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.Labour Reform Along With Privatisation Of Public Sector Is A Deadly Cocktail
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Government has been trying hard to push labour reforms and privatisation of the central public sector undertakings for a long time. Ever since Narendra Modi became prime minister of the country in May 2014, these are being pursued with greater vigour claiming them to...
Calcutta High Court Order On Post-Poll Violence In Bengal Is Ominous For Mamata
By Arun Srivastava The latest order of the Calcutta High Court recommending probe by CBI and SIT into post poll violence in West Bengal is a big setback to the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Government .The High Court refusing to subscribe to the reiteration of Trinamool Congress...
Sushmita Dev’s Exit Reflects Congress’s Disorder In Assam
By Sagarneel Sinha Initially, it was thought that the ruling BJP led National Democratic Alliance would easily win the state assembly polls in Assam held this year. Many considered that Congress wasn’t that strong enough to challenge the BJP led NDA. However, the grand old party decided to ally...
Mexico Under President Obrador Is Doing Away With ‘Neo-Liberalism’
By Prabhat Patnaik President Lopez Obrador of Mexico in his inaugural speech itself had called neoliberalism a “disaster” and a “calamity”. The Leftist political party, MORENA, to which he belongs, had stated in its programme: “The global economic crisis has revealed the failure of the neoliberal model. The economic...
Secondary Market For Corporate Loans Is Not Helping Economy
By N. Shankar With the blessings of RBI and as per its guidelines, Secondary Market for trading of Corporate Loans and debt trading is being created. As per report available, 10 top Banks that include 4 PSBs, 4 Private Sector Banks and 2 Foreign Banks have come together and...
Adviser’s Sharp Post On Kashmir Lands Navjot Singh Sidhu In Soup
By Rahil Nora Chopra Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu has appointed his close associate and Jalandhar Cantt. MLA Pargat Singh as PPCC general secretary, organisation. The move comes after Sidhu appointed Lok Sabha member Dr. Amar Singh, retired IPS officer Mohammad Mustafa, Dr Pyare Lal Garg and Malwinder...
Afghanistan Crisis Underscores The Need For A Refugee Law By India
By Jay Manoj Sanklecha With the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, Afghanistan has descended into chaos. Horrific visuals of ordinary Afghanis storming the capital’s airport and clinging on to airlines and military transport, in a desperate attempt to flee the repressive regime, have been streamed the world over. ...
Remembering Anahita Ratebzad, Mother Of Afghan Women’s Liberation
By Tim Wheeler All the newspapers and television news programs right now are filled with stories about the dark future hanging over Afghan women and girls as the Taliban retakes control of their country. The Guardian late last week featured an article by an unnamed Afghan woman who said...
American Debacle In Afghanistan Has Big Lessons For Modi Regime
By Prakash Karat America’s ignominious exit from Afghanistan, the collapse of the Afghan National Army, the fleeing of President Ashraf Ghani and the rapid takeover by the Taliban, have all been stunning developments. Twenty years after the United States and its NATO allies invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban...
Opposition Has Firmly Defended Parliamentary Values In Monsoon Session
By Binoy Viswam A government indebted to the ideology of fascism would have no regard for Parliament and its practices. For namesake they may do lip service to the parliamentary system. In actual terms their intention is to undermine the institutions of democracy, of which Parliament is an inevitable...
Shashi Tharoor Acquittal Unmasks Arnab Goswami And His Republic TV
By Sushil Kutty Everybody except Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami has spoken on the “acquittal” of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in the Sunanda Pushkar death case. The Delhi court found Tharoor no more culpable in his wife’s mysterious death than Arnab Goswami was abettor in the “suicides” of a...
Looking At Domestic Violence In India At The Time Of Pandemic
By Indira Jaising The Covid-19 pandemic compels us to look at the human rights issues from a different lens. Regulations which were authoritarian in nature locked down intimate partners in the same shared household. Aright to reside in a shared household, introduced in the Protection of Women from Domestic...
After Debacle In Afghanistan, US Is Not An ‘Indispensable’ Nation
By Branko Marcetic To look at it one way, the Afghanistan War was a great success. If you think of the perpetually grinding US war machine as one great big funnel through which public money is turned into corporate profits, then the war’s more than $2 trillion worth of...
Plight Of Domestic Women Workers Continues In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There seems to be no end to the plight of domestic women workers in India who constitute about 80 per cent of the domestic workforce in the country. Hundreds of thousands of them, after losing even their very low paid jobs of cleaning-sweeping-and-cooking, they are...
Prevention Of Communal Violence Is A Duty Of Public Health Activists
By Dr Arun Mitra The incident of shouting highly communalized slogans and chanting genocide of Muslims and also that they be thrown out of India by a mob of Hindutva goons with police watching as mute spectator is not a new thing. The difference however is that this incident...
IUML In Kerala Buffeted By Another Crisis
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the powerful ally of the Congress in the United Democratic Front (UDF), has been buffeted by another crisis. The latest crisis has erupted over the IUML leadership’s decision to freeze the state committee of Haritha, the women’s wing of...
Govt Mixes Up National Security With Leaders’ Sense Of Insecurity
By K Raveendran The Modi government believes that national security and the sense of insecurity for the rulers are one and the same thing and freely interchangeable. There was further evidence of this in its response to the petitions relating to the use of Pegasus spyware when the...
Modi’s Last Ditch Effort To Stall Investigation Into Pegasus Scandal
By Arun Srivastava The next ten days are going to be extremely crucial for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government as the Supreme Court on Tuesday served a notice to the Modi government telling it in clear words that it will hear the Pegasus snooping case...
