothing to be surprised about the continuous exit from the Indian stock market by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs). It has been going on for the last several months. The market is overheated. It has been out of sync with the country’s economic growth since...
Latest Prophet Row Has Put BJP Leadership In A Delicate Situation
By Amulya Ganguli After three decades of political success across the length and breadth of the country from the west to the north to the centre to the north-east, the Hindutva juggernaut led by the BJP has run into heavy weather. Yet, it was a setback which was waiting...
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Is A Judge, Jury And Executioner In Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty “Of course, you were not spreading rumours, the charge is you were spreading facts.” That’s the blurb on an RK Laxman cartoon of 1962, 60 years ago. Today’s cartoonists should take a kerchief out of Laxman’s pocket-cartoons. Lampooning is serious business. It should tickle the cerebral...
High Inflation, Rate Hikes Add To Gold’s Appeal Both As Hedge And Asset
By K Raveendran Like all other investment instruments, weaker investor interest has affected gold prices as well. There has been bi-directional equity volatility in recent times, but this has failed to support gold prices as short term momentum waned. Gold fell 3.8 percent in May this year leaving it...
India-Gulf Spat Over Prophet Remarks: Protagonists In Glass Houses
By James M Dorsey Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baqr, a man known for his pithy retorts, pretended to quiver in his pants. Hindu nationalists had called for a boycott of the Gulf airline after Qatar took India to task for derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed and Muslim worship...
Our Country Is Having Two Legal Systems-One For Rich Other For Poor
By Justice Madan B. Lokur (Retd.) Do we have two legal systems prevailing in the country? The Supreme Court actually said that India cannot have two parallel legal systems, “one for the rich and the resourceful and those who wield political power and influence and the other for the...
National Employment Policy Is Still Shrouded In Mystery
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government that brought the four controversial labour codes in a great hurry – one in 2019, and three in 2020 when majority of workforce was even out of job and were struggling to survive – without consulting all stakeholders according to labour conventions,...
BJP Led NDA Is Advantageously Placed In The Presidential Elections On July 18
By Harihar Swarup How the President of India is elected? The Election Commission has notified the election of India’s next President 0n July 18. A look at the voting procedure, how the votes of MLAs and MPs are weighted, and how, previous elections have played out? The President is...
Surging Costs Of Food Pose Significant Challenge In South Asia
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Surging food costs in South Asia, a region populated by more than one-third of the global poor and where one-fifth of calories come from wheat products, pose significant challenges to poverty alleviation and food security. The World Bank’s projection of downside risks to the economic...
BJP Is Out To Take Advantage Out Of Muslim Outburst Against Nupur Sharma
By Sushil Kutty Lopping off anybody’s head in the best of Islamist traditions isn’t for India. And no amount of rioting can change that. But frustration has to spill. And so it did. High up in the sky, above Bengaluru, a grotesquely strung up Nupur Sharma effigy, hanging from...
Friday Violence By Muslims Is A Gift In Disguise For The Hindutva Forces
By Arun Srivastava The spate of violence that erupted across the country, in which two persons lost their lives in Ranchi on Friday is an ugly blot on the fabric of inclusive India. It ought to not have occurred in the first place. This has provided wide space of...
