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.Saffron Camp’s Dirty Agenda Is Not Paying Desired Dividends To BJP
By Amulya Ganguli An example of the Hindutva brigade’s failure to spread its communal message as widely as possible is available from several incidents. One is the Olympic gold medalist, Neeraj Chopra’s caution against the use of his name for a “dirty agenda”. He was referring to the tirades...
Severe Setback For Oommen Chandy, Ramesh Chennithala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking the signs. The writ of former chief minister Oommen Chandy and former leader of the opposition, Ramesh Chennithala, no longer runs in the Congress in Kerala. The unchallenged supremacy the duo had enjoyed for 18 years has come to an end....
Centre Takes Control Of Rs. 25,000 Crore Meant For Mining People In States
By Ayaskant Das In what is being termed as a compromise of the federal structure of the Indian polity, the Modi government has taken direct control over funds worth more than Rs 25,000 crore earmarked to be spent on people and communities affected by mining activities across the country....
Developments In Afghanistan, Though Alarming, Are Its Internal Affairs
By Nantoo Banerjee Whatever the impending regime change in Afghanistan may mean to India, the country should accept the reality soon and join China, Russia, Pakistan and the UK, among others, to support the political change in Afghanistan. The India-Afghanistan relations are over 1,000 years old. Sultan Mahmud of...
Pakistanphobia Should Not Guide India’s Policy Towards Taliban
By Harihar Swarup The Regime changes are capricious events, since there are many variables in play. It explains their mystique. The latest one in Afghanistan, third in the past two decades, is no exception. The Mujahideen takeover in 1992 was a preordained event choreographed by the United States, which...
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...
