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.Court Ambivalence Allows BJP Scope To Use Civil Code For Polarisation
By K Raveendran A coincidence of events, deliberate or otherwise, has forced the issue of uniform civil code to the fore in time for the crucial assembly elections, so as to help BJP with its agenda of polarisation of voters on religious lines, particularly in the all-important Uttar Pradesh....
Samajwadi Party-RLD Alliance Has An Edge In Second Phase Of Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is facing big challenge from Samajwadi Party and RLD combine in second phase of UP Assembly elections in Western UP due to domination of Muslim population in this region. Already on a slippery wicket witnessed in first phase in jatland of Western UP due...
Reimagining A Justice And Legal System Which Eliminates Hierarchies
By Indira Jaising One of the many things that really hurt when I was arguing the case of Ms. X versus Registrar General, High Court of Madhya Pradesh and Another (Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1137 Of 2018) was the hierarchical relationship between what is referred to as “the subordinate...
More Extensive And Intensive Agitations Of Working Class Are Ahead
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India seems to be heading toward a more turbulent industrial relations in the country in 2022 with the working class planning for more extensive and intensive agitations against Modi government’s economic and industrial policy in general and labour policies in particular on the one hand...
Finance Ministry And RBI Are Now At Tandem On Major Policy Issues
By Anjan Roy Two major policy statements which were presented in the last two weeks, the union budget and the post-budget monetary policy, have kicked up debates among economists and concerned public about the risks that the policy stances underwriting. These are mainly risk of a fiscal flare-up and...
Time For States To Balance Social And Industrial Development For Growth
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been advocating Gujarat Model of development for backward states to leapfrog in economic development. The left parties advocate Kerala model of development which is role model in social development particularly in health and education. But in reality if one goes...
Biden At The Shaky Helm Of An America At Crossroads
By Debabrata Biswas BOSTON: 2022. This is a year which might signal the way American politics is going — towards the virtual dictatorship of a right wing cult leader, or a renewed liberal bourgeoisie democracy. The House select committee of the US Congress is thoroughly investigating the Jan 6,...
Lata Mangeshkar Is Eternal: Multiculturalism Which Shaped Her Is Gone
By Saeed Naqvi Lata Mangeshkar’s art was shaped by the fervour which accompanied independence when music, indeed culture, was freeing itself from feudal patronage, opening up spaces for democratization and a wider participation. Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s father, Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan, never allowed his performances to...
Mamata Banerjee Facing First Real Challenge From Abhishek On Ideological Lines
By Ashis Biswas Never before in Bengal’s recent history, state-wide civic elections had become politically as consequential as the present round of polls now being held. On February 12 and February 27. Intriguingly, the probable outcome of these elections, a clean sweep for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), could...
Rising Suicides By Unemployed Sounds The Alarm Louder
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment in India has become a serious issue in the country since November 2016, when Modi government announced demonetization that immediately resulted in millions of the workforce jobless due to shutting down of millions of enterprises and scaling down of production by million others to...
Congress Becoming Relevant Again In Tripura On The Eve Of 2023 Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha The joining of two BJP rebel MLAs — Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Kumar Saha — to the Congress has, no doubt, given a boost to the grand old party in the north-eastern state of Tripura. It is a homecoming for the two leaders, as they...
BJP Govt Crippling The Public Sector Telecom Companies In A Planned Manner
By P Abhimanyu While placing the budget in the parliament, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, proudly announced that 5G service would be launched in this financial year. In the same breath, she announced that 5G service would be launched only by the private telecom companies. It means the public sector...
Rahul Bets On Channi As Punjab Braces For Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has declared Charanjit Singh Channi as the CM face of the Congress in Punjab, marking a departure from the party’s tradition of declaring the leader after the election. The decision was taken days after the Congress high command had sought...
Capitalist Governments Worry More About Inflation Than Unemployment
By Prabhat Patnaik Capitalist governments invariably seek to control inflation by enlarging unemployment. This has nothing to do with any belief in a stable “trade-off” between the two, namely in a stable curve that links the two. Even those who attribute inflation to other causes, such as excessive money...
India Should Start Framing A Law For The Metaverse
By Siddharth Chaturvedi and Priyansh Bharadwaj Recently, multinational technology company Meta’s founder Mark Zuckerberg remarked at an event that ‘India will hugely contribute in building Metaverse.’ This statement raises hope that India is on the cusp of bringing a new revolution of the Internet to the world. However, not...
Where Is The Plan For Employment In This Era Of Distress, Joblessness?
By Krishna Jha Budget has come, offering no optimism, no security against the nose diving economy, and without succour to the starving, unemployed masses. Whatever it has offered for the common masses is underlined by the falling living standards and continuation of further contraction. As even essentials are getting...
Congress Participation In BJP Led Govt In Meghalaya Is A Big Blow To Opposition Nationally
By Nitya Chakraborty The decision of the five members of the Congress Legislature Party in Meghalaya to participate in the Government along with the BJP, is a big blow to the efforts of the opposition parties at the national level to build unity against the BJP in the coming...
Hijab Issue Is Being Used By BJP To Organise Anti-Muslim Polarisation
By Prakash Karat The hijab worn by Muslim girl students has been seized upon by the BJP and Hindutva forces to create another divisive and anti-Muslim polarisation in Karnataka. The insistence of six girls on wearing hijab (head scarf) to class in the government pre-university college in Udupi was...
