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.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...
India’s Digital Services Tax Is Under Global Scanner
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s commerce department seems to be out of touch with the government’s intentional tax deals — bilateral or multilateral. In recent times, India has lost all tax cases against MNCs in international courts and tribunals. It also lost large undisclosed sums in fighting these hopeless litigations...
Sonia Gandhi Is Now Officially Hands On President Of Congress Party
By Kalyani Shankar The Gandhi family has established its claim over the Congress party at the CWC meeting on October 16 as seen by Sonia Gandhi’s assertive speech. Her message to the Party in simple words is that “we are the Gandhis, and we rule as long as we...
Farmers Leader Rakesh Tikait Must Talk In Public With Utmost Care
By Sushil Kutty There is a growing realization and appreciation in large swathes of the country that Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have together been leading a resurgence in Congress fortunes in recent days and weeks; Priyanka Gandhi in particular, especially after MoS (Home) Ajay Kumar Mishra ‘Teni’ and...
Raging Row In Kerala Politics Over Silverline Project
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A fierce debate is raging over the Silverline rail corridor project connecting Kasaragod and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala state. The Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) led by the Congress has strongly opposed the project on the ground that it is economically and environmentally unviable. The main...
Food Delivery Workers Are Being Exploited In Their Work Place By Owners
By Nilabhra Bhattacharya Recently, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they...
Ten Years Have Passed Since Occupy Wall Street Movement In New York
By Hadas Thier Ten years after Occupy Wall Street movement took over a small park in downtown Manhattan, the new left that was birthed there continues to develop and grow. The occupation of Zuccotti Park — and the numerous other occupations that it inspired — was short-lived, but it...
Freedom From Hunger Is The Ultimate Fundamental Right
By K Raveendran It is a classic case of killing the messenger when the content of the message is unpalatable. Faced with the ignominy of being ranked behind Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal in the 2021 Global Hunger Index at 101 out of a worst possible 116, the...
South Korean Film ‘Squid Game’ Is A Gripping Series On Global Social Reality
By Nitya Chakraborty I have just finished seeing the nine episode South Korean social drama ‘Squid Game” released in Netflix on September 17 this year. Already it has become the biggest hit of Netflix productions in 90 countries covering 111 million viewers. My experience of viewing the film has...
Central Policies Have Led To The Present Power Crisis In The States
By C N Deshmukh An electric power crisis is being predicted in India. And at a time when the installed generation capacity is more than the maximum demand. The reason can be traced to the policies pursued by the Government since1990. Today, 75 per cent of the total generation...
Strict Measures Needed For Limiting Consumption Of Power By Citizens
By Harihar Swarup Unprecedented. Unpredictable. A “perfect storm” of high demand, high global prices, and extended monsoons. All of these are common descriptors of how India came to have just four days of coal supplies left at power plants. These are all convenient but incomplete explanations. More than plain...
Hunger In India At Precarious Level, Worsening Further In Modi Raj
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the yardstick of Hunger, Modi Government is performing worse than its predecessors, neighbouring countries, and majority of the countries of the world. One can see it through the data of Global Hunger Indices for several years in succession that contradict all the tall claims...
