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.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...
Imran Khan Dogged By His ‘Naya Pakistan’ Promise
By Sankar Ray The catchy slogan, Naya Pakistan, riding on which the meteoric advent of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf took place eight years ago now confronts its supremo and the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan Niazi in the 75th anniversary year of the birth of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s dream...
On The Independence Day, Join The Struggle To Defend Democracy
By Cedric Prakash Father Stan Swamy spent his life working with Adivasis in Jharkhand in defence of their rights. He did not want their jal, jungle, zameen exploited by unscrupulous and corrupt vested interests. For this, he had to pay the ultimate price! On 8 October 2020, he was...
Opposition Has A Golden Opportunity Against Narendra Modi, Don’t Mess It Up
By Nitya Chakraborty At long last, the opposition parties are showing signs of unprecedented unity in taking a common position against the BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The abrupt ending of the Parliament session by the ruling regime on August 11 instead of the scheduled August13,...
Where Is Federalism In India On The Eve Of 75th Independence Day?
By Sushil Kutty India is a federation of states, or should it be called a union of states? The Constitution-makers made the Centre more powerful. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin prefers to call it ‘union government’. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which seems to believe that India came into...
India’s School Education In The 75th Year Of Independence
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Schools look deserted, barring a few that have been reopened. Liveliness and laughter of the innocent souls, the children, our future, are locked in their homes, while the country will be celebrating 75th Independence Day, on August 15, 2021, and then the whole year as...
Rahul Must Adopt Comprehensive Approach Towards Opposition Unity
By Arun Srivastava Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is striving hard to exploit the issue of Pegasus to unite the opposition parties and also use it to revive the Congress which has virtually turned into a moribund organisation during the last five years. How far he would succeed in achieving...
Sonia Gandhi Is Stitching Together A Strong Anti-Modi Opposition
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress President Sonia Gandhi has spoken to a bevy of senior Opposition leaders, including Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray, Hemant Soren and M K Stalin, inviting them for a meeting aimed at consolidating the opposition unity. No date has been finalised yet for the...
How Justice Rohinton F. Nariman Will Be Remembered By Legal Profession
By Indira Jaising Much has been and will be written about Justice Rohinton F. Nariman, who retires from the Supreme Court on August 12. Justice Nariman stepped into history on July 7, 2014, as the first judge to be appointed under the current National Democratic Alliance government, which assumed...
Independence Day: India At A Critical Juncture
By Prakash Karat As India celebrates the completion of 74 years of independence and enters the period leading up to the 75th anniversary of independence in 2022, the country is truly at a critical juncture. The ideals of the freedom struggle, which suffused the making of a Republican Constitution...
August 15, A Day Of Reckoning For Our Governance Model
By Amarjeet Kaur On August 15, 1947, India achieved independence, as struggles and sacrifices reached the ultimate. Since then, India has been marching to achieve several milestones in the development of infrastructure, science and technology, exploration of natural resources and creation of national assets including the Public sector enterprises....
Here Comes Another Independence Day
By Krishna Jha One more year is gone since last August. A mirror image of last several years, with some unprecedented peaks like pandemic deaths, unemployment growth, investment scarcity leading to job loss, wage cut. Revision of labour laws has brought the classic proletariat back as he has nothing...
Modi Govt Presses Ahead With Privatisation Of General Insurance
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only a few days ago PM Narendra Modi had told business and industry that his government was going ahead with reforms for conviction and not compulsion. On August 11, his government got the General Insurance Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha amidst shocking scenes that...
Naidu’s Hurt Feelings: He Was Himself Not Above Blame
By Arun Srivastava Any decent individual would feel extremely hurt at the Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu breaking down and narrating his battered emotion that he could not sleep because of the sacrilege in the “temple of democracy” by some opposition MPs who had climbed on the table...
