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.Congress High Command Has Again Messed Up The List Of Rajya Sabha Nominees
By Sushil Kutty The Congress is 137 and in a hurry to turn fossil, led by the nose into old age. Some liquefied high fliers in the party, sensing atrophy in the bones, have already flown the coop. Others haven’t, out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the...
Nitish Kumar-Narendra Modi Spat On RCP Singh Has Ominous Signal For NDA
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi is so smitten with the eulogy showered on him by his sycophants and bhakts of his being the strongest and most powerful politician India ever had in its 75 years of political freedom that he prefers to roam around in his make believe world...
President Biden Is In No Rush To Help Ukraine Negotiate An End To The War
By Branko Marcetic Thirteen weeks long, the war in Ukraine has reached a state of paradox. To a greater extent than at any previous point since Russian president Vladimir Putin invaded, the political establishment is acknowledging that a negotiated settlement is the only way the war can end safely....
Growing China-Russia Ties Put India Under A Trap
By Nantoo Banerjee China’s fast growing strategic and economic ties with Russia are becoming a major concern for India. Facing the heat of increasing Western financial sanctions on the country apart from large supplies of military and monetary aid from the US-led NATO countries to Ukraine, Russia is fast...
Leftist Gustavo Petro Is On Top In First Round Of Prez Polls In Columbia
By Satyaki Chakraborty The politics in Latin America took a definitive left wing shift on Sunday May 29 as the people of Columbia voted the candidate of the anti-establishment coalition Gustavo Petro as the top candidate with 40.3 per cent votes, followed by the surprise businessman candidate Rodolfo Hernandezwhogot28.2...
Calling Off BPCL Disinvestment Indicates A Disturbing Economic Trend
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government’s calling off disinvestment of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and the statement issued in relating to it thereafter is indicative of a disturbing undercurrent in the Indian Economy that should be a matter of great concern since what we are seeing might...
All These Eight Years, Narendra Modi Has Compelled The People To Listen
By Sushil Kutty These days spanning a month are an essay of our times. That said, it took less than 75 years for India to start unravelling. Some will set the date closer by decades; like eight years to date—from May 26, 2014 on, from the time the BJP...
Muslims May Resort To Gandhian Mode Of Satyagrah To Fight Hindutva
By Arun Srivastava Assembly of around 5 thousand clerics, Imams and Islamic scholars from all over the country in Deoband of Uttar Pradesh to deliberate on issues related to demolition of mosques and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) during a two-day session organised by Ulema-i-Hind on May 28, was...
Guwahati Conclave Sets Stage For Breakthrough In Connectivity
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A two-day international river conference was organized in Guwahati, Assam, on May 27-28 by a Shillong-based think tank Asian Confluence. It was the third edition of the Natural Allies in Development and Interdependence (NADI) conference. Organized in partnership with the Union External Affairs Ministry, Act...
Aryan Khan Episode Exposes The Working Of Narcotics Control Bureau
By Sushil Kutty Actually, it shouldn’t have been breaking news. The clean chit to Aryan Khan was on expected lines. Nothing on earth could have overturned the outcome. The only two questions remaining were ‘Who in his sound mind chose to slam-dunk Aryan Khan s/o Shahrukh Khan with a...
Dissidence Issue Still Dogging BJP In Tripura Under New CM Manik Saha
By Ashis Biswas With Assembly elections only eight months away, the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) in Tripura is not yet a united house. The central BJP leadership may have sought to combat negative anti incumbency trends among common voters by replacing Mr Biplab Deb as Chief Minister by...
Supreme Court Transferring Gyanvapi Mosque Case To District Judge Gives Wrong Signal
By Harihar Swarup The Supreme Court order of May 20, transferring the suit on the Gyanvapi masjid dispute from the civil judge (senior division) Varanasi to the district judge casts aspersions, though unintended, on the competence of civil judges in general. The matter had reached the Supreme Court on...
Ukraine War Fallout Takes The Clock Back On Shift To Electric Vehicles
By K Raveendran Car companies in India are already creating waves about the launch of electric vehicles, with nearly a dozen brands expected to hit the road in a year’s time. Joining the EV bandwagon are all major automakers, including Hyundai, Tata, Mahindra, Mercedes etc. But even as the...
Sangh Parivar Is Targeting Mosques To Keep Communal Fires Burning
By Amulya Ganguli With the world waking up to the possibility of the temple-mosque disputes in India becoming yet another religious flashpoint, as the BBC has said, the worst fears of the country’s well-wishers are coming true. The apprehension that the BJP’s rise to power will increase the communal...
Mamata-State Governor Confrontation Hots Up Over New Universities Bill
By Arun Srivastava Even before Narendra Modi and Amit Shah along with the Sangh leadership could strike at the root of Mamata government and her party, Mamata Banerjee as the retaliatory incursion has struck hard with the West Bengal cabinet deciding to amend law to make her Chancellor of...
Indian Economy Is In Crisis Facing Threat Of Stagflation
By Arun Kumar The Government, worried about the inflation rapidly inching up month after month, has finally become pro-active. The steps announced are designed to lower the prices of basics like diesel, steel, cement and plastics. Wholesale Price Index (‘WPI’) has risen at more than ten per cent for...
Places Of Religious Worship (Special Provisions) Act Is Still Legally Binding
By Prakash Karat During the Ramjanmabhoomi agitation, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and other Hindutva outfits had raised the slogan “Ayodhya sirf ek jhanki hai, Mathura or Kashi baaki hai”. This translated means “Ayodhya is just the beginning, Mathura and Kashi are left”. After winning the battle to build the...
Remembering Jawaharlal Nehru On His 58th Death Anniversary
By Nitya Chakraborty On May 27, 1964 at 1.44 PM, India’s first Prime Minister and one of the best chroniclers of this great nation’s history breathed his last at his residence Teen Murti Bhavan. Nehru along with Indira Gandhi came back to Delhi on May 26 afternoon after a...
