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.Don’t Consign Working Households To Peril
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Majority of working households in India have been undergoing an unprecedented hardship ever since countrywide lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020. They were largely uncovered by any social security schemes on the one hand and only 28 per cent of them had salary earning...
Blinken Comes And Leaves Giving No Big Assurance To India
By Sushil Kutty US Secretary of State Antony Blinken doesn’t know much about the people of the region he visited. South Asia abounds with the weirdo. The day before Blinken arrived, five Pakistani men gang-raped a goat and murdered it before they fled. Last heard the police were hunting...
New Era Begins In Peru Under Leftwing President Pedro Castillo
By Satyaki Chakraborty Pedro Castillo was finally sworn in as Peruvian president on July 28 on the 200th anniversary of the Andean country’s independence from Spain. With this, the Latin American nation entered a new era to be ruled by a self proclaimed Marxist-Leninist who has promised to impart...
Equality And Rights Elude Minorities All Over The World Even In 2021
By Ajit Singh The concept of democracy, which had promised equal rights and voice for the voiceless and to act as a human rights watchdog to check injustice and atrocities in totalitarian and autocratic regimes, has failed to ensure equality for minorities even in the world’s largest democracy. Ironically,...
SC Verdict Re-Ignites Debate On Law Versus Lawmakers
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has passed a historical verdict on the powers of the legislature vis-à-vis other institutions of parliamentary democracy, declaring that the privileges of the elected representatives do not place them above the law of the land. The landmark decision by a bench comprising Justices...
The Assam-Mizoram Border Clash Has A Long History Of Conflict
By Barun Das Gupta The death of seven Assam policemen in armed clashes with the Mizoram police on July 26 is deplorable. Assam has “border disputes” with Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram for a long time. This time, according to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the clash with the...
Third Wave Of Covid-19 Will Be Hitting India Very Soon
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India may be only three to six weeks away from the predicted third wave of COVID-19 that may actually hit the country. Union Ministry of Health sounded alarm yesterday, though not for the third wave, but for slowing down in drop of new cases as...
The Spectre Of Mamata Banerjee Is Haunting Narendra Modi And BJP
By Arun Srivastava West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is on the mission to the National Capital, after assuming office for a third term, to prick the aura of Narendra Modi and dismantle the perception of his being invincible. Just before leaving for Delhi she sent a clear message...
Kerala LDF Suffers From Ally Trouble
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As if the plethora of problems plaguing the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) are not enough, its allies are giving the Front a big headache. The ‘culprits’ are the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Indian National League (INL). It was the NCP which embarrassed...
Payal Kapadia Wins Prestigious Golden Eye Award At Cannes Film Festival
By Harihar Swarup A student writes letter to her estranged lover, who has been pulled out of college by his parents for being in a relationship with her, a girl of different caste. Through her letters and story the viewers gets a sense of what can be like to...
Demand Is Rising Globally To Probe Pegasus Spyware’s Role In Snooping
By Sangam Four prominent U.S. lawmakers have jointly issued a statement calling for action against NSO-like companies that sell spyware to authoritarian regimes across the world. Terming such companies as the “A.Q. Khans of the cyber world”, the statement called for stricter regulations as it was used against “peaceful...
Haiti And Cuba Are Facing Wrath Of American Corporate Intersts
By Zoltan Zigedy Two countries have made the front pages and lead stories in our lemming-like capitalist media: Haiti and Cuba. One country — Haiti — has earned the ire of the self-styled Western democracies by overthrowing its colonial slavemasters and establishing a free state in 1803, the first...
Mamata Banerjee’s Bold Pegasus Move Can Rattle Modi-Shah
By Sushil Kutty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Rahul Gandhi will come to a head in a couple of years, leading up to the 2024 general elections. Both are angling for the same distinction, but there’s only one slot to fill. ‘Didi’ thinks she’s the one for...
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...
