Opinion
Appeal
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.China Retains Its Overbearing Influence On Global Economy
By K Raveendran Like it or lump it: the Chinese have more influence on you and me than what we are ready to admit. Apparently, the world is increasingly revolving around China, a proposition that the West used to boast. Whether it is the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan...
Pak Recognition Of Israel Is A Matter Of Time
By James M Dorsey The question for Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is not whether either country will recognise Israel but when and who will go first. For the past two years, Saudi Arabia was believed to want a Muslim state in Asia, home to the world’s three most populous...
SC Ruling On Sex Workers Throws Spotlight On Govt’s Epic Indifference
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Delivering a historic ruling, the Supreme Court of India has recommended that sex work by consenting adults should be legal. Releasing a small set of guidelines on sex workers, the top court said prostitution is a profession and sex workers are entitled to equality, dignity,...
India Can Emerge As A Big Hub For International Arbitration
By Sheerene Mohamed When searching for a legal market, an international corporation wants to know only one thing: how easily legal disputes relating to their business can be resolved. In that vein, the enforcement of contracts is paramount, but approaching Indian courts often ties up companies in years of...
Scandal In School Teachers Recruitment Has No Impact On Bengal TMC Leaders
By Ashis Biswas Knowingly or otherwise, Justice Abhijit Ganguly, Calcutta High Court, while expressing his fears over the poor performance of the CBI as an autonomous investigating agency, has strongly revived the dreaded question about the rule of law in West Bengal: has the state ceased to be governable?...
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...
