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.India’s Present Distorted Economic Recovery Is Widening Inequality Further
By Nitya Chakraborty Two recent reports – one the World Economic Outlook (WEO) released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the other on employment status study made by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) have once again shown how the present economic policies of the Narendra Modi...
Fundamentalist Forces Are Posing Serious Threat To Secularism In South Asia
By Prakash Karat The series of targeted killings of minorities and migrant workers by terrorist groups in the Kashmir Valley have pushed the besieged territory of Jammu & Kashmir into new depths of despair and gloom. The diabolical aim of killing school teachers, street vendors and migrant workers is...
Global Hunger Index Ranking Of India Has Shattered Modi’s Propaganda
By Binoy Viswam The Global Hunger Index (GHI) has shattered the propaganda fanfare of the Narendra Modi government. The government along with its army of pracharaks was claiming that it has successfully resolved all the burning issues of the country. Some of the enthusiasts among them even went to...
Milestone That Reminds India The Cost Of Unpreparedness
By Gyan Pathak India achieves a milestone by administering 100 crore doses, including both the first and second doses, of anti-corona vaccines. The achievement is celebrated across the country, and it was good. However, it still reminds the cost of unpreparedness the country has paid since the first case...
Centre Can’t Just Extend Jurisdiction For BSF Without Consulting States
By Sushil Kutty The Border Security Force told to patrol away from the international border is of no use. Its jurisdiction limits should be in sight of the border. The Centre’s order to extend the BSF’s jurisdiction is, therefore, even if not out of New Delhi’s jurisdiction, not going...
BJP Is Trying To Consolidate Its Position Through Bypolls In Assam
By Sagarneel Sinha Only six months before Assam witnessed assembly elections, where the BJP led NDA returned back to power for the second consecutive time by defeating the Congress-led Grand Alliance. Within a short period, election season is back as the state readies itself for the bypolls for five...
Cryptos Record A Milestone In Integration With Global Finance
By K Raveendran The crypto ecosystem has recorded a milestone in integrating itself into global finance, with the first Bitcoin-based exchange traded fund (ETF) having debuted trading on the Wall Street. This means the completely unregulated Bitcoin is getting a regulatory interface in the sense the ETF market is...
Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Sardar Udham’ Is A Fabulous Biopic Setting High Benchmark
By Nitya Chakraborty I have always been an admirer of Shoojit Sircar for choosing varying themes for his films, always offering to the viewers something interesting content wise. Sircar showed his directorial talent in choosing an offbeat content in Vicky Donor and in a different manner, he portrayed the...
Stark Disparities Revealed In Indian Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Disparities among Indian workforce are stark. Gender and educational inequalities are alarming. It has been revealed at a time in the Annual Bulletin on Additional Indicators based on data collected in Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), July 2019-June 2020 released recently, which it could not...
Congress Decision To Allot 40 Per Cent Seats To Women Is Having Impact In Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati called it “sheer drama”, nothing else. “Why did the UPA government not reserve 33 per cent seats in parliament for women when it was in power at the Centre,” asked ‘behan Mayawati’, one woman to another, honest to honest. Priyanka Gandhi...
Data Suggests 10 Per Cent EWS Reservation Scheme Is Unsubstantiated
By Vineet Bhalla The Supreme Court, earlier this month, while hearing petitions against the reservation of seats for Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in admissions to post-graduate medical courses through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Postgraduate) (NEET PG), sought an explanation from the union...
For Film Director Shyam Benegal, There Is No Retirement From Work
By Harihar Swarup Shyam Benegal, now 86, doesn’t believe in retirement. Life will happen to you anyway, he says, as he prepares for his first film in 11 years. Benegal likes to joke that he’s always introduced as a man who needs no introduction, a line that is followed...
National Digital Health Mission Is Not The Only Answer To India’s Problem
By Dr Arun Mitra The Prime Minister launched National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) on 27th September 2021 giving high hopes that it will bring about drastic improvement in healthcare of our people. The mission is basically to collect and compile health data which has been made easy by the...
Ongoing Economic Recovery In India Is Ridden With Risks
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The recent high frequency indicators suggest an ongoing economic recovery in India, but pressures of inflation have been elevated along with several other uncertainties. Though IMF assessment for India after Article IV Consultations has said ‘inflation eased to 5.6 per cent in July returning to...
Hindu ‘Hriday Samrat’ Is A Big Failure In Protecting His Brethren In Home And World
By Sushil Kutty Maybe in a decade, or a decade and a half, the only Hindu left in Bangladesh could be India’s envoy to Dhaka. That if that gentleman happens to be Hindu. The story is that at the rate at which the Hindu is racing towards “endangered species”...
Everything Is Wrong With Indian Budgets For Prisons
By Bharat Dogra The highly unsatisfactory conditions of prisons and prisoners often gets reported in India. To what extent is this related to budget-related factors? Analysis of official expenditure data for prisons for 2019 throws some light on this issue. Data from ‘Prison Statistics India 2019’, published by the...
Imran Khan Is Fighting Twin Battles At The Moment To Remain In Power
By Sankar Ray The principal ruling party of Pakistan, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf under the Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi, is, to say the least, facing a crisis of existence and identify as the PTI-led government in Islamabad sets its foot into the last year of four-year tenure. The state is...
Remembering Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop Who Ruled Grenada For Four Years
By Owen Schalk October 16 marked 38 years since the death of Maurice Bishop, leader of the tragically short-lived People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada (PRG). The PRG was formed when the New Jewel Movement (NJM), led by the widely popular Bishop, seized control of the country from the U.S.-backed...
