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.Centre Is Again Weakening Federal Principles By Unilateral Action On IAS Rules
By Sushil Kutty IAS officers don’t grow on trees. Both the Centre and states want them. Now, the Centre says it is facing a shortage of IAS and that the states are refusing to relieve IAS officers for central deputation. So, the Modi Government will amend IAS rules and...
A Thousand-Fold Abuse Of Free Speech Better Than Its Complete Denial
By K Raveendran The postulation about freedom of expression by the nineteenth century British politician, Charles Bradlaugh, is particularly relevant in the Indian context today when the Modi government is doing everything possible to deny such right to the citizens in the name of sedition. Bradlaugh’s relevance goes up...
Left Parties Resolve To Stop BJP’s Return After Uttar Pradesh Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: CPI national Secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan told IPA that his party will contest 45-48 seats in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. List of 32 candidates was released and remaining would be decided later on, he added. The CPI leader said that his party would make all...
OTT Platforms Contain Many Interesting Items For Viewers In Covid Era
By Papri Sri Raman It is a cold winter day, even a rainy day. What do I watch to get over the depression of just being there and not being able to get out of this ‘two years of lockdown’ phase? I know, your answer will be crime, of...
Massive Protests Are On Against Centre’s Bid To Sell Public Sector CEL
By Satyaki Chakraborty The move by the Modi Government to sell the public sector Central Electronics Limited (CEL) to a private company has led to widespread protests in the country. Retired directors and senior scientists of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have written a letter to...
Sedition Laws Of British Era Are Still Haunting Indian Democracy
By Sushil Kutty Nothing will change and nobody in the Modi regime will act on his recommendation, but Justice (retd.) Rohinton Nariman is an optimist and he has given a call to junk the colonial sedition law. For him the “single-most important and cherished human right” is the freedom...
Grants To Popularize Use Of Drone In Agriculture Is Just The Beginning
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav After releasing the standard operating procedure (SOP), the union agriculture ministry has issued guidelines for grants to popularize the usage of drones on Indian farms. The grants will be available until March 31, 2023, and cover expenditures for the purchase, hiring, and demonstration of agricultural...
Federal Principles Of Constitution Are Under Threat
By Krishna Jha India suffers from the greatest tragedy of the century. It is the crisis of fragmentation. The Constitution that has always stood for multiplicity, faces the threat of autocracy. There is the majority with its divisive slogans calling for end of an age when all people lived...
Centre’s Decision On Shareholding In Vodafone-Idea Is Crony Capitalism
By Prabir Purakaystha The recent announcement by the Union Government of converting a part of what Vodafone-Idea (VI) owes to the government into its shareholding, is another step in the long story of crony capitalism and so-called reforms in the telecom sector. The government has taken a 35.8 per...
Tensions Between JD(U), BJP Threaten To Splinter Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra JD(U) and BJP have been allies for the last two decades, save for a four-year period of estrangement from 2013 to 2017.This period coincided with Nitish Kumar retaining his hold over the chief minister’s chair, barring a short period in which Jitan Ram Manjhi led...
Covid Pandemic Has Exposed The Grim Inequality In Indian Society
By Abhiram Rajesh KOCHI: The eighth annual conference of the Kerala Security Employees Union (KSEU) was held on January 13 and 14 in Ernakulam. KSEU is affiliated to All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC). KSEU president K Vijayan Pillai initiated the proceedings with the hoisting of the Red Flag...
Sonia Gandhi Should Respond To Mamata’s Overture On Goa Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty Goa, with 40 seats, is going for elections on February 14. Hectic campaigning is on and already submission of nominations by the candidates has started with the two major contending parties the ruling BJP and the Congress set to field the respective party candidates in most...
Modi Govt Has Contempt For Federalism And Values Of Freedom Struggle
By Prakash Karat The manner in which the tableaux presented by certain states for the Republic Day parade on January 26 has been rejected by the centre reveals a lot about the mindset of the BJP rulers. The rejection of the tableaux of the state governments of Kerala, West...
Disheartening Outlook For Labour Market Recovery
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Continuation of the new wave of COVID-19 has dampened the prospects of labour market recovery across the world unless special programmes are devised to support workforce, particularly the daily wagers and those working in the informal sector. The 2022 level for those without jobs have...
Political Slugfest In Kerala Over Sidelining Of Minorities
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANNTHAPURAM: A flaming row has erupted over CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s remark that the minorities are being sidelined by the Congress. What stirred the hornet’s nest was Kodiyeri’s strongly-worded statement that the grand old party was sidelining minorities following Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s speech in...
Balancing Growth And Inflation Is Going To Be A Big Challenge In Budget
By K R Sudhaman Come general budget, there will be demand for more tax sops and less economics as it is a case of nine blind men describing elephant and the Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is therefore saddled with a tough job to balance conflicting demands. Unlike in...
Bangladesh Govt More Pragmatic In Assessing The Economic Reality
By Ashis Biswas One reason why Bangladesh has done better than its regional neighbours in improving its economy even during the raging Covid 19 pandemic is its determination to face the bitter facts of life and prepare for hard times well in advance. It has not been surprising to...
A Gender Sensitisation Training Is The Need Of The Hour In The Country
By Aaliya Waziri One of the salient features of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is that it builds on substantive equality and State obligation to eliminate the granular structural inequalities faced by women. The first thing to know about CEDAW is...
