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.Resurgence Of Covid-19 Triggers Many Concerns
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Resurgence of new COVID-19 infection since the withdrawal of curbs — including the mandatory wearing of masks, keeping and use of sanitisers in public premises, and maintaining physical distancing —by several states from beginning of April 2022, is a serious concern, though it is too...
Johnson’s Upcoming India Visit In The Shadow Of Putin’s War
By Sushil Kutty With the first name ‘Boris’, he should have been a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But this ‘Boris’ would rather be addressed as ‘Johnson’ as he travels to India at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. And, hopefully, the two will get along although...
It Is Clear – Russia And NATO Are In Proxy War Over Ukraine
By Ben Chacko The observation by Russian communists that Ukraine is now the scene of a proxy war between Russia and Nato is accurate — though the idea that this somehow justifies Russia’s invasion of its neighbour does not follow. Ukraine has certainly become a battleground in which Russia...
Parking Funds In Foreign Banks, Treasuries Now Look Less Safe
By Nantoo Banerjee The international financial system governed by western powers no longer offers safety to foreign currency deposits in their chests from other parts of the world. Even foreign private deposits and investments in assets are being frozen. The latest financial sanction imposed on Russia and its oligarchs...
India Has To Let Go Of Huge Coal Export Opportunity
By K Raveendran There is virtually a scramble for coal from non-Russian sources following a self-imposed ban by the European Union on coal imports from Putin’s sanctions-hit country. But as far as New Delhi is concerned, the opportunity will go abegging as India is by itself struggling to tie...
RSS Chief’s Akhand Bharat Fantasy Has Got Dangerous Implications
By Amulya Ganguli The RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, has spelt out the geographical contours of the proposed Hindu rashtra along with the warning that those opposing the Akhand Bharat concept will either be pushed aside or eliminated. This is probably the first time that such an unequivocal admonition has...
Saturday’s Bypoll Wins Bring Some Relief To Beleaguered Trinamool Congress
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: For West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her party’s by-election win announced last Saturday in the Asansol (Lok Sabha) and Ballygunge (Assembly) seats was the best news in some time. Of late the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) had been facing some truly torrid times over...
India’s Hindu Rashtra Consolidating At Breakneck Speed
By Sushil Kutty The consolidation of the Hindus is at breakneck speed. The Hindutva forces at play have no competition. There is nothing to match the right wing’s polarization strategy. And the tactics employed are striking a chord with the Hindus. It’s being driven home that time is fast...
Post Regime Change, Time For A Big Push To India-Pakistan Trade Ties
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Pakistan’s leading industrialist Mian Mohammed Mansha of the Nishant conglomerate which has $30 billion in assets has said that trade relations between India and Pakistan should resume. “I feel very passionately that we need to get our things sorted out with India. Now whatever the...
Lesson In Raja Rammohun Roy’s Crusade For Press Freedom
By Dr Nityananda Ghosh Eminent journalist P Sainath deserves praise for reminding all via Twitter of the 200th anniversary of Mirat-ul-Akhbar, the Persian newspaper founded and edited by Raja Rammohun Roy, on 12 April, 1822. Rammohun, Sainath rightly noted, wrote a “brilliant editorial protesting the death of Pratap Narayan...
Serious Strains Developing In US Ties With Middle East Allies
By James M Dorsey Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spotlights seemingly widening differences between the United States and its closest Middle Eastern allies, sparking eulogies for an era of bygone American regional dominance. “America’s Middle East Friendships are Dying a Natural Death” predicted foreign policy analyst Steven A. Cook this...
War Crimes And Genocide Charges In Ukraine Make Peace Talk Difficult
By John Wojcik Charges and counter-charges about war crimes and genocide are being used by those on both sides of the war in Ukraine who are intent on minimizing diplomacy and emphasizing warfare. With the war raging and the suffering of Ukrainians continuing as they spoke this week, both...
New Ways to Earn Money from the Comfort of your Home
Earning money from home is a common dream of many, but very few people actually ever set out to realise their ambitions. This is due to a variety of reasons, and the number of twists and turns life can take is something we have little control over. However, perhaps...
Sinking Of Russian Ship Moskva Is A Dangerous Turning Point In Ukraine War
By Anjan Roy The sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea flotilla MOSKVA is a significant turning point in the Ukraine war and also a lesson for military planners across the world. Russia does not yield the point that Ukrainian missiles would have downed the ship and maintains...
Silver Lining Of Hope Despite Pakistan’s Political Turmoil
By Harihar Swarup Two competing perspectives can be extracted from the ongoing drama in Pakistan. The first is the obvious one, of the continued fragility of democracy and its institutions that leads to periodic crises of the kind that unfolded over the past month. That no prime minister has...
Deepening Alliance Of Modi Govt With United States Despite Irritants
By Prakash Karat Some political commentators have argued that the stand taken by the Modi government on the conflict in Ukraine shows that it is wrong to consider India a subordinate ally of the United States. The fact that India has abstained on resolutions in the United Nations condemning...
Vanishing Employment Makes Deadly Cocktail With Rising Inflation
By Gyan Pathak March 2022 has given a clear indication of a deadly cocktail brewing in India with rising inflation, vanishing employment but falling unemployment rate, disappearing jobs from the non-agriculture sector, and the workforce losing jobs in non-agriculture sector returning to agriculture where unemployment is disguised under very...
How Many Members Does The Indian National Congress Really Have?
By Sushil Kutty And we thought Congress President for 19 years, Sonia Gandhi, before Rahul Gandhi took charge, was a Congress party member. And the UPA Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh was also a Congress member. Ditto Rahul Gandhi. The reality is, all three enrolled as Congress...
