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.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....
Sick Industrial Units Are Not Getting The Benefits Of Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code
By K R Sudhaman Industrial sickness is a common phenomenon world over but resolution of a sick industry is a very painful exercise in India despite periodical changes in legislations to expedite it. The main reason for it is lack of political will and the colonial mindset of bureaucracy...
Afghanistan Witnessed Progressive Changes In Its Socialist Years
By Marilyn Bechtel Since the horrific events of September 11, 2001, much has been said about the desperate situation of the Afghani people now crushed under the heel of the theocratic, dictatorial Taliban, and about the role of the Northern Alliance and other Taliban opponents who now figure in...
New Electricity Bill Is Ill-Timed And Wrongly Designed By Modi Govt
By Nantoo Banerjee Whoever may be behind the preparation of The Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021, the initiators have ignored a simple logic that India should first strive to generate enough electricity for its people before recasting its distribution policy. The aspect of cost of electricity to consumers should also...
Why The BJP Is Focussing On Partition On 75th Independence Day
By Amulya Ganguli Recalling the horrors of partition on the 75th Independence Day is not intended by the BJP to present a holistic picture of that simultaneously joyful and distressing time, but a means of stoking communal hatred. The BJP’s reason for trying to arouse primeval passion is not...
Stalin Govt’s First Budget Has Massive Stress On Health And Education
By K R Sudhaman What states in India could learn from the Tamil Nadu budget is the consistent high spending on school education and health. This is something that other states need to emulate if India were to eradicate poverty and create more jobs in the country. Of course...
MSME Sector Is No Priority, Not Even Mentioned By PM
By Dr. Gyan Pathak MSME sector is clearly no government priority. PM Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech did not even mention it. Indian entrepreneurs were praised, employment generation was talked about, vague assurances given for greatly boosting development of India, but the MSME sector is conspicuously absent from his...
Winning Assembly Elections In Uttar Pradesh Is The Prime Goal Of BJP
By Arun Srivastava These were two distinct different narratives, while the Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to nihilism and called to observe the Independence Day of Pakistan, August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day as the pain of Partition can never be forgotten but the same Modi on March...
The Game Is Over – Taliban Enter Kabul As Americans Rush To Airport
By Sushil Kutty The Afghan Taliban are in Kabul. And foaming at the mouth are Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo. Both blame President Joe Biden for doing a Vietnam on Afghanistan. Even the “helicopter picture” is ‘hu-ba-hu’, surreal! Throughout Sunday, August 15, India’s Independence Day, the Taliban were at...
Remembering Communist Leader C. Achutha Menon Thirty Years After His Death
By Sudha Menon Chelat Achutha Menon played a decisive role in the history of modern Kerala-as one of the greatest statesmen emerged from the tiny state, and as a major driving force behind the celebrated ‘Kerala Model’ of development. Achutha Menon’s stature is so great that any serious discourse...
Parliamentary Functioning Needs Urgent Overhaul
By Harihar Swarup Parliament can change its rules to give MPs more teeth in questioning the government and empower its committees to become critical stakeholders in the law-making process. This will increase the stake that MPs have in the effective functioning of the institution, and disincentivise them from disrupting...
Politics Of Farmers’ Agitation At The Crossroads Ahead Of Polls
By K Raveendran The inevitability of the farmers’ agitation influencing politics and the approach of political parties towards the farmers issue determining the future course of the stir itself is becoming clearer by the day as elections in crucial states of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh are approaching. It is...
Horrors Remembrance Day: A Wound Reopened After 75 Years
By Sushil Kutty India and Pakistan are both turning 75 and the wounds of Partition have long dried up. But the thought that enabled the division of the subcontinent is not dead. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Horrors Remembrance Day’ will be observed, reluctantly by a swathe and eagerly by...
Independence Day Must Remind Us About Threat Of Modern Day Slavery
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Independence Day is something special this year, not only because we are celebrating the 75th Independence Day, or beginning a yearlong celebration during the 75th year of Independence, but also because it reminds us about the threat of modern day slavery of the working class...
