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.Glasgow COP26 Draft Text Is Powerful, But Ambiguities Exist
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Glasgow draft text of the summit agreement released by the COP26 presidency under UK is indeed the most powerful text on climate change so far, but ambiguities still exist. It means it will have some legal force, but the ambiguities would make room for...
MGNREGA Now Caught In A Hopeless Drift
By Krishna Jha It was MGNREGA, the flagship rural employment scheme that had provided succour to starving migrant labour when the economic crisis was galvanising the entire production process. Choices were extremely scanty. It was either to go hungry and face the ultimate or to get infected with the...
India Is Having A De Facto System Of Presidential Government
By Anurag Tiwary Recently, the Kerala High Court expressed its dismay that a petitioner sought the removal of the Prime Minister’s photograph from the COVID vaccination certificate and termed it as a “dangerous proposition”. The high court’s observation shows how personality cults have been assumed as inevitable in contemporary...
New York Documentary Film Festival Entries Have Socially Relevant Themes
By Bill Meyer United States of America’s largest documentary film festival, DOC NYC, has begun its 2021 edition from November 10-18 in-person and online at www.docnyc.net. This 12th year of DOC NYC has a wealth of relevant films for progressive viewers. Some of the highly recommended docs include Listening...
A War That Was Lost Even Before It Began
By Sushil Kutty So, they will have a ball across the Wagah Border and all we will have this side will be TV screens painted in Pakistani green! Gather the import? Well, all of Pakistan will be on its knees praying for a Pakistan win in the semis against...
India Slows Down In EV Lane As Others Speed Away
By K Raveendran While the world is moving at a fast pace to embrace electric vehicles, India seems to have lowered a gear or two down, with the result that the country does not even figure in the growth estimates of major EV markets around the world. Even an...
Trading Charges On Yamuna Pollution Is Ridiculous
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Pollution in Yamuna in Delhi has always been highlighted every year as is currently being done. We witness some trading of charges and then everyone becomes calm. Pollution remains as usual. The reason is the very low and narrow mindset of the ruling political parties,...
Clarity Is Lacking In Indian Courts On Norms For Granting Bails
By Ajay Kumar Legal certainty is a legal philosophical concept wherein in order for a society to claim to have the rule of law, those subject to the law must be able to go about their affairs with an element of certainty as to the legal position. This certainty...
Remembering A Great Democrat Former President K.R. Narayanan
By S.N. Sahu Former President of India, K.R. Narayanan passed away on November 9, 2005, three years after he demitted office on July 25, 2002. On the solemn occasion of the 16th anniversary of his demise, his rich legacy in defending the Constitution, constitutional morality and secularism assumes enormous...
Muazzem Ali, A Bangladeshi National Awarded Padma Sri Posthumously
By Harihar Swarup Former Commissioner to India, Muazzem Ali and 1971 war hero Colonel Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahil were the first two Bangladeshi citizens honoured with one of India’s civilian awards, the Padma Sri. Muazzem was honoured posthumously at a function in New Delhi where other awardees named in...
Erdogan Becoming A Liability For Turkey And Its People
By Manish Rai Last month Turkey made it into the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog headquartered in Paris. Turkey now joins its close ally Pakistan in FATF’s crosshairs. Surprisingly Turkey becomes the largest economy to be included in this...
Why Goa Elections Are Important For All Parties
By Kalyani Shankar The battle lines for the assembly elections are drawn in the tiny state of Goa, which is going for polls early next year. The poll scene is likely to be crowded, with at least eight parties contesting. The ruling BJP and opposition Congress and some outside...
DMK Seen Dumping Congress To Come Closer To BJP
By K R Sudhaman Speculation is rife that ruling DMK is trying to shun differences with BJP and coming closer to the national party in a bid to have better Centre-state relations and in the process Congress may become a fall guy. There are also rumours that Chief Minister...
SC Makes No Secret Of Ire Against UP Govt On Lakhimpur-Kheri
By Sushil Kutty Whoever said the Supreme Court of India speaks in riddles was talking in riddles because the apex court on Monday spoke plain and straight, no beating around the proverbial bush, telling the Uttar Pradesh Government that it did not believe one whit bit that the Yogi...
India Not Prepared To Tackle Health Risks From Climate Change
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is not yet prepared to protect its citizens from the possibility of most devastating health impacts of climate change, though it is one of the worst suffer country in the world. It has been revealed by the latest global survey report just published at...
Daniel Ortega Secures Fourth Term As President In Nicaraguan Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega clinched a fourth consecutive term as the national elections held on November 7 showed that his alliance had received 76 per cent of the votes. As usual, the United States administration termed the polling ‘rigged’ and threatened sanctions against the new regime,...
South Asia Is New Epicentre Of Muslim Ultra-Conservatism
By James M Dorsey As Middle Eastern states attempt to manage their political and security differences, Muslim-majority countries are regrouping along a fault line that separates proponents of varying concepts of an authoritarian but religiously and socially more tolerant, ‘moderate Islam’ from those advocating stricter adherence to intolerant, non-pluralistic...
Wall Street View – The Black Hole For Emerging Markets
By Matein Khalid The Middle Kingdom has been a black hole for emerging markets equitywallahs since mid-2020. The PBOC kept monetary policy far too tight at a time when the global pandemic necessitated some credit acceleration. The economic slowdown after the Wuhan virus was worse than Street consensus. The...
