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.Row Over Malabar Rebellion Leaders’ Exclusion From ICHR Book
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A flaming row has erupted over the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)’s decision to remove the names of the people associated with the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 from the dictionary of martyrs of the Independence struggle .As per the decision, Rebellion leaders Variamkunnath Kunhamed...
Modi Monetisation Plan Could Mean Another Misadventure Trip
By K Raveendran The National Monetisaton Pipeline might well turn out to be another pipedream turning sour, just as Modi’s demonetisation did, producing a result that was exactly the opposite of what was promised. Demonetisation was arguably more thoughtless and arbitrary, lacking any theoretical framework, a kind of midnight...
Gravitating Around Pitfalls Of Caste Census
By Gyan Pathak The first caste census in India was done with the first ever census conducted in 1901 under Lord Risley as the Commissioner of Census of India which was discontinued after the Census 1931 due to opposition of the leaders of the Freedom Movement of India, triggered...
RSS Hatching Design To Break The Continuing Farmers’ Movement
By Arun Srivastava With Narendra Modi and his government losing the control on the political narrative and his charisma on sustained decline owing primarily to the nine month old farmers’ satyagrah, the longest movement in Independent India, the RSS has once again become active to break the agitation. Adopting...
Uddhav Thackeray Wins The Round On Slap War Against Narayan Rane
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Union Cabinet minister Narayan Rane! It requires constant up and down eye movement to keep both of them in one frame. That’s because if Uddhav Thackeray is reed thin and tall, Narayan Rane is rock stout, and short! So much...
Sangh Parivar’s Hatred For Mahatma Gandhi Has Crossed All Limits
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Sangh Parivar and leaders and spokesmen of its affiliates never miss any opportunity to malign Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. The latest in their malicious campaign is an article written by Rakesh Sinha, BJP member of Rajya Sabha. In his article published in Indian...
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh Was A Hardcore RSS
By Harihar Swarup Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, who formed the BJP’s government in the state in 1991, has passed away. He was also governor of Rajasthan. He was accused of criminal conspiracy in the Babri Masjid demolition case for it was during his tenure as CM...
Industrial Relations Code Is An Unnecessary Law For Labour
By Dr K R Shyam Sundar The Industrial Relations Code (IRC) has unnecessarily sought to legislate on “matters” for negotiations between negotiating union/negotiating council (NU/NC) and employers . Like in the past, it should have been left to the parties to determine depending on the empirical realities facing...
A Look Back At Collapse Of Soviet Union Thirty Years Ago Under Gorbachev
By Carlos Martinez Thirty years ago, on August 24 1991, President Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and resigned from his role as general secretary. This was the first serious administrative step towards the dissolution of the Union of Soviet...
Sonia Gandhi-Led Opposition Front Has To Cross Many More Hurdles
By Kalyani Shankar Congress President Sonia Gandhi has begun new efforts to unite the opposition. She did so in 2004 and formed a coalition government (UPA) fighting against the mighty Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee when she was considered almost a novice in politics. She did so when the...
Big Talk On School Education But Sluggishness In Action
By Gyan Pathak The world has been talking about a lost generation for quite some time. International institutions like OECD and UNICEF have categorically asked governments across the globe not to delay opening of educational institutions and provided a roadmap how to bring students safely back to their classes....
RSS On The Mission To Disparage The Glory Of Peasant Movements
By Arun Srivastava After accomplishing their mission of creating communal divide in the urban areas and polarising the Hindus on the Hindutva plank by raising the slogan of Hindutva in danger, the RSS has launched its ambitious agenda of dividing the Hindus and Muslims in rural India by denigrating...
Taliban Take Over Of Kabul Is A Good Fodder For BJP Panelists In TV Channels
By Sushil Kutty Shadab Chouhan, spokesperson of Peace Party, an ally of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, and Majid Hyderi, a Kashmiri and a journalist, are two of a kind. Regulars on “national television”, which is a conglomeration of the electronic news media – almost all of them...
Digital Currency May Revolutionise Payment System In India
By K R Sudhaman A major development in recent weeks in the financial sector has gone largely unnoticed – Reserve Bank of India’s announcement that the central bank is considering phased introduction of its own digital currency and the Modi government’s proposal to come out with a legislation to...
Delay And Complexities Plague Labour Reforms In India
By Dr K R Shyam Sundar The Centre’s delay in implementing the Code on Wages (CW) and the other three labour codes, viz. the Industrial Relations Code (IRC), the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (OSHWCC) and the Code on Social Security (CSS), indicates that they will not...
So-Called Democratic ‘Moderates’ Trying Hard To Delay Biden Agenda
By John Wojcik Nine “moderate” House Democrats have joined powerful conservative forces trying to undo President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar domestic agenda. They are demanding that the House pass the bi-partisan infrastructure deal approved by the Senate before any vote on the president’s $3.5 trillion budget resolution, which would allow...
Building Private Asset Against National Wealth
By Nantoo Banerjee The highly aggressive comments on Indian industry’s ‘selfish money making’ approach ignoring the nation’s interest by flamboyant Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal at a recent CII event may have upset many industry leaders, but they are largely true. Post-Independence, most Indian capitalists have relentlessly chased money...
The Absentee Parties At Sonia Hosted Opposition Meet Matter A Lot
By Amulya Ganguli The Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) presence in the gathering of opposition leaders convened by the Congress’s Kapil Sibal was unexpected. Up until now, the BJD had kept away from such groups and preferred playing footsie with the BJP. Has it changed its mind? A probable reason...
