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.India May Miss ‘End TB By 2025’ Target
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Four years ago in March 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while chairing the “Delhi End TB Summit” had said about ending TB in India by 2025, five years ahead of the TB-related SDG target by 2030. Now End World TB Day March 2022 has provided...
The Bizarre Case Of United States Imposing Sanctions Against Russia
By Prabhat Patnaik The juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing full well that Ukraine’s joining NATO...
Sonia Placates G-23, But Urges Against Public Criticism
By Rahil Nora Chopra After meeting with G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress president Sonia Gandhi reached out to other members of the group. Gandhi held a meeting with Manish Tewari, Anand Sharma and Vivek Tankha on Tuesday, as she stepped up efforts to placate the leaders of the...
Criminalizing Marital Rape: When Is An Exception Not An Exception?
By Indira Jaising Law performs both a normative function and a descriptive function. Criminal law constitutes offences which are punishable with imprisonment and/or fine. The law of rape is normatively defined in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code as being a sexual act performed on a woman...
Bulldozer Politics Is Getting Institutionalised In Uttar Pradesh Under Yogi
By Arun Srivastava Yogi Adityanath, who took oath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time consecutively on March 25, is generally referred to as “Maharaj ji”. He earned his new tag of “bulldozer baba” during the recent elections due to his frequent reference of the...
Liberal Media Has To Give A Relook At Its Tone Of Anti-Hindutva Reporting
By Sushil Kutty There are two media in India. One the ‘left-liberal secular’ media. The other, the ‘rightwing-communal’ media. There are also Indians reporting and writing for international media. And as Yogi Adityanath was being crowned Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for a second consecutive term, it was hard...
Gujarat Govt Decision On Gita Is Aimed At Desecularising The State
By Prakash Karat The announcement by the Gujarat education minister that the Bhagavad Gita would be taught in schools as part of the syllabus for class 6 to class 12 students from the academic year 2022-23, is a flagrant breach of the secular principle of the State. It is...
President Putin Is Still In His Own Created Mess In Ukraine After One Month Of War
By Sushil Kutty It’s been a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. So long in the battlefield and even Changez Khan’s hordes would have ended their campaign and returned home to the Manchurian steppe. But Putin’s army is not returning home even as we are being told that the Russian...
Japanese Investment To India Has Not Got Any Fresh Boost Due To PM’s Visit
By Subrata Majumder Mr Fumio Kishida is the first Prime Minster, who made physical visit to India during the COVID 19 pandemic. He is the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe‘s handpicked successor. His rise to the frontline was his vow to counter China’s growing influence by closely working with...
BJP Call To Rewrite The Constitution Has Ominous Tones For Democracy
By Krishna Jha With the beginning of the third decade of the new century, there is a blatant effort to distort the history of the country, surprisingly, without any historicity. The latest indicator is the call to rewrite the Constitution. Implicit in this call is the BJP government’s bid...
Rampurhat Massacre Has All The Traditions Of Political Violence In Bengal
By Arun Srivastava Malicious and capricious violence and killing of the rivals has acquired the quintessence character of new political ethos. Erosion of the traditional political ethics has been so intense that the basic culture of politics has become indiscernible. There is a common notion that politics is the...
Left Candidate Petro Is Now Front-Runner In Presidential Poll In Columbia In May
By Carlos Cruz Mosquera Colombia’s left-wing and progressive coalition, Pacto Historico, has become the country’s most popular political movement following the congressional elections on Sunday, March 13. This historical victory threatens two hundred years of ruling-class hegemony, with most of the coalition’s representatives coming from rural and working-class backgrounds....
‘Synchronised’ Fraud By Government And Oil Companies Is Back
By K Raveendran As predicted, the ’synchronised’ fraud by the Modi government and the petroleum marketing companies has resumed even before the state assemblies which went to poll in the recent round have been officially constituted. The open market policy, which has been kept in ‘suspended animation’ has come...
World Air Quality Report Unmasks Modi Government’s Incompetence
By Dr. Gyan Pathak World Air Quality Report 2021 has unmasked the Modi government showing its ugly face which has been masked since April 7, 2015 by a so called flagship scheme to monitor air pollution in the country with the launch of National Air Quality Index. Despite the...
K C Venugopal, Eyes And Ears Of Rahul Gandhi, Is On Hot Seat In Congress
By Harihar Swarup In the opaque ecosystem of the Congress, to be eyes and ears is as big a compliment as it gets. That’s what K C Venugopal is, party insiders say. The AICC general secretary in-charge of the organization is to Rahul Gandhi what the late Ahmed Patel...
Central Agencies In League With BJP To Create Rift In MVA Coalition
By Sushil Kutty The Modi Government will not topple Maha Vikas Aghadi. Not when it’s plagued with indecisiveness, and Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut cannot with his utterances dissuade the Modi Government from targeting MVA ministers and legislators, members of the extended Thackeray family. Not as long...
Rising Defence Budget Is Making The World A More Dangerous Place
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Earlier this month, China announced a 7.1% increase in its defence budget to about $230 billion. The news generated concerns in relevant quarters in India. China maintains the highest number of active military personnel in the world and its defence budget is the 2nd largest...
UAE Versus Indonesia: Fight Between Democratic And Autocratic Islam
By James M Dorsey Indonesia has emerged as a primary battleground between democratic and autocratic visions of Islam in the 21st century. The battle pits Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world’s largest civil society movement with 90 million followers and powerful ministers in Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s cabinet, against Abdullah...
