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.Vaccination Milestone: Euphoria Must Give Way To Reality Check
By K Raveendran There is euphoria over India achieving one crore Covid vaccinations on a single day, the first time ever the country has achieved the feat. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described it in a tweet as ‘momentous’, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya proudly made the announcement about the...
The Choice Is Between National Health And Unbridled Festival Bonhomie
By Devasis Chattopadhyay The state government of Maharashtra decided that this year too they would not grant permission for ‘Dahi Handi’ celebration during Janmashtami on 30 August. This is the second consecutive year that the immensely popular Dahi Handi celebration has been cancelled owing to the pandemic. Indeed, all...
Romance Of Air Taxis In The Indian Sky Is Inherently Risky
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi has intervened to get liberal rules for drones with a claim to leverage India’s strengths in innovation, technology and engineering to make India a drone hub. This romantic idea has immediately caught the imagination of the dreamers within and outside the...
Movement Against Hindutva At Global Level Is Building Up
By Sushil Kutty Come September there will be a dismantling of Hindutva, which happens to be different from Hinduism. Wait, it is ‘Global Hindutva’ they are after; ‘they’ meaning people wanting to cut the throat of the RSS/BJP’s book of Hindutva and leave in its wake the purest of...
New Turn In Muttil Tree-Felling Case In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Muttil tree-felling case, which happened during the last term of the Pinarayi Vijayan Government, continues to haunt the second Pinarayi regime. The case has taken a new turn with the Divisional Forest Officer P. Dhanesh Kumar, who played a major role in unearthing the...
Supreme Court Hearing Next Week On Pegasus Spyware Is Of Crucial Importance
By Nitya Chakraborty The Supreme Court’s observation on Wednesday that the two bench of judges headed by the Chief Justice of India N V Ramanna will be issuing a comprehensive order on the petitions challenging the use of the Israeli Pegasus spyware for snooping, is of special importance in...
Carrying Forward Anti-Colonial Nation Building Is Not Possible Under BJP Regime
By Prabhat Patnaik The anti-colonial nationalism that informed the struggle for liberation in third world countries was, as is well-known, of an entirely different genre from the bourgeois nationalism that had emerged in Europe in the seventeenth century. There is a tendency in the West, including even among progressives,...
Central Asian Countries Are Most Worried At Taliban Entry In Kabul
By Anjan Roy A sense of foreboding has taken hold of the Central Asian countries. Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan were all part of the Soviet Union for close to seventy years until USSR crumbled. The Marxist ideologies of the Soviet days had at least kept at bay the traditional religious...
Police Officials Across India Are Open To Be Misused
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Supreme Court of India made two comments on policing in India on August 26 putting on record the two well known facts that the police administration across India are cosy to the politicians of the ruling establishments while filing flimsy charges against opposition leaders...
Only Vaccine Mandates Can Ensure Vaccination Data Accuracy
By Sushil Kutty By 7 pm of August 26, 68 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses had been administered, said the Modi Government. Do we have to take it for gospel truth, especially when India doesn’t rely on vaccine mandates, unlike the USA, where vaccine mandates help ensure vaccine compliance?...
Centre’s Monetisation Of Public Assets Programme Is A Big Betrayal
By Dr. Soma Marla Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement on monetization of public assets worth Rs 6 lakh crore starting from roads, railways to powerlines to private parties is aimed to defeat nationally cherished independent economic development. Madrush to privatize public sector enterprises is part of the neo liberal...
Caste-Census: Nitish-Tejashwi Bonhomie Ups Pressure On Centre
By Rahil Nora Chopra Fresh bonhomie between the Bihar two leaders — Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Opposition leader in the state assembly Tejashwi Yadav— was observed when leaders of 11 parties met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 23 August, demanding that the Centre initiates a caste-based census. According...
Target 2024 Lok Sabha Poll – Opposition Unity Has Started Rolling
By Binoy Viswam In the turbulent days which the country is passing through, the dynamics of political developments would take swift turns and tides. In the politics of any country, there must be the reflection of agonies and aspirations of people. The rightward shift in India’s life since the...
Stop This Massive Sell-Out Of National Assets Of The Country
By Prof. C P Chandrasekhar Camouflaged In jargon that speaks of ‘monetisation of de-risked assets’, the BJP-led NDA government has announced its plan to sell out India’s public sector. In that plan, assets ranging from roads, ports, airports and railway track and stations, through fuel pipelines, telecom towers, optical...
Passing Of Pro-People $3.5 Trillion Budget By US House Is A Big Win For Sanders
By Nitya Chakraborty The American Left led by Bernie Sanders won a big victory early this week as the U.S. House of Representatives approved the $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget plan opening the way of bringing about radical changes in the living standards of the common masses. In terms of...
Violence Against Muslims Is A Disturbing Pattern In Many States In The Country
By Prakash Karat The everyday violence against Muslims is showing a disturbing pattern. In the month of August, there have been at least four recorded cases of gratuitous violence against Muslims in the streets of some cities and small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The targets...
Afghan Women Are Going To Be Worst Sufferers In The New Taliban Regime
By Anjan Roy A top ranking US diplomat had observed in a security conference in Qatar years back, where this correspondent was privileged to be a participant, that “a country is known by the sport it plays”. Afghanistan’s national sport is “buzkashi’, which is a gruesome blood sport, involving...
Senior RSS Leader Shivprakash Doubts Hindutva As The Main Electoral Ploy
By Arun Srivastava The realisation that attempts to polarise electorate on basis of Hindutva and religion didn’t work in secular Bengal has finally descended on the BJP leaders, but this is coming after four months of the assembly election and has given rise to scepticism. This admission of the...
