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.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...
Arvind Kejriwal Is Young, He Has Time In His Favour, He Should Work For 2029
By Kalyani Shankar Will the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal emerge as a challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress Party, or both? No doubt winning Punjab will encourage him to spread his Aam Admi Party’s wings to other states, but can he achieve his ambition? It may...
Ensuring Price Stability In Economy Must Be RBI’s Prime Focus
By Anjan Roy The Reserve Bank governor, Shaktikanta Das, has reiterated that the primary objective of the monetary would continue to be price stability. In an environment of unprecedented uncertainty and flux, maintaining stable price line could be a daunting task. All principal variables which would critically determine the...
Kerala Opposition Intensifies Stir Against SilverLine
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Clouds of confrontation have thickened over Kerala’s political sky with the Opposition deciding to intensify the agitation against the SilverLine project and the Government equally determined to go ahead with the project. An unfazed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has signalled his government’s intent to go...
Tamil Nadu Budget Shows The Model To Shun Fiscal Profligacy
By K R Sudhaman It really goes to the credit of Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan in crafting this year’s state budget in a manner to reign in on fiscal deficit at difficult covid times without burdening the common man with more and new taxes. There is...
Future Of Students In Post-Pandemic India Still Uncertain
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The COVID-19 pandemic has “severely affected” the education system in India, however, Modi government has failed so far to take proper remedial response in the post-pandemic grim situation that has taken all level of education under its grip. The response so far is much less...
Supreme Court Panel Report On Farm Laws Reveals Awkward Facts
By Sushil Kutty But for this one panel member, who could not bear to see his hard work swept under the carpet, nobody would have known the “truth” about the three farm laws. The three farm laws were opposed by a big chunk of farmers, but, says a SC-appointed...
Hijab Attacked As It Symbolises Politics Of Identity, Autonomy
By Arun Srivastava At a time when the common Muslim has been distancing himself from rigid religious beliefs, having faith in the rule of law, constitutional norms and be liberal, the verdict of the Karnataka High Court not to wear Hijab in school and colleges as it is not...
Surging Inflation Can Upset India’s Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee There were writings on the wall. Only India’s official economists seemed to have failed to read and report to the government. Oil rally was expected to continue through 2022 as demand outstripped supply. By January 29, this year, oil posted its sixth straight weekly gain as...
Panicky Imran Khan Bracing Himself For Possible Shock In No-Trust Vote
By Sankar Ray The more the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan Niazi zooms in on 25 March (if not earlier),the fateful voting for no-confidence motion at the National Assembly, the more rattled is the hierarchical order of the main ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-i- Insaf, headed by the PM....
