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.JPC On Data Protection Buries Its Head In Sand On Privacy
By K Raveendran The Joint Parliamentary Committee that studied the personal data protection bill, introduced two years ago, has for all practical purposes endorsed the bill’s draconian features, while shedding copious tears about the sanctity of privacy. The bill in a way takes away the fundamental right of the...
Is There A Message For Musk In Melania Choosing Solana For Her NFT Launch?
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Former Slovenian model Melania Knauss who became Melania Trump after her marriage to Donald Trump in 2004 has been a notoriously private person as the First Lady of the United States. After leaving the White House in January this year, Melania has been more reclusive....
PM Cares Fund Must Be Accountable To Rigorous Scrutiny Like Others
By Amrita Nair “While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation”- Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. For an unassuming person, these words would inspire...
More And More Recent Films Are Depicting Social Realities In Rural India
By Papri Sri Raman There is something new about the shifting sands of Indian cinema. At last, it has begun to show rural realities, diversity, artforms and injustices. Mani Ratnam’s new film Ponniyin Selvan (The son of the Ponni) is a Tamil historical drama, with some parts being shot in...
Bell Hooks Changed How We Think About Black Femininity, Class, And Capitalism
By Chauncey K. Robinson The world lost a trailblazing thinker and feminist this week. Professor and social activist Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, passed away at the age of 69. She leaves behind a legacy of work that challenged status quo thinking on...
Union Minister Ajay Mishra Is A Damocles Sword Hanging Over Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’—India’s ‘Most Wanted’ hiding in plain sight! They take his name and they talk of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s motives. Which other man in India gets this distinction? Why is PM Modi reluctant to sack him from the Council...
Rising Inflation In United States Will Adversely Affect Indian Recovery
By Prabhat Patnaik The very day, December 11, when the Indian finance ministry spuriously claimed a robust recovery in the post-pandemic Indian economy, newspapers carried news of an acceleration in the US inflation rate. The inflation rate in November 2021over November of the preceding year had been 6.8 per...
Congress Will Do Well In U.P. Assembly Polls, Says Priyanka Gandhi
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With her slogan Ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi has succeeded in bringing her party into discussion ahead of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. Priyanka Gandhi attempted to reach out to every household with her promise to keep 40 per cent seats reserved...
Women Participation In Workforce Falling, Gender Gap Widening
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Falling women participation in workforce in India has been widening gender gap, not only in the country but in the whole South Asia and Asia region, and we may need centuries to realize the dream of economic empowerment of women, if Modi government fails to...
A Tale Of Two Speeches On Women In Judiciary At A Felicitation Function
By Shweta Velayudhan The Chief Justice of India (CJI) N. V. Ramana, on Tuesday, remarked on the low representation of women in the legal profession and the judiciary. While speaking at a function organised by Women in Law and Litigation (WILL) to felicitate Justice Hima Kohli, the CJI promised...
Rahul Gandhi Urges Hindus To Protest Modi’s ‘Hindutva’
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Congress lost poorly in the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019, the party is undergoing intense internal debate on the future of its core ideological plank of secularism, but without alienating the majority community, or appearing to be overtly pro-minority. In this context,...
Newly Elected Leftist President Castro Arouses Big Hopes In Honduras
By Supaya Portillo On November 28, 2021, Hondurans took to the ballot box in masses and voted the country’s first woman into the presidency, the leftist Xiomara Castro Sarmiento Zelaya. Her win comes twelve years after the 2009 coup d’état that destroyed constitutional order and the rule of law...
President Joe Biden’s Summit Was A Big Charade In The Name Of Democracy
By Prakash Karat The “Summit for Democracy” convened by US president, Joe Biden, on December 9-10 was ostensibly meant to strengthen democracy worldwide and to fend off the efforts by “autocrats” to undermine democracy. The focus of the summit, as put out by the US state department, was on...
Leading Bengali Economists Played A Stellar Role In Early Days Of 1971 War
By Nitya Chakraborty The India-Pakistan war in 1971 over the liberation of Bangladesh ended on December 16 of that year with the surrender of the Pakistani forces in Dhaka. That was exactly fifty years ago, Many stories have been written about the role of the army generals, diplomats and...
RBI Proposal Of Inflation-Linked Bonds Could Be Timely
By Anjan Roy Reserve Bank has reportedly proposed floating inflation-linked bonds as a savings option for investors in debt markets. This is welcome on several counts. First, there are few varieties of instruments in the debt market for investors to park their funds. What is more significant, the central...
Farmers Are Yet To Get All Their Demands Conceded By Modi Government
By Krishna Jha Democracy in our country has become something like Hegelian dialectics: It is there and it is not there. Interpretations keep changing, with only one constant factor and that is erosion. When the farm laws were imposed it was in the name of development. Wiping away the...
Rakesh Tikait Has Emerged As A Visionary Who Can Be Trusted To Build A New India
By Sushil Kutty Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait in all likelihood grew up to tales of the Tikait daredevilry at Delhi’s Boat Club when the firebrand Mahendra Singh Tikait led a 7-lakh strong army of farmers and laid siege to India Gate. Mahendra Singh Tikait left this world for the...
Rapid Omicron Spread Imminent, May Derail The Gains So Far
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A rapid increase in the number of Omicron COVID-19 variant is imminent, reads the latest European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warning, and the other day World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the large number of patients could overwhelm the health facilities...
