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.Third Wave Of Covid-19 Will Be Hitting India Very Soon
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India may be only three to six weeks away from the predicted third wave of COVID-19 that may actually hit the country. Union Ministry of Health sounded alarm yesterday, though not for the third wave, but for slowing down in drop of new cases as...
The Spectre Of Mamata Banerjee Is Haunting Narendra Modi And BJP
By Arun Srivastava West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is on the mission to the National Capital, after assuming office for a third term, to prick the aura of Narendra Modi and dismantle the perception of his being invincible. Just before leaving for Delhi she sent a clear message...
Kerala LDF Suffers From Ally Trouble
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As if the plethora of problems plaguing the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) are not enough, its allies are giving the Front a big headache. The ‘culprits’ are the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Indian National League (INL). It was the NCP which embarrassed...
Payal Kapadia Wins Prestigious Golden Eye Award At Cannes Film Festival
By Harihar Swarup A student writes letter to her estranged lover, who has been pulled out of college by his parents for being in a relationship with her, a girl of different caste. Through her letters and story the viewers gets a sense of what can be like to...
Demand Is Rising Globally To Probe Pegasus Spyware’s Role In Snooping
By Sangam Four prominent U.S. lawmakers have jointly issued a statement calling for action against NSO-like companies that sell spyware to authoritarian regimes across the world. Terming such companies as the “A.Q. Khans of the cyber world”, the statement called for stricter regulations as it was used against “peaceful...
Haiti And Cuba Are Facing Wrath Of American Corporate Intersts
By Zoltan Zigedy Two countries have made the front pages and lead stories in our lemming-like capitalist media: Haiti and Cuba. One country — Haiti — has earned the ire of the self-styled Western democracies by overthrowing its colonial slavemasters and establishing a free state in 1803, the first...
Mamata Banerjee’s Bold Pegasus Move Can Rattle Modi-Shah
By Sushil Kutty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Rahul Gandhi will come to a head in a couple of years, leading up to the 2024 general elections. Both are angling for the same distinction, but there’s only one slot to fill. ‘Didi’ thinks she’s the one for...
Women Out To Protest Three Farm Laws Is Significant
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Women, the hardest hit segment of our population, first, due to the outbreak of COVID-19; secondly due to mishandling of the situation; and thirdly due to enactment of the three farm laws seeking to bring corporate to the farm in the midst of the crisis,...
All UP Parties Wooing Powerful Brahmin Community
By Pradeep Kapoor The powerful Brahmin community, which is believed to play an important role inmoulding public opinion, is being wooed by all political parties for Mission 2022 in a bid to capture power in UP. With their presence of 11 per cent in the total population of UP,...
Ugly Side Of Imran Khan-Led PTI Cakewalk In Azad Kashmir Poll
By Sankar Ray The Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won comfortably in the election to the Azad Jammu Kashmir provincial legislature, held on Sunday, by bagging 25 out of 45 seats (election held in 44). However, Pakistan’s prestigious morninger Dawn in an editorial described the election as...
Political Prisoners Paying The Price For Constitutional Dissent
By Achintya Anita Gurumurthy It has been over 500 days since Khalid Saifi’s incarceration and 300 for Umar Khalid in the northeast Delhi riots cases and almost three weeks since the custodial demise of Father Stan Swamy in the Bhima-Koregaon case—all arrested under the dreaded Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,...
Fresh Coronavirus Surge Exposes US For-Profit Healthcare
By Mark Gruenberg The new surge in positive coronavirus cases, caused by the viral plague’s Delta variant and a slow-down in the vaccination rate, is again exposing the fatal—literally—flaws in the U.S.’s profit-oriented health care “system,” critics say. And two of the hazards at the center of the surge...
Thomas Kurian, Kerala-Born Executive Behind Google Cloud’s Rapid Growth
Google Cloud has grown briskly during Thomas Kurian’s tenure. Google Cloud employees were baffled when they learned that their next boss would be Thomas Kurian, an executive who struggled to shepherd Silicon Valley mainstay Oracle Corp. into the promised land of internet computing. It was November 2018 and the...
With Yediyurappa Resigning, End Of An Era In Karnataka Politics
By Kalyani Shankar July 26 happened to be the second anniversary of Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa’s rule in Karnataka. But instead of a celebratory function, it turned out to be an occasion for an emotional farewell speech after announcing his resignation. Though BSY, as he is known in...
Multi-Billion Dollar Global Spyware Market Is Booming
By Nantoo Banerjee The growing concern in India among politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, social activists and dissidents, business community and prominent individuals about the increasing use of highly invasive surveillance technologies to spy on individuals in blatant abuse of human rights is very valid. Unfortunately, they are able to do...
Rahul-Priyanka Seem To Have Dealt Well Party Crisis In Punjab On Poll Eve
By Amulya Ganguli Even as the Congress managed to repair its broken house in Punjab, the BJP found itself in trouble in Karnataka. How the two parties will fare in the coming weeks will be a test of their resilience on the eve of assembly elections which will pose...
Pegasus Snoopgate: Macron And Modi Are Studies In Contrast
By Sushil Kutty The French are quick on their feet. Within 24 hours of ‘Forbidden Stories’ piercing the cover on Pegasus spyware, with French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal telephone numbers also among the infected, France ordered an investigation. And on July 25, Macron called new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali...
Kisan Sansad Has Imparted A Political Dimension To Farmers Agitation
By Arun Srivastava Political intervention and participating in the political process are two distinct different narrations. After eight months of farmers’ satyagrah, some people have started strongly advocating that the farmers must actively take to electoral politics and assert their physical might. Though they do not openly object to...
