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.Regulating Cryptocurrency Poses Big Challenge Before Governments
By Nantoo Banerjee The cryptocurrency and regulation of official digital currency bill 2021 is awaiting introduction during the current winter session even as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in Parliament that the government has no proposal to recognise Bitcoin as a currency in the country. She also informed the...
Centre Has To Repeal AFSPA Immediately After Nagaland Developments
By Sushil Kutty The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958’s killing spree continues, begging the question for the nth time whether it isn’t long overdue for its removal lock, stock and barrel? Thirteen Naga civilians cannot reply to that question. They were in coffins wrapped in colourful linen, killed...
Babri Masjid Demolition Inspired Barbaric Bamiyan Desecration
By Sankar Ray The demolition of Babri Masjid – one of the stand-erect treasures of the Sharqi School of Architecture – on 6 December 1992 was a despicable and immoral inspiration to the Taliban. Roughly nine years thereafter, they dynamited two of the largest standing Buddha figures in the...
First Nuclear Power Plant In North India At Fatehabad In Haryana
By Dr Arun Mitra The climate crisis has forced the global community to debate over viable alternatives to the fossil fuels about which there is consensus that these are major cause of carbon generation responsible for climate crisis. There is also consensus on that renewable resources are the best...
Bangladesh Ahead Of India In Key Growth Indicators
By Ashis Biswas Even while struggling economically during the Covid 19 pandemic, Bangladesh has eclipsed India in terms of per capita GDP earnings, achieving a major milestone. Its growth story does not end here: IMF and other agencies estimate that it will stay ahead of India for the next...
`Desert Scorpions’ Played Part In Capture Of 13,000 Sq Km Of Sindh
By Sant Kumar Sharma In the 1965 India-Pakistan war, the Indian army faced lots of problems and serious setbacks because of lightening raids by Hurs. It is a sect of Sufis headed by Pir Pagara who has good numbers of adherents in the Sindh province. The Pakistan Army used...
Tamil Film Jai Bhim Is Brutal Portrayal Of Police Atrocities On Dalits
By Papri Sri Raman A number of Tamil filmmaker are telling Dalit stories anew these days, what has changed here is the perpetrator –not the traditional upper caste landlord –it is the state. The state is the people’s opponent, using a colonial, outdated instrument of oppression, the police. Where...
UPA: The One-Way Traffic Towards The Door
By Harihar Swarup On a visit to Mumbai on Wednesday, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made two politically significant statements. She said it would be easy to defeat the BJP, should all regional parties come together. And after a meeting with NCP chief Sharad...
India Was Fully Prepared For War With Pakistan On December 3, 1971
By Nitya Chakraborty ‘Gentlemen, I am late because we are at war. Pakistan has attacked India on the western front and we have retaliated. We are officially at war now’. That was what the Information & Broadcasting Secretary of the Government of India R C Dutt, belonging to ICS,...
Covid Response Needs Scaling Up To Meet Omicron Challenge
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though COVID-19 is almost under control in India, the emergence of Omicron variant should be considered as early warning for the challenges ahead. Gearing up for the Omicron challenge must also include scaling up of health infrastructure for making the country fully prepared for any...
Factors That May Have Prompted Unexplained LNG Price Hike
By K Raveendran Neither the government nor the gas companies have explained why the LPG prices for commercial cylinders have been increased, a decision that has caused widespread concern on its effect on the slowly recovering economy. Both seem to believe that they don’t owe an explanation anyway as...
Omicron’s Love Of Children Is Worrisome
By Sushil Kutty The “highly transmissible” Omicron doesn’t spare even children under age 5, said a top medical officer of South Africa. Omicron has been ripping across the African country like it was in a hurry to cross the Atlantic. The Delta variants hadn’t shown any interest in children....
British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn Extends Solidarity To Lula
By Satyaki Chakraborty British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has extended his support to the Workers Party leader of Brazil former president Lula against the right wing president Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 presidential elections in the country. Addressing the Latin America Conference on Friday, he said that Latin...
From Elected Autocracy To Fascist Dictatorship
By D Raja “Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers — who subvert the very process that brought them to power. Some of these leaders dismantle democracy quickly, as Hitler did in the wake of the 1933 Reichstag fire in...
Now Stiff Opposition For Modi’s Bank Privatisation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Modi’s moves to privatise public sector banks have now met with stiff opposition by bank employees and officers. The Union government has labelled it as much-needed banking reforms, while agitators sense some foul play just to hand over the public sector banks to “crony capitalists”....
MGNREGS Allocation By Narendra Modi Government Is Woefully Inadequate
By Prabhat Patnaik The MGNREGS was introduced by the UPA-I government despite opposition from the neo-liberal lobby within it, owing inter alia to the active intervention of the Left which was supporting that government from outside. It was restrictive from the beginning: it promised a maximum of only 100...
Samajwadi Party Poll Campaign In Uttar Pradesh Unnerves BJP High Command
By Sushil Kutty Fear is eating into the Bharatiya Janata Party that the dark-horse Congress could come from nowhere to upset the BJP’s applecart in Uttar Pradesh. Partly because Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the tip of the Congress thrust, is still an unknown quantity even if she’s a highly recognizable...
Job Creation In Post-Covid India Critical For Growth Revival
By K R Sudhaman Job creation in India is critical for economic revival in the post covid era. This is more so as about 11 million people enter job market every year and, according to CMIE, an additional 121 million people have lost jobs in view of the pandemic....
