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.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...
Heat And Flood To Become More Devastating In South Asia
By Gyan Pathak The latest climate risk profiles prepared by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) Group and also the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) have categorically demonstrated in their assessment that heat waves and floods will be occurring in...
India Should Revisit Its Existing Trade Policy To Boost Exports
By Subrata Majumder Prime Minister Narendra Modi was euphoric in declaring that India was a major exporter of mobile phones in the world in his 75th Independence speech on 15th August, exhibiting India’s advancement in technology. India exported mobile phone, worth US $ 3 billion .Seven years ago,...
Rohinton Nariman Was A Defender Of Human Rights As Supreme Court Judge
By Harihar Swarup An elephantine memory, a forensic ability to interpret law and a thundering voice—justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, a man ordained a Parsi priest at 12, has retired from Supreme Court on August 12 after seven years of judgeship. There are a number of firsts one can...
Legal Status Of Taliban Regime In Afghanistan Is Yet To Be Decided
By Mohan V Katarki Upon the withdrawal of American military forces from the territory of Afghanistan, Kabul has been overrun by Taliban, an insurgent militant Islamist outfit that was biding its time in the mountains of Afghanistan for the last two decades. The defenseless Afghanis are seen rushing to...
Indian People Are Ready To Deny Third Term To Narendra Modi As PM
By Sushil Kutty The ‘mood’ does not favour Modi. Support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ebbed. Only 24 percent want to see him PM for a third term. The percentage was 66 a year ago. That is a Niagara Falls magnitude stumble from the heights, a slam-dunk in...
It’s Advantage-Beijing In The Nebulous Power Dynamics In Kabul
By Sankar Ray The photograph of China’s state councilor and foreign minister Wang Yi and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political bureau chief of Afghanistan’s Taliban, in Tianjin, China on 28 July 2021 was an advance message that Beijing was destined to be the closest ally of the Taliban if...
India At 75 Face Unique Challenges For Making The Country Economically Strong
By Kalyani Shankar On the evening of August 14, 1947, the then Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and his wife Edwina settled down to watch a Bob Hope movie, “My Favourite Brunette.” A few yards away, in the Central Hall of Parliament, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru rose to make his famous ‘Tryst...
Nitish Kumar’s Decision To Retain Mandis, Is A Part Of Battle Against PM
By Arun Srivastava It has been a shattering blow for the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Even in his dreams he would not have imagined that a person like Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar who he has been keeping under his thumbs would raise his voice and challenge his authority....
