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.Opposition Parties Have To Focus All Energy To Defeat BJP In Uttar Pradesh Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty Yogi Adityanath Government in Uttar Pradesh has launched massive assaults on democracy and the constitutional values in the state to retain power in the next assembly elections scheduled in February/March 2022. In its bizzare actions, Yogi and the Sangh Parivar are getting full encouragement from the...
Uniform Civil Code Can Be Implemented On The Basis Of Thorough Discussions
By Kalyani Shankar Should India do away with the concept of personal laws and bring in a Uniform Civil Code for all citizens? Is this the right time for bringing such a law? Supporters say it is already too late, while the opponents feel that this is not the...
Yogi Adityanath’s Population Policy To Cover-Up Modi’s Handicaps
By Sushil Kutty If West Bengal is repeated in Uttar Pradesh polls in 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi might have to book a 2024 ticket to Vadnagar, Gujarat. The pressure is on Yogi Adityanath. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister must have grown up on ‘Papa Kehte Hain Bada Naam...
Global Hunger Level Skyrocketing Since Covid-19 Outbreak
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global hunger level has been skyrocketing since outbreak of COVID-19. In 2020, it rose by more than in the previous five years combined. Between 720 and 811 million people faced hunger during the first year of the pandemic, and the world is off the track...
Civil War Is Imminent In Afghanistan As Taliban Terror Intensifies
By Sankar Ray The 20-year US war in Afghanistan, hand in hand with the Afghan National Security force against the Taliban is over. General Austin “Scott” Miller – the highest-ranked officer on the ground – handed down command to US-based four-star General Kenneth McKenzie, bringing the longest US war...
Complex Interfaces In India Society — Re-Examination Of Pew Findings
By Anjan Roy “I don’t have a single Muslim friend”, said S.Y. Qureshi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, while recalling his memories of having large Eid parties in his spacious bungalow in Lutyens Delhi in his official days. Mr Qureshi was speaking as a panel member on discussions...
Cannes Film Festival- 2021 Glitters Amidst Pandemic Restrictions
By Dennis Broe CANNES, France — It may be a bit cruel starting with Yeats’s summary of his era in his epic poem The Second Coming, but unfortunately, it is a somewhat accurate distillation of both the organization and the films of this edition of the world’s leading film...
Narendra Modi Is Using Ordinance To Ban Strike In Defence Industry
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi is probably making the same mistake as Mrs. Indira Gandhi did as the country’s prime minister almost four decades ago. The promulgation of ordinance to ban the proposed strike by all major trade unions at the Ordnance Factories Board (OFB) and its...
Buildings Are Not Just Bricks And Mortars, They Embody A Vision
By Amulya Ganguli A hundred years later, will another new parliament be built? The arguments which are now being advanced to justify the construction of a triangular building to house the MPs whose number may go up from the present 545 to more than 700 can be made again....
Electoral Mayhem In Uttar Pradesh That Exposed Yogi Democracy
By Arun Srivastava The people of this country, the land of RSS’s Hindutva, must hang their heads in shame for the chir-harana (disrobing) of the modern Draupadi in Uttar Pradesh, the state ruled by the fanatic Hindutva protagonist, Yogi Adityanath, by the cadres of RSS and Narendra Modi’s vigilantes...
India’s Tight Rope Walking On Myanmar Situation Poses Problems
By Ashis Biswas Some recent policy decisions made by Government of India (GOI) in the context of the civil strife in Myanmar have come at a price. Negative perceptions of the ruling NDA II as a regime with a paranoid obsession about national security and an expansion of commercial...
Supreme Court ‘Missed’ Its Chance To Help Migrant Workers During Pandemic
By Jahnavi Sindhu In June, the Supreme Court gave its final judgment on a fresh plea in a pending suo motu case of May 2020 in which the top court had taken cognizance of the difficulties migrant workers faced during the COVID-19 lockdown. The court directed the Centre and...
Custodial Violence Unabated Year After Shocking Sathankulam Deaths
By Navjeet Punia June marked the first anniversary of the gory and shocking custodial death of a father-son duo in Sathankulam, Tamil Nadu, during the pandemic. The deaths had triggered outrage in India even more as it transpired days after the brutal killing of George Floyd by cop Derek...
With Cabinet rejig, Modi is now battle-ready for polls
By Harihar Swarup Commentators falling back on the usual tropes to understand in the changes in Narendra Modi cabinet have predictably fallen short. While BJP and its supporters have wanted the focus to be on new entrants and technocrats and professionals, the women and caste rainbow, media attention has...
Amit Shah Will Make Use Of His New Cooperation Ministry To Challenge Pawar
By Sushil Kutty With additional charge of the ‘Cooperation Ministry’ given to Home Minister Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has identified ‘Political Enemy No.1’ – NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, who has been anchoring efforts to cobble up a viable and winning political alternative to the Modi-Shah BJP juggernaut,...
The Inevitability Of Ravi Shankar Prasad’s Exit
By K Raveendran Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut is not known for his oratory. But his one-liners have been straight to the point and often controversial, at times without any justification. But on many occasions his comments were noted for the insight these provided to behind the scene activities....
Modi’s Cabinet Reset Reflects BJP’s Aim To Consolidate In The North-East
By Sagarneel Sinha The major cabinet expansion and the reshuffle of the second Narendra Modi government have brought the North-East into the national picture. The region will now have 5 union ministers. This is the highest representation at the centre from the region, which often used to get neglected...
Major Indian Corporate Houses Are Profiting Out Of The Accumulated Loans
By C P Chandrasekhar In a stealthy game played over two decades, corporate India is walking away with huge wealth transfers, largely from the public banking system. After much delay, the halting process of settling the bad debt of defaulting corporates using the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) is...
