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.In Quest Of Peace And Health In The New Year
By Dr Arun Mitra The year 2022 is going to be full of challenges for peace and health. On one side mankind has been grappling with COVID pandemic for the last two years and on the other increasing expenditure on arms race is draining away resources which are desperately...
Gig Economy Success Based On Exploitation Not Technology
By Shweta Velayudhan The basic premise of the business model of a gig economy is having a large pool of workers at all times. This large supply of workers is then matched with fluctuating demand for services. The ever-expanding supply of workers then leads to increased competition and willingness...
A Possible Game Changer For Crude, Gas And Financial Markets
By Matein Khalid As the 5% crude oil plunge in both WTI and Brent on fears of Omicron demand shock demonstrates, the fate of the virus is inextricably linked to global economic growth, Fed policy and thus commodities returns. Yet thanks to black gold’s stellar performance the GSCI Energy...
Real Designs Behind BJP’s ‘Electoral Reforms’
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Electoral reform, in true sense of the term, in India remains a dream for poor, common, and innocent people of the country. What happened in the name of several reforms is exclusion of the poor, effected, for example, by enhancing even the security deposits that...
National Interest Does Not Preclude ‘Right To Be Funny’
By K Raveendran In a remarkable judgment Madras High Court’s justice G R Swaminathan this week upheld a persons’ ‘right to be funny’ and extolled the virtues of a new duty for the citizens: the ‘duty to laugh’. Though written in a most light-hearted style and language, the verdict,...
A Comedy Circus Called Indian Democracy
By Sushil Kutty Justice GT Nanavati, retired Supreme Court judge, died December 18, a couple of days before Rahul Gandhi said he hadn’t ever heard of “lynching before 2014”! With that Rahul comment, the ground shifted underfoot of those media who the Wayanad Congress MP called the “government’s Dalal—godi...
ICMR’s Bhargava: From Ace Physician To Public Health Leader
By HariharSwarup Around 9pm on April 25, 2020, Dr Balram Bhargava received an SOS call. Dr Mannmath Das, a retired surgeon from a hospital in Bhubaneswar, was calling in for advice on a peculiar case. Bhargava, Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), was all ears....
Imran Khan’s PTI Tastes Defeat In Local Body Polls
By Sankar Ray The Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi and his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has suffered a major setback in the local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where PTI is being mauled by Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. JUF-I is already set to get the mayorship of Peshawar,...
Saudi Ban Exposes Real Face Of Tablighi Jamaat
By Manish Rai Tablighi Jamaat (TIJ) is currently grabbing the headlines for getting banned by Saudi Arabia. Saudi government official statement called Jamaat a danger to society and one of the gates of terrorism. In a tweet on December 6, the country’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs said Minister of...
Indians Will Have To Live With Covid Variants During 2022 And Beyond
By Kalyani Shankar It has been two years since Covid-19 emerged in China and spread worldwide. Since then, the globe has faced upheaval. As we enter 2022, what does the crystal ball say about the covid? Will the New Year see the end of the pandemic, or will it...
Contour Of Politics In J&K Set To Change The Next Year
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The contour of politics in Jammu & Kashmir is set to change again the next year 2022. The J&K Delimitation Commission has set December 31 as the last day for submitting objections on its proposal, and as per the brief the Commission is expected to...
Trinamool Congress Sweep In Kolkata Civic Polls Is Ominous For BJP’s Future
By Ashis Biswas As expected, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) swept the 2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the results of which were available on Tuesday afternoon. Trinamool decisively won over 90 per cent of the 144 wards. The margins separating the TMC victors from their nearest opposition challengers from...
Battle Between Upyogi And Unupoyogi In Uttar Pradesh Has Turned Bitter
By Sushil Kutty Modi, Yogi and Akki! The last is Akhilesh Yadav— the ‘lal topi’ up against the ‘kamal ka phool’. The Samajwadi Party chief doesn’t ordinarily spill wisdom. But when he does, he does not do it for effect—he does it for keeps! Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son is...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Providing Safety Cover To Narendra Modi
By Arun Srivastava Indians are naive and gaullible to such an extent that they are carried away even by microscopic lies of the politicians. It is an open secret that Narendra Modi and BJP diligently follow the diktats of the RSS. The policies and programmes of the Modi government...
Data Protection Bill Has Many Gaps Needing Full Discussion
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Among the bills taken up for discussion during the ongoing winter session of parliament, the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019, is making some noises in relevant quarters. After two years of deliberations, the JPC report on PDP Bill was tabled in both houses of...
India’s Treatment Of The Rohingya Reaffirms The Need For A Refugee Law
By Gauri Anand Throughout its history, India has accepted refugees, including Jews escaping persecution, Sri Lankan Tamils, Tibetans, and Afghans, all escaping violence. However, India’s treatment of the Rohingya has been conspicuously different. The country is now home to approximately 40,000 Rohingya, of whom only around 16,500 have been...
Marx Scholar Pradip Bakshi Is Getting International Recognition
By Sankar Ray Many participants among 200-plus at the very recently held international conference on innovation in the social sciences and humanity, hosted by Ton DucThang University, Ho-chi Minh City were epistemologically surprised to learn that Karl Marx deeply studied the concept of ‘nothingness’ of Gautama Buddha in a...
India’s Semiconductor Ecosystem Is Finally Ready
By Nantoo Banerjee There is little to be excited about the government’s latest announcement of a comprehensive strategy to put India firmly on the world map of semiconductor manufacturers at a time when the global industry is silently cerebrating its diamond jubilee of existence. The world’s first semiconductor maker,...
