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.Petition Challenging Abrogation Of Article 370 Must Get Priority By Supreme Court
By Prakash Karat The chief justice of India, N V Ramana, has stated in court that he would consider resuming the hearing of the petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and the creation of two union territories by dismantling the state of Jammu & Kashmir in July, after...
Highest Judiciary Is Avoiding The Tasks Of Protecting Indian Constitution
By Arun Srivastava Majoritarian’ propensities have completely riveted the Indian politics and its social order. This majoritarian principle has not only vitiated the political structure, instead it has also affected the judiciary; the bureaucracy is already dancing to its tunes. Stimulating majoritarian is the part of the well designed...
May 1 This Year Has Special Significance For Indian Working Class
By Amarjeet Kaur May Day reminds us the saga of great sacrifices of the workers throughout the world in bringing to focus the extreme exploitation of the working class that they were treated as animals, no fixed working hours, no justified return of their hard labour, no occupational safety...
Employment Outlook In India Turns Bleaker With People Losing Hope In Jobs
By Krishna Jha We have entered a phase when the history of class divided society has been taking a new turn. One of the basic features that are called the driving forces through which capitalism is characterised is labour, and through labour, comes surplus that drives ahead the productive...
Andhra State Unit Sets Up Reception Committee For 24th Congress Of CPI
By Ram Narsimha Rao CPI general secretary D Raja said that the unity of left, democratic and secular parties is the need of the hour to save the country from the clutches of communal fascists. He underlined the necessity of launching struggles in the same spirit as of communist...
NIA Can Continue With Its Dirt On The Departed Activist Stan Swamy
By John Dayal It may take time to get the Bombay High Court to clear Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy’s name in the so-called Elgar Parishad case. And it may take longer to get the Vatican machinery to launch the formal process to grant Sainthood to the 84-year-old priest, whose...
Jaishankar Is Proud Of India’s Global Role But What About Within The Country
By Sushil Kutty There are two Indias. One outlined by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and the other by over 100 ex-bureaucrats and ex-diplomats who wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister. And if S. Jaishankar’s is a fine exposition of everything that is fine about India, and...
Prashant Kishor’s Congress Gambit Still Uncertain
By Harihar Swarup From playing a key role in Narendra Modi’s prime ministerial campaign in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, to taking a political plunge four years later by joining the JD(U) and leaving it in a huff, to negotiate the Congress for any entry now, Prashant Kishor has...
Shiv Sena In A ‘Hindutva’ Muddle As BJP-MNS Taunt It Of Being ‘Secular’
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his MVA government are getting boxed in by the machinations of the BJP-MNS combine which is busy giving oxygen to the perception that the Shiv Sena is no longer the Hindutva force it used to be during the time of...
Critics’ Boycott Of SilverLine Debate Wrong
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is a moral victory of sorts for the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government. The reference is to the sudden decision of experts who oppose the SilverLine project to boycott the panel debate organized by K-Rail on Thursday, April 28. Among those who have decided...
Two Lockdowns In Asia’s Two Biggest Countries Offer Many Lessons
By K Raveendran The ‘freeze’ ordered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a response to the outbreak of Covid pandemic had gone terribly wrong in terms of its timing. Millions of lives and livelihoods were lost as everything ground to a halt, a mistake for which the nation continues...
Sri Lanka and Pakistan Pin Their Hopes On IMF Bailout Package
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday asked Sri Lanka to tighten its monetary policy, increase taxes, and adopt flexible exchange rates. “The requirement for fund lending will be progress toward debt sustainability,” said Anne-Marie Gulde-Wolf, acting director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department. “Monetary...
Afghan Peasants Rise In Protest Against Taliban Ban On Poppy Farming
By Sankar Ray Ever since the ban on poppy cultivation by the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan, resentment among poppy farmers who have been staunch supporters of the Taliban during their armed battle with the US-backed regimes in Kabul is on the rise. In the very first week of...
Three Natural Disasters Every Two Days By 2030
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The number of natural disasters is projected to reach 560 a year globally by 2030, i.e., over three in two days. The scale and intensity of the disasters are sharply increasing, and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has blamed it on faulty...
85 Years Ago On April 26, Guernica Town Was Decimated In Spain By Fascists
By Anne Colamosca Twenty-seven-year-old George Lowther Steer was in Toledo, Spain, covering the civil war for London’s Times in fall 1936 when he was abruptly expelled from the city. The Nationalist military staff had discovered Steer’s recently published Caesar in Abyssinia, a book attacking its Italian fascist supporters. Steer...
Sonia Is Firm On Bringing Prashant Kishor To Congress At ‘Right Time’
By Kalyani Shankar Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has taken a conciliatory step by not confronting the rebels in the party ( G 23) by postponing her decision on poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s entry into the party. It, however, does not mean that it will not happen, as she is...
Welcome To A Brave New World Of Twitter 2.0 Led By Elon Mask
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Tesla owner and currently world’s richest man, Elon Musk has finally had his way with the Twitter board and bought the publicly-listed company in one of the most expensive buy-outs in recent years. He is reportedly paying a staggering $44 billion in cash to make...
Rana Couple And Jignesh Mevani’s Arrests Signal A Dangerous Trend In States
By Sushil Kutty Harassment is the name of the game, pure and unalloyed harassment. It is a dangerous game, driven by a vindictive streak. Arrest a person and slap charges on him/her, from the nasty to the draconian, and let life behind bars teach him/her a harsh lesson. Doesn’t...
