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.Law Alone Can Not Deal With Divisive Activities Like Haridwar Hate Call
By Sukumar Muralidharan A three-day festival of hate speech in Haridwar has prompted a phase of extreme investigative diligence by the Uttarakhand police. Few are holding their breath since the transformation of investigation into obfuscation is already apparent. Explicit video recordings of the Haridwar event, rather pretentiously called a...
Sidney Poitier Was A Hollywood Legend Who Gave Objectivity To Black Roles
By Eileen Jones Who does not mourn the passing way of the Hollywood legend Sidney Poitier? Tributes have been pouring in to celebrate his trailblazing career as the first black male star in American film history, and as a prominent figure in the civil rights movement, and as the...
Five Assembly Election Results Will Impact Crucial Presidential Poll
By Kalyani Shankar Election Commission has sounded the poll bugle for Assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Manipur, and Uttarakhand. BJP is ruling in four of the five states except for Punjab. IN Goa and Manipur, though Congress emerged as the single largest party, the BJP managed to...
Congress Still Favourite In Punjab But Farmers Votes Will Be Crucial
By Sushil Kutty BKU (Ugrahan), Punjab’s biggest farmers union, will not support any political party in the fast approaching assembly elections, which means the Congress cannot crow about aggrieved farmers en bloc dumping the BJP and en masse voting for the Congress. What this means is farmers will vote...
Infighting In Uttarakhand May Prove Too Costly For BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Uttarakhand has been historically known for political infighting, and this time, on the ve of the state assembly elections on February 14, the scenario is the same. Infighting has just triggered again with the January 8 announcement by the Election Commission of India for election...
Kerala Omicron Scene: Ruling Out Night Curfews, Week-End Lockdowns Welcome
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s decision not to impose night curfews and week-end lockdowns is a step in the right direction despite the surge in daily covid cases. It shows the State has learnt at least some lessons from past experience. The Government has...
Myanmar Army Becoming More And More Oppressive On Civilians
By Sankar Ray A Myanmar junta court in Naypyitaw found 76-year-old civilian leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San SuuKyi guilty on at least three charges and sentenced her to four more years in prison- two years for the possession of unlicensed walkie-talkies, and two years for breaching coronavirus...
Bengal Facing Problems Due To Illegal Cattle Smuggling To Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas For Government of India (GOI), enforcing its ban on illegal cattle smuggling to Bangladesh has become harder than before. The absence of even minimal official co-ordination between two major concerned state Governments of Assam and West Bengal, has emerged as a major handicap for the police...
At Seventy Five Years Old, Neoliberalism Has Lived Long Enough
By Doug Nicholls April this year marks the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society. This was convened by the infamous economist Friedrich von Hayek, who wanted to bring together a range of thinkers to oppose the advance of socialism and social democracy. Few will...
India Must Formulate A Comprehensive China Policy
By Nantoo Banerjee Contrary to the government’s claims, China is increasingly controlling the trade and economy in India, pushing goods and services, evading taxes, building supply chains, pushing workforce, grabbing land, linking sea routes to encircle India and even diverting international water resources. All these have been possible in...
Ensure Vaccine Equity To Control The Third Wave Of Covid Pandemic
By Dr. Arun Mitra As predicted by the scientists, the third wave of SARS COV -2 is spreading fast around the world. First case of the variant of the virus, the Omicron was reported in South Africa only a few weeks ago. Soon it spread to Europe, America and...
PM Now May Opt For Any Strategy To Garner Electorates Sympathy In State Polls
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s cliché on threat to his life has failed to have its magical effect. Modi might have expected that his narrative would ignite peoples’ passion and would force them to hit the streets demanding action against the guilty persons especially the Congress leaders. But nothing...
Political Repositioning Has Become Difficult In Uttar Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The rising COVID-19 cases and similar virulent, no holds barred election campaign has compelled the Election Commission of India to announce the Legislative Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh in as many as 7 phases between February 10 and March 7, 2022. Political sand-shifting on the...
BJP Feeling The Absence Of Manohar Parrikar In Goa On Eve Of Assembly Poll
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be not too worried about anti-incumbency. It is upbeat, like one political analyst put it. But political analysts are dime a dozen, each with a viewpoint different from the other. That being said, if only the perception did not prevail...
Unravelling Politics Of Hindu Vegetarianism And Animal Rights In India
By Chaitanya Talreja and Sanchita On September 1 last year, Allahabad High Court’s Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav held that the cow should be declared as the national animal of India. Urging the Union Government to bring a bill in the Parliament for the protection of cows, Justice Yadav also...
Right Wing Wind Blowing Before French Presidential Elections In April
By Emre Öngün The campaign for April’s French presidential election is already polarizing around the “culture war.” The flood of anti-immigrant messaging isn’t just coming from the far right or even President Emmanuel Macron’s administration, but also many of France’s leading capitalists — not least billionaire tycoon Vincent Bolloré,...
Imperatives For New Budget In Trade And Higher Education
By Harihar Swarup The budget last year, which carried proposals for numerous bold reforms, was justifiably nearly universally hailed as a pathbreaking one. As a side effect, it considerably narrowed the scope of big-ticket outstanding reforms. This naturally raises the question: What more can the government announce in the...
Modi’s Security Lapse And Theory Of Relativity In Action
By K Raveendran Two theories of relativity are possible in relation to the incident in which Prime Minister Modi was stuck on a flyover for up to 20 minutes, causing a national uproar. The first one, which Modi himself seems to have preferred, relates to the more classic interpretation...
