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.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...
Statistical Jugglery Conceals Worsening Unemployment
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) has just come out giving a shot in the arm to Modi government. Ever since it was released last week, the government and their supporters have been gunning around the critics and are telling the country that both the...
Study Reveals Shocking Decline In Life Expectancy In United States
By Al Neal From the moment we are born there are certain immutable truths we cannot escape. And the one which drives an entire entertainment industry genre and is a constant and gnawing anxiety as we age is death. There is no avoiding it. And it leads to a...
Centre Has To Be Fully Prepared For Combating Third Wave Of Corona
By Harihar Swarup There are three possible scenarios, but in each, India needs to boost oxygen supplies and focus on vulnerable geographies Is a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic imminent? Will it be more severe than the second one? Can it be prevented? While it may be difficult...
Rahul Gandhi Is Right In Demanding Supreme Court Monitored Probe Into Pegasus
By Arun Srivastava Congress leader Shashi Tharoor not agreeing to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Pegasus spyware scandal has come as a rude shock. According to him the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology headed by him will “do its duty” and the subject is “already...
Even Covid Can’t Curtail Craze For Gold In India
By K Raveendran It seems nothing can stand between Indians and their love of gold, not even the Covid pandemic, which has turned life upside down. It is as though they were waiting for the Covid restrictions to ease before hopped back to their favourite gold and jewellery shops....
Precarious Conditions Of The Jobless Worsening
By Gyan Pathak The condition of the jobless people in India was already precarious before the COVID-19 struck the country and lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020. It has been worsening since then. Unemployment rate remains high and prospects of regaining lost jobs or getting new one is...
Bombay High Court Judges’ Withdrawal Of Oral Remarks On Stan Swamy Is Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty Jesuit priest-cum-tribal rights activist, 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy’s death in a Mumbai hospital while still in judicial custody led to an outpouring of grief, with even rightwing media afraid they might step on toes if they cast wide the mildest of opprobrium. It was funny reading...
