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.India’s Supreme Court Must Stop Wanton Abuse Of UAPA
By Fawaz Shaheen and Madhur Bharatiya It rarely happens in ordinary bail matters that within 72 hours of a court order, numerous aspects related to it get extensively argued at every level of the judiciary. In the recent instance of three students arrested in connection with the violence that...
Stonewall Anniversary: Rainbow Capitalism Or LGBTQ Liberation?
By C.J. Atkins The rainbow-emblazoned corporate swag has been ordered, the gay and lesbian employees dispatched to New York. The floats are all designed and constructed, ready to roll down Fifth Avenue—colorful billboards advertising just how LGBT friendly T-Mobile, MasterCard, TD Bank, Delta Air Lines, and other sponsors are...
Large Volume Of Foreign Aid To India To Fight Pandemic Is Welcome
By Harihar Swarup: As India reeled under the second wave of Covid-19, one fact became evident — it would not be left to struggle alone. Aid poured into India from over 40 nations. Countries sent oxygen, medical equipment, ventilators, and antiviral drugs. Offers of help came not just from...
Twitter Errs In Interpretation Of Fan Following Of Songs
By K Raveendran On the face of it, Twitter blocking the accounts of Ravi Shankar Prasad, who as IT minister apparently considers himself to be the be-all and end-all of social media and the freedom of expression, and Shashi Tharoor, chairman of parliament’s standing committee on IT, would appear...
The Importance Of Being Sharad Pawar In Present Day National Politics
By Sushil Kutty As Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks less and less invincible, there is a political churning happening in the country and the Opposition parties are electric with possibilities, with several of them hoping to come together to mount a collective challenge to the Modi-Shah juggernaut. And it’s...
Farmers Knocking At Rajbhavans Has Wider Significance
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers’ sit-in protest against the three farm laws at Delhi borders completes seven months today. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the umbrella organization of as many as 40 farmers’ unions leading the agitation, is knocking at Rajbhavans across the country in form of demonstration to...
Narendra Modi’s Kashmir Initiative Is Meant To Placate International Opinion
By Arun Srivastava Kashmiri leaders who till recently were identified as the Gupkar gang need not be euphoric at their June 24 meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. An insight into the deliberations the Kashmiri leaders had with Modi makes it explicit that his design wrapped in the...
President Biden Following Same Trump Policy On Cuba Sanctions
By W. T. Whitney Jr. The United Nations General Assembly on June 23 overwhelmingly approved a Cuban resolution condemning the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba, in place for 60 years. The Assembly has done precisely that every year since 1992, except for 2020, when the vote...
Shiv Sena Has A Clear Gameplan For Maharashtra And Centre Also
By Sushil Kutty The other day somebody wrote that the only party that stood between Narendra Modi and a third term as Prime Minister was the Indian National Congress; of course with the cautionary note that Wayanad MP and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi should understand the enormity of...
Even The Industry Heads Are Recommending Cash Transfers To The Poor
By Prabhat Patnaik In terms of economic policy, the Modi government must be perhaps the most conservative in the world. During the entire period of the pandemic when millions of people lost their incomes and livelihood support, most governments around the world provided universal cash transfers to the people,...
Urgent Joint Action Is Needed To Prevent The Next Wave Of Pandemic
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Vaccination against COVID-19 suffers from inequality and sluggishness. Inequality in such an extent that 80 per cent of the vaccines have been administered in the high and upper-middle-income countries, as against 19.7 per cent in rest of the middle income group, and only 0.3 per...
Present BJP Leaders Benefitted Most From Emergency Of Indira Gandhi
By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr Every year on 25 June, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders recall the crime against democracy and humanity that former prime minister late Indira Gandhi and the Congress committed by imposing the Emergency and sending hundreds—they would say thousands—of Opposition leaders, especially those who belonged...
Sharad Pawar Key To Stitching A Viable Opposition Front
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formation of a third front is back. While talk of a third front has been recurrent, the key difference this time is that NCP supremo, Sharad Pawar, one of the sharpest and most experienced leaders in Indian politics, is being...
Progressives In USA Unleash State-Level Legislation Tsunami
By John Bachtell In the face of a vicious Republican-orchestrated assault on democratic rights and working-class economic gains, states dominated by Democratic governors and legislatures representing broad multi-racial governing coalitions are pulling in the opposite direction—going all out to expand rights. And in some GOP-dominated states, voters are taking...
Only A Two Track Approach Can Help Opposition Achieve Its Goal Of Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty The meeting of the eight opposition parties held on June 22 at the NCP president Sharad Pawar’s residence has led to more confusion rather than facilitating the process of consolidation of the unity of the parties that are opposed to the continuation of the BJP in...
Steep Hikes In Prices Of Essential Commodities Are Hitting People Hard
By Prakash Karat The blight of the pandemic which has caused mass suffering and deaths during the second wave is now compounded by the manifold miseries inflicted on the people by the Modi government. The people are experiencing unemployment, falling incomes and hunger. On top of this comes the...
Corporates Are Getting Pampered By Modi Government All The Way
By Krishna Jha When the rivers in the country began swelling with corpses, they got buried in the shallow sand graves. Soon in the strong wind, sand moved and then came the thieves who took away the last sheet. In the glaring sun they all lay exposed. We all...
Big Exodus Of People From Myanmar Hits India’s Three Border States
By Ashis Biswas With no prospects of an early end to the ongoing civil strife in Myanmar, the exodus of Burmese refugees to India’s Northeastern states has swelled from a trickle to a torrent. As of now, various media reports suggest that the number of people crossing over to...
