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.With Foes Like Owaisi, Modi And BJP Need No Friends
By Sushil Kutty AIMIM head Asaduddin Owaisi is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s true friend, the kind who swears by “a friend in need is friend indeed.” And these days aren’t easy for the BJP. There are elections in five states. The party’s iconic leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi has...
Uma Tweets On Farm Laws Please Congress, Embarrass BJP
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: While Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan is making all out efforts to expand the party’s base by showering benefits on tribals, a major rift has been caused in the party with veteran party leader Uma Bharti publicly questioning the decision of withdrawal...
Centre Must Not Have Powers To Transfer High Court Judges
By Prof G Mohan Gopal Article 222(1) of the Constitution of India provides that “he President may, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, transfer a Judge from one High Court to any other High Court.” This power was very rarely used until 1976. According to data provided...
With ‘Mandar’, Anirban Bhattacharya Reinvents Bengali Filmmaking
By Annie Domini Rituparno Ghosh’s premature demise in May 2013 cost contemporary Bengali cinema much. In fact, it precipitated a particularly debilitating imaginative drought that was felt by many but convincingly articulated by few. The reign of Srijit Mukherjee in this period has been doubly disastrous for Bengali film...
Qatar World Cup Continues To Spark Multiple Controversies
By James M Dorsey When seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton wore a helmet this weekend featuring the colours of the LGBTI Pride Progress Flag during the debut Qatar Grand Prix, he was challenging more than the Gulf state’s failure to recognise rights. So will the Danish Football...
Far Right Jose Kast Leads Over Leftwing Boric In First Round Of Chilean Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty Jose Antonio Kast, candidate of the far right received nearly 27.94 per cent of the votes as against the Left nominee Gabriel Boric’s 25.75 per cent in the first round of Presidential elections in Chile held on November 21. Since no candidate got majority of the...
Joint Movement Of Farmers Has Shown Narendra Modi His Place
By Nitya Chakraborty The joint movement of the farmers has finally led to the announcement by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the withdrawal of the three farm laws which can be termed as the most significant political defeat of the PM in his tenure of last seven and...
From One Party Rule To Life-Long Supreme Ruler
By Nantoo Banerjee By making Xi Jinping a life-long leader of the China’s Communist Party (CPC) and president of the People’s Republic of China, the party not only endorsed Xi’s ambitious plan to make China the world’s No.1 military and economic power by 2049, far surpassing the United States...
Unilateralism Of Modi, Hardening Of SKM’s Stance, To Yield No Fruit
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Within a few days of unilateral announcement of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the three controversial farm laws, the whole range of issues relating to farms and farmers have become complicated. The reasons on the surface is unilateralism of Modi and hardening stance...
Modi In A Blatant Appeasement Mould Has His Bhakts Confounded
By Sushil Kutty Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party keep talking about “appeasement”, accusing the Opposition, especially the Congress, of “minority appeasement” and coming to power time and again on that plank. The notion was drummed into the electorate that the BJP never engaged in appeasement of any...
Two Indias: Behind The Rising Intolerance In The Civil Society
By Dakshita Dubey In January 2013, while India was coping with the gruesome Nirbhaya gang rape, the first division of two India(s) (post 1947), was done by Mohan Bhagwat, the sixth Sarsanghchalak, or chief, of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Bhagwat claimed that violence against women does not occur...
Los Angeles’s Biggest Film Festival Returns With Great Anti-Racist Films
By Ed Rampell The AFI Fest returned to Hollywood for live, in-person screenings and events, although there was also a virtual component for watching many of the feature, documentary, short, indie, studio, and foreign productions that Los Angeles’ largest annual film festival presented in 2021. Some of the screenings...
Learning By Trial Has A Cost For Which Nation Pays Dearly
By K Raveendran Better late than never. Finally good sense dawned on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in realising the futility of his intransigence on the controversial three farm laws and deciding that it is time for the unwelcome laws to be scrapped. He has apologised to the nation for...
Repeal Of Three Farm Laws Ignites Hopes For Scraping Of Four Labour Codes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers across the country are rejoicing the victory of their yearlong agitation against the three farm laws, a fruit of their consistent movement not only against these, but also the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP across the country that enforced him to announce...
Modi’s Dramatic Retreat Sullies His Strong Man Image
By Sushil Kutty Has Narendra Modi’s countdown begun? The New York Times took notice of the decision to repeal the three farm laws and pronounced his weakened state. His domination of the Indian political scenario is in shards outside the window he gazes at his peacocks from. November 19,...
Akhilesh Invoking Jinnah Is Fodder For BJP
By Harihar Swarup Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, passed away in 1948. However, today in November 2021 he has come alive in the political battlefield of Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav recently said, “Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnah … became barristers and got...
Prashant Kishor Working On New Opposition Strategy To Project Mamata As PM
By K R Sudhaman There is a buzz in political circles that opposition parties appear to be stitching up a workable coalition to take on BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and informed pundits indicate that TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is likely to emerge as the Prime ministerial candidate...
Protesting Bangladeshi Students Burn Pakistan Flag
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, Pakistanis are learning the hard way that even 50 years after their country split, displaying their national flag in the East still remains a bitterly emotive issue. A group of young pro-liberation protestors at Dhaka University burnt the Pak flag following a meeting held...
