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.The Curious Case Of Param Bir Singh And Anil Deshmukh In Mumbai Saga
By Sushil Kutty The lousiest trick the Devil can pull on God’s children is convince them the Devil does not exist. Sacked Police Inspector Sachin Vaze convinced Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and the Maha Vikas Aghadi Government to reinstate him in the Mumbai Police. It took a murder...
Rights Of Children Threatened Like Never Before
By Dr. Gyan Pathak While the number of children hungry, out of school, abused, living in poverty or forced into marriage is going up, the number of children with access to healthcare, vaccines, sufficient food and essential services is going down globally. The widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Armed Forces Killing In Nagaland Was A Murder In Cold Blood
By Krishna Jha There was no last minute reprieve. The men were in the pickup truck that kept winding the narrow road climbing up slowly. Unarmed, each of them saw the guns flickering, and in one single moment the horror swept them away for ever. Soon, all of them,...
Time Is Appropriate Now For WTO Waiver On Existing Patent Laws
By Sachin Sathyarajan The Omicron variant, declared as a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO) has alarmed the global community, who thought the worst was over. The emergence of the variant had led to the postponement of the twelfth Ministerial conference (MC12) of the World Trade...
Narendra Modi’s Dig At Absentee BJP MP’s Has Got Ominous Signal For Party
By Sushil Kutty What is happening with the Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament, why are many of them absent from Parliament? None other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi noticed this trend and was compelled to speak about it at a BJP Parliamentary Board meeting. It wasn’t just cursory...
Mamata’s Latest Stand Is Sure To Help Congress-Left To Revive ‘Bijemul’ Slogan
By Ashis Biswas Post Bengal Assembly polls 2021, the CPI(M) conceded that its branding of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) as a tricky, undeclared ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)on some major issues, had backfired. Left parties saw the TMC as the Trojan horse within the opposition camp. They pointed...
Indomitable Indian Spirit Takes Corporate Captaincy By The Horn
By K Raveendran Not a day passes these days without the news of one global Indian or the other having done something remarkable. The latest is the story of Indian origin American physician Anil Menon, who has been included in a group of ten to become astronauts for future...
Narendra Modi’s Policies Since 2014 Have Widened Inequality In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Modi government’s policies for the development of the country are highly defective, since it works for the rich and against the poor, driving inequality to make India among the most unequal countries of the World. Top 10 per cent of the affluent elite are earning...
Smriti Irani, Modi’s Favourite Cabinet Minister Is Now An Author Of A Thriller
By Harihar Swarup Smriti Irani kept you hooked to the TV screen, as an actor, and later in Parliament, as an orator. Now she has engaged her admirers with her debut novel, a thriller. At home, Irani has plotted a thriller. Readers keep a wary eye on the office...
Decoding The Three Novels Of Leading Irish Author Sally Rooney
By Jenny Farrell For the past weeks, successful 30-year-old Irish author Sally Rooney has been in the headlines. Following her refusal to grant the translation rights of her new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021) to the Israeli Modan publishing house, 70 prominent authors have now backed her...
No Formidable Opposition Alliance Can Emerge Excluding The Congress
By Kalyani Shankar Will the Congress Party perish as West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and others believe? Even in the past, many had predicted the end of Congress, but it had survived many onslaughts. The latest was in 1998 when Sonia Gandhi emerged Sphinx-like to revive it and...
India-Russia Bilateral Relations Have A Long Chequered History
By Sushil Kutty India-Russia ties are an extension of the Indo-Soviet bonhomie that lasted several decades, nurtured by successive leaders of both countries. The break-up of the Soviet Union and the emergence of Russia did not weaken the ties. The changes were more in India’s relationship with the United...
Education Crisis Is Worse Than Earlier Assessed
By Dr. Gyan Pathak At current value, the students of the world would lose their lifetime earning to the tune of $17 trillion, which far exceeds the $10 trillion estimated a year ago, indicating that the global education crisis due to closure of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic is...
Kodiyeri’s Return A Booster Shot For Kerala CPI-M
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The return of Kodiyeri Balakrishnan as the secretary of the Kerala CPI(M) is the best thing that has happened to the party, which is plagued by a plethora of problems. Kodiyeri is back at the CPI(M)’s helm a year after he stepped down on health...
El Salvador Is Steadily Emerging As Crypto Currency Capital Of World
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The El Salvador government headed by its colorful president Nayib Bukele adopted bitcoin as the legal tender with effect from 7 September 2021. At the UN General Assembly later that month, Bukele stood at the podium and took a selfie. Turning to the audience he...
Myanmar Communists To Opt For Armed Struggle To Oust Military Junta
By Satyaki Chakraborty The struggle of the civilian population of Myanmar against the ruling military junta has reached a new phase following the conviction of the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi to four year jail term which was later cut to half....
Anand Teltumbde Has A Right To Temporary Bail From NIA Court
By Hamza Lakdawala On December 1, the Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Mumbai rejected the plea of Anand Teltumbde, who was seeking temporary bail of 15 days to meet his mother and family after the recent death of his brother Milind Teltumbde in an alleged encounter with...
Forty Years Later, “Reds” Is Still One Of The Best Political Films In USA
By Jim Poe Reds is a grand-scale historical drama based around the life and career of John Reed, a North American journalist who travelled to Russia to chronicle the Revolution. Based on his firsthand observations, Reed wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, his 1919 classic account of the...
