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.Jagannath Dham Controversy Has A Lesson For Non-BJP Hindus
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Jagannath Dham literally means the “Abode of the Lord of the World”. Sri Jagannatha Temple at Puri is called Jagannath Dham, since it is abode of Jagannath, Krishna, who was one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu in Hindu mythology.BJP led government of Odisha has...
INDIA Bloc Constituents Determined To Defeat NDA In Next Assembly Polls In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Well before RSS could strike at the fundamentals of the INDIA bloc and make it dysfunctional at the block level before the assembly elections in Bihar by th3 end of 2025,, the INDIA bloc retaliated and stuck hard at the saffron ecosystem at its third coordination...
Pakistani Actor Fawad Khan’s ‘Äbir Gulaal’ Release On May 9 In India In Doubt
By Sushil Kutty ‘Abir Gulaal’ was Indian actress Vaani Kapoor’s film till Pahalgam became a terrorist blockbuster. Paired with Pakistani actor Fawad Khan, Vaani was looking forward to a block-buster release for ‘Abir Gulaal’, but it didn’t play out quite like she thought, indicating that there’s more to India-Pakistan...
Strident Meitei Resolution Blames Home Ministry For Manipur Crisis
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Anger against and blaming it all on the Union home ministry are conspicuous in the resolution adopted by Meitei organisations on Saturday May 3 to mark the second anniversary of the widespread Manipur ethnic violence that broke out on May 3, 2023on the issue...
Taliban Regime Of Afghanistan Gaining International Support
By Asad Mirza Since 2021, seizing power yet again after a gap of 20 years, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers were termed as ‘pariahs’ and shunned by the international community, but recently the hard-line militants have notched up some big wins in their diplomatic efforts to forge international ties. Coming back...
Dilip Ghosh’s Meeting With Mamata At Digha Intensifies BJP’s Factional Wars
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: It is an open secret that West Bengal unit of BJP is a divided house. Another yawning crack in it is discernible post former state chief Dilip Ghosh’s visit to the inauguration ceremony of Jagannath temple in Digha at chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s invitation. Senior...
India Has Stronger Case To Get Pakistan Back On The FATF Grey List
By K Raveendran India is intensifying its diplomatic offensive against Pakistan, with efforts now underway to push for Islamabad’s re-listing on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list. This renewed push, backed by an unusually strong expression of support from the Trump-led U.S. administration, marks a strategic escalation...
Call For May 20 All India Workers’ Strike Getting Wider Support
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The two-months workers’ campaign against the new labour codes and privatization of public sector undertakings, that began on March 18, 2025 at the National Convention of workers in New Delhi with a call for an all India workers strike on May 20, has been getting...
British Far Right Reform Party’s Big Win In Local Elections Is Ominous For Both Tories And Labour
By Satyaki Chakraborty Britain’s politics witnessed a shakeout leaning towards far right as the pro-Trump Nikel Farage’s Reform Party UK trounced both the entrenched Tories and the Labour Party in the local council elections held on Thursday signalling the arrival of new leader Nikel Farage who triumphantly announced after...
The Story Of Minal Khan, A Pakistani Wife Of An Indian CRPF Staff
By Sushil Kutty Munir Ahmed is the fifth happiest man in Jammu & Kashmir. The four others are the ones who have escaped the dragnet. The four (five?) who shot dead 26 Indians and a Nepal national in the Pahalgam meadow. These terrorists continue to elude security including CRPF...
Vizhinjam Port Commissioning: A Dream Comes True In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It should have been a momentous occasion in the annals of not only Kerala’s history but also that of the whole country. But the solemnity of the occasion was marred by the ugly display of petty politics. The reference is to the commissioning of the...
The War Frenzy Against Pakistan Must Cool Down – Extreme Caution Is Needed
By Dr Arun Mitra Reaction to the killing of innocent tourists by the terrorists in Pahalgam has been full of grief, resentment, anger and revenge. This is on expected lines when any such incident occurs. But good thing is that the people of Kashmir have out rightly rejected the...
Mumbai Film Industry Has Always Welcomed Talent From All States, Especially Bengal
By Kunal Bose In his acceptance speech from hospital bed in Calcutta for the honorary Oscar award, Satyajit Ray said: “I have learned everything… about the craft of cinema from the making of American films. I have been watching American films very carefully over the years and I loved...
Syria’s Future Lies In Democratic Decentralisation To Include Kurds
By Manish Rai The Conference on Kurdish Unity and Common Stance was recently concluded in Qamishli, North-East Syria. Over 400 delegates from various parts of Syria participated in the conference, which aimed to strengthen Kurdish unity and establish common political positions. A communiqué at the end of the conference,...
Influencing Bihar Election Merely On Caste Census Promise Not Possible
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Centre’s announcement of conducting national level Caste Census along with the forthcoming Census in India has intensified caste politics in Bihar, the first state to go to polls later in 2025, whose Vidhan Sabha’s term is to expire on November 22, this year. Political analysts...
Satyajit Ray’s Birth Anniversary: Three Encounters Of The Close Kind
By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray stepped into his 104th birth anniversary on May 2, 2025. The maestro died in 1992, at the age of only 71. He left us without finishing many of the proposed film and writing projects which he had undertaken in his...
India-Pakistan On The Brink Of Hot War: Nuclear-Armed Neighbours Rage On
By Sushil Kutty Some countries are having it fine. No talk of ‘War and Peace’. The UAE, for instance. Indians and Pakistanis, big numbers of them, live disciplined lives in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Sharjah; Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah, eking out better lives than the ones in India...
Indian Farmers Interests Are Being Sacrificed By Modi Govt At Trade Talks With U.S.
By Prabhat Patnaik Elementary textbooks in economics invariably begin with a completely mythical concept: the concept of “perfect competition”, which is different from the concept of “free competition” that the classical economists and Marx had used. “Free competition” was characterised by the equality of wages (for equal skills) and...
